the lego movies - just keep on giving

[alicevangeline]

Sometimes when I'm being overly dramatic (in my head) about both parents being gone, I hear Lego Batman singing his orphan song, and it reminds me not to take myself too seriously with that.

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I have another one:

Emmett is listing all the odds stacked against them, and he says "there was about to be a but' and somebody says 'you're a butt.' 

Heh.

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I am getting out of my head a little bit -- I'm not sick anymore, so that helps.   

I'm reading something fun, and watching Shrinking and laughing a little.  I'm thinking about my emotional armor:  when to wear it, and when to take it off, and trying to feel what the difference is. 

I stopped giving a crap on Threads and am posting whatever and RTing and DMing and having a good time.  Mychal the librarian and I  were talking** about depression and I invoked choose-your-own-adventure books as a reason To Not Turn Into A Ghost.  (**Saying we were talking is a stretch:  I replied to a post of his thanking him for sharing a story and wondering whether i should. then he did a post, not a reply, thanking people for sharing their stories, so it might have had nothing to do with me, but I went for it and shared a bit about depression.)

It would have been better if I wasn't thumb-typing at 10 pm and like, thoughtfully composing a draft with a keybaord, but c'est la vie, c'est threads.

I'm also giving myself space and grace to Have Feelings about Dystopias.  We took it easy during COVID when we needed to - 'these trying times' and all that - and now we're still trying to hustle but also to add activism in.  Man, I'll do what I can. If I'm less productive, fine, and at least me being productive doesn't, like, enrich billionaires.