We’re All Mad Here

“Powerful and devastating are the two words that came to mind.”

”Ah, ya flatter me. This one is literal emotional vomit on the page. Took all of ten minutes to write.”

“Lol. It's heartfelt vomit. Don't lick at it though. If I truly didn't like something... Well it's hard to say as you've never written anything that has no merit.”

“Oh, thank you! I doubt the veracity of that statement (we all put out our share of garbage—have to take it out to get to the good stuff), but I’ll take the compliment. 😇”

“You should and I'll have you know I never write garbage lol see that who. But we know you like it lol”

“I write plenty of it but try not to post it. A trash bag slips in once in a while.”

“I don't know how not to post it. Lol and I'm sure some is shite. How's you today kiddo?”

“Not too shabby. Humanities class today, my fave. Just wish it wasn’t a distance course—can’t do a field trip, and I like taking my Humanities classes to one of the Hindu temples in Charlotte—largely southern Baptist student population, it’s a good religion for them to experience without stepping too far outside of their comfort zone.”

“Cool. Shame though.”

“yep. oh well, whatcha gonna do”

“Exactly. Gotta zoom and teach those students humanity. Shape young minds, manipulate them or something?”

“something. cultural identity and cultural heritage are the theme this week. WWII discussion on Wednesday!”

“This is why I can't be an educator”

“lol”

“Id go full tilt Dead Poet Society”

“Sometimes I do . . . but these days, I have to start by reading the riot act about Ai plagiarism. And I still get bot essays . . .”

“Oh that would fuck me off lol”

“I actually had a student turn in an essay with the following sentence to me for the MORALITY assignment: "As an ai language model, I have no moral values." Yeah, didn't even read it. Humanity is fucked.”

”Lol. Maybe i should become an educator. I don't have time or inclination to get a degree and train tho not now“

“Fair. The rest of my week is a breeze—today is my only heavy lecture day.”

“Just imagine them naked”

“lol”

“🍒🍆🥞🥞🐅”

“Btw, Ashlee Laurel just posted a new one in fiction, and it’s subversive af. I love it.”

“I know and even as a religious person I'm excited lol. I am playing with fire. I want a more risky entry to go with my existing one”

“You can be religious and have a sense of humor about it. God didn’t write the bible, men did, and men decided which books to canonize. And I can guarantee you that God has a sense of humor—loves making me the butt of his jokes.”

“I'm sure your butt is fine and why oh why did you not applaud my emoji thing sheeeesh”

“Lol, this silly delayed refresh kept me from seeing it. Brilliant emoji sentence! There should be an emoji for emoji. The lack of one prevents me from writing the emoji sentence I want to write.”

“lol https://shopping-feedback.today/poets/until-we-don-t%E2%80%9D%3C/p%3E%3Cstyle data-emotion-css="14azzlx-P">.css-14azzlx-P{font-family:Droid Serif,Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:1.1875rem;-webkit-letter-spacing:0.01em;-moz-letter-spacing:0.01em;-ms-letter-spacing:0.01em;letter-spacing:0.01em;line-height:1.6;color:#1A1A1A;margin-top:32px;}

“Just read it. I’m Johnnny on the spot today.”

“Wtf ... Also I got annoyed with myself. This was result of being annoyed lol the mistakes are deliberate obviously -https://shopping-feedback.today/poets/fire-fire-water-burn. Wtf was for your last phrase”

“Sorry, I am in commuter traffic hell for the next hour.”

“I meant the Johnny on the point thing. Never heard that before”

“Oh, that: a person who is at hand whenever needed. And it’s spot, not point, Scot! Amusing myself.“

“I hope you're only amusing yourself that way and no...other way. I was going to buy wifey some lingerie. But apparently some of my choices were too slutty. Oh well. 😅”

“Lmao savagex.com You’ll find something beautiful that she’ll love there. Just posted a new one that I fear falls flat.”

“I already seened it and disagree completely. Ha that's expensive shit. But yeah we'll see.”

“I believe you mean ‘seent it.’”

“Seent it is fine but I deliberately used more active speech even tho I don't use Grammarly so I couldn't get tolt off about passive voice. I mean I know you are the learned one with fancy letters and whatnot but Englishy is my thingy.“

“Lol, “seent it” is some low-brow southern American butchering of the Queen’s English.”

“All you lot do is butcher hers and her son's English. I'm Scottish so I Cannae say fuck all in defence. But that won't stop me. Cos I'm an arsehole“

“Lmao. I’m with whoever wrote this: Rise Up Venial Trinities @[email protected]... MUTUAL I love English. It's a trash fire disguised as a language and I'm here for all of it. However, I really need to be better about people not speaking it "correctly." It's a goddamn trash fire. Of course people don't speak it correctly. I'm pretty sure there's no correct way to speak it. And that's leaving out all the racism and classism which goes into "grammatical perfection." English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want. English doesn't give a fuck. English will take your error and turn it into a part of itself. English drinks prescriptivist tears like fine wine. Contribute to the delinquency of English any way you can.”

“Haha. It is the linguistic equivalent really of the British empire. And you're right. You've already failed somewhere if you're overly worried about getting it right.”

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Author’s note: This a real comment thread from one of my stories. I preserved the typos and only added a set of single quotes to a quoted word. I hope you enjoyed this! I think it’s an excellent example of what an amazing community this is, and I specifically chose this thread because of the depth and breadth of the conversation. Who knows, maybe I’ll throw a dollar tip to the first person to correctly identify the other Vocal creator in this dialogue.