pictures, personhood, and past “how long can you look at those photos until the person in them becomes completely divorced from the real thing? until you’re looking at something that doesn’t exist anymore?”
richard siken / mitski / jeanette winterson / car seat headrest / tumblruser angelcommunist / mitski / will wood / critical role, campaign two, episode 109
[image description: eight images of quotes and lyrics from different sources.
1. a quote highlighted in yellow that reads “how much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?”
2. lyrics from why didn’t you stop me? by mitski that read “i look for a picture of you to keep in my pocket, but i can’t seem to find one where you look how i remember, look how i remember, look how i remember.”
3. a quote that reads “when we killed what we were to become what we are, what did we do with the bodies? we did what most people do; buried them under the floorboards and got used to the smell. i’ve lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. i am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.”
4. lyrics from the pre-chorus of destroyed by hippie powers by car seat headrest that read “what happened to that chubby little kid who smiled so much and loved the beach boys? what happened is i killed that fucker and i took his name and i got new glasses.”
5. a quote that reads “looking at old photos of myself thinking not only is that girl dead but i killed her.”
6. lyrics from the chorus of fireworks by mitski that read “and then, one warm summer night, i’ll hear fireworks outside and i’ll listen to the memories as they cry, cry, cry.”
7. lyrics from dr. sunshine is dead by will wood that read “all that i ask is keep those empty frames, if nobody’s in them, then no one is to blame. for your self-portraits, sign another name. well, who should i be then, if i’ll never be the same?”
8. an image of a transcript from critical role that reads “taliesin: well. we can make our best guesses, but you know, everybody’s haunted by who they were and who they thought they’d be.”
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