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Not technically a modern AU; more like, "what if everything about the setting was the same, but Also Computers and Social Media?"
- Ruskin would be one of those twitter users who write extremely thorough, 256-part tweetstorms that could easily have been an entire academic article instead.
- I was reading the way that this twitter thread by @TubeTimeUS was constructed, and it reminded me of Ruskin's first essay, "What Is Magic?"
- He always uses proper punctuation, spelling, and grammar, although the terms he uses might be esoteric.
- Meanwhile Claudia could create clouds of branching tweets that she responds to multiple times each, as a way to outline and organize. Unfortunately there are only like 5 non-Marshpeople who understand & appreciate this as a rhetorical art form, and a lot of comments from imperial citizens voicing their irritation that she writes like this.
- Felim’s official twitter feed is nearly empty; his personal feed is mostly re-tweets of articles that he finds interesting. It's possible to get a sense of what he's like by the aggregate of all of the information that he consumes, but you're not going to ever know him through it. I do not believe that Felim would believe in being visibly online, but it's his responsibility to keep up-to-date on how everyone is keeping in touch.
- Olga’s twitter is anonymous, and is used to post her very nice photographs of random bits of nature and Life On Earth that she sees. Sometimes there’s an artistic red smudge in the corner of the photo. Sometimes there’s a storm of biting, occasionally puzzling responses to politicians, meteorologists, and academic magicians.
- Prince Luke's Official Blue-Checked Twitter account contains, by volume:
- 10% selfies with his siblings
- 5% artistic photos of Olga from angles where you can't see her face, with warm but reserved captions, usually on their anniversary or major holidays.
- 40% tweets about events, public meetings, and links to official statements
- 40% impassioned, lengthy responses to other public figures
- 5% posts about densely academic magical theory
- Luke's personal twitter is mostly shitposts, more faceless photos of Olga, retweets from random citizen accounts, and conversations with his friends.
- Elda's twitter is a frequently-updated jumble of aerial shots, photos of her family, subtweeting her siblings, short videos of cool-looking magic, promoting her friends' events and accomplishments, and short snippets about whatever she finds interesting at the time. Very few tweet threads.