Maricich, whom you probably know better as The Blow, has a must-read piece in this year's Queer Issue, especially for (1) people who love Twitter, (2) people who love The Blow, and (3) people who love the moon. It begins:

How much do I care what people think of me? Let's frame this another way: Do I know how many Twitter followers I have right now? The answer is no. I don't know how many followers I have, because I forced myself to take the application off my phone back in January. What would happen if I weren't constantly writing little sentences and sending them out into the world, hoping for a response like a strung-out performing poodle? Sometime last year, back when I was actively noting the rising and falling count of people who subscribed to my sentences, I wrote a sentence about it: "The world is loud."

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