[people having trouble separating them] does maybe enhance my sense that the whole community is desperately lacking in nate!courage, if so many people have such trouble distinguishing between “try naming your real worry” and “try being brazen/rude”. (tho ofc part of the phenomenon is me being bad at anticipating reader confusions; the illusion of transparency continues to be a doozy.)
yeah, I left off this part but Nate also said