Fanart and WholesomeRage updates · 11:06am Feb 11th, 2020
So, first thing's first:
Made by Autumn Rush, who is absolutely phenomenal, for Undome Tinwe to give to me. One of the nicest things I've gotten in a very long time.
Apart from that, I have three new Wholesome Rage pieces:
Productivity, about why content creators are so prone to burnout under capitalism and why it's kind of inescapable
Freelancing Websites, written by Oliver Ivory, who is an amazing author, about his experiences as a freelance writer working the commission websites. It's a really good read even if you don't have a practical reason for the advice, because I think it's a useful experience in explaining why "the freedom to make contracts", on its own, isn't really good enough.
PTSD is about my own experiences with recovering from trauma, but I also go deeper into stress and fear responses in the second half, and the four 'f's: Fight, flight, freeze and fawn, what they look like, and stuff you probably didn't realize was a stress response.
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Hi there
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I always love your articles.
I only read first article, but so far I tend to agree with
and whole rationalization of every hour we spend 'unproductively'
My own situation a bit different. I live in flat left to me after both my mother and my grandmother died, in 1996 and 2001, with mother actually disappearing in same 1996 and just officially declared dead in 2001. because I have particulary low vision i have some welfare (13 000 of rubles/monthly, with food store workers around having 22-23... ), at low end of wages, but not at lowest possible end for pensions/welfare (! as socialist-ish thinkers we tend to know even low-end wages today barely cover REAL cost of living, even before we start to make more humans ....). So, I live with my dog, and not much more.
But I feel strong need to do something about all this (I mean more global situation). In my life I spend a lot of time trying to make some anti-captivity for local dolphins work - failed hard, and come to conclusion fundamentally there is same type of psychological mechanism, preventing humans to stay and speak up/do something against installed authority (be it dolphinarium director or some political functioner).
So, me watching Crysis 2 Movie for few hours at the end of day feels like wasted day!
Reading something like this helps only partially, because I feel like reading IS consumerism, if not paired with some real-world activity .. and even making good post for now feels like rolling stone up the hill :/
I probably never will be artist, just not this type of person - at best I can try to make few 'unnatural' links between my finds (texts and people, mostly). On more artist-centered side of internet this self-impotence also feels like pressure ..:/ Hard to settle for so little knowing how bad things really are, out there in bigger world all we live in .....
I alos noticed you noticed/referenced Aragon ... IIRC he is one you specifically care about, it both lovely and sad to read this...
Also, I want to thank you MrNumbers, for "The Death of the Cubicle and the Profit Motive".
As of PTSD .. lets my {possible} PTSD NOT to escalate yours :}
Finally read the PTSD article. That's pretty much the story of my life right there; I've been through a whole lot of those unhealthy coping mechanisms, to the point where some of them got really self-destructive.