writing my way out

@summer---breeze | currently looking for something to hyperfixate on | +bonus shitposting

[that--funny--feeling]

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[77cheshirecat77]

Robert Sims is the character of all time. He’s shown as the ultimate evil but is actually a wimp. He spends ten years trying to get the same internship and fails. He’s a bad liar. His wife is cooler than him. He instantly folds the moment somebody has daddy issues. He’s the only person in the Silo to wear leather. He wants to go to the park

[skronklpus]

Bojack reference

[starberry-cupcake]

another thing I think is so very interesting from the amazing digital circus finale is that the thing that was pulling them back, more than anything, was the belief that they were trapped

yes, caine was unhinged and the way in which the adventures were done made things feel cyclical and difficult to perceive progression when nothing feels like it amounts to something

but the true power holding them back was that they saw themselves as trapped, rather than capable of changing or moving forward, even when in the circus, because they were too preoccupied with the idea that they were not where they were supposed to be

whether or not they had lost faith in ever "returning", they still perceived themselves as unable to move on because they couldn't "escape"

it's like they were seeing themselves in a synchronic perspective (a snapshot of a moment in a time of their lives) rather than a diachronic one (a progression of events with the capacity to move forward)

when they were scanned, all of them were at point in their lives in which they were struggling with something deep and painful, and those fears and issues were carried into their feelings inside the circus

however, the idea that they were trapped made them believe that they were unable to move from any of that as long as they didn't "return" to the real world, because true change could only happen "out there"

when the truth was revealed, they could either accept their existence and let themselves finally move forward while inside the circus or, like what happened to jax, see themselves as perpetually tied to the memories they had from who they thought they were before the scan, unable to accept that growth was always possible and with the helpless belief that it would always be that way

which is something we sometimes perceive in real life too

when pomni says "abby is out there living her best life, and here, I'm just pomni" it's a way to establish that, from the moment she appeared as pomni, her life and abby's life had been divided, and it was up to her to live as pomni from then on, untethered from whatever abby's life would become, as her own person, in her own terms

accepting their identities and existence as they are, rather than seeing themselves as a sub-par trapped version of someone else "out there", was what they needed to move forward

it's an incredibly interesting take on awareness, on self perception, on how most often than not it isn't on the things that happen or on our reaction to those things but on the relationship between the two to understand true experience

[relmint-draws]

Is this anything

[ankle-beez]

so i found out the guy who sang "isn't it lovely" in the finale also voiced disappearing guy and immediately got to work

[heavensghost]

Susan Orlean, The orchid thief

[dead-core]

i just need to have more rules for myself. more rules and limits. surely that will help me

[5altwaterfall]

and punishments. more punishments. surely that will help

[unicorngunter]

Someone brings a cat to the Slat to deal with a mice problem and she becomes the best employee of the month every month since then

[redtsundere-pngs]

we are what we read

[nicolegendary]

i knowwwwww in my heart ilya would love taking shanes last name and after they have kids referring to their family unit as hollanders. ilya turning around to the backseat like okey hollanders here is plan. we are going to be in and out of costco in thirty minutes. you may choose ONE item each. if we get separated we meet at optometrist. we will get ice creams on way out as long as everyone is cool and nobody tells dad. hollanders on three.

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[heavensghost]

House zine! Words from anything by adrianne lenker

[icpe]

Witcher 3, doodles #426

[phaeton-flier]

So many little ways that hatred of some underclass — immigrants, the homeless, the young — requires making things worse for everyone so those in the under class don't get anything nice either. Whole smorgasbord of shooting yourself in the foot out of spite

[phaeton-flier]

have to keep ourselves poorer just to keep brown people out. can't have public bathrooms because the homeless might use them. have to play high-pitched noise to keep teens away. we are letting the cruelest people among us make our lives worse so they can be hateful

[aphrostiel]

some x-files doodles!

more fanart of one of my favorite shows!! on a par with twin peaks, to the surprise of literally nobody because both shows are besties

[sunkissedliterarylightofchrist]

Me: I’m going to stay up late tonight, and it’s okay because I’ll sleep in! ଘ(੭˃ᴗ˂)੭٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

Me in the morning, waking up at a normal time through no will of my own (¬_¬")(｡•́︿•̀｡)