If not already obvious, I’m taking a break from Tumblr. I can’t stand all this pecking and shrieking at each other and the torrent of “it is mandatory that you look at this awful fucking thing to be a good person” when I am sitting as I type this opening a parole case for a man who got 40 years for criminal homicide.

I’m sick of seeing fights about whether I belong show up every single Pride month. I never celebrate it because everyone makes me feel fucking afraid more during June than any other time of year. Collections of flags that don’t include me, people yelling about whether I’m ‘valid’ on ones that do. (And then everything is the version of the term I don’t like anyway, so it doesn’t matter.) There’s not a single part of my places under that alphabet soup umbrella that people don’t argue isn’t real.

Tired of being sneered at for enjoying anything. Everything is, was, or will be Problematique, so I should absolutely remove those things from my life no matter how much joy they bring me. Television show, doll, song, whatever. Doesn’t matter what good things I support, or how much secondary trauma I’m trying to escape from after my work day (four separate cases of men beating their girlfriends with furniture in the last two days last week), it’s only, “Tumblr says you can’t like that, unless you perform a complicated dance explaining yourself. ”

I’m tired of being expected to remember every single user and person I’ve never heard of that you have all decided is 'cancelled’ after spending considerable time looking at the sex offender registry every day. I don’t want to vet every user who crosses my dashboard. We do this at work. I’m having a miserable goddamn time being terrorized and having every breath corrected by my supervisor and I just want to disconnect from human horror after spending all day looking at the brutality, racism, and xenophobia of our 'justice’ system and apparently Tumblr doesn’t want to let me do that.

Enjoy my usual queue.