#impermenance

[razreads]

I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, none are exactly the same. I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.

T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

#razreads #book quote #the house in the cerulean sea #t j klune #life #people #paper #impermenance #queue have a good day now

[imposed-sorrow]

In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.

Ted Andrews

#energy #impermenance #transformation #quotes

[matan4il]

Mona Pebbles. Incredible artwork inspired by Da Vinci, done in pebbles. (Cr: Justin Bateman)

#art #artwork #impermenant artwork #pebbles #beauty #beautiful #inspiration #inspiring #inspiring beauty #inspiring art #da vinci #leonardo da vinci #zen #skills #portrait #different art styles #different approach

[pancakeke]

If you are in the US and subscribed to Crunchyroll + watched their content at any point between September 8, 2020 and September 20, 2023, check your email for a message from [email protected]

That domain seemed fishy and went to spam for me, but I looked into the details in the message and they are legit. It is a notice of entitlement to a payout from a class action settlement against Crunchyroll. The lawsuit accuses Crunchyroll of unauthorized disclosure of subscribers' personally identifiable information to third parties without convent.

Because this lawsuit took place in the United States, entitlement is limited to those within the United States. This does not mean that claimants are required to be US citizens. The expected payout is about $30 USD but the amount won't be confirmed until all claims are received.

Claims cans be submitted until December 12, 2023.

Here is a CNET article about the lawsuit that also links to the official settlement website containing more documents and info. The email sent to eligible subscribers contains a member ID required to submit a claim through the settlement website the easiest way, but there's a PDF claim form you can fill out if you can't access the email used to subscribe to Crunchyroll or you lost the claim email in some way.

#crunchyroll #class action lawsuit #crunchyroll sucks but my brother is disabled but thats the easiest way for him to watch anime :( #he has a very difficult time dealing with it when pirate sites go down because he doesnt quite grasp the impermenance of the modern internet

[theriverbeyond]

havent changed this icon in like 9 months so im attached but what if i did.......

#i think im gonna do it i just like i get such object impermenence myself that i get anxious #trb.txt

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

It’s okay if pain is impermanent

#the lack of commas here leaves this up to interpretation because I feel like both are fair #it’s okay for your pain to be impermenant #it’s okay as long as one day the pain stops #this was about good omens but like #chaoticbuggybitchboy

[littlefoxgw2]

okay my obsession with kitsune has worn off lol. i am now BLUE SALADS

profile pic by @likemesomesalads from ages ago of my Dawnlight Dew

#rambles #sorry for changing my name so often but i have a very impermenent sense of self (i know i spelled that wrong i just know it) #i have trouble with dissociation and MADD but also my chosen name doesn't feel like me anymore so i'm tossing up between Aria or Zephyr #Aria is more femme and Zephyr is more masc so I can't choose #anyways i'll shut up now

[fandomestloser]

i mean it literally brings me joy and helped me create new friends and find hobbies i love and makes me laugh and makes life feel a little less shitty but sure i guess i’m just a dumb teenage fangirl who’s in her little phase

#why do people act like impermenance = insignificance #not every obsession i have will last #that doesn’t matter #it means something #and it makes me happy

[anothermonikan]

I do think it's a little silly when someone says they miss a piece of media... Like,the media is right there(probably) ! Go watch that show again or play that game again, it's (probably) not gone! But then also like. I get it. I suppose the first watch or experience of something is special and like, fandom hype around stuff if it was a popular piece of media is something you wouldn't experience within the show again, but also like,,,, you're mourning something that's not dead (usually) Create fan content! Watch that thing again! Engage with old fanworks! Cause someone will appreciate it, it will also make you happy!

#Having to put the stuff in brackets literally _just_ to account for Unnus Annus #Ugh #Sorry I didn't like that thing when it was still coming out and still don't like it now :thumbsup: #I was gonna make a funny meme post but I think it wouldn't be funny because I can't explain it using simple language #Impermenant media enjoyers be like #“Wow that trip to the beach was good. Shame I can never do that again because that's how the world works” #Or smth like that #It's not even funny I need to think of a funnier situation #My quelms with Unnus Annus are weird and complicated and no ones ever agreed with me about it so it's probabaly just a me thing #And not an actual legit critism of the thing sjsjsjsj #I write about more in a draft I have of a mini essay I was writing about DDLitG's ending that's like. A year old by now #I will finish it! Just permanently busy and when not permanently busy I'm permanently tired #It's like. It's mean! Which is a silly complaint but it ties into like. A trope I hate that I love how DDLitG does! #This kind of critism of attachment to a piece of media often insists on making the viewer feel dumb for liking a thing and I don't like it! #Unnus Annus kind of plays this kind of moral where it's like 'Oh #Unnus Annus plays this kind of trope like 'Oh-all of this is impermanent so don't get attached because you'll only have memories after uwu' #And like. I guess I get what they were going for. But that's just. People were getting sooo upset over being attached to the thing #Like they felt bad about it and just don't think that's a great thing to be perpetrating. I promise you can get attached to media guys. #I promise you you're allowed to like things:3 #Also I realised I've been spelling Unus Annus wrong this whole time I apologise #Also not a huge fan of people acting like their in this super secret club for watching an extremely popular piece of media thats deleted #But that's definitely a me thing sjdndnsjs #Okay jeez I started ranting about this on a completely unrelated post sorry #Look forward to the mini essay whenever I finish it lol #Android.txt

[boyfeminism]

i didnt watch the ep bc i hung out with my gf instead however from what im picking up from the tag. i figured fearne and orym wouldnt stay dead bc thats super what it felt like last week but like. i already Barely cared abt c3 and laudna was half the reason im still watching and tbh the other half is imogen. i care so little n like. do i Really need to keep watching :/ i may just rewatch the first like 90-100 eps of c2 until i die and maybe watch c3 when its all over

#critical role #this isnt criticism this is personal boredom #id kill orym in a heartbeat to keep laudna around he means nothing to me #idk im holding onto an impermenance of her death just in case #bells hells #speaking

[mycthefirefly]

This is a variegated Mexican Mint; the white parts on the leaves are caused by cell mutation. Could it one day become completely green one day? Of course. Plus, the white part has no chlorophyll= cannot photosynthesize. Impermanence really is everywhere.

#mexicanmint #mexicanmintvariegated #variegated #impermenence #buddhism #到手香

[quixotic-gray]

i got a humble library of a lil over 643 hours of music now and i'm starting to think that's why im having such a hard time enjoying music at all anymore (beside the mental issues flareup i'm in), bc it's overwhelming me. it's been getting unmanageable to go thru my library and i obsess over how the data is entered and organized, i gotta add genre and go specific, i gotta add notes, i gotta fill in contributing artist with all the personel + respective instruments, recording dates and locations, scan album art and booklets, blah blah blah you know? data hoarding/archiving or whatever is fulfilling and enjoyable but i think i'm going farther with it than i need to. theres plenty of people with thousands and thousands of hours of music and they manage ok but i think it's time for me to give up. "but i need *more* stuff" pfft. damn i used to take pride scrolling thru my library just to see how much i got but now i hate it-- it's so much i don't even know what i have anymore, i cant even remember all the shit i got, i cant listen to one thing without thinking about something else i need to collect.... i feel like a idiot tbh. this is sucking the life out of me at this point. i can't delete any of it tho (even stuff i ripped from other ppls collections i don't really give 2 shits about like fucking acdc or garth brooks, i have it just for the sake of having it, i know i m probly never gonna listen to it but "what if...?" like grow tf up loser) i don't have the energy to figure out some kinda solution rn. idk i'm just rambling and i gotta go to bed bc tomorrows already gonna be a pain in the ass but damn this just hit me as i was trying to find something comforting to help me rest and i can't find jack shit with all these albums. pfft i'm just bugged at it now and i'm upset bc its like everything i ever do, i manage to make it unhealthy somehow like wtf with that huh? whatever. ey anyway i'm going to bed, goodnight

#doing all things in m o d e r a t i o n is the path to the good life #moderationmoderationmoderation #and dont get attatched to things dont get attchached to mp3 and flac files accept loss and change the impermenance of all things #everything goes away and ends and changes that's what makes the world go around that's the beauty of life #let shit gooooooooo that's how you get inner peace #i can preach moderation and wisdom eudemonia and zen all i fuckin want but i still gotta be better at practicing that shit #from percy with love

[imposed-sorrow]

What hurts is that we never really said goodbye. We just kind of ended.

Anon

[pawowogic]

Hi! Genuinely please tell me about why you are a Utopian defender, I'm new to the fanbase and I'm interested :D cause it seems to be a pretty rare decision and it's often seen that Daniil is either too cruel or too much of a pawn of the Kains.

sorry for such a late reply, i wanted to make sure that I answered this to my fullest ability...

so why am i a utopian supporter? first of all, i have played pathologic 1 to completion and i have NOT played pathologic 2. all of which i am going to discuss will be about the first game. i will also be doing some interpretations of the game itself, which we be DEEP into spoilers.

i also want to begin by talking about the other 2 ending first, and why i do not like them. but again, every choice is right as long as it is willed - none of the three endings are HORRIBLE, just i prefer one over the others.

first, clara's ending. probably the worst one, besides the plague/no choice ending. a lot of the limitations of this ending come from the fact that it was rushed. if i remember correctly, her original ending was meant to be the plague ending. and it very much shows! it feels rushed and stilted. we aren't given a lot of motivation to choose to sacrifice which of the bound you have, over the course of 11 days, fallen in love with. its heart wrenching. and it isn't a long term solution. people will still need to die after their sacrifices. the plague originates from the plague in the earth, which has become unearthed by the polyhedron. without destroying either of these, more people will have to die. and the people that do die - the reason is that they are 'sinners' in claras eyes. i have a bit of bias - i'm ex-catholic and staunchly against the death penalty, so everything about this ending is against what i am. (really, what is lara's sin? she wanted revenge? she is only nice to the living because of her affection for the dead? and yulia? rubin???). generally, i dont think either the polyhedron or the buildings of the town are worth it.

it also does not affect any of the issues of the town itself. the political system, the subjucation of the kin - all of these issues prevented the plague from being addressed will NOT be fixed with clara.

now, for the haruspex ending. the fandoms favorite. most of my distaste for this ending happened towards the end of day 11 and day 12. first, with the udurgh - we are made to be unsure whether the udurgh is the town or the polyhedron. its very unsure! while this ending is much better than clara's on addressing the plague (you destroy the polyhedron, stopping the spread of plague and getting a LOT of cure). but this is an impermenant solution. 10 years or 100 years from now, someone will dig a hole in this town. maybe it will be a well, or another building - but it will happen. and the plague will be unearthed again.

and the political situation that the haruspex ending has? awful. while it does end up getting rid of some of the rulers - they end up just replacing them with their children. it doesn't fix the system - it just makes the cage softer. and again, in 100 years, their might be another big vlad, another saburov family that will be awful for this town. the final cutscene of his ending has a running motif of wheels and gears turning, as if nothing had changed. it's very unsettling.

one thing i think people get wrong about the utopian ending is that many believe that daniil die. while this is a fun theory, it's not really supported by the text. if the game designers WANTED his death to be apart of the choice, they would have shown it. they also are concerned that he is not in his ending cutscene. which is true! but it would be weird if he was. i mean, he's not from the town. he's not becoming apart of the leadership. why would he stick around? maria is becoming the leader.

another reason for people's dislike of the utopian ending is people's dislike for the kains. and yes, they aren't the greatest. they often manipulate you as daniil one way or another. but, almost every character does manipulate him for their own ends. aglaya does it so daniil will destroy the polyhedron (out of revenge for both her sister and the powers that be)

now . i want to talk about teensy and tot and how these endings effect them and what i believe the polyhedron and the town represents. the enitre game of pathologic is just a game by these two playing after losing their grandfather. this is pretty simple - this grandfather they have lost is represented by simon and isidor. both are killed by the plague, just as teensy and tot's grandfather died by sickness. simon was described as an immortal, great man that everyone loved - likely a childs perspective on their own grandparents. each of the endings is a way that these children deal with the death, as they are not allowed at the funeral.

the polyhedron is simon's memory. that is what the kains want to do with it, have him continue to live within it. but this would cause the children to evacuate it, thus leaving the softness of childhood. if the town is preserved but the polyhedron is destroyed, childhood remains (with the soul and a halves and dogheads given more power) but the memory of the grandfather is dead. if both are perserved - well, in my opinion, it's suicide. the town stagnates, nothing changes. people must die for both to survive.

with this whole-dealing-with-grief metaphor, both losing childhood or losing simons memory are awful sacrifices. but i personally believe that memory is more important. ignoring death is not dealing with it - as these children (and all of us) will lose more people in our lives.

also the polyhedron is really sexy sorry.

#im really sorry this is VERY rambly #pathologic #im not the most educated on this and i would like to one day PROPERLY discuss this in either a video essay or a tumblr post #but this is just my raw feeling and thoughts

[no-empathy-culture-is]

fluctuating empathy is having average empathy after a long period of no / low empathy but still wondering if you made up the whole thing bc ✨️emotional impermenance✨️

fluctuating empathy is

#mod gabriel #empathyflux #fluctuating empathy #fluctuating empathy culture is #empathyflux culture is #low empathy #no empathy #no empathy culture is #low empathy culture is #low/no empathy #low/no empathy culture is #queued post culture is

[ramyaknox]

Musings from walks

I've been going for walks in my area more than usual lately trying to make the most of the good weather and partly because since burnout I've been struggling even more than before with impermenance. But being outside, particularly at this time of year, I feel like everything is so alive, it's reaching out from every fence ever curb. And I feel like I am seeing and noticing things that maybe other people will never get to see, like walking home alongside a bee I spot flying or noticing the sparkle of a water droplet or a snail trail accross a daffodil petal that makes it sparkle like magic. Everything I see is impermenant but when I'm looking at nature , that doesn't seem so bad. Everything is impermenant and so am I, but everything is so alive and so am I, everything is here right now in this moment and it might not be again. But I'm here to be a part of it and that's incredible.

Here are some photos I've taken on my walks

#nature walks #wildlife #flowers #plants #birds