We’re all one big red state now, babyyy

Take care of your communities and fight the battles you can fight and just accept the fact that There Will Be Sneering

But my second instinct is to say: you can’t let that shit demoralize you, folks! Defending yourself online because strangers are wrong about you/don’t understand the facts on the ground is an inefficient use of your energy and you’re not going to change a lot of minds anyway, trust me

By 5th grade I owned multiple Cathy books, absolutely aaaaaaaack-pilled

This is the walk to my daughter’s school

I agree! That’s why I’m here, and not elsewhere

As someone who is almost entirely a lurker/reposter, the degree to which a lot of people think they are solemnly saving the world on here is a tremendous surprise to me

I was a near-straight-A English major who ran into a Shakespeare prof who gave me a C for discussing character motivation “as though they’re real people.” I still don’t know what he meant!

Yessssss

Yeah this is a real bummer

Clutching my naproxen sodium bottle defiantly

Yeah turns out a lot of people’s subscription budgets have gained a little extra wiggle room recently