Future straight Historians: “we see several examples of her prioritizing a sisterly bond with the women around her, for example on page 12 she says ‘I like girls’ and throughout the text she references loving women and preferring their company. This is not to say she prioritized above her romantic relationships because on page 78 she mentions talking to a man one time in her life. It’s hard to know just how much she valued her sisterly bond with women due to this one reference of men and the ambiguity of early 21st century slang. For example on page 12 when she said she liked women, the passage continues ’…in a lesbian way. I want to kiss girls, they are so pretty, I’m so gay.’ Now it’s difficult to understand just what that sentence means. We know that in the early 21st century kissing on the cheek in greeting had gone out of vogue but the word gay, a word with an archaic meaning of happiness gives the contextual clues that perhaps she is references that old fashioned practice.
Going back to the nameless man that is mentioned once on page 78 for one sentance…”
“Now, given that she wrote on page 12, ‘Just to be clear: I’m sexually and romantically attracted to women exclusively,’ one may be tempted to read this literally, but we can’t rule out sarcasm.”
On Feb 1, 2017, Alyssa Hurtig published a research thesis starting with the following thesis statement: This dissertation aims to introduce Tumblr as a research site, and is focused on the tag practices of Tumblr users.
A master’s thesis about tumblr tags by Alyssa Hurtig, who notes that while the publication date is technically 2017, that’s due to university bureaucracy, and the dissertation was actually written in 2014-2015 and defended in 2016, so it’s a snapshot of that era of tumblr. Abstract:
This dissertation aims to introduce Tumblr as a research site, and is focused on the tag practices of Tumblr users. This study provides preliminary description of communicative goals associated with reading and writing practices on Tumblr. I present a quantitative analysis of how Tumblr users tag, and a qualitative analysis of what communicative goals users are attempting to achieve through these practices.
I investigate how users evaluate their own tagging practices. I chose six Tumblr posts about tag practices. The corpus consists of tags written in response to these posts. Responses consisting of only one tag are the most common, as the higher the number of tags, the lower the frequency.
I coded the corpus twice for features of interest, which resulted in three main codes: affective stance, epistemic stance, and classification. The coding process also revealed that tags are found to have both commentary and classificatory functions. I performed a content analysis to identify common themes within the posts, such as creativity and inclusion of various speech/writing metaphors.
My findings include that users tag for their own benefit, using tags for self directed talk and self-directed classificatory retrieval. Users write in the tag space as a politeness practice. Comments consisting of feelings, stories, and trivial thoughts are written in the tag space. Whether users are tagging for an audience or for themselves, they report enjoying reading and writing tags. These practices and goals provide insight into why users engage in the reading and writing of tags.
Full citation: Alyssa Hurtig. 2017. Master’s thesis at Kingston University London
Part of the New Internet Grammar: using question marks not to denote questions, but upturns in voice, so that a tentative statement gets a question mark but a flatly delivered question doesn’t.
Witnesses say they asked Britney why she shaved her head and her response was, “I’m tired of plugging things into it. I’m tired of people touching me.”
T-Pain: “That was the most beautiful thing in the world. Do you know why she was shaving her head? Because it was so important to other people. She is like, “Listen. Don’t touch my hair anymore. Stop touching my hair.” People were like, “We’ve got to make your hair before you go outside. You can’t leave.” She went … “Now I don’t have hair. What you going to do?”
it’s because other people told you she was unbalanced at a point in your life when you didn’t have the life experience or wisdom to understand otherwise
Friendly reminder that Vincent van Gogh willingly checked himself into an asylum so that he could get better, resulting in him creating some of the most iconic paintings of his entire career, done in the asylum, when he was being treated 24/7, because he finally didn’t have to struggle with his demons and could instead focus on his muse, WHICH WERE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!
Remember this little insignificant painting?
How about this one?
Check this one out:
All of these and more were painted in the asylum when he was receiving treatment for his mental illnesses and I know I just said that but I said it again and I’m saying it a third time until you dramatic abled assholes understand!
VINCENT VAN GOGH
- KNEW THAT HE WAS MENTALLY ILL
- WANTED TO CHANGE THAT
- WENT TO AN ASYLUM
- GOT THE HELP HE NEEDED
- PAINTED SOME ICONIC MASTERPIECES AS A RESULT!
SO DON’T YOU DARE COME OUT HERE WITH THIS, “I WISH I WAS DEPRESSED SO I COULD BE AS CREATIVE AS VAN GOGH” BULLSHIT BECAUSE EVEN HE KNEW THAT HIS DEMONS WERE HARMING HIS WORK, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HIS HEALTH, AND HE DID EVERYTHING WITHIN HIS POWER TO FIGHT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE, UNTIL THEY ENDED UP WINNING!
This is also incredibly important for any creative persons dealing with mental illness, and their parents.
Receiving mental help improves your craft, not hurt it. Before getting put on medication for the first time to treat my mental illnesses, my mom expressed to me how she’s worried about my getting treatment because of my art. Regardless, your mental health should be more important anyway, but, honestly, it’s a lot harder to produce good art when you struggle getting out of bed, let alone creating masterpieces. When you’re in more health, improving your craft comes much easier!
Personally I think the most beautifull painting of him was this one:
He made it when he heard about the birth of his nephew who was named after him. Still in the asylum but really happy for his brother!
“How glad I was when the news came… I should have greatly preferred him to call the boy after Father, of whom I have been thinking so much these days, instead of after me; but seeing it has now been done, I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, big branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.”
Oh I have sucb rants about how “good” art comes while suffering.
No.
look at me.
The idea of the “suffering artist” comes from bunch of alcholic, drug abusing, womanizers trying to justify their bad life choices as some sort of artistic angst.
IT IS 100% BULLSHIT
Take your meds, get your therapy, be happy, and live life
Y’all. I don’t care about baseball, at all, but I want the Astros to win SO BAD. I felt the basically the same way when the Saints went to the Super Bowl the year after Katrina and Rita.
Like the whole thing actually makes me pretty emotional? Which isn’t really a common reaction to anything for me.
Some things I’ve made recently for Instagram lettering challenges. I made the one that says “I have survived” in response to a question about my biggest accomplishment.
My boyfriend messaged me from work early saying, “I bought you/us a present!” Drills. He bought drills. (This isn’t a complaint. I think it’s cute how excited he gets about tools. It’s endearing really.)
I had a more detailed post typed out but tumblr ate it. :( Pen ghosting: Moleskine (top pics) vs Leuchtturm1917 (middl) vs Scribbles That Matter (bottom) (tl;dr Scribbles That Matter is the winner as long as you don’t use fountain pens.) I was talking to a friend yesterday about Bullet Journal notebook options and she mentioned that she hates the ghosting in the Moleskine notebook she’s currently using. She uses the Staedtler Fineliner pens so I tested out the notebooks I own with a few of them (I don’t own many though, so it’s not a super thorough testing.) It's obvious that the Moleskine performed the worst, but that was expected as ghosting and bleed through is a well known issue in Moleskines. They’re a notebook that many people seem to start with—they’re easy to find and most people are familiar with them. Not much to say about them. I’m not a fan. Leuchtturm1917 notebooks seem to be the standard. They make an official Bullet Journal version but even their original version includes an index and numbered pages. It’s talked about on several blogs and Instagram and it’s what I’ve used for a couple of years. Anyway, there was some ghosting with the black fineliner though it’s not too awful. The brush pens above it did cause quite a bit of ghosting but it’s so much better than the Moleskine that it’s never bothered me *too* much. Plus after using these notebooks for a couple of years, I already knew what to expect. A little more surprising was the Scribbles That Matter notebook. There is very minimal ghosting with the black fineliner and you can see a few other pens and markers above it. Even my Lamy Al-Star medium, inked with Yama-dori, caused minimal ghosting. It's a notebook I really want to love. The paper is closer to white than the paper in the Leuchtturms, the pages are numbered, there's a pre-printed index AND key page, it has 2 pen testing pages in the back, and it has a pen loop. Downside is that it's not very fountain pen friendly—the inks I’ve tried in it look dull and show zero sheen, and unfortunately, that's a deal breaker for me. So for now I’m sticking with the Leuchtturm1917, though I’m considering trying a Rhodia notebook next. However, if you don’t use fountain pens in your BuJo, I would highly recommend trying out the notebooks from Scribbles That Matter.
being forced to be constantly accessible damages your boundaries and ability to make boundaries. I don’t care what anyone says about “it’s 2017 and you should be able to text back unless you’re in the hospital or the movies”. no one is entitled to anyone 24/7. it’s fucking unhealthy at best and manipulative and abusive at worst to expect this of someone.
give people their space. make sure your people give you your space.
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