As a vanilla WoW player, I will never forget getting coming to the front gates of Stormwind for the first time and being in awe of it.

Little bit of raspberry jam should help fill that hole…erm…void

Cannot echo this enough

I cannot possibly up-doot this enough

Every once in a while I go back to Reddit. I just had my third account permabanned yesterday actually because it seems I have too strong options on what we should do with ICE.

But I digress. Seeing this is a good reminder why I need to stay TF away from that shitshow platform. Uninstalled … again

In all fairness, while humans need food to survive, we don’t need beef and there are objectively better options for sustainability than animal agriculture.

Not saying AI isn’t abhorrent, but the argument that beef makes food so its water consumption is not appalling isn’t strong.

Thanos

You merely adopted being an incel. I was born in it!

That makes sense. When I say spite is a motivator for me, it’s always been to prove myself: “Oh you think this is too hard for someone to do? Watch me.” That sort of thing. It’s how I quit smoking many years ago, to spite those that thought I couldn’t by simply going cold turkey. Telling me I can’t do something is, or used to me, the easiest way to get me to do it to the best of my ability. Just to prove the other wrong about their assumptions about me. Maybe that voice in my head telling me to fuck being vegan is the one I need to prove wrong this time.

“The sage tends to the belly and not the eye” - taken from chapter 12 of the Tao te Ching, and also tattooed on my forearm.

Focusing inwardly at what I have and can offer is a good reminder. Thank you

This is without a doubt the weakest area of my life. I have zero social circle. I struggle a lot with maintaining friendships online because I feel I don’t interpret the social queues “normally” (whatever that looks like), and I know zero other vegans in my community. Heck, I don’t think that upon learning I’m vegan, that I’ve ever had some say “oh such and such who is local is also vegan.” This also applies to pretty much every single aspect and struggle in my life. I don’t have a support circle. Or a social community. And I’ve put a lot of effort into trying to find them, it just doesn’t exist for someone like me in rural America. I’d move but my son is here and I can’t move him with me so yeah…

Maybe that’s what I’m losing. My capacity for empathy, which is quite worrisome and something worth sitting with and thinking about.

A strong example but you’re not wrong.

Strong visual and good point

This is my weakest area, all I generally see is online bullshit. I don’t really have any local friends to hang out with and SEE the good in people. I don’t doom-scroll all day but I spend more time than I probably should. Finding others as those examples locally is something I need to put more effort into.

I think that’s the hard part. Now, I’m not trying to compare apples to apples here, I understand there’s a difference, but as a trans person living in Amerikkka, it constantly feels like I’m a lamb being led to slaughter.