I've never really done anything like this before, but I'm going through a difficult time in my life right now.
I just need to vent about something that happened that really rubbed me the wrong way.
I admit that if I were in a calmer state of mind, this probably wouldn't make me so angry. For many people it might seem like a trivial thing, but right now it genuinely upset me.
I won't mention any names, but there was an author I used to follow on AO3. They had written a couple of fanfictions for a certain video game that I honestly loved.
Today I happened to discover that they have a Bluesky account. Since I knew they hadn't been active in that fandom for a while, I decided to ask whether they ever planned to come back and write for that game again, because I thought their fanfictions were really well written.
About an hour later, I found out that they had blocked me.
They didn't say, "No, I don't plan on writing for that fandom anymore." They didn't say anything at all. They just blocked me.
And honestly... I just want to understand: are people who behave like this okay? Because it doesn't seem like a normal way to treat someone, especially someone who approached them politely.
What frustrates me even more is that this isn't the first time something like this has happened to me. It's happened with people I had been talking to normally until two days earlier, and then, out of nowhere, I was blocked.
When that happens, it's natural to wonder why. You start questioning yourself, trying to understand if you did something wrong and what you could learn from it. But at some point, enough is enough.
I genuinely think that blocking someone without any explanation just because they asked a simple question isn't the right way to handle things.
How hard is it to say, "I'd rather not answer," or "No, this isn't the right time"?
Anyway, I just needed to get this off my chest. Maybe to many people this is nothing, but I've been going through a really difficult period lately, and honestly I didn't have anywhere else to talk about it. So attitudes like this really get on my nerves.
Have a good evening, everyone. I hope none of you have to deal with situations like this.
