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dennybitte

the moments we save

by Denny Bitte

nevver

The descent, Oliver Jeffers

goodreadss

incidentalcomics

Insight

feefal

Dreaming of steep mountains and starry skies✨

ymutate

Nathalie Cohen, Quarantine Dreams.

espadaclover

You know what? It’s really like that sometimes.

bro-winkle

This is automatic stress relief

jumpingjacktrash

i could feel my shoulders unknotting

seashellronan

i want to go home. i will always want to go home. even when i am at home i want to go home. but i’m not really thinking of a place, it’s more that feeling of everything finally being over, of seeing the light in the windows of your house on a cold night, of being safe, the relief of leaving a party you’re not enjoying, like when you felt sick at school and they sent you home, or when you got upset at a sleepover and they called your parents. i want my mam to come get me. i want to go home.

equivocations

late fall evenings in Seattle.

quotemadness

“It’s always me, running away. Sometimes, to save myself from something. Most of the time, to save something from me.”

— A. Martin

ecairnsart

quick study from a photo 👐

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zooiboo

the dream

love-notes-to-survivors

Burnout is honestly such a mild word for what people use it to mean. I'm not experiencing "burnout", which sounds so casual and routine that some face masks and a little rest is going to fix it.

My body and mind and even nervous system are stretched to the point that it's going to take a lot more than just a "break" or a few self care tips to recover, and even then, my recovery is just so that I can reenter the spaces that contributed to me being this way in the first place. I'm a little bit more than just burnt out by this.

Workplaces and educational institutions aggressively overwork us, expose us to all kinds of discrimination, which they overlook and gaslight us out of acknowledging, and then constantly ask us to ignore our mental, emotional, and physical needs so that we don't inconvenience them.

We're not burnt out. We're borderline traumatized. Burnout is always talked about like something transient and mild that a little rest and relaxation will fix.

But we're exhausted. We need deep rest and healing. We need new systems. We need new ways of being. The language around burnout just seems like a way of upholding these current violent systems and downplaying their impacts.