#I am an activist now

[subcoolture]

I remember being a teenager in the mid 2000s. Dysfunctional family, verbally abusive father, never leaving my room. I still got to make some social life, but never enough not to want to kms. Music saved me. About 15 years have passed and I will not tell you it gets better. Some things did, but what I knew about the world then hasn’t changed. I still don’t see a future for myself. No love, no nothing, nothing that’s real. I’m surviving just like I did back then, and I just know the world is better with me in it. I have affected thousands of lives for good. I am a light in this world. I try to appreciate things regardless of everything. The trees, the stars. I try to be what I would like to see in other people. And I just go on.

[bookinit02]

genuinely i think if i have to see taylor swift’s name one more time i’m going to start breaking things.

[alibonbonn]

Sorry I've been so offline lately I went to play ME3 for the first time.. I don't know how you all did it back in 2012

[librarycards]

ok, has anyone / when was the first time you learned about "disability pronouns" (if ever?) this is becoming more common in the circles i run in, and basically means the preferred terminology (disabled, crip, Mad, ND, autistic, mentally disabled, chronically ill...) you use when it comes to your bodymind. weird to me that they're not called disability adjectives but okay. anyway, has anyone else heard of these??

[blackmetalsnake]

I just watched the last episode of the Fellow Travellers.

I'm dead. Thank you.

[katyspersonal]

[complaints-from-poland]

I am going BACK to UNIVERSITY I am going to STUDY to speak NORWEGIAN and TRANSLATE SHIT and get a DEGREE so I can get a DECENT job and I will live in a CITY where I can access ART SUPPLY STORES and VEGAN FOOD and I will meet NEW PEOPLE and make NEW FRIENDS and also work in a queer group that actually has any RESOURCES and the people are THERE and they have TIME and they DO STUFF

[wild-at-mind]

Not reblogging it for reasons, but I really agree with that person on here who said people are reframing depression and generally feeling shit all the time as a good thing because of the horrors of Gaza. There are people on here heavily implying that you feeling bad and finding it more and more difficult to live with yourself is actually an appropriate response to war and genocide. In some way, it might be. But the thing is, where does that lead? Does it lead to decisive action in accordance to your values, or to nihilistic stewing and self isolation from your community?

The post went on to call it anti-recovery culture- I don't know if I would call it that, because I get why people don't like recovery culture, especially in relation to addiction, but mental illness also. I think that's something I'm not qualified to speak on. So I wouldn't call this anti-recovery culture. Instead I would call it pro-burnout in activism culture. Do you honestly think people who are the most productively working in their communities and participating in actions to help overseas are feeling like this? Or do you think they have learned to use self-accountability and community support to reign themselves in when they begin to burn out emotionally, and rest and recuperate their mind in order to come back stronger? Ask yourself, is that wrong of them to do, because they should be feeling bad, because after all that is the appropriate response....does it mean they don't care, because they don't spend all their time feeling shit? Or perhaps, the truth is, they do care, and are demonstrating it all the time, but they also understand that them feeling shit literally doesn't help anyone. Why can we not talk about or acknowledge this?

[bisexualamy]

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[i-love-tubbs-the-cat]

i kind of hate everyone at this college i am so peeved right now

[yohankang]

i feel so down after coming back from the camp....

[sugarbabywenkexing]

Starting act 2 of DA2 like I miss my baby brother

[infiniteglitterfall]

Palestinians to Platform, part two: Ahmed Al-Khalidi

Whether or not you agree with his political views, the guy's funny.

(Past "Palestinians to Platform" posts: activist Moumen Al-Natour and a prequel. Future ones can be found at my platform palestine tag.

[realmermaid333]

People online will really make the vaguest comment ever then get mad at you for not understanding what they mean. Or act like they just said the most academic statement ever when it was really just two sentences with zero nuance.

[mondscheinprinzessin]

a mini concert report, or me doing some more advertising for Lonely Spring:

I know Augsburg isn't that big of a city and despite participating in our NF the band still isn't that popular. But it really was a hole in the wall club; a staircase downstairs, a mini cloakroom that nobody tended to but you yourself, and the club room that could hold max. 100 people. It was small! Same as the stage, could barely understand how it would fit 4 people with their instruments.

But they made it work and there was great energy. The singer took off his clothes almost immediately because it was warm, the bassist that was basically in front of me and @itsfandomsgalore made his skirt swing around, and when the twins weren't bickering in between the songs (really it was hilarious), the band gave it their all to give us an amazing evening with Schmusesongs, pop punk bangers (with more to come), and emo disco.

[pienhime]

listen not to get political but like

hearing ppl talk ab how bc of his support for zionists they wont vote biden is... concerning. like you do know the other option has the same belief in that department... right?? like you know our options are "guy who kills thousands of ppl overseas w ur tax money" and "guy who kills thousands of ppl overseas w ur tax money is against democracy and wants LGBT people in his jurisdiction to suffer". sacrificing the people who live in ur country and for what? its not like republicans have been a bunch of zionist evangelicals since the 80s or anything, surely they wont also kill innocents in the middle east while stripping away abortion rights and killing queer people w unconstitutional laws (sarcasm).

"ill vote independent" this is america, a federal election. a leftist vote for an independent is a vote for conservatives to win. stop being an idealist, no lives will be saved that way

im honestly just venting my feelings here so dont expect to "debate" me, if ur rude or annoying ill block u