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people believe, on an emotional level, that what is good for social justice will also be emotionally satisfying for them

Welcome back! I've thought of you while you're away, and look at that, you came back to a marginally better world! I hope you had a good time away

Thanks 💕 I’m glad I’m back. It’s a giddy weekend to be on Tumblr.

I’m definitely going to have to be on Tumblr differently now. A month away from the discourse portion of this hellsite has literally improved my physical health–a lot of the low-level issues I’ve been dealing with, from skin rashes to chronic indigestion, practically disappeared in October. They’re symptoms of stress.

Overall TW: Bullying and harassment, social justice gone wrong

I didn’t talk about it a lot because that made it worse? But I was getting called out and harassed a lot. I’ve dedicated my free time over the last couple years to fighting people on Tumblr, TERFs and antis and exclusionists etc, and I honestly think I’ve done some good and played a real part in moving the window of acceptable discourse on certain topics, like bisexuality and child abuse, in a positive direction.

That… made it really important to the people I was fighting that they take me down and discredit me. I got called out a lot by people who knew how to use social justice language and make me sound as bad as possible. TW: sexual assault, domestic violence, transphobia, racism, child sexual abuse

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Recently discovered that coffee makes me normal

But only sometimes.

Like 40% of the time.

And when it works

My brain gets weird

So much more distractable

But like I’m doing this and moving around so-

Also I think it makes me sleep better??

And do a lot more hand shakes…

Is this how coffee is supposed to work

Round 1 Part 1