My Heart's Coal

Although I may be a charcoal grill
with all the coals gray and cooling, 
deep within there's still a flame sparkling and burning.
How to be bored. Some of us have to learn.

Emergence / Immersion

Didier Barcelo

Homeostasis

Texhnolyze

Deviating from anime screenshots without forward-facing characters and background humans, but I really like this character's mask design. This turned out to be a very interesting anime.

I'm interested in stories that capture a flame right before and after it goes out, or, in this case, the final moments of humanity on Earth. More often, humans cease to exist in a whimper than a bang - the cause happens long before the effect - and the fade out is as graceful as a ripple settling. Homeostasis.

Toradora

Dennou Coil

Toradora

Dennou Coil

Place to Place

Fabric of Material Reality (fragment)

Upon close inspection, a thing will begin visually spreading apart and revealing itself to be composed mostly of space on the molecular level. Reality is a matter of distance. Distance between atoms, and distance from atoms that causes them to coalesce into a visual whole.

Place to Place

“ She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are:
Where have you been all my life? they ask.
Where have I been all my life? she replies. ”

- Margaret Atwood, Good Bones and Simple Murders*

Bruno Ripoche

*The quote is from Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women and is being presented here under different context.

Texhnolyze

One Month Notice

Almost through with the first week after I gave notice at work. It seems they might actually keep me until the 9th or 16th of February. I'm surprised at how much this is dragging compared to the last time I gave a one month notice. I guess I'm very eager to move on.

Boogiepop Phantom

Boogiepop Phantom

Texhnolyze

Future Wire

by totophotopot

A Story

I feel like I have a story to tell, but I may be mistaken in thinking it is a story purely of words.

Time Buoys

If each generation marks its progress through life by milestones, then individuals are lost without those markers. Each goes through the events of growing up, getting a job, moving out of the parents', meeting someone, union, reproduction, and watching the same stages play out with the offspring, and finally ending with death.
If the offspring alter the milestones or avoid them completely, the parent becomes lost in time, or I should say time becomes much the same in itself without the milestones. And for that offspring, more of time is without milestones causing life to seem even more like an endless expanse.

God sat cross-legged on a floor futon, reading comic books and drinking Sunkist, on a clear Summer day. Some gods, like some superheros, are unaware of their potential.

Watery Eyes

As I get closer to the point I will be moving, I have been letting certain people know early. The ones who see me regularly get watery eyes when I tell them, and that surprises me. I have been called a bright spot, and told that I have a "winning" personality. A gap will be left.
I don't feel this way. When I reunite with someone, I communicate in a way that creates a feeling as if no time has passed, or so I've been told. I don't believe in time, and perhaps my lack of feeling is because I fully expect to see everyone again one day, and it will be like no time has passed. The feeling of loss is for those who believe they are experiencing a real loss. The loss I feel is not for the leaving, but for the possible futures missed at having not left.

I Had That Dream Again

At the Wormwood Tea Party

bunny laundry tea time by raccoonnook

Dennou Coil

Boogiepop Phantom

Toradora