#toxic environment

[valenteal]

Oh my god I keep forgetting how some people in the Star Wars fandom see Anakin and then someone likes my long ranting reply and I just get reminded all over again.

And I know. I KNOW that I can’t change everyone’s mind and that it’s far from the most problematic issue I could be debating. But GOD does it piss me off when people say that Anakin was selfish or he should’ve just left the Jedi Order if he didn’t agree with them. Like… did no one ever teach you about recognizing a cult or its tactics? Do people not understand that the Jedi are literally brainwashed and have no “worldly possessions” and that leaving the order means striking out on your own, probably on Coruscant, with no money or job? Have people not payed attention to any of the NUMEROUS red flags? Do people just see that the Jedi staunchly oppose the obviously evil sith and decide they are saints?! Do people not recognize that the Jedi have literally committed genocide??? Like… the Jedi started the conflict with the Sith. They wiped out their entire civilization because of religious dogma. What are people not getting about that!?!?

And Anakin’s mental state. Oh my fucking god! Are people blind to the fact that he’s been groomed and manipulated for years by both the sith and the Jedi and is suffering from a severe mental breakdown during RotS??? Like. Even if you don’t know enough about psychology to recognize and understand BPD and a splitting episode it should still be obvious that he is NOT in his right mind through no fault of his own?!?! He’s traumatized after just coming back from literal WAR, he hasn’t been sleeping because he’s having premonitions of his wife DYING IN CHILDBIRTH EVERY NIGHT, his already feeble support system is in fucking shambles, and a guy he’s trusted for years is suddenly revealed to be an evil mastermind but the person standing against that evil mastermind is someone who has distrusted and scorned Anakin for just as long as the evil mastermind has been his mentor and confidant!!!!!!!!!

I don’t get it and I’m literally crying right now because I just don’t understand how people can’t feel empathy for Anakin and just want to vilify him while putting the people who hurt him on a pedestal. All it took for Anakin to come back to the light was ONE person believing in him. If you somehow missed that the original trilogy is about how love saves people and the prequel trilogy is about how denying love DESTROYS people then I don’t know how to help you.

No seriously I’m crying right now I know people are sheep who want to follow the pretty light and see the people in the marble castle with the gorgeous gardens and peaceful philosophy as good. I get it. But open your fucking eyes!!!!!!!! Being detached from reality and your emotions is not a healthy way to live and I don’t want people like that in positions of power and authority. EMPATHY! COMPASSION! These are the things Anakin embodies that the Jedi largely discard in favor of being cold and distant. The only Jedi who don’t are rebellious af. Qui-Gon (who is still problematic but at least he fucking cares), Obi-wan (was never a fucking golden boy, he almost wasn’t a Jedi and contemplated leaving on MULTIPLE occasions!), Quinlan Voss (no explanation needed here, man wasn’t even raised in the temple), Aayla Secura (Quinlan’s Padawan and the only Jedi we ever see actually contemplating the morality of the Clone War and having a discussion about it and actually LISTENING to what a non-Jedi has to say), Ahsoka (again no explanation needed, she fucking left and didn’t look back), Cal Kestis (has multiple crises about Jedi philosophy throughout the games and eventually decides Fuck It and becomes a much better and less confused person for it)… I could go on but you get the picture right?! You do get this? The Jedi Order was a toxic environment that messed people up so badly and never acknowledged their own flaws until it literally killed them all. Every single tragedy that happened to the Jedi was a direct consequence of their actions and literally all of their biggest enemies originated from within their own ranks!

At least Palpatine was decent enough to put literal red flags all over the Temple when he went and made it his palace!!! Because you know… he turned the Jedi temple into a palace with minimal cosmetic changes and that should REALLY tell you something!

[killowave]

[elyfros]

There’s power in working in a toxic workplace and leaving it, because you witness first hand everything that’s wrong with society. The greed, the bullying, the stalking, smearing, gossip, hate, you’ve seen it all. You have the power of perspective, now you’re the change. It’s how you treat people from now on, how you speak up, how you’ve grown wiser, how you use your experience to make a positive impact on humanity. You’ve leveled up in a way, you can choose to be what you needed to see.

[misterspectacular]

Seeking Support to Secure a Safe and Stable Living Situation

Hey guys, I need to get out of the place I'm currently living pretty bad. I live in a toxic environment that gets to be intolerable. My Autism makes it really hard for me to work and I'm not making enough money to get out. If you could donate to me, that would be really very helpful. Thank you

[unwelcome-ozian]

[demonhaj]

HEY GUYS

OOC: I may be taking a little break for a bit. It’s nothing related to the Blahajverse, I’m just going through some tough shit right now in regards to my school environment. I will probably still reblog stuff, but I need a little break from the internet.

I will be back soon, stay safe and keep being awesome

-Demonhaj

[howifeltabouthim]

'Must take its toll, being surrounded by everything bad.'

Chris Whitaker, from All the Colors of the Dark

[findinglifeinwords]

Sometimes the damage is too great to be repaired. And the only thing that can be done is to let go.

[mental-mona]

An environment that is not safe to disagree in is not an environment focused on growth - it's an environment focused on control.

- Wendi Jade

[t0rschlusspan1k]

It's very, very early in the morning. I woke up to the door to my room wide open while my mother comes and goes calling the cats and feeding them, as if I wasn't asleep (I guess I don't deserve it). Plus, her hatred for me this morning is absolutely palpable.

I had so many extremely important (and equally draining) things to do that mainly concern my health and now I feel too depleted to even move from my bed. They don't care about my health either anyway.

I guess she's angry because I wasn't home yesterday, so I didn't do the usual chores she always accuses me of not doing.

[dis--mayed]

My mom will complain about my dad making faces and noises at her and whatever and how that makes her so sick she can't function, but she expects me to just ignore her son spewing nazi shit, screaming at us, or standing over us, word vomitting, telling us what to do and such because he's bipolar and therefore, "doesn't know what he's saying," so it's okay! My brother just doesn't know what he's been doing for over 30 years! He's not on meds, btw.

[blissfulwoes]

[neverheardsilencethisloud]

It's a rotten world

Can you catch your breath? Are you suffocating under that mask? Thirty-one and still single, Probably because your type is "already taken." The only thing you're good at your job is flirting with men in higher positions, and stomping on ones below your title.

Stomping on interns, Being mean to them Until they offer you a ride home. Well it only proved that you have a cheap price. You didn't ask for a receipt, Paid with a simple "thanks," When your cost was about three bucks, for goodness sake.

Another intern drives you home now, She's also suffocating under a mask. Scrolling through your Instagram, she found out how you got your job: Being best friends with the director's daughter really paid off. Oh, and you thought she was nice, but it's all for show, she'd already stab you, just if she could. She says, You never offered to pay, And put a collar around her neck, a new hybrid breed of puppy was just made.

Just because I became your reflection, You kicked me out of the office. You did me a favor; I always wanted to leave. Who is going to have the last laugh, when in 4 months all masks fall off? Let me just ask you: Have you ever read a labor law? Ha-ha-ha-ha!

So I'm victim of a mobbing. I wrote a poem.

[findinglifeinwords]

[a-contemplative-soul]

"When you are used to unhealthy and toxic social environments, you grow up thinking it's normal to be treated like nothing"

Author: Unknown