#DRIVE ME MAD

[burningvelvet]

For the past few days this passage from Wuthering Heights has been stuck in my head...

"'[..] Her life closed in a gentle dream — may she wake as kindly in the other world!'

'May she wake in torment!' he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. 'Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there — not in heaven — not perished — where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer — I repeat it till my tongue stiffens — Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!'

He dashed his head against the knotted trunk; and, lifting up his eyes, howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears. I observed several splashes of blood about the bark of the tree, and his hand and forehead were both stained; probably the scene I witnessed was a repetition of others acted during the night. It hardly moved my compassion — it appalled me: still, I felt reluctant to quit him so. But the moment he recollected himself enough to notice me watching, he thundered a command for me to go, and I obeyed. He was beyond my skill to quiet or console!"

#if i did an adaptation of WH i'd include the head-against-the-trunk bit and have it be violent - dramatically edited showing dif angles #& nelly there shocked #this whole chap #i cannot live without my life #haunt me then #drive me mad #wuthering heights #emily brontë #heathcliff #nelly dean #quotes #literature #english literature #the brontë sisters

[colonelfitzwilliams]

I remember reading Wuthering Heights at 14 and thinking, "Wow, this was underwhelming."

BUT.

THIS.

PART.

"And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

#wuthering heights #emily bronte #HAUNT ME THEN #DRIVE ME MAD #I'M SORRY but she was IN HER FUCKING BAGGGGGGGG when she wrote those lines

[kosmogrl]

#it drives me mad

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Watching Home Alone is so funny it’s like

Kevin’s mom: *hyperventilating into a paper bag* I can’t believe I left my son home alone, he has to be so terrified, my poor baby boy all alone I need to go get him-

Kevin: *actively planning to commit war crimes*

#mads posts #also holy shit all of Kevin’s dialogue? fake as hell #it’s driving me insane #home alone

[thelesbianthespianposts]

imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesn’t exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And he’s been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and they’re all like “woah it’s so cool” and you get upset because it’s NOT COOL it’s a honda civic, the turn signals don’t even work “wow it can go up hills” yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but they’ve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your ex’s only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though it’s a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool it’s actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you can’t even prove it but also you’ve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.

#This metaphor might have gotten away from me #Whatever #the master #toschei #doctor who #tardis #the doctor #Companion: wow it can actually fully reverse and go backwards! #The master: *seething bc EVERY CAR CAN DO THAT* #I would be so mad if the only thing left of my culture was my ex and his terrible car #That he doesn’t even have a license to drive #Tensimm #J watches drwho #I really wanna draw this but I don’t have any artistic ability due to there being no apples in my brain #Plus your ex kinda wants to fuck the car

[arcane-gold]

when he’s mad at u and gets 2 inches from ur face to be scary but it’s actually just kinda hot 🫣

ganymede belongs to @quortknee

#ganymede #oscar #ozzy #witchlight #dnd oc #GOOOOOOOOOOOD I CANT STAND THEEEEEEEEM #GIVING ME VISIONS DRIVING ME MAD #anyway i’m normal #my art

[littleprincepaladin]

what a hell of a way to die!

#bg3 tav #bg3 #bg3 raphael #raphael bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #raphael x tav #paladindraws #ocs // amalatar #god the color difference between this on my pc monitor and my phone screen is so drastic its driving me MAD #and idek where it looks better #i slept for a total of 30 minutes today i dont want to think about anatomy or how good the art is #i want to show you the devil booba #mmmmmmmm. devil booba #you walk into the house of hope and just find amalatar on the floor scrunched up #like the dry spongebob #none of my thoughts about this man are in the bible #which is FITTING

[elspeth-catton]

stopppp i love them so much

#all these behind the scene photos are driving me mad #i'm obsessed with venetia's outfit in the formal tennis scene #i seriously need those glasses #saltburn #saltburn 2023 #alison oliver #barry keoghan #jacob elordi #archie madekwe #oliver quick #felix catton #venetia catton #farleigh start

[kotdish]

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 scout #tf2 sniper #sniperscout #speeding bullet #suggestive #my art #someone pointed out to me that blending modes mess up values and it suddenly all clicked to me #screwwwww blending modes correction layers are where it’s at #that scene in good omens season 2 episode 2 where fucking. Aziraphale puts his hand on crowley’s chest driving me mad #I had to do something similar I just had to

[fudanshirevolutionary]

my wife

#dmmd #aoba seragaki #shiroba #sly blue #my art #he drives me mad

[little-pondhead]

Inspired by this post.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #danny fenton #mad scientist danny #his suit is a mix of Jack and Maddie’s suits #with a lab coat thrown on top #he 100% smacks joker with a baseball bat on live television #and loves to kidnap zoo animals #Batman cannot find mention of the Fentons anywhere #it is driving the Justice league mad #Superman: stop right there kid! #Danny: suck my a s s #Wonder Woman: why do you keep stealing paintbrushes from the local art centers #Danny: I’m a bad bitch you can’t kill me! #Batman: hang on I speak fluent Teen #Batman: …you finna catch these hands #Batman: don’t @ me when you’re six feet under #Danny: I Am Uncomfortable With The Energy We’ve Created In The Studio Today #when the fight is over he’s just like #aight imma head out #it was fun playing #see y’all next time #and just #rips reality a new one #the Justice league can hear someone from the other side talking #as Fenton goes through the portal #‘did you have a good time? i made cookies come tell me about your day’ #the portal always closes before anyone can get through #until one day it stays open and they all make a collective decision to go through #clockwork knows exactly what he’s doing

[beaulesbian]

After my son left it behind, Derek towed it in, thinking it was probably beyond repair. But then he opened up the hood and he pulled off all the duck tape Stiles had stuck on it. And he managed to fix it. That Jeep, no matter what’s been done to it, it just keeps running. He could never figure out why it wouldn’t break down and stay down.

And I don’t think he ever realized that that’s exactly the way we saw him. I have never seen anyone take that kind of punishment that Derek Hale took, and kept taking, in order to protect the people he loved.

#something something this whole speech in the movie about derek protecting the peopl e he loved #and in the show many times it was stiles who had his back and actually worked with him and they protected each other #this metaphor for the jeep as their trust and love for each other and a thing that will be there for stiles when he comes back #so derek is working on the jeep and if eli steals it from time to time because it drives (hehe) derek mad but hes mostly amused #at the connection there well whos to say if it isnt love right? right #teen wolf #sterek #this is mostly just me giffing my favorite scene of theirs because i never made gifs for them #derek hale #stiles stilinski #eli hale #eli hale stilinski #sheriff stilinski #mine #gif:sterek #sterekedit #eternalsterek #twedit #teenwolfedit

[jamesvowles]

#f1 #james vowles #my edits #him and da dog #look at him!!!! #also sorry the compression is going drive me mad! i gotta learn to fix it i hope

[jayrockin]

i just wanted to drop by and say i am Enamored by the way you colored that ball in that diagram. i can only hope to hold a ball that pretty in my jaw (or in my hand so normally)

Thanks. I'm a big fan of brightly colored translucent objects. Admire this work by contemporary glass artist Katherine Gray titled Hearth Half Life with me

#i can only find the one photo of it and its driving me mad #i want to. eat it #katherine gray #hearth half life #glass #art #jaytext #also its uranium glass

[kaseythinksaboutgames]

So, I saw an interview with the show’s writers and it gave me a lot of thoughts regarding fallout, narrative themes, and colonialism.

First off, I consider myself pretty misanthropic, but even I know “people are evil and innately bad and destructive” isn’t the theme of fallout. That’s doing a lot to lift the blame off of American imperialism and how *that* is the great evil the series warns us about, not “everyone is like this”. The first game opens with us seeing American soldiers executing prisoners of war as America annexes Canada to take petroleum and uranium: it’s clearly about American evil and military/imperial evil, not something innate to all people.

Second, fallout is unique *because* you see “civilization” in a post-apocalyptic setting. Tim Cain has a quote about fallout 1 where he said “my concern in this story is the ethics of life in the aftermath of nuclear war, not building a better laser gun”, and that’s pretty central to fallout. Rather than stagnating, it tries to show us how life would adapt and move on from the apocalypse. The world will change, yes, but it will change in that the apocalypse will become more distant. The future won’t look much like the day the bombs dropped.

Third, what a colonial view to have! “Where’s civilization? Where’s *everything*?” is what you got from westerns? You think railroads and churches being built in recently stolen territory (as is common in Wild West stories) is “civilization”? Wanna tell us what you think America was pre-colonization, Wagner?

It shows this perspective that doesn’t truly want to admit the flaws of America, either willfully or (more likely) due to ignorance. It’s a sheltered perspective, one that doesn’t know history, one that doesn’t know other cultures, one that doesn’t even know the themes of the story it’s writing for…

Edit: this next quote doesn’t have anything to do with those points, it just feels wrong to me to write so spitefully for a series…

#fallout #fallout tv series #my essays and rambles #just… the colonialist perspective here drives me mad #the way it lifts blame away from American evils #and says it’s innate to us all rather than cultural? #a white American perspective devoid of outside views and refusing to listen to them…

[anouri]

i am nothing better than a monster. touch the locket and the argentine of fondness will kill me.

franz kafka // evelyn waugh // miles j. johnston // franz kafka // clarice lispector // charles baudelaire // albert camus // skip liepke // susan sontag // @anouri

#yes i’m reposting bc it was under review for so long and it was driving me mad #web weaving #franz kafka #evelyn waugh #miles johnston #clarice lispector #charles baudelaire #albert camus #skip liepke #susan sontag #a better knife than a person #on fear of intimacy #i am not at home in myself #mine