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[holkazmesice]

Psanci 2025 🖋️

Zdravím všechny,

první pokus o specificky psací výzvu odstartuje 1. října 2025, na žádost několika lidí z komunity (@Psanci) s postupným zveřejňováním témat místo celkového seznamu. Nečekám kdovíjakou účast, ale budu ráda, pokud budete povědomí o výzvě alespoň šířit dál, aby bylo možné ji ustavit a vyladit na případná pokračování :) Budu se pokoušet evidovat všechno pod tagem #psanci 2025, poprosím účastníky o totéž, abychom se dobře dohledali.

Formát je poměrně přímočarý, na každý den poskytuju určité motivy, se kterými můžete ve svých psavých procesech pracovat (nutně se samozřejmě neomezují jen na psaní, jsou poměrně univerzální, takže i účastníci zájezdů jiných umění se mohou přidat, uznají-li to za vhodné), a pokud možno ještě ten den své veledílo i vysdílet se světem. Rozhodně ale podporuji i neurodivergentní či jinak indisponovanou část obyvatelstva čumblru, aby neházela žádné zbraně do obilovin a klidně přeskakovala / doháněla témata zpětně. Ta podstatná část je v závěru opravdu něco vytvořit, ne to udělat stoprocentně podle šablony.

Snažila jsem se připravit podklady tak, aby bylo možné si je personalizovat a vzít ty, které budete vnímat jako přínosné.

Všem účastníkům dopředu děkuji a budu se těšit na případné výtvory!

Howgh.

[aidashakur]

[beneaththemooon]

The sexiest thing a woman can do is move on. Whether it’s from their partner, career, family, etc. Society has programmed women into believing there’s a moral reward for enduring and staying. Fuck that. Get a new partner, new career, move to another state/country, please just MOVE ON.

[queer-positive-archived]

@staff our identities aren’t nsfw and we will not stand for them to be treated as such

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

[mindfulwrath]

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.

[thememedaddy]

[monster2003]

I’m putting in my too weak notice.

[holkazmesice]

people tell you to ask for help when you're struggling

news articles, therapists, psychiatrists, mental health or chronic illness awareness advocates educate you there is no shame in needing assistance in tough times, to overcome the shame and stigma and feeling of being a burden as to not go through challenges alone

what they don't account for in those wholesome narratives, however truthful they should be, is that sometimes

sometimes you're screaming bloody murder and nobody steps up anyway

sometimes you tell your doctor, your social worker, your therapist, hell, you check yourself into a hospital and the system fails you anyway, or you end up being traumatised on top of everything that was already happening

sometimes you try to lean on your family or friends and they don't want to help or don't really seem to grasp the gravity of your situation or can't find the capacity to in their own busy lives, and you simply can't ask them to compromise their own comfort just because you're in a flare-up or have a newly diagnosed comorbidity

so you're trying to be respectful of their boundaries and not to be said burden (even though that's clearly what you actually are, regardless of how much able-bodied and mentally healthy people around you don't like you using the word, mostly because it makes them feel bad), and you try to accept nobody from the places that were supposedly set up to assist the needful folk like you is coming to save you either

but it doesn't change the fact that you do still need help, and badly

what is there to do then?

in my darkest moments, suicidal thoughts come through to me not as a final shriek of desperation, but as a viable solution, not because my depression has plunged so deep I can't see another way out, not because my health issues have gotten so unmanageable I can't cope with the symptoms, but just because I am so. bone deep. exhausted. of doing it alone and I feel like all my efforts are pointless and don't lead to any semblance of a worthy living

I mean, what's a shitty life you can't even share the load off of with somebody else good for? I am still yet to comprehend the loneliness of the chronic illness life I have been sentenced to for almost 20 years now, still unable to grapple the heaviness of being denied existence I planned for as a child; how could somebody from the outside be even willing to step in and commiserate in the dark?

what devices of genuine connection, not parasocial illusions are left for people like us?

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

[ashstfu]

i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

[yourgirlinpieces2]

all the roads lead back to the loneliness ive felt ever since i was a child

[holkazmesice]

this feels so unnecessarily dramatic and yet it conveys the sentiment so truthfully

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[hanginglikeafruit]

If you use Google Chrome, you can go into the Chrome store and search for "Bye bye Google AI", it's an add-on that lets you block all AI results in Google's search engine

[uwillneverknowwho]

Literally always take headphones with you. If you decide that you probably won't need them today, that's the devil talking. You will. You will

[cidham]

amir khusrow (1253–1325 CE)

[cherepashkadrabbles]

This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:

He only visits once a year, I splurge big on him when he’s here, His kisses make my tastebuds tango. Who, bitch, your man? Nah, bitch, a mango.

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[catchymemes]