An aspiring writer and game developer from Canada. I am on the spectrum, my special interests are video games and writing. My YouTube: https://youtube.com/@dimentiorules?si=8I9UiptH49PNuKzd
"don't look away" is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?
DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that's something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.
And then? don't feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don't make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don't read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can't change because they're happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.
I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
I’ve been playing through the Thousand Year Door remake, and I got to Chapter 3, when I realized something. I think The Glitz Pit is an illegal fighting ring. Note that it’s up in the sky, almost impossible for a regular person to get to. The only way up is by blimp, and all of the tickets go through Don Pianta, who need I remind you, is exactly what it sounds like, the Don of the Pianta Syndicate, the freaking mafia! But hey, that’s just a theory.
It took me almost a minute to get the joke. To be fair, I’ve never actually seen that movie, all I know about it is from pop culture.
I got really into Persona 3 a few years ago, during the Pandemic. I was wondering what my social links would be if I was a Persona Protagonist and what my velvet room would be. Well, i had a dream once, where I was met by Igor, and my version of the velvet room was an underground fight club. What the hell was my journey going to be like?!
I got really into Persona 3 a few years ago, during the Pandemic. I was wondering what my social links would be if I was a Persona Protagonist and what my velvet room would be. Well, i had a dream once, where I was met by Igor, and my version of the velvet room was an underground fight club. What the hell was my journey going to be like?!
The place I work at is a non-profit that seeks to employ neurodivergent people in order to teach them the skills they need to succeed in work and live on their own. The people there are so nice, they are incredibly supportive of me and my goals, and the other neurodivergent people there give me much needed social connections. I wish there were more places like it, so more people like myself could be given more opportunities.
As a lesbian, it’s happened twice already that one “guy” stands out to me and I think “huh maybe they’re kinda cute and interesting, I wanna get to know them” and then I get to know them better and it’s a closeted trans girl who I somehow sniffed with my little nonbinary lesbian nose