It's 2040. Our president is a plant!

Fascism thrives best in the cesspool of hopelessness. They want us so confused and hopeless that we give in. When you give in, you don’t fight back.

If you wait for life to look good to do the things that bring you joy; life will still be bad - you will just have less joy.

As someone who has struggled with my mental health a lot for the last thirty years, I know this struggle firsthand. And changing this belief system - the one where you spend all of your time expecting bad things so you won’t be surprised when they happen - it’s the hardest work that I have ever done. And I’m not perfect; I still have setbacks. I still experience really real fears about the state of the world and the US, in particular, because that’s where I live.

But I made a vow to myself that I will not let the choices of others ruin my life. When I made that vow, I was thinking of my parents - but it applies to the state of the government right now, too.

There are still flowers in my garden, and ripe tomatoes, and it’s almost pick-your-own apples season, and I have plans with my friends to go to as many cemetery ghost walks as we can find this October.

I still deserve to live. I still deserve to laugh. I still deserve to love. I still deserve to be as happy as I can be.

Like s1 Mike is fully willing to die for him

s2 steve sees him and they just latch onto each other now brothers for life and Nancy dances with him at the snowball so he won’t be alone. He breaks through the power of the hive mind by caring for dart and he dies after sparing him in the tunnels

s3 robin and steve sacrifice themselves by getting captured by the Russians to give him and Erica the chance to run gaining a fellow nerd in Erica who latches onto him too

s4 you have Eddie dying to save him and older brother-ing his way into his life

And s5 we see how his science teacher is willing to throw everything he was doing out of the window to go make a telemetry tracker at the chance he may be in danger with no evidence to prove it??

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