#self recognition through the other

[jaanjahan]

smokeinsilence / sightofsea / young love by bts / nizar qabbani / abeba birhane / the waves by virginia woolf / franz kafka letters to milena / ratsandlilies.art / the butterflys burden by mahmoud darwish / underneath the stars by mariah carey

#web weaving #compilation #paralells #quotes #books #bts #bangtan #nizar qabbani #franz kafka #virginia woolf #mahmoud darwish #poetry #languages #self recognition through the other #dark academia #art journal #tenderness #arabic #mariah carey

[paradisetemporarilymisplaced]

so I’m rereading the raven cycle

#me @ Gansey (aka myself): god you’re the worst. I love you. never change. #the raven cycle #gansey #self recognition through the other

[greelin]

this stupid little hand gesture in particular is important to me because like. Haha i do thaaat

#self recognition through the other

[thegraftedbranch]

Romancing the Abject, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Others’ Hate

Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942) // The Mountain Goats, "Heretic Pride" // George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) // Kate Beaton, "Hark! A Vagrant" // Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000) // "cringe isnt an insult" // Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors (2002) // my explanation preemptive apology for this post // Hermann Hesse, Demian (1919) // Pink Guy, "Fried Noodles"

#thee most toxic absurd nonsense I will ever post non-Freaks and Degenerates DNI #intertextuality #web weaving #voidpunk #dark academia #self recognition through the other #absurdism #albert camus #the mountain goats #nineteen eighty four #house of leaves #running with scissors

[patcaps]

pat told everyone he scheduled his days because it made the best use of his time. the captain saw himself in that and absolutely agreed. and i just think, yeah, there’s definitely the potential of a love story there, even if i have to tell it myself. what a joy.

#self recognition through the other #good morning :) #patcap #bbc ghosts #quill to paper

[lexluthorswigcap]

I looked at you and saw myself

#teen wolf #scott mccall #kira yukimura #scira #usermem #self recognition through the other #my stuff

[olympiangods]

for @faeriecap my beloved 💕✨

#web weaving #self recognition through the other #quotes compilation #mine #not me trying to put these together for over a week!

[clowndensation]

i'm literally constantly thinking about sam reid's "when does he change? how does he change? how does his character develop? progressively, as the episodes were coming in, i was realizing that lestat wasn't changing at all. he keeps going back to his same patterns" comment btw. because it's true. a cornerstone to lestat's character this season is that he is utterly, painfully static. which is fascinating, because that ironically makes him one of the most stable, reliable characters in the show, in spite of outwardly acting as one of the most impulsive, volatile ones. it's also the cornerstone to what makes him such a tragic character.

because lestat is aware, to a certain extent, that there's something about himself that leads to him being abandoned. he's alluring enough to captivate, sure, but fundamentally deficit in some undefinable area that will grant him genuine, committed love. he has a way about him, but he's a lot. he's not perfect. and his own imperfections terrify him, because whatever it is, he's sure that it's at the core of himself, that it's something he can't change. and so he chases after love by throwing the worst of himself at it - because if he can find someone who sees his ugliness and loves him anyway, he'll finally have a love that he can keep. and once he finds that love, he devotes himself to it. it can not disappear again, it can't slip through his fingers. it's his, and he won't allow it to be taken from him.

and it works - for a time. preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful, he is so incredibly easy to fall in love with. and then something changes. and it has to be an outside force, because he hasn't done anything. he's stayed exactly the same, he's been that same person who louis fell in love with, he's committed to this love with all of himself. he is seen and he is loved and he is wanted, and he won't let anyone or anything take this acceptance away from him. so he clings, and he lashes out.

and it all, ultimately, leads back to abandonment. he's so busy keeping louis in his life, he's so busy making sure nothing changes, that he can never allow himself to grow. because change is rejection. change is the acknowledgement that he'll never be enough, that there really is some part of himself so unacceptable, he'll never be able to be loved in his entirety. and it's not until those last moments of the show, when he finally acknowledges claudia as a person unto herself, with a will and autonomy of her own - when he sees louis agonizing over what has to be done, that he begins to understand his own role in their lives. there's a sort of acceptance that he's pushed them too far, that maybe it's not outside forces, or their own inability to accept him, that's at fault for where they've ended up. that maybe he has some responsibility in how all of this played out. it's the first time in the entire show where we really see that lestat could potentially accept that he's not the victim of things beyond his control forever barring him from love, but that he has some responsibility in how others see him. which could, eventually, lead to change.

#every day EVERY DAY i think about louis and lestat and their respective issues #and how the things that initially drew them together are the same issues that inevitably pull them apart #self recognition through the other #but the self you're recognizing is one that's deeply unhappy #and fundamentally ill equipped to create a relationship that will do anything but hurt you and everyone around you in the future #like my loves i AM rooting for you but good god. you have a lot of work ahead of you. #and you're both so prone to denial when confronted with your own shortcomings that i fear we're going to need more than just one century #to get this figured out #it's okay though <3 take your time. the collateral damage will be worth it in the end. love you both. #iwtv

[janeyre]

people who were doctor who girls in middle school (me) ten years later will be adults going for a night out in their brown pinstriped trousers and white converse (also me) thinking they are being sooo sneaky and then run into someone else who is wearing a very long multicoloured scarf because it is downright freezing outside and have a horrifying moment of Recognition. i know what i’m doing here but what are you doing here on your way home from the club at four am in your doctor who clothes trying to blend in. what were you doing at the devil’s sacrament. well your honour, i was shaking my ass.

#not even sure if this is coherent but it is so potent in my mind #both of us stopped and LOOKED at each other #we were like WAIT A MINUTE #you thought you could get away w your long scarf because youre all bundled up #i thought i could get away with my pinstriped trousers because theyre fashionable rivht now #and here we are. here we ARE. #self recognition through the other #skskkxxo #musings #doctor who

[laikacore]

self recognition through the other

by laika wallace

#self recognition through the other #recovery

[arealcrow]

i love listening to fob so much, if i ever feel bad about getting hung up on stuff, i just listen to pwentz writing songs about the same summer for 18 years

#listenin to these songs like i understand u. i know what u are. #self recognition through the other

[b-oredzoi]

I understand the polycule now. I too have fallen in love with miss Lucy Westrena within moments of meeting her.

#she writes like i do and its sickeningly adorable #self recognition through the other #daily dracula #omg i got an email from jonathan harker my real estate agent friend jonathan harker i wonder how hes doing

[tadsweep]

do you really despise me so much ?

i hate you more than anything.

#and for the love of god i cannot tell why #perhaps i see myself in you #self recognition through the other #i'm not sure #i just know that i loathe you

[mochacoffee]

person on the train with blue hair and ace/nb pins on their bag who keeps surreptitiously glancing at me: i see you

UPDATE: MUSHROOM STICKER ON THE LAPTOP

#lucia talks #self recognition through the other

[thegraftedbranch]

Every time the exposure to scores of people hating me for my mere existence starts to suffocate my sense of self-worth, I'll marvel at the revelation of how many people care that I'm alive. Everyone who has declared I'm worth hating has let slip that I'm worth something. How can I even hate back, when their attempt to negate my existence only proves the impact it's had, when they cared enough to try - when I have the recognition of so many others to reassure me I'm not alone?

#(maybe I would make this a you statement if I thought it wasn't too toxic and unhinged to wish on anyone else? relate if you want lol) #voidpunk #dark academia #absurdism #suggestions #self recognition through the other

[thestarshipminestrone]

mike soup was a tortured girl who is now a tortured man. what's not clicking?

#self recognition through the other