#say the words

[adamedits]

Army of Darkness - Say the words

[six-eyed-samurai]

MHA x Pokemon anyone?

I've been thinking A LOT about it! Aggron and Tenya's Ingenium costume...Jigglypuffs and Ochaco...Froakie and Tsuyu...

[inthewindtunnel]

Urban Heat

Say The Words

Seven Safe Places

<3

[whimsyprinx]

even more annoying than the term “unalive” is when people say “oof” for dying “I oofed” shut the fuck up I hate you

[nepalsaysrawr]

Long live "dead"! Long live "suicide"! Long live "kill"!

I'm not promoting killing others or yourself, but I think saying these words should be done more often!

made this to express frustration with internet censorship and how people talk on tiktok. i don't even use the app but I never want to hear the word unalive again

find more of my art at @tr4nsjester on instagram :p

[bluismie]

This is my love letter to the most beautiful ship I witnessed this year. Cheers to us Jayvik nation 💫

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[angelofsmalldeath-codeine]

@treemaidengeek my experience is very similar to yours. I didn’t even know that what had happened to me in my childhood was abuse. I grew up in a religious environment where even the mention of these words were frowned upon and pretty much put a scarlet letter on us.

Funnily enough, the church people were the ones getting handsy. Wonder why they wanted us to not know about abuse…

I am a trained forensic psychologist and my thesis was on the language used in news media to describe sexual assault and women victims of rape and sexual assault. I can agree with you that euphemisms are the enemy here. It puts in question what is “real rape” enforcing myths that are harmful as victims are not likely to be believed.

you gotta be able to say "die"

you gotta be able to say "suicide"

you gotta be able to talk about "sex"

they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE

because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.

even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"

like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.

[twelve-kinds-of-trouble]

twink unfumbled . twink found in every universe. twink chosen on purpose .

[helpimstuckinafandom]

I'M FUCKING CRYING LMAOOO

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[kensatou]

i'll let phie-san say it:

[bamsara]

Finor, the first follower.

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

Eat Clean