Just launched Membership Tiers on my Ko-fi (currently in test mode)! I want to try this platform too - maybe it will be more convenient for someone! Tomorrow I will make several posts for each tier to try it out!
One thing I’ve learned so far throughout having an autoimmune disease and isolating during COVID for over three years. Love is not grand gestures, love is consistently caring, love is real sacrifices, it’s not occasional nice things. Nice is really fucking different than good.
Soft hearts need strong boundaries, a strong sense of self worth, nurturing experiences, safe spaces to land and unravel, other gentle hearts that can appreciate them, reciprocate their love, treat them with kindness and respect, and not force them to wear an armor again
My "high functioning autism" is basically everyone else seeing me as "completely normal but maybe just a bit picky/particular"... while internally it's me in constant sensory overload, social overload, and fighting against my executive dysfunction to just do stuff
Who needs therapy when you can just go on ao3 and smother your negative feelings by experiencing the entire range of human emotion vicariously through the dramatic trials and tribulations of fictional characters?
If a variant arrives that renders current vaccinations almost useless, what's your plan?
I ask because it feels like that moment is drawing ever nearer.
I don't think people comprehend that more people died *directly of acute covid infections* this year than the previous two in most places. Pretending its over is literally making it worse.