#That mindset is not fairness or good.

[hellowhoisthere]

I can't understand that people are saying Neo desvered it. Did she have that happen to her as the result of her own action and inablility to cope? yeah. But she did not deserve it. There is a difference.

[inkskinned]

you were raised in comparison.

it wasn't always obvious (well. except for the times that it was), but you internalized it young. you had to eat what you didn't like, other people are going hungry, and you should be grateful. you had to suck it up and walk on the twisted ankle, it wasn't broken, you were just being a baby. you were never actually suffering, people obviously had it worse than you did.

you had a roof over your head - imagine! with the way you behaved, with how you talked back to your parents? you're lucky they didn't kick you out on your ass. they had friends who had to deal with that. hell, you have friends who had to deal with that. and how dare you imply your father isn't there for you - just because he doesn't ever actually talk to you and just because he's completely emotionally checked out of your life doesn't mean you're not fucking lucky. think about your cousins, who don't even get to speak to their dad. so what if yours has a mean streak; is aggressive and rude. at least you have a father to be rude to you.

you really think you're hurting? you were raised in a home! you had access to clean water! you never so much as came close to experiencing a real problem. sure, okay. you have this "mental illness" thing, but teenagers are always depressed, right. it's a phase, you'll move on with your life.

what do you mean you feel burnt out at work. what do you mean you mean you never "formed healthy coping mechanisms?" we raised you better than that. you were supposed to just shoulder through things. to hold yourself to high expectations. "burning out" is for people with real jobs and real stress. burnout is for people who have sick kids and people who have high-paying jobs and people who are actually experiencing something difficult. recently you almost cried because you couldn't find your fucking car keys. you just have lost your sense of gratitude, and honestly, we're kind of hurt. we tell you we love you, isn't that enough? if you want us to stick around, you need to be better about proving it. you need to shut up about how your mental health is ruined.

it could be worse! what if you were actually experiencing executive dysfunction. if you were really actually sick, would you even be able to look at things on the internet about it? you just spend too much time on webMD. you just like to freak yourself out and feel like you belong to something. you just like playing the victim. this is always how you have been - you've always been so fucking dramatic. you have no idea how good you have it - you're too fucking sensitive.

you were like, maybe too good of a kid. unwilling to make a real fuss. and the whole time - the little points, the little validations - they went unnoticed. it isn't that you were looking for love, specifically - more like you'd just wanted any one person to actually listen. that was all you'd really need. you just needed to be witnessed. it wasn't that you couldn't withstand the burden, but you did want to know that anyone was watching. these days, you are so accustomed to the idea of comparison - you don't even think you belong in your own communities. someone always fits better than you do. you're always the outlier. they made these places safe, and then you go in, and you are just not... quite the same way that would actually-fit.

you watch the little white ocean of your numbness lap at your ankles. the tide has been coming in for a while, you need to do something about it. what you want to do is take a nap. what you want to do is develop some kind of time machine - it's not like you want your life to stop, not completely, but it would really nice if you could just get everything to freeze, just for a little while, just until you're finished resting. but at least you're not the worst you've been. at least you have anything. you're so fucking lucky. do you have any concept of the amount of global suffering?

a little ant dies at the side of your kitchen sink. you look at its strange chitinous body and think - if you could just somehow convince yourself it is enough, it will finally be enough and you can be happy. no changes will have to be made. you just need to remember what you could lose. what is still precious to you.

you can't stop staring at the ant. you could be an ant instead of a person, that is how lucky you are. it's just - you didn't know the name of the ant, did you. it's just - ants spend their whole life working, and never complain. never pull the car over to weep.

it's just - when it died, it curled up into a tight little ball.

something kind of uncomfortable: you do that when you sleep.

[suntails]

im feeling a little better today so i scribbled myself if i were in twst

[littlerosetrove]

Ngl I'm thinking of--gosh I think in season 3? When May wrote some essay about cops and how the system is flawed or something? And Athena was offended, but I think understood May and certainly expressed, "you can feel however you want to feel, May." It's been awhile since I watched that episode.

Then fast forward to episode 7.1 where Athena, however funny the scene was delivered, said she didn't trust Lola because "she's a felon" and saying how she thinks 60 days in jail wasn't enough punishment or something?

Miss Athena ma'am, we are all once again begging you to retire. That attitude right there is part of the problem with cops. It's giving the strong impression that Athena doesn't trust anyone who has served time? Idk, it's also kinda saying Athena may be hard pressed to give people, "felons", second chances??????

Things to think about.

[termitesisagrandslam]

anyone else ever have that thing where you'd actively downplay unhealthy attitudes to casual friends/acquaintances bc you dont wanna be too "heavy" with people you arent very close with but then it backfires bc those people think you genuinely dont take any of it seriously and distance themselves from you because they think youre a mess with no self awareness?

[pinkopalina]

I guess they're making a Joker 2 and a lot of people have concerns about how characters are going to work since Joker created Batman and there's a huge age gap but I mean I'd still be willing to see how they're going to tell a continuation of the story because obviously they're taking a different spin on things, it's an au. I don't think that Batman and Harley Quinn are going to be an exact one-to-one either So us trying to fit Arthur fleck Joker into like the animated series Batman isn't going to work but if we give it a chance to tell its own version of the story maybe it will. maybe this time Harley will be the one using Joker and she'll just be so fascinated by him that she won't actually be trying to help him she'll just be figuring him out and taking advantage of him and he'll be so like exhilarated by somebody being interested in him that he'll act crazy when he finds out it's not working and it'll still be a toxic relationship but the dynamic will have shifted just like it did in the first movie with the main characters.

[olympiansally]

Normal behavior in the house tonight: stalling to post a fic for the current fandom because it feels a bit like betraying the past one

[baba-fett]

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[ismael5135]

i really do hope that the next generation of students will no longer have to sacrfice their health for their education

[mothslimes]

more representation for writers who improvise their entire first draft and then post it online with no more than minor edits....

[tipytap]

anybody else sick of the grind? sick of the “oooh ive found something im good at!!! now how can i monetize it?”

[beachs1ck]

everyday gets a little harder.

[cronchcake]

if you're having trouble starting tasks because you have the Starting Tasks Is Hard disorder, just start the task. hope this helps!

[dragonanon]

Me: “Okay we’re at work right now, we need to focus you little shit.”

My brain: “Sure thing!….BUUUUT real quick, what if we made ANOTHER TADC OC, but this one has ADD and Depression like us and has a very expressive face we can use to make meme edits?? Oh and she’s cat based too!”

Me:

[private-bryan]

[skeleton-monarch]

i’m not going to directly argue at 2:30am but remember hourly workers and salary workers are both workers and the people refusing to pay us have a vested interest in driving a wedge between us.