Darling...

Queer. She/her. Seattle, WA. Insta: cyasunaga.

[whiskeyinacoffeemug]

I know where we stand

To remember this through the pain

Is bittersweet

The truth that lays dormant

I try to numb

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

[whiskeyinacoffeemug]

In this grey area of deleting tumblr or using it again to get some shit out of my system

[2000ish]

old 2000s school lunch menu

[sailor-moon-rei]

by jiji_zizidolce

art republished with artist’s permission  

[whiskeyinacoffeemug]

I'm still stuck in the cycle of whether to stick around on here or dip out. or maybe disappear for a long time and keep this handle since I lost my previous one.

[hanavbara]

jennifer’s body 🩸💖

[tordenvejr]

you have to look for your heart in everything you've ever done and everything you're longing to do

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”

— Unknown

[supernatural-jackles]

Something no one tells you when you’re going through a tough time, is that even the smallest people will remember you. They’ll wonder why you haven’t bought food for your dog, where the pictures of your boyfriend went, or why their favourite cashier hasn’t been there for awhile. People notice you. People love you. Even if it’s for your jokes, even if it’s for your patience, even if it’s just seeing you around. People miss you. People love you. People care. 

I’m grateful for everyone who is still here today, no matter how hard it is. 

[spellbookbitch]

I still remember when I quit my old job at a McDonald’s, I was talking about how it was my last day, and had accidentally left the drive thru window open. The lady in the window overheard me and said “oh no, you’re quitting? I’ll miss you, you were always so nice!” And I almost sobbed. This random lady came through my drive thru enough to recognize me, enough to care that I was leaving, despite having barely had a single conversation other than what I had to say to do my job. People really do remember you, especially if you’re nice.

[sunshine-tattoo]

don’t let capitalism convince you that people are selfish loners. We are social creatures who have survived only because we are capable of great love.

[zoobus]

The worst part of normalized surveillance is the normalization.

It's the thousands of followers who react to your secretly taken videos of noble good deeds with encouragement. It's them feeling cheered up, day made, hearts filled with warmth by your brazen voyeurism.

It's scrolling past a Tumblr post of a reddit post of a Twitter screenshot of a father and daughter sharing an intimate, family moment, oblivious to the tweeter taking a photo of them.

It's minding your business at the grocery store, hearing a weird noise, and realizing some teens are filming a tiktok dance and either did not notice or did not care that you are in the shot.

It's walking home with a mask on because every single condo and floor apartment in your neighborhood has Ring and you don't know what that means for you yet.

It's thinking about talking to a PR person just in case your recurring nightmare of your mental breakdown in the parking lot suddenly going viral comes true, hoping against hope a professional knows the magic set of words that will mitigate the harassment, stop you from losing your job.

It's that reddit post of the Sikh woman who found her and her mustache on the frontpage, forced to turn public humiliation into a teaching moment. It's some jackass redditor posting a couples photo, ostensibly to mock that his fly was down yet 70% of the comments target his girlfriend's appearance. It's seeing a top reddit pic with a headline demonizing a person in it months after you saw this same pic taken down after mods discovered op was lying. It's a lot of reddit.

It's wondering how many times your face has been posted online and if it was in a positive context at least.

It's that this is all normal, that so many of these things feel neutral to individuals, not a risk they're taking on behalf of a stranger.

[alwaysbewoke]

Damn!

[thewellofastarael]

I looked it up, for those wondering this is how that exit is designed:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6119279,-122.3301383,16.85z

[whiskeyinacoffeemug]

Sigh, seattle.

[universalequalityisinevitable]

[universalequalityisinevitable]

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

[ebonykalokoh]

Brilliant

[unapologeticexistence]

Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

[moonbeam-fox-zero]

Contempt for poverty is violence

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[whiskeyinacoffeemug]

recently I’ve been concerned with privacy over social media platforms.

I don’t feel safe by using them but if I remove the few I do have, I will be entirely disconnected and I’m not sure what’s worse.

I’m growing more convinced what I share online needs to be so disconnected from details I don’t think about, even minor comments about the weather for example.

I’ve had people stalk me previously, manage to always find me and I think that’s part of my stress with it.

Just something weighing on my mind a lot more recently, but without social media I will lose connections with people.

[queenkay-xo-deactivated20231226]

[transgang-deactivated20201105]

you know even if a homeless person or a starving person is in that position because of their own "bad decisions" i don't care. it doesn't matter. no supposed financial misstep is enough to condemn someone to homelessness or poverty.

[moonbeam-fox-zero]

No one can be 100% responsible for their circumstances at all times, but even if they could? Even if they were? I would still want them to get the help they need.

Travel out of state bc Washington has better benefits than Idaho? Welcome home brothers and sisters, please apply for food stamps and housing assistance, let me help you fill out the forms.