Being a teacher can be overwhelming and I feel bad when I drop the mask in front of my students.

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Being a teacher can be overwhelming and I feel bad when I drop the mask in front of my students.
And we are only 10 months into this Administration. They move fast. They break things. They have no regard for history or norms or laws. They want us to feel overwhelmed and weak, but we can’t submit. We can’t give up. We’ve gotta stay together and sound the alarm constantly.
Based on a true story
new Kiteer dialogue. he calls the items "Cosmic dust" and talks about the futility of fighting, how knowledge is useless with no future minds to carry it.
yES!!! ITS SO!!!!!! COOL!!!! It also makes his return to 'normal' that'll likely happen make sense to me.
He's gone from laid back and uncaring, to absolutely terrified as we see the real effects of meeting the Indifference directly, to slowly slipping as his priorities and entire mindset shifts, mourning the path that lead him to where he is now, to this week, where he's genuinely starting to showcase that classic cosmic nihilism. Nothing really matters. Not in the face of infinity. The fear is still there, yes, but it doesn't matter if he's scared. Doesn't matter if he continues down his path or not. Doesn't matter if traveling into the void gives knowledge for the future.
There is no 'future.' Everything everywhere is now. Whether knowledge is saved here, it wont be there. Try here, you wont there. Die here, you wont, there. Even worse if the Indifference gets what it wants, and consumes all reality. Then, even if he survives, as the only Baro, what would it matter. Nobody else will exist. Void trader trading one of infinite copies of nothing to nothing.
And in the face of that sort of cosmic nihilism, there's only really two paths. Accept eternity, or reject it. He can never unlearn what he knows, but either he can give up entirely or just... Go back to trying to live his tiny little life through tiny little moments of time selling tiny little bits of shiny nothing to tiny little people. What else is there.
(I don't think Wally is a reliable narrator, per-se, since they're tethered to our linear time, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if Baro came face to face with it's hunger and hatred and just realized we were kinda fucked. )
(Additionally, tag list because I know I ramble infinitely too much in my damn tags)
Also I think our drifter/operator shows the third possible route in the face of eternity. Accept that you cant go back and that the infinite is real, still value the moments because ultimately, you're still you, and you can choose what matters to yourself.
972: Limerence
PT: 972: Limerence /end PT
DEFINITION ⦂⠀Feelings of involuntary infatuation with someone, with an overwhelming, obsessive need for reciprocation.
PT: Definition: Feelings of involuntary infatuation with someone, with an overwhelming, obsessive need for reciprocation. /end PT
ADDITIONAL ⦂⠀Coined on the 24th of March, 2026.
PT: Additional: Coined on the 24th of March, 2026. /end PT
TAGGING ⦂⠀@c1rcus-of-silliness @dearestchild @goregender @radiomogai
Onibaba 鬼婆 (1964) dir. Kaneto Shindô
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Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality. Bessel A. van der Kolk, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
Ever got so over stimulated you’ve wanted to rip your own skin off you feel so tense?
Yet you’ve gotta keep the mask on because fucking society wants you to be okay.