Dear Aether, @dearaether - Tumblr Blog

"But you were young You thought you didn't have to care about anyone But you're older now and wish that you could”

I got home last night from my nieces in Montreal. I shut down so hard when I'm there and become an actor. I could support them for months straight (at the cost of my health) but each time I come home and take off the armour I'd worn, I'm so exhausted I can't get out of bed.

They feel like two different lives and two different mes, each of whom can only talk to the other through fragmented memories.

Idk if I mean this poetically or literally.

#dear aether

earthgears

Such an Amazing Piece of Art

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dearaether

tfw your hometown ends up on your timeline

if you really must know, I’m not anything more than just a sad gay bitch

#gay shit

Dear Aether,

2 April

ngl, I'm worried. Mom is 63. She has diabetes and hypertension. She works in a hospital and while her job can be done remotely, her boss doesn't believe COVID is a serious enough issue to approve her request. Because she doesn't directly treat patients, she has no PPE whatsoever.

Aether, you know how I struggle with pattern recognition: that I link too many things, organizing events and observations into categories that are too narrowly defined to ever accurately reflect the world.

13 years ago today, my dad was admitted to ICU. 3 days later, he died of pneumonia, drowning as his lungs fell apart. Acute respitory failure resulting from a different pandemic: HIV/AIDS. As far as I have experienced, pandemics are what kill parents.

And so it's been an argument with myself every day to not climb down into the rabbit hole. As my brain meanders and loops around all day, it keeps rediscovering the same pattern, interjecting itself into my Netflix haze: "You could lose both parents to different pandemics."

#dear aether #coronavirus diary

archatlas

Empty Cities around the World during the Quarantine

The New York Times has just released a series of breathtaking photographs of the world’s largest cities during this heavy quarantine period. “The void proliferates like the virus” chants the newspaper, illustrating confinement around the world. More and more countries are indeed finding themselves obliged to adopt more or less harsh exit restrictions in order to fight the coronavirus pandemic.