Sep 23, 2024
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Comic by AndrewWD on bluesky
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Feb 17
Soaking and blocking my finished Glittering Snowscape shawl after 1 year and 2 months of intermittent knitting 😁🧶❄️✨
Dec 20, 2023
Pre-emptively blocking people is good for everyone.
Seriously. The amount of times I see people whining or laughing about being blocked when they 'haven't even done anything' just tells me that not many of you know its actually a really good way to properly curate your online space, and its not something to be offended over.
Blocking is a form of protection. Its also a form of mutual protection.
Especially on websites that don't offer more extensive or usable filtering, tagging and avoidance options. Twitter, for example.
Blocking isn't some personal insult. Its a method of saying; hey, we clearly shouldn't interact, so I'm gonna build this soundproof wall between us to make sure we can't.
To use The Salmon Analogy, if I run a restaurant based on salmon as the main ingredient, and you're allergic or or severely dislike salmon, me refusing to serve you isn't a personal sleight. Its me recognising that you can't or really don't want to eat salmon, and its me protecting you from an unpleasant experience and myself from you inevitably screaming at me for serving salmon.
If you are someone who enjoys 'objectionable' content, such as gore, and you stumble across an extremely anti-gore blog, its absolutely a viable option to pre-emptively block them. Maybe your paths never would've crossed, but its better to ensure they don't than potentially wind up the victim or hate or harassment.
Blocking is an absolute sure-fire way to ensure that you do not see something you do not want to. It should be used as liberally as you want to.
Oct 14, 2024
More control groups, this time of couples blocking being used in other shows (Heartstopper: L are a couple, C are a couple, R are love interests, the one alone is single - and aroace)
Apr 6, 2024
u can delete and block replies. Enjoy your life yaa lit
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Jun 19, 2024
Have you ever accidentally blocked someone you were just trying to follow, unfollow, message, etc?
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Oct 9, 2024
The way this shot at the roller rink frames Mike & El under "Rental" while also drawing visual comparisons between Will and El: very similar shirt, similar height, similar haircut, and the actors have been instructed to hold the roller skates the same way while Mike holds his differently. The blocking practically demands that we the audience see El and Will as twins or somehow interchangeable. (Which, romantically, El is Will's stand-in, to Mike - the socially acceptable option that he can project upon because she began her social life as a mostly blank slate). This visual at the roller rink reminds me of the careful framing, now-famous among Bylers, of Mike in-the-closet while El kisses him. (She could easily back him in there and shut the door and he'd be like 🧍♂️🚪 ... lol.) The Duffers don't do everything right, but they (and others, Sean Levy amongst them I'm sure) are very skilled at building a narrative through blocking, background objects, lighting, and other visual and non-dialogue avenues.