StorySplinters

‘ME!ME!ME!’ depicts the dark sides of media consumption and does an amazing job in emphasizing the feeling of being lost in idealized versions of reality and the struggle of fighting to free yourself from this artificial cage to create actual human relationships. It focusses on pornography as a lot of people are easily drawn to it but I think this is only one of many possible aspects that can and do create a disconnect between someone and their environment while...

Apparently, I have a weakness for intelligent characters who write and drink and go down the path of realizing a literary revolution by tearing down conventions and every single value traditional institutions sanctify. I love to see them creating something new, joyful, authentic. I want to see them set the world on fire. I want to see them shock and appall people who have long forgotten what life is all about....

I have always struggled with anxiety, fear of failure and fear of commitment. I could discuss how these damaging mechanisms have a negative impact on almost every aspect of my life for hours but that's something I have done countless amounts of times without being able to solve anything. That's the reason why I've decided to seek professional help and I'll hopefully start therapy in a few months. I'm happy that I was able to get to know people I...

Living through depressive episodes is exhausting. No, it’s worse. For a certain amount of time, it is like hell – but not the endless being burned and tortured kind of hell – the kind of hell that is too plain and ordinary to be bearable, just like the one in ‚Huis Clos‘. It’s waking up and not wanting to start the day because you know there is nothing new, nothing to offer. I have a poster of Camus at the...

What does being immoral mean? What if the tendency to perversion, destruction and recklessness would be the most essential part of being human? Aku No Hana is an anime that deals with these questions in a very realistic and unique way. It got its title from Charles Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil" which is a collection of poems and one of the most important works of modern poetry. It deals with topics like transcience, eroticism, art, sorrow and death and...

When... When was the last time a story has drawn you in so much that you forgot everything that surrounded you, no...that you believed that that which the story displayed was uniquely tailored for you? When was the last time you discovered a story that did not get out of your head and became the first thing you thought of when waking up and the last thing before going to bed?...