The Limits of My Language are the Limits of My Universe

I'm Leigh | 25 | She/her | Bisexual | Just a writer. If you’re a TERF, SWERF, truscum, transmed, ace exclusionist or have a problem with the use of the word “queer”, get the fuck off my blog.

[oryx-and-thickney]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hi everyone. You may be alarmed to see me back on your dash, having forgotten that in March I went on an indefinite hiatus.

I’m just popping in to let some of you who followed because of my AOT fics, who are still following me for that reason, that I’ve finally finished Our Deepest Secrets. 

It took me five fucking years, but it’s done. 

Thank you to anyone who reads it. 

[oryx-and-thickney]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hi everyone. You may be alarmed to see me back on your dash, having forgotten that in March I went on an indefinite hiatus.

I’m just popping in to let some of you who followed because of my AOT fics, who are still following me for that reason, that I’ve finally finished Our Deepest Secrets. 

It took me five fucking years, but it’s done. 

Thank you to anyone who reads it. 

[oryx-and-thickney]

Just so everyone knows, this blog is going on indefinite hiatus. I won’t be deleting it, and I may return to it, but I don’t know when.

I get messages and replies daily now because of some of the posts I’ve made. The one about skinny people fashion and the ones about Kavinsky in particular.

And I’ve now felt suicidal pretty consistently for a couple of weeks and I know part of it is because of this blog and the negativity that’s resulted from opinions I shared, assuming at the time I posted them that I had thick enough skin to handle the repercussions.

But I don’t have thick skin and I know that it’s at this point literally dangerous for me to stay on this blog.

So if you want to follow me elsewhere, you can send me an ask off anon for my new URL. I won’t be giving anyone who doesn’t currently follow me the URL.

Just know that on that blog I plan to stay away from discourse and sharing anything personal. I won’t be talking about The Raven Cycle, Maggie Stiefvater, or Kavinsky either. Likely I’ll try to stay away from controversial or political or just plain depressing posts for the most part too. It’ll be very tame in comparison to this blog. It’ll mostly be cute or relaxing videos and pictures, as well as writer info and rescources. Idk. Maybe some memes and shit too.

If any of that sounds like it’s worth following just send me an ask.

[oryx-and-thickney]

Just so everyone knows, this blog is going on indefinite hiatus. I won’t be deleting it, and I may return to it, but I don’t know when.

I get messages and replies daily now because of some of the posts I’ve made. The one about skinny people fashion and the ones about Kavinsky in particular.

And I’ve now felt suicidal pretty consistently for a couple of weeks and I know part of it is because of this blog and the negativity that’s resulted from opinions I shared, assuming at the time I posted them that I had thick enough skin to handle the repercussions.

But I don’t have thick skin and I know that it’s at this point literally dangerous for me to stay on this blog.

So if you want to follow me elsewhere, you can send me an ask off anon for my new URL. I won’t be giving anyone who doesn’t currently follow me the URL.

Just know that on that blog I plan to stay away from discourse and sharing anything personal. I won’t be talking about The Raven Cycle, Maggie Stiefvater, or Kavinsky either. Likely I’ll try to stay away from controversial or political or just plain depressing posts for the most part too. It’ll be very tame in comparison to this blog. It’ll mostly be cute or relaxing videos and pictures, as well as writer info and rescources. Idk. Maybe some memes and shit too.

If any of that sounds like it’s worth following just send me an ask.

[thisisthinprivilege]

Thin privilege is not being told you are at high risk for dying of a virus when there's no evidence of that

I was listening to the NYT podcast “The Daily” about a week ago. The host was speaking with a science and health writer about the coronavirus epidemic in the U.S. and had the following exchange:

Guest: How do you isolate the vulnerable? How do you isolate everybody who’s obese in this country?

Host: Why do you mention obese?

Guest: Because many have diabetes. And diabetes is one of the conditions that renders you more susceptible to dying of this disease.

If diabetes is the risk factor, why bring up weight at all?? I’m glad the host pushed back on the claim that obesity is the problem. And thank you to your blog, because if I hadn’t been reading your posts I probably wouldn’t have noticed how gross this was.

[oryx-and-thickney]

you’re 25 years old which makes it worse but you’re such a weird ass mf.

What the fuck does me being 25 have to do with anything.

Also why bother sending this to me. What a waste of your time.

[mdintraining]

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who has trouble remembering developmental milestones. I put these together, but can’t take credit for any of the photography. Hope someone finds them helpful!

[thelastpilot]

This is very useful to me i have absolutely no gauge for how old children are and what they can typically do at what ages

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

“Suicidal feelings are not the same as giving up on life. Suicidal feelings often express a powerful and overwhelming need for a different life. Suicidal feelings can mean, in a desperate and unyielding way, a demand for something new. Listen to someone who is suicidal and you often hear a need for change so important, so indispensable, that they would rather die than go on living without the change. And when the person feels powerless to make that change happen, they become suicidal. Help comes when the person identifies the change they want and starts to believe it can actually happen. Whether it is overcoming an impossible family situation, making a career or study change, standing up to an oppressor, gaining relief from chronic physical pain, igniting creative inspiration, feeling less alone, or beginning to value their self worth, at the root of suicidal feelings is often powerlessness to change your life – not giving up on life itself.”

— Will Hall, Living with suicidal feelings 

[mienar]

getting colder now

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[blackness-by-your-side]

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

[cuntybearjamboree]

FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[dancing-coyote]

That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.

BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

[dementedgnomicwizard]

oh good

[askaniritual]

[furblee]

[erohoney-deactivated20191218]

[suncrayon]

[narwhalsarefalling]

[houston-i-have-problems]

[michaelburnnham]

[angry-beibers]

[niftyanswersorryiasked]

[izzzzzzieeeeeeeee]

[holesmovingcastle]

[wigpisser]

[c0ffeekitten]

[lahiah]

[wizardnuke]

[fake-bnha]

wow i love cards against humanity

[mudpuddling-moved]

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

[everythingfox]

“My mom adopted a cat that brings her slippers to her every morning. I didn’t believe her until she got it on camera finally”

(Source)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[objetpetita]

Mental Illness Can Make It Hard to Read. Here’s Why — and What You Can Do

For a long time, I was a self-professed bookworm. Until suddenly, I wasn’t.

I know it sounds cliche, but as a crazy bookworm, books have (literally) saved my life. As my mental health kept escalating from panic attacks to long-lasting depressive episodes, PTSD, and dissociative disorders, I’ve always blamed myself for that terrifying feeling of not being able to connect and feel the words of a book. That I’m getting old, that I’m becoming stupid, that I’m not trying enough. And that was a hard pill to swallow.

This article really helped me to understand those mental mechanisms and how I need to stop beating myself and actually focus on a different, more self-compassionate approach; the need to deal with unprocessed traumas and toxic behaviors that have been anchored within me. They are the problem, not me. Period.

[darkmacademia]

I might not have “brain cells” like classic authors and ancient philosophers but at least I respect women

[gahdamnpunk]

So they’re saying 12 months were never necessary in the first place? 🧐

[neuroticpantomime]

Honestly it’s some even more insidious garbage than that too. Like I’ve never had a problem donating because lmao how are they gonna know my sex life? But now imagine a situation where a long term boyfriend or husband desperately wants to donate to save their SO’s life and they can’t because they don’t have the plausible deniability us singles do. Again, this is decades old, the “easing” of these bullshit restrictions is rooted in bigotry, and the cruelty has always been the point.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[queeranarchism]

Yeah, this is code for

We expect you to sacrifice your personal life for us

We expect you to perform a fake friendship with us at all times

We expect you to participate in unpaid ‘team building’ time outside work

We expect you to sacrifice your personal life for us

Unionizing will be treated as betrayal