[leftyousleeping]

will, he/him, 2006. main of @left2decay (art), @autolysisangel (aes), m****t***h, and h***f****d. was willgrahams-dog

♱ on a death note kick but i also fw saw, silent hill, tolkien, n some classic anime. i like music

♱ i block bigots, radqueers, n pro-c para. i could not give less of a fuck about pro/antiship discourse or syscourse or whatever. no dni

♱ asks n dms open. send me music recs

spotify | letterboxd | pinterest

will.txt - my posts

will.jpg - my art

will.docx - my writing

will.exe - asks

will.mp3 - music

[leftyousleeping]

closer is that good but not for any of the reasons it’s that popular

[xaoca]

Yayoi Kusama, The Sea at Evening Glow (1988)

[leftyousleeping]

i don’t want to hear someone brushing their teeth or opening a soda can or chewing in my ear i’ll kill you

[brucespringsteencomments]

[leftyousleeping]

need to work out

[leftyousleeping]

some things shouldn’t have a fandom n i don’t mean this as in “no one sjould engage with problematic media” i mean there are ways to engage with fiction other than shipping or gambling for mass-produced trinkets . and often things are meant for one or the other

[ash-haloofthesun]

Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004) Television haunting

[loveridden1999]

one thing you should know about me is that i condone violence

[loveridden1999]

this is not a joke to me btw. i genuinely support violence because no true liberation can be achieved without violence. you're a terrorist in eyes of state when you challenge a colonial power. as Malcolm X once said "You don't get freedom peacefully. Freedom is never safeguarded peacefully. Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach by the ones who are being deprived of their freedom. The only way you can have peace is to eliminate those injustices and the American white man is not going to eliminate them, he's going to talk that pretty talk but he'll still continue to participate in those inhuman deeds." and when Kwame Ture said "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." and when Martin Luther King Jr. said “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” and when Frantz Fanon said “Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.” and when Subhas Chandra Bose said “Give me blood, and I will give you freedom.”

[anarchistmemedistro]

How Nonviolence Protects the State

Peter Gelderloos How Nonviolence Protects the State 2007 2nd Edition

[scumsburg]

200x119 EYEHATEGOD stamps, all by me, request

[koiagain]

too weird for normal kids too normal for weird kids Just right for being alone and miserable my entire life

[bobdylanyaoi]

plans for the summer

JERK IT

WRITE RPF

DRINK ALCOHOL

BLOG LIKE IVE NEVER BLOGGED BEFORE

job ?

LISTEN TO RECORDS

[leftyousleeping]

over a day of crust d-beat powerviolence and other tunes of that nature

[theunbearablelightnessofbein]

Pulse (2001) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

[aire1111]

she didnt block me on pinterest so im sending her madd pictures of ghouls and devils

[murder-kill]

the general alnst analyst's inability to engage with anything outside of the theme of love & sacrifice as character motivation is indicative of an understanding of the show with all the depth of an inflatable pool. as the main theme of the show, it is spoonfed to the audience (especially in karma), so it's completely understandable why that would be someone's starting point for analysis. however, it is extremely telling when someone cannot engage with the main symbol used to represent that theme, the symbol that is constantly being flashed in front of the audience's eyes: the anakt flower. if you attempt to talk about love & the twisted version of it alnst showcases without discussing the use of the flower in karma if nothing else, you have failed to engage in the primary method of communication of the text.

alnst uses imagery, symbolism, and metaphor for efficient communication of ideas. in karma, the anakt flower is introduced with its roots feeding off other children - love as exploitation. mizi narrates this exact idea, and if you are also paying attention to what is happening in the video you are watching, you can connect these two things together and understand them as one. then, it's extremely clear that the open question Isaac leaves for the audience at the end is answered, at least partially, by till showing rescued children his drawing of the real version of the fake anakt flower. it is all in front of your eyes. you just have to connect the dots laid out for you.

the second pitfall is the inability to engage with the text on a level that doesn't require falling back to searching for a diegetic answer to an often metaphorical question. people can often pick themes apart using a character as base, but cannot extrapolate it out to a broader theme that encompasses more than just an in-universe understanding of how a character feels. why does till show a drawing of a flower to the children? is he stupid? the mistake lays in trying to engage with this as an in-universe action of till's. the fact that he drew a flower in his notebook is mostly unremarkable. I'm so glad he has access to coloured pencils now. however, as mentioned earlier, if you are able to engage with this on a symbolic and thematic level, it becomes immediately clear what it means. the flowers the children knew were all fake, and till can now emulate the real. the children are free, and their worldview opens up as their world does - they can start loving without exploitation as the sole basis of all relationships.

you must engage the text at the level it presents itself at to understand it. if you fail this, then you must at least be willing to learn. it is okay to be stupid, I am often stupid. we can learn. we must learn.

[leftyousleeping]