and maybe me just being a bitchy old maid

if you're going to post in a meme with an AU shaped premise, for instance: the Daemon meme, why would you leave your TL blank??

if there's even the slightest question of a preference, like any of the vampire memes why blank???

IDK, maybe some people will tag that anyway, but...

I can understand it in something like picture prompt or quote prompt or any of those, I've done it myself

but if there's a specification of some kind? PICK SOMETHING EVEN IF THAT THING IS 'BOTH'

HAVE SOME GODDAMN PREFERENCES, PEOPLE!

buncha milquetoasts these days ffs

blank comments in anything that has any kind of preferences always makes me scratch my head, but then I'm usually keen to leave some idea of what I'm angling for in my TLs so always doing blanks is just bizarre to me

exactly!

even if it's just 'any of these things' which I have also done, at least then people know that 'OTA' in the header actually means that and not just 'canonmates and PBs I personally have a crush on'

Yeah, I personally always try to include "open to canonmates, cross-canon, OCs, whatever! / Info in journal!"

yeah! And then I worry that being specific (like with my darkside Rey and not being into reylo) makes people not tag me, but that's another thing

but like, I think that if people were more upfront about what they're actually interested in, there would be less anxiety in this hobby as a whole