that was such a good fandom term. let’s bring it back.
while i respect and appreciate trigger warnings i feel like often it comes with a burden. like at the very least you have to be out and open with the fact you have a panic disorder and have triggers. and too often i’ve seen this become “i’ll only respect your triggers if you disclose your mental health diagnoses”, which is bad and wrong and real damn stupid. it’s downright anti-recovery. somebody can’t recover if you want them to be able to retraumatize themselves telling you the details and then seeing if you judge them worthy or not.
squick is good. you can tell someone it’s a squick instead of a trigger, and not be forced to give up your dx. it’s very curb cutter effect. you get to normalize that request of “hey, let me know so i can avoid x”.
and it’s so nice for people who just have squicks! if you only got trigger warnings then you have people who are like, “ah jeez, i really dislike seeing this and i want to avoid it, but is it a trigger? do i have the right to ask for it as an accessibility thing? am i co-opting a struggle if i ask for people to tag it as one??” and like… shit, maybe sometimes it IS a trigger, they just aren’t at a place where they feel like hey can officially name it one. or maybe it’s just shit they don’t wanna see! and that’s FINE!
someone can give you a low-key “don’t like that” and have it respected and it’s GREAT! it’s just a thing that gets respected anyway!
For at least the third time, construction workers in Georgia have opened
up the walls of a former dentist’s office only to discover thousands of
teeth in the wall cavity.
The latest discovery was made at Valdosta, Georgia’s TB Converse
Building, built in 1900, in a dental office occupied by Dr Clarence
Whittington and then Dr Lester G Youmans, from 1900 until the 1930s.
Previous troves of entombed teeth have been discovered in old dentists’ offices n Greensboro and Carrolton.
apparently the cool thing to do post-war was utilize the empty space between studs as a fucking sharps container because that could never cause a problem in the future
thanks boomers
ok but imagine opening a wall and all those teeth falling out,,,
I once saw a mid-century kids’ book that mentioned the razor slot and how the wall would end up full of razors, and I remembered it when i saw the article on the teeth, but is that literally what happened? Dear lord.
James writes: “After service and breakfast the elder monks returned to
their rooms. It still was the start of the last day of the year. The
young ones lingered in the snow. When one monk started the fight from
the balcony, the whole court yard was suddenly on fire. Monks throwing
snow balls at each other, at the pilgrims and at anything moving. They
did it with great enthusiasm. Serious men in black suddenly became
innocent children again. That is what a patch of snow can trigger in a
man. Even in holy men. Some of the elder monks took pictures. There were
cheers and laughter after each full hit.The monks on the square showed
excellent throwing skills, despite the lack of exercise. It was the
first snow since seven years, so I heard. The battle died down only
because of the lack of ammunition on the first floor. All the snow had
been used. Everybody went back to their rooms as if nothing had
happened. It was quite an unique experience.”
I just scrolled past this thread again and it occurred to me to look something up and now I know that since submarine-type vessels were being tried out in England by the mid-18th century and the first military submarine was built in 1775 (right around the time the action in Wuthering Heights begins, chronologically) it’s entirely possible that Heathcliff could have been a test pilot for an old-timey submarine during that period where he disappears for a bit and nobody knows what the hell he is doing.
This is the best fact I have learned about Wuthering Heights from the internet today.
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