"On the floating, shapeless oceans..."

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday, I wrote 1,228 words on Chapter Two.

Today, it's somewhat cloudy, but we may head south after work. I need to get out of the city, and as close to the sea as I can. I need this very badly. My nerves are like fraying jute rope.

I would apologize for the outburst last night, only it hardly seems sane, much less appropriate, to do so. This

Comments

Your Blog, your say--

[ext_1285666]

I'm merely a guest at your blog because I want to be. The fact that (most of the time) I agree with you about the state of mental health, etc. is just that. If I didn't like what you say I could always go somewhere else. Say it!!!

Re: Your Blog, your say--

[greygirlbeast]

I'm merely a guest at your blog because I want to be.

Thank you for accepting the invitation. It pleases me.

[handful_ofdust]

It's becoming a very odd world, that's for certain. All I can say is that I respect and honour you not in spite of your choices, but because of them. And because of your work, of course--the only real, and important, thing. The thing that lasts.

[greygirlbeast]

Thank you.

[jeca777]

I don't want to tell you what to do or anything like that. You could probably benefit from a big breath, though. I saw the original comment and I thought she was merely offering the view from the other side and said she appreciates it when people do leave trigger warnings.

I think some requests for trigger warnings are insane. I really do! But when you are a public blogger, you run the risk of having people triggered by something you wrote if you write something trigger inducing. Yes, this is your space. Yes, the commenter is smart enough not to come back if it causes too much harm for her. I think it was just a suggestion and small insight. :)

No one thinks you're a bad guy or anything. Personally, a major trigger for me is the sound of skipping CDs. I obviously can't avoid that for my entire life. I just recognize that it is and process it as needed if the situation arises. She obviously likes reading what you have to write, but we can constantly learn things from other people.

[greygirlbeast]

But when you are a public blogger, you run the risk of having people triggered by something you wrote if you write something trigger inducing.

Again, please note, everything imaginable is potentially "trigger inducing."

I think it was just a suggestion and small insight.

I think publicly calling me an ableist, and here, was a bit more than a "suggestion and a small insight."

She obviously likes reading what you have to write, but we can constantly learn things from other people.

This is not, necessarily, true.

I don't mean to sound combative, I'm just sick of this nonsense. And it is nonsense.

[corucia]

Again, please note, everything imaginable is potentially "trigger inducing."

On the positive side, you're making your blog safe for those readers whose trigger is trigger warnings...

[greygirlbeast]

On the positive side, you're making your blog safe for those readers whose trigger is trigger warnings...

That's brilliant. I'm going to quote it...

[flameelf]

Please know you are NOT crazy, nuts, or whackadoodle. For whatever reason, this softening of the frontal lobes that demands everyone be treated like they might explode if breathed upon...even unto the point where One's Own Blog/Writing/Personal Business has to be somehow censored in order to "protect" these fragile little flowers...well, it's BUNK, my dear

[greygirlbeast]

Please know you are NOT crazy, nuts, or whackadoodle.

Actually, I have diagnoses and papers and pill bottles to prove that I, unfortunately, am.

For whatever reason, this softening of the frontal lobes that demands everyone be treated like they might explode if breathed upon...even unto the point where One's Own Blog/Writing/Personal Business has to be somehow censored in order to "protect" these fragile little flowers...well, it's BUNK, my dear!

had people going out of their way to come IN to my blog just to rant about how I had somehow offended their Personal Pet Condition/Victimology (whatever it might be) by writing about things that not only didn't concern them, but had nothing to do with their Personal Pet Condition/Victimology

Yes. And "bunk" is a good word.

The real problem was that they appeared to perceive even the most innocuous things as having been "directed against them" (even up to demanding others commenting in my blog to STOP commenting, because they were "attacking 'her'".Yes. I am afraid I'm getting a

[flameelf]

I'm so sorry this has opened you up to the 'ableist' crap all over again!

I hope you will continue to post on LJ. Not only do I love your writing/your books, but the more you write, the more I feel there's still a place for me, too. You often cite things that are bugging me long before I mention them.

Hang in there. You are too wonderful to go down under the trolls.

Grey

[greygirlbeast]

I'm so sorry this has opened you up to the 'ableist' crap all over again!

That makes two of us.

Hang in there.

I'll not be driven off by this lot.

[p_m_cryan]

I was trying to catch up on the last few days of your blog this morning, since I had two back-to-back days of events at the bookstore this weekend to keep me offline

[greygirlbeast]

I saw the pictures of your utterly wonderful kitten and they had me grinning wider than I've grinned in some time. And I badly needed that kind of jaw-widening grin in my life.

Then I am pleased I posted them and did that Good Thing.

My personal stand on trigger warnings is much like yours. I cannot second-guess everything I say in hopes that my discussion of daisies or smegma or rubber bands or cutlasses or octopi or fewmets or enchiladas is going to dredge up darkness that I do not intend for an unknown reader.

I did not say it better myself.