It’s not even 6AM and I’m depressed
Someone I greatly admire was bullied off of Tumblr by her “victims”. And by “victims” I mean loud, aggressive people who can’t seem to pull their heads out of their arseholes for long enough to understand one basic fact:
We. Are. All. Flawed. Humans.
IDK what it is with Tumblr and highlighting every last foible in real people whilst elevating fictional characters to godlike elevations (especially the villains? WTH?) I really don’t get it.
Yes, I get that people can be hurt with insensitive humour. Yes, I understand that some things aren’t funny. But I also understand that any variety of notoriety gets that noteworthy person a veritable flood of attentions both positive and negative.
The negative side won out. Now all of Tumblr is missing out on all the good things she had to say. Congratu-fucking-lations, you goddamned anon cowards.
Why can’t we just take the positive things to our hearts and just… reject negativity?
I know it’s easy to lash out when you’re genuinely in pain. When someone or something hurts you, you want to hurt back. It’s like a survival instinct gone wrong, or something.
How about the next time you want to send someone hate, you think about how you’d feel about receiving it. Send that message as if you were sending it to a hurt and vulnerable soul.
Because we’re all hurt and vulnerable souls.
A little sympathy and understanding goes a long way.
[InB4 “But the bigots”: Yes, some people have really nasty things to say. Some of them are really sickening. I’ve found that you can politely drive them to frothing rage by asking innocent little questions that force them to realise what horrible bigots they are. I’ve found it amusing, but YMMV]
HuffPo contributor, attempts to hide her TERF activities and then tried to erase this from the internet.
The original article was hosted there until Julian Vigo had it removed by contacting Cristan’s host. So im republishing it here with permission so she cannot erase it from the internet. Back…Signal boost the shit out of this, terf huffpo contributor caught harassing trans women
we are the song: OPEN WORD WAR
I’m gonna open up a tinychat for anyone who wants to get some writing done in a fun competitve way!
((totally stealing featherwriter’s description of a wordwar here))
What is a word war?
A word war is a friendly competition in which a group of writers speed-write to see who can write the…
I’d love to participate, but my wrists fail me. I pretty much have to stick to my daily 500 :(
(Source: stormfather, via stormfather)