Blocking & Following
I am selective and mutuals only, but I also do follow back the majority of people who follow me first. Usually, the ones I don't follow back are the ones who clearly ignored everything regarding my clearly stated boundaries — my selectivity is more that someone has actually read my rules above anything else.
Blocking
I make liberal use of the block button. In most cases, it is nothing personal — I am simply using the feature to its fullest to curate my dash as I see fit.
Hard Block - Never Soft Block
I have severe memory issues, so I do not soft block, even if that is your preference. My memory is not reliable enough to ensure I don't attempt to refollow anyone who isn't hard blocked, so I will always outright hard block anyone I do not wish to see on my dash at all. If you are bothered by people hard blocking you, then I may not be a suitable roleplay partner for you, in the event that blocking is ever needed in the future, because I will not be making exceptions to this for anyone.
Block On Sight - Hard Limits
I block on sight for any of the following:
- Age stated as being a minor (under 18)
- No age stated at all anywhere on your blog, carrd, doc, site, etc.
- Roleplaying acts of rape/non-consent, sexual assault, sexual violence, etc. on tumblr
- Roleplaying Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics and/or settings on tumblr
Constantly Dropped Interactions
If you are constantly dropping our interactions, with or without notification of doing so, I may eventually lose interest in trying to interact with you any further and will likely proceed to block you so that I do not accidentally refollow again in the future.
This is not personal — it is just immensely frustrating to try to build up stories and dynamics only for them to be discarded constantly, often without any actual communication, and since I cannot simply unfollow and move on, due to my memory problems putting me at risk of accidentally following again in the future, blocking is the safer bet. I am extremely patient, but even I have my limits when it comes to certain behaviors, and this is one of them.
Following
Following = Want To Write With You
I only follow people I actually want to write with. So if I'm following you, I want to write with you — and you're welcome to jump into my inbox or hit me up on discord as soon as we're mutuals.
Rules Passwords
I do not send rules passwords. In fact, I will not follow first if your rules have a password to send. If you follow me first, I will take that as indication that you have read my rules, and thus have agreed to this condition, and have wilfully made an exception.
No Follow - Dealbreakers
I do not follow blogs for any of the following:
- Non-Roleplayer (Personal) blogs
- Smut/fetish only roleplay blogs
- Group &/or discord roleplay blogs
- Only content warning consists of "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat" without context
- Lack of rules anywhere on blog, carrd, doc, site, etc.
- Incompatible rules with my own rules where no compromise &/or exception can reasonably be made (ie use of banned faceclaims, fandoms, &/or other content listed in the rules).
Unfollowing
No Interactions
If my attempts at initiating interaction go ignored for an excessively extended period of time, I may choose to break mutual status and unfollow. I'm patient, but when 6+ months passes and I've been ignored that whole time after repeated attempted to start ic and/or ooc interactions, it is usually at that point that I will assume you're not likely to ever respond and I will stop trying, choosing to focus my attention and energy elsewhere.
Archived Blogs
I will typically unfollow any archived blogs whenever I notice the announcement that it's being moved to a new blog. If we haven't been actively writing with each other, I typically won't follow the new blog first, and will leave it to you to decide whether or not you wish to continue being mutuals.
Sudden Incompatibility
If your rules change and suddenly become incompatible with my own, or your entire blogs changes to the point that I'm no longer comfortable following you for whatever reason, I will typically unfollow and likely block in the process as well, where such incompatibility issues are concerned so as not to accidentally refollow again in the future.