#online curation

[myfandomrealitea]

Pre-emptively blocking people is good for everyone.

Seriously. The amount of times I see people whining or laughing about being blocked when they 'haven't even done anything' just tells me that not many of you know its actually a really good way to properly curate your online space, and its not something to be offended over.

Blocking is a form of protection. Its also a form of mutual protection.

Especially on websites that don't offer more extensive or usable filtering, tagging and avoidance options. Twitter, for example.

Blocking isn't some personal insult. Its a method of saying; hey, we clearly shouldn't interact, so I'm gonna build this soundproof wall between us to make sure we can't.

To use The Salmon Analogy, if I run a restaurant based on salmon as the main ingredient, and you're allergic or or severely dislike salmon, me refusing to serve you isn't a personal sleight. Its me recognising that you can't or really don't want to eat salmon, and its me protecting you from an unpleasant experience and myself from you inevitably screaming at me for serving salmon.

If you are someone who enjoys 'objectionable' content, such as gore, and you stumble across an extremely anti-gore blog, its absolutely a viable option to pre-emptively block them. Maybe your paths never would've crossed, but its better to ensure they don't than potentially wind up the victim or hate or harassment.

Blocking is an absolute sure-fire way to ensure that you do not see something you do not want to. It should be used as liberally as you want to.

[gayvampyr]

“how would you feel if someone blocked you just because they found you annoying?” then i wouldn’t have to interact with someone who thinks i’m annoying? i don’t see a problem

[batwynn]

I’m seeing a weird uptick in people commenting nasty stuff on people’s non-cat/dog pet stuff again and not so gentle reminder:

Your phobia or dislike of certain animals does not give you the right to harass and bully people who love and share them.

Use the blacklist tag like a normal human being, and leave people who love rats or snakes or bugs etc. the fuck alone.

[ribbittrobbit]

a wizard and her paramour

[daggerfall]

this ur man, leramil?

[licollisa]

Desperately need a mute button on tumblr. They can still see and interact with my posts, i just don't want to see theirs ┐⁠(⁠´⁠ー⁠｀⁠)⁠┌

[miimeeks]

it feels like most of the time antis don't actually realise why something is considered bad (irl) aside from just a vague moral idea that some things are simply bad.

which is why they also dont realise when something is fictional the reasons why its considered wrong irl are irrelevant or just not present.

many things are considered wrong in reality since it causes harm to real people (in the most simple terms) but in fiction no one is actually getting hurt, the only thing thats wrong is the vague "taboo" of it. which ends up being the appeal to people !!

[dragonknightofsummerset]

Look at the image zenimax uploaded!

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

there is no way you dont know what the omegaverse is.

well I do now

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

You are literally one of the only reasons I'm still partially in the WH fandom /pos

🫡 just doin' my duty sir

[demonzoro]

i get the feeling that this is the same person who commented 7 mins after i posted this fic, and i suspect you follow me here considering you know i post art.

in truth, i am incredibly lucky to ship something that has such a wide and active fanbase! it's a lovely feeling to know i don't have to write something perfect to be able to make someone smile at a nice scene, or laugh at a silly line. it's my hope that anyone who creates in search of community finds that, and from the sounds of it, i think that is something you are wanting and not getting. sincerely, i hope that you can find people who will appreciate you for imperfect offerings and the happiness such offerings bring. mediocre and melodramatic is just fine by me if it's enough to bring some happiness into someone's day.

edit: i appreciate people being in my corner but please don't reply with hateful comments towards anon! this post isn't to start a fight or get sympathy (though i appreciate it!) genuinely hoping this resonates w them. thank you sm!

[galedekarios]

not the untagged bldwv

[angele-midnight]

Why are so many people on Tumblr/Twitter claiming Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are bad shows??? "They're not mid shows guys they're just bad" can y'all give me one concrete reason they're bad besides debunked "controversies" or things that other people told you were bad about em?

Like I'm halfway convinced all of these people claiming these are such bad shows and are annoyed about em haven't actually watched them - "I don't need to watch a show to know it's bad" pretty sure you do if you want to have an informed opinion, that goes for everything actually.

If you're annoyed by the hype and the fan culture?? That's fine we all got our things but that doesn't make the shows themselves bad I think y'all just like having someone to poke fun of without feeling like a bully and honestly?? That seems like a miserable way to live.

[emry-stars-art]

I think I’m gonna go again this week! I’ll be using the @/kedreeva style wip wednesday game (find the original rules here), but i don’t have separate wips so they’re still only scenes 😅

Closed! 🥰

The results this week:

sought out 👑 (1) (2) (3) (4)

keep an eye 🌊 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

royal au gen - getting a feel for a full fic 👀 (1) (2) (3) (4) and out of sequence/extra: (x) (x)

First snippet from keep an eye:

“Finally overextended yourself?” Andrew asked. Wymack shot him a look.

“You can try to blame me for the fact so many of you are having crises at once,” he returned. “Let me know how that works out for you.”

“My crisis does remain ongoing. Who else besides this turtle you’re going to see?”

Wymack sighed. “This one’s not a crisis,” he admitted. “I just haven’t checked on the jellyfish in a while, I want to make sure it’s still around.”

Andrew pursed his lips a little. “Jellyfish.”

“Don’t give me that tone,” Wymack said in his own half-hearted fatherly tone. “You - hm. I… haven’t mentioned it to you, have I.”

“I see jellyfish all the time,” Andrew said. “So do you. Are you so desperate for something to rescue that you’ve moved onto the brainless?”

Wymack nudged him lightly, but he was still so much bigger that Andrew was knocked completely off course for a second. He ran into the whale’s side in retaliation. Wymack hardly reacted.

“I’ve already done that,” Wymack said pointedly, and Andrew narrowed his eyes. “No, it’s not just a jellyfish. There’s been a whole jelly mer around here recently, not even too far off.”

[angelboybreakdowns]

been getting really into blocking ppl lately. have a hc i dont like? im blocking you. be annoying on my post? im blocking you. follow me even though you have mdni in your bio? im blocking you AND your wife.

[kingjasnah]

Hi kingjasnah, can I ask why you don't post cosmere stuff very often anymore?

ummm ok sure. tbh the big nebulous reason is that it's not always easy to be a person of color in this space. i don't take a lot of what people say online seriously and I never have (which is probably why ive been on this blog so long), like im secure enough in my offline life to tbh not worry about it and my experience of these books is solely personal. which i recommend to everyone. but sure the last few years have been a little grating like i think there's a reason most of the mutuals of color i had in 2020 (and before) have um moved tf on as they say. im not going to expand on this LOL if you were here you know what i mean

the slightly chiller reason is just very simply that none of the releases since ROW have captured my interest as much? the ssps were cute but whatever. im personally not an era 2 person but i love a lore dump so lost metal was fun for that reason. when the next stormlight preview season starts I plan to be fully back on my bullshit I will be posting I will be keeping up with things I will be theorizing but I'm not here to do that 24/7 in the off season anymore