#my year of pilgrimage

[lucabyte]

some thoughts on Claude

alt title: diversity win! this Butch Nun is crafting bombs in an unventilated room in her convent while actively courting Mother Superior! Do Not Give Them Access To Unlimited Power No Matter How Nice They Are

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[heartserion]

years of pilgrimage

[solar-eclippse]

Innocence died screaming Honey, ask me, I should know

[artandpunishment]

certain books nailing how uncomfortable it is to be in public, but also let go of anxieties to just be a person out of your house is amazing. all ottessa moshfeg's works (aside from lapvona), the tatami galaxy novel, the hour of the star, colorless tzukuru, after dark, and anything by mieko kawakami are perfect examples of that. humanity is so beautifully demonstrated in their works. even if we were villains and the raven cycle grapple so well with drama in a way that comes across as tense and realistic.

anytime i am reading something and a certain compulsion to write, or a wave of recognition washes through me, it has to do with that emotion. in my year of rest and relaxation every time the narrator went to the bodega got me. in all the lovers of the night, when the main character lost her purse at the activity center and was walking around there drunk during the day, the main character in tatami galaxy despising ozu and going out despite the indifference he feels, is all so compelling.

i don't know how to explain this feeling. there is a vitality that it gives and it simply feels alive. nothing particularly striking occurs, but the fact that there is character voices going while they are doing something normal, and being unashamed while doing so, is painfully alive. political issues going on while they are going to get coffee or ramen or heading to class. they are uncomfortable living but it's all they can do, they can't help but live even though they are unhappy with how it's going.

That emotion and position is something i find myself in quite often. reading it in literature, in books from authors of different genders writing in different genres, with characters of ages different from my own and genders different from my own, displays how universal of a feeling this is. perhaps it is close to kant's sublime, but i don't really want to talk about kant.

[son--of--the--south]

[i-am-the-oyster]

Do we know what beach in Tenerife Paul nearly drowned at?

[andreaphobia]

P5 vs RL: SHIBUYA

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[pilgrimagesource]

Diarmute Week Day 1: Sanctuary

"I would walk for miles, miles, miles just to find my sanctuary." — Sanctuary, Jake Wesley Rogers

[kaleidoscope1967eyes]

i wish there were a guidebook or something for "how to reconnect with a culture that is almost completely extinct"

[taeraenini]

happy birthday beloved anna!! 🥰💞💕💗💓💞 i hope u had a lovely day today and that the world was especially kind to ur for ur bday 😊 thank u for all the beautiful gifs u make 😍🫶💓💓💓

it was very kind to me, thank you, liz! and now your man is winking at me???? 😳🫣

[momonokopan]

i have many, many feelings on the recent underverse

[courting-trouble]

i’m fighting demons* rn

*the urge to reread if we were villains

[cvptainbucky]

i have such a love-hate relationship with murakami i. decided to finish colorless tsukuru before bed and i did and now its 2.36am and im back at my computer snacking on bad cookies because i just cannot go to sleep after that

[steevejr]

my favorite non canon Margo joke is she has 3 big beautiful toucans and Emily hates this joke so much they roll their eyes every time I bring it up so now I have to send them funny toucan videos to soften their jaded heart

[memecatwings]

every time i drive past the tampa bay downs i wonder why ive never been there

[twinkuraba]

Man it's hard to find the fun in creating stuff you used to have when you simultaneously have to basically fist fight the mental illness for every scrap of motivation you can scrape from it to make fan stuff and also feel like you're just throwing stuff into an uncaring void when you do finish something.