#everyone prayer circle to shiyong that I get to actually recover that damn post

[grassbreads]

Epic Andie cringe moment just now oh my god.

Someone sent me an ask. I was super excited to answer the ask, so I started writing an answer right away even though I'm on mobile and unable to add the pictures I need. It was a long answer.

I tried to save a draft of the answer, but something made tumblr mobile revert the "save draft" button back to a "post" button when I wasn't expecting it. (I think it was something to do with opening the readmore in my drafts folder). I accidentally posted the unfinished, imageless version of the post.

Usually, if I fuck up and post what's meant to be a draft, I'll jump in and set the post to private asap so I can take it off my viewable blog without fully deleting everything I typed.

I tried to do this with today's premature answer, but asks don't have a "post privately" button. They have a "send privately" button. I figured that would be just as good for my purposes (my purpose being hide the damn thing asap without deleting my whole long answer). I threw an edit on top of the post that apologized to the person getting the answer in their inbox and said I'd finish/fix it soon. I hit send.

I forgot, crucially, that answering an ask privately removes it from your view for some ungodly reason. I cannot see my privately sent answer. It is as good as deleted, except now I've roped in the poor asker as well.

Anyway, I had to send a long string of dms to the person that sent the ask explaining the whole nonsense situation and asking if they could copy/paste my own post back to me. Tumblr is a good and functional website.