“Why is the civilized person the person who agrees not to notice?”
— I Didn't Say Anything, 2026“We are indeed overentertained. And yet so bored and so lonesome.”
— The Spectacularist Waxes (12:57 A.M.), 2022 [subscriber post]“Reject the frame but stay in the picture.”
— No Music On, 2022“I’ve got the life to write but I haven’t the time.”
“How can you misapply yourself beautifully?”
— No Music On, 2022“Do not look up to me. Not even when I’m on top.”
— Idol Singer of an Empty Hour, 2022“There are people who will hate you for the bare fact of your material existence.”
— Anomic Comedy, 2026“What are you supposed to do after you’re tired of playing as yourself?”
— New Scams for Advanced Impostors, 2024 [fiction]“Every day’s a new century spent on some other planet’s calendar.”
— I Drank What?, 2026 [fiction]“Keep wanting to feel some kind of warmth.”
— CONTROVERT, 2026“I’d say you got me wrong but you’d have to get me in the first place.”
“You don’t dare to love me.”
“It was better not to remember.”
— Microfiction + + + ⎳𝘈 𝘚丅 ⎳𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛𝘐𝘕🅶 (ᴱᵃrLʸ Lᵉᵃᴷ), 2025 [subscriber post]“You didn’t need to be mean to me.”
“I mean how many invulnerabilities do you have to cloak yourself in to express a basic idea.”
“I want something but this isn’t it.”
“There is a sick freedom where nothing means anything and people aren’t people.”
“You could still have some choice in this matter.”
— Slain Hero, 2026“You’ve got to figure you’re someone’s cautionary tale.”
— Sixteen Shatterdream, 2024 [fiction]“I feel like I am burning out or perhaps down.”
— Breathing Meat (Temporary), 2024“I am not the help you seek.”
— Breathing Meat (Temporary), 2024“Without a self to hate or help.”
— █A/V/T 💙/💙/💙 ➠➔➟ featuring「ɪ(ᴡʜᴏʜᴀᴠᴇɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ)」, 2025 [subscriber post]“Every breath belongs to some new being.”
— █A/V/T 💙/💙/💙 ➠➔➟ featuring「ɪ(ᴡʜᴏʜᴀᴠᴇɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ)」, 2025 [subscriber post]“How is it that my time’s passed, but it never came?”
— The Island of Defunction, 2025 [fiction; subscriber post]“Always gotta wonder what somebody’s really angry at.”
“I remember everything I see, hear, read. It’s a problem.”
“You, whoever you are: your attention is valuable.”
— ADVENT 1.8: Funnel of Love, 2021“Can you think of nothing better for these people?”
— Fork It, 2026“There is however no escape but the exit itself.”
“Is it love that drives you to find yourself, again and again?”
— No Music On, 2022“It wasn’t for me and I didn’t want it.”
“I AM AN EXTREMELY SENSITIVE PERSON IN A WORLD THAT OBLITERATES ME.”
— Damn Spot, 2022“I have lost connection with practices. I am discontinuous. Discounted. Disqualified.”
— The Kids Get It, 2022“Maybe we need to start memorizing phone numbers again.”
— Q ONSET, 2025 [subscriber post]“Am I the critique or its symptoms? Am I confusing myself with machinery?”
“Solve me, dissolve me.”
— 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗸, 2024“USE ME UNTIL I’M GONE”
— ADVENT 1.6: Folie à Plusieurs, 2021“I have other names.”
— ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix, 2021“Rebuild your perspective from first principles, directly observed, unmediated.”
— PREPARED PIANO: WALK 00001 , 2026“THE GAME WILL NEVER BE PLAYED THIS WAY AGAIN.”
“I don’t write for other people because I write for you.”
— █ＥＧＯ ＴＥＲＲＯＲＩＳＭ, 2023“WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST TIME OR MISSING MEMORIES”
“I am not “a computer nerd.” I am still deeply stupid, and my computer use is brutish and unfortunate.”
“I hate people who do what I’m doing. What else is new?”
“I want my music to build communities of supportive people.”
— POST-CRINGE: North Star Navi (Subscriber Guilt), 2022 [subscriber post]“I'm not afraid but I am amazed. I'd be ashamed but it's not my place.”
— UBILAZ (A Voice in a Cave), 2026 [fiction]“Having conversations that you won’t remember, with people who are thinking about a parking meter.”
“Wasting your time, sowing unhelpful dissonance in your life, pushing your buttons.”
— Lavender Propinquity, 2022“It is my near-certainty that in your time, in which I am dead and canon-stuf’t, none of these things remain.”
— ADVENT 1.6: Folie à Plusieurs, 2021“SOMETIMES I NEED TO BE SO MUCH MORE THAN ALONE”
“I hope that you love me in legal tender,”
— ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix, 2021“Instruction: walk like a person returning to the world after being improperly stored.”
— PREPARED PIANO: WALK 00001 , 2026“Every window in the world explodes at the same time.”
“Deeply in love or in hate with yourself?”
— Cat of Creases (Ex Vogue), 2022“If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.”
— Pearls Swan in Meaning Slake, 2026“I can assure you that I have done nothing to make myself marketable.”
— POST-CRINGE: North Star Navi (Subscriber Guilt), 2022 [subscriber post]“A great deal of time and life and care went into the record.”
“Now everyone acts like an asshole all the time. The cameras are always on.”
— The Island of Defunction, 2025 [fiction; subscriber post]“I’m pretending to fight a fake aristocrat for three hundred people in a Masonic temple.”
“We act as animals or automatons but surely not as “people.”
“I say what I say, not what other people do or did.”
— ADVENT 1.12: VITALI & I, 2021“I think this guy was really nice and I don’t remember anything about him.”
“When all you’ve got is a camera, everything looks like some hole to fuck or mine.”
— One Anomalous Impulse, 2026“I’m a wraith I’m a wretch I confess I’m a mess I’m a whelp I need help.”
“I want to be unsuppressed like the first gunshot in some civil unrest.”
— Pimp Teeth / "PINK DIAMONDS", 2026“There is something in me that wants to walk well into the night, perhaps on into to the next day.”
“Without you I am nothing. With you, I still am, but more:”
— Hyperactive Inevitabilities, 2022“You are pointless but for quibbles with the dead and absent.”
“Rolls to his right and the face is gone.”
— THE MOUTH OF THE MIND, 2026“I just need to be able to pay for the way I am.”
“Adored in death in life ignored me.”
— Fatherlessness & Other Excuses, 2026 [fiction]“They didn’t get all the details right, but the media never does.”
“I’ve dedicated my life and breath and works to triviality. Names and dates.”
“They’ll probably name a drink at the bar for you after you die.”
— a new test entropy, 2025“In a world of war and games, the players of both are cheating.”
— YOU ARE NOT ON THE LIST: , 2026 [subscriber post]“Weaving meaning from nothing.”
— █Quantum Entendre, 2025 [subscriber post]“I’m afraid I’m only selling merchandise.”
“You are eaten alive and feel your powers transfer to another.”
— Blown Dust, Tactless Data Loss, 2022“If you’re living, for the moment, raise the dead.”
— Ego Altar, 2022“YOU ARE NEEDED (without you it’s a chasm):”
— SCALED ALPS 2.1: Lizard Magic Strategies, 2022 [subscriber post]“Nothing meaning anything.”
— Dead Pan (Working a Trick), 2026“There are probably videos somewhere, but I’d rather you used that big imagination of yours.”
— PALAVER TWIST xx: 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫, 2023 [subscriber post]“It’s difficult to conceive a model in which everyone is not — in some way — disabled.”
— TRIP ALHAZRED: On Disability , 2022“NOMEN EST NUMEN.”
— SKLĒROS/ANTI-SKLĒROS, 2025“I did not ask for the hatred that flows in me but I embrace its utility.”
— No Music On, 2022“It has been brought to my attention that “maybe I am the problem.”
“i am dust seeking sunlight for a momentary dance”
— LOOT MUSIC: An Immature Work , 2022“They keep making new ones, and the old ones still come around.”
“If you have a problem with the way that I look, sound, speak, write, move, or express myself you can kiss my fucking ass.”
— 𝚡𝚡.𝐈 𝐃𝐈𝐄, 2024“People are always trying to kill me.”
“The cameras are always on. They’re not wrong to do it; just disgusting.”
— The Island of Defunction, 2025 [fiction; subscriber post]“It’s all felt like a hallucination for as long as he could remember.”
— Actual Attack Documentation: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, 2026 [fiction]“The message is meaninglessness, the medium is death.”
“Every public sentiment is an invitation for some asshole(s) to frame it and sneer.”
— 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝 (𝑑𝑜𝑔-𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑢𝑠), 2024 [subscriber post]“You’re always waiting behind the face you haven’t yet inherited.”
— █SCRAP METAL: Seven Lines/Excalibur/Pornopticon, 2026 [subscriber post]“A lot of things — things? — things, entities — will introduce themselves to you with false names.”
— A Kid Named Lost in Death City, 2026 [fiction]“The last thing you’ll ever see’s your own name on the TV.”
“I understand myself as a conduit.”
— Breathing Meat (Temporary), 2024“certainly not a person!”
— ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix, 2021“You are what you can stand up straight and make eye contact in.”
— 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌, 2024“I don’t know what you hear in me.”
“WHAT if you were someone else and then someone else and then! someone else and then —”
— Anomic Comedy, 2026“We have poisoned their channels with our perfume.”
— A Longing Gaze, 2026“It’s hard to talk over the din, so you’ve gotta become one with it.”
— 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌, 2024“How arrogant you are to command an audience.”
— Make It Sound Like Amphetamine Teeth, 2026 [subscriber post]“And how many times are you nested now in the story?”
— Siχ Stars Shot Through Silver 🎈🔫, 2023“If something gives you a splinter do something about it.”
— ADVENT 1.2: The Aleatory City, 2021“I just keep saying the same thing in different voices.”
— Ego Altar, 2022“We maim, for example. And when you maim, you create a customer.”
— Return Her: ELARA, 2026 [fiction]“You extend briefly like the bougainvillea until some indifferent storm or landlord cuts you on down.”
“What if you broke every implicit agreement?”
— I Drank What?, 2026 [fiction]“a payment gateway in the midst of developing self-awareness”
— ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix, 2021“You are having a conversation with yourself, if you are conversant.”
“IT INSTANTIATES ITSELF.”
— Fork It, 2026“Keep your taxonomy off of me!”
— I Didn't Say Anything, 2026“It's hard to separate the art from the scammer.”
— Your Ass Ideas/The Visionaire, 2026“I am trying to show you something.”
“There’s always some story to it, isn’t there?”
— NEW FORMS: Speculative A.I. Fashions & Animal-Furniture Hybrids, 2022 [subscriber post]“There are deeper jokes than can be imagined in these dimensions.”
“I’m at the end of myself.”
“You are the Storyteller and I am your imposter.”
“What you’ll tolerate and then some.”
— HOLY ✞ NIGHT, 2025“This sort of behavior was shameful until it wasn’t.”
— A Kid Named Lost in Death City, 2026 [fiction]“It’s not me to be seen.”
— The Planning Animal, 2025“𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐞.”
— ８ 𝒫𝑜𝑒𝓂𝓈 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝘼 ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴛ., 2023“THE GAME WILL”
“I’m sorry to say it but I am often sorry.”
“I never said I was a good person.”
— "That Was A Hell of a Pep Talk", 2022 [subscriber post]“I'm not afraid but I am amazed.”
— UBILAZ (A Voice in a Cave), 2026“I believe in the room I’m in and in pheromones and beauty.”
— ♸♸♸ Erotoplastic Xanifesto♸♸♸ , 2022“I am RIGHT but UNWELCOME]”
— Ego Altar, 2022“I HAVE AN IDEA NOW OF WHAT I AM TO DO.”
— Cat of Creases (Ex Vogue), 2022“I don’t know if they think I’m somebody. I don’t know if I am somebody.”
— Cremation Diamonds , 2025“I am on a variety of hopeless missions.”
“I am the midnight fairy of unpotentiated madness.”
— The Clue Gun, 2022“I am forever-haunted by the intersection of valu - and- ruin ation, an inevitable junction.”
— NEW FORMS: Speculative A.I. Fashions & Animal-Furniture Hybrids, 2022 [subscriber post]“I am being controlled from distance by another animal’s mistakes.”
— ADVENT 1.1: The Apophoenix, 2021“I am not Man I am a vessel for sale.”
— Planetary Um, 2026“I am the West Coast’s answer to reading.”
— EARTH MAN HE AIN'T GONE MAKE IT, 2026“I am a car that eats other cars.”
— Anomic Comedy, 2026
Quotations: Self / identity / personhood
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Selected lines grouped under self / identity / personhood.
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