Writer's Area

Hey. I'm Jen, 28, and this is my personal blog. (I use all pronouns) My RedBubble can be found here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/cajunhusker

[lawofcollage]

As Tumblr Sinks, Where Can You Find Me?

Let's start this off with the fact that I'm not going anywhere. I've said it before, I'll say it again, I will go down with this ship.

But that doesn't mean I want to lose the awesome people I've met here. Y'all have been a community that I've sorely needed for over the last decade in a way I can't describe.

So where can you find me?

Social Media: Tiktok (art and personal), Dreamwidth (super new, WIP), Instagram, Facebook, Ao3, this Discord Server, Goodreads, Storygraph, Youtube (this is a podcast with friends, but I would love to have you join us)

You can also find me on Twitter, but I'm not super active. Twitter (art and personal)

Shops: Threadless (actively updated) , Redbubble (not actively updated)

My Link Tree

And if you haven't thought about buying my book, I'm going to make a plug for it on Bookshop (my first suggestion), Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.

Art email: [email protected]

Y'all are my faves.

(Picture of me at the age I joined Tumblr in 2011 (15) v like a month ago at 27)

[haunteddollsgeorg]

As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

[odinsblog]

This is their logic:

[theweirdwideweb]

[rimonoroni2]

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

[ktempestbradford]

I did not come into Tumblr dot com to be called out in this way.

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[lawofcollage]

And the many other variations of the rainbow pride flag!

Redbubble: Design 1, Design 2, Design 3, Design 4, Design 5, Design 6

Threadless Pride Collection

Looking for a collection of pride flags year round? Check out my Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags full of fun queer art here!

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[creatingblackcharacters]

what are the correct uses of people of colour and which ones are to be avoided?

Okay. Grammar lesson!

"People of color" is a noun. So use it as a noun.

"I am speaking about people of color."

People who are of color. People. People is a noun.

It is not, as the Internet likes to use it, an adjective!

"POC characters!" is the color blind racist equivalent of "colored characters!"

Do you want to call me colored? Is that the racism we really want to use? Old 1960s racism? Shall I go to the colored water fountain next? I'm sorry- the POC water fountain?

If you are talking about all non-white people as a group, use "People of Color".

"White people are used to being the default- which is why they get to be White and the rest of us are People of Color. The Other."

If you are talking about a specific group of people, and you KNOW that, then SAY their group and NOT "people of color".

"I am not just a person of color, I am Black. Antiblackness is about Black people, not all people of color. Otherwise, I'd just say racism. Words have meaning!"

Further resource:

Find definitions for over 300,000 words from the most authoritative English dictionary. Continuously updated with new words and meanings.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[lawofcollage]

This is probably my largest pride flag piece at three feat by three feat, featuring nearly eighty pride flags with Baker’s 2017 pride flag in the middle. The 2017 flag has an extra stripe of lavender to signify the diversity of our community as well as the eight original stripes Gilbert Baker put together in the first place.

Looking for a collection of pride flags year round? Check out my Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags full of fun queer art here!

[eddysonline]

The original flag, by Gilbert Baker, June 25, 1978.

[lawofcollage]

The paperback version of my Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags is now officially available!!! While the hardback is $53.99, the paperback is $25.99!!! I'm so excited I was able to bring this down to a price that I hope more people can access.

So where can you get it?

IngramSpark directly from me (cheapest at $20)

Bookshop (affiliate link, supports indie bookstores)

Barnes and Noble

thriftbooks

Request it at your local indie bookstore!

Amazon

As always, you can also get the hardback too!

IngramSpark (Cheapest at $36)

Bookshop

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

Or request it at your local indie bookstore!

Happy Pride!!! <3

[alexxuun]

More Rocktiz but he how have an extra arm!

[bookcub]

Bookcub Green Reads

Here are all the books I have read with green covers. Most of them, the ones I liked enough to share.

How many have you read?

0

1-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

41-53

Remaining time: 3 days 7 hours

[sennedjem]

Gale has gotten an upgrade with new boots!

I was never totally satisfied with my original ones - I thrifted them before I knew how much Gale would mean to me, and while they’re very nice boots, they’re just not up to snuff these days.

So I decided to treat myself as a belated birthday gift to some Armstreet boots, and then promptly took them apart to modify them 🤣 Changed the shape a little, re-did all the tabs/lacing, added some contrast colour.

Having these much more accurate (and comfortable) boots really feels like I’ve filled in a missing piece of this cosplay, and I’m thrilled with how they turned out.

(Genuinely serious addendum - PLEASE no ‘Gale eating boots’ comments/jokes. I am so, so tired of them and of people treating that as his entire character.)

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[lawofcollage]

The arospec pride flag :)

Threadless

Did you know I wrote a coffee table book of pride flags? You can order here:

IngramSpark (the cheapest option)

Bookshop

Amazon

BarnesAndNoble

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]