The best advice I have right now is to find a small group of people who have similar interests and tolerances and surround yourself with them. Tumblr was a good place for the former but a bad place for the latter; it was easy to wind up talking to everyone or no one. But finding or starting a very small Discord, or cultivating a filter on here to share your thoughts, might create that atmosphere of trust.
You don't have to start large at all. Maybe just make things and share them with one person you trust a lot. There was a year when the discourse was bad and frustrating and geopolitics were too and I couldn't deal with it so I just wrote with Titian and didn't post anything for a while, but we still had each other to talk with and affirm and build our interest in things. It was a bad year but because we had each other, it was better than it could have been.
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The best advice I have right now is to find a small group of people who have similar interests and tolerances and surround yourself with them. Tumblr was a good place for the former but a bad place for the latter; it was easy to wind up talking to everyone or no one. But finding or starting a very small Discord, or cultivating a filter on here to share your thoughts, might create that atmosphere of trust.
You don't have to start large at all. Maybe just make things and share them with one person you trust a lot. There was a year when the discourse was bad and frustrating and geopolitics were too and I couldn't deal with it so I just wrote with Titian and didn't post anything for a while, but we still had each other to talk with and affirm and build our interest in things. It was a bad year but because we had each other, it was better than it could have been.