I Don't Wanna Sound Hopeless But I Feel Like So Many Of You Don't Care Or Have Stopped Caring About Palestine.

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current state of US politics being my #1 motivation to shift

hey so i cant believe i have to say this in the big 2025 and on shiftblr no less, but if you are a terf, kindly do me the favor of blocking me or just not interacting. you are an asshole, your ego is fragile, you're uneducated and i want nothing to do with you <3

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2025 is the year i shift, end of sentence.

ooohh..!

so here’s why i personally didn't like *and* left shifttok. the thing is. it’s not that it’s inherently bad, it’s just… sort of missing the point. like, wasn’t the whole goal to shift? to get out, to go somewhere else, to slip through the cracks of reality like a goddamn pro? but somewhere along the way, it turned into a glorified pinterest board. edits on edits on edits. wattpad drabbles disguised as scripts. playlists that are less about actually shifting and more about curating an aesthetic, a moodboard, a vibe. and suddenly, you’re not shifting, you’re just making content about shifting.

like, i get it. romanticising your dr is half the fun. i did and still do it myself !! who doesn’t want to bask in the idea of their perfect world? but when that becomes the main event, when it overtakes the actual act of shifting, what are we even doing here? it’s like planning a trip, making all the itineraries, buying cute outfits, but then never getting on the plane. just sitting in your room, looking at your suitcase, rewatching your own tiktoks about how fun the trip is gonna be. that’s what shifttok became. this endless loop of people hyping up their drs but not actually going to them.

and maybe that’s the problem. because if you spend too much time making your dr look good instead of actually experiencing it, you start treating it like fiction. like something separate from you, instead of something you’re literally living. people started making edits of their drs like they were making fandom edits of a tv show. like, is this a real place you’re shifting to or is it just your latest hyperfixation? be honest. you spend so much time cooped up on video star or capcut and suddenly you don't remember the last time you affirmed or even thought about shifting.

and i’m not saying you can’t have fun with it. obviously, dream up the most insane, gorgeous, cinematic dr possible. but at some point, you have to ask yourself: am i actually trying to shift? or am i just roleplaying the idea of shifting? because shifttok is great at making shifting look cool. but the second you start seeing your dr as something to be consumed rather than something to be lived, you’ve already lost the plot.

so yeah. i left, and as soon as i did, i started actually shifting. because i actually wanted to do it. not just make a trailer for a movie i’m never gonna watch. does this make sense?????

recognizing ur dr as its own reality.

i feel like something that a lot of shifters struggle with (including myself) is recognizing their dr as a real reality of its own. before you say “obviously it’s real, why are you telling me stuff i already know?”, just hear me out. in this reality, people all over the world are doing their own thing and that’s the way it’s always been. people are giving birth, getting into college, fighting with parents, etc. in your dr, it’s the exact same thing. i think so many shifters think of their dr as a place that becomes real once they shift, but that is not the case at all. in this exact moment, your dr is going on as it normally is. people who you don’t even know in ur dr, are going to sleep, falling in love, falling out of love, just like in this reality. i hope what i’m saying makes sense but basically what i’m saying is that your dr doesn’t become an actual reality once you get there, you just become aware of it. and just like this reality, the world doesn’t actually only revolve around you & you’re friends in that reality and everyone around the world will have their own shit going on. people have their own thoughts and their own minds, and even the world is going to have some stuff going on that you didn’t script in just because that’s the way reality is all the time in every universe. that reality existed before you were even born and it will keep existing even after you leave it. the world will always continue to spin even when ur not aware of said reality because the world does not spin around you, of course it seems like that because you’re only aware of yourself, but it truly truly doesn’t.