👋 hi there :) my name is izzy, it's nice to meet you. i was bullied (affectionately) into getting tumblr by a friend a few months ago, but it turned out to be a nice thing :>
she/her, pan, minor (creeps DNI)
i am a teenage author, and this blog is primarily dedicated to posts about writing (generally humour), which can include memes, advice, tips and tricks, the occasional snippet (very rare), and jokes. there is also a lot of random junk you might have to sort through (sorry), things i personally find funny (this is my blog you can't stop me), ranting about my current obsessions (at the time of writing this intro post: vsmpvsmpvsmp), and a whole lot of crap-posting.
this blog is inclusive to/accepts:
gays 🏳️🌈
straights🏁 (why did i use that emoji? you'll never know)
literally every other sexuality under the sun
the lgbt+ community and the queers in general
those who have transed their gender🏳️⚧️
people who looked at the gender binary and said "hell no"
human beings in general who are perceived as "not normal" or "different" or don't fit into society's unrealistic and unobtainable standards that only truly apply to a small, usually straight, usually white, usually upper-middle class percentage of the population and leave everybody else struggling to even survive
gays (again)
umm idk everyone who isn't a raging freaking asshole?
basically if you're a human person and you're nice to other human persons, you can chill here with me
(need to add a cut because this is getting too long. i have a rambling problem)
i like reading, writing, drawing (badly), reading, doing gymnastics, writing, playing soccer, reading, inhaling any and every food item in my area that contains any semblance of sugar, writing, watching tv, reading, drawing again, writing, school (shocking), reading, beating my younger brother at mario kart, writing, being a cool nerd in general (yes i called myself cool and a nerd in the same sentence, you can't stop me, i openly admit to being a nerd and if you think i'm not cool i have over 150 followers who say otherwise so heh), reading, obsessing over books (specifically harry potter but also screw jkr), writing, reading, and writing.
(can you tell i like reading and writing) 📚📖🖊️
yes i can capitalise and use correct punctuation. no i will not choose to do so
fandoms: life series, stardew valley, gravity falls, harry potter (again screw jkr), vampires smp, why the hell can't i think of any more
how do you make an intro post again
transphobes and homophobes and racists and ableists (i can spell) and all the "phobes" and all the "ists" can screw off. and also ai. if you're a bot or you support genai which steals from real artists and creators, you can leave now. go on, i'll wait
i write on ao3 but that is neither here nor there (i don't feel like giving my acc right now, if you're dedicated enough you could probably find it tho)
rapid-fire about me because i cannot be bothered to form sentences right now: australian 🇦🇺, pansexual (duh), teenager (will not give exact age because internet safety and everything), definitely not addicted to writing yaoi and yuri, over 350k+ words written on my past few long books, subscribed to dropout.tv, absolute nerd, hoping to actually get published one day (if i finish my damn stories), been on tumblr for months but still suck at it, good at school (from my grammar in posts, that's surprising), If You Call Me Short I Will Stab You, (in my opinion) pretty good at writing, if my friends actually screaming/crying over it is any indication, and um. uh. idk i've held a plank for seven minutes straight
this is probably way too long i should add a cut (this is probably a horrible intro post anyway not like anyone will read this)
yeah. that's basically me :) if you actually took the time and bothered to read through all of this, then i applaud you. here, uh, take this sweet as a reward:
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i hope you have a day that is as amazing as you are. hope to see you around :)
it's okay if you as a lesbian want to fuck the straight blonde popstar but you can't be pretending she's a lesbian too girl at least make it a lesbian corruption kink or some shit
I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”
it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.
my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.
This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).
When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.
OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.
In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.
Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.
partially-managed mental illness is so fucking funny i'll be sitting around doing my job and suddenly think "wow i hate myself" and immediately get confused because, like, that's not TRUE! i love myself so much. who are you to talk to me like that
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help
“The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.
“Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.
“In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.
Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed “bystander apathy” was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.”
Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.
You have just been attacked. How likely is it that someone will come to your help? If you remember the infamous case of Kitty Genovese in 19
I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.
One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.
The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.
Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.
I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.
Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.
"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."
"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."
"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"
Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off
my favorite so far was seeing a notification for him doing a video on the history of spam a little while back, and wondering what the plush choice would be for that, and it did not disappoint.
- when you’re jay walking, cars will actively accelerate bc the drivers want to kill you for breaking the rules
- servers in restaurants act very scared and apologetic, so maybe people aren’t nice to them here??? or I could be terrifying
- it’s really cute when little kids have British accents, but I’m unmoved by adults with accents
- extremely good gluten free options. this country is like 20 years ahead of Canada in that regard
- people will give random insignificant buildings names with little plaques. and then that’s the name that shows up on the map. like even a smaller than average family home, you can name it like it’s a dog
- lots of brick and stone buildings. looks cute and charming until you enter one and there’s no air conditioning
- people are still wearing jaguar print. I like this. don’t let it die
First humans ever to leave the solar system suddenly drop out of communications and the ship can't be found with any equipment. After one month of no contact their home countries start reluctantly holding funerals for the space heroes only for them all to turn up, healthy, well fed and extremely disoriented, in the middle of Tokyo, talking about alien abduction. Turns out that aliens found the poor humans straying out of their solar system, presumably lost, and took them to Alien Wildlife Rehabilitation before dumping them back in the middle of their native habitat.
I’ll bet they have cool new tattoos that turn out to be tracking devices too. Just in case these spirited individuals try to make another break for it.
oh my god i’m so tired psychotic does not mean violent it does not mean angry or erratic. it refers to a person suffering from psychosis, a loss of touch with reality that includes hallucinations and/or delusions. psychotic people are not inherently violent and y'all need to understand how much stigma you create when you again and again incorrectly use the word psychotic without even thinking about it
As a survivor of abuse I WANT media to show that abusers are not some evil monster you can spot at fifty paces, I want people to see the complexity and understand that anyone, including them, can become/be an abuser. If you deny that you're also in a way saying that survivors are in some way to blame for what happened to them because obviously we should have known they were an abuser and we CHOSE to have that happen to us.
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