#I'm upset and this is how I am dealing

[museaway]

To fellow residents of the state of New Jersey: if going to the polls makes you nervous, or you don't like leaving your house, or you work on Election Day, or something else keeps you from participating in the voting process, we can vote by mail!

Before each election, you'll receive an envelope with everything you need to vote from home. You can take your time and research bills and candidates (bc this is for all elections, not only presidential! you'll get ones for the school board etc). You simply fill everything out, tuck your ballot into the appropriate envelope, and mail it back.

It's a quick application process with your county. Check your county's website to see if they have a version they can mail you, otherwise you can find printable PDFs for each one on the State of NJ's site.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

so far my favourite unhinged response to my habitual observation of "it's weird that no one on this subreddit can make a single neutral-to-neutral-positive post about jiang cheng or jin guangyao without summoning the antagonist haters like bloody mary at a 90s kid's slumber party" is "you obviously don't know where you are. you don't understand reddit. no one owes anyone else GOOD VIBES ONLY. maybe we went overboard with these posts but we're just stating FACTS"

like. at least you admitted that you went overboard. we'll get to the rest later but, you know, baby steps.

[naamahdarling]

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[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

Christians:

[moripartylove]

Holy shit i have pre-cancer and need to have my uterus removed 😳😳😳

[blujayonthewing]

opening the group chat for the first time today and there's like 200 new messages because everyone's Going Through It today it seems but one of my friends dropped 'I'm separating from [terrible boyfriend she's been living with for like eight years] for real this time, I just moved a bunch of stuff to my parents' and I'm losing my mind because y'all the subject changed almost immediately HEY HI EVERYBODY ELSE SHUT THE FUCK UP I WANNA HEAR ABOUT THAT???

[keeps-ache]

buttered noodles 💫💛🍜

[a-dash-in-the-middle]

how do you stay positive during such an immensely upsetting time 💛

i try to think of all the good that will come out of it. i see the number of people waking up from the fake news, and from the feeling of nothing being able to change resulting in huge apathy. i also try not to surround myself by every bad thing 24/7, which i feel like is easier when you don't have a phone, so i decide by myself at what point in my day i want to dig in into news searching and find things i can participate in. and in the mean time i read, i laugh, i go on here, i watch movies abt passion and kindness paying off, think abt the presents i can make or get, of all the things i can bake once i get home, and seeing my friends. also participating in charity events, visiting my uni and just being involved feels SOO good, bc I see that I am not alone and I see that the support is not as low as I would think if I just stayed home and depended on the news. It is sad and even horrific that some situations exist, but not eating out somewhere, donating where I can, it adds up. I remember going to this event where we collected baby things for 5000 poor families, I had a bag, it's all I could do but it mattered, and I saw people with small bags, I saw families with packets, my aunt pitched in the 5 dollars she could, and it added up and I was so happy to know there is kindness still. Change is happening, a mere human cannot keep hurting many, nobody on earth is immortal, nobody is a god, the systems never last forever, history might be repeating itself all the time, but it means nothing lasts so the bad won't last for long too, and also the bad times cannot steal all the small good moments even if they do not change the situation.

[dandyshucks]

blinks tiredly. i decide "hm maybe i should try to expand my circle and step outside of it a little, lets go look at the main community tags" and im just greeted with a bunch of edgelords who think saying "fiction doesn't affect reality, don't like don't read" is peak activism and "fighting censorship". head in my hands. this is partially why i do not ever go into the community tags, my nervous system cannot handle blocking fifty weirdos every single day just so i can have a normal experience in the community tags hfdsjkl

[statisticalcats2]

There's obviously real dangers that can happen under the next presidency but can people please stop pretending that it's all a well-oiled machine and all Republicans in every branch of the government are just gonna agree and go along with every single thing Trump or Musk wants and Trump will be able to just give any order and no one would ever, ever, ever go against his wishes?

Are you living in the same universe as me?

[sophiethewitch1]

in my hater era

[bonestrouslingbones]

here i always thought i was unlike papyrus in my general demeanor but now i'm learning i just needed 30mg of adderall

[roundaboutnow]

i mean, i know i present very feminine, and im okay with she/her pronouns, so it doesnt seem like im genderqueer, but i am. and i know that can seem kinda alarming to a lot of people because how are you supposed to know? you don't know, and thats okay with me, im not going to be upset if you get it wrong. but there are people in my life that i've told a thousand times and they still dont get it.

the truth is, it's not hard to respect my gender identity. im fine with pretty much anything, so you cant really get it wrong.

but then youre visibly uncomfortable with how I live my life.

i dont dress feminine enough

i dont shave

i dont plan on getting married and im not sure how i feel about having kids.

you dont judge my brothers about these things. but you judge me.

and i think you should respect any woman or man or genderqueer person for all of the criteria above and more.

but when you judge me, i feel like you don't actually take me seriously when i say im genderqueer. i dont think you get it. i think you just see a girl who is not good enough and you only love me despite these things.

you said it was fine when i said i was genderqueer. i dont think you meant it.

[saintcarrionn]

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[cozypups]

don't mind me, just listening to a brainrotting playlist of overstimulation breakcore beats because my brain has a need :)

[jils-things]

me when i stop caring too hard