#lockdown feels

[sadgaychamelion]

Waiting for cyclone Alfred got me feeling like I’m back in lockdown. Like wdym I’ve been asked to stay home for the most part for an unspecified amount of time? Why did I just FaceTime my best friend for the first time in over a year, when we haven’t sat on the phone for hours since 2021? Why do I have bread dough rising, waiting for me to bake it rn????

[pityroad]

"Apocalypse is now a long-running serial: not 'Apocalypse Now' but 'Apocalypse From Now On'."

— Susan Sontag, 'Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors'

[lestersglitterglue]

Old vs. New

[existentialcrisistime]

The 4 lockdown/quarantine moods as Red Dwarf characters:

Cat: dressing up in ur fancy clothes every day because why not, being horny + attention starved, absolutely still in the denial stage

Rimmer: now's a great time to start studying/working out, really trying to be productive and carry on as normal despite it being pointless, an anxious wreck

Lister: honestly just vibing, no bedtime no work no rules, house is a mess but there's no guests to see it, missing seeing your crush and mates

Holly: bored, absolutely done with everything, have read all the books you own twice, no new bad news is surprising anymore, why do I have to do everything around here?

[primarybufferpanel]

maybe there’s no breaking point. maybe there’s just struggling and feeling more and more stretched thin and on the edge of falling apart, or over it already, but it doesn’t change anything, does it? you can fall apart all you like but you still just have to stretch a little more, and then a little more after that, with no end in sight

[c-murphy]

Anyone else listening to 2010 hits jamming out in their kitchen alone with disco lights on? No? Just me then. Oh well, you're all missing out on some sick moves, just saying.

[nixieteeth]

finally hit the point of lockdown where I want to dye my hair emerald green

[existentialcrisistime]

Woke up on lockdown one more time

My visions won't ever learn

But I see the light that much clearer

Every time I return

"[White Cedar]'s about accepting the permanence of one's condition. The narrator is a guy who's in and out of hospitals a lot. I've worked with people who've experienced that, and I always assume there has to come a point where it's really hard, but then you try to find some way to be okay with it. There's a lot of sadness in that song." - John Darnielle (x)