#but either way i looked at michael and his initial response to jon addressing him as michael (him going “that is a name.”) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sadkachow · 8 months ago

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i am like The Distortion because i, too, am Me but also Not Me in a way that is extremely difficult to put into words, and because i have an immensely complicated relationship with the sense of "self" and what that actually means, in this essay i will-

#the magnus archives #ironically enough out of all off the entities #i think i'd be an avatar of the lonely not the spiral #but the spiral is a CLOSE second #like. really really close.#like honestly i could lean either way tbh #but either way i looked at michael and his initial response to jon addressing him as michael (him going “that is a name.”)#and went “that's literally me”#(stares at the distortions struggle with experiencing “self” and then stares at myself)#surely there's nothing similar there #if you guys knew just how heavily i relate to the distortion's confusion and feelings on being michael and/or helen #and feeling like you're wearing the face/thoughts/emotions/memories of someone who doesn't exist anymore.#michael shelley #michael distortion #michael the distortion #the distortion #helen richardson #helen distortion

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