Millennial friend: *Has RSD*
Me: Hey, you doing okay? Lets take a break here, you seem like you're really deeply troubled and need to unpack some stuff, what's up?
Millennial friend: *Four hour unloading of totally understandable social anxiety and the pressures of expectations weighing on their sense of self*
Me: Okay, that's all totally valid and understandable, sometimes you just need someone to hear you, and understand your suffering.
MH+
I'm really annoyed at how much I internalized and took to heart when I was younger.
So much of what Boomers told me was Projection. Today it's really Really clear.
Just makes it impossibly irritating to have to just Ignore what a boomer is saying to me, because I can tell they're projecting insecurities and actually talking about Themselves.
Those of us who study nuclear waste disposal for no good reason will find this "Live Laugh Love" sign pants-wettingly hilarious.
(from https://twitter.com/nuclearkatie/status/1233121795621912578)
A reminder that Unicorn Riot has been doing excellent on-the-ground journalism work in Minneapolis.
Kerithe gets back recently having come to grips with her nature in a weird but sensible way.
We'd wondered why she didn't really fit the pattern the rest of us have going, where we're Both traditional binary things at the same time.
She was wrestling with the Fae concepts of Summer and Winter. Another Binary. She finally realized that she's a Fae of New England.
Here, Summer and Winter are nominal notions at Best, and a given Day can have some of Both in.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot