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the thing people fail to understand about hamlet is. yes, he is off the rails with no brake line. but so would you be if you were possessed by the ghost of your dead father. and nobody knew you were gay
you would be twice as off your rocker if YOU had a prophetic vision wherein you realised you were a figment of someone else's imagination via which they were plotting to kill you. and if you told anyone else the truth it would inevitably kill them too. AND nobody knew you were gay
i cannot believe mikey b bein g for real in love w/ richie jeromovich all his life was actually canon. i should not have dared believe such a thing!
one thing i really appreciate about the dick turpin song from horrible histories is the way it's framed as a cautionary ballad for young children, intended to ward them off the path of that most twenty-first century of vices: highway robbery
Hyper-individualist cultures go, “Your emotions are your personal responsibility. Don’t burden others. Regulate privately. Maintain functionality. If you’re upset, process it offstage so the machine keeps moving.” Meanwhile certain collectivist or harmony-focused frameworks go, “Your emotions disrupt group cohesion. Don’t create discomfort. Don’t impose disharmony. Transcend or contain your reactions for the sake of the whole.”
Different mythology, same trembling fear that one person saying “actually, I feel terrible” will cause civilization to peel apart like wet drywall.
Tragedy alignment chart. Feel free to use, but please reblog if you do.
And of course the second part of the tragedy, which is: which quadrant did you think you were in vs. which one you were really in
AITA for realizing that my best friend is actually a ghost and not telling him because i'm worried that if he realizes he's dead he'll finally be able to accept it and fully pass on and i won't be able to hang out with him anymore?
AITA if i've been dead for a while but haven't told my best friend yet because he doesn't seem to have realized i'm a ghost and if he does i'm worried that he'll finally be able to accept it and let me go and i can't bear the thought of losing him?
AITA for killing that guy
time loop with two people in it but one person refuses to acknowledge the loop and pretends to be looping with everyone else. meanwhile the other person is freaking out
the thing people fail to understand about hamlet is. yes, he is off the rails with no brake line. but so would you be if you were possessed by the ghost of your dead father. and nobody knew you were gay
you would be twice as off your rocker if YOU had a prophetic vision wherein you realised you were a figment of someone else's imagination via which they were plotting to kill you. and if you told anyone else the truth it would inevitably kill them too. AND nobody knew you were gay
you would be THRICE as off your rocker, being locked in an eternal struggle with the devil, who is quite Literally Possessing Your Mind and the minds of everyone you love, and who also happens to be, at once, your uncle-father, brother-son, mother-sister-daughter-wife, and also you, yourself. Everything Is Your Fault And Also You Did Everything You Could And If The Devil Cannot Earn Redemption What Is Even The Point Of Heaven, and also if you were addicted to being The Star Every Night but also This Is Killing Me I Just Want To Go Home And Sleep. be not ashamed to admit you would go a bit bonkers
Flammarion, exiting the world
Arches National Park, Utah photo: Elliot McGucken
what you experience is hyperfixation, which is pathological. what I experience is psychosexual obsession， which is also pathological, but in a darkly chic and subversive way. thank you for understanding.
Mary Oliver, The Journey (excerpt)
Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.
It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.
so what you're saying is
character: NO
therapist: YES
Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:
#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic
yeah okay ill reblog that
happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)
no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood
