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[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

Reading the notes on my popular tumblr blog gets really depressing sometimes. Lots of insecurities. Lots of people who feel the need to turn any positive post into negativity. Fewer fanpol these days now that I use the block button very liberally, but they're still there. And this week, I once again got antis dropping into my ask box on my personal blog.

Dreamwidth feels much quieter and kinder and overall nicer right now, so thank you all for that.

I should probably extend my tiktok-break into a tumblr-break too. At least until after work stops being quite as crunchy as it is. Maybe I'll try to add some vacation days onto a weekend sometime soon. A vacation (even a staycation) would probably do me some good.

Comments

[pauraque]

People commenting negativity on positive posts happens here too, though maybe not as much or with the same level of self-hating vitriol. More just grim "too bad the world is doomed anyway" stuff when it isn't called for or relevant. I try not to interact with people who do a lot of that because it just isn't productive. I sympathize with people's anxieties, but spreading the anxiety around when people are trying to talk about something else is not the way to deal with it.

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

Yeah, it's the anxieties and the self-deprecation-that's-really-self-loathing that get to me the most. People who are just straight up assholes I block and then move on from. it's the people who just genuinely need some compassion that make my heart hurt