and what if i fly?

Jay aka Bluejay/Jaya/J | Gender Fluid (he/him and they/them) | 21+ | Biromantic Demisexual Polyamorous | Writer, book lover, and huge advocate of ship and let ship | TBC | Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bluejayinflight | "Why were words created if not to show us that we too can fly." - Me (icon by mayakern)

[junglejim4322]

You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this

[junglejim4322]

You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this

[kosmogrl]

I will probably get through this just like I have gotten through everything before but I need to be really stressed and scared first

[ellipsus-writes]

Right y’all 😮‍💨—we worked our way though over 5,000 responses for our survey on writing in the age of AI. We crunched the numbers, made some lovely infographics, gathered a ton of phenomenal quotes, data’d the data—and shared the results over on our blog.

Who’s ready for some pie charts?!🧵🧵

First thing’s first… AI generated content is remarkably unpopular.

Almost all of you believe that human provenance is a must. (And we couldn’t agree more.)

This one came as a bit of a shock: nearly half of all respondents felt their work could be mistaken for AI.

And almost all of you (99.5%) think AI content should be clearly labeled.

Thank you to the thousands of writers who took the time to complete the survey. Together, you wrote over 500,000 words—that’s a heck of a mighty tome! You can read the full report over on our blog.

We’ll be breaking down more of our findings throughout this week, as well as sharing more of the fantastic text responses we received! - the Ellipsus Team xo

[beaswellgirl]

yep, pretty much

[ellipsus-writes]

What if... writing the “wrong” thing is what leads you back to yourself?

In our newest guest contributor's blog post, Blackbird writes about burnout, creative pressure, first-time fanfic, and the unexpected side quests that can help us rediscover the joy in creating things.

"It's important to find the part of you that's fueled by nothing more than pure self-indulgence, and to give that part of you the space to exist.

Whatever form that takes."

Have a read over on the blog! - the Ellipsus Team xo

[frogwhomp]

Happy Juneteenth everyone! I made this illustration for the Seattle Art Museum's Juneteenth celebration! It was such on honor to work on this project!

This illustration will be the backdrop to their photobooth, it was inspired by artists like Aaron Douglas and graphic arts for various jazz and motown clubs and performances. the blue of the flag is styled after a quilt featuring the North Star quilt pattern used during the underground railroad along with the Sankofa symbol among various African patterns.

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace has been harassed/judged his whole life for not wanting romance or sex because those things are "soooo important" to being human but then he meets rocky and saves all of humanity and during their party he flips off the ceiling like "SCREW ALL OF YOU I SAVED ALL THE HUMANS. IM THE MOST IMPORTANT HUMAN NOW. AND I DID IT WITH THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND NO SEX. SO TAKE THAT" and rocky's like hey pal what the hell are you talking about

[doffy2]

My dinnar 💪💯❗💥

[doffy2]

[63]

This is one of your worst posts yet man

[textposttropes]

Poverty Food

Visual Innuendo

[doffy2]

You called me dirt sucking poor and told me my carrot looks like a cock

[cripplecharacters]

hi, hi, hi! this blog is very cool beans! but i was just wondering, what is the difference between being deaf and hard of hearing, if there is one? like, can a hard of hearing person use hearing aids? can they still hear?

Hi!

There are two contexts differentiating between the labels of deaf and hard of hearing.

The first is the medical definition: deafness is specifically defined as hearing loss greater than 80 dB across a broad range of frequencies. Someone is hard of hearing if they don't meet this criteria in both ears, but have some degree of hearing loss. As you may imagine from this definition, "hard of hearing" is an extremely broad category, encompassing many different experiences and types of deafness/hearing loss.

Anyone with any degree of hearing loss may have/use hearing aids, although not everyone will, for a variety of reasons.

The second definition is cultural. In Deaf spaces, "hard of hearing" may also be a term someone uses to indicate they are oral and can converse with hearing people, or that they don't consider themselves fully or culturally Deaf, in addition to the medical definition. There are also people who have cochlear implants (which you must be medically profoundly deaf to qualify for) who consider themselves hard of hearing because they have CIs.

So really, it comes down to personal choice of how to identify. There are people with all ranges of hearing ability who identify as culturally Deaf. There are many people who are medically hard of hearing but prefer to call themselves deaf, or medically deaf who prefer to call themselves hard of hearing. There are people who have hearing loss who don't call themselves hard of hearing at all. It's really about how the person relates to their hearing and the Deaf community.

Mod Rock

[music-in-my-veins14]

[trannydurden]

happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

[creatingblackcharacters]

[jaytimweek]

Almost time!

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Same @ladytemeraire

[what-even-is-thiss]

So Boston is straight up running out of beer because of all the Scottish tourists in for the World Cup

[what-even-is-thiss]

I love cultural exchange

[meanbuddhist]

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

[northirish]

I'm following blogs that haven't posted in like eight years but I don't care I shall never unfollow them because I am a true and loyal knight #loyalknight