I rely on rss feeds to keep with blogs I like because you can never, ever, keep with more than about 10 blogs if everyone is reblogging up to 250 posts per day! Scrolling the dash is the dangerous, mindnumbing part of Tumblr ;) (and where you tend to run into the crap, indeed)

It really makes a difference. I feel I'm having conversations and interactions with actual people at DW :)

Aw, thank you :) I keep separate accounts for the "professional" stuff, but I'm upfront on all platforms about writing both original and fanfic. However it's only the last year or so I've been working hard on posting regular content to the writing blogs, and then additionally promoting it to my fannish blogs :)