jack | 33 | full of rage and dangerously stupid | degenerate queer | mental health sideblog with a sprinkle of cannibalism | i follow back from violetteviolence
and like. idk. the fact that the couple times me or another tme dark kink poster on here have been called out for cnc or whatever (infrequent, quiet, pretty much inevitably blows over), the conversation seems to pivot entirely around trauma and if we've experienced sexual violence and is this coping and does that make it okay and all this weird whinging and speculation about what our tortured psyches might be like -- which is invasive and odd, but which is also a sympathy that is never ever ever extended to transfems posting (usually far more innocuous) kink stuff on here, despite what we know statistically about the sexual violence which transfems experience, despite what anyone who has transfem loved ones who trust them knows personally and painfully. it's just fucking monstrous. the most vulnerable people in our community continuously subjected to sexual harassment and violence and simultaneously declared ontologically incapable of being themselves victims. the term gaslighting gets over/misused but it's difficult to think of a more apt word to describe this cycle of abuse & denial
"you sound smart" that's because i've spent years doing academic writing to the point that it's my default cadence plus or minus the use of profanity as a tone indicator
"you sound stupid" that's because i'm dumb as fuck
It’s important to have friends and situations where you can manufacture positive emotional feedback loops. Not ironically, not overly schmaltzy and fake, but just hyping each other up. You should be able to do something mundane, get gassed up by your friends, and respond in kind with that energy. It’s one of the best things in the world, I promise.