#arm yourself

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

What To Do When It Happens

Write it down. The date. The time. What they said. What you said. What you couldn’t. This isn’t overreacting. It’s documenting.

Tell someone you trust. Not the one who explains it away. The one who believes you.

Save everything. Emails, DMs, texts. Rename the folder something boring.

Find the policy. It’s probably buried under “Respect in the Workplace.” Highlight it like your job depends on it—because it might.

Pay attention to what happens next. The silence. The cold shoulder. The missed invites. That counts too.

If it gets worse, you're not imagining it. Retaliation is common. It’s also illegal.

Don’t quit just to make it stop. Not before you talk to someone. A lawyer. A hotline. A friend who’s been there.

Crying in the bathroom is not unprofessional. Neither is dissociating. Nor surviving.

It’s okay to stay. It’s okay to leave. Either way, you’re strong.

What happened to you matters. Even if you stayed quiet. Even if you laughed. Even if you stayed quiet for a long, long, time.

NOTE: I wrote this on paper first (pic above) but realised my handwriting is mostly indecipherable trash. Didn't want to put you through that. Also, can people born after 2000 even read cursive nowadays? I truly have no idea.

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[hug-enjoyer]

What a time to be alive. I'm no longer the only one in my circle who cares. Welcome. It's great to have you here.

[ellewantsrevenge]

i saw these two posts back to back on separate sites. i'm glad the universe saw fit to serve that up to me on a silver platter today. read the words. read them again. watch for the patterns

none of this is by accident

all of this has happened before

read a book

[fauxlore-82]

Thinking about Juniper Blessing tonight...

To all of my sisters, I hope you are doing alright. If any of you ever need anything please reach out. We need to stick together now more than ever

You were known to us Juniper Blessing

[victusinveritas]

This is how they will legalize jailing civil protesters by calling a simple, peaceful protest "vagrancy" even where there's no violence or public disruption other than people marching & chanting for their cause. This should be terrifying. This is the "just shoot them in the legs" fix for civil unrest. The good news is, if they're going to shoot you anyway, you might as well, I don't know, defend yourself to the best of your ability, whatever that means to you.

[newearthnovember]

"This way, Rose Tyler." - New Earth, SCRIPTED

A great, wordless little character moment for Rose sketched in by RTD: she knows she's probably in the wrong place and might be walking into a trap, but she's also instinctively curious. So her first reaction is to grab something to defend herself before following Chip, just in case.

She's still awed by the universe, but that doesn't mean she hasn't picked up some shrewd experience along the way.

[nervoswreck]

we need a black panther party esque group to form against ice

maybe they'll think twice about shooting if enough people had a gun. NRA is sorta in defense of Alex Pretti. Maybe as a nation we finally have a reason for the second amendment. ICE can't shoot because you have a gun. But if they do you can sure as hell fight back. It's gonna happen soon, an ICE agent is gonna enter a gun owners home.

[sugoiney-weaver]

Go to your locally-owned hardware store. Buy long wooden dowels, about the width of your thumb. Buy plywood, straps, and fasteners to create a shield. Create as many of these as you can. distribute them to your neighbors.