#TW SUICIDE

[atsa-that-queer-shit]

GNU LEELAH ALCORN

Leelah Alcorn was a 17 year old transgender woman artist. She grew up in a very religious Christian family. When she came out as trangender to her parents they told her it was a phase and sent her to therapy. The therapies they sent her to were religious ones that told her things like god makes no mistakes, told her she was selfish, and that the only way to cure depression was to follow gods path. She came out as “gay” at school so people wouldn’t be as shocked when she came out as trans. Her friends were accepting but her parents called her an embarrassment. They took away all electronics for 5 months and kicked her out of public school.

She was an artist. The drawing above was drawn by her. 

She committed suicide on December 29th due to the transphobia caused by her family. Please remember her and the other transgender people how lose their lives to transphobia. 

Link to her tumblr (warning that it contains her suicide note and sensitive materiel)

Link to news article

R.I.P LEELAH ALCORN 

[khaire-traveler]

Reminder that the orange Cheeto man is not worth your life. We are not doomed. Our human rights will not immediately evaporate into thin air. Most things that Trump does can likely be undone in the next presidency, and there WILL be a next presidency. As much as he likes to think he's a dictator with unlimited power, he is not. That's not the way our system works, thankfully.

Reminder that the suicide hotline number in the US is 988. You can also contact The Trevor Project. This election is NOT worth your life, I promise you.

[samsrowena]

#post november 5th mood

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[theminecraftbee]

I did things and it didn’t work. I knocked on doors and handed out flyers and got people to vote. It all meant nothing. I’m exhausted.

first: for what it's worth i don't think it was for nothing. if nothing else, it means that you and the people you worked with tried. that you cared enough to do that. i don't know. i think we'd all be even more upset if no one had done it.

second: when i say "do something" i don't mean it as a moral imperative, as to imply you haven't done something. a lot of us have done something. i mean it for your own sake. from experience: i wanted to die the most in my life when i could not find anything to do about my situation. when i felt like there was nothing i could "do something" about. i felt helpless. right now, it's easy to feel helpless. the "do something" commandment is that if you find something to do, even if it's not much, you're going to escape that pit of despair.

third: the thing you "do", frankly, doesn't have to be what you've been doing. if you hate the dems right now or feel abandoned by the things you did, change what you're doing. maybe what you need right now is something like "driving fruit to your local food kitchen", even if that feels very, very small in the wake of everything, because it's something you can do that you will be able to see measurable impacts for. your "do" can be to bring soup to your siblings. your "do" can be to go over to a friend's and hug them. your "do" can be as simple as a donation. you don't have to be firing on all cylinders, and you don't have to do something big that will fix everything right now. trying to hard to focus on that will just lead to more despair. it's more about the doing.

four: a thing i've done for a long time that's helped me when i feel helpless is make a list of things i CAN do. that way, even if i'm too tired right now to do them, i know i can. when i feel like i am trapped, i have a list. i can follow the list. i know there are actions i can take. i know that i haven't exhausted everything yet.

five: "do something" is a long-term proposition. for now it is fine if you simply need to lie down and rest. the key is just not to lie down to die.

six: because it's not over. it never has been. it never will be. it never is. the trial never ends, whether we win or lose. kinda sucks sometimes! but it's also what is, and it means there's always more that can be done as well. even when it seems like there's not.

[remnants-of-his-last-resort]

I love you, okay? Don't kill yourself. You can get through this. I love you. I'm sorry. I love you. It will be okay. You're strong. You can get through this. It won't be easy, but we all know that. But you can do it. I believe in you. It's not worth it to die over this. Don't let him kill you. Don't become a number. Keep fighting.

[itsbeababe]

[anarchywoofwoof]

yeah, it's called "lack of mental health services." because people in the united states thinking like this need to see a therapist every single week like it's church regardless of who won the election.

in France, the government raises the retirement age and they burn down the capital. in America, you lose an election and before anything happens or any fighting occurs, people are ready to kill themselves and all of the ballots aren't even done being counted.

just to be clear, i'm not saying it isn't an extremely bad situation. but even if i was living in 1933 Germany and Hitler took power, my first thought probably wouldn't be "time for me to kill myself." it would be the same thing that i'm thinking now which is:

"how do i help myself and the people around me that are going to be impacted the most by this and how do i do it starting tomorrow after i've wiped my tears and brushed myself off?"

and

"how do i make my communal networks more resilient so that they are less likely to be disrupted in the future?"

honestly doing all this other shit just amounts to feeling sorry for yourself because it feels good and/or you're looking for someone to pin all of the blame on. there's no easy way out. get up and fight.

[nortimer]

Regardless of the results, I will not give in to pessimism, I will not give up on myself. I'm quitting the suicide jokes. I'm going to go to the campus health center and start the HRT process. I'm going to come out to my parents. I will no longer water myself down, I do not want to be palatable to society. I'll learn to be louder, I won't hide from conflict. Tl;dr, no matter what happens tomorrow, I'm queer, I'm here, and I'm going to teach myself to be louder

[some-pers0n]

My entire Twitter and Tumblr feed is full of people posting about how you shouldn't kill yourself it's that dire oh my god

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

was at last nights tmbg show and john linnell said that if it went poorly he was just going to stay in scotland . anyway now i want to cry i feel so defeated

[byooregard]

highlights from "pretending to tweet like we're in the iwtv universe" in Armand nation

(just the stuff I've made-- other ppl are doing some hilarious shit @@armand-nation if you wanna check it out)

[fandomcritical]

i personally do not like canon huskerdust itself very much for the already-stated-before reasons by the rest of the critical fandom (angel sexually harassing husk and taking it too far, the massive age gap, etc.) but god do i have a burning hatred for the shippers that outmatches it by far. aside from just generally being annoying as fuck to interact with and overshadowing chaggie too much (alas, the eternal misogyny in fandom that you notice from preferring femslash...), they mock SA victims who disagree with them and/or criticize the pairing (look into the entire thread), and today i learned they bully rival shippers into suicide. i'm sure there's a ton more that i don't know about yet and would be willing to see receipts anyone has to share.

[on-call-ramblings]

Live for love

Live for your family

Live for your friends

Live for community

Live for yourself

Live to fight another day

And if none of these work

Live purely out of spite

This is rough, have any advice on not fucking killing myself?

I know there are a lot of people thinking about killing themselves right now. I felt the exact same way in 2016 when he first got elected.

This is a bad thing, but to anyone having these types of thoughts, please don't do anything that can't be undone. This is the last term he can be be inaugurated, after these 4 years, or hopefully less, he will be gone. It's difficult to stay positive right now, and that's okay. You don't have to stay positive, it's okay to feel these emotions as they are. But please do not commit suicide, because if you do, you won't be able to feel any emotions ever again.

Even though I felt hopeless at the time, I am so glad that I didn't kill myself in 2016.

For my own sake, I really need the people who are upset with this election to stay alive with me

[inkshine]

If you're American and having thoughts of self-harm and/or suicide because of what's going on right now:

First off, please don't hurt or kill yourself. There are people who love you, who want you to stay. I want to you to stay, because I care about you as much as you can care about a passing stranger on the Internet.

Second of all, please don't hate yourself for having these thoughts. A lot of people are talking about the importance of moving forward even when it's hard, and it is hard to move forward in the face of what seems to be vastly insurmountable, terrifying, and confusing odds. I know a lot of communities and cultures can have a hard time acknowledging and talking about mental health struggles and their full weight, so you might find yourself (subconsciously) thinking of yourself as "weak" etc., for having these thoughts. Please don't. You are not weak, you are not stupid, you are not a coward, you are not any of those things. You're just a person struggling with what is shaping up to possibly be an extremely difficult situation for millions of people. If you're already in a dark place, don't let self-loathing and shame about your thoughts push you into an even darker one.

Sending lots of love to my fellow Americans right now.

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

are they seriously gonna force aro / aces to marry people. /genq

if so im killing myself.

im so done with this shit.

i cant handle friendships.

i cant handle online fictional relationships.

i cant even handle saying i’d date somebody as a fucking joke.

marriage is a scam I never want to be a part of.

so god kill me if i ever get forced to be part of this shit.

especially since i have relationship trauma.

it just makes it worse.

there’s no fucking winning and im so fucking done.

i wanna kms so bad reading the fact he’s most likely going to win and i’ll be forced into alloness.

being allosexual or alloromantic is a fucking curse

of course this has to happen while im a minor too.

i want to kms so bad.

im gonna kms atp.

its worth it.

Nothing is confirmed on the side of aroaces, but with a red country, trump may be able to push for conversion therapy practices to become standard and it is well known that (I can’t remember the wording) trump and friends only see a family as a man and women married with children.

[eric-bogosian]

TW: suicide.

I read an article the other day where a 14 year old boy was using an AI chat, thinking he was talking with GOT characters who would say sexual things to him, tell him they loved him and he should "come home to them" and more. It made him so depressed he ended up killing himself. I can see this happening if more tech bros try "tapping into the market" in the same way.

STOP feeding things into AI. Stop talking to these chat bots. Stop destroying people's livelihoods and ultimately, their lives.

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is