It's been a rough week in the US. How's everyone doing?

Very well thankfully.

Deeply angry, but pushing through.

I'm worried about the next four years. Hopefully it will just be four years.

Trying to distract myself so I can actually function.

Heart hurts for those affected in the US and around the world - especially women/girls, nonbinary, trans people, queer community, people with disability, and others from minority communities.

I feel like I've been grieving since the election.

I also received both my Covid booster and my flu shot on Halloween and I had some pretty severe jaw pain the entire month of October that's just now clearing up to halfway decent.

So no, I am very much not okay. I'm terrified.

It will be four more years because, unless the stale cheeto undoes THAT, it's two term limits/eight years total. This would be the second. I just hope there's something left for... four more years. And it doesn't become four years of that stupidity then eight of the racist cretin who's my age.

My plans... my rebellion... will come in the form of success. I'm planning on figuring out the EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome)/arthritis rings for my mother, hoping to open an Etsy shop with those on offer and maybe some Viking things (I saw rune rings that I adore, I'm going to figure them out), and I want to get the sod up in my backyard for a small vegetable patch sooner rather than later. I'd like to get a couple apiaries and maybe a chicken or two.

I also plan on pursuing a PhD in history, the four years will pass regardless, I'm going to put them to use. I just... apparently need to grieve in the meanwhile.

It's felt very surreal. I live in a red state where most people are huge Trump supporters, to the point where when I went to vote a woman across the street was screaming to vote for "Big Daddy", needless to say I did not.

It feels strange that I'm so disappointed/scared while everyone else around me is so happy and thrilled.

I felt that bit about the red state in my bones.

I'm in Pennsylvania in a conservative white town. If you go on Google Maps right now, I kid you not, there's a picture (because we had Google Maps through here back in September) where someone's Harris sign had been cut out of its frame with a box cutter. I forget the exact wording of the cardboard sign and it's blurry in the picture but it was like, "Is this the America you want?"

We were blue last time for Biden. Now, I've never been more disappointed and more angry. The electoral college needs thrown out or something. Idk, something safe for Subeta but I'm meaning something far harsher.

I'm mostly deeply tired. I've lived in Texas for the last ten years. Voting for the president wasn't the only official we elected, once again, to my dismay.

I've been working more recently than I usually do, in preparation for a big move, and this week was one of my busiest (I work in mental health). I'm not sure if I'm personally numb about the events or just don't have anything left to give for it.

I'm on my default setting of "being pissy about the state, no matter who rules it now, with anarchist praxis to uphold no matter what" about it. I just need to do even more to defend myself & those I love now* but that should be no problem.

• I am extremely worried for trans women & transfems in general (not just the ones who make up a good chunk of my social sphere that I am referring to) but I can't protect every individual transfem directly.

I'm sort of... somewhere between angrily determined and numb, I guess.

I'm not. I actually had a growing amount of hope after 2020 and the last few midterms, but every last shred of that is gone now. Hate wins. Crime pays. There is no justice and soon there'll be no liberty for most of us either. Everything we thought we managed to accomplish over decades is going to be razed to the ground within months. I absolutely hate it here.

I’m terrified and my anxiety has never been worse. Living in a red state and I can barely go online without reading or seeing new things to feel imminent fear and dread about.

I hear you! I live in Oklahoma & I've had to just turn off the news and avoid Facebook for now. I still believe in people and I believe we will get through this and be better on the other side, but I do think it'll all come with a lot of pain for a while. I'm trying to not stress about things that haven't happened yet. I am preparing for the worst, but I just hope that fecklessness wins the day.

thank you for this- I do believe in people still. I know that we can't afford to despair for long. I've gotten more involved locally and that's been helping a ton. I hope you're doing well, thank you for reminding me not to stress too much about things that haven't happened yet. It's insane when every day a new nomination shocks me. I guess i can be glad i am still shocked and not numb yet.

<3 Take care

this is such a sweet post honestly thank you :( and i guess im okay my mom and me are really sad, we talk about how we feel about the whole situation frequently

We will survive! We've been through worse 💪

I find myself thinking 10 more seconds...