In Tumblr’s Alternative Canon, ‘The Social Network’ Is a Gay Love Story

• “compiling a wide range of media — including film stills, song lyrics, poem excerpts and paintings — and coalescing them under one theme to create an immersive experience of a given emotion.” ⤴️
• “identifiable with the queer community” ⤴️
• “Web-weaving has grown to develop its own alternative queer canon.” ⤴️
• “many works in the unofficial web-weaving canon are explicitly queer” ⤴️
• “create a cohesive interpretation of the theme, which is captioned as, “I’m sorry that I love you like this.”” ⤴️
• “web-weaving is fundamentally about desire” ⤴️
• “every action is about desire or reshaped into desire” ⤴️
• “Part of the impulse to search for desire might come from the historical tradition of excavating queerness in coded works, where desire is often kept under layers.” ⤴️
• “web-weaving does a certain fascinating sociological work of finding queer voices throughout history and linking them to contemporary media.” ⤴️
• “reinterprets historical works that weren’t previously considered queer and emphasizes the hidden queer content within” ⤴️
• “a type of excavation especially well-suited for the internet age, when queer media is much more accessible than it has ever been and social media sites provide more tools for sharing these types of connections.” ⤴️
• “whatever you find yourself circling around over and over again, often just points toward what you need to say.” ⤴️
• “A search for expressions of love, longing, queerness and desire is nothing new; web-weaving simply carries this tradition online.” ⤴️