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'Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.' – Fred Rogers

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🦆: Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!

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i’m so upset

I just realized that the reason ghosts say Boo! is because it’s a latin verb

they’re literally saying ‘I alarm/I am alarming/I do alarm!!

I can’t

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*goes to egg your house but I find out you're vegan so I ¼ cup of unsweetened applesauce your house instead*

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My trauma didn't make me stronger; it broke parts of me that took years to rebuild. I'm not 'better' because of what I survived – I'm better despite it. I never asked for these wounds, nor did I want this pain as some twisted life lesson. My trauma simply hurt, deeply and relentlessly. I refuse to romanticise my suffering or sanitise my experience just to make others feel more comfortable.

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'If we are in an environment that dehumanises our experience, we can then begin to cancel our own responses. Disconnection can happen without us being consciously aware of it. This phenomenon, as a kind of secondary seepage of dissociation, is just as important to understand. This is when we take in the treatment of erasure and then repeat it in our own minds. we treat ourselves as we are treated. It is part of dissociative trauma that when we have a feeling or response, then we cancel it.

A person who lives under a regime that does not allow freedom of speech learns to not speak their truth but also to not even think it. We may carry this erasure of ourselves in the form of lost self-esteem, or not knowing our own minds in our dealings with another person or life situation. We devalue our feelings because we were devalued; we neglect ourselves because we were neglected. In big ways and small ways, we cancel our reality.' (Philippa Smethurst, 20 Ways to Break Free From Trauma, p. 133).

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“What the meat industry figured out is that you don’t need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable… Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That’s the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying…We live in a world in which it’s conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (via acti-veg)

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like i have been vegan for 10 years. i am not a fucking idiot. i have not put 10 years of my life into this lifestyle on a whim because killing animals makes me sad. i have done my research. i make an effort to make ethical food choices where i can not just by cutting out animal products but in other areas as well. i buy secondhand clothes almost exclusively. my house is filled with thrifted furniture. we even thrift yarn for knitting and crochet projects when we can. i have well-researched, environmentally motivated, and yes moral reasons for avoiding leather and wool and honey. vegans are, i promise you, more likely than the average non-vegan to think about the source of our food and clothing and hair and skin products and cleaning products and make decisions about our purchases accordingly.

so it gets me a little fucking annoyed when i see disinformation on my dash every other fucking DAY going "hey you stupid fucking vegans, i'm pretty sure you did zero research into this massive change to your lifestyle that affects the majority of the purchases you make every day and many of your social interactions with family friends and coworkers. let me school you [makes easily disproven claims, cites no sources, stupidly assumes vegans make up the majority of the consumer base of literally any product despite being all of 1-2% of the population]"

I AM SO FUCKING TIRED

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