Checking In

[twistedchick]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Friday) now to midnight UT (8pm Saturday Eastern Time).

Poll #24620 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 53

How are you doing?

I am OK
31 (58.5%)

I am not OK but I don't need help right now
22 (41.5%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
24 (45.3%)

One other person
20 (37.7%)

More than one other person
9 (17.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

RBG

[ex_flameandsong751]

I am trans, queer, disabled and absolutely fucking terrified right now. Other countries are much harder to immigrate to when you're on a fixed income and can't be viably employed, so I am fucking stuck here.

I'm starting to really wonder what the point is anymore. I don't want to suffer when I die, which rules out a lot of suicide options, but I'm tired of being alive.

Re: RBG

[sylvanwitch]

I believe there is reason to hope, though I understand that it probably doesn't feel that way right now and that asking you to hope is a cruelty when hope has proven to offer nothing but pain for so long now. But I do believe, fervently, that there are better times coming soon, and I don't mean that I'm hanging all my hope on the other old white guy in the running. Whatever the case, I also believe that every person's death diminishes my life, so I hope you'll consider staying with us, though you owe me nothing.

Re: RBG

[petra]

I am so sorry you are terrified. I don't know you, you don't know me, and I hope you find a way to hold on. We have lost a fabled warrior, yes, but only one. Please try to know in your heart that there are still many, many people who will be fighting like hell on your side.

Re: RBG

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

While we only know each other via pixels, this is a setback but not the battle lost.

I know hope is cruel.

Re: RBG

[azurelunatic]

Solidarity. (I'm agender, queer, liminally disabled, and very fortunate to be living with a partner who has a stable job, in a state with a strong response to The Plague.)

I am trying to stay away from pits of discussion of the hopelessness right now, on account of how little it would take to push me into a similar point of wondering what the point is. I'm not sure how possible it even is.

I did call my senators, so there's that I guess.