This is representative of AP U.S. Gov for me and you can't convince me otherwise. 

-Galaxian-

Listen, I know some kids have special needs. I'm not saying that masks don't have adverse impact on their education and mental health. I'm not saying that masks don't have adverse impact on anyone's mental health.
But the entire debate being focused on "parents' choices," "personal choice" is stupid. 
Like someone said, if mask-wearing only made the mask-wearer safe, then the entire "my freedoms! my rights!" argument would be a lot more important and actually valid.
Otherwise, consider an immunocompromised kid/adult/anyone of any age getting killed by SARS-CoV-2 because someone else "had a choice."
I'm not voicing what I'm thinking correctly, and I don't think I need to.
The gist is that there are people who are so, so stupid, and for some reason they can apparently be the majority. What the (heck).

-Galaxian-

I said more positive things about my volunteering experiences, but so far the people who wear masks are all Asians for the most part (99% of the people who wear masks are Asians, that is). I pretend not to care about the people who don't, because they're 'customers' and honestly it's not like I could force anyone to wear a mask, but there's so many emotions swirling inside me while I seem to ignore the fact.

-Galaxian-

respectfully, I am in tears,

*sobs*

*SCREAMS*

I finished my math homework today (lol finished APUSH early yesterday and would've likely finished Friday if I weren't out) and spent some time watching a movie
Watched entirely for animations and scenery. The latter part is often the reason for watching any more modern Chinese work lol. Chinese films do best in scenery and worldbuilding better than most any other country's works imo. 
I appreciate the background behind why the movie was made, too. Kinda like Rio (gods I hated that movie,,, only because I had to watch it 150 times and couldn't get away from it, mind you. Why were other kids like that, watching the same film over half a year?????? I wonder that to this day)

I could talk more about it but nah. 
Pacing weird, story weird, characters slightly stupid. There is a reason why I back the more Western approach of being more candid and open with one's feelings

Math homework was pretty okay this week, though still more than other classes. Wonder if I can remember the content properly, though. :D

-Galaxian-

Homeroom is giving me much anxiety
Mostly because we're going over what to do in the event of a shooting
Which is okay in itself. The only thing that makes me anxious is the fact some kids don't have common sense (:

-Galaxian-

Today is dead-inside day (:
I have like a weird desire to talk to friends whenever I need to do homework (well not "whenever" but it does happen when I have homework) and then when I'm actually done with homework, I shut down.

-Galaxian-

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Just a quick rant of sorts. I'm not really annoyed or angry or anything like that. Just gonna passively point out something. However--

TW: Depression, suicide

So someone I know on Discord...is not going about things in a very good way. I'll call them Q for privacy reasons. Also will be using they/them pronouns for the same reasons as well.
 
Q keeps getting harassed by people, and so they keep ranting about it almost every day, or every other day. One of those harassers is someone who I guess is probably underage to be on Discord and is also really immature. The kid ships a pair that Q hates as a pairing (it triggers them), and this kid keeps spamming Q with pictures and text and stuff related to that pairing.
There's also other harassment stuff going on, like iirc another underage kid did something wrong and then went around telling others that it was Q's fault (and their friend's fault), which led to people spamming their DMs and making them really anxious and upset/triggered. Which is all normal. I understand being upset.
'Cept it's pretty clear that most of these triggering situations could be avoided just by blocking DMs from anyone who's not on the friend list. It's on Discord. And of course, they already blocked certain accounts on other platforms, which is why I'm not talking about that. I see that as a great solution. But on Discord, they don't want to use that setting because "they want to be friendly." 
I understand they want to be friendly, but this person, Q, is someone with depression that makes them want to kill themselves if their emotions go too far down the negative end. And I've also seen them venting almost every single day since I've joined their server about similar things (as what I've mentioned here)--about online harassment and such. And these repetitive situations have pushed them to saying that they want to kill themselves, at least once within this week.
So in general, I gave advice, and since it's not going to be heeded I won't give it again, but still I question it. Their actions just really don't add up in my view. I've considered emotional, logical, and purely rational reasons, and none of them seem to fit the mark here. Emotionally, I understand wanting to be more open towards others, but then again the emotional toll in this situation is much more than the benefit. Logically, well, that reason can't be brainstormed. Overall, rationally? The course of action ain't looking good.
I guess I can just say I'm thankful I'm not really their friend, 'cause if I was I'd probably be really worried and eventually get so frustrated with how they do things. I do hope someone close to them can get through to them, though, since that's not going to be me.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

A question to the people who are a part of the LGBTQ+ community:

(TW: Discussion of possible slur)

I just wanted to know: Is "femboy" a slur or derogatory towards a part of the LGBTQ+ community, e.g. trans people? In the context I'm thinking, with its basic definition, I'm thinking of using it as a term to describe gender expression. You might be able to guess who I'd call a femboy (not a real person). I don't want to use it if it's solidly an offensive slur, so please let me know. I've searched around and I don't really see a definitive answer to this question (generally I see that it's not as long as it's used properly, but some people on blogs say that it is one).
If it can be a slur but isn't one in normal usage, I want to reassure you that I won't call any real people by this term just in case and will try my best to research to make sure I won't offend anyone. But as for this question, well, I thought it might be better to just ask the community rather than swim around the internet.

-Galaxian-

 

Femboy is not a slur, but if you want to call someone one then you probably should ask first just in case it may cause them dysphoria. If used properly tho, it wouldn't be a slur. Tbh, as a trans masc non-binary, I can't really see it as a slur and sometimes have referred to myself as a femboy because Memes

Can't believe political satire is what's keeping my sanity at 75%
Also these people are a mood--
Idk I slept for like 4.5 hours yesterday lol what I say might not be valid, or might be even more valid than usual, who knows until there's more comparison??

-Galaxian-

Apparently there's a TikTok challenge that's leading kids to vandalize school bathrooms/buildings and steal school property

No wonder people say there's cancer on the platform
The people participating in such challenges, I mean. Pretty good analogy! Change gone wrong.

-Galaxian-

History is much funnier if you put it into another context

Take the Spanish and French kings allying to try to make Britain give France an acceptable peace treaty
It's so funny because Britain's like "Well I declare war on you too!" to the Spanish as soon as this happens
xD idk it's much funnier in my head, possibly because 1) Technically the war was over by that point so Britain declaring war on Spain seems like they did it out of smugness, 2) Why would you want stuff when you've already lost? @French

-Galaxian-