Hi, PJ here.

More or less nocturnal in terms of sleeping patterns, night shift apprentice baker, gamer, anti-social dimwit, all that good stuff. Enjoy. :)

[4threset]

'And you alright?

Can you hear me?'

[catchymemes]

[bl0w-m3]

Thanks for hanging out with me! Was I cool? did you like me? What do you think of me in detail? Do you hate me?

[emotionalwords]

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

[juelzsantana]

meeeeeeeee

[starglowy]

[inkypyon]

[traumaticchild]

due to personal reasons i will never be saying anything ever again

[roll1uptwice]

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

I swear from now on whenever someone asks me when I was born, my response will be “in the late 1900s”

[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everyone is different and those same people may have the same visceral reaction some of the things I enjoy’ and was originally made popular in the kink community.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...... 🤔)

[naamahdarling]

"That no one outside of Tumblr uses"? Climb the still- wet rope of your umbilical cord back into the womb and apologize to your mother's vagina on the way for the pain and indignity she suffered giving birth to you the first time. You reek of naivety and spoiled breast milk, and your ignorance is an embarrasment you are apparently too callow and ignorant to apprehend. Your words are more vacant than the silence before your birth.

[naamahdarling]

I wrote that while my body was mostly asleep but also my ADHD meds were kicking in so my brain was AWAKE and I had no memory of it until later when I was like "Did...did I tell someone to climb into their mother's vagina and apologize before telling them they were callow, stupid, smelly, and...something else?" And I scrolled down and saw THAT THING I SAID and I just want you to know I think I was possessed.

[oopsabird]

glgjsjdkksjdkajs I’ve got an absurd amount of notifications off this post in the last 24hrs, and I think its because you and Seannan MacGuire are both pretty big blogs with larger followings who shared it after I added my part, but people are so shell-shocked (squicked? lol) by your uh, intense comment, that they’re largely going back to reblog it from me, the last not-horrifying comment, instead 😂

[steakandcheeeese]

Try being the OP. I have so many regrets responding to this ask and to make it worse it was originally referencing another more popular squick ask I got months ago that also just had a massive surge. I desperately need notification block to work again 😭

[ruffboi-mags]

Anyway, "squick" isn't a "baby word" version of trigger the way, say, "pee-pee" is for penis.

It's a distinct word with a completely different definition, and trying to conflate the two is actively harmful to people who've experienced trauma and use the word "trigger" for its true purpose: describing something that has triggered a response from their trauma.

[cherryandsisters-deactivated202]

an explanation is not owed

[antique-scarecrow]

i want to show this to everyone i know

[arkkosun]

woah what a mess

[scope-dogg]

[mr-soft-banned]

valid target for home invasions

[scope-dogg]

[aiyanayanas]

[dessa-nya]

COMMISSIONS  Sorry, there was no time for publications x) … but here it is. (2/2)  :DDD

[dankmemeuniversity]

[wheel-skellington]

If we’re mutuals just know that I love you dearly but I will not hold back in combat

[spinhxara]

[blua]

If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.

Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.

So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.

This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done.

[somestuffidkidkidk]

Was expecting classist bullshit, got the exact opposite

[gourmetpunk]

This is so ubelievably important and I hate that I have to keep re-explaining it to people.