#on alienation

[nettlesangells]

"...because they've all gone away."

David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | Natalie Wee, "Least of All" | Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation | David Foster Wallace, The Pale King | Ethel Cain, "Janie" | Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

[doggemann]

Double bookkeeping in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (Helen Stephensen, Annick Urfer-Parnas, Josef Parnas) & “Disorder” by Joy Division

[kafkaesquebug]

The Beast in the Jungle, Henry James /// Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut /// The Beast in the Jungle, Henry James /// The Beast in the Jungle, illustrated by Blair Hughes-Stanton /// The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath /// Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky /// The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov /// The Trial, Franz Kafka /// The Trial, Franz Kafka /// The Drawings, Franz Kafka /// The Diaries of Franz Kafka /// In the Cage, Henry James /// The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy /// Brokeback Mountain (2005) /// Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin /// The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde /// Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin /// A Pearl, Mitski /// Undertale (2015) /// The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath /// The Sopranos (1999-2007) /// The Beast in the Jungle, Henry James /// In the Cage, Henry James /// Succession (2018-2023) /// Dawn Chorus, Thom Yorke /// The Trial, Franz Kafka /// The Beast in the Jungle, Henry James /// Brokeback Mountain (2005) /// Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin /// The Beast in the Jungle, Henry James

[inkempathy]

Not all knowledge is wise. Wisdom often leads to a certain kind of peace and inner reconciliation. Self-awareness to the verge of self-absorption is a whole different story. Wise knowledge frees. Self-absorbed awareness cages, alienates.

— Ink Empathy

[yarrystyleeza]

Am I that girl?

[Was just having a girl moment and the words started growing all over me]

Am I that girl?

I always ask myself

Am I that diamond

Kept on the shelf?

Am I that girl?

I own two cats,

I live in the city,

I blushed once

'cause a boy I liked called me "pretty"

Am I that girl?

I live by the shore

I've never been to a museum before

Am I that girl?

I'm into poetry, music and art

I've never baked a chocolate tart

Am I that girl?

I live in a fantasy

Or at least that's what I tell myself

When I'm drowning in ecstasy

Am I that girl?

I cry a lot

I've never played music

In the parking lot

Am I that girl?

I'm crazy, I'm angry

For all the things that never went my way

For all the things I was supposed to say

For all the love I want to have

But I'm too weird for you to have

For all the love I will to give

For all the lives for you, I'd live

Am I that girl?

I scream and I shout,

From this body

I want to get out

Am I that girl

You dream of at night?

Am I that girl

That keeps you up,

That makes you feel just right?

Am I that girl?

I've always asked

My friends, my family

Even strangers on the road

I've always wondered

I'm running out of words

I'm faltering off rhyme

I'm always bewildered

I'm falling,

Out of line

But only one question

Is on my mind

Am I that girl

You would call "mine" ?

[tenderloincherub]

"And my mind was empty -or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthesized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry."

Giovanni's room by James Baldwin.

just finished the book and this says all that it made to my mind and soul

[raeiyyn]

favourite stills from the paper kites's "climb on your tears" mv