Watch the monkie kid

It's racism first and foremost, obviously

But people also often think of animals as innocent beings incapable of wrongdoing, and people in distress or poverty as somehow "bringing it upon themselves"

We see this in the intense racism against people living in countries that suffer greatly from pollution, and those countries or regions somehow always just happen to be ex-colonies

People blame those people for littering or "fucking up their own ecology" which in their eyes justifies the suffering and health consequences they go through

Humans basically can never be innocent, their suffering is always somehow deserved, or their own fault, or we can just do nothing about it

y'know how a lot of characters have black/dark eyes? this actually makes biological sense since darker eyes have more sun resistance (as in they can see better in bright light) and while we have a nocturnal bottleneck theory in our world (the idea is that our mammalian ancestors had to hide from diurnal dinosaurs, causing us to have less resistance to sunlight visually, I can't remember exactly bc it's been years since I learned about the theory in my bio classes)

what if cubes have the opposite? ergo they are genetically predisposed to more sun resistance because the mobs practically force them to be diurnal? I could imagine people with better night vision/shittier day vision potentially being seen as 'mob born' or something.

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

You don’t have to donate and you don’t have to use the site.