Sisyphus On A Smoke Break

33, East Coast, Matt. Youths begone (25+ only please). Caterwauling into the void.

[havingapoemwithyou]

to the new year by W.S. Merwin

[sealedbeastnue]

“what time is it” you ask, i pull out my 2.7 metric ton granite sundial and immediately crush both of your feet, I loudly announce “it is cloudy”

[creepish]

babygirl you’ve never met someone as isolated as me before

[andreweatspussy111]

Is this guy bothering you? cuz I could bother you too but in a different better way

[joyousjoyfuljoyness]

Phenomenal!

[guineapiggies]

Via mrs_larissa_domogalla

[anyablossom]

NOT hiding this

[wizardpostsdotorg]

made the most unappetizing and non-food coloured cup of tea of my life.

mushrooms, blueberry tea, coconut milk, honey. i cannot describe the flavour other than.. floral wood? 1/10 would not reccomend. i have named it the gnomes laundry water.

[cardinalmecha2]

[maltedmalaphors]

Sometimes i get down on myself for not achieving more in my 20s but then i remind myself i survived debilitating illnesses, undiagnosed life destroying migraines, family members needing end of life care and dying, literally being 50% blind in both eyes for 2 years, and a relationship of 5 years with someone who intentionally sabotaged my attempts at self improvement constantly and she only admitted it after breaking up because they thought I’d leave them if I got healthy.

Like, when I start to go over just how terrible my 20s were it’s remarkable I’m as well as I am today. I had my labs done and all the work I’ve put in has paid off. I’m perfectly healthy now, whatever autoimmune issues i’ve had are gone and even the food sensitivities/allergies seem to have disappeared.

I’ve started putting on muscle so fast my coworkers thought I was on steroids. I have to basically run on the stairmaster to even get my heart rate over 150.

[exeggcute]

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

[fleshst4r]

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we're not going to make it

we will make it

it'll take too long to rebuild ourselves

we will make it

but what if we don't wake up in the morning

we will make it

i don't see a future with me in it

we will make it

we'll give up long before then

we will make it

im scared

i love you. we will make it

Voting ended onApr 11

[animnightmare]

The votes on this post. Oh. A poem in poll form, interactive art, the fact we can see how the other people reading it felt. im. this is really good.

[mi-ciudad]

i knew from a young age that i didn’t want all of this

[beeefy]

i just heard my mum say ‘you are very naughty’ and then a meow and then another softer ‘okay but next time there will be consequences’ and then another meow and then a ‘you’re right probably not’ 

[maltedmalaphors]

What a difference a year can make.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Luis Xertu (Mexican, b. 1985, Mexico City, Mexico, based Rotterdam, Netherlands) - Two Men on a Branch, 2024, Paintings: Plants, Acrylics on Canvas

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[the-big-mood]