Real talk: everything in the news makes me more scared, day after day.
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So many people still believe reason will prevail. There is no socially acceptable way to talk about my world.
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"How are you doing?" "Um. Seven states are trying to criminalize being trans. My country was sold to Russia. Freedom of speech is at risk."
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"How was your day?" "A not insignificant number of people in my social graph are legitimately worried about being political prisoners."
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I don't want to go to jail. I don't want to be killed. I want to continue building beautiful worlds and being among the people I love.
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But it's a lot harder to do that third thing when I'm desperately searching for solutions to the first two things.
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I've been managing okay the last week or two because I realized the best I could do right now is sort out my own life.
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Until I have an income and some stability I won't be much use to anyone, so fixing that is top priority.
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But yeah this is from a perspective of "I need money to save my friends from oppression and fascism".
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It's jarring when people are continuing as they were like the world isn't collapsing.
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A coworker casually asked me this yesterday - it took about 15 seconds for me to get out "Um, not the worst, I think..."
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best I can manage recently is “I’m here”
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My canned response is now: 'Well, aside from the impending collapse of civilization, I'm doing pretty okay!'
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*hug*
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I feel this too. You are not alone.
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