#長兄

[follerys-trash-blog]

chkei

[partitionis]

on the horror of fame:

something that I often find myself thinking about when I’m back in Taiwan and around people who are far richer than I’ll ever be [1] is how the day-to-day experience of being rich and powerful is actually pretty… dehumanizing

there’s a sweet spot where you’re wealthy enough that you don’t have to worry about money ever and still anonymous enough that you can pop down to the 7/11 without anyone knowing who you are, but once you’re famous enough that people on the street tend to recognize you? you’re fucked.

ok, you haven’t driven a car in a few decades because you’ve been rich enough to employ a driver and someone of your status isn’t really the type to drive themselves around. this is fine. except now your driver knows all of your business. that’s also fine, you pay him for his discretion. do you pay him enough? can you be sure that his institutional loyalty is enough to stop him from taking a tabloid payment? maybe you want to go somewhere spur of the moment. you could call your driver, and he’d drop whatever he was doing and be at your house to get you within fifteen minutes [2], but you know, maybe he’s with his kids or something. you could take the subway, except if you do that multiple people will recognize you and everyone will treat you like you have some sort of infectious disease [3]. guess you’d better stay in.

and every moment of every day is like this! being a famous man is great because women want to have sex with you and men want to be you. except mostly what everyone wants is access to the wealth and power you represent: people tell you half-truths to try to convince you to invest in some bullshit or they put their hands dangerously close to your penis in public social situations [4]. you— the person you actually are— are mostly treated like an obstacle to be overcome or a puzzle to be figured out. ‘what kind of currency do I need to put in to the old man to get what I want out of him’

so you have all of the things people want, but they’re poisoned by abundance. you can go anywhere and buy anything, but you can’t do it without feeling the eyes of the world on you. you have more friends and potential lovers than you know what to do with, but do you? one of the great privileges of being a regular person [5] is that you can generally trust that social gestures are genuine. I’m just a regular guy and the only benefit anyone gets from throwing me a birthday party or having sex with me is that we ate birthday cake or had sex. none of these things will unlock access to money or power because I’ve got none to give, but once you do, you invariably attract these people. they’re not all of your social circle, but they’re a lot of it, because competing for your limited time and attention with the people who are willing to grope you in public feels vaguely debasing

no wonder musicians are alcoholics! no wonder the people I know are all withdrawn and snappish. you’re just some guy, and you’re living a life so divorced from the rest of the world that you have more in common with the god-kings of old than you do with your own parents. is it worth it? I mean I won’t lie, sometimes it’s pretty sick; I’d never buy a $5,000 watch, but I can pretty easily imagine what I’d do with thousands of dollars of pocket change. but then I remember that one person I know refuses to tell anyone when his birthday is because people make such a big fucking deal out of it and I think, hm, if that were me I’d probably develop a heroin addiction [6].

[1] presumably

[2] let’s not consider how much it sucks to be the driver in this situation

[3] you are not the good kind of famous in this story, sorry.

[4] I’m sure this was titillating at one point but I’m also pretty sure it got old by the third decade, never mind what it’s like in the fifth

[5] unless you’re an Olive Garden manager who posts a lot about fake friends and backstabbers on Facebook or wherever the beleaguered Olive Garden managers of the world are posting today

[6] at least I’d be able to pay for it

[juicyjyushi]

Soo, I got busy and forgot about Tumblr completely lol

Everyone who sent me requests DW I’ll get to work on ‘em soon!! Here’s sum doodles of the two elders as compensation

Btw I’ve been getting into jjk lately so I may post fanart of it as well

[0saku0]

えだまめ おはよう。 寒いね❄️ . . . #cat #catstagram #catsofinstagram #ilovemycats #picneko #ねこ #にゃんすたぐらむ #猫がいる幸せ #えだまめ成長記 #猫好きさんと繋がりたい #猫がいる生活 #ねこら部 #きじしろ #きじしろ男子 #ペコねこ部 #茶トラ #茶トラ男子 #兄弟猫 #ねこのきもち #ねこすたぐらむ #フェリシモ猫部 #にゃんグラム https://www.instagram.com/p/CoDrnhUPaMf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[megaclubdiolis]

藤原道長 x 藤原道兼

Brother, please get yourself together and live. I, Michinaga, will be here to help you.

[ramuneiru]

汝等こゝに入るもの一切の望みを棄てよ

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate'

[vultear]

Here is my participation for choukei day I’m a little late

Happy February everyone

[kataoka2018]

[tasselshongkong]

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[meowmoedotcom]

猫の小さな爪研ぎ 【サイベリアン】 #Shorts

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[partitionis]

one of the more interesting (to me) structural artifacts of many Taiwanese gangs having developed out of very Thrasher-esq play groups is that while they’re still organizations fundamentally obsessed with relational hierarchies they’re also relatively more egalitarian compared to their counterparts. it is considered polite for me to call a man old enough to be my grandfather elder brother while Green Gang guys are out kowtowing to people 10 years older than them

[0saku0]

えだは よくコタツの中でコタツ布団ベッドを作って寛いでいる。 . . . #cat #catstagram #catsofinstagram #ilovemycats #picneko #ねこ #にゃんすたぐらむ #猫がいる幸せ #えだまめ成長記 #猫好きさんと繋がりたい #猫がいる生活 #ねこら部 #きじしろ #きじしろ男子 #ペコねこ部 #茶トラ #茶トラ男子 #兄弟猫 #ねこのきもち #ねこすたぐらむ #フェリシモ猫部 #にゃんグラム https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfoUxpvgM1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ramuneiru]

「兄弟喧嘩」

天使長兄弟