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nuclearvampire replied to your post: “Replies (in reverse order because Tumblr gotta Tumblr):[[MOR]...”
Dude, your constant belligerence in the face of discrimination is cheering and makes me feel like it's okay for my little afab self to be cranky and not 'nice' all the time. Your writing is a flaming middle finger to people that tell us to shut up, and it helps me get my own defenses in place, instead of dithering over whether I'm being too 'mean.'
I am so glad that my cantankerousness is good for more than increasingly being the embodiment of ‘old man yells at cloud’. <3 EMBRACE THE CRANKINESS. You might overcorrect occasionally but I’ve found that it’s way better to have to apologize for being overly grumpy sometimes than it is to be walked all over constantly.
thecolossalennui replied to your post: “Ok, I guess not all is well in brain land because I feel caught...”
THE WORLD NEEDS ART!!! every day I go and do The Science and I am so happy when there are Stories waiting for me when I come home, it is a good service
This really helps, because Doing Science is so amazing and important and the idea that people who Do Science can come home and be excited about Stories and that helps keep them going to do More Science makes it the whole ‘art is important’ thing concrete in a way that my brain gremlins really sit up and take notice of. (Man, did the whole ‘Logic and Science are better than everything else’ thing worm its way into my head or what.) Anything that gets my head to stop that nonsense and listen is both amazing and an important thing for me to have to cling to when I need it, and I really need it right now. Thank you.
copperscales replied to your post “Ok, I guess not all is well in brain land because I feel caught...”
Hugs, bro. It's hard to fight your own brain like that, I know. But stories aren't frivolous, they're art and the world is going to need all the art it can get. And you deserve to be paid for creating things that make other people happy.