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can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept
Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”
I think this really an important post. We’ve fallen into such a rut of “everything is right or wrong, no inbetween” that stuff that’s merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.
this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you
Damn. This is the thing.
I also kinda dislike that people started saying ‘problematic’ when they could be specific about what someone did wrong. It becomes this vague scary thing that someone ‘said something problematic’ and you don’t know whether they passionately defended nazis or made a clumsy joke about retail workers. And because we don’t know what someone means but we do want to be safe a lot of us just assume to worst and avoid people labelled ‘problematic’. This makes is a very effective tool to bully out people for minor flaws and to reinforce purity culture and disposability culture.
Little sunlight never hurts (i miss playing with lightroom) // 🌞🌻 5 • 3 • 18 📸 @serondo_alvin
Island life today // 🏖🌊 5 • 6 • 18 (at Pink Beach, Sta Cruz Island Zamboanga City)
She will remember the moments you made her feel loved more than the times you said, "I love you." // ✝️🍃 4 • 14 • 18 (at Magellan's Cross)
5 stories that will restore your faith in humanity
I’m not crying, you’re crying
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5
the one with the miracle baby broke me down, then brought me back again 😭
I'm trying to be happy without you but the truth is: my true happiness is with you. // 🍃 4 • 20 • 18 📸 @serondo_alvin
Today's vibe // 🌸 4 • 20 • 18
Appreciation post for this Filipino author of YA poetries. Best read with The 1975, tea, and on a rainy day. // 📖🎶 (at Clark International Airport)
👯 3 • 29 • 18
Y E L L O W // 🌼🌼 4 • 8 • 18
Famous authors, their writings and their rejection letters.
Sylvia Plath: There certainly isn’t enough genuine talent for us to take notice.
Rudyard Kipling: I’m sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language.
Emily Dickinson: [Your poems] are quite as remarkable for defects as for beauties and are generally devoid of true poetical qualities.
Ernest Hemingway (on The Torrents of Spring): It would be extremely rotten taste, to say nothing of being horribly cruel, should we want to publish it.
Dr. Seuss: Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.
The Diary of Anne Frank: The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the ‘curiosity’ level.
Richard Bach (on Jonathan Livingston Seagull): will never make it as a paperback. (Over 7.25 million copies sold)
H.G. Wells (on The War of the Worlds): An endless nightmare. I do not believe it would “take”…I think the verdict would be ‘Oh don’t read that horrid book’. And (on The Time Machine): It is not interesting enough for the general reader and not thorough enough for the scientific reader.
Edgar Allan Poe: Readers in this country have a decided and strong preference for works in which a single and connected story occupies the entire volume.
Herman Melville (on Moby Dick): We regret to say that our united opinion is entirely against the book as we do not think it would be at all suitable for the Juvenile Market in [England]. It is very long, rather old-fashioned…
Jack London: [Your book is] forbidding and depressing.
William Faulkner: If the book had a plot and structure, we might suggest shortening and revisions, but it is so diffuse that I don’t think this would be of any use. My chief objection is that you don’t have any story to tell. And two years later: Good God, I can’t publish this!
Stephen King (on Carrie): We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias. They do not sell.
Joseph Heller (on Catch–22): I haven’t really the foggiest idea about what the man is trying to say… Apparently the author intends it to be funny – possibly even satire – but it is really not funny on any intellectual level … From your long publishing experience you will know that it is less disastrous to turn down a work of genius than to turn down talented mediocrities.
George Orwell (on Animal Farm): It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.
Oscar Wilde (on Lady Windermere’s Fan): My dear sir, I have read your manuscript. Oh, my dear sir.
Vladimir Nabokov (on Lolita): … overwhelmingly nauseating, even to an enlightened Freudian … the whole thing is an unsure cross between hideous reality and improbable fantasy. It often becomes a wild neurotic daydream … I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was turned down so many times, Beatrix Potter initially self-published it.
Lust for Life by Irving Stone was rejected 16 times, but found a publisher and went on to sell about 25 million copies.
John Grisham’s first novel was rejected 25 times.
Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) received 134 rejections.
Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) received 121 rejections.
Gertrude Stein spent 22 years submitting before getting a single poem accepted.
Judy Blume, beloved by children everywhere, received rejections for two straight years.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle received 26 rejections.
Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected 20 times.
Carrie by Stephen King received 30 rejections.
The Diary of Anne Frank received 16 rejections.
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rolling was rejected 12 times.
Dr. Seuss received 27 rejection letters
Now this…THIS inspires me.
Don’t give up people.
Beachin' 2018 ⚓️(a denial stage before thesis) 3 • 29 • 18 (at Koronadal, South Cotabato)
The sky looked pretty last night. 🌌 3 • 29 • 18 (at Lake Sebu, South Cotabato)
Your pabida girl wearing pjs to a party. ✨ 3 • 25 • 17 (at LM METRO HOTEL)
An 87-year-old grandmother from Spain became an Instagram sensation for the artworks she created using… Microsoft Paint.
Concha García Zaera always loved painting: she used to take oil painting classes, but could not practice at home due to the strong smell of the paints. When her husband fell ill, she had to spend a lot of her time at home to take care of him. So her children gave her a computer… and that’s how she discovered Microsoft Paint.
Concha gets her inspiration from postcards her friends and family send her. Once she’s found a landscape she likes, she does all of her work on Windows 7. It her takes at least two weeks to paint one image pixel by pixel using only her mouse.
Concha’s masterful use of Paint has made her an Instagram sensation: on March 9, she had 300 followers… Ten days later, she has more than 100 000. Congrats, Concha!
Magic: the Gathering - Mana Pool
Right here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada-Land
The place is cozy, with warm undertones and the game selection area is neat but crammed with top-name games, including the classics as well as such faves as Scythe (Stonemaier Games), Forbidden Island (Gamewright), Magic The Gathering (Hasbro) and more.
Wi-fi’s included and even the tables have a story: “They were specifically made from reclaimed wood,” said Bradley as a nod to the brothers’ respect for environmental issues. “We want this place to become a community space, where people can come, sit and enjoy,” say the two.
MANA POOL, 2100 Bloor St. W. Unit 5A, Toronto, Tuesday-Wednesday, 11 a.m. To 10 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m. To 11 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m. To 10 p.m., closed Mondays.
@manapoolTO
http://manapool.ca/