anthropofugal

'I have always unconsciously sought out that which will beat me down to the ground, but the floor is also a wall.' Nick Land

[weltenwellen]

Marie Howe, from “Memorial”, What the Living Do

[theotherkingdoms]

— Megan Fernandes, “I’m Smarter than this Feeling, but Am I?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

[yearningheart]

babe wake up the new franz kafka diary entry that eerily parallels your feelings and situations corresponding to each specific date just dropped

[epicallyepicepicosity2]

[crazy-pages]

- Sun Wukong

[hauntanelle]

one must imagine the tumblr mutual happy

[borderepisteme-deactivated20260]

“I am what I am, but never simply directly. One always becomes what one is, and this is to be taken quite literally. It does not mean that at the end of some long and painstaking formative process we finally become what we are: it means that even our most ‘immediate’ identity already involves a becoming in the sense of what one could call with Kant a ‘transcendental decision’ or transcendental choice of character.”

Alenka Zupančič, On Sex Without Identity

[carvalhais]

Human memory is selective. This is how it differs from a database. It is narrative, whereas digital memories are additive and cumulative. A narrative depends on a selection and connection of events. It proceeds in a selective fashion. The narrative path is narrow. It comprises only selected events. The narrated or remembered life is necessarily incomplete. Digital platforms, by contrast, seek to create a complete record of a life. The less narration there is, the more data and information there are. Byung-Chul Han. 2024. The Crisis of Narration. Cambridge: Polity Press.

[weltenwellen]

Tomatoes Joy Sullivan

[weltenwellen]

Ndako Na Ngai, or My Home  Laurène Southe

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[proustiansleep]

"Unlearning attachments is just incredibly slow and difficult and you cannot just will it. I mean, you can will your desire for it and you can make yourself ready. But the undoing of your viscera takes forever even as you get so embarrassed by your own mind and ideation. It’s like: ‘I’m not thinking that; it is thinking itself. And I have to own that because it’s in me, but it’s not real. It’s not what I identify with or want to build. What do I do with all that stuff?’ —Lauren Berlant, in interview

[64mpg]

“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“No matter how good you are with words, it's inevitable that meaning is lost between your mind and someone else's. Trying to communicate is like throwing a cup of water at a thirsty person's face. It's better than nothing, sure, and a teaspoon of water might hit their lips, but oh, God, there's just so much water in the grass.”

— Jacqueline Novak, How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows

[mournfulroses]

Olivia Tapiero, from her book titled "Nothing At All," originally published in January 2026

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Olive Higgins Prouty written c. 1950, featured in The Collected Letters

[winged-thinged]

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Advice from a caterpillar by Amy Gerstler