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post your metaphors of silence
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A beach where all the sand has melted to glass.
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My house when I get home from work desu :c
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A snuffed candle that is smoking
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>>7738234
God's caved-in head.
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>>7739104
We're always here waiting for you bro.
And you know that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZFY_50zuQ
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A windless desert.

>>7739084
This one is nice.
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Browsing supermarket aisles at 3 AM
Ripped tongue in a jar
A gray summer

Sorry, i'm pretty bad at this
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>>7739150
Anon, sitting alone, being bad at metaphors, his face awash in bluish light in the dark mouth of his dark room.
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>>7739150
>Browsing supermarket aisles at 3 AM
Why does this image feel so depressing?
>The fluorescent lights buzz and the far off hum of a fridge a few aisles across can be heard. A man alone in front of a tall shelf inspecting tinned soups. At the counter a bored women sits scrolling a facebook feed she has seen 100 times already that night. A lone trolley sits in the dark carpark under a single light as the man's car, with a dirty wind shield and faded paint, waits for him to return.
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A drop of water falls on a cotton ball
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>>7739117
>A windless desert.
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>>7739174
Did you write that?
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>>7739084
So pretty loud?

>>7739105
Why vision and smell?
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>>7739190
I laughed.
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John caged the air and vibrations therein.
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>>7739109
ITAOTS
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Her bones grew imperceptibly.
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>>7739190
>>7739190
U talkin shit bout my metaphor m8 I swear on me mum I'll rekt u
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>>7739194
Yes
It might be from personal experience ;_;
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>>7738234
Walking alone in the empty aisles of a library, that's on the outskirts of some small Oklahoman town in the final few minutes before the sun sets.
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Unquestionable monolith
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>>7739158
Literally me

>>7739174
I can't put my finger on it, but I've been obsessed with this kind of imagery for a while now. There's something almost supernatural about landscapes like pic related, for example
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The outside of an airplane window.
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A forest of fallen trees.
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>>7738234
The farts of a mute girl.
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>>7739109
I like this one.
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>>7739174

Supermarkets are sterile, liminal environments that are the absolute epitome of Marx's alienation. No one at a grocery store wants to be there nor do they stay there for long. Every time I go grocery shopping, I always get weighed down by the foggy melancholy of routine and urban unfulfilment by the time I get my eggs.

And the cereal aisle always makes me sourly nostalgic. I crave cereal and I remember how much I liked it before, but now, there's not a single box in that aisle that looks appealing to me. They're packages of over-sugared sweets marketed by bug-eyed cartoon characters whose enticing gaze I've long grown out of.
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>>7739273
I was thinking something more along the lines of this

>>7739291
But now I'm thinking of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5h0qHwNrHk
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>>7739254
footsteps
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>>7739291
>They're packages of over-sugared sweets marketed by bug-eyed cartoon characters whose enticing gaze I've long grown out of.
You sure are stupid.
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>>7738234
Smooth criminal.
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>>7739361
Are you smart?
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>>7739367
No. But I have actually been in a cereal aisle.
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>>7739291
implying i dont bask in the absurdity of the zenith and hub of hyperculture that are shopping centers; i can engage in the spectacle without being complicit or wallowing in it
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>>7739367
I think he's implying the you long outgrew them because they're children's cereals
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>>7739291
Empty supermarkets are intimidating, but their normal composition (packed with people, vocal) is pleasing. Sterile, but pleasing. I've recently come to the realization that buying things is an extremely satisfying experience.
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>>7739374
If you participate in the spectacle, you are being complicit. Self-awareness and irony do not make you less responsible.
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>>7739225
I like it.
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This brings me Joy. My dream to own one,calms my mind Just looking at it.
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an empty room
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>>7740237
Freak.
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A rock remaining perfectly still and not falling.

The hours anaesthetic steals.
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My flacid cock
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an onomatopoeia of the moon falling
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>>7738234
my sex life
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His silence was a taut noose.
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A windless winter night, lit from below by the moon on fresh snow.
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>>7740528
Please stop posting.
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his eyes closed one last time, therein lies nothing.
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What makes a good metaphor?

Are there any "rules" that help when forming them?
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A barren planet none will ever see or name.
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>>7739202
>>7739218
Nice
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>>7738234
Kids are asleep or up to something devious.
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the hollow tree that goes unnoticed
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I hate to be obvious like this but...

the night was still
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The moment after exhale
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A baboon scratching its asshole
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The sound of [non-auditory element of scene]
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>>7738234
The clock strikes four
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A mouth full of tasteless pudding
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>>7738234
Damn Daniel!!!!?
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>>7738234
>>7738234
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>>7738234
The aftermath of a joke as told by a person with autism, known to spend his time on a bulgarian flat-earth society bulletin board
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>>7739084
Nukes are pretty loud, m8
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Farting in deep space
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The air was pitched too low.
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A tongue hanging like a dead snake.
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>>7741939
yay
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>>7740536
yay
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The air after a thunderclap
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>>7741887
The clock strikes 4:49
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Emptiness
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>>7738234
That first second after you cross a long and tight alley.
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>>7739389
What's an adult cereal?
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>>7743618
>adult cereals with cartoon mascots on them
America isn't that crazy is it?
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My vagina during a smoking hot orgy but i dont have a vagina and im deluded
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>>7738234
Empty car's beneath snow.
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>>7743829
You're not answering the question
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this painting by vermeer
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>>7743891
One marketed to adults and not children. Most often not as sweet and often containing nuts and berries
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The inside of a powerless fridge.
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>>7743909
The power of an insideless fridge.
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A discomfort in your ankles you get after a whole day of walking that gets hard to ignore once you close your eyes and try falling asleep
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>>7738234
my girlfriend talking about how much she loves me
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>>7738234
the waiting room for the music
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>>7738234

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