Btw, in case anyone is now wondering, i tend to block people if something they tweet about (especially if they tweet about it regularly) makes me uncomfortable or goes against my values. Sometimes i try to discuss things with people like that and if the conversation isn’t+

+getting anywhere and we’re just repeating ourselves, i duck out and may block the person. Some people on here post things on the regular that massively trigger me. I block people to have as comfortable and non-triggering an experience online as possible - thats the point of the+

+block button. Choosing not to use it isn’t a badge of honour, and choosing TO use it doesn’t reflect anything about how i conduct myself in real life. I have coping mechanisms in place for triggering situations in real life, because those are important to have. But being+

+online is... literally just a hobby for me, and something to do to have fun, talk to likeminded people (especially in fandom spaces) and pass the time while i’m clinically vulnerable to covid and stuck inside. So why would i put up with people i didn’t want to see on the tl?+

+There’d be literally no point. So yeah, i block people over things that they themselves might consider to be trivial, but which annoy or hurt me. That’s what the block button is designed for. Your options here are to deal with that or mad about it, i guess? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Can you tell that i did an arts subject at uni, and like writing twitter threads while i wait for them to let me back in to write essays again lmao