Wasn’t the “seduction and/or fiction questions for plausible deniability” thing specifically about the Solstice celebration, though? The one that already happened?
it’s kind of interesting to me, from a business standpoint that Tumblr in particular hasn’t adopted some form of transparency with regard to how they operate? Like, obviously, the user base of a social media site doesn’t need to know every little detail of how the site is run but imagine the goodwill that could be brought by a weekly or bi-weekly behind-the-scenes update as to the status of things?
e.g. “Replies are taking longer to reimplement than we had predicted due to a new coding method we decided to adopt for future site updates. We aim to have them back by x date. Thanks for your patience.”
little bits like that wouldn’t be unwelcome at all I think.
You realize those updates would just be “Kevin got wasted on pbr and pushed an untested code update to the master and now everything about replies are fucked and we don’t actually know how to fix it, cause the person who got it working in the first place quit after that dude wouldn’t stop wearing his tie as a belt.”
Website update: Nothing is fucking working properly because everyone is too busy shopping for unusual ties to wear as belts. I’ve been alone in the office for three months now. I fucking hate you david karp.
Yeah.
And then all they need to do is make that blog private so that you have to have a Tumblr to read it, and nobody would think if leaving Tumblr again.
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I probably have the cold now. Ugh. This sucks. Damn Canada with it’s inhuman temperatures and its long-as-fuck commutes that expose me to said temperature.
When I’m sick* I forget how hunger and it doesn’t even occur to me to eat food. So I just had breakfast at quarter to four. Why am I so non-functional argh.
(*Ever since I had the Evil Mosquito Illness. Before that, my response to illness was to eat more. This change is probably part of the reason why I still haven’t put back on all the weight I lost to that disease. It has been almost two year and I’ve only regained ten pounds fuck.)
I got sick all the time when I was new to Canada too. I think it’s because the microbial milieu is different here than back home, with a different set of commonly-encountered cold variants. You have to catch up.
(also, :( )
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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.
@ilzolende mentioned that people asked to pet their hair at the Solstice. I said there was a good chance that more people would have asked to touch mine, because of the uniqueness. They said that there was actually a good chance that fewer people would ask because of the cause of the uniqueness.
So, fwiw, I like having my hair touched, once I have warning that it’s about to happen and don’t reflexively duck and block anyone trying to touch me. So, if I meet you irl and you want to touch my hair, go ahead and ask. I won’t call you racist.
…Actually, now that I think about it, there is a reasonable chance I will call you racist for something. It’s a habit from back home. I’m from a majority-black country where no one really takes the idea of racism seriously. As such, jokes about people being racist for innocuous things are the norm.
I have called people racist for saying “all X look the same” when they were talking about oranges or action movies. I have asked “Is it because I’m black?” when people have asked if I’d prefer Coke to Pepsi. The thing is, these were all jokes aimed at other black people, in a mostly-black culture, where no one took the idea of racism seriously. The most common reaction to “Is it because I’m black?” was always “Yes”. The reaction to “all X look the same” comments was “Yes, they do, and black people too”.
I may have to change this habit if I’m going to stay in North America. In my first week here, I called a Canadian racist for saying that all apples look the same. This… Did not go as expected. At all. It ended with us apologising profusely to each other and feeling mutually guilty.
On the bright side, if I can apologise at someone while they’re apologising at me and end up in a spiral of “I’m sorry!” “No, I’m sorry!”, there may yet be hope for me becoming a True Canadian.
So, for future reference: If I actually think you did something that was racist and bad, expect me to say “What you did was harmful because…”. If I say “That was racist”, you may assume with 90% confidence that I’m joking. I just wasn’t raised to take anything that begins with “That’s racist” seriously.
“In my first week here, I called a Canadian racist for saying that all apples look the same. This… Did not go as expected. At all. It ended with us apologising profusely to each other and feeling mutually guilty.” Alison/Canada OTP
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