#existential dread

[auntieashleydark]

They're all quite aware that Tumblr post is an option. It's just that no one dares to speak it aloud, for fear that doing so might make it true.

a party of adventurers that are all equally convinced that they are in completely different forms of media

[mcpirita]

Semi-motivational quotes from Hayao Miyazaki

[speedyphilosopherpanda]

Don't ask me who I am. I'm a stranger, even to my own name.

[technological-existentialism]

[stutterhug]

A measured five year plan..

[foldingfittedsheets]

If you really loved that iconic mushroom post you might enjoy this design in my Threadless, Redbubble, and Teepublic.

Sales support a broke queer art student and you get cool art on your stuff!

[paperpuzzles]

[todayontumblr]

Thursday, January 4.

Existential Ben Affleck.

Well it's January 4, after all—indeed it cannot be anything else. And nothing quite distills the suffocating existential weight quite like another image of Ben Affleck trying, and failing, to carry out the most menial tasks of the day. There is a little Ben Affleck in all of us.   So once you're done staring at the sad, widening pool of coffee at your feet, come celebrate this gaping abyss of a month with a series of Affleck-inspired gazes into the void.

@batfleckgifs

[adorkastock]

Garfield isn't the only person who hates Mondays.

[sunlightedcockroach]

[your-average-teenage-mess]

I actually have so much more respect for people who can't bring themselves to believe anything than I do for people who get so deeply entrenched in ideologies that they might take years or even their whole lives to ever come to reevaluate their values. Even though they, on average, tend to bring less effective results.

Like, evolution does what is affective, not what is objectively correct, since, like, the "objective" meaning of the world is that our perception cannot accurately model anything and therefore nothing we know is ever true and we just gotta commit to the bit and try to reduce that annoying bug of nature called "human suffering" by as much as possible, because our sense of pain is what our entire idea of "bad" is based on, but also it doesn't "objectively" matter because nothing ever does. But thinking in terms this abstract all the time is just... Kinda ineffective, and there is a sense of numb bliss in it that can be dangerously addictive if our collective understanding of morality has screwed you over in one way or another. And my respect for the people who get addicted to nihilism over people who get addicted to ideology is probably purely pavlovian, but like... One of them IS more closely correlated with intellectualism than the other, and misguided ideology tends to involve... Much more DIRECT denial of harm than simply going "I don't know".

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

Yeah.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (March 6, 2024)

[twloha]

we know existing is hard, but that little whisper of hope that tells you to keep going? to keep living because maybe things will improve? maybe it will get easier? maybe you’ll experience joy and love? maybe the next season resembles the relief of spring following a grueling winter? whatever it is that hope is telling you, listen to it.

[noname-404s-blog]

[pearlydolly]

everyday I wonder how bad can it get and it just gets worse

[thatsbelievable]