#Kafka-esque

[sonnyboyoedipusacre]

[polskipolikarp]

Fungibug

Melolonta fungea

by me

[ecofridge]

@murducks

Here’s a 5 page comic about a weird project I spent the last month working on 🪲

[stormcellarmag]

Arlandis Jones: Big Shoe Dance

We’re champing to be get back on the shoe on the other foot, or something like that. Here’s “Big Shoe Dance,” a gem of a personal essay from Arlandis Jones: [continue reading…] This CNF piece originally appeared in Storm Cellar 8.2, available as an ebook over in our shop (print sold out).

[ozzgin]

i LOVE your Dostoevsky inspired yandere!!! i love his books, and i love the other classics, i love del lving deep into them and rambling on and on about them, but no one else does and they think it's weird and boring :((( id love love love to see more of him or any or classic-inspired yanderes!!!

-🍭 anon

I'm very glad to hear that!! I'd actually hoped to write something like this for a long time, especially after I watched Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame at the opera. It's a very common trope, this struggle for a better life, and I wanted to convey the bleak outcome myself.

Yan!Soldier resembles both Raskolnikov and Herman in that regard. He swings between misery and egomania. He despises his background and blames fate for overlooking his potential. He's deeply envious of the rich, frustrated by his lack of status, and looks down on the aristocracy that came into wealth by mere luck and labour of the less fortunate. He deserves it. He's intelligent, ambitious, a man above all other men. A natural-born leader, meant to be served and not to serve.

You can tell that Yan!Soldier struggles a lot when it comes to financial status. He's profoundly insecure, spiteful, and opportunistic. He has no trouble selling his comrades if it means he can step forward. You see the insatiable greed in his eyes, and you wonder if he even truly loves you, or you're just a mere aid to his goals.

In truth, he loves you dearly. It is, however, a very possessive kind of love. You are his first achievement, his apologetic gift from the Gods above. He could never imagine his life without you - his very glimmer of hope. Thus, he is tremendously jealous. Whenever you interact with someone else, it makes him feel like he's sharing his wealth. Oh, no, he's not that generous. These fools aren't worthy of your presence.

He knows too well that he's a miserable, unscrupulous crook. You'd probably be much happier with someone else, someone happier, more resourceful. Yet, he wants to be selfish for once. Won't he be allowed just this one craving?

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

wait . kafka/jing yuan is lowkey fire

[horsegirlwarcrimes]

I have been haunted by the Mud AU since you answered the ask about it? It's just so good in all the parts? Sad and muddy Xie Lian with a hole through his chest being mistaken for a ghost (and he doesn't care, he's So Tired) asking Hua Cheng to kill him? He doesn't recognize him because of the mud, and then when he loses you say he'll be hired by the Gambler's Den so he'll be wearing a uniform and a mask- The mention at the end of the summary of Hua Cheng and unintentionally disguised Xie Lian's contentious relationship, what's going on there... I'm so intrigued 👀👀👀

YESS omg. im so excited for mudlian au. he's suffering every day

my fav subgenre of tgcf fics is anything where either A) hc and xl dont recognize each other right away or B) xl ends up working in ghost city for some reason, so i want the best of both worlds (ᗒᗜᗕ)՛̵̖ i also think the idea of them initially disliking each other is soooooo funny just given how besotted they usually are with each other. the HC pipeline of 'who cares about this random asshole ghost' to 'hhhhnnnnggg id do anything for him and also i need to disperse myself for disloyalty to his highness by looking at this ghosts biceps to much' is a rich vein of untapped potential

[stupidlittlespirit]

Where does your nickname come from, I'm talking about both Fox and stupidlittlespirit, if you want to share <3

Fox comes from my time as a dancer! It was my chosen name when I worked in clubs because there can't be any duplicate names between the dancers in each establishment, and when you dance at a lot of different places, it can be really hard to remember/react to tons of different names. It gets confusing very quickly. So I picked Fox because I felt that it suited my personality and it was a conversation starter (majority of men loved to comment on it, either in a nasty way or a nice way), plus no one else went by it. A lot of staff in the places I danced told me they had never even had a 'Fox' work there. Bunny is a fairly common animal-related dancer name, but apparently Fox isn't!

All the people in a club will refer to you as your chosen name, both inside and outside of work because it's safe to protect your legal name, and eventually everyone just started calling me it and as I've never liked my 'real' name, I really connected with it and started using it everywhere.

I'm also (fairly confident) that I'm genderfluid and it's a nice non-gendered name :) Also it sounds cool LMAO

Stupidlittlespirit was just a random choice because when I came back to tumblr I was super into Mob Psycho, and I felt that if I was a ghost, I'd be a stupid little one!

[satosktty]

everyday I wished that cat would've delved into satoru's change after being unsealed — he so obviously different and it's like his mindset was far more melancholic ( which is saying something due to satoru's nature ) and his vulnerability with yuji about his own hopes and dreams. my poor mew mew of horrors.

I forgot the show I was watching ( possibly black mirror) where the punishment was time inside of a prison felt longer than it was truly on the outside. regardless of satoru's experience he's still human and was effected by the place de-void of other human beings and when he got out he had to have experienced a shift between the two time measurements — as he felt it was years when it wasn't even a full month

[cowboygideon]

*pushing away my pinterest home page like a half-empty dinner plate* *through tears* oh no, no more franz kafka for me, thanks. no more richard siken for me, im full

[boycritter]

I LOVE ART !!!!!!

[biblical-chronicles]

Waking up at 9am to two of your fics being posted is exactly what I need to start my day off right, pretty sure it’s what the doctor prescribed actually

That roommate comfort fic was so amazing, I never thought about the possibility of sharing an apartment with them and now I can’t get it out of my head I’d trade all four of my roommates for them in a heartbeat

Also Liam waking up the reader in the middle of the night to check up on them is such a Liam thing to do just imagine peacefully sleeping one moment and then the next these big blue thoughtless eyes are staring into your soul😭😭

Thought I’d stepped into some alternate universe for a sec, but no, just realised not everyone’s livin’ in me timezone after a second—mad, that (I might need a tad more sleep)

per usual thank you so so much for yer words, they mean a lot to me each time, literally mean the world, swear down and good luck with four roommates that must be a bit hellish at times.

And yeah, that bit was bang on Liam. When I was writing it, I just thought, ‘What would this little puppy do to show he cares?’ Course, he’d wake her up just to make sure she’s good and settled—didn’t even have to overthink it, it's just logical in that Liam-esque way.

[stoportotouch]

thinking about that post about using first names in the victorian era. and thinking anew of hodgson calling irving by his first name in the book. but only after irving is already dead.

[apyschopathicfangirl]

uh babe wake up new fear just dropped thanks to the curse finale

[hellsvestibule]

I have in fact read enough Kafka that sometimes I want to furiously dispute anyone who labels something “Kafka esque” just bc it’s a surreal nightmare scenario or has bugs in it but like, that’s the extent of their knowledge or interactions w kafkas writing, and like, you aren’t Bad for not understanding or wanting to read Kafka, he’s a figure who is sort of misunderstood in a pop culture sense bc it’s easier to name him than read him, i wouldn’t even call kafka an “acquired taste” so much as deliberately boring and depressing to the point of maddening and funny. It’s just. Having read The Trial and the Castle as well as metamorphosis, I could and would go to bat over this if given the opportunity m bc I defend this man’s right to torture me, often with the most long winded meandering boring description of A Guy just reacting a bit too dismissively to the mundane nonsense around him. Like yes, this is how the average person reacts to horrifying nonsense that is The Horrors. But it’s not Fun to read, Imo, it’s more fun to conceptualize.

[scary-senpai]

Boyfriend: okay. I’m booking the restaurant and the website is asking if we are celebrating a special occasion.

Me: bank robbery

Boyfriend: but it’s our ten year anniversary of our first date?**

Me: maybe our first date was bank robbery. they don’t know that.

Boyfriend, tiredly typing: ‘ten year anniversary of first bank robbery’

**I had the very American experience of getting hitched for health insurance purposes; this is not very fun to celebrate.