I Am A Big Believer In Respecting The Statements Celebrities Make About Their Relationships, Sexualities,

I am a big believer in respecting the statements celebrities make about their relationships, sexualities, ect and also understanding that there is always the potential for it being dishonest.

There are hundreds of celebrities who've come out to talk about blocking contracts and to reveal their sexualities or relationships literally decades after the fact. There really are still agencies and contracts who will prevent celebrities from talking honestly about who they like, date, ect. And there really are just celebrities who don't want to announce what they are or who they date to the world for their own reasons.

I will never argue against a celebrity's voice or disagree with their own authority over themselves, but I'm also not a crazy freak for staying aware of the fact that in thirty years time that celebrity could come out and say it was all a lie.

So many people are made fun of for believing celebrities are or have previously dated, or that certain celebrities might be closeted queer, and honestly as long as they're being respectful of how that person or people currently exist, we should all just shut up about it.

My favorite thing is that someone could send Neil Gaiman a whole dissertation on how his works and influence saved their life and crafted who they are today and he'll literally just respond with 'that's cool.'

Every time you send me anon hate I'm gonna pick some real nasty fanfiction and get off to it.

As much as I endorse and approve of celebrities using their platform and vast reach to be educational, I also think we need to stop expecting any and all celebrities to be vassals of advice and information.

Never once have I looked at Timothée Chalamet and thought he should be teaching me about racism and world wars.

This post is your reminder that you are not obligated to blog about current events.

Things are bad. Really bad. Do not let people guilt trip you into tormenting yourself even further over the fact that things are bad. Doomscrolling is not activism.

If you're just on tumblr to blorbopost or reblog pretty pictures, you are not harming people by inaction.

You are not a bad person for not dedicating every aspect of your life and leisure space to whatever disgusting mask-off attack on human life and dignity some government has decided to enact.

Take action where you can, but don't confuse doomscrolling and digital self harm for action.

If you need to lose yourself in blorboposting, go for it.

If you need to log off for the day, whether it's to take irl action or to protect what little sanity any of us have left over the past 7 years, then by all means, do.

Morale is important. Hope is important. Small joys keep us from burning out completely in times like this. Do not let any "if you don't reblog this I'm judging you" guilt trip convince you otherwise.

You can support something's right to exist and still personally find it weird/offputting/not understand it.

So many people act like to be respectful or supportive of something you have to throw your whole soul into enjoying or understanding it, and that's really not what it's about.

Sometimes, being supportive really is just;

"I find this strange as hell but you enjoy it and I'll support your right to enjoy it."