#Intropection

[lilianeclavelpardo]

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[semburatsore]

THE UNSEEN CRACKS

I'm such a fool, believing in fairy tales—the prince of charming, a knight on a white horse.

Such a waste.

Remember the blades of wild grass singing and dancing with you, all the time. I was swallowed by fantasies, by the romance he had. Never thought of the birdies who always said hello to me. The kiddos who always gave me gifts, smiling and everything i needed. Why did i focus on the sunburn that gave me burnt skin, on wrinkles of a carrot and cracks in a snail's shell?

Think again.

Semburat Sore,

13.05.25

[ralofofriverwoods]

My life is a FUCKING JOKE!!!!!!!

[hermanunworthy]

What Do You Call This Funny Feeling?

Hermie reflects on their feelings for Normal, unaware that they've fallen for their own joke.

1.7k words, oakworthy, intropection + pining, hermie pov

read on ao3!

[lilgreenslimecat]

I did some intropection and gave each one of my subpersonalities a small disco-elysium inspired portrait. Part 2

CW for NSFW themes and blood

BURROWS

A small animal that sits on my shoulder and sleeps in a burrow. Another one that isn't always there and mostly just chimes in throughout the day. It's responsible for my sense of direction, social and spatial awareness in urban conditions. Which is surprisingly specific but also really useful especially in disorienting situations and new conditions. It singlehandedly saved me from sensory overload in so so many cases. When I'm at home for an extended period of time (on in the countryside) it hibernates.

SCHADENFREUDE

A 7-meters-long rattlesnake-person. The sonuvabitch creature that gives me intrusive thoughts as a means to get attention. He seems to be incapable of empathy and actively seeks out things to gloat at. Which means he hates seeing other people have fun and likes when something bad happens to anyone other than me. He's still a part of me that I accept and love, no matter how hard it is. Also, his jokes although grim are absolutely hilarious.

THE MARTYR

His entire body is one big bleeding wound. I'm not sure if similarity in appearance to Curly Mouthwashing is coincidental or not. Another part that thrives on attention, but unlike Freude, he demands it from other people. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that he's actually suffering, but I often catch him lying or exaggerating to gain more sympathy. He's troubled, but he has some real artistic talent and he's the only part of me that enjoys writing anything other than comedy.

CHEMOTAXIS

Very obvious Disco Elysium inspiration aside (I'll explain the thought process in a later post), it's a subpersonality that I have the most difficult relationship with. They have been exiled and brought back multiple times because they keep getting me into trouble and because other subpersonalities seem to be on asexual spectrum. I'm really struggling to integrate them into my system.

THE LIQUIDATOR

This creature is a little hard to describe. They're kind of an absurdist, they believe everything and nothing at the same time. They don't have an agenda or a moral compass but they're responsible for most of my unfiltered creativity. But their real job is liquidating mental distress - they just make me dissociate.

[lovelessapathy]

Kind of feel like I'm zooming through life without processing anything, without really living, disassociating and intropecting too much simultaneously. Stuck but moving. A paradoxical phase.

[cobotis]

Questioner:

Is there any difference between awareness and that of which we are aware?

Is the observer different from his thoughts? [the perciever vs. the perceived/world/universe] [The observer vs. the observed]

Krishnamurti:

The observer and the observed are one; the thinker and his thoughts are one... To experience the thinker and his thought as one is very arduous for the thinker is ever taking shelter behind his thought... he separates himself from his thoughts to safeguard himself, to give himself continuity, permanency; he modifies or changes his thoughts, but he remains...

This pursuit of thought apart from himself, this changing, transforming it leads to illusion... The thinker is his thought; the thinker and his thoughts are not two separate processes...

The questioner asks if awareness is different from the object of awareness... We generally regard our thoughts as being apart from ourselves; we are not aware of the thinker and his thought as one... This is precisely the difficulty. After all, the qualities of the self are not separate from the self; the self is not something apart from its thoughts, from its attributes...

The self is put together, made up, and the self is not when the parts are dissolved. But in illusion the self separates itself from its qualities in order to protect itself, to give itself continuity, permanency. It takes refuge in its qualities through separating itself from them... The self asserts that it is this and it is that; the self, the I, modifies, changes, transforms its thoughts, its qualities, but this change only gives strength to the self, to its protective walls...

But if you are aware deeply you will perceive that the thinker and his thoughts are one; the observer is the observed... To experience this actual integrated fact is extremely difficult and right meditation is the way to this integration...

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

[kafkasapartment]

UNTITLED FILM STILL #21A, CITY GIRL CLOSE-UP, 1978. Cindy Sherman. Gelatin silver print

[zanomi77]

It is high time that every living human being should stop a second and ask himself or herself what is this “We call to be alive” is all about???

These signs are no good for Mankind as a planet and neither as People! Think again...

[jackshade21]

Relating to Rocket

So this is kind of a personal introspection as to why Rocket Raccoon means so much to me. I recently read a post here that got me thinking exactly why I related so much to a CGI raccoon, I had never really examined it before but seeing someone else post about it and seeing how similar my experiences were it really got me thinking.

I liked Rocket from the first scene he was in. He was a grumpy smart-mouthed misanthropic talking raccoon, what’s not to love? But the moment he began to mean so much more to me was with one line.

My mother was a teenager when she had me. She has told me she wished I hadn't been born and has blamed me for a good deal of her problems including the bad relationship she had with my father and her illness while she was pregnant. So hearing that particular line cemented that I was gonna relate to Rocket in some of the worse ways and I didn't even realize exactly why until last night when I read a post by someone else that made me start thinking.

I grew up as a gay kid in a small hyper religious town and I always felt like I was the only person like me, I didn’t fit in and it was a huge source of shame for me. I can often be a sardonic misanthropic asshole with issues with authority. I’ve been self-centered because it’s hard to trust that anyone else would have my own best interests at heart and have pushed people away when they got too close. After all whose gonna look out for me if not me, right?  And I have struggled for a long time with emotional dysregulation and body dsymorphia.

All of that coupled the fact that my problems really started with my parents when I started becoming my own person and not adhering to the idea they had of me and it became pretty obvious why I love this character and why he means so much to me.

But I didn’t post all this looking for sympathy, I too have found my own Guardians and with their help I’ve worked on being a better person. I am finally loved for who I am and that makes me want to try and be better. I just wanted to share how much this cgi raccoon from a comic book movie about lost and broken people has meant so much to me. So thank you James Gunn and thank you Guardians of the Galaxy. 

[mammameesh]

Explain

"Wait, who is Stephanie?" Ruth asked flipping through old school pictures that Stevie bought along. Stevie sucked in her teeth, that name was a sore spot, from an entire life ago. "The name on my birth certificate, is Stephanie, just like Mx. Nicks." she explained through gritted teeth. "Babe…" Ruth cooed and looked up at Stevie, pouting. "Stephanie was a little girl who was forced to wear dresses and bows, I hated every moment of it." she clarified.

"Why Stevie?" "Maureen played Fleetwood Mac, and I guess she represented a powerful woman, and that's who I wanted to be."

@schittscreekdrabbleblog

[multitide]

Life Is Full Of Surprises

[lilgreenslimecat]

I did some intropection and gave each one of my subpersonalities a small disco-elysium inspired portrait. Part 1.

THE CRITIC

Most of us have one and I'm not an exception. A voice in my head that chastizes me for mistakes and makes me feel guilty even if I haven't dome anything wrong. He seems to be the most paranoid about my reputation and how I'm being perceived. Keeps up my mask.

GOOD GIRL/GOOD BOY

A meek, modest, people-pleasing part with a creative streak. Doesn't have a rich imagination (it somes from elsewhere) but has the skills and she/he is responsible for my more "marketable" art like postcards and plushies for sale.

SENSORICA

It's a part of me that rarely judges but always perceives. It seems to be one of the least burdened ones. Usually it chimes in throughout the day to notice small things here and there but can be overshadowed by any strong emotion, making me inattentive.

ARCHIVIST and ASTRONOMER

The NEEEERDS Conjoined twins that do the intellectualization. Both carry most of my intellectual tasks, but Archivist seems to be the star-eyed inquisitive one and Astronomer is skeptical and pessimistic. To be honest, I think Astronomer is playing up his skepticism just to seem more "intellectual" compared to his manic-pixie-dream brother. Especially given that Critic seems to hate Archivist's guts and often targets him specifically in rude remarks.

HANLON

Annoyingly optimistic creature that gives everyone the benefit of a doubt and gives the most ridiculously generous reasons for things happening. For example, if I'm being yelled at, he is the first to suggest the person yelling just had a bad day. He is mechanical because he, in fact, is a coping mechanism. Good for trying to survive in a cold and hostile world but bad if you're trying to listen to your real feelings (which is exactly what I'm trying to do).

[cobotis]

Through meditation one can cast off temporarily, the shell of automatic perception, of automatic affective and cognitive control, in order to perceive more deeply into reality... ~ Arthur Deikman

[melodicfix]

[snowwheezy]

Charm school

Lil zine I made about pleasant things I like to think about 🫧 I bought a 1920’s finishing school book at an antique store. It was fun to purchase but painful to read. Thick and full of arbitrary rules on how to be charming. A playlist pairing: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6DxpqAraZTPSf5ODMJpkPq?si=AmWcq0TMRFOIOtJNVBQ-nQ