#object attachment

[carnis-insanis]

brushed plushies today - starting with gloves :)

[stardotnet]

"goodnight my dearest friend"

poem in the first image by me. a small memorial for my digital camera that has slowly broken down after years of love & was finally put to rest today

(rip little red, 2009ish - 2024)

[autisticdreamdrop]

autism things 183

feeling more connections to objects instead of people (plushies, toys, dolls, clothes, accessories, fidgets, blankets, household items, etc)

[1970s-black-ghost]

Sometimes, when I walk around outside, I feel a sort of fondness for all the cars I come across! Even the ones that I personally believe weren't designed well by their creators, as that's not *their* fault. They didn't choose that. Every car is as beautiful as the next, especially when they're personalized with bountiful stickers or you can see all that they and their driver have gone through together — scrapes, dirt, wear and all.

It's amazing to know that they love the person(s) they carry around all the time, to hear the hum of the engine as it starts up, to see them gently pull into car washes and come out squeaky clean, to see them rested in parking lots and driveways.

[wanderingmind867]

I can't let the old recliner die. I can't let it. If it dies, I think I may legitimately have a breakdown. But I'm really, really scared it will break. Why do I think it will break? Well, I need to explain some things about the recliner to explain that. The recliner is an old faux leather one, and it sheds flakes of fake leather or whatever. So for years we've been covering it in sheets so it doesn't flake on us when we sit there. Instead it flakes on the sheet. Recently, the sheet has been awful to deal with. It's being super hard to get comfortable with. It's frustrating, but I don't know how to actually explain it all properly.

I know I should just accept that the recliner will die one day. Replacing furniture is a part of life. Objects die just like people do. But when the objects are old enough to feel like they've been there all your life...that's when it becomes a challenge. I don't want to have to part with objects like this, because I have very strongly idealised images of them. Our old loveseat is old too, but it's been there for years. Nothing feels like it. Our old recliner has big arms. No new recliner has arms like that. None I've found, at least. So I keep clinging on to this old recliner, really hoping that it'll just hold on. Because I don't want to part with it. I really don't. I'm scared I'll have to soon, though. And that fear can be pretty powerful sometimes. I can't always get rid of it. sigh...

[gothicseverance]

For Marx the self under capitalism ceases to have an ontological reality of its own, instead it substitutes within itself a series of object-attachments which replace any real (or otherwise economically non-motivated) sense of autonomy.

—Dickens' Ghosts

[kiibykris]

I am emotionally attached to the apple macintosh

Macintosh if u can hear me I lobe u

[arctic-hands]

I'm too sentimental. I got to thinking of my old laptop and I feel bad for having sold it for parts after it started slowing down