#there has to be more than this

[xoxothinmintsss]

Many aspects of myself are in direct opposition to one another– I am almost never serious, and I am always too serious. I am too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too coldhearted. I am a collection of paradoxes: I am terrified of being known, but desperate to be understood. I am constantly trying to communicate something inexplicable, to tell about something I can only feel in my bones. Something that can only be experienced in those bones, but to strip away the skin and blood and viscera, to demonstrate my body’s realness, is an ugly thing. To be seen is a penalty for wanting.

I have always wanted: I want a father, I want a mother, I want some older, wiser being to cry to. I want more wounds. I want the world to prove me right, to prove that I am guilty. To prove that you were a terrible person, but I was the one who made you terrible. I was the one that lit the house on fire and enjoyed watching my whole world burn. I want to be something more than human– something that feels meaningful. I want so badly to be pure again, to be an innocent little thing.

[let-robots-dream]

It occurred to me while playing Oxenfree that video games can do some freaking cool time travel because of the nature of the medium.

And now I want to play so many time travel games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So anyone have recommendations? I’m willing to try out pretty much anything I have the ability to play!

Here are the games I’ve played already that i would consider in the time travel category! (And that I remember)

— Life is Strange

— God of War 2

— Elsinore

— Oxenfree

— Neir Automata & Replicant (arguably more of a constant loop involving tech but I’m counting them here because they do play with the concept of time and not including them feels wrong)

And somehow that’s it??? That’s all I can think of?? Surely there’s more!

As a side note I do recommend all these time travel/time loop games!

[redravenpoems]

Working Dream

Work till you drop Then do it again Does it ever stop When will it end? When does the rest get to begin When I’m dead and buried in the earth once more I hope not. For that would be poor. Struggle in vain to care for my family While others do nothing and live quite grandly Is it fair? I think not Yet ive found this to be my lot. From rags to riches The American dream Any more seems a…

[vinceaddams]

I become consumed with jealousy every time I look at mudlarking instagram pages.

[dirtytransmasc]

the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[sadclowncentral]

while i was trying to wade through the large amounts of people trying to leave the central subway station, everyone abruptly came to a halt in front of the subway turnstiles. two french girls had misunderstood the tap-out process, and one of them was now stuck behind the gate. as i was wracking my brain on how to explain the tap-in tap-out process of the milan metro to both of them with my rudimentary french while they both got increasingly upset at the closed gate between them, a young teenager suddenly pushed me to the side.

i was just about to give him my most scathing disgruntled glare when he took out his ticket and, after realizing they had no common language, started gesticulating wildly in front of the french girl left behind. he pointed at the ticket, then at her, and very seriously said: “on three, we go.” she nodded, and after he counted to three, holding up his fingers so there could be no confusion, they sprinted through the gate together, giggling profusely afterwards as if they had just pulled off the heist of the century,

it was just a small moment during the morning commute. but i realized then and there that the time i had spent trying to intellectualize the problem and wondering if my lack of language skills would be awkward the situation could have already been resolved. and that while i had been mad about being pushed aside, the teenager got it exactly right: no questions, no fear or shyness, just direct action to help where you can and rushing there to do so. i think about him every time now when i run to lift someone’s pram or ask a lost looking person if they need my help despite the fear of being rude. on three, we go.

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[problemnyatic]

when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

[kayascodelorio]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) S02E04―I Want You More Than Anything in the World

[canisalbus]

✦ I've been saving all my summers for you ✦

[gojosbf]

everyone meet gojo "if i cannot be wanted i will be needed and if i cannot be needed let me be used until there's nothing left of me" satoru

[timelesslords]

thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[blueskittlesart]

Dear Big Brother

kind of a sequel to this comic