#Kafka's metamorphosis

[bittersweetresilience]

how do you think aromanticism can be expressed visually? im not talking flags or anything else as an ID, i mean the experience through art // an aro asking an aro

like.. can you think of the symbol or trope or metaphor of how aromanticism can be expressed? im an artist who has the opposite of artblock rn so i think of such questions a lot sometimes :D i can think of anatomically gorey correct heart or the lack of attraction/"pull" like an anchor

its interesting to hear a writer's pov of the same question :]

before i say anything else i would like to say the idea of aromanticism as an anatomically correct heart is so fucking sick and i love this.

to me the first thing i thought of was... aromanticism as seeing the world through a slightly different color palette? almost like looking at things from behind a pane of vaguely tinted glass. you can see things happening, but they don't appeal to you the same way they do to everyone else. you can imitate it but it sort of feels like you're miming.

other images that came to mind (depressing)...

the center of mass in a binary system. the two stars are doomed to orbit closer and closer until they collide and go supernova, and despite being in the middle you are sort of just there, invisibly.

a black hole.

a knife.

a train where each passenger keeps getting off until you are the only one left sitting.

snow. a wintry landscape.

a dream.

other images that came to mind (less depressing)...

a plant!! maybe a tree. maybe a full canopy.

a notebook.

a rope used for rappelling.

pandas. i don't know why but they seem so aromantic to me.

a long drive at night on the way to pick up a friend.

the beach in the evening. if you listen to a seashell you can hear the ocean of your identity inside, just as sure as the waves that wash over your feet.

[chronicsheepdrawing]

What if Gregor Samsa and André Delambre kissed.

[andillwriteyouatragedy]

new year, new me

[daftpatience]

metamorphosis is about becoming disabled and the absolute wretched ways that even ones family can end up treating them when that happens and in this essay i

[fyodorsushankaaa]

wake up sweetie new franz kafka game just dropped

okay why does the artstyle THAT GORGEOUS

[regenesis01]

Metamorphosis, 2023, inspired by Kafka's book

[ghost--bot]

"Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, the most famous example of the idea "Would you still love me if I was a bug?"

[surethingsis]

I was thinking about Kafka's Metamorphosis and about tranforming into a creature who is viewed as useless and a burden and then I started to think about Cas and him becoming a human and losing his powers, and immediately becoming homeless and not being cared about by anyone and now I'm really sad. :(

[karlmarxmaybe]

Ovid's Metamorphoses is about fellas messing about and getting screwed over. Kafka's Metamorphosis is about a fella getting screwed over without messing about first. Both have bad parents in em

[wynsvre]

snoopy as gregor samsa

[simplyjustagirlsblog]

[chronicsheepdrawing]

I think men should just be allowed to turn into giant bugs sometimes.

[rosquinn]

"mutuals can ask for discord" mutuals can haunt me after they die. mutuals can paint my immortal youth in a cursed portrait. mutuals can build a 8ft tall creature in my college dorm. mutuals can watch me wake up as a monstrous vermin. mutuals can feed me soup after i commit murder. mutuals can help me kill uncle claudius. mutuals can go out with me and my girlfriend from across the bay. mutuals can hunt the beast with me. do better

[daftpatience]

i thought the book about the bug was gonna be odd and sad but it was entirely too relatable and deeply deeply frustratingly sad actually

[ultralaser]

at last

[thoughtportal]

this is my favorite tweet of all time