#// *i am Sad and Traumatized
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nap time with the cocoa puffs
#solangelo#nico di angelo#will solace#the sun and the star#there arent many fics about these funky demons i am so sad#they are the embodiment of anything traumatizing and they like waffles#them snuggling and sleeping with their dads on the boat was something very dear to me#i want to see the others' reaction of the puffs#it would be interesting
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realizing i have. a lot of untapped trauma potential for clone^2 danny because i just Fully Processed Four Months Late the fact that his parents were capturing and torturing ghosts in the basement before he became Phantom. and the fact that he was on house rest for 2 weeks. during that time period. and he wasn't really leaving the house. he could hear their screaming through the floorboards
*points at clone danny* i can give you suuuuuuch a bad time babe ahaha. i've got two untouched years before you meet damian what fucks you up before then
#dpxdc#dp x dc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpdc#clone^2#danny fenton is a clone#like i dont even need to traumatize you worse the pure explorative options from this aLONE is enough to feed me for a week.#like. tucks hair behind ear let me shatter you into glass pieces then glue you back together babe. i can put you back together so good.#i'm missing a few shards because some parts of you broke into such small pieces i couldn't pick them back up again so you'll be missing a#few chunks of yourself that you'll never get back but that's okay. you'll still be a resemblance of your old self :]#don't let anakin (me) listen to late night sad songs he makes angst.#hhh imagine being stuck in a house for two weeks where you can hear your parents torturing ghosts in the basement and not only that but#you're the only person who can undERSTAND the ghosts. how many times did he see his parents drag in a ghost with whatever capturing device#they made recently? iirc the thermos was like. brand new in episode one right? but gOD the trauma this alone would cause#nobody touch me im cooking rn i need to think about how this would impact danny. like obvs it would fuel into a developing obsession to#keep his parents away from ghosts and to help the dead but what *else.* i need to refine my becoming phantom ficlet i wrote back in winter#raaa#and like even after two weeks they were *still capturing ghosts* danny just wasn't in the house 24/7 at the time.#*but those two fucking weeks man*#i need to sleep on this first before i make any major moves bc i know im tired but i am having thOUGHTs
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I think a lot of the meta about Orym forgets that Orym isn't just an adventurer, he is a former bodyguard. His self worth is tied up in how well he can protect people and especially his loved ones. Thats why he sold his future to a hag, because its all he had left to give in order to be able to help.
Thats also why he seems so angry after FCG's death.
Otohan has killed his husband and father. Then him. Then he is brought back and told she also killed Fearne and Laudna. She killed Eshteross. She almost kills Keyleth. Now FCG has to sacrifice himself to save them all and kill Otohan and Orym was knocked out for it.
His job is to protect people and even with the added power from Nana Morri, it's still not enough. 6 years later and his loved ones are still dying and he can do nothing but watch.
#cr spoilers#critical role#orym#they have all lost people and are all grieving#but i have seen a lot of people saying he isnt acknowledging other people grief#give him a week to cool down#i see this like laudna when the groups rejoined and she was mad at the other team for having a nice trip#bor'dor was traumatic for all three of them for different reason#but her killing him and leaning into delilah specifically set her off in a way it didnt with the others and they got that#thats also whats happening here#otohan dying from a friend sacrificing themselves to save them all sets orym off#its not just grief this is tied into his everything#like i said#i will argue that a good 95% of his self worth is how well he can serve others#he has chosen to be their protector and everyone is dying#there is no closure to be found in otohans death because he failed even with the power from nana morri#and before anyone jumps on the 'orym fans cant take criticisms'#please just block me#i am being reactionary because people annoyed me#let me do that in peace#i wanna be sad about my little guy
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so i thought that if i piled something good
on all my bad
that i could cancel out the darkness
i inherited from dad
#inspired by noah kahan#i don’t like it but the idea wasn’t leaving my head til i did it#so here you go lmao#theo raeken#theo raeken is a sad and traumatized bitch and so am i#theo raeken needs a therapist#theo raeken needs a hug#theo raeken incorrect quotes#theo raeken deserves better#theo raeken playlist#theo raeken teen wolf#thiam#liam dunbar#thiam fanfic#thiam is endgame#theo raeken x liam dunbar#thiam aesthetic#thiam playlist#theo x liam#teen wolf
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I drew Route #1 of the Mr Bill Pines au endings where Bill and Ford retire from their job of traveling the multiverse and stuff,this one being where Bill manages to make Ford immortal and thus keep traveling worlds with him. I headcanon that Ford ends up choosing Bill over his family here as he knows that they're gonna die anyway and he has already made some good memories about them that he has saved in pictures and stuff so he might as well be with his beloved muse instead who'll be an eternal companion if he chooses to be at his side forever. @honeqq This is revenge,this is how i cope with the horribly angsty endings you've been making and the one that @delicioustarong made.
#gravity falls#bill cipher#ford pines#billford#stanford pines#gravity falls au#mr bill pines au#mrbillpines#mr bill pines#LOOK AT BILL *NOT* BEING TRAUMATIZED BY FORD'S DEATH. LOOK AT THEM BEING HAPPY IN THE MULTIVERSE. RAAAA#i am delulu and i want to believe that the happy endings happen without the sad ones please and thank you#i am weak for Billford okay. also i love happy endings too much#my art#gravity falls art#gravity falls fanart#au fanart#not my au#ibis paint x#ibis paint art#ibis paint#fordbill#ciphord#ford x bill#bill x ford#billford fanart#billford au#billford art#bill cipher au
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ONE: ok guys here’s an arc about mob, in his growth as a person, being confronted with an ideology he’s unfamiliar with, and he has to learn from it but also understand why it’s unhealthy and bad to properly grow from it and choose kindness in the end, albeit in a more nuanced way than before, and this will make mob more able to confront later problems in the season that can’t be solved with mere kindness and require a deep understanding of loneliness and solitude, something he hasn’t had much room to speak on until now. To express mob being shown this villain’s ideology we have a sequence where we see how mogami views the world and by extension how he sees mob, by putting mob in the kind of sad fucked up world he thinks exists, but mob will overcome it with the knowledge that in the real world he has people he cares about and that even the people who make the world bad sometimes can change and nobody is a static evil and kindness and courage when you’re going through hardship goes a long way. despite the darkness this is ultimately a very uplifting experience for him and a show that life is always more than its darkest moments, and also how picking yourself up instead of wallowing in your own suffering and trauma is hard but a very courageous act and what makes mob stronger than mogami
mp100 fans with tunnel vision: Oh so mob was tortured for six months and is sad? He’s literally so sad and traumatized and nobody is talking about this?
#babbles#mp100#decided to nab an old discord message for Post Purposes#BC i love mogami arc but god the Fandom Mogami Arc™️ where it’s all just#Evil Mogami Sad Mob Whump Look How Sad Why Aren’t We Talking About This!!!#makes me SEE RED. MY GOD#fandoms when characters experience trauma and get takeaways from it that aren’t looking into the camera to go#Wow That Was So Sad I Am Traumatized And Sad Now#I Am So Sad And Must Acknowledge My Trauma By Suffering And Never Growing#and of course coming back to one of my biggest fandom pet peeves which is viewing characters exclusively as People#like mob is so so so dear to me he’s one of my top ccs i care about him so so much#but he’s not a real child being bullied who needs like. counseling. his trauma served a purpose in the story and#dwelling on it was not that purpose!
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#gif#why do I have to spend every christmas and every birthday alone#for what am I being punished#I am a good person#and I don’t think this suffering has any sense#it’s just that in life the happy people have good things coming their way#and the sad people always just get more trauma#I know I could have a relationship if I didn’t have such a traumatic childhood#my trauma lets me reject the good guys and waste my time with the aholes#but i don’t know what to do about it#every nice guy I met absolutely wasn’t attractive to me#and we also didn’t have anything in common#so I’m not even regretting rejecting them cause it wouldn’t have worked out#and they deserve someone who actually fancies them#i just wonder why I never met a nice guy that I have common interests with#or who matched my preferences lookwise#it really feels like I’m simply not allowed to ever meet the right person#and gotten to the point where I swipe for hours have a lot of matches and then ghost everyone#as I just know it either will be someone nice but not attractive to me or an ahole#I just don’t have any energy left anymore#I just want to experience love so bad but can’t do these dates anymore#I’m so so tired
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“You okay Darius?”
This is the scene I was talking about in my previous post btw. A good chunk of JP fans I’ve seen think of it as really silly.
Music used in the BG: Jurassic Park 3 Soundtrack: Plane Ride/Alan’s Nightmare. At around the 1:30 mark
Transcript undercut
Transcript:
[Darius relaxing in the passenger seat of Ben’s van. Large footsteps approach causing the Dino ornament on the rear view mirror to bounce. Darius looks in the rear view mirror to see a glimpse of something]
[Darius turns to the driver side to see he’s alone]
Darius: Ben?!
[The footsteps stop and a shadow falls on the passenger window. Darius turns round in his seat and is met with an Allosaurus]
Allosaurus, in Brooklynn’s voice: Darius.
[Darius is frozen as the van disappears from under him, leaving him on the ground. Defenseless]
Allosaurus, still in Brooklynn’s voice: You said you’d be here.
[Darius unable to speak, sits in terror at the theropod circling him. Until the Allosaurus roars, mixed with Brooklynn’s screams, lunging at him. Darius throws his hands up in a useless effort to protect himself.]
Unknown Voice: Darius!
[Darius is shaken away by Ben, who is keeping his eyes on the road while driving. The grip on his shoulder is firm and almost painful, but grounds him from his night terror.]
Ben: You good, bud? You were having a bad dream.
[The screen changes to black with text meant to be read as Darius]
Darius, off screen: Yea… I’ll be fine.
#chaos theory#jurassic world chaos theory#chaos theory spoilers#jurassic world chaos theory spoilers#jwct spoilers#Other artists: *drawing sad grieving Darius and the other camp fam*#Me making this: I’m about to be hilarious#Darius my beloved son. You are so traumatized. Where’s your therapist?#I had to trace the allosaurus skull I drew for my Yoshiki drawing for one of the frames lol#I loved JP3 as a kid. So of course I had thought of a dream scene for Darius. Like he hasn’t suffered enough already#I DIDNT REALIZE HOW MEAN THIS WAS UNTIL I GOT THE AUDIO PART. WTF AM I TRYING MAKE MYSELF CRY????#INFLICTING DAMAGE ON MYSELF PSYCHOLOGICALLY WITH THIS DAMN.#AL’s scribblings of Nublar
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being the ugly friend is really humbling
#sigh#vent#rant#i need to rant#one time i was out with friends#they all hugged that one guy in my grade#so I did too#and we danced together and stuff#but then later he went: were you there the whole time??#i was mortified#he humiliated me in front of my friends#just because you don’t think I’m attractive doesn’t mean you have to ignore my existence lol#i hate it here#liesmultixxx talks 🩵#sad post#thinking thoughts#i am ugly#story of my life#why are they like this#why are people so cruel#i just want to be loved#i want to be pretty#I don’t think anyone will ever desire me#and that’s okay#but you don’t have to be so NASTY#jesus christ#little story time#saw a tt and it reminded me of this wonderful experience#another traumatic thing that happened in my life#the list is getting longer and longer
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Random doodles, a rare Richter moment too lol
Explanations and such:
Simon gaming and Richter is watching :). The text says “(Richter) Whatcha playin :3”, “(Simon) FUCK”, “(he got a Safe in Project Diva)”, “(Richter) Oh, I see.”. He was playing the song Gothic and Loneliness btw. On one of the harder modes. Almost perfected it 😔.
The top doodle is just Simon with sharp teeth, idk maybe they’re like left over from the curse or something lol. Bottom drawing is an attempt at drawing their Smash Bros outfits by memory since I haven’t in a long time.
Slime scooping videos will be the death of me I keep getting stuck watching like a ton of them and I don’t even know why 💀💀💀. So I drew Simon doing that cause uh yeah XD.
Text says “both overwhelmed”. Just imagine this is both of them after some long social event lol.
Rare Richter section of a page! It’s also a Mesmerizer reference 💀💀💀. I was gonna draw Alucard to compliment this, but I completely forgot and had already put other things on the page next to it so eeeehhhh. Richter’s hair is very fun, but I draw it differently every time. Then again I feel like it’s probably a texture where it kinda curls at a certain length and goes everywhere, so it works. I like to think that he’d always had it short enough that it didn’t curl before SotN and was surprised lol.
Yay drawing characters you like doing things you do part 2, Simon is drawing :3. He’d probably draw like some of the most violent and concerning but technically impressive imagery and then follow that up immediately with a page of cute animals and some character (idk I’ve already made him play Project Diva in this post let’s say Rin or Miku as an example lmao)
Text says “love this guy, the Richard”. Haha yeah, the Richer, Mr Richter Scale Belmont.
Random doodle of Simon wearing clothes cause I was listening to music and got the vibes. I don’t remember what song tho unfortunately (TwT).
#castlevania#castlevania games#simon belmont#richter belmont#akumajo dracula#akumajou dracula#art post#my art#silly doodles#yippie! the guys! they’re chilling!#truly a refreshing experience to draw two traumatized tough guys just doing mundane activities#in their lane; flourishing; not being attacked by some creature or ravaged by the curse/possession#it’s like its own flavor of calm#anyway forcing my blorbos to share interests with me—#80s barbarian you will play the anime robot music game 🫵#90s anime boy turned biishi you will get in the recent anime robot music trend outfit 🫵🫵🫵#and also shout out to being able to take these guys from different time periods and make them friends now#Richter 🤝 Simon (the horrors)#but look!!! they stayed silly!!! the horrors persisted but so do they!!!#I am taking them out of their vaguely sad inconclusive endings and making them happy right now—#Richter would probably play Rocket League on his Switch tbh
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detective comics #833
[ID: a party for Bruce Wayne's ninth birthday! It's his first birthday after his parents were brutally murdered in front of him. For the very special day, a magician is standing on a platform stage and performing a card trick as a crowd watches him. The magician announces, “And as we see, Tommy's card has risen to the top of the deck.” Collections of red, white, and blue party balloons decorate the scene and the number nine is written on one of them. For more environmental storytelling, behind the magician, Zatara, is a vibrant yellow banner that says ‘happy birthday Bruce!’ as Bruce is no where to be seen.
Bruce, as an adult, reflects on the memory and of his relationship with the magician's daughter, Zatanna: ‘I have a checkered history with Zatanna and her family. Before we were born, our fathers worked together on many children's charities. After Zatara became a father himself, he was always willing to do benefit performances to help children in need. Any child.’
At the party, Alfred is talking to Zatara after his performance is over and as the crowd disperses. Alfred tells him, “My thanks again, Mr. Zatara, for entertaining the children.” Zatara warmly responds, “Anything for Thomas and Martha. I was so fond of them. This first year must be terrible for poor Bruce.” The butler-turnt-guardian sighs and agrees, “Indeed. I thought a party might cheer him up, but it appears he's moved beyond childhood diversions.”
He continues to express his concerns and says, “I doubt he'll ever be a child again.” But oblivious to him, a young girl attending the party has overheard him and is now walking off to go find the birthday boy! She finds Bruce sitting with his knees drawn up amongst a small strip of woods next to a river. He stares into the water remorseful before looking over his shoulder with a scowl at the approaching girl. He tells her, “The party's back there.” But she doesn't leave. Bruce starts to sharply repeat himself but she holds up a single finger to stop him. Silently, Zatanna presents a shiny quarter in her concerningly small palm.
She swipes her open hand over the coin to reveal it's disappeared! She mimes a shrug as Bruce watches with disgruntlement before he tries to swat her hands away as Zatanna reaches for his ear! “Yeah, I know. The coin is behind...” But his exasperation is replaced with a small, surprised laugh as Zatanna suddenly blows large bubbles instead! He smiles and closes his eyes as he asks her how did she do that — but when he opens his eyes, she's suddenly gone!
Bruce returns to the party, now having a small smile as he stands alone and looks at Zatanna. Behind him a bunch of kids are playing as she sits in the foreground of the panel – unaware of Bruce's enamored stare. In present time, Bruce thinks to himself, ‘Years later Zatara trained me to become an escape artist, and I came to know Zatanna better through The Justice League. There are times I think we should be closer than we are, but...’ END ID]
[ID: Zatanna, now an adult, is bleeding out after The Joker shot her in her throat. She's underwater and is staring out to a restrained Batman, who can only watch in anguish as yet another person he loves dies in front of him. In front of her, blood mixes into the water as oxygen bubbles float in front of her dying face. Bruce has a flashback to the above scene of when they were kids and how she performed the bubble magic trick to make him laugh. END ID]
#happy sad boy sunday !!!#it counts because hes actually a traumatized and sad (birthday) boy 🎉🎉🎉🎉#i didnt have to include this panel under the cut. it could of just been a cute birthday moment of him making a friend#but also i am evil and like making my mutuals mad at me <3 its sad boy sunday for a reason !!!#c: detective comics | i: 833#crypt's panels#bruce wayne#batman#zatanna#zatara#alfred pennyworth
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#gamers dont you love it when a friend breaks your heart#smashes every olive branch you extend toward them#accuses you of being the asshole when you fall apart about it#acts like they are sorry#and then just fully ghosts you 100%?#i am so fucking tempted to just give up man.#every time i meet someone and im like#''oh wait they seem normal? not hyperindividualistic? like someone who will like me always not just when im happy?''#''someone who wants to be my FRIEND not just a person in a discord call with me??''#and then i spread myself so fucking thin investing energy into the friendship#(which this person admitted wasn't even ENOUGH like i am SO EXHAUSTED from traumatic abandonment#and losing friends suddenly#that even me working at my MAXIMUM CAPACITY makes people feel like i don't like them)#every fucking time.#nothing turns out different. no matter how much work i put into it#the SECOND a person has the chance to abandon me. they will.#i am just sitting here with two forces inside of me#one who never wants to give up on love and friendship#and another who is so tired#i wish i could just be exhausted and burnt out#and someone or several someones. would love me anyways. love me enough that EVENTUALLY#i will grow my heart back#and i can love them threefold for all the love they showed me#but no one wants me even when i do have the energy to be a good friend so why the fuck would anyone want me like this#dude i am so sad i wasn't meant to live like this i was meant to make friends. close friends.#i just keep re-reading our last conversation before he ghosted me. maybe if i read it enough i can change the ending
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“from you,
we learned true evil
only comes by corrupting
something truly good."
#theo raeken#theo raeken edit#theo raeken post#theo raeken is a sad and traumatized bitch and so am i#theo raeken needs a therapist#theo raeken incorrect quotes#theo raeken deserves better#theo raeken needs a hug#theo raeken playlist#theo raeken teen wolf#teen wolf
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hey. hey.
what if the crew remembered everything the baron did but luffy forgot everything (#repressionmoment) how dyou think the crew would feel about that
Honestly, I thought the angstiest concept for this movie would be the one that already happens. You know. With the crew being the ones who forget everything and Luffy having to deal with the burden of remembering all that trauma on his own. However, I've thought about this and-- This is equally as angsty. Think about it:
Everyone is fine. Everything is okay. So Luffy just smiles and considers the adventure done and he does not want to talk about what happened. Like. At all. The others are-- Saying they're fucked up after what happened would be an understatement. They do some apologizing between them for things they did and they go through a rough time because that's not something you forget easily. But especially they're all worried about Luffy. He's badly wounded (because what the fuck he just turned into a human colander with the number of arrows that went through him) and he acts like nothing has happened. They keep asking and he keeps saying it's fine. That it's alright if they're alright. Of course, with how many times he says so, they have to end up trusting him. But I personally think Nami would be the most worried of all and the one who would want to talk things out, and even go to Zoro to see if he can get something from him. The first days I think Luffy has nightmares about it. Like- Very fucked up nightmares and he keeps hiding the fact that for some reason he keeps throwing up whenever he sees something that kind of, sort of reminds him of that experience. They're all extremely concerned. Like- He's not fine. But he refuses to talk and keeps on saying it's okay. And, well, I think he'd end up forgetting. Like pretty soon after the experience he just! Poof! Forgets it. Not really, because he does still have an uneasy feeling with him, but the nightmares are wayyy more abstract now and he doesn't really know where they're coming from? He knows something happened, of course, he doesn't have total amnesia but he can't remember anything about it. It's just like a blurry picture, you know? So he stops thinking about it and starts living normally. But Nami? Nami wants to talk things out because she's sure that forgetting what happened can't be okay. She even asks Chopper and he says that this is common when going through traumatic experiences, but she doesn't- She doesn't want Luffy to forget without talking about it because,, What if someday, for some reason, he ends up remembering? What if it hits him like a ton of bricks? What happened while they were trapped that made Luffy like this? He often leaves the past in the past, but forgetting it is something else. She has to let go of it, at the end of the day, and rely on other people to talk about this. Luffy would be so concerned for them too, because he doesn't remember but he feels like he should, and he knows that whatever is making his crew all sad is probably his fault somehow.
Zoro keeps an eye on him, more than usual. Nami and Usopp are extremely close. Like- Codependency levels because they can't stop feeling guilty for what happened and if they lose sight of each other they're probably gonna go insane. Robin and Chopper are more or less like that too, but Robin handles it better. Keeps it to herself. Chopper goes to her for comfort more often, though. Sanji wants to deal with it on his own but he can't, because guilt keeps making him be with Zoro more even if he hates the idea of it. And Zoro has to be honest too and admit that they both fucked up and he doesn't like the idea of Sanji being on his own after this. Also, I think they're all very sensitive to darkness and sharp objects now, not to mention that Nami loves her beautiful tangerines but the thought of a flower that is not one of hers growing there makes her anxious. They're very careful not to let Luffy sleep alone because, even if he doesn't remember, nightmares are a thing. And he doesn't tell anybody but they know anyway.
I think he'd feel so guilty for not remembering because he knows he should and he knows there's something wrong, but he can't quite put images to it. I think he'd go to Nami one day while she's alone and say something like: "I'm sorry" / "Mm? For what, Luffy?" / "For not remembering" / "I told you. It's okay. It's not your fault. These things happe-" / "They shouldn't happen! Not to me! I am your captain and I'm the one who should protect you! And instead, I made you go to that island and- And- And I can't remember anything-" / "Luffy. Listen to me. You got us into that mess, yes, but you got us out too. You always do. We're fine" / "You're not... Liar" / "Yeah, no. We're not. But we will be. Eventually. So don't worry about things you can't change" / "Do you- Do you wanna talk bout it? You always seem like you want to tell me something and you can't" / "Not- Not now, okay? Maybe some other day" / "Can I stay with you?" / "Idiot. Yes. Of course".
And I guess they would move on past that but the trauma is still there. It's not something they can easily forget. Now just think about how Water 7 goes next! Luffy's going to suffer even more. You're welcome.
#he's just like me fr bc i can't remember traumatic things that happened to me either and i just know about them thanks to other people lmao#repression moment#anyway i think nami and luffy's bond is precious and they mean the world to me#one piece#monkey d. luffy#cat burglar nami#strawhat pirates#baron omatsuri and the secret island#i think i should put tw for something bc this is creepy and sad af but idk what so just be careful reading?#tw sensitive content#??? maybe ??#tw nightmares#WHY'S ONE PIECE SO DAMN DARK SOMETIMES#i love it i am not complaining
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My toxic red flag is that everytime I make a post s8 au, Allura always ends up being a woobified poor little meow meow
#Rip Allura. A pathetic girfailure era could have saved you#empty thoughts#There's a very thin line between a deeply tragic character in a story that doomed them and a pathetic wet rag the universe fucking loathes#And man am I going to push her in a specific direction#Like seriously why is it always Lance or Keith given the sad woobie treatment?#Move aside. It's Allura's turn to be the drenched cat in the rain with huge sad wet eyes#I think it's because to me her 'death' and separation had to be traumatizing for her#All she had left at the time was her life and a chance of a happier future only to give up even that#All to fix the mistakes of people who have nothing but abused her but get to have happy endings handed to them#So I feel like if she had survived this would have been the final straw#Not to mention there is no war to win anymore. No universe to save. No destiny to fulfil#It's over and there are no distractions anymore. Nothing to keep your mind occupied#While all the pain and misery just finally comes crashing down#Post s8 au#Stolen identity au
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showing up to anti-zionist community rosh hashanah services tonight like "hello i am ready to weep & maybe do some arson. does anybody want to burn anything down"
#i am tired i am sad i am terrified#i am also having some big feelings about online leftist tactics of guilt/shame/condescension when speaking to their own base/potential base#i am constantly overwhelmed constantly feeling helpless i do NOT actually need to be told i am not feeling guilty enough#or i'm never doing enough. that i owe everything always including relentless emotional attention to global atrocities#because traumatizing yourself with a 24/7 feed of death & disaster is activism and/or penance for the crime of living in the imperial core#please fucking learn how to motivate & engage people via shared empowerment#get the words mutual aid out of your fucking mouth unless you are ready to actually build supportive coalitions#if all you want to do is yell & shame people into donating to something that is not mutual aid. it's charity#it positions your audience as powerful & owing money out of pity/guilt to an underclass#which is whatever. people in crisis just need money to survive. but stop pretending you're doing revolutionary politics#if you can't be assed to treat people like comrades
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