I love the message and artstyle but did they have to give the cute lovable gator depression? T^T carry on lil buddy, this too shall pass
The gator is the whole point. It’s a stand-in for the author that has felt the need to suppress the aspects of themself that others find unappealing, their anger, their sadness, the things people find abrasive or just “weird” in order to make themself more digestible for the people around them because the alternative is to be alone. The gator is only “cute” and “lovable” because it was not allowed to be anything else.
saying “this to shall pass” feels disrespectful to me
A lot of our society causing people to feel this way will not pass, it will not go by, it’s not just depression in a vacuum. it’s society telling you you are not allowed to exist as yourself. That’s not going to just pass, we need to radically change society if we want people to stop feeling this way.
I have depression because my brain is depressed and it’s a neurochemical imbalance, I also have depression because I am disabled and poor in a society that hates the disabled and poor. I think most of the depression people feel nowadays is not a chemical imbalance it is society being fundamentally against us.
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