On Arisia, external behavior, and the state of response (1 of 2)

tl;dr This is going to be a long (at least) two-parter of me talking about Arisia things. I will cut tag for those who don't care about Arisia stuff.
( Background Overview )

( Today on Dreamwidth )

( What did I say? )

So that's a lot of background. Next up, a question for which I don't have a good answer, and I think nobody else does, either.