i’m sleeping with the lights off to feel something again
What if we got rid of the television? The Internet? It would give us back our sense of place, but also our pain, and for that reason it's a nonstarter, absence of pain being what we strive for and have always striven for, this is the essence of modern life. It's why we live in the image of the world rather than in the world itself.
Karl Ove Knausgaard · “Idiots of the Cosmos.” In the Land of the Cyclops (2021)
Midst thickest mists and stiffest frosts,
With strongest fists and stoutest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
-Unknown
(I couldn’t find the photographer name other than Tjook)
i wouldn’t survive any encounter against a monster because i would inevitably try to be friends with it. yes this includes the horrors beyond our comprehension. no, i wouldn’t try to change them. yeah they aren’t perfect but why would i try to change something that is already lovable? yeah… i know they would kill me. yeah i don’t mind. not their fault.
I love how different forms of art are all obsessed with each other. A book tries to capture the feeling of music, a painting tries to depict a scene in a book, a song tries to paint a picture. And it's always insufficient. No single form of art can encapsulate another form of art and capture the essence of it – but it tries, and its attempts are impossibly compelling. All the forms of art are in love with each other and spend so much time trying to express what makes the other kinds of art so lovely.
the feeling of learning is legitimately so cool. there’s a little whoa sound effect that plays in your brain whenever you read a sentence that expands reality for you a tiny bit
ponchopeligroso
every single person you know has something in their life and past that is probably worth collapsing to the ground in an uncontrollably sobbing heap over, so be nice to each other and tell good jokes
Good read on how sometimes something becomes too real too fast…..I need! To learn! To stop running from it!
starting to feel sick with want and desire. When will it end
"you know how on tik tok--" no. "ugh i keep seeing these people on tik tok saying--" Delete it. Delete the app
you're just mad that my presence is haunting and offputting and yours isn't
lol i hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn’t behave exactly as you’d wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn’t text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he’s just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don’t do it anymore. someone isn’t instantly available for you? disinterest. just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life. like. stop. literally just stop it
