If Something Confirms Your Biases, That's When You REALLY NEED To Fact Check It!

if something confirms your biases, that's when you REALLY NEED to fact check it!

if it scratches an angry little itch, fact check it!

if it gives you petty satisfaction, fact check it!

if it feels like revenge, fact check it!

ESPECIALLY if it's about a group or demographic rather than named individuals, FACT. CHECK. IT.

My best advice: write through the chapters of your life. Write down your hopes for the future, and when the future comes, keep on writing. Collect little business cards from your favourite cafes, take silly pictures of your sink, scribble love letters to your future self and keep all the little notes that people leave you. One day, all of this will be in your past, and you won’t remember any of it. But that same day, you might pick up the silly little business card or the silly little note, and you’ll be happy you kept it all. :)

that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them

It's time to kill the idea that we can only grow and heal when we're uncomfortable. You heal every time you have a good conversation with someone. You heal every time you laugh. You heal every time something makes you smile genuinely. You heal every time you have fun creating something - anything. You heal every time you get so absorbed in something fun that you forget your struggles for a while. There is, in fact, lots of healing and growth to be found INSIDE your comfort zone.