Like a Phoenix

Living with cerebral palsy all my life, enduring so many people telling me to suck it up and do it anyway. To persevere where I can't. To hurt myself trying. To nearly kill myself on accident so many times.

They just contribute to the overall fake-claiming culture of the world that causes us to die because it's all up in the medical system too, that's all 👍 (which is worse btw)

People started saying the most aggro, edgelord shit at the drop of a hat, and if anyone pointed out how shitty it was, the culprit would immediately turn around and claim they were being tone policed. The levels of toxicity this resulted in were through the fucking roof, and the result was multiple left-wing online communities fostering the presence of utterly vile trolls because any attempt to curtail them was met with a combination of defensive retreat into marginalization ("Oh, so [members of X marginalized group] aren't allowed to be angry?" "You wouldn't blink an EYE if a cishet white man said the same thing!") and a lambasting dogpile on whoever had dared to point out their bad behaviour. This reached a fever-pitch in around 2014, at which point a bunch of shit happened that collapsed the established troll ecosystems across various online fronts. Since then, things have calmed down somewhat, but the impulse towards treating "hey, stop being an asshole" as a species of microaggression remained, such that it has now metastasized into - or at least significantly contributed to - the "UWU I am a Smol Bean 26yo minor and therefore I can't be held accountable for anything I say or do because I'm PRACTICALLY a CHILD" phenomenon. At base, what all this bullshit ultimately reflects is the desire of a certain type of person to act like an asshole without consequence, which in left-wing spaces is achieved one of two ways: either by situating their target as having more privilege than them, such that they're fair game to abuse (because if they don't take the personal attacks or scathing denunciations of the entire category of person to which they belong in "good humour," then they're proving themselves to be one of the bad ones); or by situating themselves as having a unique right to never ever be criticized or held to account (because they're marginalized or disabled or having a mental health crisis or a MINOR, YOU GUYS and making them feel bad about the shitty things they said is basically abusive).

i am fucking nobody, dude. i am a random human being on the internet you crossed paths with by proxy and you have decided to zero in on me because you're worried about having to go back to the hospital. you're angry that i don't care how scared you are and won't let you get away with harassing people as an outlet for your negative emotions, and you genuinely cannot handle even my passive presence in your life as someone who publicly dislikes you. that is your problem, actually.

You make it extremely hard for me especially to give a fuck about YOU being scared to go back to the hospital, the way you treated me. My issues are "just tummy aches" but we should care about you? Whatever. Piss ant.

I assume other people have hair shows; I've never really thought about it. But yeah! You'll have to find social media of creators and stylists, but you can find a lot of cool things if you look 👀

People started saying the most aggro, edgelord shit at the drop of a hat, and if anyone pointed out how shitty it was, the culprit would immediately turn around and claim they were being tone policed. The levels of toxicity this resulted in were through the fucking roof, and the result was multiple left-wing online communities fostering the presence of utterly vile trolls because any attempt to curtail them was met with a combination of defensive retreat into marginalization ("Oh, so [members of X marginalized group] aren't allowed to be angry?" "You wouldn't blink an EYE if a cishet white man said the same thing!") and a lambasting dogpile on whoever had dared to point out their bad behaviour. This reached a fever-pitch in around 2014, at which point a bunch of shit happened that collapsed the established troll ecosystems across various online fronts. Since then, things have calmed down somewhat, but the impulse towards treating "hey, stop being an asshole" as a species of microaggression remained, such that it has now metastasized into - or at least significantly contributed to - the "UWU I am a Smol Bean 26yo minor and therefore I can't be held accountable for anything I say or do because I'm PRACTICALLY a CHILD" phenomenon. At base, what all this bullshit ultimately reflects is the desire of a certain type of person to act like an asshole without consequence, which in left-wing spaces is achieved one of two ways: either by situating their target as having more privilege than them, such that they're fair game to abuse (because if they don't take the personal attacks or scathing denunciations of the entire category of person to which they belong in "good humour," then they're proving themselves to be one of the bad ones); or by situating themselves as having a unique right to never ever be criticized or held to account (because they're marginalized or disabled or having a mental health crisis or a MINOR, YOU GUYS and making them feel bad about the shitty things they said is basically abusive).

No. When I sleep I just sorta hang out in bed.

I tried to offer advice n stuff as a literal ex sex worker who DIDN'T GET SICK DESPITE BEING HUGELY AT RISK because I practice safe sex. (I got covid twice despite my best efforts because I am so easy to get sick)

Highly recommend. His writing beautiful and captivating I read through this in an afternoon cause I couldn't put it down.

I am especially curious about the encounter with Islam. I want to know if it's a genuine criticism or just a different direction of racism (because yes you can be Black and racist against another race, even your own) American criticism of Islam has famously been mostly racism, unfortunately.

While both share some terminology, Islam and the Nation of Islam (NOI) are fundamentally different. The NOI is a new religious movement founded in the U.S. in 1930. The NOI promotes black nationalism and racial separation with teachings on black divinity and white racial origins. Mainstream Muslims generally do not consider NOI members to be Muslims.

Either way my bad, English fumble my beloathed

Highly recommend. His writing beautiful and captivating I read through this in an afternoon cause I couldn't put it down.

I am especially curious about the encounter with Islam. I want to know if it's a genuine criticism or just a different direction of racism (because yes you can be Black and racist against another race, even your own) American criticism of Islam has famously been mostly racism, unfortunately.

Oc bio, snippet, whole big block of it, anything. Writing workshop time. I think we need to set a proper example since it's in question of development and creative writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome

Slapping psych bandaids on the results of abuse and hardship isn't helping anyone.

Especially when your greatest writing accomplishment is a google doc.

Women are just as capable of being intersexist and also regularly participate in the patriarchy idea of "big stuff is better"

My roommate says that when her mother moved from rural south Virginia to central Maryland in the 80s, old friends called them Yankees.

I base it on "can you buy actual sweet tea and cheese grits from restaurants (outside of Waffle House if you have that but idk if they all sell the same stuff anyway) and is it considered normal to ask for"

My roommate says that when her mother moved from rural south Virginia to central Maryland in the 80s, old friends called them Yankees.

I base it on "can you buy actual sweet tea and cheese grits from restaurants (outside of Waffle House if you have that but idk if they all sell the same stuff anyway) and is it considered normal to ask for"