COMPLETELY agree with this. I'm sick of the stuff I went through being turned into something cool that suddenly every 15 yo in existence has... :/ not doubting anybody in particular ofc but it's just annoying how it's trendy and "cool" to say that you went through x traumatic event (usually some form of sexual abuse).

On one hand I'm sure its a teen thing and how people want to seem cool or "different" but sometimes it gets borderline offensive, esp when they start speaking over people with real mental illnesses. I wish I could visit some ppls abts and them not treating their labels like their personality or why I should like them :,]

traumacore will always be a shitstain on my mental health struggle!!!! god damn!!!!

i'm sorry it's also just the way they keep making jokes about, like it is not your place to joke about what other people go through 😭

but talking more about how common severe mental struggles are among the younger generations, there's a theory about how due to the condition of today's world, as each generation passes and the world gets worse the mental health of those living through obviously get worse too. that the reason depression and anxiety are so widespread today is because of the cultural and social status of the world we live in

also what should the box next to the site updates be? any suggestions on what to put there?

actually i'll probably use it for webrings whenever i join one

Hi hopefully you can clarify what you mean by this; I really don’t mean to use this as a “second twitter” I just am in a really horrible place rn and physically don’t have the energy to do things that aren’t blog posts. And I’m super low on ideas/inspiration rn 😭

yeah no i'm not talking about people like you at all omg! i'm talking about people who are like "hehe i love coding so i came here!" and then all they do is start drama and make the site actively worse to navigate if you want to stay out of drama. thats what i mean by treating it like twitter 2

OH I thought you meant people who randomly went on hiatus and only posted on their blogs like what I did lmfaooo. I thought you meant a “second twitter” in the literal sense of just blogging. My bad haha, genuine misinterpretation:,)

mostly just i would rather have my index page not act as a barrier to entry but as, well, the index. that would require me to re code pages such as my about and link directory which is why i would rather do all of that over my break than have to deal with it during my semester.