I Beg You To Love Me, Say That I'm Enough, But You Tell Me— Why Are You Like This? I Think There's

he’s trying

i think it’s interesting that a lot of people’s takeaway was that mortys great fears were ricks actions or ricks self destructive tendencies or his selfishness, because i think the hole showed us the exact opposite of that. like, these are all things morty fears, sure. and for good reason! but they’re also all things morty already knows he fears, these are fears he’s already faced, and has already conquered. hes been abandoned by rick, he’s watched rick succumb to his own self destructive tendencies, he’s seen rick reject happiness and he’s been replaced by rick over and over.

morty is afraid of rick’s suicidal tendencies, but he also knows that rick would never sacrifice himself if it meant sacrificing morty too.

while the hole is taking morty through avoiding facing his greatest fear, it’s showing him what he expects to see. which is everything revolving around Rick.

Morty’s greatest fear isn’t that he doesn’t matter, to the universe or to Rick. his biggest, unconquered fear isn’t that Rick will let himself die before accepting happiness, or that rick will let him die, or choose a fantasy over him, or even abandon him.

his final, greatest fear was his own reliance on rick. and he doesn’t conquer it by no longer fearing it. he conquers it by letting that reliance go.

#Evil Morty

EVERYONE LOOK! the character who was failed by the system and mistreated by those meant to protect them has begun conflating violence with power and aloneness with peace! he will know freedom but he will never know companionship...

#god this is insane im going insane #foaming at the mouth

maybe we STOP playing house ,, we're not good at it

catastrophiccosmic on tiktok // pinterest // in praise of defeat by abdellatif laâbi // pinterest // writing prompts for the broken hearted by eden robinson // fleabag // romeo and juliet by richard brautigan // vincent van gogh

reasons.

not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier

I do not know how move away from after watching this episode.

the scene after the credits finally broke my heart ohh

—the male gaze

the robber bride by margaret atwood // the virgin suicides (1999) // at test of objectification theory: the effect of the male gaze on appearance concerns in college women by rachel m. calogero // ex machina (2015) // a woman’s beauty by susan sontag // lolita (1997) // shame is an ocean, swim across by mary lambert // fleabag // fleabag: the scriptures by phoebe waller-bridge

The Duality of Man, mixed media, 2020