post-post-possibilism

isobel, newly formed. 26, London, she/her, trans woman. autoharuspex supreme. sunrise parabellum! | there is a joy that is immanent to desire, as though desire were filled by itself and its contemplations. | the world - our world - is depleted, impoverished enough. away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have. | sic transit gloria mundi. | visit my webbed site at iso-bel.computer

[lumsel]

the secret truth is that men and women are literally exactly the same

[discourseoflove]

“The role of the artist is exactly the same role, I think, as the role of the lover. If you love somebody, you honor at least two necessities at once. One of them is to recognize something very dangerous, or very difficult. Many people cannot recognize it at all, that you may also be loved; love is like a mirror. In any case, if you do love somebody, you honor the necessity endlessly, and being at the mercy of that love, you try to correct the person whom you love. Now, that’s a two-way street. You’ve also got to be corrected. As I said, the people produce the artist, and it’s true. The artist also produces the people. And that’s a very violent and terrifying act of love. The role of the artist and the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. Insofar as that is true, in that effort, I become conscious of the things that I don’t see. And I will not see without you, and vice versa, you will not see without me. No one wants to see more than he sees. You have to be driven to see what you see. The only way you can get through it is to accept that two-way street which I call love. You can call it a poem, you can call it whatever you like. That’s how people grow up. An artist is here not to give you answers but to ask you questions.”

— James Baldwin, “The Black Scholar Interviews James Baldwin,” Conversations with James Baldwin (edited by Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt)

[txttletale]

nobody expected anything else but its disgraceful that burnham is keeping mahmood and philipson in post lol. meet the new party leadership same as the old party leadership

[collapsedsquid]

The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

[sufjansjoy]

everything will change today in small and unnoticeable ways #yay #tuesday

[mentaltimetraveller]

Katharina Grosse, This Drove my Mother up the Wall, acrylic on wall and floor, 2017.

South London Gallery

[pillmillipedes]

I'm so fucking normal that regular expressions are just expressions to me

[comicalwenger]

england when it's time to play a meaningless game for consolation points:

[tamamita]

Ill never watch this stupid racist sport for the rest of my life for at least another 4 years

[castlerobin]

My primary school bully's parents were Deleuzians and he bullied me for my arborescent thinking

[morlock-holmes]

It feels to me like the dominant political mood is a kind of injured confusion that your opponents take your words and actions seriously.

[mysterium-solis]

The Destruction of the Pharaoh’s Host by John Martin (1836)

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

(1959 - 1963) Project Mercury

[jareckiworld]

Nick Doyle — Perimeter (bleached and collaged denim on panel, 2026)

[shiftofgallifrey]

You people are normal right. If I learn how to be a person from you it would be fine right

[tsarina-anadyomene]

the thing is that being a novelty candidate just isn't a funny bit so you really have to admire the grit of someone who goes on doing it for ten years as whatever traces of humor were there are crushed into a fine dust

[funeralcity]

my understanding of the petplay dog clicker thing is that people seem to be utilizing classical conditioning to make their girlfriends associate having sex with having sex