char.lt · 17d · discuss
you might have noticed that all my posts have been written in a super informal style lately. so here’s a “why do you type like that now?” blog post. and sure, there’s an easy answer that lowercase aesthetics1 are part and parcel of queer+online+girlypop+zoomer sociolect (and at a certain level there’s kind of a foot-in-the-door phenomenon where “visibly transgender” is already a baseline level of professionally-offputting to begin with, so you’re already chained to conspicuity), but there’s more to it, i think. unfirstnamelastnameify the site char committed on Aug 6 a2ef9d5 so for this site i kinda killed my worksona....