A new mutual on Instagram is very actively trying to *friend* me, and I want to say to them, can we just spend 2-3 years lightly interacting with each other's stories and take it from there??
Desperate for a clear day so I can spend a few hours edging in the morning, get some street food for lunch, then sit in a cute cafe and catch up on newsletters
Missing from the "block, ignore, or reject" discourse is that our norms around approaching someone new *by design* are indirect and avoid giving an obvious opportunity for rejection
