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22 | British | Pisces | INFP she/her ramblings of a twenty-first century romantic

[casualgnome]

Sorry I haven’t been posting much, I’m actually in a healthy and happy relationship now

[casualgnome]

Can’t even be sad in front of a man without him taking it as personal fucking slight

[casualgnome]

Just watched episode 300 of supernatural 🫩

[casualgnome]

One day I would like to have a normal interaction with someone when they ask to see my ID, without all the extra comments about how young I look 🫩

[casualgnome]

Men confuse me so much bc why lie to me about smth when I give you my honest opinion about it, and then try to guilt me about making you feel stupid when you finally tell me the truth like???

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Merry crisis

[sowecoulddance]

its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

[sharper-and-bigger]

Jesus also spent Christmas in a barn full of animals

[casualgnome]

You have a Merry Christmas if you celebrate it on your end! Or Happy Holidays if you happen to celebrate something else! 🙂👍

Thank you! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas too 🥰

[forgleto-o]

Date idea: I lie face down on your bed and you pet my head for maybe 2 or 3 hours.

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[ralfmaximus]

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

[casualgnome]

one of our Christmas hires at work just walked out because I was apparently being passive aggressive towards her lol

[treecitysessions]

Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

[treecitysessions]

People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively

[treecitysessions]

“Why would they do this instead of just making everyone in the movie nice and normal and good” so we would have this conversation….

[ryebreadgf]

my yearly struggle

[casualgnome]

How do I show this to my nearly 70 year old dad in a way that he’ll find it funny

[casualgnome]

Why is getting public transport for a night out so embarrassing like I feel like a slut on the bus

[loundervenus]

the moon in paintings✨🌙

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’re doing a good job. even if no one notices, you’re doing a damn good job.