I currently am wondering how many times I can explain a thing to a person before I tell the person that we must agree to disagree, and by that I mean it's not my fault that this person is unable and/or unwilling to grasp the concept that I am explaining. You don't have to like it, person, but you will have to live with it.

21st century fandom problems: Is there a polite way to ask a friend to start using tags on their Tumblr posts? (It's not any of you folks.) It's not for any triggering or phobia issues, I've just hit the point where I can tell when she's online, because my dash becomes non-stop fan art reblogs for her favorite fandom. I don't want to unfollow her, but I may have to.

It's a good thing I don't care about spoilers anymore, too.

Wait, does this mean I've achieved the Bitter Old Fandom Queen level?

I feel so unproductive today, waah! I don't really have time to take an uscheduled day off, but all I've done so far is laundry.

Jilli, you could use XKit or the like to block her posts. Which I assume is what you're going for with the tags, but just in case you weren't aware you could also block on username.

Jilli, you either can politely ask that a friend use tags, or you can try installing XKit. Which I haven't done yet, but surely someone here has. (I do want to install it, I just need to find a block of time to sit down and figure out all the extension options.)

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There's a "Limit People" option: Some people on your dashboard posting a lot? Limit people limits how many consecutive posts by the same person appear on your dashboard at once. If a user makes more than 2 consecutive posts, the rest will be hidden until you click on a button to show them.

Or you can do what shrift said. XKit has like a thousand different extensions.

Oooh, XKit has a "Limit People" option? I didn't know about that one. Perfect, I'll use that.

(I love XKit so much. SO MUCH. I've already got the tag for my friend's particular fandom on my blacklist, but she doesn't tag things very often.)

(Someday I will listen to all of Night Vale. But right now I don't have time, and am kinda burnt out on WtNV fan art.)

shrift,

I currently am wondering how many times I can explain a thing to a person before I tell the person that we must agree to disagree, and by that I mean it's not my fault that this person is unable and/or unwilling to grasp the concept that I am explaining. You don't have to like it, person, but you will have to live with it.

do you work with me? This is my life.

(Rant Redacted)

Ugh.

A lot of the symptoms of narcolepsy track with what people report in abduction stories.

My cousin, who is a science professor, sometimes emails me grammar questions about papers she's grading or writing herself. She sent me one today with the subject line "Colon!" And I was a little hesitant to open it, because she's a microbiologist and often shares links about fecal transplant with me.

(It was legit about punctuation. Whew.)