#fellow feeling

[nerium-lemontree]

I said "I'm sad, I'm going to listen to some music to cheer me up while I finish this fucking hell of a homework."

I clicked the shuffle option on my phone's music app and "Fellow feeling" by Porter Robinson starts playing of all things.

Thanks a lot cellphone, now I'm not only sad, this became a fucking crisis.

[amongthefallingstar]

[arinarson]

God, the line "I missed you back then, so be here with me" in Unfold reminds me of Worlds, especially Fresh Static Snow and "I cried, for I didn't think it could be true that you and I might have always known one another". Like Worlds was saying "there is a person out there who would be perfect for me but I'll never meet them" and in Unfold it's a reminder-- "we used to long for each other, now that we are together leave that pain behind and be joyful with me".

[muggycuphead]

Idea BETA para un jefe del Pinkferno en C’sR(d)T

Si la wea confusa ahora pero ya se aclarara lo prometo-

EDIT 31/01/2023: El dibujo fue actualizado con una versión re-escaneada más limpia

[orenstern]

We are in the Garden now

So the deal was Stay at Home until Easter for Twelve Hundred Bucks. That was the deal. Now it’s sounding like Stay at Home until May 1st. We looking at $2400 each now?

What was Twelve Hundred Bucks anyway? Beside being a small bag of already cracked and half chewed (not eaten) peanuts?

It was illuminating, is what it was.

Let’s take a minute to think about what ways of life we’ve observed being so quickly changed. And what ways of life maybe should not so quickly or even ever change back.

How bout gas prices get locked at a buck fifty forever. What the hell were they doing at 3 dollars anyway?

How bout there will ALWAYS be senior only shopping hours.

The idea of social distancing is not such a bad thing either as a Per Usual. Why should we rush back into a hapless reckless lifestyle that promotes the spread of disease, when we all know now how fragile our inter-personal eco-system is. Maybe it was on our minds before, but its right in our face now. We can’t unsee it.

Why should people be packing into subway cars like a sausage to make their morning commute?

Why should the highways be bumper to bumper for 2.5 hours every morning and evening?

Are these examples of human commuting behaviors not unlike those crazy feedlot farming practices that yield diseased and unhealthy meat?

And what for, all that ridiculous traffic and haggard commuting—because your boss NEEDS you there?

A ton of businesses found out awfully quickly how to keep their companies open and efficient with their employees working from home. Didn’t they? Like in record time. Are we supposed to unsee that too?

What’s so much more important about ending this effective and efficient Mass-Work from Home Program and rushing back to the normal ho-hum everyday degrading grind?

For who’s benefit? Really, honest question: For Who?

All quarantine joking aside—who hasn’t truly loved every minute of having no stupid reason to cleave from away from their family? To be with your kids and spouse. To have time to check in with all of your extended family. To have time to check in with your neighbors. To have time to think about your whole community and how every one around you is doing.

And to have time to realize who the really important members of our society are.

Why should we go back to not realizing how valuable our store clerks and stockroom people are, or our Nurses and medical support staff?

Well, I don’t have to go into every single point of this game changing eye opening event. I think I already made my point clear.

It WAS eye opening. So it is probably a hell of a lot more beneficial if we stop talking about “After this is over” within the context of suddenly dropping some of these good things we’ve collectively found...

...and start talking in a way that illustrates just how widely our eyes have been opened.

Just think about it. If you haven’t already. Let it well up in you. Then speak your mind about it.

Because this has happened before.

“If they eat of the fruit, they will become as we are”

Said one Angel to the the other Other, about the people in the Garden.

And said not out of love or compassion, but out of fear. That there was in fact potential for those people to ascend to a more sublime state of being, and thereby become less dependent on those so called angels.

Perhaps we’re in the Garden now.

And perhaps, also, we should be resistant of leaving it this time.

[kaytrix]

I cried, for I didn't think it could be true

That you and I might have always known one another

And that we could not only evoke, but conjure a place of our own

And everywhere, that has ever existed

Is all on the surface of our dream

Now please, hear what I hear

Let me explain

This ugliness, this cruelty, this repulsiveness

It will all die out

And now, I cry for all that is beautiful

[crimsonnskiess]

Drawings inspired by music