i know ive basically said this already lol but a lot of ppl have been like "oh man i should reread homestuck with the commentary!" and i do want to warn yall it is an extremely mixed bag of genuine insightful stuff and good writing advice and then just like. terrible writing advice, and weird off-kilter bad-taste jokes. i've just been posting the stuff i think is good and interesting or particularly funny, but it's not all top tier commentary lmao
if ur doing a reread with book commentary get ready to be annoyed. and put on ur critical thinking helmet lol because you have to parse through so much of hussies bullshit. u have to ask urself CONSTANTLY "are they serious, or are they being satirical right now?" and i genuinely do not know the answer for some of the shit they say.
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I haven't been able to open tumblr because as bad as seeing terrible realities of what's happening in the world, what's worse is NOT seeing them.
Israel has now bombed the last hospital in Gaza. You read that right. The last (meaning not the first or second) Hospital in Gaza. 500 are dead. 1200 children have died in one week. 6000 bombs dropped on innocents in, what? One week? And the world watches. Or worse, turns a blind eye. Or even worse, looking, and seeing, and applauding the genocide.
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I think it's BS you've been receiving hateful anons in regard to your IS fic. It's a work of art. Don't wanna read it— get lost.
@hauntedadagium I appreciate your compassion immensely hon 💙
It's been there since day one. The anon hate for IS. I also got it for when I wrote Sky of Atoms in the Death Stranding fandom. It's not my first rodeo, but it does hurt sometimes especially if I'm in a vulnerable position because of my health problems.
I block and delete, and don't put my energy to them because I don't want my blog to be an environment that feeds that kind of bullshit. I know I can post whatever I want, the good and the bad, but I'm mindful that I have a lot of people with mental health problems and the last thing they need to see is more negative crap. Myself included.
Some people just get really fired up about oc x canon content. I think it has a lot to do with bias against the genre, and personal experiences. Maybe said person read one too many stories with Mary Sue content and now assumes all of oc x canon work is just that. Maybe they got pissed because they went into a story thinking it was an x reader thing but nope. There's so many what ifs.
I'm not making excuses for what's been said and done to me, but I try looking at where this is coming from because I hope that maybe one of my works can break that mold and make someone go "oh, guess there's some good shit out there in this genre!" and I don't know, they stop being assholes to fellow fic writers?
Eh, wishful thinking, but gotta try somewhere right?
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what is with men being mad any time a woman raises her voice where did that even come from. someone posted a video of a small electrical explosion, and the top comment was of course the woman screams. the second comment is women try not to scream challenge, level impossible. i had to go back and watch the video again. there is, somewhat fainty, a little gasp emitted off-camera, more of a yelp than a scream. it is mostly lost in the crack of the explosion. afterwards, you hear her voice, shaken, say, are you okay?
i am helping one of my friends train her voice pitch lower, because she wants to be taken seriously at work. she and i do each other's nails and talk about gender roles; and how - due to our appearance - neither of us have ever been able to be "hysterical" in public. we both appear young and sweet and feminine. she is cisgender, and cannot use her natural voice in her profession because people keep saying she appears to be "vapid". we both try to figure out if our purposeful voice lowering is technically sexist. is it promoting something when you are a victim to it?
a storm almost sends a pole through a car window. in the dashcam, you can hear the woman passenger say her partner's name twice, crying out in alarm. she sounds terrified. in the comments, she is lambasted for her lack of calm. how is that even fucking helping?
in high school, i taught myself to have a lower voice. i had been recorded when i was genuinely (and righteously) upset; and i hated how my voice sounded on the phone speakers when it was played back. i was defending my mom, and my voice cracked with emotion. it meant i was no longer winning the argument: i was just shrieking about it.
girls meet each other after a long summer and let out a little joyful scream. this usually stops around 12-14, because people will not tolerate this display of affection (as it has the effect of being passingly annoying). something about the fact that little girls can't ever even be annoying. we are trained to examine each part of our lives (even joy) for anything that could make us upsetting and disgusting. they act like teenage girls are breaking into houses and shrieking you awake at 3 in the morning. speaking as a public school educator: trust me, it's not that bad, you can just roll your eyes and move on. it does not compare to the ways boys end up being annoying: slurs in graffiti, purposefully mocking your body, following you after you said no. you know, just boy things.
there's another video of a man who is not allowed to yell in the house, so he snaps his fingers when he's excited about soccer. the comments are full of angry men, talking about how their brother is unfairly caged. let him express himself and this is terrible to do to someone. eventually the couple has to address it in a second video: they are married with a newborn baby. he was trying not to wake the infant up. there is no comment on the fact women are not allowed to yell indoors. or the fact that it could have been really alarming or triggering for his wife. sometimes i wonder if straight men even like women, if they even enjoy being in relationships with them.
for the longest time, i hated roller coasters because it always felt inappropriate and uncomfortable for me to scream. one of my friends called me on it, said it was unusual i'm so unwilling. i had to go to my therapist about it. i don't like to scream because i was not raised in a safe situation, and raising my voice would have brought unsafe attention towards me. even when i am supposed to scream, it feels shameful, guilty. i was not treated kindly, so i lack a basic form of self-protection. this is not a natural response. it is not good that in a situation of high adrenaline - i shut up about it.
something very bad is happening, i think. in between all the beauty standards and the stuff i've already discussed - this one feels new and cruel in a way i can't quite express. yes, it's scary and silencing. but there's something about how direct it is - that so many men agree with the sentiment that women should never yell, even in an emergency - it feels different.
is the word shriek gendered automatically? how about shrill or screech? in self defense class, one of the first things they tell you is to yell, as loud and as shrilly as you can. they say it will feel rude. most women will not do this. you need to practice overcoming the social pressure and just scream.
most women do not cry out, even when it's bad. we do not report it. we walk faster. we do not make a scene. what would be the point of doing anything else? no matter what we do, we don't get taken seriously. it is a joke to them. an instagram caption punchline. we have to present ourselves as silent, beautiful, captivating - "valuable."
a woman is outside watching her kids when someone throws a firecracker at them. she screams and runs towards her children. in the comments, grown men flock together in the thousands: god. women are so annoying.
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I am going to burn my pharmacy to the ground I stg.
I’ve been trying to get my Zoloft refilled for a month now, and I ran out of it almost a week ago so I’ve been an absolute disaster all week without it. I haven’t been able to get it refilled because my pharmacy insisted I didn’t have any refills left despite my doctor having placed at least 2 refills on it.
Well I finally had enough and called my pharmacy to ask them what the fuck they were doing, and that sparked me spending the rest of the morning having to talk to a different pharmacy AND my insurance.
Turns out, my stupid ass pharmacy managed to fuck up spectacularly and never dispensed my medication to me, yet they STILL filed a claim to my insurance saying they did, leaving me unable to get it filled anywhere else as my insurance had believed it had already been filled. I of course explained to my insurance that NO, I did NOT receive any medication from my pharmacy nor did they have any record of giving me that prescription since sometime last year.
And despite my insurance contacting the pharmacy and not only verifying this, but also telling them they needed to reverse the claim, my pharmacy STILL hasn’t reversed it despite them assuring my insurance that they would have it reversed in the next hour. I contacted a different pharmacy from the first pharmacy to have it filled there, and it STILL wouldn’t go through because my first pharmacy still hasn’t reversed their false claim almost 4 hours later.
Y’all I am seething, I’m having to pay for a medication that SHOULD’VE gone through insurance because I can’t wait any longer for my original pharmacy to fix their fuck up! As soon as I pick up this prescription, I’m calling my original pharmacy and tearing them a new one for committing insurance fraud whether it was intentional or not!
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