You ask me what I mean by “devotion.” Devotion means I give you both my body and soul; it means I place both in your hands, and so in turn I desire your body and soul. And you ask me, “Why you? Why not someone else?” Because I can never give myself body and soul so completely to anyone else, and I can never desire someone else, body and soul, so completely.
Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre (1996)
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Apparently the local university’s undergraduate entomology course sends students to catch insect specimens at the same place I like to go birdwatching, which explains why I saw three enormous frat looking dudes with tiny bug nets and overheard one emphatically say “bro BRO I told you we already have enough lepidopterans”
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the desire to pronounce words as they are said in their source language for the sake of accuracy vs the desire to not sound like a complete tool
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i’m gonna say something controversial yet brave: sexuality labels are a convenient tool we use to define something that is undefinable
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Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”
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what's my biggest pet peeve well it's when someone makes a text post on tumblr dot com in which they are trying to romanticize the notion of the livestock guardian dog but they don't know the distinction between a livestock guardian dog and a herding dog and also they've never met a livestock guardian dog and do not realize what their attitudes towards the sheep that they protect actually are
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slap it, mark it, own it.
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