"Remember this. Try."

some stuff literally can’t be healed, only lived with. toxic positivity culture needs to accept that, and worry about how we’re gonna care for each other when we’ve been so broken we won’t ever be whole again. no one wants to hear this, and I’d never suggest not even attempting recovery, but at a certain point we have to acknowledge, somethings you can’t fix, somethings you can’t spin positively, somethings we just have to try and get through, somethings can’t be borne. and there isn’t anything wrong with you for being in that situation. there is something wrong with a world that demands it’s very biased, very agenda-based definition of health as some moral virtue or character statement. healing is great, if you can get there on this or that thing, but it isn’t always possible, and it isn’t a requirement to be deserving of care and basic human dignity. no one finishes out their life without some degree of scar tissue. living is not all rainbows. people are not failing in that regard by being real about it. you are not failing.

while I do absolutely appreciate the 10k character limit here on kolektiva, I think I may think twice about tooting a giant block of text again, instead of threading, because my notifications are INTENSE right now. grateful for the character limit, wishing it was collapsible lol

also, anyone out there interested in understanding pirates politically? the nature of their organization in the so-called golden age, ranging to the people now, today, in various parts of the world, who are so called, fighting colonialism? cause, that’s kinda my thing. I could go on and on and on and on—