(fallen london stamps by realizing that what I'm allergic to isn't current events, but the way they're so often spread around social media and big news outlets - either by sellout publications pretending all of this is fine and reasonable, or with a tremendous amount of despair and misanthropy
we readily hear about the horrible things happening, and by comparison we hear so little about the people who are fighting it. the love and support those people are getting, even from complete strangers. hell, even ways that we can help - tangible ways, not just endlessly reblogging the same posts around the same circle of people. and I get it, sometimes things are really just that bad and there's nothing good you can say, but the majority of it just feels like a circus that's engineered to make us lose hope and give in to cynicism and make it easier for the assholes in power to get their way. and I am just Not here for that.
something I want to do is to read and post more about current events, but on my own terms: centering the people who are doing something about these things and the ways that we ourselves can do something. all still tagged, of course, because it's still heavy stuff. but I hope that maybe even in the heaviness, we can remember that people are still fighting the good fight.
