hi fine ppl of 209 🫡. i hope you're each feeling a bit more rested after break. ty for yr vvonderful #DLMBL posts, btw. & vvelcome to module 10, in which we will think together abt structural violence & ethical storytelling. {{{btw, we're officially 2/3s through the semester!}}} 👉🩶🕳️, ashley

#DLMBL as I wrote my 14th tweet and realize maybe there’s hope, the last page kind of brings the despair I was talking about. “She is dead , finished”

#DLMBL “take comfort in our strength” I notice these small little texts are placed within each page and it’s as if the author wants to portray hope but then contradicts himself as well.

Another idea I noticed is life is portrayed through a screen or media, I guess it portrays how tragedy is often shown indirectly. #DLMBL

I realize that this text has a lot of personal emotions and also references to media and public events, it’s like you feel it on a media perspective and also on a personal level. #DLMBL

“Why do I care about the liver?… the word lives hides within it” this was such a cool thing to add in the text especially because after the author then talks about how liver largest organ. #DLMBL

#DLMBL this page made it like a to do list, first it was story now this seems like somethng you write on your iPhone reminders. Weird how
This was added, a to do list for the action of
Taking the pills?

#DLMBL this page gives me a sense of hope but also despair, the author says in the bottom, I look at the TV and it says “your life is waiting” is this talking about like normal day to day life or the life where the person is dead?

#DLMBL I guess this can add up as well, how in the text they say so what if I die, then you see a tv with just static. Is that life when you die? It blurs into static

#DLMBL I notice in this part that theirs a lot of self dialogue, it’s like
I’m reading the story but I’m also feeling how the person is acting at
This moment rn, this right here shows me that why not just die? And he questions why not just die?

#DLMBL this page felt deep, I think this connected to the previous page, it connects to the title image too. Don’t let me be lonely

#DLMBL I was confused when I saw this, how the image connects the text together? They are talkin about some dying?

that’s a really good quote at the end, “inevitably we get older, whoever is sill with us stays” I am getting through that point of my life rn for sure #DLMBL

#DLMBL "its what we cant do for each other" what an interesting way to look at solitude. i think we frame loneliness as a personal short coming, like you didnt put urself out there enough. i like how its framed here: society didnt do enough for u.

#DLMBL i like how they listed this. author seems to really know this routine like they really do live by it

#DLMBL typical experience with medication. i think half of it only works on placebo icl. if u think it will work it does andif you have no hope in it, it wont work

#DLMBL this was interesting, it went from nothing to then a spew of text, I assume this was intentional?

#DLMBL again, i like how this tv goes on and off. it kinda frames how the author sometimes stops and thinks deeper about what is playing on their tv, other times its off (only figuratively bc they are passive with their consumption)

Real 🫩😂 #DLMBL

#DLMBL such a random pic? is this supposed to reflect the sentence right before. tbh if its meant to make me uncomfortable, it kinda works LOL

#DLMBL funny enough, my own mother always says this. i disgree tho. you can care but not always have the mental capacity to remember.

#DLMBL this picture is kind of depressing. even a person with alzeheimers who might forget that they are sick, cam never forget that they are miserable

#DLMBL every single sentence in this visual has the word dead/deceased. why is this book titled "dont let me be lonely" have so many references to death?

#DLMBL i like this transition from nothing on tv to something on it. kinda highlights how the tv is on all the time, but she doesnt pay attention until this statment comes up

#DLMBL "if everybody did not die the earth would be all covered over" again, some decisions do not appear so simple when the narrative shifts. if we were immortal, would anyone have kids? would we even have evolved to reproduce when the main purpose of reproduction is to keep a species alive?

#DLMBL I think ab how many families overturn DNRs when their loved ones are on their death beds. Somethings decisions do not seem so simple when the narrative shifts. Ive actually heard that what ppl want when they sign a DNR is a DNI(intubate) bc they dont want to see their loved ones suffer.

#DLMBL The hatred i have for insurance and healthcare greed made me stop at this sentence: "it added an extra day of to her hospital stay." again, perception, this could mean the dr wants what is best OR has smth to gain from this surgery. maybe im just cynical but i guess this book is ab perception

#DLMBL It's interesting the author just inserts this image of a mammogram with a tumor and expects us to know that it is abnormal. Somehow it still works tho, bc u can tell the white region is where the tumor is

#DLMBL "Dont believe what you are thinking and feeling. Then he asks, Where do you live?" This reponse linda reminds me of the quote at the beginning of the book. It has that same sterility of taking emotions and perceptions at surface level. The caller is speaking about smth deep, but

#DLMBL Such an interesting way to start the book. What im takimg away here is that even death is about perception. Death means lack of presence. Sometimes we tell kids that dead relatives have just gone away (on vacation or smth else). I guess depending on ur perception. This isnt totally a lie.