people starting friendship age gap discourse is crazy and also why most young people have such an incredibly limited worldview because they don’t interact with anyone over a year older than them in a meaningful way
But if you are fighting about it and name-calling, you are doing it wrong. You are draining the fun out of it, even hurting people. I will never be a fan of that. I don't take shit from bullies. No one should. Shame on you. 2/2
Fan Fiction is transgressive. It co-opts the creator's vision. It steps on it. It is fiction built on fiction. There can be no canon in it. I say do it, have at it. I have tried it and my Destiel is better writing than my Wincest. My Johnlock is better than both. 1/2
This gets said a lot, but “This user was suspended for posting child exploitation pictures; but I, the CEO of this website, personally ordered his account restored because I enjoy his content” is literally an admission you would need to torture out of me and all 500 of my lawyers
You may recall how a week or so I tweeted about how freakish the very rich are and how they don’t know things like what Mountain Dew is or how to run a washing machine. Here’s a perfect example
This is how things lose meaning. You keep telling the same stories over and over again; they become less relevant, more and more shallow, spectacle over thoughtful depth... and when we live in a world where art speaks not to our hearts, it's easy to forget how to use it.
Seeing a lot of misinfo that the X logo was taken from a Unicode character; not true sadly. I hate to say it but it’s actually quite well designed, let me break down why 🧵 (1/X)
The method that they describe only considers a tweet to be “toxic” if it contains a word on the 300-word slur list verbatim and I can’t overemphasize that that’s not a smart way to measure this