Joy is Rebellion.

by Kupok

This will expand just a touch on my previous journal. You may encounter folk who insist that one shouldn't be joyful. That we need to buckle down and become serious and vigilant. Those folk aren't entirely wrong. We should be more vigilant now at this time. Don't tolerate nazis, homophobes and transphobes in your circles, stop giving those who pretend to be ignorant the benefit of a doubt, etc.

But you MUST be joyous. You MUST continue to love, love your fellows, love your friends, your chosen family, those who deserve love, deserve your love, that must continue to be expressed.

Love and Joy are the things in life that makes life worth not just experiencing for one's self, but worth defending for others. This advice comes from low places, comes from under tattered tarps and ratty old blankets on desert river banks, This advice comes from the roar of hunger from an empty pit inside and mites in the hair and on skin, this advice comes from places without safety, where violence and loss may erupt at any time.

I've been in the worst places. Joy and creation and love are not hiding from the situation, not ignoring the situation, but they are ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL. Not just to endure the worst of times, but to muster the tools and motivation to push through and rise over it. The very act of finding joy is itself a rebellion. There are those who wish misery and death on you. I do not say discard your rebellions, I do not say comply and capitulate in advice.

I say, be with those you love, express what you are without shame, find joy in your life for yourself, for those you love, and create. Create the weirdest things, make porn, make kink, make the things that are hated and find joy in the creation and the sharing. For Love will always be rebellion to hatred. Love, No matter how hard they make it.

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SinderDarkoff

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Honestly the only words I can find to fit how I feel about this journal is simply a " <3 " but like from really deep down. Thank you for your message!

SpoonFox

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Man, the world is full of too much hate for me. It's like wading through a sea of 'fuck you' 'go die' 'lol loser' to try to find even a single person who may not be deceiving me into friendship for ulterior motives.

It's hard to love anymore. It's hard to teach, it's hard to try to understand, it's hard. And I am tired. People find it's so much easier to just hate and discriminate... Humanity is going to die off because someone thought the dictators cared about them. The withering has begun... *sigh* -_-;

BogdanUrs

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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thx for the speech dude :)

Nemmy

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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I needed to read this. I went from freaking out to being pissed. I'm still pissed. However, I'm trying to channel that anger into finding other people in my area who are neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled. The hope is to form a small group so we know we aren't alone and to deter anyone who might fuck with one of us alone.