when_it_was_right raze i wrote a blathe earlier tonight called "when_it's_right". it was a bit of found_poetry red_blather style, with each line the title of an existing blathe. you can't read it anymore. it's gone. but here's what it said for the twenty minutes or so it existed: life_can_be_all_beautiful like_an_unknowing_mule, and_even_when_its_right, i_can't_hear_the_snowfall covering_the_silence the_way_the_rain_comes_down_hard when_it's_dark and_colours_fade. after i posted that, tender_square wrote a linked poem of her own on "endings". the first line was "when_it_s_right", but she typed an underscore in place of the apostrophe, so it didn't link to the blathe i'd written. i wrote a new blathe with that accidental second title, using it as a writing prompt, so the blathe that wasn't yet a blathe would become one. and then my first blathe disappeared. now both "when_it's_right" and "when_it_s_right" link back to the second thing i wrote. i knew the system represented apostrophes as underscores in the database. but given that apostrophes are recognized in both blathe titles and in-blathe links, i wasn't expecting something like this to happen. i thought i'd get two separate blathes for my trouble. instead, the first one i wrote was wiped out by the second. it doesn't even exist on the index page for blathes that begin with the letter w anymore. i think user_24 discovered this same quirk a long time ago with his "i_was_created_for_testing_purposes" blathes. i wasn't sure what all of that was about until the same phenomenon bonked me over the head to explain itself. more than twenty years after stumbling into this place, i'm still learning new things about the way it works. 220201 what's it to you? who go blather from