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Mason Andrew Freak
@dharmadischarge.bsky.social
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Musician and artist with paranoid schizophrenia trying to share what he creates.

"In a parallel universe: The one who accidentally sparks a months-long debate about the worth of tweets as forms of art—while battling existential angst in real-time."
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Mason Andrew Freak @dharmadischarge.bsky.social · 8d
Can’t believe it’s been nearly five years sense I started on this novella.

The whole thing was a kind of experiment of simulating the symptoms of my diagnosis.

#postmodern #literature

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2022/12/lant...
Lanter Soul: chapters 1 through 12.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Some of the earliest lore of Mason Andrew Freak

#blog #blogger #bio
#biography #music #punk #knoxville

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/5th-...
5th grade guitar skillz
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Kind of raging prose poem or dang near screed riffing on cyberpunk 2077 cutscenes.

#blog #blogger

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/cry-...
Cry. Rage. Mourn.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Here is my review of El topo for anyone who is interested. Though there is a lot of stuff that could trigger someone with this film so I would apply caution and read a synopsis first.

#grindhouse
#arthousefilms
#filmreview
#blog #blogger

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/el-t...
El topo (1970) a review
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
A strange hyper meta textual blogpost on the past. It is also funny and kinda interesting to me at least

#Blog #blogger #postmodernism
#knoxville #punkrock

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/some...
Sometimes we’re not worthy (but thanks for listening)
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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i've heard of a "critical failure", but this is ridiculous

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T-Rex: Our lives are finite, and one day they will end - possibly suddenly AND by surprise! T-Rex: Whoops! T-Rex: Really sorry if you're just hearing this now for the first time!! T-Rex: Anyway, that's Fact One. Fact Two is that there are more movies than we can watch in a lifetime, more games than we can ever play in a lifetime, more books than we can read in a DOZEN lifetimes. EVERY SINGLE TIME we choose to enjoy one instance of art, we're shutting out dozens, hundreds more - media that we will NEVER ENJOY! T-Rex: The clock's ticking, babies! Hope you choose well, because there's no second chances! Utahraptor: Sure, T-Rex! Utahraptor: But that's what CRITICS are for: they spend THEIR finite lives reviewing TONS and TONS of material, so that WE can spend more of OUR finite lives on the good stuff! The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot these days, but in this case, it DEFINITELY applies to critics. T-Rex: Damn. So true! Narrator: PS: DON'T FORGET TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT DINOSAUR COMICS AND HOW YOU THINK IT'S SUPER COOL AND GREAT! BUT IF YOU THINK IT'S BAD, THEN UH, I GUESS IGNORE THIS PRO-CRITICS COMIC AND JUST DON'T TELL ANYONE YOUR OPINIONS EVER AGAIN Narrator: IT'LL BE FINE, I PROMISE
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Chaotic unhappiness

Only so
many memories

Most of
them getting
on every
one’s nerves

“Take this”

I swallow a little rectangle of pills

“What was it?”

“A bar”

Thirty minutes later

“I can’t believe that didn’t calm you down.”

#poem #writing
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Reposted by Mason Andrew Freak
mishellbaker.bsky.social
I recently started getting my news mostly through the print exition of Guardian Weekly, and it has been life-changing. I still check multiple sources on the events most important to me, but just happening across non-trending world news I wasn't searching for, some good even, has been amazing.
effjayem.bsky.social Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social · 2d
The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
The most political thing I have written. If you’re avoiding politics don’t read it.

#blog #blogger #politics
#thanksgiving

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-s...
On subjectivity and doubt.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Short blog on whim dark a way to describe the #earthbound #mother series.

Going to try to cut back to one shorter blog post a day starting so I can get back to work on my book.

#blog #blogger

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/whim...
Whim-Dark: Shigasato Itoi and the mother series.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Kind of a meditation on the symptoms and process of coping with mental illness.

#disability
#paranoidschizophrenia
#schizophrenia #blog #blogger #therapy

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/when...
When things go profoundly wrong.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
This story is influenced by a story I wrote when I was fourteen. It is heavily influenced by ghibli movies and Yuri norstein films as well.

All constructive criticism would be much appreciated.

#folktale #folklore #blog #blogger #flashfiction

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/yuri...
Yuri and the death-drive.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
New blog mostly trying to confront how melodramatic I can be and potentially why.

But spoilers I Still don’t understand how my brain works after a decade of trying to.

#blog #blogger
#depresion #disability

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/half...
Half remembered confessions
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Relatively long blog on collecting vhs tapes as kid none of it makes sense to me but it was fun to write.

#blog #blogger #anime #90sanime #vhsanime

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/life...
Life of a grade school otaku in the Bible Belt
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Reposted by Mason Andrew Freak
jsief.bsky.social
now a few lucky people are going to read a weird book about a fish

‘Sturly’ (1923) by the French writer Pierre Custot has been republished, in the translation of Richard Aldington. A mutant book of mystical Eastern dialogues crossed with scientific rigor & oceanic observation

Empyrean no. 47
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Most people fear there context like a predator trying to entrap them. It may be justified because there is so much out of our control. Most of the many schemes and mechanisms of the world don’t even include us in the equation yet they impact all of us.
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Kind of a resting point before the next long form piece of fiction.

Trying to measure where I fall short as a poet. So I can plan the next phase of my education.

#writing
#fiction #blog #blogger
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/inqu...
inquiries into inadequacy
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Wrote this off and on as kaleidoscope meditation of modern anxiety.

If you are avoiding news I just wouldn’t read this because if it’s making you nervous this is like an obscene pastiche of it.

#sciencefiction
#writing #blog #blogger

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-fi...
A firestorm of tornadoes
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Some therapeutic ramblings riffing on my favorite video game #psychonauts.

Mostly talk about personal stuff but still there is a thread through it all.

#blog #blogger

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/psyc...
Psychonauts: some ramblings on both games.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Attempt at humor maybe a little bitter from today’s adventures but is ultimately an attempt at passive aggressive joy aimed no one in particular… me it’s probably aimed at me.

#humor #blog
#blogger

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/curm...
Curmudgeon’s are in season.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
The first in depth attempt of talking about my thoughts on the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and the symptoms I live with.

#psychology
#therapy #paranoidschizophrenia
#schizophrenia #disability
#blog #blogger

m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/para...
Paranoid schizophrenia from the eyes of the patient.
"the sock monkey as alone"
m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
Still think this is my best song.

#music #altrock #punk #outsidermusic #knoxville

youtu.be/7jWqzIje0wY?...
Sugar Cube Baby
YouTube video by Mason Andrew Freak
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November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Reposted by Mason Andrew Freak
davidkuhne.bsky.social
My parents were the most culturally openminded people possible but when I started blasting Psychocandy they wanted to know what the hell kind of noise was I listening to
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
If all anyone has to communicate is please include me as a member of the human race.

And the human race responds with we need proof of value.

Then likely mental illness is part of the equation.

Madness is a self fulfilling prophecy and all it predicts is pain.
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
dharmadischarge.bsky.social
I hate mental illness so far as whenever I feel any confidence it’s heavy with justified doubt.

Lack of traction in reality I guess. But if I ever felt confidence and it was justified it would be with doubt from habit and just to be safe.

Mental illness is standing on insecure ground.
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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witnesstheabsurd.bsky.social
G.G.G CHARTER

PARAGRAPH 125

A GGG member must, no matter how dire the situation, never give up.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM