i was really reluctant to post this, but i guess i directed you here. so here i go. the story is below the quick warning. **you are all entitled to know that this contains extremely liberal political opinions. if you do not share the same political beliefs as me, you are one hundred percent allowed to have those opinions, but i do not suggest you share them and comment negative and down-putting things (in my mind, of course). this may only make my problem worse. thanks for understanding.** you may have noticed a serious lack of projects since november eighth. you should be able to guess why, but i want you to know the full story. controversy is literally everywhere. i have considered scratch my "safe place" for a long time now, but i don't really know anymore. it always seemed like this magical land where everyone got along, but it doesn't seem that way at all anymore. i'm reluctant to say this to such a wide-open audience, but i am in literal shock. donald trump won. he won. a man with no political experience whatsoever. a man who doesn't pay his workers. a man who does things i cannot even talk about on scratch without getting reported to women. this one man, who i don't know at all in person, is ruining my life. i thought i loved horseback riding, but now i don't have the energy or vigor to get up and ride. i'm fighting with close friends about totally unrelated-to-the-election things. what's worse is that i keep on putting myself into arguments on this wonderful, beautiful platform. i'm giving people a warrant to beat me up and bully me mentally. it hurts. a lot. i say the same thing every time someone says america chose him. i say that a flawed, ancient system that should be abolished chose him. i'm a sadder, angrier person now. i don't know what to do to stop all of the hate that will fill the white house and all of the hate that fills our country. people always say that love will overcome, but i don't know anymore. i'm crying a lot more than usual. i can't hold my feelings inside of me anymore. this happens every day. i am living in an unprecedented macro-bubble of fear with over half of the country inside it with me. please help me find a way to stop the sadness, the anger, the crying, the bickering. i'll reply to your comment, most likely. im gonna keep this up. crying on christmas eve is not what i wanna be doing, but it happened because of this.
