Fighting off, like all creation, the absence of itself

But anyway -- Woman-shaped contraption of flesh & bone -- Baby Millennial -- Virtual magpie If I don't know you, please don't send me donation requests; I will assume it is a scam, and you will be blocked. I often blog about books, podcasts, TV series, or video games as I experience them. If you follow my blog and want spoilers for something tagged, or anything tagged in general, just LMK and I'll do my best. Occasional gorey art pieces tagged "gore cw".

[valtsv]

so last year during a period of intense suicidal depression i made this necklace that i always wear, right, and the thing is it's genuinely brought me a lot of comfort and relief and i've developed a strong sentimental attachment to it, to the point that i can inarguably state that it's had a net positive effect on my mental wellbeing. however i did now just have to stop to almost throw up laughing because i realised that i've succumbed to the amulet.

[xetrasherpa]

[norisunorin]

奈良県　藤原宮跡 Nara Cherryblossom

[mackerelllll]

from @/vero_muerte on tiktok!!

found this video at <2000 likes and i NEED more people to see this because. yeah.

[positivelyqueer]

Transcript:

“Maybe I like looking trans "oh your voice is too deep" Maybe I like having a deep voice. Maybe I'm not your femme fantasy. Maybe I'm my own fantasy. I love looking trans. I fucking hope that when I walk down the street, they say, "look at that transsexual!" And just maybe someone will see me and think, "hey, I can live that way, too."”

[bluewarf]

actually I would like to submit polyanimus and/or polyenmity to describe a polycule arrangement after the style of the Emperor/Augustine/Mercymourn or Eadwulf/Astrid/Bren. Toxic as hell, but undeniably hot. Built equally on love & devotion and resentment & betrayal. None of its members can be extracted from the others without losing a massive part of themselves. Preferably everyone involved is at least a lil evil.

[batshit-auspol]

Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

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[ex0skeletal-undead]

Night in Day by Thomas Blackshear II

(Please note that this piece is also called Night and Day in several sources, and I cannot find which one is correct. The artist’s own website doesn’t list a title. If anyone sees a definitive source for the title, please share!)

[goth-queen]

[shamebats]

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[bibidebabideboo]

“羽の日光浴するアオサギ先輩 この鳥っぽくない体勢が(*´∀｀) 7/1 #アオサギ” (アワビかʢ•̀رق•́ʡホタテか(@dededenmusi)さん | Twitterから)

[bluewarf]

is it weird that my favorite part of harrow the ninth was probably whatever the fuck those three dusty-ass polyanimus sickos had goin on

[climbhighsleeplow]

Feathers

[orpheuslament]

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

[novanocturnalis]

what is sexier than wizards something something NOTHING first art of the year of 2026

[dumnslut]

[pastperfectcontinuous]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

[ritavonbees]

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

[sepulchretide]

Columbo about to perform his famous soul-sundering chop attack