qalbi's corner

poet / student / infj-t / 23 / she/her / free pali ˚⟡˖ my space to express and depress ˖⟡˚

[qalbicorner]

to be.

to rest without guilt. to want without shame. to take up space without apologizing. to exist without justification. to leave without explanation. to breathe without permission.

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[metamorphesque]

The Trouble with Being Born, E. M. Cioran (translated by Richard Howard)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via lunamonchtuna)

[yuna-is-tired-sm]

‏في الأمَان والدَّلال؛ تزهِر المَرأة كمَا خُلقت لا كمَا طُلِب مِنها.

“In safety and tenderness, a woman blooms as she was created, not as she was demanded to be.”

[starg0ld]

[alloutshirt]

no i didn’t skip that song because i don’t like it, i skipped it because i don’t have the emotional stability to listen to it now

[cersplace]

─ Hisham Siddiqi

[cottaegecore]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[tyger-land]

ᴇᴢʀᴀ ᴊᴀᴄᴋ ᴋᴇᴀᴛs Artwork from his 1962 book The Snowy Day.

[goddessdiary]

[remanence-of-love]

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[callmesel]

Are people on Tumblr aware that you can customize your kudo message??

got it from this twt post (has more stuff in the thread)

og reddit post here

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

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