#words have meaning

[reality-detective]

Good article 👆 to educate yourself with.

Trump's words were important every time he spoke, I didn't take notes like this guy but I do remember trying to figure out what he was saying and I got a lot right. It was like he spoke in coded messages. 🤔

[dyrewrites]

You know what, the one erotica I wrote that was all about that, was well received by people not usually into that.

So I think I'm just going to ignore all of these things and write how I write and maybe, maybe, figure out what the fuck the difference between "spicy" and "steamy" is because it must be different, right?

They can't mean the same thing.

Someone help me. I am losing my mind with these terms.

[magnetothemagnificent]

You can't simultaneously reclaim a slur and then insist it's not a slur. A word has to be a slur to begin with for you to "reclaim" it. I'm all for reclaiming "queer" if you want to, I call myself queer, but you can't then also spread misinformation that it's not a slur and never was. If it's not a slur, then you're not reclaiming anything.

I'm a Jew. I call myself a kike. Proudly. But I would never insist that because I and other Jews are comfortable using it to describe ourselves, that it's no longer a slur.

I think some of you are so caught up in the euphoria of your own reclamation that you recoil when others don't have the same euphoria. But it's perfectly normal to not have the same experiences. Someone saying "hey, please don't call me this word, I'm uncomfortable with it" isn't oppressing you just as much as you aren't oppressing someone for saying "hey, I like this word, please call me this word".

You will encounter people who call themselves "queer" but not "gay", "gay" but not "queer", "faggot" but not "queer", etc etc. And this diversity of experience is beautiful and important.

And this doesn't even touch on the fact that the social context and gravity of certain words are different in different regions and countries, and insisting that everyone abide by one region (read: Northern USA)'s definition and context of a word is extremely American-centric and paternalistic.

Not everyone should have the same relationship to different words. Diversity is important, otherwise it just becomes an echo chamber.

[unforth]

Since I constantly see this mixed up, let me make it clear.

Xie Lian has 0 (zero) stalkers in the "present" timeline of TGCF. A stalker is "a person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention." No one is doing that to Xie Lian. The only person following him around some of the time (Hua Cheng) is someone Xie Lian clearly wants around.

Xie Lian has 1 (one) stalker in the "past" timeline. It's Bai Wuxiang. Hua Cheng is not and was never stalking him, he avoids him as a child and as a soldier he's always excited to be around his idol but always goes away when asked. He loves to help if he's able but he doesn't intrude. Meanwhile Bai Wuxiang is there making Xie Lian miserable and showing up to deliberately manipulate him. Only one of these people is a stalker and it ain't Hua Cheng.

Xie Lian has 2 (two) people obsessed with him.

Jun Wu is obsessed (derogatory).

Hua Cheng is obsessed (affectionate).

I'm so fucking tired of seeing even joking takes refer to Hua Cheng's behavior as stalking. Better never consume another fan/celebrity story again, then, because that's literally all Hua Cheng is. He's an obsessed fan, but he always respects Xie Lian’s boundaries, and deliberately doesn't push his feelings on Xie Lian. I swear to God folks have no idea what stalking actually IS and it drives me crazy.

[svperhero]

people out here already calling warrior nun s2 queerbait

[edgepunk]

people need to stop throwing around "n*zi" as a casual insult

[iwasenhancedtoomanytimes]

I'm autistic, agender and atheist. I still don't know what utism is, but I'm against it.

[leolingo]

just saw someone call tubbo a himbo and felt my brain lag in real time

[djeterg19]

I really need to know why people think Top is a narcissist? He doesn't show most if any of the signs? Boston has more symptoms of that or being a sociopath than Top does. Being arrogant sometimes doesn't make you a narcissist?

[theblob1958]

he's hot like if a butch woman was a cis man

[waltj]

i love all of you bitches so much but jesse pinkman is not autistic. this one we cannot have. we need to take the L

[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of People Insisting that Two Similar Words Are Interchangeable: "cautious" and "cautionary."

Also, a few days ago I read a story in which the author mixed up "chopping block" and "cutting board."

Why even bother using language at this point?

[losspeaks06]

BLOG POST #2 (An Introduction to Poetry)

For this blog, I am charged with reflecting on meaning, talent, and what it actually means to be a poet. I think that a poet is a creative… a creative that uses experiences, vision and imagination to express feelings, display emotion, and tell stories. Our textbook tells us that talent refers to the use of words. Because words have power, poets rely on said power to create. I admire poets, such as Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Ralph Ellison and others for having the courage to speak to issues that were important to them through their words.

I view Hip-Hop music as art, very similar to poetry. Hip-hop music celebrated its 50th anniversary on August 11th of this year. At the time of its conception back in the summer of 1973, critics believed that the art form would be a passing fad or phase.

Had artists such as Chuck D, of Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, KRS-One, and Queen Latifah not believed in this form of expression then the art form probably would have died and not been as popular and relevant as it is today.

Listening to music allows me the freedom to escape and experience many thoughts and feelings. I want to have a relationship with poetry and prose similar to my relationship with music. I want to get to a point where words flow naturally through me spiritually, emotionally and physically. I ultimately want to use poetry as a sense of expression and escapism.

My words have power!

✌🏾🖤⚡️

[lifblogs]

I literally woke up to a teenager telling me teenagers run fandom. I don’t know where this idea comes from. When I was a teenager in fandom I knew that fandom was not being run by people like me. Sure, I somehow wrote a really bad yet insanely popular fic, but I knew most of my commenters were adults.

How could fandom even be run by teens? Adults created it! And they create the content teens are so fond of. Do they think when we hit 20 we lose all our interests?

My post also didn’t say teens weren’t writing fic because obviously they are. I wrote fic as a teen, which even after pointing that out a million times was still getting ignored in favor of people being mean to me.

But seriously, I knew as a teen that teens weren’t running fandom, so I have no idea where this new thought is coming from. I’m just annoyed.

[eric-sadahire]

I thought Ariana Grande was a font

[disasterblogsstuff]

Giggling at 8flix doing an analysis meanwhile twitter and tumblr are crashing and burning rn. 💀💀💀