Though, seriously? Rhiannon Lucy Coslett wrote a piece for the New Statesman on the subject, because she felt trigger warnings held her back recovering from PTSD, and therefore, no one should get trigger warnings. Well, except may be a few spaces for survivors (but don't call them victims, because that smacks of "victimhood"), but she isn't clear ( Read more... )

My brain, seriously, it's such fun! (Not.) Anxiety attacks for Christmas, because dude, of course this is an interruption of The Routine and there's people everywhere and lots of travelling, so let's go nutsIt's still at a manageable level and here's me hoping it'll stay that way because I've had two nights in a row where I woke up in the middle of ( Read more... )

I don't want this brain any more. You can have it back, it's faulty. Where do I return it?


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I wrote the following in response to a woman on tumblr who tried to explain to a guy why women don't always appreciate compliments (because women are taught men are a threat. I disagreed.) You can read the whole thing here, but for those of you without tumblr or who want to have a convo that involves a functioning comment system, I'm reposting here ( Read more... )

So, I don't talk about the economy much. I mean, basically, you can't change the fact that you live during a recession, or at least a recession in part of the world, and all the doom predictions just make me weary. In the mean time, I have to get on with my life ( Read more... )

I haven't posted since Tuesday because not much interesting happened, but that's not actually true. I started the new job, on what is apparently the slowest week of the year, and everyone everywhere, from my new coworkers to the person who used to have this position to my old boss warned me my new boss is a control freak and I'll need to clamour to ( Read more... )

[Massive trigger warning for the link, and therefore probably also the comments to this post.]

Laurie Penny, being a very brave woman indeed.Laurie Penny is one of the few mainstream reporters whose work I regularly read, and this piece, while published on her personal blog rather than in a mainstream paper, is a powerful argument against ( Read more... )

Let's do a quick primer, because this is getting ridiculous. Writing fiction is not like watching tv. You don't sit around and describe what you see, and that is it. You also don't sit around, describe what you see, and go off on the occasional mental tangent about how the character got there, or what they are thinking, and that's it ( Read more... )

Putting spoilery information in the HEADLINE and the FUCKING CUT TEXT of your post to the most followed comm in a fandom makes you a DICK, okay ( Read more... )

My body aches and rebels in all kinds of ways today. Just putting that here as a reminder to myself that spoons aren't mythical and this is what happens when I borrow against the next day. Thankfully, I have a few days off so I'll manage, but yeah ( Read more... )