ive already spent more time thinking about drawing and/or actually drawing and generally just feel great and i really, really think more people who can afford to do this to do so
even to those of us aware of the algorithm and the corrosive nature of twitter who try to use it with some clarity of mind there's no escaping just how bad the worms are. even with the somewhat protective measures i use (i use tweetdeck but only have select side twitters readily accessible and if i Must Post to main i make myself have to log in via browser + i dont let main be usable on my phone) there is just so much time lost just...being exposed to it all.
like for all of the dopamine which is my wonderful friends and their posts that i enjoy seeing bc i care abt updates and going ons, there's also the chance of just having my brain exploded by horrible news and between being black and nonbinary i don't really need a heaping helping more on my plate
there's also just such an added influence to post every instance of me Going Through it and with this break i'm finding myself forced (in a good way) to just chew on my shit and let go of it without having to tweet about it. At the very worst i go to a vent channel in the few discords i actually post in and its done.
this is going to sound corny and extremely Boomer Political Cartoon but twitter (and i guess any social media that's putting ants in your brain) needs to be thought of like a substance to be used in moderation
It's both vexing and extremely funny that out of touch depictions of ThE PhOnE Is YoU NeW MaStEr are stupid and goofy but if you peeled away that nonsense there would be an appeal to just have a bit more presence of mind with your use in the same way i take breaks from smoking weed if i feel like i'm not enjoying it and am just Doing It To Do It
anyways it feels good to not let the feed flavorblast me and its funny to still be active on tumblr and cohost and it just feeling completely different and measured in a way that isn't killing me and killing me and killing death murder ultraviolence to me
this inspired me to try a break from twitter too. my thing is I've been by myself for way way too long and twitter gives me empty social calories. posts and replies can feel like action but they aren't, or at least not the kind of action I need right now
I wanna get to a relationship with social media platforms like one cigarette a week that gwyneth paltrow allows herself
