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touches the ground and tastes the dirt on my finger an ant died here 10000 years ago

I think Shirley Jackson delves so well into the horror of self-consciousness. To be so aware of yourself, whether due to loneliness or not belonging or abuse, can be a monstrous experience that reduces your experience of the world to a series of mechanical processes. I will get up. I will cross the room in front of everyone. I will get a cup of water. I must drink the cup of water before I return in case it is odd to have it on the couch. They must not think I'm odd. Instead of swinging into the kitchen for a drink while laughing with friends. Mechanical processes are based on cause and effect, and if you are so used to thinking in terms of cause and effect, you can start applying that framework nonsensically out of a self-defensive need for control--which begs the question of what happens when defense becomes offense

I restart the entire song if i breathe too loud over my favorite part

the author’s thinly veiled nothing #notwriting #straightupnotwritingit

Pissing off elves by claiming i fought in wars their empire waged 1000's of years ago when im clearly a regular human

hating me will cause even more geopolitical issues