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Seanan McGuire
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Since I am going into SDCC this year with an immune system that's already miserable, I am bringing hand sanitizer and will not be shaking hands with people. Please understand, this is for my health.
I've also picked up sanitizing wipes for surfaces I can't avoid touching--fomite transmission is real!--and some face masks for my airport/airplane time.
This doesn't mean I'm sick! It means I desperately DO NOT WANT to spend any more of the summer sick than I already have, and I leave for Ireland with my mother on August 4th.
So if I decline to touch you, I'm not being uppity or snobby, or saying that you're dirty. I'm saying that I am vastly outnumbered by the fleshy bodies around me, and trying not to invite their biospheres into my own. Hotel Seanan is closed.
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Seanan McGuire
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A lot of what I like to cook is industrial vats of soups and sauces. And when people ask for recipes, I'm like, "so much of this is by eye/by experience, and another large component is my Sabatier multi-chopper."
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I realized today that a lot of my personal disconnects with my mother come from the fact that we share one of our life mottos, but interpret it very differently. "Things happen when they happen."
For me, that means "The boat won't wait." It means "If we have ten things to do today and we do each of them in order, we'll get everything done."
For her, it means "things will happen when they were meant to happen, float through life and never be on time for anything, because my choices can't impact when things are meant to be." So I'm a martinet, and she's a flake.
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As a social media site, Twitter is functionally feral. We don't have a single agreed-upon set of rules for engagement, which is why you see authors begging people not to tag them in negative reviews, and people railing against snitch-tagging, weekly.
You get to set the rules for your own feed, because no one is forcing me to see it. If all you want to post is nudes of yourself eating sandwiches, that's on you. Twitter T&C might have some words for you, but no other user gets to dictate your content.
When I follow your feed, I am opting-in for that content. I still don't get to dictate it. Now, if it changes dramatically, I may opt-out again, and if we are actual friends, I consider it within the realm of "acceptable" to ask about the change.
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