Unrelatedly, the thing about gatekeeping is that it& #39;s only as good or bad as the legitimacy of the gates, and I wish people wouldn& #39;t demonise gatekeeping practices in ways that only make entrance requirements obscure and nebulous.

I mean that was a good thread but I& #39;m not part of Homestuck Twitter and don& #39;t have any idea how to become part of that group of cool dudes so I guess the only people who& #39;ll see it won& #39;t care about it?

Not that anyone has any obligation to include me ofc, but the point is that Homestuck Twitter has gates just as anything else does, but I just don& #39;t know where they are, and if they& #39;re open at all, let alone how to get in!

Procedurally, this is not better than the academy& #39;s intimidating but transparent system of quantifiable and commensurable entrance exams.

It& #39;s not worse, either. Indeed, it& #39;s more appropriate to stuff like friend groups, which HS Twitter kinda is too!

So idfk but it& #39;s not nice to be on the wrong side of the gates, whatever they look like.