People keep saying today, "Don't forget," "Never forget." But what I don't understand is - how could you? How could this day not be indelibly marked on your mind's calendar ( Read more... )

Reposting this from the other day, because I still have no idea what to do regarding this, or how to go about warning:

Ok, so. Myi_reversebang fic has some imagery that (in my mind) is a pretty clear callback to September 11th. It's been ten (almost eleven, shit) years, but that is still a pretty traumatic event for a lot of people, and with good reason. So I ( Read more... )

Ok, so. My i_reversebang fic has some imagery that (in my mind) is a pretty clear callback to September 11th. It's been ten (almost eleven, shit) years, but that is still a pretty traumatic event for a lot of people, and with good reason. So I suspect I'll need to warn for this...

My question is: How? "Possible trigger warnings for 9/11"? "9/11 references and ( Read more... )

I posted this last year - it's been a year, how strange - and I'm posting it again. But I'll cut it, this time, if people don't want to read it.

( Visit to the World Trade Center, December 2001. )

Transcribed word-for-word; spelling mistakes corrected, grammar left intact.

December 26th, 2001.

Part One: In the Car.Between 2 cranes is a deep black space, smoke drifting like incense from the ruins of the twin towers. It's a void, the buildings around it darkened by ash, burdened by the mourning of thousands. A silent memorial to the deceased ( Read more... )

September 11th, and I don't want to talk about it. Whaley ordered a moment of silence. Litman had us write a journal entry on it in English, and then we spent half the class discussing it. Ms. Young made us write an essay. I thought: we've dwelled on this so much that in 2001 and 2002 it became a competition for who'd had the most horrific 9/11 ( Read more... )