break apart the stars

is there anybody out there? // jen, 27, vietnamese-american

[mangonetics]

Dogs serve as a kind of virtue eater for Americans to pour all of their kindness into without the risk of improving society or being nice to someone with any agency

[txttletale]

you know you are really being very solipsistic and self-centred right now. the universe is vast and you are not the protgaonist of every story. have you considered that from some prespectives, the radiator is being handcuffed to you?

[dogrotpdf]

girlie you can’t give up now you don’t have the dark green couch of your dreams yet

[theinternetarchive]

macuser magazine, june 1986.

[plaidos]

there should be an emoji that’s a person with their hands behind their back silently observing a situation

[plasmapop]

09/03/21 • poem made from the handout for a lecture on the fragmentary historical sources and missing tomb of alexander the great

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[secretaryofdarkness]

Bloodborne is an amazing game because you are never given a diegetic choice to question your surroundings. You're a foreigner in a strange town, you're hated by everyone, you're given strange substances, and you know what you don't do? Ask any fucking questions. The beasts starting slashing and you just fucking roll with it.

A lesser game would give you a voiced protagonist, dozens of scared and confused voice lines, text prompts displaying fear and confusion and revulsion. Not Bloodborne. You kill and get killed in a horrific place with almost no semblance of realness left to it and you either roll with it like the game expects or you stop.

It's this lack of asking that is so poignant. After a while the game slips away because to a point you really do embody the character; you also just arrived here and decided to pick up a weapon without asking questions. Is it human nature to swing an axe just because it fits our hand? Do we question the means that brought us here or do we see them to their ends? This lack of choice and reflection is one of the best pieces of commentary that Bloodborne makes about systemic violence, because both we and our characters took part in it thoughtlessly.

[loving-parasite-moved]

tradgedy enjoyers when you look into the eyes of your worst enemy and can only see yourself

[cosmogenous]

I'm like if a sensitive sweetheart was a bit bitter and loathesome

[newlyy]

Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.

[interdimentional]

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[luna-azzurra]

In biology they told us that the eye doesn't actually see everything in the room, it fills in most of it from memory and assumption. your brain is just confidently making stuff up about what's probably there and you believe it because you have no reason not to. and i thought that was just a vision fact but actually it's the most important thing i know about unreliable narrators. your character isn't lying. they genuinely see the room they expect to see. that's so much scarier.

[astralysis]

it's been years since i've last been here and i think all i have left in me is all consuming rage and deep-seeded bitterness

[000l]

girlhood is touching your necklace whenever you feel nervous

[uncomfortablecliche]

me when im absolutely not corrupted by the amulet

[sunfortune]

they should invent a technology that lets you smell a perfume through the screen

[ovur]

Life is all about being really scared and wasting your youth