It’s over, I’m done. I have had it with Twitter. I am constantly living in fear of nitpicking and being called names. I’m going to move over to Hive and AO3 and Facebook for my mental health starting 1/21/2023. I’m tired of being constantly watched by a psychotic monster who I’m never good enough to appease. DeviantArt has it and Twitter has it, watching everything you do and criticizing it and mentioning you will get insulted and torn apart by thousands, possibly millions, of strangers just because you have the capacity to think, bringing up that people will hate you, call you a hypocrite, call you worthless and pathetic, despise your existence and soon, your name will be cursed. It suggests they will plague you day in, day out, with the torment of insults and wrath and a complete lack of compassion, the people outright suggesting you should commit suicide so you can’t reproduce. This is who we, as a species, have chosen to be online. This is a battle not worth fighting, they don’t understand “mistakes,” you make a mistake, you are dead. They murder you through hateful words for mistakes, just as they did during school. A typo? You are mentally challenged. Accidental use of a wrong term for something? You’re an unsalvageable racist, misogynist or homophobe. There is no forgiveness in the worlds of DeviantArt and Twitter, except those who flaunt their racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia are welcomed by their masses.
Facebook is safe because it is my family, my fellow current Church congregants, my old classmates from High School, at least one from college and a few people from my former Church. I have occasional clashes, some people from High School, my family or my former Church drank deep from the Cult of Trump’s Kool-Aid pool, and, as such, blame everything on Democrats and think that party is trying to rid America of Jesus or make it so people can marry goldfish. While there are probably some Democrats, or at least Americans, like that, I haven’t met any of them. Of course, it’s useless to try to explain this perspective, because the person will just say since I support LGBTQ+ rights, I am a “Satanic Communist” who “can’t be trusted.” As such, sometimes I have to block old friends to avoid continued harassment.
AO3 is a fan fiction website where I post the old work I was proud of on DeviantArt. The userbase is kinder, never demanding sequels or free stories in their bizarre/grotesque interests, just letting me be myself. I’ve posted 22 works this year related to different video games I’ve played or series I’ve watched, the most popular one is a crossover between Fire Emblem and RWBY. Fire Emblem; Three Houses and Super Smash Bros. each have 11 stories to them (you can tag a story with multiple games/series) and, as such, are tied for my most-written about topic. I don’t know where it’s going next year other than maybe an old Pokémon story I wrote either last year or the year before, but you never now when inspiration will strike next.
Hive is a new social media phone app I heard about from voice actress Tara Platt, writer Sarah McKnight and voice actress Abby Trott. I follow them and Tara’s husband, voice actor Yuri Lowenthal, on the app, and you post little stories or pictures. I have kind of decided to post pictures with descriptions, and to not follow anyone but these 4 unless people I know and trust from Facebook start joining the app. Twitter is getting too large with a constant stream of nonsense hurled your way and you can’t keep on top of it without getting stressed out, but watching the adventures of 3 voice people, one also a writer, and another writer is a lot easier, especially with no algorithm showing you “what you might like” in between posts. It’s just us 5; books, cats, jokes, concerns, funko pops and CDs. We could honestly be a prayer circle if I wasn’t fairly certain I’m the only one of us 5 who prays. It’s safe and I feel good.
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