Things which have happened over the past few days.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

I have been wallowing in personal regret and nostalgia, and working through some things. I redesigned my Dreamwidth blog yet again, because ADHD is a hell of a drug. And while I have been doing that, a constitutional crisis occurred and is still ongoing. (Parkrose Permaculture is awesome, and I recommend her videos.)

And I'm wondering if my brain is throwing regret and nostalgia at me in part to distract me from the horrific shit that I have no direct personal power to stop or prevent.

And I remember how, during the 2000s, as a response to 9/11 and the War In Iraq, and an administration that seemed to just ignore any dissent or protest so much that it was like screaming into the abyss, it seems like a lot of us just retreated into fandom and never looked back. And how we really can't afford to do that now.

I know there are going to be times when we will need to escape. When we'll need to tune out the horror. But we're the main characters now, and it's up to us to clean up this mess.

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[sabotabby]

It would be such a relief to escape. But I think now the chickens have come home to roost in a way that, despite what we were all saying back then, wasn't the case in 2001. It's one thing to fight against crackdowns on people who don't look like you, or massacres in a distant country, but now they've come for all of us.