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basilpaste · 3 months

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& he forgives you dogs are like that so loyal dead dogs are just happy you're here Let Dead Dogs Lie, Silas Denver Melvin (from Grit)

〔You grit your teeth so hard that they shatter into fangs.〕

#in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #isat #isat spoilers #isat sprite edit #sprite edit #isabeau isat #of stitches in sequence #basil paints #does this actually. count as spoilers actually? eh.#NEEDED to get some good sharp smiles in there.#the original caption was a different poem (one that starts with 'i love you like a rotten dog') but i couldnt find a source for it.#i think this one works pretty well though.#grit is a poetry collection and its inherently queer. silias denver melvin is trans masculine.#the entire collection is online in pdf form for free!!! i really recommend it if you enjoy poetry!!!!!#in response to 'when you have children' is another one of my favorites from it.#SORRY. for the poetry ramble on my silly osis post.

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iirulancorrino · 1 year

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“My Life You Are Talking About” by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Originally published in Sinister Widsom 37 and later in Pratt’s award-winning poetry collection Crime Against Nature.

#poetry #minnie bruce pratt #lesbian poetry #crime against nature #I just reread crime against nature for the first time in a number of years and was struck once again by how powerful and searing it is #huge props to sw for digitizing and posting the majority of their back issues online for free that was the only place I can find this #but I highly recommend reading the whole collection and especially 'all the women caught in flaring light'

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kebriones · 1 month

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Kostas Varnalis being an Alcibiades fanboy to a sickening degree, i love him.

#greek poetry #alcibiades #I'll translate it later for you people #I can't find it translated online #if anyone knows of an english version of the poem feel free to share

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britneyshakespeare · 6 months

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barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

#kaily and i shared a membership account for several years but she cancelled it over the summer #bc of them raising it from 25 dollars per year to 40. i'm sorry but we just were not spending enough to make that worth it #the benefits for a member used to be 10 percent off everything in-store and free shipping online.#now it's 10 percent off everything in-store AND online with free shipping. which sounds good enough #but not for a 60 percent pricehike. and a bunch of other supposed benefits no one would ask for #like a free tote (geez. thanks. yeah i really need a free tote every year) and like. a free treat at a cafe on your kids' birthday?#i dont have a kid.#between the two of us. we were not buying 400 dollars worth of stuff at b&n every year #oh and it's also 10 percent off the in-store starbucks. but im pretty sure that USED to be a benefit they had #years ago?? like i SWEAR ive gotten money off at the b&n starbucks so i guess they got RID of that at some point #and gave it BACK when they HIKED UP THE PRICE TO 40 BUCKS A YEAR #text post #barnes and noble #it's a shame bc where i live. barnes and noble is the only like fancy bookstore #and i live in an area that my barnes and noble... is like. what a boston barnes and noble eats for breakfast.#it's two floors. there are plenty of books that it doesn't have. plenty of sections that are very small #like the poetry section is just pathetic. i look at it every time i go and it just makes me sad.#i guess a lot of the book annex stuff contains poetry but still that's not really enough to entertain a rich interest in the genre for long #i outgrew the limited selection at my own local b&n poetry section by the time i was twenty. i was like i already know everything here.#which isn't to say i'm an expert in poetry. it's to say that the poetry section is barely bigger than a shelf #in fact ive never thought about it before but I OWN more poetry books than you'll find in the poetry section #at my local b&n. lol #i have a lot of nostalgia for b&n even though it is a big company that does not love me. i have very few books i bought new #that are not from barnes and noble. i got so many books that changed my life from them #i guess it's like a childhood/teenage attachment at this point bc ive had more mixed feelings abt the direction theyve been taking #for several years at this point.#and no i dont mean that theyve been expanding to selling more toys/games etc. theyve literally always done that in my lifetime. who cares.#they still have books #as an adult ive been more capable of seeing how limited their book selection is and how i have so many problems w that.#and it ultimately comes down to them being a big greedy company

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chaiichait · 4 months

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-Moths Of Disease

I hate being sick

Because being sick means your head spins around while you stay still

Your mind is flying too fast

Like little moths searching to eat its fill

They scurry around the caves inside your nose

And sneak into your lungs

They lay there to multiply and run rampant, flicking their tongues

The moths spit up poison in return

Scorching your throat and burning your skin

While you cough and cough and cough

Pesky little insects, never quite knowing when to quit

Wasted fluids, liquids and spat spit

The little moths are greedy,

They never drink their fill

But the moths will never win

I must admit I can see a great battle

In my yellowed spit and flaring heat

Little white soldiers fight

Grabbing weapons and spite

I know they will become victorious

It only takes a little time

#different from my usual content but I just want to appreciate my little guys dying in there #leukocytes are the bomb #yall are great #(macrophages you guys are my favourite but #but glial cells are a close second)#i wrote this poem after I saw the yellowed remains of my white blood cells after i blew into a tissue #makes me appreciate these lil guys #poetry #free verse #i am often impatient when Im sick cause theres so much stuff i have or need to do and i end up being frustrated because i cant do them #but knowing that these lil guys are trying so hard to protect me makes me feel a little better #biology #cells #brain cells #white blood cell #never revealed my other interests online usually just never came up 😭

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solipseismic · 2 years

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My Brother Out of Rehab, Points,

as we drive down the street, says, They sell there,

and there. And there... And there. The pauses,

him waiting, then pointing--a McDonald’s, an alley,

a veterinary clinic, an apartment complex. Where’s

God? he says. I wait. His hand circles around a full

360, like he’s making a halo for some ghost at his side,

and he says, Everywhere. And I’m not sure if: drugs

are God. Or if: God is God and he’s a believer now.

Or if: he’s high, even now, after just getting out.

Or if: he means that God is watching, or that God

is an addict too. Or if: he means nothing, just talking.

And I wait; and he waits. He points, whispers, And there.

--Ron Riekki, Glassworks Issue #23

#could not find the full version anywhere tho the magazine is free to read online .. anyways.#ron riekki #my brother out of rehab points #glassworks #poetry #poems #poetry recs

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queerstudiesnatural · 1 year

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i just love love. i love to feel love. sometimes i find myself overflowing with love. it's purifying and intoxicating at the same time. i love love.

#i just don't necessarily feel the need to do anything about it. it's just a feeling. or a way of life idk #it's like oof love love love. you know? that's it. but also it's everything. it's simple. but it's overwhelming. which is good.#and because the feeling itself is so rewarding why would i want to do anything about it you know?#this is me trying to explain what being aroace feels like to me #i do feel love. so much of it. i feel it when the sky is purple in the late afternoon and when a baby smiles at me on the bus and when a #tree sways in the wind and i think it must be so nice to be so firmly planted yet so free and graceful.#i feel it when a student gets something right and when i look at my favourite character online and when i read a good line of poetry.#i feel it when i'm around people i care about i feel it when i have a warm cup of tea i feel it when i'm playing music.#it's all love. overflowing and transformative. every time i feel it i become more at peace with the world.#why would i want to do anything about love like tell someone i wanna be theirs exclusively when i feel the same (beautiful #and beat skipping) thing about a warm bath and my friend's cat taking a nap against my side on the couch ?#it's not about the having it's about just feeling it. just saying it. i think #rain.stuff

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fuckandfable · 9 months

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Good afternoon my beautiful void. Reach inside of me and pick a topic for today.

I am the multiverse of madness, sultan of sanity. I bring forth the truth in everyone and I love that about me.

Oh today? Yeah today I feel beautiful l, today I feel boisterous. I feel invincible.

My mother is coming down tomorrow and I can’t wait to see her. Another challenge that I accept with arms wide open. Another opportunity to turn triggers into teachers.

I think too much, and it can backfire on me but little does it know I am fire too. The mind creates another person out of its defense mechanisms I think. 💭 but then again that’s me thinking. 🧐 please watch the show maniac, it was beautifully written and did not need a second season, one reason I liked it honestly.

My youngest and I had pizza at our favorite spot, and we almost always go to the grocery store everyday. I don’t like buying in bulk really, I like going on adventure for dinner, I can’t be cooped up in the fucking house all the time. I’ve been taking the kids to the park everyday, well trying to, hoping it would release unused energy because school is such a fucking bore.

I’m going with the flow and the only thing I need is me.

-x

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erstwhilesparrow · 1 year

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any book or tv show recommendations mayhaps?

oh! hello! (had a second of "WHO ARE YOU AND HOW DID YOU FIND ME" and then i checked your blog and was like, "ah, okay, never mind, you are entirely aware i am in the midst of being really pretentious about mcyt right now." welcome!)

under a cut for I Talk A Lot crimes:

hm. okay, tv shows first because i know that'll be short:

NBC's Hannibal (2013) - Huge massive content warning for cannibalism and gore but also the prettiest murders you've ever seen. Feels weird recommending this one because it feels so widely known, but I do love it and I don't watch a lot of other TV. Borrowed from Wikipedia: "FBI profiler Will Graham is recruited by Jack Crawford, [...] to help investigate a serial killer in Minnesota. With the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter." Things only get worse for him from there.

Mars Red - Deeply cerebral anime about vampires. Full of theatre references, musings on life and time and death and what it means to sit on the edge / outside that as a vampire. Very very pretty. Plot-wise, it's about a group of not-particularly-connected vampires in 1920s Japan who've been recruited to a special military unit working to protect humans from other vampires.

Revolutionary Girl Utena - It's free on YouTube both dubbed and subbed. So much is happening. I am nowhere near done unravelling it and I may well be casting longing glances toward the project of unravelling it for the rest of my life. Utena Tenjou is a student at Ohtori Academy with dreams of being a prince straight out of a fairytale. She is drawn into a mysterious duelling tournament with Ohtori Academy's Student Council for the hand of the Rose Bride.

books:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Utterly enchanting. A man called Piranesi wanders the House, a functionally infinite building so enormous its upper levels are filled with clouds and its lower levels are flooded and have tides. There is a plot, but most of my love of this book comes from how we as readers get to explore and luxuriate in the House alongside Piranesi. I've seen this called 'anti-horror' because it takes a premise that would be really easy to do as horror (forever lost in an enormous impossible structure with almost no human contact) and makes it something looked with wonder and joy.

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi - Fun! Funny? Playful for sure. Almost a fairy tale. It feels distinctly like sometimes the narrator is winking at you. A woman from a country that doesn't seem to exist on any map attempts to tell her daughter about where she came from, and about their family's history with gingerbread.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - A fairly significant part of the reason for my obsession with architectural / spatial horror. What if the thing that made a house haunted was not any particular ghost, but simply that something had gone wrong in the house itself? Eleanor Vance is invited to stay at the eponymous house while it is being investigated for supernatural occurrences, and attempts to navigate connecting with the other inhabitants of the house and escaping from the demands of caring for her mother.

My Own Devices by Dessa - I love Dessa's writing in whatever form it takes. I've seen plenty of writing described as 'sharp' or 'smart' but Dessa's one of the few people for whom I feel this is truly an apt description of her work. Her writing sounds like she talks fast, is terrifically smart, and knows what she's doing, and most terrifying of all, I think that impression is right. This is a series of essays, or it is, as the subtitle suggests, "True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love". It's delicious to read.

How A Poem Moves by Adam Sol - I love poetry; I am so bad at reading and talking about it. This is a way into reading / talking about poetry better! It's a series of mini-essays by a professor at the University of Toronto who teaches poetry! He takes a fairly varied collection of contemporary poems and talks about a few things that each poem does particularly well. It's designed to be accessible and even inviting to people who do not read much poetry. For a taste of his work, his blog here.

When Fox Is A Thousand by Larissa Lai - A retelling of a Chinese folktale. A fox spirit haunts a young woman living in (roughly) contemporary Vancouver and a poet of the T’ang Dynasty. I remember reading this, going, "Oh, that was Good," and never figuring out how to say why.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt - Six deeply isolated classics students at a liberal arts college in New England murder one of their friends. Apparently a pretty big part of popularizing dark academia. I think it would be fair to describe this as gripping / compelling / convincing. I can't quite figure out what else to say, though I loved it while I was reading it.

On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden - Graphic novel. Makes me ache in a way that reminds me of summer. I described it to a friend once as "full of that feeling of having to do something very frightening, and being reassured by the thought that you will be able to return to people you love for hugs and snacks afterward." A young woman named Mia joins the crew of a ship in charge of restoring ruins in outer space, while also searching for the girl she fell in love with years ago at boarding school. Available online free here, though physical copies do exist and can be bought.

#chattering sparrow #if there's like. a more specific vibe you want. feel free to ask again #i am. a little bit more likely to be able to curate for a specific vibe if we're allowing for short stories and poetry and #Strange Online Experiences though #looking at my list of books and going 'oh boy. i do not have a good track record of finishing books.'#some of these summaries are. bad. this is because i have a habit of going 'i have no idea what just happened but i loved it!'

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cavemoonpress · 1 year

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Website : https://www.cavemoonpress.com/

Address : Washington, USA

Cave Moon Press is an independent publisher that was founded in 2006. Trying to improve the world one book at a time we collaborate with writers, artists and communities. It's pretty simple. Each poet, writer or artist designates a charity for their project. Proceeds from the book benefit that charity. We have worked with emerging poets and artists. We have published national treasures like Alfredo Arreguin in Seattle and Rita Dove in Virginia. It's been a joy.

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/cavemoonpress

Twitter : https://twitter.com/cavemoonpress

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/cavemoonpress/

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notlimey · 1 year

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flowers

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#dreaming #free verse #multimedia #online #painting with words #poetry #word painting #writing

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mydeadpoet · 2 years

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My inspiration comes from the things around me

I draw patterns, flowers

and I eventually write about them

as paradise takes over.

#Tumblr diary #online diary #poetry #literature #free verse #Aesthetic #dark academia #pinterest #fairycore #Coquette #vintage #my thoughts #light academia #inspiring poetry

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lespresso · 2 years

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My tongue speaks the language of your fingertips. Central pocket loop whorl. The soft skin of my hips is a crime scene. Hollow my bones. Carve in hearts. Suck the juice out, let it oil the pads of your fingers. Luminol the bathroom.

-excerpt from ‘Chili Oil, Buttercream: On Crime Scenes and Wanting’ by E. (full poem can be found on my Instagram: soundofthecedar )

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starswallowingsea · 1 year

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i've been thinking about this a lot recently and for like the last year since i've taken translation theory courses and gotten more proficient in my second language buuuuuut. only like 3% of published works in american/english first language book stores are translated from other languages. compare that to how quickly books published in english get translated into other languages. an author could be incredibly well known in their home country or to their audience of native language speakers, but they're still considered "nobodies" by the general english speaking population because of a lack of translations into english.

part of the problem i think is the cultural superiority english speakers feel in the world right now and how its trying to bury other cultures and languages because english is best. this then leads to nobody seeing a reason to translate works from other languages or only translating very few* because there isnt an audience for "foreign" literature. i dont think most of my classmates outside the spanish program have read many, if any works by non-english speaking authors and that really is a shame because it opens so many new viewpoints on the world and gives you a look into other cultures right in your own home!

*the exception here i think is anime/manga which has an incredibly dedicated fanbase creating fanlations for smaller series that havent gotten official english dubs/subs/translations. japanese literature still has a hard time on the market in america though

#this isnt super coherent dont take this as fact or anything just my opinion #but i have noticed that its somewhat difficult to get anything other than a few classics as translated novels #officially anyway. like i have 100 years of solitude and hopscotch on my bookshelf #i think when i was looking for a copy of el lugar sin limites (jose donoso) i saw an english translation of htat #but it was more likely to be in portuguese or french or its original spanish #i think they didnt have any copies of the english text actually #uhm. also poetry in other languages when translated? exquisite #shoutout to translators who do poetry because goddamn that is so hard #to make it sound pretty and preserve the original meaning in that way to a new audience #translation is the art and science of languages i think.#anyway the site i linked had a translations database but it got moved so. idk what to do with that.#uhm anyway try reading more translated books or short stories #you can find quiroga's short stories translated online for free #or at least i found a la deriva for free online and it uses really striking imagery in it #shay speaks

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unfathomable-understanding · 2 years

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Listen, love (a Zukka poem)

Listen, love, I have a few things to ask:

I have been thinking about our skins.

How

Bright the dark of your knee is to mine,

And how the red of my cheek is too harsh to yours, darling

Could you close your eyes, love, for me ?

Could you ignore the fire tainting my skin ?