holy shit it’s only just clicked that you can talk about the “vaccine” completely freely here without having to speak in riddles.

I’m not even sure this is an exclusively good thing 😂 - in all seriousness, I think there is something to be said for having to write either in allegory, or in such a high-flung, conceptual way that only people amenable to your argument will even understand what you are saying.

art through adversity, innit.

p.s. yes, of course it’s an *almost entirely good thing* and the pandemic of authoritarianism was utterly dependent on control of communications infrastructure. I’m just making an amusing point about what prompts literary merit. jeez, calm down. if you’re still mad, read this: