Cyberpunk dysphoria 

Remember when we were younger, and we fantasized that cyberpunk was this awesome desired thing?

Where you could plug yourself in and digitally craft your entire everything, or have some spliced organo-mechano body sculpt so that you could appear outwardly as well as you felt inwardly, or just how much your overall appearance was modifiable?

Remember how excited you got inside when you fantasized that all these things were completely normal in that world, and that it would be worth it despite the utterly bleak dystopian backdrop that leeched all of the empathy, compassion, and civility out of being alive?

We're not there... we've DEFINITELY got the latter dystopian part, and we're still working on the first half, but the general world is not qvite as receptive to our crafting of our own images as would be ideal.

Hold on to those that are accepting of it. Hold on to them tightly.

This is how we survive the problems of the latter... how we navigate the dystopia.

We are better than the inhumanity of this world, because inside we are bright-neon, rainbow colored, shiny metallic, soft and comforting, hard and unflinching, loud and proud, qviet and caring, glowy-eyed beings.

We craft our existence despite being surrounded by these crumbling ruins of society, because who we are is all we have. They cannot take that away, because we won't let them.

You are worth every last gasp of breath that's inside you, every tear of sorrow, every dazzling spark of elation, and every shred of compassion.

I don't know if you needed that reminder or not... I just know that I did, today.

*Hugs softly*

Cyberpunk dysphoria 

@JulieSqveakaroo *hugs back*
Cyberpunks feels like to me like a description of fighting against such bleak world and make the world more human-esuqe again.

In a way, yes, we're already in the cyberpunk people used to dream. We don't have flying cars or Replicants, but we sure have the struggle about humanity.

I still think we have the power to do the change, it's not too late yet.

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Cyberpunk dysphoria 

@Ronflaix @JulieSqveakaroo There's cyberpunk and then there's the sub-genre of cyberpunk dystopia, and we're definitely in the latter.

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