*deep sighs in black sarcasm*
part deux aka a rapid fire of thoughts sponsored by my twitter feed
i know i’m not suppose to be on twitter but….
You know what's been on my mind a lot lately? Black millennial trauma.
Black millennial trauma has equipped us with the uncanny ability to be incredibly witty and deeply self-aware, all while the world is actively on fire. We’ve become fluent in dark humor and dare I say, masters of making comedy out of trauma.
Is it avoidance? Maybe. Maybe not. …or maybe we’re just masking untreated PTSD with cleverness and audacity. Pick your poison.
I personally lean towards the ideology that we’re not avoiding anything—we just choose to frolic in the pockets of joy we got. Survival without joy is slow suffering. And if the world is going to blow up tomorrow… I’d rather be making the most out of the scraps I have to work with, instead of playing fire marshal to infernos I didn’t create.
cussing folks out is an act of self-care
Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is let that mf know. Loudly. #thatisall
…and this happened
excuse me… wtf?!
My husband being gone for more than 12 hours.
He’s on a work trip. This man rarely leaves. But now that he’s gone? I’ve realized I might be a little codependent. I think it’s because we’ve worked from home so long, about 4 years or so now. During the day is fine, but at night?! Everything feels too quiet. I don’t like it. Maybe I have separation anxiety. Maybe I just love that man. Either way, it’s lowkey embarrassing and I hate it here.Reading is no longer fundamental.
I don’t know if it’s TikTok or the fact that podcasts have replaced literacy—but I’m concerned. Deeply. People no longer want to read full sentences. Paragraphs are considered aggressive.
I miss when reading wasn’t trendy. I miss books that sucked me in, that I couldn’t put down, and running to my circle to talk about. Hell, I miss having deep group chat conversations. I know I’m at auntie status, but damn! Have we strayed that far from connecting with content? Has the era of Vine, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram rotted the brain so that we can’t consume anything longer than 30 seconds? I beg - if we ever have to migrate away from Substack (because it seems like they are starting to stray but we can talk about that later) - let me know where we go - because this and Twitter… it’s all I got when it comes to social media.
BRING BACK THE TINY CHEF SHOW
If an Emmy can’t save your job, what can?!
@thetinychefshowSOS Cheffers, please go to the link our bio to learn how you can help us keep Chef on social media. Tiny chefs cooking show has officially been cancelled (very unexpected) and without the support of a major network we need crowd funding to keep cookin’ over here. Yesh this es weal! We want to thank @nickelodeon for giving Chef two blamazing seasons and all the besties he made there. Chef wouldn’t want anyone to blame his friends over there, he’s just deeply sad he doesn’t get to continue hosting a show he adores. Please let cheffy know how much he means to you in the comments he’s really feelin this one.
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quick notes:
Mental Munchies is the space where (I hope) random thoughts will at least flow and somewhere along the way, make sense. It is a lightly edited curation of chaos. With that said, sometimes it may be deep-ish, but that’s not the point. If you see typos… and don’t like typos… *kanye shrug*
omg "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" is such peak satire. I should go back and rewatch as an adult. It was very literally the reason I named one writing on here "Don't bring a knife to a drone fight on bath salts". This is immaculate tho!
Every part of this resonated with me.
It seems like people are not as nervous about what feels like generational dismissal of long form anything.
I miss Twitter but Threads feels very similar to it these days, or Black threads does. I have a ton of social media apps but rarely check them because I default to the written word oa reddit and substack are more appealing.
What really stood out though is the introspection on seperation anxiety/codependence because my fiancé is away on some family business and our home feels wrong at night. I know that it's mostly just that we love each other. It's odd sometimes to be in a relationship with someone you genuinely love and like, because so many people are just settling to not be alone. I would pick this man everytime and it's nice to know he'd pick me too.