everyone freaks out about this stuff a lot and i totally get it because anxiety but still a list of reminders:

• tumblr eats messages really often
• just because someone doesn’t follow you (back) doesn’t automatically mean that they dislike you
• you can be good friends with someone and not follow them because you’re not into the content that they post and that’s not against any friendship rules or anything
• tumblr eats messages really often
• sometimes messages get read and then accidentally forgotten
• sometimes messages get buried
• sometimes people are too anxious to reply to a message
• sometimes people just don’t know what to say
• the same goes for replies to posts
• being full-on ignored is usually at the bottom of the list of possible scenarios
• answering an ask can be just as anxiety-inducing as sending one

it’s hard (or sometimes impossible) to not assume the worst but like seriously we’re all human beings here take it easy