My hot take: fuck your precious fucking words. I get that the idea of someone removing profanity rankles. But hey, it's their ebook.
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Replying to @RobotParking
It's not censorship. It doesn't even change the files themselves. It's a weirdly conservative approach to language, but it's also voluntary.
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Replying to @RobotParking
@RobotParking shrug, it's something they're perfectly within their rights to do, and also doing it makes them a prissy fucking asshole1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Replying to @RobotParking
@RobotParking probably also a scumbag to deal with, honestly, as the substitution of conformity for morality generally makes people1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime Yeah. It's weird. I've rolled in the neo-noir/post-Palahniuk "transgressive" writer circles for a long time.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RobotParking
@chaosprime And it's particularly odd to find myself shrugging and going "yeah, the pearl-clutching profanity avoiders aren't really wrong"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RobotParking
@RobotParking yeah. i mean, the thought makes me angry and annoyed and go "can you just fucking not", but i can't say they're *wrong*.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime As someone who really does a lot of scribbling in the margins and really marks the holy hell out of printed books,1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RobotParking
@chaosprime seeing people do that digitally - in whatever capacity, for whatever reasons - isn't really that offensive or scary.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@RobotParking sure. i can't take a philosophical position strongly in favor of blackout poetry, which i do, and mortally oppose CR.
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Replying to @chaosprime
@RobotParking it's just that i understand the motivations behind each, and one set i approve of while the other i find utterly disgusting.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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