Funny, i was just writing a stridercest inspired imagine when I got this ask.
We are fans of stridercest in meant different configurations.
(it’s important to note perhaps that pretty much all canonical striders are here in the system.)
Some of the many themes in stridercest we find most interesting are the isolation and codependence. The mixture of self loathing and warped narcissism. The idea of knowing you kind of hate something or someone but at the same time drawing comfort from them/it. The idea of children trying to parent children and failing miserably and catastrophically, causing one immature kind of relationship to bleed into another. Themes of trust and being taken advantage of, manipulation without malice.
I think I could probably go on about it for a while.
Imagine your older shipcest F/O scooping you up from wherever you’re sitting alone, and sitting down holding you in their lap. They bounce you on their knees and pet your hair, peppering your face with kisses.
Or
Imagine scooping up your younger shipcest F/O from wherever they’re sitting alone, and sitting down holding them in your lap. You bounce then on your knees and pet their hair, peppering their face with kisses.
SO I decided to experiment with blocking someone from an anon ask they’ve sent to see what happens (thank you to @monjustmon for being my co-scientist on this), and here are the results from our study:
When you block an anon, the username does NOT appear in your blocklist
If you go to the page of the person you’ve anon blocked, you can still see their page, and it does not look like you have blocked them. In fact, you can still hit the “block” button on their page.
Tumblr will not inform the user that they are blocked from sending you anons. Mon was able to keep sending me anons, but I was not receiving them in my inbox
Blocking an anon removes the anon from your inbox as well as any previous anons still sitting in there that the user sent you
Blocking an anon appears to block the ip address, as mon was unable to send me anons from a side account
Because blocking the anon does not block the blog it originated from, there does not seem to be a way to unblock 🙁 sorry mon
Blocking an anon sent from your own ip address does nothing. I initially tried making a side account for the purpose of conducting this experiment, but blocking the anon did nothing to prevent the side account from sending another, which I assume is because we share an ip address. So if you have an annoying sibling who keeps sending you anons, sorry, you’re out of luck.
So there you have it folks, the details of what happens when you block an anon xD
Edit: apparently not everyone has timestamps enabled lol so for all of you, this experiment was done on January 6th 2023
and it’s a little spooky to be typing 2023 instead of 2022
Additional finding: the person blocked on anon can still send you regular asks!
LMAO so all the anons I blocked by IP have no idea that I’m never even seeing their messages, AMAZING, I love Tumblr who can’t even tell us someone has fucking blocked you, just that “oops something went wrong, we have no idea why the follow/reblog buttons aren’t working, maybe try again later?” weenie message, now they can’t even let anons know their messages aren’t being delivered. Are you afraid to make a phone call to a living person, too, Tumblr? I love you, bestie hellsite, never change. <3
