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Seethe . You will never b them

A balance test

“If they really cared, they would ask”.

We need to stop thinking like this. It can be so easy to fall into these thought patterns. But if you’re having a hard time, and this is what you’re thinking, then I think you’re breaking your own heart.

Our loved ones often do care. Sometimes they are too mentally drained to notice what’s happening with others, or perhaps they’re completely oblivious for other reasons or maybe they’re thinking “if they want to talk about it, they’ll tell me. I don’t want to push them.” Maybe they have some things going on themselves.

People have their own lives and while it feels nice when our loved ones notice when things are off with us, them not noticing doesn’t mean they don’t care.

It’s okay to tell your loved ones you’re having a hard time. If you’re comfortable, you should tell them. It’s also helpful if you tell them how they can help whether it’s by offering support, someone to listen or any number of things.

Please stop thinking people don’t care because they can’t read your mind.

I realize this might sound harsh but my life got so much better when I communicated with my friends.

I used to constantly hint at things or try and get my friends to notice my symptoms. And maybe they did notice but it was exhausting that I was hinting or maybe they honestly didn’t notice. But I’d convince myself they didn’t care about me and it would send me on a spiral.

It was so hard to get to a point where I could be upfront. It didn’t happen over night. But it is so freeing and nice to be able to message my friend and say “hey. It’s a bad day today. I could use some support”.

“lol you realize Barbie is only a marketing movie, right? it’s just SELLING STUFF, you know that right? capitalism? lol?”

You’re too late.

Like, you’re not wrong, but you are wildly late on this one.

No one is under the impression that this movie isn’t marketing a toy line.

But that toy line? Has been on this earth longer than you’ve been. Barbie is old. Barbie is everywhere. We’ve all seen a commercial if not owned at least one Barbie doll in our lifetimes (or a knock-off you get emotionally attached to even if the weird mean girl down the street keeps making fun of it) (fuck you Christie that doll was a hero)

Advertising is everywhere. I can’t turn the TV on without ads, even on streaming services that used to brag how ad-free they were. I can’t browse social media without ads. I can’t see a movie or a show without products being “subtly” shown off.

We’re haunted by ads at every goddamn turn, we can’t even talk to an old friend from high school without them trying to sell us something.

If you think you’re making some radical grand statement by pointing out that Barbie is a toy line made by a big company that wants to sell more things… bud. We know that.

We know.

Greta Gerwig seems like she had a lot of fun with this movie, the actors had a lot of fun, the set design is fun.

No one is looking forward to Barbie because we think it’s some kind of beautiful radical anti-capitalist message just WAITING to break the world of its delusions of consumerism. God, could you imagine?

We’re looking forward to a bunch of actors dressed in pink having a lot of fun. We know the movie will make people want Barbie stuff, maybe they’ll go out and buy it, maybe they’re too broke because the world is expensive right now and we’ve got bills. But if “this movie will advertise things to you” was a dealbreaker we’d never see anything.

Because Barbie isn’t unique in this. A LOT of modern movies just want you to buy things, or admire/join the American military, etc etc. Money runs things here. Even capitalism stans know it runs everything (though they’re generally okay with it). Ads are our lives even when we use ad blockers and do our best to ignore the ones we see.

We’re seeing Barbie because it looks silly and fun, not because we’re putting it up on a pedestal expecting it to change the world. And we’re kidding and being silly when we DO act like that. Because goddammit, IT’S BARBIE. We’re acting like we acted when we played with dolls as kids, we’re PLAYING, we’re having fun. When I was a kid I absolutely pretended my Barbies could save the world and were magical and powerful. Didn’t mean she actually was.

These are toys. And we like to play. That doesn’t erase the capitalist motivations of Mattel, but it doesn’t have to mean we “support” their evils. We want to play, we want to enjoy play, even when we’re trapped in a capitalist hellscape where like 80% of our day to day fun is sold to us

Why do we have to homogenize everything? What is this, milk.com?

i believe when i wake up in hell generation 2-4 wild surfing encounter tentacool will be waiting for me

H.R. Giger: 'Armor for a Dog' (1968)

I would like to share with you all some absolutely raw advice my mom gave me about my anxiety today