Me: (gets Up Too Quickly)

Me: (gets up too quickly)

*vision gets fizzy* *brain gets dizzy*

Me: (humming the line from I/me/myself) I've been feeling lightheaded... Since I lost enough-

Me:

Me: OH THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT BY-

Me:

Me: "light hearted since I gained enough weight back to cover my-" oh my fucking GOD that's about recov-

Me:

Me: wait shouldn't skeleton appreciation day have just given it all away?

Here's your reminder that if you've got your own personal shit to deal with, especially if your health, safety or ability to immediately function in society is on the line, it is perfectly fine to aknowlage political events that are outside of your control as something you genuinely can't worry about. Your responsibility is to yourself before it is to society. If opening the news makes you suicidal, you don't have to. If donating means compromising the money you need to function daily, you don't have to. If "speaking out" means having to cut people you love out of your life, you don't have to. Nobody should be telling you to throw yourself into something that is killing you internally/putting you into debt/taking away your ability to just live your life/meaningfully harming you in any other ways just to perform some kind of moral duty.

"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.

You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.

Do it for the "I'm proud of you" from everyone who loves you.

Okay but like- can we agree that if someone made works that you have interacted with, and then turns out to have hurt people in their personal life you haven't interacted with, it's OKAY to feel more strongly about the works, aka the thing that actually effected your life in any way shape or form than about the thing that hasn't?

(if you disagree, just... Go away. Make your own post or something. We're both having a hard enough time without getting into a comment section fight)

Honestly, the fact that people on this platform will be more likely to assume you're a terrible person if you identify as a libertarian or a proshipper than if you choose to turn down treatment for mental illness that takes a toll on everyone else in your life actually really sucks. Because statistically, you aren't. The fact that you picked an unpopular side in some culture war doesn't tell us much about how much you care about other people, at least not as much as it does to explicitly, intentionally choose your own autonomy over their well being. I'm not saying it makes you a bad person, but it is an indicator, and a bigger one at that than most of the stupid shit people call you a bad person for on this platform.