Bailey McKnight @baileymcknightwriter - Tumblr Blog

datadegroove-deactivated2026042

unfortunately it appears that i'm some kind of insane person

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

#saw a post saying they're starting to say Wikipedia is free instead google is free #which I think is great #doesn't work for me because I struggle with Wikipedia but so many people can vibe with Wikipedia

mitchellmayhew

Anybody else feel like tumblr is turning "being a pervert" into elitist bullshit?

mitchellmayhew

Which is funny in a way, because I feel it's partly fueled by "I'm a bigger pervert than you are", and partly by "oh god what if I'm not a big enough pervert"? Either way, it gives off a very insecure vibe.

mitchellmayhew

Also? Nothing wrong with NOT being a pervert. You're allowed to exist in whatever flavor of kink or lack thereof you occupy! No shame in it!

#yeah I do see this sometimes #I've been sexually shamed (outside of kink) often in the past and I'm glad this isn't happening here #but kinks and perversions...#they aren't your personality #they are a part of you if you have them #and they can be such a fantastic part at that #but your sexual appetite or lack thereof is just that #it feels like the direct opposite of my lesbian friends going 'I'm no better than a man' for having a single sexual desire of other women

derinthescarletpescatarian

#some time ago I had an ex friend do this and say she was the devil's advocate for ai because of it being part of what she studied in college #cool cool cool but I'm talking about ai in art and specifically about books that are ai written

anxietyproblem

susiephone

it is genuinely infuriating how many people grasp the concept of "there are several different sects of christianity, some of which are conservative and controlling, but others which are more progressive, and you can't treat the whole religion as a monolith", but absolutely cannot wrap their minds around the idea that islam, the second-biggest religion in the world, is also not a monolith.

tenderhooked

I WANT TO WRITE MY STORIES!!!!!!!!!!!! -> continues doing literally Anything Else besides writing

boycritter

"unbecoming" is such a great word. bro that shit was so rude you no longer Are

officialfoxsquadron

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

officialfoxsquadron

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort

briannyssey

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

rrondo

yama-bato

Surreal Desert House Minimalist Blue Door with Tree Shadow in Pink Sunset Glow.

by Ramy Hefny

beastliness

a rule of thumb for navigating tumblr as a social space that I adopted far too late at great cost:

you have a follower who is consistently behaving toward you in an unpleasant way

you may not feel motivated to block them on your own behalf for a variety of reasons (it's not that bad, I can handle it, I don't want to hurt their feelings, they probably don't mean any harm, etc.)

ask yourself: would I be comfortable with this person behaving this way toward my close friends and mutuals?

if not -> you need to block them right now

allthingswhumpyandangsty

Sorry, but I'm just trying to comprehend things here. Does being a proship means you normalize dark, taboo, incest etc. in fics?

no. proship literally just means anti censorship and anti harassment. proship does not necessarily mean liking every taboo ship. it does not necessarily mean normalizing any taboo ship.

you can be proship even if you hate every single ship that is taboo. as long as you don’t harass or shame real people over fiction, then by the definition, you are proship.

almost every person who is proship has something they dislike, hate, or even find disgusting. the point is not to normalize any of these taboo things. the point is literally to not shame, harass or censor people who enjoy the things they enjoy as long as it’s fiction and no one in real life is harmed.

so when someone who is proship finds a taboo ship they think is disgusting, they either scroll past, mute, or block the source. that’s all. they don’t harass or shame the person who enjoys it. they don’t try to normalize it. they just curate their own internet experience. scroll past, mute or block what they don’t want to see, mind their own business and let others enjoy whatever fictional things they enjoy.