CLEAR THE AIR FOR NEW YEAR

[seasonsmods]

Hello, everyone~! ⭐

I'm Starlight ✨, here with a public forum post to end the new year with! It's called a confession booth!

Basically, this is your chance to confess something you have been holding back to start the new year off with a clean(er) record!

Oh, and every comment will be automatically anon when posted, so no need to play with settings or anything.

And of course, have a wonderful new years, everyone 💫 I hope to see you more come next year.


Oooh and one more thing. Please don't make any lewd comments on here, okay? If you need to get flirty with your anon buddies, you can make your own post. Much love~ 💕




OOC: This is a mini-minun fun event to end the new years with! Starlight herself won't make any comments or reply to anything. This comment is a free for all, threadjacking is probably a given, please mark if you'd rather avoid getting threadjacked!

Please also keep everything SFW, as this post won't be locked. You can make a secondary post of anon flirting and sexting if that's something you wanna do! A NSFW version has been posted.

Of course any potential triggering confessions should be warned about in the header.

Anon isn't OOCly on, but ICly it's always on. You'd have to hack the settings to be posting with your username.

Comments

[nelinquish]

Reading these comments, I feel as though a vast majority of people here could deal with talking to someone to help working through their issues.

The outcry on here is surprising given how positive everyone tends to portray themselves.

[hometown]

Why is it surprising? These are confessions. They're stuff people couldn't/wouldn't normally say.

[nelinquish]

Because if not worked through, these thoughts and challenges can turn into a festering wound that could consume them and force them onto a dark path.

I have witnessed the repercussions firsthand.

[hometown]

Looks to me like that's what people are trying to do here. Work through stuff in a place where they can share it.

[nelinquish]

Have you read through all of the comments?

[hometown]

Have you?

[poisontest]

I personally don't have any major problems worth pointing out anonymously so this doesn't exactly apply to me, but just because people show a public face of being positive doesn't mean that there can't be an undercurrent of things that aren't.

It's probably easier to speak on things when your name isn't personally attached to them.

[nelinquish]

I am well aware.

Which is why I have pointed out that a vast majority should speak to someone on a more permanent basis.

Acknowledging their challenges here is opening up a door to possible further discussion. Once a wound is prodded open, it is better to clean it and allow it to heal rather than allow it to fester.

[poisontest]

I can't speak for anyone else, but based on what I've read at a cursory glance, it seems like these topics aren't the easiest to broach.

And their confessions might have been kept a secret for a good reason.

But who am I to talk, I suppose.

[nelinquish]

This is true. I can also acknowledge that there are conversations that may be harder to approach, but doing it half way may do more harm than good.

Sometimes you must be blunt for someone to understand you.

[poisontest]

[ <-- someone who is not blunt all the time ]

It's definitely circumstantial, that's for sure.

[putupyourdukes]

Talking to someone? Absolutely not.

[nelinquish]

If it is not a feasible solution for your situation, then merely disregard my observation.

[putupyourdukes]

I work through "issues" by putting my attention on a few hours of intense training instead. It's always worked for me.

[nelinquish]

Then what is the appeal of this post for you? I am genuinely curious.

[dreamsofwings]

Maybe it's just easier to say the shitty stuff when no one knows who you are.

[nelinquish]

Is that how it is for you?

[dreamsofwings]

Kind of. It's easier to write it than say it for one.
Besides, no one wants to hear my shit. If no one reads it, it's fine, at least I said a little.

[nelinquish]

I assure you, it has been read.

[sinfuelheart]

I don't want to force anyone to give up being anonymous, but I do wish we could do something to help. Maybe it would be healthy to do this sort of anonymous posting more often and give people a chance to realize people will listen to them kindly? I certainly feel a bit braver after seeing people be so kind to each other.

[nelinquish]

You may be on to something. There is a certain merit to continuing this purging of thoughts anonymously.

[sinfuelheart]

Maybe we could pick a date when a new post goes up every month or something? Eventually the goal would be that people either feel well enough not to need it anymore or can confidently ask for help publicly, but being anonymous does seem to help for like. Testing the room temp.

[nelinquish]

How will you make your idea a reality?

[chiefkeyward]

Expressing oneself is a legitimate way to find solace. However, I fear that many of us here are reluctant to speak such truths in public.

We are guided by cowardice.

[nelinquish]

Cowardice is certainly a way to look at it. Though, cowardice seems to have served those who refuse to come forward well.

But, we do not know if that will always be the case.