#consciousness fragmentation

[epicstoriestime]

Personal Log: Phase IV Memory Descent

It started like déjà vu.Then… things I never did began remembering me. I opened my notebook and found pages filled in my own handwriting—entries I don’t remember writing.Some dated from 1998.Others from July 2025.One was signed:Dr. Eliar Voss. June 19, 2025: Phase IV Memory Descent Posted by Eric Kliq410 | 03:33 AM, June 19, 2025 [PHASE IV CONFIRMED][MEMORY INTEGRITY: DEGRADED][FEED STATUS:…

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

[natalieironside]

Trying to come up w/ a coherent theory of mind but you see "coherent" and "mind" are two words that don't typically like to fit together when you're me

[namedvesta]

“I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly.”

— Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters (𝟣𝟫𝟩𝟩).

[jubileepizza]

Waking up in a cold sweat remembering that the torchwood writers gave us Toshiko and Owen’s backstories, which introduce completely new and significant context to their characters and open so many avenues to explore, one episode before Exit Wounds

[monsoonwrites]

I write to think about you I write to feel you,I write to request you to feel me I write to give my heart to you I write to immerse in you I write to tell the whole world that you're mine and I am only yours I write to you to quiet my mind I write to make you breathe my love in every word I write for you,my love

[mxtxfanatic]

I know I'm kinda late but Happy Birthday month !!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

I was wondering if you wanted to talk about the parallels between A-Qing and Wei Wuxian in the Yi city arc ?

💜

Thank you! As long as it’s November, it’s never too late 💝

I kind of compared them in this wwx bday meta, but I didn’t get too deep into the parallel. While I said that A-Qing represents Wei Wuxian’s adaptability and unwillingness to passively accept evil simply because it’s cloaked in civility, I would like to highlight here another shared trait: their tenacity towards doing the right thing.

A-Qing is in a position of powerlessness in the trio due to her lack of cultivation skills and cultivation world knowledge, similar to how Wei Wuxian is made powerless—despite being a part of the cultivation world—by his lack of status and faithful allies. Yet despite this, both characters thrive in their environments and use their situationally-acquired skills to protect those around them. A-Qing did not have to stay with Xiao Xingchen, especially after Xue Yang came along, but her own sense of morality made her stick around to ensure Xiao Xingchen’s safety, something she was only able to do by feigning blindness. Even when she fails, she, Xiao Xingchen, and Song Lan die, and Xiao Xingchen’s spirit disperses, she uses the last moments of her life to doggedly seek help. After dying, she uses the entirety of her afterlife to scare ignorant strangers away from Yi City (mind you, she didn’t even die there. She made her spirit go back) and try to find ways to stop Xue Yang. Even at the risk of destroying her soul, she goes against Xue Yang to the very end, no regrets in any of her actions.

In the same way that A-Qing used her “blindness” as a shield, Wei Wuxian weaponized the cultivation world’s fears of him first to protect the sovereignty of the newly rebuilt Jiang then to protect the Wen remnants liberated from the Qiongqi Path labor camp. When he was still schemed against and the Wen siblings told him of their plan to turn themselves in, he still never thought to abandon them or let the punishment fall on anyone else’s shoulders, just as A-Qing refused to abandon Xiao Xingchen. After his resurrection, Wei Wuxian still goes out of his way to rescue and protect the junior cultivators, entering back into the lion’s den of the cultivation world for no benefit of his own just to continue to help others, in the exact same way that A-Qing went back to Yi City to guard against passersby wandering in to their deaths. And just like with A-Qing, at no point in time does he regret having rescued the Wen in his first life or having endangered himself in his second life to protect the juniors (or later their bloodthirsty parents).

Even though they faced negative consequences for following their morality to the bitter end (and even beyond), even if the people they wanted to protect were still murdered before their eyes, their reputations tarnished and legacies buried, at no point do either A-Qing or Wei Wuxian stray from their course nor regret their actions. This is their shared tenacity. There’s a reason, after all, that Wei Wuxian experiences the Yi City arc as her.

[thirdity]

Psychic communal integration, made possible at last by the electronic media, could create the universality of consciousness foreseen by Dante when he predicted that men would continue as no more than broken fragments until they were unified into an inclusive consciousness [...] This is a new interpretation of the mystical body of Christ; and Christ, after all, is the ultimate extension of man.

Marshall McLuhan, "Playboy Interview"

[aropride]

creative writing professor said 500 to 800 word run on sentence please i said okay <3 yay <3

[namedvesta]

Pierre Michon x me.

[cadmar]

Comes to You

Have you ever noticed that the world comes to you? In fact, the entire universe comes to you! It all comes to you, and the question becomes: what is your answer?

"Comes to you" comes from all your sensory processes. You do not have to do anything. You don't have to lift a finger! It is a gift from the universe. The chemical-electrical signals of the universe enters inside of you. Then, what do you do with this gift?

You are in an enclosed bubble and the entire universe is outside. The universe enters inside your bubble, one input at a time. The amount the universe enters inside your bubble depends on your reaction. What do you do with all of this?

Your reaction is your answer. You push back. You take the very, small piece of the universe and you bounce it back to where it came from. A small piece of the universe stays with you and the rest bounces back. What stays with you, changes you.

The universe enters and the universe leaves. How much the universe leaves behind depends on you. That is how simple this is! This is what the universe left behind: The universe gave you life. Gave you consciousness. Gave you existence. And now, what do you do?

[charmonys]

sunday  loves  his  mom  very  much  and  the  root  of  his  savior  complex  actually  stems  from  watching  her  die  right  in  front  of  him  and  being  helpless  to  do  anything  about  it,  in  this  essay  i  will  —

[ace-robot-things]

Why’d my only semi-unironic tumblr sexyman crush have to be a fucking disembodied voice of all things 😭

[ziyaanfarooq]

"We both shared the same story but yours ended happily and mine ended without you " We can never stop someone from leaving us, we can't stop them, when they want to leave our hand they will, We really can't force anybody. You just will be waiting for them to come back , for their one look , for their text , even just for their ignorance you will wait . Idk what people will call that, maybe madness or they will call you crazy but it's just your love for that one person . I mean how can I just accept that we happily ended up?? Its just too much to accept as reality that people who were yesterday your forever are no more anything to you . And the misery is you Cant stop them from leaving, because you love them and they are happy without you.

[relto]

dokja saying that he and his mom are nothing alike still fascinates me. the more i see of her, the more i can see exactly where he got it from.

[russellmoreton]

Veiled Melancholy/Book Narratives : Film Collages. #3 by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: pictify.com/user/russellmoreton The Politics of Architecture : Theorizing through speculative spatial practices. "He rubbed his eyes. The riddle of his surroundings was confusing but his mind was quite clear - evidently his sleep had benefited him. He was not in a bed at all as he understood the word, but lying naked on a very soft and yeilding mattress, in a trough of dark glass. The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly. Above his arm- and he saw with a shock that his skin was strangely dry and yellow - was bound a curious apparatus of rubber, bound so cunningly that it seemed to pass into his skin above and below. And this bed was placed in a case of greenish-coloured glass (as it seemed to him), a bar in the white framework of which had first arrested his attention. In the corner of the case was a stand of glittering and delicately made apparatus, for the most part quite strange appliances, though a maximum and minimum thermometer was recognizable." H. G. Wells : The Sleeper Awakes. 1899/1910 Spatiality : The Spatial Turn, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013 Immediate Architectural Interventions, Durations and Effects : Apparatuses, Things and People in the Making of the City and the World. Alberto Altes Arlandis, Oren Lieberman. 2013 Preface (1921) ” The great city of this story is no more than a nightmare of Capitalism triumphant, a nightmare that was dreamt a quarter of a century ago. It is a fantastic possibility no longer possible. Much evil may be in store for mankind, but to this immense, grim organization of servitude, our race will never come” H.G. Wells. EastonGlebe, Dunmow,1921.