regarding all the hooplah about my work being reposted without credit: this is why. i really prefer retweets and reblogs, but if you must repost, this is what citing the creator had the power to do. removing us from the equation is denying us proper exposure to potential clients when this is the only means of income we have.
edit: the article shown here is not about me!! i appreciate all the congrats comments but i was merely showing the power proper credit has.
rebecca hazelton is a published writer but can’t even manage to write convincing dialogue for a toddler
truly amazing
this is my favorite response to her bullshit tweet
Kids say spooky shit like this all the time when they’re really little, though. Usually, it’s stream of consciousness exactly like that while processing ideas. “Everyone dies one day.” Concept the kid has learned. “Everyone.” Reiterating who dies, though they probably don’t include themselves in that definition of “everyone.” “Even wolves.” Wolves are living things, kid is processing that all living things die. “But not books.” Books are not living things. Books don’t die. “Not words.” Words are not tangible objects, and people keep talking after other people die, so death does not affect words. Final verdict? “Words don’t die.”
It’s one of these things that sounds super profound to us as adults, but that’s because we’re putting our own, deeper meaning on what was a much less philosophical construct. This kid could very well have said all of these sentences in this very order. But they were listing what does and doesn’t die while trying to understand death. They weren’t making some statement about the soul of literature. Our adult brains are inserting that meaning, then declaring that no child could ever have used those words as they cannot apply to anything but our interpretation of them.
Like, it *could* be made up, but declaring that it *must* be made up based on our own perception is just adult egotism dismissing the notion that children are fully capable of utilizing words that we would use. They are. They’re just more concerned with communicating with themselves than with others, because they’re trying to understand the world.
That sounds exactly like a thing my son would have said at age 3. So does “poo broccoli”. Not only would he have said both of those things, he would have said them right in a row, and not seen any issue with this.
People who think this is fake have never met a kid.
Can we please be the generation that stops putting up with the family child molester? The grown uncle who dates teenage girls, the husband who makes uncomfortable comments about young women’s clothing, or the cousin who raises red flags with their behavior towards children but no one wants to talk about all need to go. Children, especially young women, are expected to “keep the family together” by not making a fuss over incredibly traumatic behavior. Children don’t deserve to suffer trauma for adults’ feelings of togetherness. They’re more worthy of protection than predators. A healthy family is not built on the backs of abuse survivors expected to live their lives in silence without justice, support, or protection.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
The man who literally raped my mom before she even hit double digits was allowed access to me and my siblings. Alone. It didn’t end well for me.
And even afterwards, I would run and hide whenever he came to visit and I was scolded and told to show him some affection. He was my grandfather, after all.
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