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i made my first uquiz, and it is regrettably a tumblr history exam. this counts for 30% of your final grade so make it count

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I love the generational gap between emoji usage. Anyone over 50 sees 🙃 and thinks “silly time! whee 🙃”, whereas the rest of us immediately hear, verbatim, “they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you’re fine, when you’re not really fine, but you just can’t get into it because they would ne–”
Flying the flag upside down is a distress signal
watching purity arguments transform online has been….wild. First it was “write what you want, but tag it so that people who are triggered or uncomfortable can avoid” which, reasonable enough. Then it was “You can only write bad stuff if you explain your trauma to the internet at large and spell out exactly why you like writing about that bad stuff. If you don’t know if you’re traumatized or aren’t sure why you’re attracted to certain fiction you’re evil.” Now apparently it’s “you’re evil for writing fucked up stuff. doesn’t matter if it’s to process trauma, doesn’t matter if you yourself are a survivor, there’s certain content that can’t be written and you’re a bad person if you write it.”
what the fuck, guys. Word replace extensions exist. Tags on ao3 exist. You know who else exists? Trauma survivors who write bad stories to safely dissect and process what happened to them. People who are afraid of bad things happening to them and who write them down happening in a fictional setting so that they aren’t carrying that fear around with them and so that they can practice the idea that you can be okay after something awful happens. People who like stuff that you don’t like and who respect your right to avoid that content. In return, please fucking respect creators enough not to say they’re evil because they write evil characters. Writing about a murder has never made anybody a murderer. This attitude about fiction isn’t helping anybody. In fact, it’s literally just teaching survivors that they can’t talk about what happened to them. I’ve known multiple people who needed to talk and process their trauma and were afraid to because of purity culture. Fuck that noise, write whatever, and tag appropriately. And if you bully people for doing that? Fuck. Off. Do not follow me. Do not read my sweet, fluffy, innocent fics. Do not interact.
What’s been much wilder is having been part of the group in 2003 going “it would be nice if we made a habit of telling people if a fic is going to have, say, a violent rape in it so it doesn’t come as a really harmful shock. You know, like how on TV they say ‘this program contains material that may be disturbing to some viewers’. That would be great and allow those of us with, for instance, PTSD to participate in fandom at a lower personal cost.”
…..and then watching shit get to the kind of bullshit OP ACCURATELY describes. Which like: is still bullshit.
It’s polite and decent to either put appropriate notes on your stuff or use a blanket “caveat lector” (of which “choose not to warn” is an example) to allow others to curate their experience. And that’s where that one ends.
no one’s saying you can’t write about dark subjects, just don’t publicly post content that paints abusive shit as romantic/desirable. that’s it. you wanna write a story that includes abuse? cool. you wanna write a story that romanticizes abuse, make no sort of disclaimer making it clear that it’s NOT desirable, and then post it where anyone could find it? not cool. I know way too many people who’ve fallen into abusive situations because media has convinced them that shit is healthy. write whatever you want but please just be fucking responsible with it.
Nope. No one can or should expect you to spell out that abuse is wrong. It’s assumed, if you’re tagging “abuse cw”, that you understand that abuse is wrong. That’s why you’re tagging it–because you know it’s a trigger and that people should be able to avoid. Tagging, and tagging properly, is the full extent of responsibility required by authors. It’s completely absurd to assume that an author writing something dark and messed up doesn’t know it’s dark and messed up, and I’m baffled as to why so many people do assume that kind of thing. Please go to a public library. There are no disclaimers explaining the author’s intentions. Sometimes, hundreds of years after an author’s death, people are STILL arguing about whether an author was romanticizing or calling out various tropes. That’s what makes literature what it is–you have to think critically about it. (And on that note! It is NOT obvious whether someone is romanticizing something or not! That’s an incredibly subjective thing. Also, some authors may just not be good at writing, and you might assume they were romanticizing something when in fact they weren’t trying to do that at all, and guess what, those authors still don’t deserve harassment! They’re allowed to be bad writers or to have a style that not everyone interprets correctly!) I truly do not understand why it’s suddenly considered reasonable to assume every single person thinks abuse is good unless they specifically say it isn’t. That’s a weird thing to assume! And yes, lots and lots and lots and LOTS of people are EXPLICITLY saying you can’t write about dark stuff. Like, so many people. I’m glad you haven’t run into them yet, but I have, and they get nasty when you say “actually I expected you to enforce your own boundaries and offered you plenty of opportunity to do so, why did you get mad at me for creating content you don’t like,” which is why I originally made the post.
funny how we can’t go back in time to prevent authors of the past from writing problematic shit… 🤔
obviously I can’t physically stop you or anyone else from writing what you want. but the fact that “take some responsibility for what you post publicly” is apparently a controversial statement is……. concerning
No, you’re deliberately twisting my statement in order to make it harder to disagree with you. You are narrowly defining “responsibility” as “explicitly say that abuse is bad all the time because otherwise everyone should assume you believe something is good just because you’ve written it”. This is controversial not because I or other people generally think abuse is good, but because it ignores the responsibility that authors are already taking by tagging and age restricting their work. “Abuse” as a word refers to a bad thing. A fic tagged “abuse cw” implies that the abuse is bad. A fic tagged “no warnings used” means “I chose not to use warnings, so you may or may not find bad stuff in here”. In both of these cases, the explicit “abuse is bad” line is redundant, and thus should not be expected of authors. (and because this has come up before–this does not refer to MISTAGGED work. An author who tags “no warnings needed” when they did need warnings does not fall into the category of people who can be assumed to know abuse is bad. Likewise, someone who uses incorrect terms (like for example, tagging “blood” instead of “graphic violence”) for what happens in their fic–I’m only talking about correct tags. Tagged writing does not require further explanation, because the tags ARE explicit condemnation of certain types of content.) It’s not any author’s job to explain to you that abuse is wrong. If you do not already understand this and expect other people to understand this, then you are either too young to be unsupervised on the internet, or the people who should have taught you about abuse failed you. Those are serious issues that can put you in danger, and I’m not trying to downplay them. However, it’s not my responsibility to educate my readers about abuse being bad. I’m an adult who does not have children, and does not expect readers of my dark works to be children, and explicitly tells children to avoid content I think could harm them. I take responsibility for my work by tagging it and instructing children to avoid it (either explicitly or through “check this box if you’re eighteen or over” messages). You are asking me to further soapbox about how abuse is wrong every time I write something, which is unnecessary and I’m not going to do it. I expect my readers to take responsibility for themselves and either avoid dark content that I’ve tagged, to ask an adult they trust to talk to them about concepts they may have questions about….or even to ask me directly if they’re unsure about something. There are some problems that are real, and that can hurt people, and that are also not my problem to solve. What you’re describing, the idea that some people may never have been taught that abuse is wrong, is one of those problems that is real, and can hurt people, and is also not mine to solve. I am also concerned that your response to the concept “people have discussions about whether content is problematic or not” is “it would be nice to be able to prevent problematic content from existing”. The existence of discussion around a work does not mean the work is problematic. This type of black and white thinking is not healthy.
“funny how we can’t go back in time to prevent authors of the past from writing problematic shit”
So we’re advocating for banning books here on tumblr dot com? The progressive, correct thing to do is to ban books? I mean, I knew that’s what this conversation was heading toward, but I didn’t expect to see it said so plainly.
The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom has a good section on banned books if anyone’s interested in learning about censorship and why it’s bad. Their Freedom to Read Statement is particularly relevant:
We therefore affirm these propositions:
1. It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those that are unorthodox, unpopular, or considered dangerous by the majority.
[…]
4. There is no place in our society for efforts to coerce the taste of others, to confine adults to the reading matter deemed suitable for adolescents, or to inhibit the efforts of writers to achieve artistic expression.
5. It is not in the public interest to force a reader to accept the prejudgment of a label characterizing any expression or its author as subversive or dangerous.
6. It is the responsibility of publishers and librarians, as guardians of the people’s freedom to read, to contest encroachments upon that freedom by individuals or groups seeking to impose their own standards or tastes upon the community at large….
We are not publishers or librarians, but we are a self-regulating community—therefore I believe we have a responsibility to self regulate in a way that preserves our community’s intellectual and creative freedom.
This is the first addition that’s included the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom’s Freedom to Read Statement, but I really have to break it to you, so many people on tumblr.hell are in fact advocating for the banning of books. And most of them do what the previous commenter did, by assuming that the existence of conversation around a book’s themes (ie. thoughts happening instead of mindless gobbling of whatever propaganda is in style this month), that inherently means that whoever thinks the worst thing about the book is right. This displays a worrying trend, where people in progressive circles have decided that in any conversation, whoever’s angriest is right, and whoever has the most extreme or fearmongering view should be in charge of regulating things for the rest of us. Or, they advocate age restricting period books so only adults can read them. Literally. Because I guess knowing why you’re suddenly gushing blood from your nether regions is dangerous??? Antis, radfems, and exclusionists. The only groups where “progressive” means “Teaming up with fundamentalist christian and alt-right groups to restrict freedoms and increase support for authoritarianism”
It’s absolutely astounding that you have children on this hideous garbage hellsite who honestly believe that unless you put up a glaring neon sign denouncing A Thing, you must unequivocally support it.
Policing your own online experience shouldn’t be seen as an unreasonable expectation. It’s something you’re obligated to do when you start going online without parent supervision.
Wait, wait, I have something for this
When you open the door to banning books, it’s generally not the straight white dude who write like, torture porn* getting silenced.
* I should note banning books is NEVER the correct choice, even if it’s something I really don’t want to read.
It’s The House on Mango Street a book by a Chicana Lesbian for “being anti-male” (despite noting it doesn’t have explicitly queer characters - they didn’t like it because of the author’s bio describing her thus).
It’s “The Hate U Give” for “teaching children to hate the police” and depicting racism.
It’s “And Tango Makes Three” - a picture book about a gay penguin couple. And before that, “Heather Has Two Mommies” and “Daddy’s Roommate”.
It’s people who don’t fit the straight white cis male conservative Christian paradigm of what’s acceptable. It’s criticism of authority.
Miss me with that shit.
no nerds
i slightly edited these and put my name on them (finally…….) please reblog this post and not the repost that i see from time to time. it has like a bazilion notes!! makes me sad
day 19(?): boredom got way worse, trying to make myself a victorian friend
gained conciousness, not ashamed to show some tits
no more bare tits
oh shit a bow
having a moment
🎶sleeves sleeves sleeves makin puffsleeves gonna look like french meringue doesnt even rhyme at all not even a little bit🎵 shhhh shhhh go away kitty
aight folks that’s it for today i have some booing to do at the tv about some shitty and inaccurate costumes
good morning sluts, back to work
fellas im straight up not having a good time im in the middle of a lil meltdown over how much time i’ve spent sewing roses on my skirt before realizing they were anuses (or ani like cacti? 🤔)
we’re gonna be so pretty
wig snatched
shit do i gotta act like a lady now?
if I play dead it might goes away
oh my im getting hotter by the minute
what a lovely creature im having a real beuty and the beast moment… wait no that bitch is a furry
I’m SO flattered (and self-centered) i had to hang up your amd @a-sip-of-anxietea ’s drawings I just love them ❤️
girl’s night out(ish) 🍻
Is she single asking for a friend
No❤️

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They are also, by dent of being convicted, banned from applying to become a firefighter in the state of CA. Even though they have frontline experience.
The other reproductive rights:
The right to not be sterilized against your knowledge
The right to not be sterilized against your will
The right to not be coerced into sterilizing yourself in order to gain citizenship, relief from imprisonment, change a gender marker, etc.
The right to determine how you will give birth
Placeholder for rights regarding adoption which I don’t have the ability or energy to articulate right now
The right to not be forced/coerced/tricked into selling your child? How about that one?
These need so much attention since poc are typically the targets of these. I feel like women of color historically have been the biggest victims of these. And still are.
having fangs may not be a ‘‘‘necessary’’’ or ‘‘‘wise’’’ addition to my physiology but it would be very, very sexy and therefore i think i deserve them regardless,
These are surprisingly easy to make and amazing-not-amazing how white evangelicals never seem to mention the huge amount of biblical passages about how the white supremacist capitalist police state they worship is so thoroughly anti-christian

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Pascal says 👏crying👏is👏healthy👏and👏valid👏
does anyone else feel extremely mediocre and talentless it’s like you’re okay at some stuff but not good enough to ever truly succeed or make it into a career, not naturally gifted at anything nor motivated enough, and will never be recognised or special or exceptional in any way to anyone
The funniest part about unlikeable geek men is they really are fully convinced people don’t like them because of their hobbies. They cannot even begin to process the idea that comics and D&D and shit have in fact always been kinda cool and their personslities might just be repulsive. The combined unwavering ego/persecution complex is... unreal.
“I was socially rejected because I like video games” no tyler, you were socially rejected because you turn every conversation you have into a competition and you call women “females”
would it literally fucking kill yall to like… call people out for their bigotry and insult them that way instead of calling them a psychopath or sociopath or saying they lack empathy and just fucking throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus?? like what the fuck yall? the fuck is your problem? calling someone a bigoted asshole somehow isnt enough of an insult to you so youve decided saying they have highly stigmatized mental illness is a worse insult than them being a FUCKING RACIST??? shut the fuck up. mentally ill people are not inherently bad people and should not be used as a fucking insult, certainly not in place of actual fucking bigotry and harm.
Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*
My cat: Father is…evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.
The spiritual successor to Miette
Might I also add
May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit
Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children
I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from “i can has”. Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they’re talking about.
My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang
Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.
My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang
Me: ksst!
My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she’s been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!
Me: ok
My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang
Can haz snackytreat
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[Image Description: a series of tweets by @ krystinaarielle:
“I keep telling you. It’s not just the police. Doctors treat us horribly and act as if we’re faking. After my C-section they sent me home with no pain medicine. Let me repeat: they cut open my stomach, ripped out a child and sent me home with nothing.
I had to beg one of the nurses for pain medicine as she saw me in pain. My chart even had the time I was supposed to get it. She treated me as if I was a liar. It was a day after surgery and I was getting feeling back in my legs. I felt everything.
When I went back to have my scar inspected my PA looked shocked that it looked good. I go to the post interview and the assistant goes “they were shocked your scar was so smooth. He usually does an awful staple job on brown women. It’s probably because your husband is white”.
Anyways, Black and Brown women receive disparate care and it’s killing us. The Maternal mortality rate is almost five times higher than that of White women. Our healthcare system needs reform. Everyone has a right to fair, ethical, equal medical care.
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i lost my shit at the last panel