Hey, I'm just tired in general.

Call me Fury. Panromantic Gray-ace Non-binary. Preferable pronounce: They/them and He/him. I have a writing blog u can follow it if you want. It's called goblins-carverns. This blog is mostly me chilling and messing around. Not gonna be too active cuz College is a thing.

[warcrimesimulator]

Cat with unusual markings posted to a Thai Facebook group.

Anyone seen anything like this before?

[rorytelling]

This is an ancient coat pattern that has mostly died off. This cat just got very lucky genes.

[innerkingdomfuryreboot]

Blehing that's what he do

[innerkingdomfuryreboot]

Y r they/them the same ngl ts is y we need to stop yaoi inbreeding

Yeah real tho

[innerkingdomfuryreboot]

Who the fuck are you

[charlesoberonn]

[orcboxer]

[veryfunnymemes]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

oh I get it

[veryfunnymemes]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

I don’t get it

[funnytwittertweets]

[computationalcalculator]

[innerkingdomfuryreboot]

As someone who have siblings. This person is definitely an only child.

[percyhoneybee]

THERE MUST BE A PARAGRAPH BREAK EVERY TIME A NEW CHARACTER SPEAKS

THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL

NO ONE WANTS TO READ ONE BIG BLOCK OF TEXT JESUS CHRIST

[bloated-butch]

REMEMBER TIP TOP OK:

Make a paragraph every time that any of these things change!

Ti me

P lace

To pic

P erson

[readinggglasses-blog]

it’s my worst pet peeve to see whenever people don’t do this!

[dontshootmespence]

Good advice for writers that are just starting!

[i-am-an-idiot]

"say one fruit that does not have the letter "a""

Kiwi

[thezegendofzelda]

lemon

[anarchy-is-a-social-construct]

Lime

[just-gay-thoughts]

Tomoto

[crazydoodlez]

nice one

[septicake]

cucumber

[enthusispastic]

honeydew melon

[dry-gold]

quondong, muntries, midgem berries, pepper berry, and feigoa

[galadhir]

cherries

[i-pissed-your-pants]

salad

[araccoonthatlikesmurder]

Cucumber

[innerkingdomfuryreboot]

Lychee

[whitepeopletwitter]

[stop-stalin-and-suck-my-dick]

And to be 100% clear…those studies don’t mean the students and workers feel better, even tho that tends to be the case. They found that their productivity is better.

In other words, if you want people doing their best work, you need to let them fucking rest and play.

[thegenderal]

I love doing folds my bread has buttcheeks

[thegenderal]

[fawfulydoo]

reblog to give the person you reblogged it from a little heart lollipop

[lichslayer5000]

I think big scary towers are cool. evil wizards are so hot.

[evilwizard]

omg hiiiii…

[evilwizard]

wait what does your username say

[finding-a-whim-deactivated20210]

Me: I write for three people only: me, myself, and I

Also me: LIKES? REBLOGS? COMMENTS? ANYTHING!?! Was it… WAS IT GOOD?!? DID SOMEONE LIKE IT!?!?

[raevenlywrites]

I write for me.

I share for the validation.

[letswritestories101]

“I write for me. I share for the validation.” This is so true and punk rock than I don’t have words for that

[steakandcheeeese]

Lmao you’re an adult, you shouldn’t be using the word squick. Use trigger. Use your grown up adult words to explain how you feel instead of leaning on a cutesy uwu term that no one outside of tumblr uses. It’s embarrassing.

Idek if this is serious or ironic honestly

[steakandcheeeese]

#like…why use this baby word when you can just say how you feel about it

Found this in the original post tags and I just… SIGH

Here’s the thing, anon. Squick isn’t just ‘I don’t like this’, it’s ‘I think this is gross and it makes me deeply uncomfortable but I pass no judgement on those who enjoy it, because I acknowledge that everyone is different and those same people may have the same visceral reaction some of the things I enjoy’ and was originally made popular in the kink community.

So yeah, if you want to say that every time you come across a trope or whatever you find icky then go ahead, say that every time.

Also, this term dates back to Usenet in the early nineties, so sure, go off.

[sugarfey]

This frustrates me so much because squicks and triggers are fundamentally different things and as someone with PTSD, the distinction is super useful!

Squicks are things I find personally gross but may not be gross to someone else. They don’t upset me or provoke my PTSD, they simply do not pop my corn. Example: Omegaverse. I don’t like it, it makes me uncomfortable and I’m not going to read it, but if you like it, you do you.

Triggers are things which directly provoke my PTSD. This means that my triggers may seem completely normal and innocuous to someone else, because my triggers are so personal and intrinsically linked to a specific event in my life. My reactions to these triggers can include panic attacks and flashbacks to this traumatic event. Sometimes being triggered can affect me for several hours or even days.

Describing something as either a squick or a trigger allows me easily establish the difference in my potential reaction to something without having to go into painful detail about why bodily fluids might make me back button quickly but poker games might leave me a crying wreck. 

[oopsabird]

Making this distinction, and having a specific word for something that is not your slice of pie, but also not an actual psychological trigger, is also REALLY important for making sure that the word “trigger” can retain its original, specific, purposeful, and collectively understood clinical meaning (both inside and outside online fannish communities).

If we encourage everyone to lump things that just make them slightly uncomfortable or simply aren’t to their taste in under the word “trigger”, it actually dilutes the meaning of the word. It makes it harder for us all to, for the most part, collectively agree on and understand what exactly is being described when the word gets used.

And that destruction of shared precise definitions is a problem! It is really useful to have the communal language to be able to clearly and quickly delineate between “this grosses me out, no thanks” and “this is going to set off a trauma episode, rattle my brain, and probably throw off the rest of my day/week as a result” while also maintaining your privacy, and to know that you will be understood in what you are saying. Not having it is actually detrimental to the effort of making our communities safe and navigable for people living with trauma. Which is a goal that is much more important to me, personally, than the idea of not being “cutesy” (a word which in this case which sounds a lot like it’s being used as a euphemism for “cringe”).

(Also, one has to wonder if people told Shakespeare he was being childish when he made up entirely new words that are still widely used in the English language today…… 🤔)

[mumblingsage]

My understanding is that “squick” was also created to avoid using more judgmental terms like “gross” or “disturbing”–like yeah, I do find X kink gross or disturbing, but that’s my personal feeling, not an objective fact about the world, and if I’m explaining to my friend who is super into X that I’d prefer they leave it out of the story they’re writing me in the fic exchange, I want to use politer language!

“Squick” does sound silly, like onomatopoeia, but I think that’s part of its role–it’s a word that defuses if, again, you’re saying something squicks you in front of an audience that may include its connoisseurs. When I say I’m squicked, I’m clearly not getting onto a high horse of dignity and moral righteousness. At the same time I’m not being so indirect for the sake of politeness–”oh, it’s not my favorite thing, I’m not sure it works for me, I haven’t found a fic about it that clicks for me”–that someone could misunderstand how much I do not want to see it.

[ruffboi-mags]

And, to reiterate, it is a grown up word made by grown up nerds in the 90s so if you think it was somehow born on and limited to Tumblr I’m going to need you to actually do some fandom history research before you ever speak authoritatively again about anything fandom-related or adjacent.

[littlethingwithfeathers]

I love and deeply miss the term “squick” and really want to see it brought back. It allows dislike for its own sake and without judgement. It’s polite, gentle, and has an air of “you do you.” A squick is not a trigger. Triggers are related to trauma. You’re allowed to not like things and not have them related to anything other than just finding them unpleasant. And that aversion can be strong! That’s okay! I really don’t like watersports. Like, gag-reflex levels of aversion, but it’s not triggering. I just really don’t like it.  I feel like we’ve lost the right/ability to just… quietly not like things and move on with our lives. Not everything is for everyone, and you don’t need a reason to not like something. Just politely and quietly excuse yourself. No need to draw attention, and if someone asks you why you just say, “No, it squicks me out.” No judgement. No narrative necessary. 

[lilykep]

There is a sad trend of trying to make everything you personally dislike morally reprehensible in some way to justify your dislike of it. You’re allowed to just not like something for no real reason. You do not have to justify why you dislike something, and the word “squick” is perfect for that. It say “look I really really don’t like this thing, but it’s ok if you do” and that is useful.

[ruffboi-mags]

I think the biggest problem is that a lot of these kids are VERY into the whole fandom purity culture thing, so they actually DO want to make it out to be morally reprehensible, and they DON’T think it’s ok that other ppl might be into it.

[neil-gaiman]

Cheerfully using “squick” since 1992, because it means a specific thing and other words do not mean that thing.

[dduane]

I sure haven’t stopped using the word, and don’t intend to. It has a distinct and distinctive meaning in the general fannish communities I frequent.

(See also [and paraphrasing a bit here]: “When I became as much a ‘grownup’ as I intend to become, I ‘put away childish things’ and gave up the fear of childishness* and the the desire to be and/or seem Very Grown Up.” [And also, see the rest of Lewis’s pertinent quote, where he doesn’t mince words about what he thinks of people who use the term “adult” in critique as a term of approval.])

*There is also a very specific difference in the meanings/implications of the too-often-interchangeably-used words “childish” and “childlike” which a lot of people miss, but that’s material for some other post, some other day…

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

i'm convinced this is an ad for every product in existence

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

WHY IS SHE WATCHING 3 VIDEOS AT ONCE

[innerkingdomfuryreboot]

I WISH THIS IS ME LMAO