#Isolated Echoes

[marejadilla]

Keita Morimoto | 森本啓太, “Isolated Echoes”, 2023, oil painting. B. 1990 Osaka, Japan. Based in Tokyo and Toronto. "As we didn't know it" exhibition, November 11 - December 22 (2023)

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

what? only interacting with a small group of likeminded individuals of the same lived experiences as me online could have a detrimental impact on my intellectual and social development? no, you're just a bigot who wants to divide and conquer us. surely the correct response is to further close rank and tighten the requirements for who's a "real" member of our group. this will not exacerbate the problem at all.

[oneluckydragon]

✨🌸 Sunshine on your skin, flowers in my soul 🌸✨

🌊🫧Summary → In the midst of his reconciliation with Team Wish, Dusknoir begins coughing up flowers. This unfortunate brand of bad luck should be a cosmic joke. A spiteful punishment that the world has brought down on him out of malice, out of vengeance for his past deeds. A cruel, agonizing curse manifested with the single unjustified purpose of preventing him from realizing happiness, ever seeking redemption, ever righting his multitudes of wrongs and moving on with his life. But that's not true, and he knows it deep down. Knows it in the very core of his soul like the flood of petals building in this throat.

This is his fault because he is a coward, and that's all he has ever been. A backstabbing, lonely coward.

And now he is going to die because of it.

[AO3]

[CH. I -- Word Count -- 13,290]

🌒💫 Return → the act of going back to a place, person, or memory

[CH. II -- TBA]

[scenesandscreens]

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (2023)

Director - Kelly Fremon Craig, Cinematography - Tim Ives

"I've been looking for you, God. I looked for you in Temple. I looked for you in Church. I didn't feel you at all. Why ? Why, God ? Why do I only feel you when I'm alone?"

[spocks-kaathyra]

born to cuddle everyone I love all the time forced to live in a society where casual platonic affection is socially unacceptable and be too scared to challenge that notion

[perenlop]

tbh if youre an isat fan, youll probably get something out of the “girl from the other side” manga. it’s also a good “trauma from covid 19 isolation” story (it predates covid 19 actually thats just the best way to describe it)

[kazzeyy]

If I could shout this from the rooftops I would

[dogshit-enchantment]

I think people don't understand the repercussions of "just cut them out" like, it's often not simple or easy from an emotional standpoint. Literally every single person who i explain the situation with my family to has gone "yeah you should cut them out/it's good that you cut them out" but what they do not understand is the isolating loneliness in its wake. I never had a security net financially with my family but I would have had at least some kind of social support but now I don't. I have no familial support whatsoever and it is So Fucking Stressful. I am entirely reliant on my friends for support and when they're busy with their lives (which is their right to be) I have no one.

"you should cut this person out of your life" are you going to step up to the plate to replace that lost support? Are you going to be there for them while they grieve a relationship that should have held through life? Are you going to listen when the repercussions of such an act make them feel lonely? If not, stop fucking suggesting it, or at least be more mindful of the consequences.

Cutting family out is hard for most people, stop pretending it's not.

[warlenys]

i feel like i’ve been boxed by the world into the version of womanhood that barbie portrayed. that every person that saw that movie now perceives my girlhood the way that barbie presented it. but like. weird barbie was ostracised and mocked and then, without reparations, forgave all these women just because they decide to include her in the version of womanhood she chose to escape from. is that what they want from me?? because sure the job she wants and gets is quirky. they don’t erase her weirdness. but have they instead considered that this singular idea of womanhood is not for every woman?? that one roof cannot provide for all?? do they realise that weirdness doesn’t need to be accepted and embraced to be valid??? and that often weirdness doesn’t fucking want that???? they acknowledged that women outside of that box exist with more knowledge than people in it. like she is the key to the escape. and she then gets boxed back into it. and of course many might want to be accepted into this kind of womanhood but i just don’t think i do. because barbie’s womanhood was completely devoid of queerness. and whilst obviously it couldn’t tell every story i don’t like that it thought it was. that it thought it was casting an umbrella over every single woman. i don’t like that all these cishet women have been given even more reason to be completely ignorant of queer women’s struggles. that men(!!) have been given reason to believe we’re all the same. that we can be weird but only when accepted by the women that branded us as that. that being gay doesn’t affect our relationships with gender at all. that we just want to be accepted by cishet women into their cishet bubble of womanhood even after they’ve made no fucking attempt to understand that queer women might have a different experience of womanhood than they do. i don’t actually hate the movie. but i do think i hate what it has made me feel. i don’t like that a film so popular and successful has condensed womanhood into something that i didn’t feel represented by at all. it’s made me feel the way that “girls and gays” makes me feel. i am both of those things but when i hear that phrase i feel like neither. i don’t wanna be a fucking barbie. i wanted kate mckinnon to scissor someone.

[good-beanswrites]

omg what’s the Forsythhhh WIP about :0

Ahh it was actually a little assignment I had for school that I've always wanted to expand into something big -- we were working with figurative language and metaphors, and I wrote my three on him (from Python's pov). One was about him breaking down people's emotional walls, one was about how he's like the sun (not just warm/bright but that does contribute lol), and the other was something about breaking into relationships like getting used to hand-me-down clothes. I was happy with them, but it's kinda all figurative language and no plot so it never got anywhere 😅 I may end up just cleaning up the sections and keeping them as three standalone little snapshots, though....

There, across the fire, Lukas’s eyes were bright. He was talking with Forsyth, more expressive than in the weeks that they’d known him. Python had spent all this time trying to get the stud to open up; he’d used every last flirtatious remark in his inventory, every pickup technique he’d learned to get Lukas to let his guard down. All he’d learned was that Lukas put up stronger walls than anyone Python met – he had the kind of reservation that could send anyone packing. And yet, here he was, laughing freely over something Forsyth had said. Letting his smile spread across his face, Gesturing his hands as he spoke.  That was the thing about Forsyth. He would come along, chatty and enthusiastic and always with the most innocent smile you’ve ever seen, and go tripping straight into the walls people put up. The sheer force of his misstep would cause it to crumble down, and he’d just waltz right in, oblivious there had been a wall up in the first place.

[sunlightfeeling]

Drink SMAP 2002 Live Report from Nagoya

[roamthefarlands]

help im having the ysayle thoughts again

[oceanreveuse]

every time I see you’ll be gone for a while I feel bad for not interacting with you that often 😔😭

this might have sent me to tears i can’t lie

[theknightofsolitude]

Could i have started earlier? Absolutely!

Is it too late? Only if you’re dead.

[organised-disaster]

I just bought the whole pack for Outer Wilds because it was on sale and I'm already having so much FUN!!! I've experienced hilarious situations such as:

Anti-gravity cave! Yay! Down I go and off to the spot that requires repairs! Matching velocity and wait stop why is it moving away come back why am I spinning dear God no eeeesaaauuuuggggggGGGHHHH

Ew ew EW Dark Bramble Seed Ew Ew Ew oh no no mo MY SCOUT MY SCOUT THE ANGLERFOSH NONKNONKOOOOONOOO

To the geysers! And in I g- [blrbrlrbrlebrlblrlggh] oh yaya! A crystal like in the observatory! And it's got its own signal! Quantum displacement? What happens if i- [is subjected to the nightmare chorus] oh

And now we leave planet! Oh a roll function? What does that do? Let's find ou- [timeskip ten seconds, screaming as I spiral out of control into the gravitational pull of the sun]

Oho the universe locator!!! And there is Giant's Deep and the Sun and NOT the eye of the universe teehee and eugh [said with utter contempt] dark bramble

WHERE ARE YOU MYSTERY WHISTLE MAN. I WILL LOCATE YOU BY GETTING UP HIGH ENOUGH AND [exits Atterlock's orbit] oh no. guck. oh heaven help me. please no

I've accidentally locked onto the Interloper instead of Brittle Hollow, guess I'm heading there. [there] Wow this place is Barren™️. Guess I'll hop off now and - [narrowly avoids plummeting into Dark Bramble] WHAT THE HELL INTERLOPER. I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS. WHY NOT DROP ME OFF SOMEWHERE AWESOME LIKE GIANT'S DEEP.

WJERE DID MY SJHIP GO [parked on the Ember Twin]

Distress beacon? What? Oh no, I need to find the source of it before - [the music]

[stares directly at a supernova while accelerating towards Timber Hearth with the intention of cooking a marshmallow and watching the solar system end from there]

Round two hjahaja! Destination one: Brittle Hollow! Now I just need to not plummet directly into the Black Hole That Sends You To The End Of The Known Universe©️ and I'll be good to start exploring! [ship smashes into the surface at 600km/h] nevertheless I am unharmed!

And now I will carefully descend so as not to fall into the Black Hole That Sends You To The End Of The Known Universe©️ and I can be on my merry [smashes into an overhang at Mach 2, corpse falls into the Black Hole That Sends You To The End Of The Known Universe©️]

[mask131]

It is always such a sad thing when you want to reblog another person's insanely cool reblog, but you can't and you don't understand why so you check... And it is just that the original poster, whom you never interacted with, blocked you apparently... And you shall never know why because again, you never interacted with this person or ever saw their blog.

Tumblr is always a place for weird introspection