There's been a worrying trend of cardiophile artists popping up and vanishing lately (as in full deactivation).
It makes me wonder what treatment they've received behind the scenes as I remember in the early days how pushy people were with me. Some of the asks I got were quite frankly disgusting.
The amount of times people try to be slick with crossing my boundaries but they forget that I'm an adult who has been on the internet for a very long time. I can see through this stuff.
Don't be afraid to set boundaries.
It's is your blog, not theirs. If they can't behave then they lose access to your space.
That usually gets them to pack it in.
#a few years ago I had a man message my blog (this blog)#I thought he was doing some harmless flirting so I just continued interacting with him (I wasn’t flirting back. just talking)#and he kept asking like…personal questions about what I was into and I ended up leaving him on read#(his account is now deactivated)#I don’t even post my art here that’s just an example#but I used to post art on tumblr#I literally had to block someone PRIOR to posting art bc of the way he interacted with others#if someone so much as mentioned heartbeats he would interact with them unprompted trying to bring Cardiophilia into the conversation#like. there were people with cardiophobia saying something about being concerned about their heart and he would reply with something like#‘oooo thats hot’#to people with CARDIOPHOBIA. freaking OUT.#first off. someone being into the same fetish/kink as you online is not an invitation to start flirting with them#second of all. I know cardiophilia is niche so content can be hard to come by#but that does not mean you need to make cardiophilia out of people just casually mentioning hearts#good god.#txt
