Being so unironic, but I think that the self care movement kinda disillusioned some people to the idea that comfort is the same as self care when that’s not always the case. Avoiding all conflict isn’t self care, sometimes it’s just avoidance. Sometimes self care is doing hard stuff. (1/?) - ThreadSky

halffictional.bsky.social • 14 days ago

Being so unironic, but I think that the self care movement kinda disillusioned some people to the idea that comfort is the same as self care when that’s not always the case. Avoiding all conflict isn’t self care, sometimes it’s just avoidance. Sometimes self care is doing hard stuff. (1/?)

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halffictional.bsky.social•14 days ago

I say this because I’ve been thinking about community a lot lately and how gen z doesn’t seem to have much community and I think there’s something to say about how we tend to cradle ourselves. (2/?)

halffictional.bsky.social•14 days ago

Don’t get me wrong, I think we all deserve fair treatment, but I’m tired of seeing posts where people cut off friends or reject them because the friend needed a favor and that’s “too much.” (To be clear, this is different than cutting off a person because they’re genuinely unhealthy.)(3/?)

halffictional.bsky.social•14 days ago

Anyway, this is part of my theory why so many straight people tend to want to be gay. (IM GAY, I JUST KNOW A LOT OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE WHO HAVE SAID THEY WISH THEY WERE GAY) But it’s because queer and POC people tend to inherently have to learn how to build communities. (4/?)

halffictional.bsky.social•14 days ago

It’s not that these straight people actually want to be gay (unless they do and that’s swag too, but then they aren’t straight lmao) but it’s also the lack of community! It’s not built in! And people blame the lack of third spaces, but they also don’t leave their houses and shop online/retail (5/?)

halffictional.bsky.social•14 days ago

Like when’s the last time you invited a group of people to do something that doesn’t require you to feed into consumerism either? All these gal-entines dates and things require people to shop for supplies. Friendship has become something that has to be shopped for instead of just chilling (6/?)

halffictional.bsky.social•14 days ago

I know this is all disjointed, but I’ve had a lot of thoughts about community and figured I’d ramble. Please forgive me if any point is messy, I’m just rambling😭 (7/7)

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