maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)
reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about
maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?
I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)
listen, if you write shit to writers/artists who are honestly doing their best to be respectful to the cultures/communities/disabilities that they are portraying, but might be falling a little short, then what are you even accomplishing??? if you think that a content creator is poorly portraying something, and they appear to be legitimately doing research in their work and the things they are writing and trying hard to accurately portray their characters and setting, then politely let them know how they can fix it.
don’t throw what basically amounts to an aggressive temper tantrum, screaming and wailing about how awful and disgusting the creator must be just because they got something wrong
it’s impossible to completely understand every minority that you write, especially if you’re trying to be inclusive by writing a lot of minorities. people are bound to get some things wrong, and might unintentionally be offensive simply because they don’t realize it. many content creators are still learning, and they’re eager to fix any mistakes that they might make, especially the ones where they might be accidentally hurtful to certain groups and minorities
by yelling at them, and calling them racist or homophobic or ableist or whatever, you’re solving absolutely nothing. the creator is subjected to your pissy rant, earning discouragement for their work, and still has nothing to help them do better. you aren’t letting them know what they can do to be more respectful; you’re certainly not helping them out. all you’re doing is hurting somebody because you don’t understand how to teach them rather than attack them
of course this is a different story if someone is purposefully being disrespectful, but even then, relentlessly yelling at them isn’t going to solve any problems
Sometimes I stand in bookstores and libraries and could almost weep with awesome joy at the splendor of the human spirit lying in innumerable volumes around me. The variety, the splendid creativity, the passion of the human experience is a staggering thing.
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