although any of you can turn images off any time you want

True. But if there are images posted throughout the threads, it's going to change the conversation. I'm not sure this distinction makes sense outside of my head so I am more than willing to try and put it into more words if it doesn't. I read b.org and I look at Tumblr.

I'm pretty aware of who is posting things here as I read them. I care a lot less who is posting things on Tumblr. And I follow a lot of y'all on Tumblr by choice. It's just different. A different format and a different interaction.

Hmm. I just had a thought--we can hide images in a few ways. They can be styled invisible, and people who want to see them can change their style sheet to make them visible, and you could also style them NSFW and you could be set to see images, but not NSFW.

There's a lot of there there--the hard part is: how easy do you make it to post?

if there are images posted throughout the threads, it's going to change the conversation. I'm not sure this distinction makes sense outside of my head

It totally makes sense.

I am staying in a hotel for one night for a meeting out of town. I had to drive 45 minutes or so for the meeting and the first thing I did when I got to the room (after I took pics of the view) was take a shower.

I wasn't on a transatlantic flight or anything so it seems weird for me to do it, but it is my habit after checking in.

What is the first thing you do after you check into a hotel room?

What is the first thing you do after you check into a hotel room?

Unpack.

Make sure I am connected to the internet

Not just in the head of the Cassiepants. It totally changes the conversation.

I'm not sure if I'm blowing every ounce of social capital, or if I even have a voice that's heard anymore, or maybe I'm overtired and PMSy or what, but I have a huge screaming ball of DO NOT WANT at the thought of images here. Not because of not wanting to share kids and weddings, but because I need a place that isn't full of the same fucking image macros that are everywhere. I like that this is a word place, and I'm basically fighting tears at the thought of it changing because so many other places I've loved have died or turned to passive looking-at-not-talking headache-inducing oh god stopping now.

I like that we give context to our image links by the way we introduce them into the flow of conversation. I even like it that there's a non-trivial risk (and a certain thrill/danger) when someone doesn't, because that's part or the conversation too. I like that we have real voices. Even those of you I haven't met offline. And I deeply fear losing the voices in my head.

What is the first thing you do after you check into a hotel room?

Plug in my phone.

::Hangs blinky lights on cass' and amych's posts::

I turn on the tv, for some reason, then unpack.