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I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

inkskinned

you keep your mind and your words in a corset and you say that you're "just quiet" but aren't you always spilling-over actually. isn't it just so loud inside of you, like seven thousand angry bees. isn't it just that you were taught, long ago - little one, isn't it - if you actually act yourself, you're simply "too much to handle".

you cannot be loved the way that you were made. you need to be trimmed down into neat particulates. your shadow-self is kind and dainty. be less, dear. you send too many texts and talk too much and love too loudly. you take up so much space like this. uncontained and ugly. go elsewhere. nobody likes it when you roll around in this body.