I was thinking about this earlier, so! For the record!
Right now, I am fully intending on using the new paper airplane whatever thing as my replies. They’re not the same and they’re not what I want, but they’re what I’ve got, and I miss talking to y’all, so they’re what I’m going to use.
When I send you an airplane chatty thing, it has the same intent behind it as a public reply. I don’t expect a response at all if it’s not necessary (e.g. with commiserations, reactions to your good/bad news, answers to specific questions, etc.). I don’t need acknowledgement that you received it unless you’d like to let me know. I absolutely do not expect to start an immediate chat back and forth, regardless of whether I see you active on tumblr at the same time. That’s my reply, no strings attached!
And for the foreseeable record, if I message you in response to one of your posts, please consider it 100% okay to copy/paste & answer publicly, just like a reply, unless it’s specifically stated otherwise. I know some people are far more comfortable with answering all the replies to something in one place, and if you have a specific post you want to gather all the messages for so you can find them again later (e.g. fic! art! fanworks! anything you’ve produced by working really hard on!) I am absolutely 100% okay with that!
So there. I’m gonna talk to y’all whether tumblr likes it or not.
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