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deactivated basically

@msbrokenbrightside / msbrokenbrightside.tumblr.com

she/her, 26 (ICON)
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orangezest100
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love-notes-to-survivors

Burnout is honestly such a mild word for what people use it to mean. I'm not experiencing "burnout", which sounds so casual and routine that some face masks and a little rest is going to fix it.

My body and mind and even nervous system are stretched to the point that it's going to take a lot more than just a "break" or a few self care tips to recover, and even then, my recovery is just so that I can reenter the spaces that contributed to me being this way in the first place. I'm a little bit more than just burnt out by this.

Workplaces and educational institutions aggressively overwork us, expose us to all kinds of discrimination, which they overlook and gaslight us out of acknowledging, and then constantly ask us to ignore our mental, emotional, and physical needs so that we don't inconvenience them.

We're not burnt out. We're borderline traumatized. Burnout is always talked about like something transient and mild that a little rest and relaxation will fix.

But we're exhausted. We need deep rest and healing. We need new systems. We need new ways of being. The language around burnout just seems like a way of upholding these current violent systems and downplaying their impacts.

#literally i can barely think about going into the field i studied w/o feeling sick#because of what of what that fucking school did to me#anyway i'm still basically deactivated but this spoke to me
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apfelgranate
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thetransguard-archive

― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

#absolutely obsessed with joe as an odysseus figure despite the achilles comparisons#this is relevant to the gifset i swear#because we all know the next line is ‘you can’t’ but joe and nicky ARE happy#if anyone is achilles here it is andy#kleos attained in the most PRACTICAL sense of the term#she has touched the divine. she has been the divine. she is immortal through song.#she has left her trace in history! and she has paid for that in love and blood#and displacement - her homeland is no more#but joe… joe is nostos#joe is the man that gets to come home#forget achilles and patroclus what’s more joenicky than a man who crossed the sea and tricked death#to come back to a lover so entirely devoted to him she spent more than a decade weaving and unweaving tapestry#and recognized him by the color of his words alone#ANYWAY. SORRY FOR BEING ME#tog#andromache of scythia#yusuf al kaysani#nicolo di genova#quynh#booker#nile freeman#shit let’s start a band @lgbtmazight ’s tags!!!

#the old guard
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williiambyers
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onemuseleft

I love the fact that even after 900-? years you can tell they aren’t completely blase about death and injury - the way they check on each other when they’ve been hurt, the way they comfort each other when they’re hurt. Andy was obviously scared for Booker when he was hit by the grenade, and they all checked in with each other after the ambush. Nicky trying to protect Joe when he was being stabbed, and Joe’s big  breath of relief when Nicky woke up from being shot. They may heal but they still don’t want each other to be hurt, and they may be immortal but they still fear losing each other and I love it.

#the tenderness!!!!!!!!#the old guard
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williiambyers

My mom, she was drowning after he died. South Side of Chicago, a million different ways we could have went left. She fought for us. Never backed down. Never let us back down either.

#the old guard
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