#that which cannot be

[depraveddame]

feels like fake news

[daiseranged]

Bipedal Fishbowl

There is a limit to how far we may walk in a lifetime. A maximum number of steps we may take, ordained by the genetics of our body, the food and water available to us, the predictable randomness of disease.

This is true of all living things.

A goldfish in the small, confined fishbowl, whale sharks in an aquarium’s central tank, a beaver and its trees.

Humans in winter.

We are confined, sometimes by necessity, or choice, or the belief we have a choice. But all confinements pale in comparison to the confinement of death.

It will all end, at some point. We will walk the last steps, travel the last distances that our lives allow.

And yet, the goldfish swims on for another lap. The shark keeps their mouth agape. The beaver gnaws down another tree. We continue working our jobs, selling our labour, buying our goods. We move tirelessly to create more of ourselves, as we press on to the eventual end of everything we have ever known.

Meaning comes from this confinement – because what else can? Mortality begets meaning; without meaning there is no solace in nonexistence.

But does the goldfish assign meaning to its swimming in constant circles? Does the whale shark think of what it looks like in the mirror? Does the beaver feel it is fulfilling a greater purpose by gnawing its one-hundredth tree?

Do we? In our paperwork, our shopping, our unthinking patterns of the modern age?

How it must feel to be free, then… Free of confinement, of the bowl, of the aquarium, of the city – of national and political lines, of laws and jurisdiction, of the boundaries of continents; how exhilarating must it feel to swim in the ocean with a body made for it, free of our foreignness to the sea.

To explore the world as though we were made to.

Nay, to explore the universe as though we were made to. Free of gravitational wells, of bodily degradation, of the needs of food and water; of our vices. Will we ever know the feeling of jumping between planetary bodies, with travel taking thousands of years? Moving in a weightless trajectory, feeling the gravitational fields push and pull as we careen across the universe?

How it must feel to walk without hurry, free of our money and its worship, free of our limits.

Unshackled from ourselves.

…

It doesn’t really matter if it goes first, or we do. I want to see as much as I can before it all winks out.

[intermundia]

this is the single worst way i've ever read to describe an erection, frank herbert

[valtsv]

btw it truly is incredible how you can say "weaponising social power dynamics to isolate and ostracise people from any form of community is cruel and fucked up and doesn't meaningfully protect anyone or achieve anything" as articulately and eloquently as you like and people will still be like okay except when you do it to Bad People. who we will identify and protect ourselves from by weaponising social power dynamics to isolate and ostracise them from any form of community.

[torao4577]

Thinking about my happy nerd engineer children

[caffichai]

Kroos Quest II

Bluesky

[cantpickyourgenre]

Do you think Athena was a little like "shit, this is NOT the voice of reason I need" when she saw Buck was the one who got out? Not because she doesn't love him, but he's the one that will match her freak about getting them out the most out of the 118. Like Bobby, Hen, & Chim would be wild too, but at least more reasonable. Athena knows Buck will encourage her to shoot her gun at the doors, and she just might do it.

[dailyhatsune]

the old uncle who refuses to wear headphones on the train

[demaparbat-hp]

She will (and he'll let her)

[bananonbinary]

theres a certain youtuber that i like and every once in a while i see some bullshit drama starting video about them and i'll start it like "oh no did they do something really bad" and every time its always "idk they just strike me as really creepy" about extremely normal social anxiety/awkward behaviors.

anyway some of yall are extremely not okay about very minor "not fitting in" behavior and it's really really cruel. stop being fucking mean girls.

[lilybug-02]

Eww bugs.

Bug Fact: Face mites are microscopic mites that have adapted to only live in human hair follicles. All adult humans have them, but they are harmless and are passed down from parent to child. Pictures Below

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They also only live like 20 days and don't even have an anus so they're pretty clean.

The only time they can be a problem is if you take/have immunosuppressants which can allow them to multiply too fast, leaving skin dryer than it should be.

[vitreouspositive]

you think he ever regrets taking dee with him?? thinks about the what if where he handled everything by himself and didn't have to witness d-16's fall (haha. fall...) and megatron's rise?

that is, before he reminds himself that he couldn't have done it without dee, and how at the end of the day, he would do it all over again, cannon shot and all, because he's not gonna take that choice away from his best friend. not when everything else was taken away from him...

[homoquartz]

a show doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT queerness to BE a queer show. it's a cultural dialect that cishets don't quite speak.

edit: i gotta clarify that the shows do indeed still have to have actual queer characters in them to count

[canonkiller]

what grief is laid bare at your own empty grave?

thinking about hydras and regrets

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Yiling Band Tour!

[jez-bez]

P'Cir, hurry up.