#Denys Graham

[gecskeleton]

“do you think caesar and joshua explored each other’s bodies” i think joshua slid the barrel of his gun into caesar’s mouth one night in their tent, knee rested between his thighs on the throne, and unprompted caesar wrapped his lips around it. i think caesar came without being touched and decades later he still denied any of that meant he was gay

[garashir]

remember when will graham said “abandonment requires expectation” that line goes so hard

[aly1234]

Cade Graham and Denis

[sappho-hoziers-version]

At some point, probably:

Hannibal: Dear Will, your lips could caress those of a tens upon dozens of others, you could turn to the sweet release humming from the bottom of a bottle, you could deny the very primal basis of your desire as though it can be silenced, I will not stop you. But understand that God, though merciless and cruel, remains persistent, and to kill your desire would ask that you kill God himself.

Will: … So I see you found Chappell Roan

[loneberry]

POETRY AND PSYCHOSIS

Five days without REM sleep is all it takes to enter a state of psychosis.

Delusions of reference

the metaphoricity of the world—

all elements talking to each other.

Isn’t that the paranoid state of the poet? 

I ask Sherah if she thinks limerence is on the neurosis or psychosis side of the spectrum of psychopathology—she says “psychosis.”

I remember Dr L describing my thoughts of constellated signs (“the universe is speaking to me”) as “psychotic.”

See Denis Johnson’s poem “The Song.”

There’s a paranoid logic at work in the poem, when the poet hears the hum of the refrigerator as the beseeching of the stars.

Jorie Graham once said she co-taught a class on Walt Whitman with Johnson, but instead of teaching, he just read passages aloud from Leaves of Grass and wept. She described him as “constantly in need of salvation” (the kind of people I tend to like…).

What binds The Thing to its analogical double? The poet. The poet-as-bridge. Poetry, with its excess of signification, is close to psychosis, delusion (is it a coincidence that many of my favorite poets—Pizarnik, Rosselli—were diagnosed with schizophrenia?). 

Poetry traffics in association rather than causality. It is closer to dream than reality in the way it gets at some psychic or spiritual “truth” at an angle, through displacement. 

Plato rejected poetry on the grounds it resonated with sensibility, not truth. Yet truth is made of language, and language is always a lie. 

Poetry is not merely language that utilizes metaphor—it points toward the metaphoricity of language itself, the chasm between The Thing and its signifier-double. If we follow Nietzsche’s claim in his 1873 essay “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,” truth is merely stale metaphors, metaphors that have become so naturalized they masquerade as truth:

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.”

“He forgets that the original perceptual metaphors are metaphors and takes them to be the things themselves.”

Thus, we arrive at the truth-effect: the mistaking of the analogical double for The Thing itself. 

Poetry, through denaturalization, is the wondrous restoration of the gap, the wispy tendrils connecting the nodes of the world. 

[crudelobotomiser]

I love watching something that helps cement my own ideas.

Like Bones and All really just told me “you’re so right when you said that queer yearning doesn’t need to revolve around the characters sexuality and identity and can also be the way that two people are instantly magnetised from a deep understanding of eachother at first meeting in which the relationship will progress in a way that doesn’t reflect the heteronormative idea of yearning and understanding because you already intimately know them because of how similar they are to you”

‘How do Lee and Maren understand eachother?” They’re both literally queer and also cannibals and they mean so much to me

This is also the same case with Hannibal, Hannigram is a great example of “their relationship is so inherently queer but not because of their sexuality or because Will undergoes a sexual discovery in the show”, like I don’t think Will needs to have a process of sexual discovery for Hannigram to be an innately queer relationship, and it’s because they have that level of natural understanding and magnetism to each other that defies a heteronormative relationship!!

[thattransgay]

A part of me just really needed to see these two moments side by side-

[meadow-dusk]

[shinelikethunder]

when someone whose username you've full-text blacklisted for rancid takes gets reblogged onto your dash, you click out of morbid curiosity, and the take is indeed rancid..... i don't know what i expected dot gif

[ministerforpeas]

Everyone Goes to the Toilet!

[rescuebotsoutofcontext]

Various bots’ reactions to being hugged

[kurokoros]

I'm just incredibly pissed off right now because no one is getting me my cat's medication and I'm about ready to commit homicide if this prescription doesn't ship today.

I reordered it ahead of time like usual and my vet back in Wisconsin denied my order because they wanted me to come in for a wellness check. Then I had to wait two weeks to get into the vet nearby where I'm living in Chicago. Got the prescription set up, but they use covetrus as their provider so my order is just sitting in the "filling" stage and probably won't be shipped out within the next few days and I'm just extremely done. I'm sick of listening to my cat growling in pain on and off for hours because his stomach hurts. I'm sick of watching him lose weight because his stomach hurts. I'm sick of being kept awake all fucking night listening to my cat cry and being anxious because I can't do anything about it.

[medufasa]

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE 🙁 ⁉️⁉️

The real question is: why the fuck did they take that picture (I'm ngl me and my friends do that type of shit all the time)

Extra

[robinsnest2111]

tryin to get more sleep in was a huge mistake. more nightmares

[i-bit-the-dust-it-was-yummy]

I love this so much but like 'detective with a crime scene kink' what????

https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/hugh-dancy-downton-abbey-new-era-movie-interview

We’ve thankfully come a long way from the ‘ bromance’ reporting days! It’s wonderful to see it spelled out unequivocally: Will Graham is in love with Hannibal Lecter.