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Dehumanizing. Alienating. Agonizing.
Vermin.
i had a vision
its that one image
Going purely in terms of personality Limbus Company got Gregor right for the most part. The only main difference I’d say is he’s more cynical and less passive and willing to survive through it all (though it helps a lot that he has enough autonomy to do that without assistance).
What really makes the tragedy of The Metamorphosis stick is that it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Gregor Samsa really is just this sweetheart who wants to be of help to his loved ones or at least cause them as little trouble as possible. There’s something endearing about how skewed his priorities are when he wakes up a giant bug and thinks “Oh I’m going to be late for work!” and then “I need to explain to my manager (who showed up at my house on account of my being late) that my salesman duties may be a little hard right now as I’m currently a giant insect!” And it just makes everyone’s lack of compassion for him feel worse, even when you know *why*. He just wants to help his family in whatever way he can, and ultimately realizes the best thing he can do is die so he’s no longer an imposition to them. It’s bleak, to say the least.
And that’s the main difference between the book and Limbus’ counterpart. Gregor is a survivor. He pushes through, in spite of the tragedy. It absolutely fucked him up in ways he’s not fully recovered from but he keeps on going, and I LOVE that. I love that this version of him is allowed to move forward, and while I would never change the ending of the story that inspired his character (it NEEDED to be that dismal, trust me) there’s something heartwarming about a version of Gregor Samsa who was allowed to live, and given the will to live.
Hey ,
It's been 5 years now and it hurts to think of you gone but still ig i have come on terms with it because i am not sad neither crying but okkay. So there was something i wanted to write for you since long and ig i should proceed now
I wish we would have been mayflies 'cause the time together would have felt like as long as we have spent decades together or centuries or millenium or generations or uk births or several lifetime but not like seconds of human lifespan. It would have felt that we have been with each other since the beginning,before we were in eggs and even after we were shedding our wings yeah those fragile and transparent miniatures and would have breathed our last several time and born again and we could have flown just a centimetre or even a milimetre would have felt that we have flown together to the highest peaks , could have just crossed a single tiny drop of water and have felt that we have together crossed 7oceans and yeah those 24hrs of our living would have felt that we are living several breathes together and would have done whatever we want because life would have been just 'too' short and fast for it , there would have been no pressure to chase things 'cause we would have been chasing our things ,me chasing you and you chasing me ;no tension to accomplish goals and live a living 'cause we would have been living us and accomplishing each other every hour ,every minute ,every second . But to say we are mere humans we have to bear distance and departure 'cause its part of our life .
This came to my mind after knowing that mayflies have the shortest lifespan of about 24 hrs or so and i thought if we have been just may flies these 5years would have not hurt . Like you and miss you <3
I wish to be a yew tree beside your grave
I won't let you swelter in canicular days
Nor shiver in glacial waves
I won't let any commotion creep in your tranquility
I will beg to almighty Athos to magnify your security
I will always flower my affection
But to offenders i'll be worse than in toxication
I will always stand guarding your mortal body
And gardening our immortal love
if life would have been a ride
i wish i could travel it with you
What if I was the bug you killed that day? Omg, how could you do that? What if I was Kafka's story protagonist?
okay so i’ve seen alot of people theorize about sigmas real name/idenity/author he’s based off of, i usually see arthur conan doyle (author of sherlock homles) or ian fleming (author of james bond) bc of sigmas information ability, but sigma was born to be used for his ability, like how gregor samsa (the metamorphosis) was used to work for his family until he was turned into a roach and both sigma and gregor are used for what they can do and not themselves, also, the exact definition of “kafkaesque” is “characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world.” and like sigma, he was thrown into a world that to someone who just came into existence with no memory what so ever, and considering the current events of the manga, is kafkaesque. because of theses reasons, that’s why i think sigma might be franz kafka. and there was an asagiri thing (idk if it’s a tweet or interview but oh well) where he mentioned being nervous to introduce a new character. i don’t know much about this since im not on twt but either A. it’s something completely unrelated, B. it’s a self insert and ill write another thing on that eventually or C, maybe it’s sigmas real identity outside of who he is now. sigmas current identity seems to be more of what he exists to do and not who or what he could be if he lived for himself (which also reminds me of gregor) so maybe when his real identity is revealed, kafka or not, he’ll remember who he once was before all of this. or maybe didn’t really have a purposes then either, im not sure. i haven’t read into sigma too much but from what i what i know, this is what ive thought of.
also if it is franz kafka im suing asagiri bc i have a bsd oc franz kafka and thats copyright (its literally his manga im joking)
new emotions
My Kafka inspired playlist
i feel like seeing him in a bookstore in broad daylight is forbidden like i’m going to be taken out by a sniper for beholding this image
I heard WordGirl was blowing up so hear me out
Dr. Two Brains 🤝 Gregor Samsa
Once being an actual regular person who was doing well until something happened causing them to become a wretched vermin, a literal shell of who you once were and your own peers now shunning you and being terrified of your own existence as they see that you’ve completely changed as a person or in fact no longer being a person anymore.
"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
Franz Kafka.
I don't know if I do this right (first time for everything, hopefully Im reblogging).
I learned The Metamorphosis in school and it was soooo boring. The story begin with the main character becoming a giant insect. How the hell you make this boring????
(I also learned the translate so it was even worse. I saw a better translation to freaking Shakespeare (just sayin'. Its pretty depressing that we don't learn stuff in English at the very least since when you translate stuff, especially poems, the meaning is changing.
1) Me and my friends are all geeks
2) Kafka is overrated
My sis showed my a Pokemon TTRPG and came up with a character idea she knew I would like.
I recently read The Metamorphosis, and I wanted to see what he looked like(which in retrospect was really dumb for someone with a phobia of bugs) and I got assaulted by photos of bugs. Can’t stop shaking. Somebody please help
what book(s) changed you for the worse as a kid/teen? personally, what's eating gilbert grape absolutely worsened me