>hanging out >sudden inexplicable feeling that i shouldn't be here, and should instead be eternally backpacking in the appalachian wilderness >???????????

Ahh, it’s back

i have disproportionately strong feelings about this.

there’s a friday ass vibe about this wednesday boys keep your wits about you

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

I’m doing so fucking horrible but in like a super chill way

I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

a sentiment that i sometimes see expressed when people discuss adolescent psych abuse &/or the troubled teen industry is "many of the people in the system weren't even that troubled/weren't a danger to themselves or others, they just had parents who wanted to punish them". this, on the surface, is true. but the implicit message in sentiments like these is, at worst "those who were 'troubled enough' to be sent into these programs deserved to be there" and at best "it is at least understandable why those who were 'troubled enough' got sent to these programs (even if we agree that said programs are bad)". like, do you all realize that you can discuss these systems as mechanisms for parental abuse without throwing us bad kids under the bus, lol? "many of those in the psychiatric or troubled teen industry are there because their parents use these institutions as a way to further their abuse" see how easy that was?

like. there's a post that has over 8 thousand notes which was going around a while back, and it does exactly what i talk about above. & nobody acknowledges it? these institutions are rotten from the core — no child, even those who are "actually troubled", should have to endure what you have to endure within them. i didn't deserve to be there any more than my comrades who were sent there solely as a method of abuse did.