#fucking hell kafka

[delirious-donna]

The past and the present…

[gossamerg1rl]

[littlsparklejumpropequeen]

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

???????? IS THIS REAL .

[herbert-best]

…a labyrinthine series of lines, criss-crossing each other in all sort of ways. These covered the paper so thickly that only with difficulty could one make out the white spaces in between. "Read it," said the Officer. [...] Then the Officer began to spell out the inscription and then read out once again the joined up letters. "Be just!' it states," he said. "Now you can read it." […] "'Be just!' it says," the Officer remarked once again.

In The Penal Colony, Franz Kafka; transl. Ian Johnston [x]

pawn / tool /puppet / cog BE JUST another gear / in the / Harrowing machine

This was originally intended to be (bc I am very normal about all the very normal things I like) a piece of Kafka-referential fanart of Amanda Young, from Saw, with my rendition of the Officer’s design from the execution machine carved into her corpse… didn’t go that far with it, obviously, because I can’t draw for shit. If you’ve never gotten a chance to read it or not read it in a long time, this is your call to arms to read In The Penal Colony. It’s VERY short, albeit somewhat disturbing— the pdf I linked to with the quote is the whole thing, which is 19 pages long as formatted there— but it’s one of those things that lives in your brain afterwards.

It centers around a large, incredibly elaborate and complex machine used for tortuous executions, and the legacy of the now-dead man who designed, built, and used it. I’ve sort of always been fascinated by the idea of trying to create the illegibly elaborate designs it’s described as using— this one contains more than the central, aforementioned words, of course— highlighted under the cut.

[eightspringdays]

Just saw a TikTok complaining about fanfics that didn't have "enough dialogue" because "reading more than three sentences" was hard.

I'm not against heavy dialogue-oriented fics; they are fun, but... that's a script. You want to read a fucking script, hope you know that. A writer isn't "bad" because they are... you know, writing. Just say it isn't your thing and move on, but categorize something as "bad" because you lack the ability to fucking read... ain't the author's problem; it seems like a "you" one.

[daybreakrising]

not a bad haul for only using 30 tickets- 👀

[mascara-777]

I don't see anything anymore.

[sonopsa]

[sourkitsch]

Why are people sharing a fake Kafka daddy issue quote when there are about a million real things he’s written about or even just influenced by his relationship with his abusive father

[fagatakonin]

still so devastated i don't have any of the useful standard units in star rail</3 there's literally 3 of them (4 if you count the ugly ice dude) and then there's himeko who isn't useful per se but it's HIMEKO. come on. i literally have the most garbage luck getting anything but them nfsdhzbfvdhgf

[brainmoss]

oooh when i catch you hermann kafka when i catch you

i would scream at you on the behalf of your son and also say all the things i cant say to my own father through the several drafts of my own unsent letters to him

[kissingwookiees]

dear god... this whole talking to people thing is just not for me!! im sick of it!!

[oomox]

fantasizing abt meeting a hot cowboy butch out west to cope w the horrors (being forced to shave my legs bc we’re going out west)

[taddymason]

thanks!!! glad you like it, I really enjoyed writing this because writing jay as an asshole its just so fun. He's just a lonely sad bastard in this one and Pixal has to put up with it and try to reason with him.

One shot of Pixal meeting Jay in the Admnistration

Enjoy

[mascara-777]

🍥🦷

Hi. So, long time no see hahaha! :)

A lot of things have happened since I last wrote on this lovely tumbr page. First of all, the guy i liked left. He just said he felt like he would get hurt and that what I wanted waa different from what he wanted and was he wrong? Towards the end I was losing feelings and realising all I had for him was infatuation and not real love. In fact, I don't know if I'll ever truly love someone to the bone. Also, I tried out a dating app a friend said was great for talking to desperate loser and she was right. Many ugly, and older, men told me they wanted to fuck me and thought I was cute and all that, which was fun for a bit.

Depression's not been so kind to me. I got a diagnosis from a doctor that I had an eating disorder and I have a form of depression which explains some things. I cut. A lot. Everyday almost a new cut is one my arm or inner thigh, deeper and deeper. I used to use a penknife but I suspect my parensts have hid it somewhere I can't find.

Hopefully I'll have the brains to write more and vent more, like a blog or journal almost. Bye~ ♡