#separation

[stillhere-erehllits]

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

[inevitablesblog]

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

[philosophybits]

Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible individualism must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[metamorphesque]

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

W. S. Merwin, Separation

[dr4gme]

[nobeerreviews]

Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

-- Paulo Coelho

(Colmar, France)

[katerinaaqu]

Isn't it freaking adorable how both Odysseus and Penelope could remember down to exact detail what clothing she had packed for Odysseus before he left for war even 20 years later?!

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

And she packed them herself. She didn't use the help of any servant or slave to do it. She wanted to prepare her husband herself. What is even more is that all the clothes were of vibrant colors which had me thinking;

What if Penelope deliberately prepared vibrant colored clothes for Odysseus solely so that she could see him from afar for as long as possible?! And man I can so imagine her doing the same! Like standing on the top of the hill where the palace is, wearing a vibrant dress that floats in the wind, holding baby Telemachus in her arms and watch Odysseus's bright tunic on the ship and Odysseus turning his head to look up at that aetherial figure on the hill almost leaning over the ship to see her JUST FOR A LITTLE LONGER until he cannot see her anymore and this is where he keeps looking at his island becoming smaller and smaller to the horizon, shedding tears of goodbye

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Man ninjas are cutting onions around me again!!!

[feral-ballad]

Trista Mateer, from Aphrodite Made Me Do It

[Text ID: “If love is a door I keep closed, will it be a wound I keep open?”]

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Live! Live, my darling; that's all I ask of you. Of your love, I'm sure. Live. As long as you live, I will always exist in this world and the only thing that I see happening with horror in this future that is reserved for us is this death that will separate me from you forever.

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, February 6, 1950 [#173]

[queerism1969]

[crueldesire]

separation can be a terrifying thing.

louise glück, ‘for my mother’ / dead ringers (1988) dir. david cronenberg / jane eyre (2011) dir. cary joji fukunaga / hannibal (2013-2015) / dante émile, journal entry / possession (1981) dir. andrzej żuławski / anne carson, ‘the beauty of the husband’ / hannibal (2013-2015) / dead ringers (1988) dir. david cronenberg

[thirdity]

Any lying language creates at once in a single stroke a pseudo-reality, contaminating reality, until the Lie is undone. As soon as one lies one becomes separated from reality. One has introduced the falsification oneself. There is one thing no one can force you to do: to lie. One only lies for one's advantage. It is based on an inner decision invisible to the world.

Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

[inevitablesblog]

Salta, es mejor llorar unos meses que arrepentirse toda la vida.

[philosophybits]

Many witty ideas are like the sudden meeting of two friendly thoughts after a long separation.

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments