"My character can't do the 'noble sacrifice' thing. She's vengeful and has to make her ex's life a living hell. She can't do that if she's dead."
Video of a kitten at a vet’s office protesting loudly as it’s scooped from the floor. Another kitten turns around the corner and walks up to the camera, also protesting loudly for its friend. From here.
I think that there’s not enough talk about triggers that shouldn’t be warned for. There’s a bit of talk about not warning for body differences as “body horror” (that should be reserved for fictional depictions), but not about other triggers, and I think this is actually hampering intersectionality.
The main one I’m going to get into is being triggered by masculinity. This is a you problem. You can avoid men somewhat, but men (and people you think are men) will exist around you. Yes, this includes in public bathrooms. You need to learn how to deal with that (in ways that do not involve the police), and if you are so afraid of peeing in proximity to someone you perceive as a man you need to use exclusively single stall bathrooms. Public places are not your safe space.
ID: text reading putting in tags so not to derail but I’ve seen people claim it’s ok to tw for disability. It absolutely is not. Twings are great, but there are some warnings that do significantly more harm than good, and it’s improntsnt to talk about that
Pulling this out of tags because this is the entire point of the post. You shouldn’t tag for an innate part of a person.
I'm ESPECIALLY feeling those tags. I was in a writing group briefly once and they had a rule about tagging talks of injuries or medical procedures which.... As someone with chronic pain issues I rapidly found out included talking about preventative stretching during writing sessions, acknowledging that you have chronic pain etc. It was deeply isolating to be told that your near-daily life and existence was something to be warned for, and rather exhausting. When I found out that one of my friends there got banned for talking about the themes of a particular broadway villain they found cool, I left.
YouTuber Footless Jo, a below-the-knee amputee, had an awful struggle with YouTube marking her videos as "for mature audiences only" because she... would show her residual limb on camera. Her videos were restricted and demonetized for showing "disturbing" content. If I remember correctly, that issue has since been resolved, but she has a great discussion about it.
Not exposing children to body differences does a lot of harm actually. Once at my summer camp, a little kid came up to me, so scared she was having trouble breathing. Once I calmed her down, she said she was freaked out by an amputee in the pool. Now, this was one of the sweetest kids at that camp. She didn't mean to be rude. She listened when I reminded her that everyone looks different and that doesn't make them scary. Exposing kids to this normalizes it, making it not scary for them and easier for disabled people to go out in public.
I remember in middle school i made a character who has dysmelia, which means he had no arms, and when i went to show off a picture i drew of him, one of my friends got mad and freaked out for not warning her because she had a phobia.
I still think about this sometimes, because theres plenty of people in our community who have limb differences - i see them at the grocery store. Whats she gonna do when she comes face to face with one of them?
speaking of legacy memes
2003……. .. this meme is almost 20 years old.
this meme could vote. this meme could go to war and die for its country.
making shitposts for a 25 year old show >>>>>
I Can Just imagine him shooting bullets like wattermellon seeds
Fucking things are extra fun with astigmatism and glasses with metal rims that also reflect light so I’m getting these fucking Messages From The Sun God via my rearview mirror, driver’s side mirror and a halo around both eyes via my ‘let me see at all’ devices that I cannot legally or safely take off while operating a car. Driving at night is a herculean trial for me now.
“happy endings” this “sad endings” that– you can debate the relative merits of each till your mouth goes dry and it’s still not a meaningful binary. Is the ending coherent and emotionally appropriate for the story? Cool.








