#soul in isolation

[angel-inthenight]

The Chameleons - Soul in Isolation - Strange Times

[philcollinsenjoyer]

obviously he said it in a way that was insane but damon albarn was really pertinent when he said that artists job is to feel the intangible currents of the world flowing around them and react to them accordingly with art this is why i'll never stand for People calling yoko a hack it's perfectly accurate to react to the swinging sixties and the start of consummerism and supermarkets and american wars with blank empty rooms and white sheets and nonsensical instructions idk read ionesco read anything look at any art but as usual it's people who stand in front of rothko canvases saying i could've made that who do it

[onefortherose]

* Kris...Let's go back there tomorrow, alright?

@pscentral event 30: friendship ↳ Kris and Susie: Deltarune Chapters 1 & 2

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[salty-fishy]

designs belongs to @gracebeth3604 Tried to combine all of them lol they're all so silly!! :D

[raspberrybluejeans]

i loved sense8 but it made me so extremely miserably lonely to my core that i don’t think i can ever watch it again

[cannibal-nightmares]

let's make trouble in the dream world, we'll hijack heaven with another memory now; i make the most of the turning tide, it just split what's left of the burning silence

[lesbitching]

it’s nowhere near the worst interpretation and i do understand how it could be assumed or even be compelling if you’re very interested in the lords in black but one of my biggest pet peeves is the interpretation that the lords in black are manipulating grace and deliberately driving her to where she ends up the entire play. such a big part of what makes grace work is her role as the driving force in the play, an active agent who’s actions directly lead to all the calamity and tragedy that occurs later through sheer religious guilt, desperation and neuroticism. taking even some of that autonomy away from her makes her significantly less compelling.

[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]

[neostellarjpg]

I'm thinking about dirkjake now man they make me so fucking sad. dirk committing the most existentially tragic fumble of all time

I think about this line every fucking day

[tritoch]

wild to me to see posts like "wow everything in the tempest is named after shakespeare...emet you melodramatic bitch you sure loved theater". because the prospero-emet thing gets played up so hard in the english script and you can carry it so far!

like prospero is an asshole magician who, after being deposed by his brother as duke of milan, settles himself and his daughter on a remote island, enslaves the local spirits using his magic, and bitterly plots to reclaim his past glories. he rules through violence and deceit, and only survives and is reconciled when his plots reach their fruition and his brother is taken to his remote island and plots ensue and everyone decides he was totally right all along and they were huge dicks to him and they're sooooo sorry and he gets to go back and be duke again wow! and it's okay because he's like "i was only doing mean magic to get my rightful spot back and now i'm giving it up because magic is evil. :)"

the tempest is what emet wants his life to be. prospero is not a villain in the text of the tempest. he is barely treated as antagonistic by the text and framing of the play itself. all his abuses, his neglect and control of his daughter, his enslavement of caliban and ariel (local spirits/monsters/people of the island), his deception and plots against his brother, his abuse of magical powers (not awesome, from the pov of the contemporary audience), all that ultimately gets swept aside in the rightness of his return to milan and the warm feeling of the world being set to rights. prospero can't undo the years he spent on the island but they are ultimately a blip in his life before he returns to the rightful state of affairs. his abuse and enslavement of caliban, easily the worst thing he does in the play, is totally set aside when caliban goes "wow now i see how truly benevolent my master is. i love him and see the ways of christian good and i'm so, so appreciative he chose not to kill or beat me even though he totally could have and would have been in the right. he's so just and intelligent." everyone loves and forgives him and they all agree both his management of the island and his ultimate return are so good and so wise and so right.

emet comparing himself to the tempest (or being compared to it, depending on how you want to read the diegetic status of the place names) is absolute wishcasting. it is an attempt to manifest the happy ending he will never, ever get because his sins cannot and would not be forgiven in the way he wants. he wants to imagine himself as the righteous returned duke whose crimes, including the enslavement, abuse, and exploitation of those he saw as his rightful inferiors, were totally worth it, i promise. and if emet is prospero, the warrior of light is his caliban.

[pbam0ney]

How's about we make Sean fight another embodiment!!! Anyone can join the dream world and fight alongside him!

While Sean and the hunter are sleeping, he ends up in the dream world again.

Sean walks out of the house and towards skyscraper path, his soul is nearly cleansed... He only needs to fight 2 more embodiments before cleansing his soul completely!

Upon getting from Skyscraper Path to Hands of Emotions, a blue orb is there as the orb spins in front of Sean... He can't help but feel an unknown sense of need.

Does he give in? Of fucking course he does so he gets transported to this area called "Lone Lamp"

Stay tuned. Part 2 is soon to come!

[ @he-ofhavoc y'know what this means, right? :3]

[nagayumes]

(All Imperfect Lovesong AU) After School on a Friday afternoon

[pt. 1]

Next

[habaluu]

Campaign Skyjacks just revealed one of the scariest cult/conspiracy combos I think I have ever heard. "Human souls stripped down to a wick, a divine mutilation of personhood to further a pursuit of power paralleled between a mortal con-man and the last voice of a haunted heaven" was not on any of my bingo cards.

[synthshenanigans]

something something the window in light & night is a mirror and its all just been Whole looking in a mirror thinking about himself/his brain

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

not to make angst out of a fucking gag but also thinking about the silly au rei in the final episode makes me think about how different rei would be if she didn’t have literally the worst dad ever. like, no, she probably wouldn’t have been the upbeat adhd whirlwind in the high school au lmao. but it does just make me think. because while all the pilots lives are incredibly marked by trauma, rei's the only one to have never had access to any sort of normal life. her entire personality and worldview is shaped from being isolated, groomed, and taught to see herself as a tool and not a person. and then i just get so sad that she never had any chance of a normal life where she could discover herself and what she is. she went from being abused and manipulated by gendō (which is made even worse with the implications certain scenes leave about their relationship) to becoming god. she never had any chance of living a normal life. and just like. fuck.

[lenainwonderland]

Oh, you know. How lonely you feel, how much you crave other people's company. It's like you're hungry all the time, but you're so used to the emptiness that you're just not able to do anything about it.