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Please don’t say: I discovered there is still a large part of me that is alive. No, my darling! You are entirely alive. It’s just that you’ve lived an irrational life, a life that doesn’t resemble you.

— Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Tânia Kaufmann wr. c. January 1948

weepingwidar

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Tsartlip/Syilx First Nations/Canadian, 1957) - Killer Whale Has A Vision and Comes to Talk to Me about Proximological Encroachments of Civilizations in the Oceans (2010)

skippyflip

“Colorado Mountains, I can see your distant skies.”

my-corrupted-pixels

Charles Csuri, Phases of Mourning

"This work was inspired by Masaccio's painting Expulsion From The Garden of Paradise. Perhaps I'm making a comment about something else. I use the same figure everywhere but in different poses I also depend upon body language and degrees of fragmentation to express the feelings of remorse."

godlessondheimite

i’ve seen so many stories where revenge is awesome and cool and the best thing you can possibly do. just once i would like to see a story in which revenge has two victims, the target and the pursuer. but i guess society has not yet come as far as i have in deconstructing destructive notions of honor and valor entwined with hate. maybe someday someone will write this. not me, though.

godlessondheimite

thanks for the recs everyone. can you point me in the direction of things that are about how family doesn’t have to be your blood relatives, but instead can be people you have chosen. what about some creative works that are about the power of creative works. or where the main character is a writer. or something set in new york city where it’s like the city itself is a character. is there anything that is secretly about trauma, bonus points if it’s the way trauma is passed down. these are all ideas i yearn to see represented but i’ve never seen before and i don’t know if they’ve ever been done.

godlessondheimite

thanks for opening my eyes to different animes, mangas, children’s shows, dungeons and dragons podcasts, and shakespeare. but i bet you won’t be able to find something that shows how friendship can be just as powerful as romance and friendship breakups can be just as devastating as romantic breakups. or how twin siblings can look identical but be emotionally and temperamentally opposites. or a dark, gratuitously violent subversion of superheroes, using nietzsche’s concept of the ubermensch as a gateway for fascism. or a sitcom where you think it’s gonna be funny but it’s actually a deep introspective look at the creator’s life and it isn’t funny at all and actually just sucks. the art of creation is only a thousand years old and we have only just begun to break the rules that have been made for us.