there are A LOT of people who probably shouldn’t be parents.

It’s usually really terrible, damaged people who say that, too. Like, THEY really shouldn’t have been hit as a child.

Right? The terms of their contracts with their labels are pretty alarming (and are often signed when the aspiring idols are 12-14 years old), to the point the Korean government had to step in a few years ago to curb some of the more exploitative practices in the industry.

YES. Ive been having a really hard time explaining this feeling to people. I live alone and really struggled at the beginning of the pandemic (even had a depression breakdown where I didnt leave my couch for over a month). And now that Im vaccinated, seeing friends more, and I’ve even started dating a REALLY great guy…

It’s a computer generated font, so not hard if you can read cursive!

I don't think it is even cursive? It looks more printed letters strung together. 

“Spanking does for a child’s development what hitting a spouse does for marriage.”

More people need to watch Inside Out and learn that there aren’t negative or positive emotions, there’s just emotions and it’s ok to feel them. In fact that’s normal.

I also found it helpful because it’s hard to pinpoint why the feeling is different. Like I have depression and anxiety but this felt so different- like I was becoming invisible even though I was regularly talking to friends and family and seeing my best friend who lives nearby who’s been in my “bubble.” But I never…

Yeah, this. Merely mentioning any feeling beyond the blandly chipper triggers a stare like you pooped in their yard. That’s not optimism, it’s superstition.

Actually, Hitler was not vegetarian. He used to eat squab. 

Hitler does not need people going “he loved dogs!” (He did, too.) Hitler was fucking HITLER, he made his choices, he gets judged as one of the most evil people ever, that is IT. His pet and diet choices aren’t an absolution for The Final Solution, Goddammit.

I actually found this article helpful, because it gave a name to my overall mood for the last year (and, frankly, for most of my life in suburbia). I’d been calling it Stimulation Deficit combined with Inability to Escape People I Love But Who Are Annoying When Experienced 24/7/365. I spent alot of time in my car…

3-5 CST for me. Like fucking clockwork. I’m trying to tell myself if I quit sugar it’ll stop. It’s more muted on the weekends, but it still happens. 

i like the context of knowing that a lot of people are languishing right now because it actually takes it out of my own anxiety and depression that will exist before and after a global pandemic and puts me in a collective feeling of struggle, which is a perspective you don’t always get as an anxious!

Stop telling me how I feel! LOL

Ledes and story structures that presume universality of experience are almost inevitably going to alienate a large part of one’s readership, either because 1) the experience *isn’t* shared by the reader, or 2) many people resent strangers making presumptions about their lives. Back in the ancient times when I was a…

I am assuming you’re on the east coast because my peak despair is 2-3 CST. And yes, peak despair can take up a whole day. and the night’s not so bad. 

Perhaps this is more an issue of unfortunate writing than these people literally telling people how they feel, but it’s still a good point. This is common in all kinds of much more trivial things too, such as polls. Some “for fun” polls on websites have a habit of including incredibly precise feelings that aren’t…

Oh for fuck’s sake. Now people are bitchy because the media’s attempts to capture the collective shittiness that has been the past year doesn’t capture the specific nuances and timing of every single individual’s feelings?