Come, stay awhile

"what if i'm faking it for attention or some other gain" <- me about symptoms i cannot control or reproduce, that happen even when im alone, and that actively make my life harder.

Nothing is “TMI” for me. I’m nosy as shit. Tell me everything. Spare no detail.

i'm trying my hardest to not act how i feel

I wish we had more posts like this as opposed to seeing a thousand posts on mu dash try to prove am obvious Hitler salute is a Hitler salute to those who will never listen.

Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor, activist, and band chief of Cree and Iyarhe Nakoda descent, as Cecil Delaronde in Canadian TV series Blackstone.

[image description: two stills of Gordon Tootoosis, captioned, “Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power.” end description.]

This is one of the most profound statements on leadership I’ve encountered in a long time, and it really landed a hit on me. It’s difficult to discuss without getting a little weird about it, but for a long time I’ve been of the mind that the privilege of having a large readership implies the duty of giving back in specific ways – I just never thought of it in terms of leadership as submission to duty.