#this is a vent

[limitedunderdog]

condolences from a delusioned astronaut

[myglittervoid]

You all need to gain a better understanding of systemic issues. A lot of people are still pointing at individuals and completely ignoring the systems that contribute to their actions.

A lot of people do not have the knowledge that you have. A lot of people actually don't know the things you learned in your 9th grade civics class. A lot of people don't know that the economy is always a reflection of the previous president. A lot of people don't know what a lot of the terms you know mean. And some of you are spending so much time ignoring systems so that you can call those people stupid and assign all of the blame to them.

When I was critical of the candidate I was supporting (Kamala Harris) it was democrats telling me to just go vote for Trump. I kept track, and over 80 democrats told me to vote for Trump while only one Republican suggested it.

And then y'all just keep stressing voting in the next election (which you should do) but are still refusing to take any action right now. Will you please do anything that isn't making a shitty blue bracelet or buying a fucking handmaid's tale costume?

[citrine-elephant]

and once again returning to the cone of shame idea for leon

except it's like claw caps for human. and kinky.

leon versus nervous skin picking, go !

or like... leon's got too happy of a trigger finger, says the bad guy. gotta train that out of him !

[slumberouslemon]

I feel like I have gone back in time.

I feel like it's 2014, and I'm 13 sitting at the doctor's office being told I may never be able to run again, let alone continue the sport that is my life.

"How's the knee?" And "is it hard being in crutches" everyone asks

I wonder if it matters at all

Nobody asks me how I'm doing. Not my family, not my coaches, not even my closest friends, nobody.

I feel so deeply alone.

My mother walks in on me, crying my eyes out in the dark of my room at 2am. I turn away, and she closes the door. It is never spoken of.

I feel like there is something deeply wrong with me.

Why is it that these feelings linger so long?

Because I am not that teenager anymore. Yet I feel as utterly helpless now as I did then.

Maybe because most around me still only ask about my physical health, without concern about me as a person.

"How are your joints lately?", "have you had news of the rheumatologist?"

Yet no questions about I am after having to give up another dream just when I figure it out.

I'm tired.

I know I'm not alone, I know that things are slowly getting better.

However, I needed to write this out, to get it out of my system and maybe, just maybe, chase this crushing despair away.

[pienpup]

sometimes i feel like they won't be happy until im dead.

[pyjamacryptid]

PSA FOR MAKE-UP AND SKINCARE BRANDS: START LISTING POTENTIAL ALLERGENS AT THE END IN BOLD LIKE FOOD PRODUCTS HAVE TO BECAUSE IT IS WAY OVERDUE AS A MANDATORY REQUIREMENT AND I AM TIRED.

[something-about-sunflowers]

What is it about smokers that makes them the least considerate people in the entire fucking world? And I'm including people who vape and people who smoke pot tbh.

(Preemptive 'if this doesn't apply to you then leave me the fuck alone about it, I'm not talking about you but also it probably does apply to you in one way or another and you should do better about that')

My mom doesn't like to go places in my car because I don't want her to smoke in it. She doesn't like to go to the grocery in my car because I won't let her smoke in it. Our regular grocery is MAYBE a 5 minute drive with high traffic.

Everyone I know who vapes does it without a single care for where they are. They do not bother to ask if they CAN do so, they do it until they are told not to. And then they still try to sneak it when they think they can get away with it. They do not care if they blow their vape directly in your face.

When I was a teenager my mom was out of work for a while. My parents were separated and I lived with my mom*. We had such little money on one occasion that, when I happened to have maybe 10$ because a friend lent it to me, I got some mcdonald's for dinner. My mom was mad I used the money for food instead of buying her cigarettes. We had next to NOTHING to eat in the house.

(*Believe it or not this was still preferable to living with my dad.)

Every person I know who smokes pot doesn't give half a rat's ass that it smells fucking RANCID to people who don't. When I was in school there were kids who came by my group's lunch table and would just light up a joint like nobody minded. I minded. The smell was bad enough but the smoke itself ALSO FUCKS WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S LUNGS. SOME PEOPLE HAVE SHITTY LUNGS. They literally only stopped because one of the people in my group wound up pregnant and asked them not to because it could affect her baby. She STILL had to ask them to stop several times.

As a kid I got bullied because all of my clothes smelled like smoke. I had chronic bronchitis and if it wasn't directly caused by my parent's smoking it certainly was exacerbated by it. I have been burned on at least three separate occasions by three separate people's cigarettes because they didn't care enough to pay attention to where they were waving it around.

I already know I have shitty parents and that is a contributing factor to some of this but it still stands that OTHER people in my life are like this too. Everyone I have ever met who smokes or vapes has been like this one way or another. It is infuriating.

[droolydawg]

I say I'm a werewolf -> they take it as a joke -> I say it more often because I realize they think I'm not serious -> they tell me it isn't funny anymore -> I explain that it's not supposed to be funny -> they call me crazy -> I realize they don't believe me so it doesn't matter if i say it anyway because its not like they'll do anything to me -> i make a reference to it once, like a week later -> they threaten to call the cops on me -> i dont know if they believe me now or think im endangering myself so i shut up

[belialslust]

i don't think I can square hammer my way out of this

[cheeseofthecake]

So everyone was too nice not to say anything.

I get it now though. I'm not a 24y/o

Im like, 19 mentally

That's okay though

I'll be fine

[hayatiayad]

W: Eye strain (sorta)

"Rage & Corrupt"

"Doesn't it feel good to just let go?" —Alter Ego

[snailsnaps]

I lost a beloved pet today. We had no other choice than to put her down, and of course, it was so hard to say goodbye to her. She's been with me since I was so small, she's been with me through horrible times, through a horrible breakup........

She's resting now, but I miss her, I miss her so much. I'm trying to cope with loss through any means I can - i guess this is one of them

[myglittervoid]

The issue we are going to keep having is the number of people in the US who are willing and able to ignore a genocide they think doesn't apply to them. I'm talking about the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. I want to be clear about that and why. Because despite the numbers just not adding up, a lot of y'all insist on blaming people fighting a genocide for Kamala Harris losing.

Genocide should be a hard line for all of us- not in a self-sacrificing and self righteous kind of way, but in that genocide always effects all of us. Our willingness to ignore serves as consent. And the last year showed me that a large number of people only see evil when it is wearing red. You only hear how evil shit sounds if it is coming from someone who you already view as evil. When Kamala Harris refused to give a platform to Palestinian activists who wanted to reunite the party/platform, only to then talk about how she would always make sure Israel could defend itself... That shit was evil and y'all ignored it. When she was talking about us having the most lethal military in the world... That shit was evil.

And instead of being mad at her or the democratic party for moving right during a time we needed them to be firm in their humanity, you are mad at everyone who said "hey this shit sounds conservative and it sounds evil".

Even now so many of you are still spreading this narrative of "people were just racist and sexist" and ignoring every real issue people had with her. I voted for Harris, got multiple other people to vote for her, and still occasionally get DMs from people telling me that I cost her the election by being critical of her. It is just goofy at this point.

If a politician you support doesn't hold up to criticism and you are still supporting them, you are not engaging critically with politics anymore. I think a lot of you are just upset that you learned about yourselves that you could be talked out of caring about genocide, just to not get what you wanted anyway. You were willing to sacrifice Palestine to protect yourself. Was that worth it?

[redstrewn]

Ocudeus destroy that scam towing company

[thatonesimp-e]

yeah

Everything in the background (if you can read it) is what I remember my dad saying. Even then I think I'm a little off. Was too busy beating the shit out of a soldier as a scout in tf2 <3