It takes work to curate your online spaces, but if you don’t do it, corporations will do it for you using a couple harmful key principles. 1) Negative emotions hold your attention better than positive emotions. 2) Calm/contented people are less likely to spend money.
Curate your online spaces starter pack:
Blacklist, block and mute at will. You don’t owe anybody anything.
Turn off those notifications.
Decide when you log on. Don’t use social media at breakfast if it will stress you out all day. Don’t use it before you go to bed if it will keep you up. Find a fun ritual to replace it, like a video game or craft thing.
Consider which platform allows you to avoid topics that upset you. For example: tumblr is kinda shit for fan fiction because everything ends up in the same tag. The older forum-style platforms are much better for finding content you enjoy and avoiding content you don’t.
Leave online communities that don’t spark joy. You don’t need to stay in a place where everyone is always fighting. You don’t need to stay in communities where you are afraid to speak your mind or to make mistakes.
Ask yourself: could this ‘debate’ also be a conversation instead? Don’t debate people who seek debate to upset you. Don’t debate people who seek debate to get an audience for bigotry. Don’t debate people who seek debate to win instead of to learn. Don’t debate people who do not acknowledge your humanity.
Repeat to yourself: doomscrolling is not activism. Nothing in the world gets better just because you read, liked and reblogged posts about how terrible things are.
[Tweet by Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV: “O best beloved, if you are doomscrolling Twitter today, ask yourself if there is anything you can personally do. If there is, do it. If there isn’t, remember that anxiety is not activism. Your misery does not improve the world a single iota.”]
Consider: A fantasy series where the court wizard is treated and portrayed just like an IT guy.
Court Wizard, fixing the Queen’s magic mirror: has’t thee attempted cleansing and reapplying the runes anew?
Court Wizard sees like 17 hexes in the magic mirror and finds out the Flamebarrier blessing was turned off.
Court Wizard finally fixes the magic mirror and sees a reflection of the Queen reciting: Show me beautiful forest nymphs. Show me where to find beautiful forest nymphs. Show me local witches willing to summon beautiful forest nymphs to my kingdom. Show me beautiful witches. Show m
Drew Leviathan. They’re the largest and strongest demon but not very smart. Leviathan doesn’t listen to anyone except Lucifer, and will try to eat you unless you have something they want, or worse yet if they decide they want you, say goodbye to your life on land. Had to make a human form to better interact with the things they keep.
his name is motley hellsinger and he wants to make the most metal band the material planes has ever seen!!! and maybe summon some of the most wretched fiends from the hells while hes at it
Drew Leviathan. They’re the largest and strongest demon but not very smart. Leviathan doesn’t listen to anyone except Lucifer, and will try to eat you unless you have something they want, or worse yet if they decide they want you, say goodbye to your life on land. Had to make a human form to better interact with the things they keep.
