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@raemoriendi
here lies rae --
they/them, 30s, queer & neuroweird.
horror fiction writer, PhD in USian Horror & Gothic.
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really humiliating trying to write horror like they went into the creepy house and there was a creepy ghost and the creepy guy with a creepy knife and everything was very creepy are you scared yet and thats like literally not how suspense and tension actually work but like all u can do is say well maybe something else was creepy?
as much as I dislike the clock app and still believe it has an ultimately detrimental effect on lots of things, one floating iceburg tip of discourse has me thinking a lot lately.
obligatory preface of [my area of research was not primary education pedagogy and never has been].
but that said, "using big words is ableist and inaccessible" isn't a totally unreasonable conclusion to draw for the generation(-ish? maybe more?) of kids in the US who weren't taught to read phonetically, but instead taught via three-cueing: basically, to look at a word and then give their best guess at what it could mean, based on the first letter, surrounding context clues, and pictures (which are ofc notably not often present in longer and more complex works of literature, unless to serve as illustrative figures).
anecdotally, it explains how I feel like it's a fairly common occurrence now to read an internet argument and think that one of the participants isn't actually reading what another person said, but is instead skimming at best. I realize now that no, really, it might actually very well be the case, because people taught in that style might not be able to discern the written meaning of what they're seeing at all. they might actually legitimately be projecting some entirely unintended meaning onto what they see because they aren't reading the word itself at all, but merely using cues to approximate.
and like, yeah, as insulting as the argument is to disabled people (as are many arguments to stop doing things that require more than the absolute minimum effort, see: a lot of genAI justifications for making it do basic shit 'for convenience's sake')
I imagine more complex words do feel inaccessible to people who can't use the crutches they were incorrectly taught to rely on, at no fault of their own, and don't have enough experience to know where else to start.
the answer, of course, would never be to abandon more complex words entirely. that just feels like trying to put a fire out with gasoline.
but it does have me wondering how to show people who learned how to read that way some effective methods for using a thesaurus or dictionary, without incurring more user frustration.
the idea that a sex scene in fiction is fundamentally useless/simply for audience titillation UNLESS theyāre fucking infodumping exposition while they bone or something is so funny and myopic to me. like, you really genuinely believe for real that there is NOTHING to be gained about your understanding of a story or characters simply from how they approach and engage in sex? really for real?
i'm not convinced that art only has something to offer us when we personally want to participate in the activities being depicted
Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.
It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.
And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.
I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.
Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.
i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.
why do US patriots think they own "red white and blue" there's a lotta red white and blue flags out there. "i stand for the red white and blue" yass me too let's go costa rica šØš·šØš·šØš·šØš· let's go laos š±š¦š±š¦š±š¦š±š¦ fuck it up liberia š±š·š±š·š±š· nepal get triangular with it š³šµš³šµš³šµ
i do im celebrating my dogs birthday
shes turning 2
Iām also celebrating your dogs birthday
celebrating tumblr user heartseekerās dogās birthday on the fourth everyone
please i need him to die on 4th of july gaudy as fuck 'america 250' celebration that would be the funniest thing ever i wouldn't even bitch about the fireworks. i wouldn't even do that.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, it would be absolutely magnificent, just let it melt him.
Reflection. The so-called āUnited Statesā is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 2026. We,...
āThe so-called āUnited Statesā is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 2026. We, the first people of this land, do not have to look far to spot the hypocrisy of celebrating a document that calls our ancestors āMerciless Indian Savages.ā Today, we witness a country that proclaims āfreedomā while kidnapping our immigrant neighbors without due process, passing laws that encourage harassment and discrimination against our LGBTQ and two-spirit relatives, and pulling out every political, legal, and military strategy to suppress any form of dissent against the state. At the start of this nation, the government ratified over 350 treaties with Native Nations ā and then proceeded to break every single one of them. Just as it was clear to our ancestors, it remains clear to us now: this colonial experiment has failed at building anything resembling a true democracy.ā
Happy fourth š«”
July is disability pride month!! June & July prides should link in solidarity. Just like we have in the past, at least according to previous versions of the DSM
Hey if you're coming to Washington DC for the Fourth of July: don't
We're having our turn in the heat wave and reports from the National Mall are brutal already this week. That screenshot is today's forecast (courtesy of the Capital Weather Gang) and tomorrow and Saturday are confidently going to be worse than this is.
The national Mall has no shade on the grass and you will be exposed to the sun constantly while also experiencing extremely high humidity. You will not be allowed a bag over a certain size to enter the mall and it has to be clear. You cannot have an insulated water bottle, it has to be clear. Reports are that there are two entrances to the area so you'll have to wait in line to even get in. I cannot find a number on how many cooling stations there are, except that it's "few" to "none" depending on what accounts I read online. Vendors are allegedly charging more than the posted prices and seem to be unprepared for actual crowds - these are the official vendors not the scam food trucks that park all around the edges of the mall. And that's the extent of the planning done because it was not a priority to make sure attendees don't pass out.
My local friends and I have reached a consensus that tourists are going to get extremely sick and none of us know what the EMT response or planning is on the mall this year. People are going to die.
Please stay out of this. It's not worth your health. Get your relatives and family to stop. I can give you recs for so many DC museums and things to do if you want to make the most of your trip. Any other local can too.
Everyone else is creating beautiful masterpieces and yet here I am
he holds me in his big arms / drunk and i am seeing stars / this is all i think of...
last night when the US beat Bosnia & Herzegovina
my brain, having lived here my whole life: I don't know for sure that anyone on the team is actually from West Virginia. "West-by-God-Virginia" is not regularly treated as a place of any particular political consequence on the broader national scale outside of being stereotyped as backwards and anti-progress, despite a robust union past. They could've just as easily played 'Hotel California' or 'Empire State of Mind' (fitting for multiple reasons). IIRC John Denver had never even been to West Virginia when he wrote this song. This feels to me like a pandering attempt at a false provincial folksiness that goes all the way back to Ben Franklin and his stupid raccoon hat in the French court.
the rest of me, just glad something good happened here for five fucking minutes: COUNTRY ROOOOOOAAAADS, TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOME! TO THE PLAAAAAAAAACE I BELOOOOOOONG!! š¶š¢ >ā¢
