I'm not really sure why, maybe this concept is overloading my weakbaby social capabilities. But looking at a circular owl profile pic shitposting loudly, or a username venting about something in main, and making the connection that those words were said by an entire human being with a life of their own hundreds or thousands of miles away is just sort of short circuiting my brain. Obviously I have intellectually, logically known that you're all people, because you say things, but actually conceptualising it...

That is a huge amount of person by volume for such a little bear website.

It's tough to visualise, like even for a small hexagonal bear post, if every profile pic and username is an actual person, (THEY ARE) then there are more of them than could comfortably fit in my living room. That many entire real people, in one place, badposting. Being gay(and more), saying 'Death to Amerikkka', sharing heartfelt support for people and movements, yeah that's too many people, this is definitely short circuiting my brain.

May update when I figure out how to make my grey matter stop having a panic attack.

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    4 months ago

    Sonder

    n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

    It's a trip

    • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Hey, very nice!!

      In meatspace I am fully down with this, because those other people speak and move around and go to their destinations. There's also usually not a huge amount of people in one place--at the doctor's office today, there were less than twenty--so I guess it's the idea of the life behind the shitposting alias. Goofy hexbears, in my phone, who are also whole people? Internet scary scared