on a previous topic i havent posted on in a while re: the tumblr exodus and the drama on this site that followed it
my initial reaction of "block anyone involving themselves with it" was because i am just, easily stressed out by that sort of thing. and at the time i was already dealing with some severe stress from IRL stuff i'd rather not get into on here, which at the time of writing this is still ongoing.
i've since unblocked most of the people involved and even followed or re-followed a few, specifically those who took rita's side in the whole thing. while i think the initial comments she made were a bit rude, the people she lashed out against had been stalking her from site to site and she was, understandably, fed up with their shit. I'm not gonna fault her for that. honestly, she handled that far better than I would have.
anyway, at the time i just wanted it out of my sight because i was already dealing with enough myself, and asking people to tag it or something seemed unreasonable. in retrospect silencing pages would have been more effective than blocking but, again, i was stressed and not really thinking clearly. i also wasn't working with complete information, as people were using unclear terms i hadn't seen used before and it was more just yelling at each other than explaining any of the situation - something of a trend i've noticed in such situations in general, but that's a topic for another time i think.
hope that clears the air there. sorry to those i blocked who i've since unblocked
