tired-angry-robot:

fistfulofgammarays:

fourth-age:

servantofclio:

thievinghippo:

loquaciousquark:

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.

I was going to make a post very similar to this one, so it’s much easier to simply reblog. I miss talking to you all, so I’m going to start using that damn paper airplane. (curse you, tumblr!)

Likewise; don’t feel obligated to reply unless you want to.

Ditto on the no obligation to reply, but if you do want to, message or reply away!

Same.

This is what I’ve been doing basically, but consider it my formal declaration.