#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.

[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

[insatiablexi]

[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

[ugli-ly]

I started Disco Elysium barely knowing anything about the game, I assumed when people called Harry Du Bois a wet pathetic freak they were exaggerating. You know, the blorbofication of a middle aged man.

But no. I'm only 4 hours in and I had to make him take off his pants to clear some areas in this game? For a second I was genuinely afraid it'd be possible to get a Game Over screen bc I thought I was killing him by making him stand up too fast. The guy is almost completely incoherent. He vomited twice. Tbh it might be possible to make him meet the criteria for almost every disorder in the DSM-5, if the player so wishes

[chronicsheepdrawing]

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

[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

[thoughtportal]

this is my favorite tweet of all time

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my interpretation of franz kafka's metamorphosis :3 😋😍

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

This past year and three months have been such an awakening for Jewish people, but one with a certain flair of absurdity. It feels like un-reality, like a wicked nightmare you can't wake up from. It's like the entire world has lost its mind and when you try to tell them this isn't normal, that what they're doing is wrong, they twist reality itself to say that no it is actually normal, it is you who is wrong. They dehumanize you, treat you as a symbol of evil and disgust. It's like we all woke up a year ago no longer humans, something else, something vile, like a bug, like a... oh. oh.