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teaboot:

Wait what’s a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren’t supposed to use the elevator to get down

You go down the stairwell/fire escape. Is that weird?

But what if you have a walker or a wheelchair??

in america at least, in this situation, there isnt one. either your loved ones or the firemen can get you out using the emergency fire escapes or stairs, or you die 

That’s fucking horrific, thank you

“fun” little story:

last summer my friend who is an amazingly talented artist and i were in this super tall building, and she’s in a wheelchair and i’m pushing her around the room. it’s an art exhibit and some of her art was chosen to be showcased there and so it’s all fine and dandy until suddenly an alarm starts going off

a FIRE ALARM

everyone starts running for the stairs and my friend just looks at me with this forlorn look on her face

“i can’t go down the stairs”

but i’m a stubborn bitch “i’ll carry you”

“what about my chair? it’s too expensive for me to be able to get another one if i can’t get this one back”

“i’ll carry that too”

and i did. we went to the stairs (by then most people from our floor were gone) and i lifted her up in a fireman’s carry over my shoulder and then lifted her chair up and used the ridiculous amount of adrenaline that was coursing through my veins to make it down approximately 20 half-flights of stairs until we met some people exiting lower floors, one of which who kindly took the chair. I changed positions so i was holding my friend bridal-style which was, somehow, easier and the person who took her wheelchair (with her permission to handle it of course) accompanied me to the ground floor and then out the doors

basically there is no real protocol for people who can’t use the stairs in an emergency. it’s up to the people with them, if anyone, to help them or the person to somehow make it down the stairs alone, unassisted

thank fuck that it was just a faulty alarm system, because if i was unable to carry her down those stairs and the building was on fucking fire???? then i don’t know what would have happened to her, but i don’t think it would have been very good.

it’s fucking ridiculous and ableist to the absolute max.

I use a cane. When I did a day-long fire safety training at my northeast American university (UMass Amherst), I asked that exact same question: “what am I supposed to do if the fire alarm goes off and I’m in my lab on the twelfth floor?” 

the fire marshal hemmed and hawed for a while and then said to take the elevator- you’re supposed to leave it free for the fire department to use and they want able-bodied people out fast not waiting for elevators. if the fire alarm has just gone off the building probably hasn’t suffered enough structural damage to make using the elevator dangerous, and modern elevator wells are heavily reinforced. many large and high-trafficked buildings on my campus have fire rated elevators that link in with the fire alarm system so they won’t let you off on a floor with a possible fire. 

if the elevator isn’t working, wait in the stairwell and call the fire department to let them know where you are. modern stairwells are also heavily reinforced- it might not be pleasant but modern building code usually requires fire-resistant stairwell doors in office and big residential buildings, also to help firefighters get in and out safely. older buildings’ stairwells may or may not be retrofitted with fire-resistant doors but a stairwell is generally the safest place to wait if you can’t get out. 

what happened to your friend was horrible, and i’m very glad you were there to help her out, but you can absolutely use the elevator to evacuate if it’s not shut down. those don’t-use-the-elevator rules are for abled people.  

This is GOOD TO KNOW. why do they not tell people this??

Okay, firefighter here. If you are not physically able to use the stairs, and the elevator is NOT compromised, use the elevator. But you MUST be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the elevator is NOT compromised before you get into it, because there is always the chance that once you get into it, you may not exit it. Power could go out. The elevator may actually BE compromised and you just couldn’t tell from where you were until you were in there, and it suddenly shuts down on you. Something else could happen. 

Understand that once you enter the elevator, you could POTENTIALLY be taking your life into your hands there.

It is NOT LIKELY, to be perfectly honest. It’s only in a pretty catastrophic scenario - think the Twin Towers, USA, on September 11th - that the elevators will be compromised and out of service. But there is a NOT ZERO PERCENT CHANCE and you need to understand that and accept it.

As for leaving the elevators free for the firefighters, okay, here’s the deal. Unless your nearest fire station is literally right next door? Your first on scene fire truck is NOT likely to be there on scene and needing that elevator before you get to the ground. It takes us TIME to find the address, gear up, and drive to the building. Then we need to hoof it into where the elevators even ARE, so YOU HAVE TIME to use the elevator to get down to the ground floor… BUT ONLY IF THERE’S NOT A RUSH ON THE ELEVATOR! And THAT is WHY we don’t tell people this shit. That’s WHY we tell people to NEVER USE THE ELEVATOR… because every self-entitled asshole will use it because they don’t feel like walking, and then put YOU in danger by delaying the elevator’s arrival to you.

IF, however, the elevator IS compromised, or you just can’t get it to come for you, or whatever, and you either don’t have anyone with you who has the adrenaline fueled BALLS to be able to toss you over their shoulder and hoof it down the stairs with you - because, let’s face it, that is RARE AS FUCK, then HERE IS WHAT YOU DO:

You call 911 and tell the call taker that you are in the building that has a fire alarm going off, and you are not able to evacuate because of a physical disability, and you tell them what floor you are on, and EXACTLY what stairwell you are waiting at. And the very FIRST thing that the firefighters are going to do once they arrive, if it is, indeed, a REAL emergency, and not a false alarm, is come get your ass and bring you down. Whether that means carrying you down the stairs, or whether that means locking out the elevators so that no one else can override them and coming to get you themselves, they WILL come get you FIRST THING if it is a real event. And if it is a false alarm? You will probably be the first person who is not involved with the building to know, because the call-taker is going to stay on the line with you until you are under someone’s care and out of danger, or until the scene has been sorted out as real or false, and you are out of danger that way.

These are pretty standard operations in the fire service throughout the United States. There may be some minor variations based on specific municipalities, but, for the most part, this is pretty typical: LIFE BEFORE PROPERTY. So, as long as SOMEONE knows where you are - hence why you call 911 - Firefighters will come get you. You are NOT alone, and you have NOT been abandoned. I PROMISE. It’s like, our whole reason for doing the shit we do: to save lives and to break shit. Sometimes, we get lucky enough to do both at the same time.

High rise fires suck ass, and I always hated them. But the very FIRST thing I asked anytime we got one was if we had “any entrapments” - which is what we call anyone who could not self-evacuate for ANY reason. We ain’t leaving you behind. And yes, your friend who doesn’t have the stamina to carry you down can stay with you, too. Because I would never ask that of someone, honestly. 

Also, just a little FYI… MOST fire alarms are false alarms. Not to make anyone complacent or anything, but, yeah. Most of them are either system malfunctions, someone accidentally hit a pull station, or someone burned popcorn in a break room. So don’t let a fire alarm freak you out until you need it to - by smelling or seeing smoke or flames. 

I know it’s got 100k notes but I haven’t seen this and even though I would 100% attempt to haul any one of you down a dozen flights of stairs, I know enough of my followers are disabled in more ways than one and ought to know this

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babyspicegf:

babyspicegf:

babyspicegf:

babyspicegf:

backwards trope you fake breakup and realise maybe this is better

arranged divorce

you have increasingly terrible visits to a coffee shop centered on interactions with one barista until eventually one of you snaps and kills the other and one of the other baristas throws their hands in the air and says FINALLY i thought you guys would never figure it out

you are snowed out. you die of hypothermia

Enemies to angrier enemies.

There are so many beds

Abstinence Pollen

Stranded with a robust selection of blankets.

Hurt / Discomfort

Our houses are ancient allies but we totally hate each other

I’ve actually seen anti-Sex Pollen done in the Doctor Who fandom.

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beesmygod:

do you take a werewolf boyfriend to the vet or the doctor. this is too complicated

Context: she had babies with a werewolf and isn’t sure where to take them either.

she had babies with a what

This is Tumblr, we don’t get to be outraged about people fucking werewolves

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In college we went to Shabbos dinner at the local Chabad house a lot and they’d renovated their garage into a big dining room where we’d eat. One night their 18 month old baby got into the kitchen and locked the door, effectively locking everyone else out of the house. It then became a game of “How quickly can we break into our own home without breaking any shabbos rules before the baby learns how to open drawers”. The baby was also their most mischievous child and the real danger was less her hurting herself and more that she loved opening and dumping bottles of grape juice and there were so many for her to get her hands on in the kitchen.

Eventually a hockey player tossed their 12 year old on the roof and he wiggled through an open second story window. It was the most fun shabbos dinner I’ve had to date

rainbow-femme:

surprisedentistry:

the chaotic energy of this anecdote is off the charts

Important secondary information:

It was sushi Shabbat night so there were 15+ college kids standing around on the lawn eating sushi off paper plates at 9 at night and watching a 6’4” hockey player, a rabbi, and a 12 year old discuss the proper force needed to launch the 12 year old onto the roof without chucking him face first into the side of the house

And by discuss I mean

Hockey player: I just don’t want to break him

12 year old: It’ll be fine!

Rabbi: Yeah it’ll probably be fine

guerrillatech:

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mercymornthefirst:

for reasons that aren’t important right now, i had to get on the wiki list of all hockey nicknames to look something up. this turned out to be a treasure trove of joy. i have compiled my favorites for you now

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destinationtoast:

arufendi:

r0wdyruff:

help me, i am trapped

in a haiku factory

save me, before they

I got your message

and have snuck my way inside

Oh my god, what the

Investigating

A double disappearance

This place is FULL of

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tornado-si-do:

Man called Owen Wilson made these posters (found here on Twitter) and the English are going absolutely bonkers with fury, cancelling holidays and supposedly “reporting” him to various UK authorities…and he’s just like, “off you pop,” “Wales isn’t in England” lmao

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madam-o:

Loki’s fandom misunderstands his show

The thing about Loki the series is this: I’m absolutely convinced that this is Tom Hiddleston in total control of this character, despite his insistence that he’s only the actor who plays him and it was all these other people who created this show with just a skosh of input from him. I’m not saying he sat anyone down and made them rewrite the scripts to his specifications, I’m just saying he has definite influence over the direction of the show.

Tom’s wildly charismatic and beloved wherever he goes, and we know he is obsessive about Loki and talks about Loki at any given opportunity. He’s a leader and a role model on set. He plays music, brings in food trucks, runs and exercises between takes. He knows everyone’s names, makes sure each and every actor gets what they need to do their best job, and is instantly hugged by his co-stars at public functions.

Loki is Hiddleston’s world, and we’re all living in it. I don’t think anyone would work on this show without wanting his approval and feedback on everything. Some charismatic leaders use their powers for evil, but Tom always uses them for good.

S1 of Loki is Tom wiping Loki’s slate relatively clean by removing him from reality and allowing him a chance to start over and become whoever he wants to be. Of course Loki still has his baggage, his insecurities, and his many demons. This is why Hiddleston relishes the role, especially the emotional reaction scenes. He lives for this shit.

This “new” Loki is almost literally new. He’s like a child in a way, but like the way Kid Loki was a child in the comics. He remembers his past life but feels a detachment from it now. Sometimes he can pretend all of that was someone else.

I think he’s telling Loki’s story the way he wants to, and he’s taking his sweet time about it. There will be no quick and easy emotional payoff. Character growth will happen in stages over time. Hiddleston is thorough and not afraid to go the long way. The first 6 episodes are more of a prologue than a first chapter. The rumors say that the first season was supposed to be 12 episodes long (presumably with a mid-season break halfway through) before the pandemic halted production so the cliffhanger makes total sense.

Anyway, what I’m saying is, this show might have certain things it needs to do for MCU continuity with the Multiverse and the TVA and Kang and all that, but the story that frames all that is Loki’s. The show might not seem to be all about him as an individual character, but that’s because he’s in development and learning how to be a person instead of a god, a prince, or a son of Odin. That necessitates other well-developed characters for him to learn from, including the other Lokis and other “villains”.

Tom is humble to a fault. He’s always directing attention to other people and refusing to hog the spotlight. Do you think any other major star would let Jonathan Majors run away with the season finale of their own show? Allow Richard E. Grant to take the Big Loki Moment of S1? Give a relatively unknown actress so much focus in the first season in order to illustrate the many sides of this character? Share scenes with a kid AND a cute lokigator? For Tom Hiddleston, the work itself comes first and fame is best used as a way of helping others.

So despite the fact that Loki feels more like Hiddleston himself than he ever has before, that he’s energetic, boyish, cheerful, curious, and a bit silly, I’m more than willing to go along this strange ride to see inside Tom’s brain at who Loki is to him. Hell, if Hemsworth can rework his own iconic character, why shouldn’t Hiddleston? This is Loki from Tom’s headcanon, not the fandom’s. It’s a story worth waiting for and being patient with. He didn’t create the plot of the series, but the character is all him.

Yeah, this.

The show is such a love letter, love novel? and I have trouble understanding those who don’t see that. But I also get it, because people aren’t used to the idea that in capitalism there are some diamonds in the rough. And Tom Hiddleston is one of them.

There are in fact those in the industry that do it for the art for the passion and the topic of money and fame is secondary if relevant at all. And again, Tom has proven himself to be one of those people. This predates the show- how many actors would go to comic-con and announce while in full character a trailer where he wasn’t even the title character?

He loves Loki. He loves the fans. He knows both at this point. If you look, the show includes quite a lot of things that we wanted. Not all, but a lot. Like how else would you explain the existence of Richard. E. Grant’s character? They used a popular fan theory as his story and validated that it was logical one. The show is a gift and a character study and a headcanon and a story, from Tom Hiddleston.

This is Loki from Tom’s headcanon, not the fandom’s.

THIS. THIS EXACTLY. Thank you!

Fandoms are essentially echo chambers. You get together with a bunch of people who decide on shared interpretations and feed each other until you forget if something’s canon because you read it in every fic. And then when the actual keepers of canon - the writers, directors, actors - do something that goes against what the fandom had deemed to be Correct, there’s whining, negativity, and a sense of betrayal.

Loki was an awesome show that fleshed out a pretty underdeveloped stereotypical misunderstood villain and for the first time gave him his own battle (not Thor’s, or the Avengers’, or Earth’s). It sucks when canon doesn’t go the way you want, but it doesn’t mean you were betrayed or lied to or mislead. You just borrowed someone else’s property and made up daydreams that appealed to you.

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lierdumoa:

There was a post I saw the other day. I can’t remember who’s blog I saw it on so I have no way of finding it. Basically the OP was complaining about ao3 not having a good blocking function, and someone else in the comments was laughing at the irony of being on tumblr and complaining about ao3’s filtration system.

Yes, tumblr’s filtration system is pretty shitty when it comes to curating *types of content* — AO3′s content filtering is obviously vastly superior.

But I’m pretty sure the OP was talking about blocking *people,* not content.

Tumblr is *excellent* when it comes to blocking people.

When I block someone on tumblr, they cease to exist for me. If I accidentally click on a mystery hyperlink to the blog of someone I blocked, I get a big warning asking if I’m sure I want to go there. If I click on a blog of someone who’s blocked me, the blog appears empty.

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I’ve posted at length about this before, but as a POC in fandom, my biggest concern isn’t avoiding any particular genre or kink or pairing. My biggest concern is avoiding stories written by racist authors, who in most cases do not have any self-awareness of their racism, and therefore do not tag any of the racist tropes their stories are riddled with.

Author’s who, for example, write MCU fic in which Tony Stark becomes Wakanda’s white savior, or write “Alternate Universe - Human” fic where all the white characters are interns at a law firm, and all the POC characters are janitorial staff.

God, I’ll never forget this AU fic I read in Stargate: Atlantis fandom where the author made the white protagonists dog walkers and made the non-white protagonists … you guessed it … the dogs that they were walking.

That’s the kind of bullshit I want to avoid, and most effective way of filtering fic like that it is filtering the specific usernames of the authors who write it.

There are ways to do that. In fact my blog has an #AO3 hacks tag which lists 3 options. 

Unfortunately implementing these require a considerably higher degree of tech savvy than the average AO3 user is comfortable with. Especially if you want to implement the same filtering across multiple browsers on multiple devices.

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And while I don’t post a whole lot of fic to AO3 and this has never been an issue for me personally, I know that authors don’t have a lot of options when it comes dealing with harassment via fic comments. I think you can turn off commenting on a story, or moderate commenting, but as far as I know, there’s no way to ban specific people from leaving comments.

Each story published to AO3 is equipped with its own comment forum. AO3′s the only site I can think of that has comment forums yet doesn’t allow the moderator of the forum to ban specific users from commenting in it.

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I know much of what I’m saying here is stuff I’ve said before.

Anyway. 

I guess my point is that, AO3 is not a social media platform, but it is a media platform. And I think people assume, incorrectly, that because it has less “social” function than a social media platform, that there’s not enough user interaction to justify a block function.

But it’s actually a pretty major concern, especially if you’re a Person of Color in fandom. 

They are, apparently, planning to put blocking in place soon, even if it only took them… a decade.

Originally posted by giantmonster

There’s an interesting discussion going on in the notes between @ryuutchi​ and @elinimate​:

elinimate:
it didn’t take them a decade. This is not an issue that’s been brought up as a major priority until pretty recently. Plus programming a block isn’t as easy as it sounds. A pure block means a blocked author doesn’t show up in any fandom or tag you browse fics for as long as you’re logged in. And everything else needs to keep working as designed. 

ryuutchi:
Blocking has been requested pretty much since the site’s inception. Maybe it’s closer to eight years, but I’ve been seeing “why can’t we block people” for nearly the whole of AO3’s existence

Before I say anything, a disclaimer: I volunteer with the OTW as a tag wrangler, but I am not speaking on the behalf of or for the organisation, ao3, its coders, or the tag wranglng committee.

That said:

Implementing a blocking feature takes a lot more work than even elinimate said; a user who blocks me would expect the following:

On their end:

• not see my works
• not see my comments on others’ works or on news posts
  
• not be assigned to me during challenge matchups and not getting me  assigned to them
• not see my bookmarks
• not seeing any of my prompts
• not seeing any of my collection
• not see any of the kudos I’ve left on any work
  

On my end:

• not allow me to comment on any of their works
• possibly not allow me to see any of their works
•  not be assigned to them during challenge matchups and not getting them assigned to me
• not allowing me to see their bookmarks
• not seeing any of their prompts
• not allowing me to post a fill any of their prompts
  
• possibly not seeing any of their collections
• not let me see their kudos on any work
• not allow me to kudos their work
  

If that doesn’t sound horrifically complicated enough, there’s also the issue of anonymous works, private works, orphaned works, and pseuds. Are blocks pseud-dependent? User dependent? Are works orphaned by a person who blocked me still invisible to me? Full orphaning (= no name attached)? Orphaning with their username attached? Would we be able to see and interact with each other’s anonymous works? If no, then doesn’t it break anonymity, in a way? If yes, that could be harassment.

Add to that my concern as a tag wrangler: would I be able to see their tags in my bins so I can wrangle them? If a tag doesn’t make sense out of context, how can I check what it means by clicking on their work?

This isn’t an idle worry, by the way – I’m assuming that if I was blocked, it was likely because we were sharing a fandom space, possibly one of the fandoms I wrangle.

And that’s just me as a tag wrangler! What about a Support volunteer? A policy and Abuse volunteer? If the chairs of those committees are blocked by the user having trouble, and there’s a problem that requires their involvement – what happens then?

Basically, adding a block like what tumblr has requires touching the code of the entire infrastructure of ao3, on each and every level of the site. It takes a lot of planning and a lot of arguing and then a lot of coding. And after that? A fuckton of testing, because dependencies are a thing, and if you change one thing in how the works module works, you might end up breaking the tag wrangling module in fun and unexpected ways.

Nobody’s ever said that ao3 couldn’t use a blocking feature – on the contrary. Everybody in the otw I’ve talked to about it would love having it. The problem is that it’s a lot of work, done by volunteers in addition to their own full time jobs, schools, and families, and the plain fact is that keeping the site functioning as it does now is taking most of the volunteers’ focus. First, ao3 needs to work; then, it needs to do that core work well. Only after that can it work better.

To add to the list (using programming names):

• Are blocks retroactive? If Betty has been commenting on Alice’s works for the last ten years and gets blocked in 2022, what happens to the previous comments and kudos? Is the content hidden or destroyed?
• Conversely, what happens when Alice unblocks Betty? If the content was destroyed, it’s gone. If it’s only hidden, can we guarantee it won’t leak?
• Alice and Betty co-created a work in 2015. Alice blocks and mutes Betty in 2022. 
• Who’s listed on the work? 
• Where does the work appear? 
• Which creator can comment on the work?
  
• Ibid Series
• Ibid anything else that can have multiple creators.
• Orphan works are truly a sticky spot, because we don’t keep any info on them. Even when you “leave your pseud on it,” that’s not your pseud - it’s a pseud of the same string of characters made on the orphan account. It’s in no way connected to the original account. 
• How do we respect orphaning anonymity and blocking? (Probably can’t.)
• Alice blocks Betty’s works. Betty, for malice or incidence (name change due to co-worker nosiness, frex), transfers all her works to a new NotBetty account. 
• Is it possible to connect the accounts for the block but not out Betty’s new name? (Probably not - it’d have a different email, and IPs are not distinctive or identifying, and we don’t currently keep a creator chain on the works.)
• Challenges. If I drank, this would kill my liver. 
• For a soupçon of the simple questions: Alice is the owner of a challenge, Betty’s a mod, Betty has Cindy blocked, 
• can Cindy sign up for a gift exchange? 
• Prompt meme? 
• Generic collection? 
• If yes, does that break through Betty’s block? (Hope not.) 
• If no, it becomes obvious one of the mods has Cindy blocked. (And lo, the darkening of the sky on the horizon is the incoming wankstorm.) 
• Does it matter if the blocker is an owner or mod?
• Alice and Betty as mods are fine with Cindy, but Delilah as another participant is not, and has Cindy blocked: 
• Can Cindy sign up if Delilah’s already signed up?
• Can Delilah sign up if Cindy already has?
• Does Cindy get booted if Delilah signs up?
• Does Delilah get a warning that Cindy’s signed up?
• Does that warning trigger even when participants are still anon?
• (For once in the lifetime of challenges, matching is easy: it won’t.)
• Does it function differently in a small five-person exchange than it does in a large exchange like Yuletide or Kaleidoscope? (Side note: someone needs to resurrect Kaleidoscope once we have block-the-racist-assholes in place.) 
• How does blocking work in a completed exchange? 
• In an already-matched-but-not-fulfilled exchange? 
• Can a mod add a work of a person they blocked but not muted? 
• Can a mod add a bookmark of a person they blocked but not muted? 
  
• Alice blocks Betty. Alice creates a tag set. 
• Can Betty run a challenge using that tag set? 
• Can Cindy add Betty as a mod to a challenge using that tag set?
• If you can decipher the direct link, can you download works as the
• blockee? 
• Blocker?
• Fuck caching. Just. If you know, you know. Fuck caching.
• How against the ToS is evading a block? What about sharing that someone is blocked/muted?
• How “silent” is the block?
• Does it clearly let the person blocked know that someone applied the duck tape when they try to interact? (Wank.)
• Does it throw an “error”? (More work for Support.)
• Obligatory “when we get around to coding the (opt-in or I’m gone) PM system everyone seems to want for some wild reason” entry. Straightforward, but still.

Be advised that that is not comprehensive. That’s just off the top of my head.

I will note: Support has a staff account, and longer-term volunteers have dedicated admin accounts that will very likely be unblockable (read: I will fight people over this). None of the Support or PAC people do work on their fannish account, and many of them actually do their volunteer work under a different name than their fannish works.

It’s not that we don’t want blocking and muting. By all the gods, we do - most of us have a little of people who won’t be missed. But an actual working block/mute may possibly the most complicated thing we’ve coded on the Archive, and I troubleshoot challenge matching at least monthly.

Things I personally would find interesting:

Being able to have the block and mute list be exportable and importable.

Then you could have curated lists and we could all live in our bubles.

Even if you take nothing else from this post, please, for the love of all the fanworks on ao3, take this: implementing user blocking is hard.

If you want to hide certain users’ works from showing up in both tags and their own user profile, it’s easier to make a skin and add this bit of code there:

.blurb.user-user_ID_number_here {
  display: none !important;
}

You can find the user ID number in a user’s profile. This will hide works completely.

If you want to know that you’re blocking something and why, you can do it like this:

.blurb.user-user_ID_number_here :not(.summary) {
  display: none !important;
}

.blurb.user-user_ID_number_here .summary::after {
  content: "whatever reason you want to give";
}

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Sherlock Holmes modern adaptation but the main characters (Sherlock, Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Irene Adler, and maybe even Lestrade) are all vampires and they’ve just been doing their thing since the time period of the original books

Irene gets to be from New Jersey like she is in canon and she’ll occasionally show up and help Sherlock with a case but they don’t ever date or hook up or anything

OR… Lestrade isn’t a vampire, but there’s been generations of Lestrades, and they all have to deal with this guy

the latest one isn’t even a cop she works nights at the 7-11 and Sherlock keeps coming in at 2am to slam two gallons of Monster Energy and ask her what what the fuck an “amogus” is (it’s case related) and tell her how much better she is at lateral thinking than her tragically straightforward ancestor and also is her girlfriend still going to school to be a defense attorney, how’s she handling the workload

okay, but who turned them and when? bc there is a lot of delicious angst and goofiness to be exlored if say:

irene has kids before being turned and is invested in her descendants

john was already with mary and has to see her age and pass

mrs. hudson is the vampire queen

the lestrades are like. the opposite of the vanhelsings. generational disinterest in vampires, but the holmes enclave keeps roping them back in.

1) Irene adopts and yes she is The Cool Grandma for generations of children forevermore

2) Mary is also a vampire, she got turned at the same time as John, she and Sherlock have Wine Wednesdays every third Saturday of the month

3) Mrs. Hudson is immortal but she’s not a vampire and nobody can figure out what her deal is

4) absolutely 100% correct

whenever anybody asks how they got turned the response is something along the lines of “that was like. Over five years ago. How do you expect me to even remember that.” or “idk man I just woke up like this” or “got bitten by a mosquito on a case” and it’s never the same twice

Yes the Sherlock Holmes books exist and whenever they’re brought up Watson gets very upset that this dude stole his writing and considers him his archnemesis despite the fact that Doyle is a totally normal human and dead as hell

imagine Watson’s frothing rage at the Doyle estate insisting Holmes can never be shown having emotions. like he didn’t personally watch Sherlock weep during the moon landing.

Holmes and Watson are embroiled in a legal battle against the Doyle estate and have been for almost 100 angry, angry years

this is only ever mentioned in passing for comedic effect

mrs. hudson, as a fae, is their lawyer, but there’s only so much standing she has in human courts.

so she hangs around with houdini for a minute…..

Sherlock: Mrs. Hudson, as I have correctly deduced you are a fae

Mrs. Hudson: wrong

Sherlock: …as I have correctly deduced you are a, uh, faerie?

Mrs. Hudson: wrong

Sherlock: …fairy?

Mrs. Hudson: I hear the spelling change but you’re still wrong, you’ve been guessing since the day we met and you still haven’t gotten it

Sherlock:

Mrs. Hudson: but yes I have a law degree and will represent you in court

Watson, sitting in the other room and not looking up from his newspaper: I told you she would do it

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