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Yesterday's news sucked SO hard; the creative world is a darker, dingier place today (and not in a good, Uncanny way 🥺)

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It's my 5 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

To seek out new life--

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== THE ACCIDENTAL DETOURIST ==

Tempted--LURED--up there, but the light is just another lie

And after everything, if you somehow manage to clamber up there--drawn by escapist fancies of Blue through some glaringly out-of-place skylight--it’s just another dead, colored wall behind the glass, bathed in the false light of a deliberate, manufactured spectrum. It no longer even makes sense to ask yourself, “Who was this supposed to be FOR?”. Because you KNOW.

You KNOW who it was *for*.

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== THE PAINTED SKIES ARE THE WORST ==

For many, it’s surely nothing more than (an attempt at) a shortcut from the narrow lanes of the impoverished, cracked-sidewalked ‘deep soi’ to the bustling, modern main vain of Sukumwit Road (which may be glimpsed at a distance and even heard, but not reached; not from here); an accidental diversion through what once was perhaps meant to be a mall, some intended pedestrian thoroughfare. Some parody of social space and human Commerce.

The ranks of dimly-glowing, functionless modules that only barely suggest the familiar forms of ATMs...with no one to use them; no establishments to accept payment in any case, of any kind; the most minimally-inclined of concrete walkways that angle up to featureless landings, sporting steel guard-railings that protect no one. And it just sprawls on like that. It's ugly, in more than just the ways that can be put into words.

The painted skies are the worst: Broad, sweeping, meandering, mindless murals of no discernible subject in lurid colors, endlessly defacing the blank, massive walls and wrapping around sudden, brutal corners to wander into blind and purposeless courtyards for no eye to see, their mere suggestion of free, open aerial vistas a simpleminded obscenity in this hard and grey transitional nothing of a place.

#art #LiminalSpaces #travel #writing #WritingLife #travelphotography #GameTheoryMedia #weird #explore #Asia #Bangkok #BTS #LastKnownPhoto #Skytrain #Japanese #Nihonmachi #KnownSomeCallIsAirAM 

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== HALLWAYS, ALWAYS ==

It’s finally Move-In Day, here at the Hilbert Arms Liminal Suites, Bangkok; sure does seem empty, for such a big, sprawling place.

Tucked away in the shadow of the BTS 'Skytrain' tracks in the bustling, popular Thong Lo sector (basically, their 'Japantown'), it’s still amazingly inconspicuous & hard to actually find--THEE absolute, least-Inviting (not to mention all but unlighted) entryway, to be sure...but, sporting a hand-lettered sign (mostly Thai, with some dicey English) stating monthly rent of only 4000 TBH? WTH? What’s the catch? (And what exactly is meant by, “Long-time resivant [sic] * Everyone Welcome * doawn-payment: Free **NO REFUNDS**”? o_0 )

Once you're in the main central hub, it looks exactly like this, greenish tinge to the light and all (I got side-eyed by the on-site manager when I stopped to fumble my phone out and take this picture as she slowly led me to tier upon tier of these silent room-access walkways) Didn't see any 'resinants' come or go the entire time I was there. Nice enough lobby. Quiet. Still haven’t quite twigged the layout of the place, though--seems to go on forever.

#art #travel #writing #WritingLife  #travelphotography #GameTheoryMedia #LiminalSpaces#Backrooms #weird #explore #travel #hotels #Asia #Bangkok #BTS #LastKnownPhoto #Skytrain #Japanese #Nihonmachi #KnownSomeCallIsAirAM

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== AN ITINERANT CARNIVAL ==

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“Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”

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― Cormac McCarthy, 'Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West'

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#art #travel #writing #WritingLife #drinking #Streetmoment #streetleaks #BloodMeridian #travelphotography #GameTheoryMedia #weird #memory #time #ghosts #haunted #haunting #WTF

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== THE NULL SET LIST == . "In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity." . -- Thomas Ligotti    'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' . . ... --- ... #beauty #art #photography #travel #Ligotti #backrooms #explore #GameTheoryMedia #haunted #writing #WritingLife #drinking #LiminalSpaces #Kenophobia #travelphotography #氷Kōri-9 #acting #asia #modeling #alone  (at Krung Thep Maha Nakhon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpyWAYGS1zv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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== THIS WORLD HAS A SPECIAL PLAN FOR ME == . "More than ever, some sort of new arrangement seems in order, some dramatic and unknown arrangement—anything, to find release from this heartbreaking sadness I suffer every minute of the day (and night), this killing sadness, that feels as if it will never leave me--no matter where I go, or what I do, or whom I may ever know." . --Thomas Ligotti, 'The Bungalow <House>' . #travel #art #sorrow #determinism #horror #explore #Ligotti #GameTheoryMedia #modeling #travelphotography #worldtravel #photography #Asia #Bangkok #BTS #drinking #writing #WritingLife  (at Lost Somewhere) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1VC80P813/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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== EITHER WAY, YOU WERE GONE == . "...at some point he'd started to play a game with himself, a very ancient one that has no name, a final Solitaire. He no longer carried a weapon, no longer took the basic precautions...he felt a stab of elation, the octagons and adrenaline mingling with something else. You're *enjoying* this, he thought; you're crazy."  o_0  (2022/Chiba, Japan) . #travel #Expat #Cyberpunk #GameTheoryMedia #travelphotography #worldtravel #Chiba #photography #endgame #landmarks #Japan #Tokyo #drinking #writing #Neuromancer #NightCity . #pandemic #fin #suicide #AndThanksForAllTheFish (at Chiba, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-wiz0vfl-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Unreal Thing (TM) . #Disneygram #Disneyland #DisneylandResort #writing #WritingLife #InstaDisney #Disney #Disneyday #Disneygram #Disneyland #Disneylife #DisneyMagic #Disneyparks #Disneyphoto #Disneyphotography #GameTheoryMedia #AnimalKingdom #AdultsInDisney #travelphotography #travel #worldtravel #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/ChOoNObO2Tk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Photojournal: Kids play the damnedest things o_O (どこにも/Chiba, Japan) . #art #backrooms #TheCaretaker #TwinPeaks #landmarks #beauty #BTS #Tokyo #writing #WritingLife #drinking #movies #LiminalSpaces #Kenophobia #horror #facts #objectivity #writing #GameTheoryMedia #kingdomkindergarten #YellowWallpaper #TheMoreYouKnow #memory #time #death #suicide #depression #ghosts #haunted #haunting (at Nowhere) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeuQXswPygq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Photojournal: When the instant, real-time, camera/visual 'Translation'--in this instance, for a fast-food-venue bonus/discount coupon! 😶--goes horribly, inexplicably awry. (Tokyo, Japan) . #adventure #art #beauty #explore #travel #GameTheoryMedia #language #travelphotography #cyberpunk #worldtravel #photography #hotels #landmarks #Japan  #Asia #Bangkok #BTS #Pacific #modeling #movies #Tokyo #summer #movies #drinking #writing #WritingLife  (at Tokyo, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeiWUGSuomD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Photojournal: In a place like *this*-- (San Francisco, California / USA) . #氷Kōri-9 #acting #anime #arcades #art #asia #backrooms #beauty #billiards #dinosauts #explore #Tokyo #writing #WritingLife #drinking #games #gaming #modeling #movies #LiminalSpaces #lurker #Japan #Kenophobia  #writing #GameTheoryMedia  #ghosts #haunted #Summer #travel #travelphotography #videogames #ghosts   (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CefxSIuLmtK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hell YES I will meet you at the 'Food Court' 😋 (Bangkok, Thailand) . #adventure #art #BKK #explore #travel #GameTheoryMedia #Korea #food #worldtravel #photography #travelphotography #hotels #landmarks #Japan #unitedstates #Asia #Bangkok #BTS #Pacific #modeling #Tokyo #summer #movies #drinking #ummer #writing #WritingLife  (at Bangkok Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeEQEfnrkAP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Photojournal: So it turns out, that sprawling warren of bustling side-streets you rarely ever visit--surrounding that one station you *really* only ever use (and then only because, Global Pandemic Fallout)--has a horse-meat-cuisine-intensive vending machine at the ready 24/7, because of *course* it does 😶 (Moto-Yawata sector station/Ichikawa, Japan) . #vendingmachines #horses #meat #cuisine #travel #Chiba #GameTheoryMedia #travelphotography #worldtravel #adventure #foodie #food #photography #Japan #Asia #restaurants  #summer #drinking (at Ichikawa, Chiba) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd9u2ucLcuj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Photojournal: And also with you (Chiba, Japan) . #art #explore #TokyoTomorrow #TomorrowTokyo #travel #GameTheoryMedia #travelphotography #tokyoartsandculture #Graffiti #tokyotomorrow #travel #worldtravel #adventure #photography #hotels #landmarks #Japan #cyberpunk #Tomorrow #Asia #Bangkok #BTS #PacificRim #shopping #sexy #architecture #CityLife #TokyoLife #drinking #nightlife (at Chiba Prefecture) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd5c-a_LVHJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=