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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • <CW: Depression>

    If you want to blame anything for Kurt Cobain’s death, blame the depression he struggled with. It is the tragic truth of this particular mental illness that it can kill people while their loved ones are powerless to do anything about it. It is very, very hard for family and friends of people with depression to watch how their loved ones suffer and it is cruel to blame them for failing where even the best health care professionals are at the limit of what they can do.



  • First of all I intended to poke fun at the usual kind of New Year’s resolutions. But - yes - the political subtext is intentional on my part. The social and political conditions for trans and queer people, as well as women in general are deteriorating rapidly. Ultimately it will require fighting back in one way or another to preserve our human rights.







  • This reminds me of a German kids game by the name of “Poor black cat”: The participants sit in a circle. One participant is the “poor black cat” and accordingly pretends to be a cat. They chose one other participant and that one has to pet the “cat” while calling them a “poor black cat”. If the “cat” makes the participant laugh, they lost and have to play the role of the cat for the next turn.

    So it’s goes in a similar direction of what OP is suggesting, but it involves catgirls.









  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneallergies
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, internalized shame is a hell of a thing, but - at least in my view - it is good to realize that it is forced upon us and not something that comes from within ourselves. It is hard to unlearn, but very liberating to do so, even if the possibilities to live the way we want is limited.