so do you have a Plural Realization Story, that moment when things suddenly clicked into place, or was it a gradual thing
the realisation was sudden, but it made a pattern of gradual behaviour make sense
we'd been using "the royal we" in work emails for years, even in situations where it could not refer to the wider team.
it felt wrong not doing so.
our twitters are locked, but there was a pattern going back years of referring to "my roommate", "my friend", "nsfw sona" (me to π)/"sfw sona" (π to me, even as that label sometimes made less sense)
and sure, some people keep their AD accounts at arms length, but not to that degree
but we can't be plural! that'd be disrespectful to our friends who are!
at 5am, we don't remember the catalyst for fully acknowledging it, it's probably either in our journals or twitter archives somewhere but we'd have to get out of bed for those
but musk's takeover of twitter rapidly accelerated things, because we suddenly had a reason to hold hands and immediately tear down at least some of the barriers - given our usernames on things like Telegram and Discord use what we now acknowledge as one of the names for the system as the username there