Image description: A collage with a base image of a red couch. Across the top of the collage in black text with a purple background is the text “Growing up, how was your relationship with the fundamentals of conscious existence?” Below that are the words “once upon a time/the perception that he was incapable of altruism or "real" emotion/had been forced on him by schoolmasters and alienists alike” in three lines. “Incapable” is bigger than the rest of its line, as is “forced” and “alienists”. Below that, along the cushions of the couch, in bigger text than all the other words in the collage, are the words “And how does that make you FEEL?” The word “FEEL” is in bold with a space between each letter, and I’ve applied a glitch effect to it. Below that are the words “It was a cycle he perpetuated, aggravated,/ but it had not started with him.” The word “aggravated” is slightly bigger than “It was a cycle he perpetuated,” and off to the right of that line, making it a visual double entendre: “It was a cycle he perpetuated, aggravated” and “How does that make you FEEL? aggravated”. “not” is bigger than the rest of its line. End description.
The text with the purple background are lyrics from Will Wood's "Ideas Only Spread Because People Like Them, the 'Free Market of Ideas' is not a Meritocracy, it's a Set of Unhealthy Coping Skills and a Corporate Oligarchy, Wake Up, Man! Don't Let the Lies Dim Your Light! anyway this one's black box warrior (2024)" from The New Normal! (The Normal Album 2024 Edit)-- those lyrics are the same on the original "BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA" on "The Normal Album", but I heard it on The New Normal! first so that's what I'm citing— although to be very autistically pedantic about it the way I want to be in my heart, the lyrics page I snipped from was officially for “BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA”.
That whole album is a neurodivergent (and specifically Cluster B) BANGER that pairs excellently with the experience that is Anguish of the Marrow, where the rest of the text is from. This piece is based on the paragraph "That, too, was more than fair. Yet he still found himself aggravated by having to keep answering variations of this question. Why, they all asked him - why? Why are you doing this, why do you care, why him, why now, why this, why that, as though he needed a reason more complex than the simple fact that he liked Angel very much and didn't wish to see him in pain. The fact that this was so unbelievable was at this point his own doing, certainly, but once upon a time the perception that he was incapable of altruism or 'real' emotion had been forced on him by schoolmasters and alienists alike - and like any apex predator, he had fashioned his persona to suit the conditions at hand. It was a cycle he perpetuated, but it had not started with him." "And how does that make you feel?" is just the classic therapy question, but "FEEL" in bold, all caps, and with a space between each letter is from the fic, and each word is pasted in from the fic. The glitch effect is courtesy of https://pixlr.com/express/. Once again, I don't like that it advertises as AI and offers a specific AI feature on the site, but the glitch effect is not part of that.
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Date: 2025-01-15 11:02 am (UTC)The text with the purple background are lyrics from Will Wood's "Ideas Only Spread Because People Like Them, the 'Free Market of Ideas' is not a Meritocracy, it's a Set of Unhealthy Coping Skills and a Corporate Oligarchy, Wake Up, Man! Don't Let the Lies Dim Your Light! anyway this one's black box warrior (2024)" from The New Normal! (The Normal Album 2024 Edit)-- those lyrics are the same on the original "BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA" on "The Normal Album", but I heard it on The New Normal! first so that's what I'm citing— although to be very autistically pedantic about it the way I want to be in my heart, the lyrics page I snipped from was officially for “BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA”.
That whole album is a neurodivergent (and specifically Cluster B) BANGER that pairs excellently with the experience that is Anguish of the Marrow, where the rest of the text is from. This piece is based on the paragraph "That, too, was more than fair. Yet he still found himself aggravated by having to keep answering variations of this question. Why, they all asked him - why? Why are you doing this, why do you care, why him, why now, why this, why that, as though he needed a reason more complex than the simple fact that he liked Angel very much and didn't wish to see him in pain. The fact that this was so unbelievable was at this point his own doing, certainly, but once upon a time the perception that he was incapable of altruism or 'real' emotion had been forced on him by schoolmasters and alienists alike - and like any apex predator, he had fashioned his persona to suit the conditions at hand. It was a cycle he perpetuated, but it had not started with him."
"And how does that make you feel?" is just the classic therapy question, but "FEEL" in bold, all caps, and with a space between each letter is from the fic, and each word is pasted in from the fic.
The glitch effect is courtesy of https://pixlr.com/express/. Once again, I don't like that it advertises as AI and offers a specific AI feature on the site, but the glitch effect is not part of that.
The couch is taken from here.
One (of many) alternative title(s): "Growing up, how was your relationship with the fundamentals psychiatry?"