Vitium cordis

polite menace seen in eyeliner and shawls striding around campus, will ask for permission to tease

[ispyspookymansion]

does anyone know if we have to keep doing this forever

[sxetlia]

not forever, no, until we perish due to old age or cancer or the eventuality of it all

[plumslices]

every now n then i do something little me wouldve loved

[sxetlia]

sounds like the absolutely luckiest person I've ever met

[ilikeit-art]

Artificial intelligence makes accurate sheep counting.

[halfgayfullgayconsequences]

[benignhumor]

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Stream of Life.”

[flowerytale]

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

[Text ID: I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.]

[the-unseelie-court-official]

The feminine urge to walk into the woods never to return.

[the-unseelie-court-official]

The masculine urge to walk into the desert to never return.

[the-unseelie-court-official]

The androgynous urge to walk into the ocean to never return.

[the-unseelie-court-official]

For the oysters.

[maddera11]

I can’t believe australian prime minister harold holt was nonbinary

[ghostly-harmless]

hold on I gotta google something

[ghostly-harmless]

I probably could've pieced that one together myself tbh

[dpargyle]

Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre

[twinsfawn]

2023 WILL BE THE YEAR OF HEALING AND FLOURISHING AGAINST ALL ODDS. NO MORE ROT.

[writing-prompt-s]

You run a daycare after the apocalypse. An unspoken rule among the wastelanders says the Daycare is off-limits to all. You raise the children of warlords, chieftains, and nomads.

[sxetlia]

when is the apocalypse? m asking nicely 😇

[hannahwashington-deactivated202]

i hope the barbie movie is a cultural phenomenon. i hope it leaves the next christopher nolan film in the dust. i hope it changes modern cinema forever and all movies made after it is influenced by it in some way. i hope the most academic, in-depth essays are written about it. i hope it's studied in film classes. i hope it remains in the human psyche for generations

[thememedaddy]

[speedlimit15]

i think if your account has existed on this site for a certain number of years you should be grandfathered into ad free browsing. a decade seems reasonable like if you signed up in 2012 or prior you have tenure

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

Were you a victim of the Mishapocalypse? You might be entitled to compensation

[headspace-hotel]

"Where has all the genuine self-expression gone? Now what used to be authentic subculture is turned into a performance of Aesthetic!" so many posts exclaim, usually concluding that the problem is Capitalism.

I don't disagree entirely, but. The problem is that y'all are so deathly fucking afraid of things Cringe, Weird, and Uncool that anything unmarketable, subversive, or oddball enough to be "genuine subculture" is gross and unacceptable to you.

[headspace-hotel]

People wish to see "genuine self expression" that is not a performance or a commodity.

Very well then. I assume you're appreciating and celebrating the dress, style and behavior of somewhat shabby, weird outcasts who firmly refuse to make themselves palatable to you?

I think some of you are forgetting what "subculture" means. If it makes everybody around you think you are cool and look nice, that's missing the point a little bit. That's just...culture!

[headspace-hotel]

When people express themselves in a way that is not a performance to appeal to others...

...it is actually very likely that they will...not appeal to you.

"Why can't people be unapologetically themselves, in a way that is of course never "cringy" or too weird or too ugly or uncool? Why can't we have self-expression without performance, in a way that is not boring to me and that doesn't weird me out?"

Do you see the problem?

[headspace-hotel]

There are still robust, thriving subcultures full of unique fashion and artistic expression...

"Ah, but you see, that one is personally unappealing to me!"

That's the Point, you fools!

[headspace-hotel]

I see how people talk about non-binary youths with hair dyed in funny colors. But there is such a young person of indeterminate gender I see sometimes on my college campus with "Trans Liberation Now!" and a bunch of other symbols and slogans hand-painted on their jacket, and they are a million times more "Punk" than anyone with simply piercings and spiky chokers

[headspace-hotel]

I was thinking about the incredibly cruel phenomenon of taking photos of strangers without consent and uploading them to websites so others can mock them, in the vein of "People of Walmart" and other such things, and when looking it up, I was disturbed to see how many of them are just 1) a fat person is in public (wow!) or 2) a (perceived) man is being obviously gender non-conforming 

they are just existing. probably at a more advanced level than you.

[cluegrrl]

Louder, for the folks in back...

[roach-works]

"There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!"

--Hermann Hesse

[butterflypeaflowertea]

i wish i was one of those girls from classical mythology……. i could just turn into a cypress tree or a crystalline lake and be done with it

[delphinidin4]

“It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one’s nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.” ― Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, written ca. 1148

[wack-ashimself]

[espanolbot2]

It’s wild that back in the day futurists assumed that with increased automation and computers it will enable people to have more free time, but in actuality it just make the capitalists decide to make people do more work for less instead.

Like, “Oh, you did what used to be a week’s worth of work in a few hours? Then you can gets months of work done in an entire week! Make more money for me faster, hooray!“.

[andrumedus]

“Did you see how loneliness shrouds everything that isn’t held?”

— Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things; “A Questionnaire”

[julykings]

pinned like a moth detail

[sadclowncentral]

"what drugs was op on when they wrote this lmao" none. due to the tense economic situation i've resorted to having weird thoughts for free