Violet

for times like these, i chant a mantra. usually something snappy and improvised off the cuff bc delighting in my own cleverness helps me move past the moment, but there are a couple i come back to often. specifically, "water off a duck's back" if it's something inconsequential

You could always write them out somewhere else and then destroy the words afterwards. The most extreme way would be to physically write out your feelings on paper and then burn the paper, but that doesn't work for all people for a myriad of reasons. You could always just make a word doc and then delete the file. I don't know, that's how I like to vent my negativity.

I feel like Wobbles has the right of it here:

No seriously a physical journal is great, you can write out the ugliest possible feelings onto the page and physically set it on fire later if you want. I feel like people fail to appreciate the cleansing power of immolating their written words these days. Cathartic as can be.

If, like me, you find the task of physically writing stuff more arduous than helpful, there's a number of virtual options for screaming into the void:

https://cyrogem.itch.io/the-thoughts-room (doesn't work on mobile, alas)

https://pixelthoughts.co (more of a meditative letting-it-go option)

Signal lets you message yourself and also lets you set messages to disappear after a certain amount of time. Unorthodox, but it's there!

At some point in the past, I found a site that would let you rant and would respond to you with (transparently) pre-programmed responses... gosh, where is it