[ SECRET POST #5324 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5324 ⌋

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03. https://i.imgur.com/4OPhw1R.png

[(Anonymous)]

I feel that. I used to love having people reach out to me or respond to me in fandom spaces. But ever since my social anxiety and depression got worse, people trying to talk to me online sometimes makes me feel like I'm going to throw up.

I still leave comments when I have something to say on fic and art, but then I feel like it's an obligation to keep doing that when new chapters and and art come out, and I struggle to come up with anything while worrying about using the same compliments twice.

So I want to join some Discords, but it's also something that scares me. Maybe it's possible to just lurk there until it gets easier to talk.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. It's been hard continuing to read updating fics because of that sense of obligation.

And I think I'm so burdened with myself right now I don't have the energy to handle the possibility of someone else's struggle so I get worked up over anything that's not the most superficial interaction.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel that. Getting in even a discord conversation with a bunch of strangers has my anxiety rising just thinking about it.
Here is about the only place I leave comments. And that was after years of lurking.

[(Anonymous)]

Anon places have been some help in me trying to rebuild the habit of communication because there's a lot less pressure, but I admit I still lurk.

[(Anonymous)]

I always feel so guilty when my theatre Discord friends reach out after I've ghosted them for a while. Like, I'm still keeping up with all their conversations but when I'm not doing well mentally I literally get nausea thinking about saying a single thing and having people see it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, same. I inadvertently ended up ghosting a friend and some new people for a few months because rl has kept hammering me right after the last time I talked with them (lost job, pet illness, etc.). I kept telling myself when I'm better but better hasn't been coming. So now the guilt combines with my lost socialization skills.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here, except it was my own illness (like, two operations in two months.) I couldn't spare the energy to figure out an announcement on Discord. In the end I emailed one of my friends and apologised personally - that just seemed easier.

[(Anonymous)]

That boy on the cover is so beautiful I was enamored with his character on sight and now I'm afraid to look up how old he is. :/

That is a GOOD fucking cover, like damn. Not just the impossibly beautiful protag(?) with the perfect balance of stoic intensity and waifish fragility, but the color scheme, the big bold title, the design behind him. Man that author lucked out.

misfire.

[(Anonymous)]

:(

Thank you Secret Maker

[(Anonymous)]

That photo really resonates with how I'm feeling. (The text and text placement looks very nice too.)