When you follow someone, and notice one day they no longer seem to appear on your dashboard — you would go check their tumblr directly, right? Maybe they’re taking a break and you missed the announcement, maybe something happened while you were asleep.

And then you see that no, they made a post just a minute ago, and it’s not showing up on your dash — so you check the +/- sign, and no, you’re still following, so then you check your options, maybe you hit something on accident —

No. It’s them. They’ve blocked you.

I do notice these things. When I follow someone, it’s a conscious choice, I don’t fill up my dash with people I’m not interested in, and when they stop appearing, I wonder. I worry. I check.

I had always, always rather, if someone wants nothing to do with me, to be told it, than wonder ‘what have I done?’