How do you convince the person who's taught you to always be brave and never give up, to not give up on themselves? Without being pushy or giving false hope? And how do you do that while being eaten up on the inside by anxiety and fear?

Goth is becoming more popular than it has ever been. Take for example The Cure cover "The Perfect Girl" that has by total over billion streams. Of course a lot of it has to do with universal feeling of melancholy, spread through TikTok. Just noticed that even TWIX uses Belarusian postpunk song that quotes Russian poet's words about institutionalized life, where death feels more cozy than life - but there's a desperate longing to face life directly, to cry, and to keep living rather than disappear. Btw, this Twix commercial got banned in Britain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7lBA5aX-iI While TikTok follows trends - and I'm quite surprised to see something as underground as Radio Werewolf being played by teenagers & young adults - there's also people like a clothing market in St. Petersburg (Russia), named Kissa Market (Kissa means Cat in Finnish) that isn't just a company but a whole philosophy and a collective answer to life's struggles. These photos market their own brand of clothing, and their shop in the "ruins of empires".

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Regardless of who sits in the Oval Office, I’ll stand with the parents of a murdered child. I’ll stand on the idea that protecting American citizens comes first. I’ll stand for our athletes who wore our flag and brought home gold. I’ll stand against medicalizing kids without parental consent. These aren’t “policy positions.” They’re baseline human values. If your entire political identity is just resist at all costs, even when what you’re resisting is the lowest-hanging fruit for common ground - it betrays your true incentives: power over people. The American people deserve better.

my 34 voices through people at me break lights dance across windows in silence leaving behind thoughts of broken glass good morningstar ill be in last night all day BoreDom wants to tie me up by my ankles and tie me down by my hands her craving for my difficulty demands first simplification finding the wrong questions by dissecting the right answers i cant do anything but laugh at the hopeless ignorance of it all because its funny

It’s been close to impossible to finding local friends to hang out and do art. I go to art shows I get Artist‘s phone number as I text them and they don’t reply. Lol so sorry I joined meet up and I get no response. Bumble BFF has been discontinued. So then I go on dating sites and people yell at me 😝😝😝 so if you are local and you would like to do art with me, please text me! (727) 479-9891 I don’t know about you, but my depression always subsides when I’m creating art. And it’s always better when I have a friend to share the experience with even if we’re working on our own projects. That’s all I’m looking for. 🥰

You know that feeling of being scared to be happy even for a brief moment? Because that sensation when your happy little world crashes down and wrenches your entire gut and closes your thoat is the worst. And the bad always seems to come smashing down when you've just started floating again. So you avoid the crash by any cost. just not allowing youself to float up with happiness again. If everything remains in shambles maybe the bad won't come because ther is nothing left to shatter... But sometimes you are dumb and faint glitter of hope makes you think maybe I'll try floating again maybe this time it won't crash. But it will. Just one call and a nice and relaxed weekend that finally cheered me up a bit, became the start of probably the most difficult time I'll have to face... I'm trueley terrified of whats ahead...

Terradactyl = an observer consciousness that hovers outside systems but can reach into them through awareness. The terradactyl wouldn’t just “watch reality.” It would: detect patterns forming sense weak points in perception move between dream and waking layers influence experience by shifting awareness

I don't know what they have to say It makes no difference anyway; Whatever it is, I'm against it!

New dance night in CT. Plugging here in case it should be on your radar…