Thread by @NomeDaBarbarian

Perhaps too honest answer:

S'just me. Feels like shitposting. Barely any planning.

This is the first place I've been in my life where just saying the undiluted contents of my skull got any kind of positive response.

I'm used to being called too much /long/ before now.

https://twitter.com/annielclark/status/1349137268674498560

The only planning I might put in consciously is for animal threads, and that's only because folks have made it clear to me that it's important to do image attributions and descriptions.

Which is part of why I don't really do them often. It's hard to do a thread with planning.

Putting those extra steps - sourcing an image, and describing it - breaks the stream of consciousness and turns the thread into a project I'm working on, instead of just "thoughts, as they happen."

Don't misunderstand me. They ARE important. That's why I'm trying to do them.

It's just... a lot of work.

I wish that folks would understand that when they're advocating for folks adding image descriptions. Saying "it's not hard."

For me it is. It's daunting.

I wish they could be added after the fact, that would be an accessibility feature for my brain.

I'm going off topic, which is itself maybe the topic.

I don't interact with information in straight lines. It's all webs, and curves, and intersections.

Which means planning is counterindicated.

So I'm glad the things I write work for folks - it's just what's in my head.