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developed a real fondness lately for characters who experience a horrific act of violence and come out the other side saying "ah. I don't think I get to be me anymore. they took out the part that was me, killed it, and put something else back in its place, and now I'm whoever the hell that is." love it when someone becomes a corpse and replaces themself <3

seth-whumps

characters apologizing for things they have no control over. mumbling sorry while losing consciousness. feeling ashamed of a bleeding wound. embarrassed when an infection sets in. deep seated feverish guilt when they need to be carried, when their legs won't keep them upright anymore and they lean heavy on a friend, slurring apologies..........

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

megthemariner

@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / unknown / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

iamonlyhereforthefreefood

When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

papayajuan2019

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

ourplague

chilewithcarnage

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

wizardnuke

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

oldshrewsburyian

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

pnglove

#six

mournfulroses

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "The Return," featured in What Do We Know: Poems & Prose Poems

#maren

fromdarzaitoleeza

{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

julienbakerfavormp3-deactivated

Joyce Mansour, trans. Albert Herzing

#maren

radbeetle

Today - March 09, 2019 - would have been the 50th birthday of Adam Adamowicz.

Some of you might not recognize the name - he was a concept artist at Bethesda. Not just any concept artist, but the driving force behind the visual style of Fallout 3.

[The Life and Creativity of A Great Bethesda Artist] was written back in 2015, shortly before the release of Fallout 4, and, as a creative person, it’s still an important read, I think. Though I certainly never met the man, his work, and the games that built upon it, have had a huge influence in my life, and I’ve drawn so much inspiration from them.

““Have no fear of perfection,” said Dali, “You’ll never reach it.” Adam took that lesson to heart. He had no fear of the blank page; he did not fear failure. He wanted to learn. He wanted to grow.”

I think a lot about what I’ve learned from this article, from everything I’ve heard about Adam, and I know that even from so far away, even after he’s been gone for years, he’s had one hell of an impact on my life - and the lives of countless others.

Bethesda has shared hundreds of pieces of his concept art from Fallout 3 over on Flickr (the source of all the images in this post, though they’re much lower resolution here) and I encourage everyone to browse through them. [Fallout 3 Concept Art from Adam Adamowicz]

#fallout