#Mad Honey Symposium

[llovelymoonn]

sally wen mao mad honey symposium: "yellow fever"

kofi

[gennsoup]

If I could do girlhood again, I'd ask to be scarier. Less whimpering--more pyromaniac urges, more flirting with kerosene.

Sally Wen Mao, Drop-kick Aria

[psalmsofpsychosis]

dogs unleashed;

—in continuation of this collaborative meta on the nature of Batman's relationship with pain.

// mitski - cop car // Emily Skaja, Brute // Batman: Europa // Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium // Lingua Ignota, Pennsylvania Furnace //

[sylkithecat]

SYLVIE LAUFEYDOTTIR; a phoenix only needs her fire to burn.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless | Taylor Swift; Would've, Could've, Should've | Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls | Aria Aber, Ideology | Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium | Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water | Taylor Swift, Nothing New | Joan Macleod, The Shape of a Girl / Jewel | Linda M. Crate, A brighter phoenix | Odysseus Elytis; Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices, | Clementine von Radics, Vigil

Sophia Di Martino & Cailey Fleming as Sylvie (Loki 2021-2023)

@giftober 2023 + @mcuchallenge| Day 21/31: Spring & LOKI APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | for @dailyloki + @mcuchallenge

Day 4: Favorite character (or Variant)

[willgaham]

SUCCESSION | 4.09 Church and State "You cannot follow the dead, but you can follow a legend until it stains you on the lips, jaw, teeth, until you are its primary evidence." — Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium

[asoftepiloguemylove]

give me back my girlhood, it was mine first

unknown / @/apocryphics (on tumblr) / @/heartlikegold (on tumblr) / unknown / Ashe Vernon excerpt from Buried, "Not a Girl" / The Virgin Suicides (1999) dir. Sofia Coppola / unknown / Serge Ivanoff / Sally Wen Mao excerpt from Drop-kick Aria, "Mad Honey Symposium"

i. unknown

[ "A girl in the shape of a monster / A monster in the shape of a girl" ]

ii. @/apocryphics

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/apocryphics. "girls will carry unimaginable primordial rage but still go about their day as if nothing is wrong and that is very sexy of us I think" ]

iii. @/heartlikegold

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/heartlikegold. " 'girlhood rots between my teeth, a sickness so sweet it aches' / - SUGAR, SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE // d.s" ]

iv. unknown

[ Painting of a young girl in the process of braiding her blonde hair. She looks away from the viewer towards the right as she braids her hair towards the audience. ]

v. Ashe Vernon, Buried

[ "Isn't all that rage so ugly? And isn't it mine, still? Good god, isn't it mine?" ]

vi. Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides

[ Movie screencap of The Virgin Suicides. Hanna Hall (playing Cecilia Lisbon) las on a hospital bed wearing a blue gown. The subtitles read, "Obviously, doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl." ]

vii. unknown

[ "girlhood / 1. ripped stockings, smeared red lipstick, stolen lilac branches in our hands, scrapes from tree-climbing stinging our knees. a laughing moon to guide us home. the wild, wicked stars. the crimson fires of our heartbeats burning. so many secrets we keep like knives between our teeth. / 2. i'm made of fairydust and that moment of silence right before the thunderstruck sky breaks open with rain. i'm a breathing, bleeding body. i'm a breathing, bleeding soul. / 3. what prayers do we say when we think god isn't listening?" ]

viii. Serge Ivanoff

[ Cropped image of a painting by Serge Ivanoff . A woman stands in a room wearing a light pink dress. She folds her hands in front of her as she poses. ]

ix. Sally Wen Mao, Drop-kick Aria

[ Screenshot of a tumblr post by @/lifeinpoetry. "If i could do girlhood again, I'd ask / to be scarier. Less whimpering-more pyromanic / urges, more flirting with kerosene." ]

[toavoidtherush]

what is a thin man pinned to wood next to the image of a burning woman warrior ablaze?

lidia yuknavitch, the chronology of water / becca stadlander, house fire / margaret atwood, eating fire / li-young lee, the city in which i love you / bill viola, the fire woman / tennessee williams, the milk train doesn't stop here anymore / mother mother, burning pile / jenna andersen / cixin liu, the three-body problem / brian de palma, carrie / alice notley, in the pines / tracy k. smith, don't you wonder sometimes? / gerry pocha / hozier, arsonist's lullaby / toni morrison, sula / david lynch, twin peaks: fire walk with me / sally wen mao, mad honey symposium / jorge luis borges, a new refutation of time / yellowjackets, saints / richard siken, snow and dirty rain / mitski, a burning hill / louise dodd, burning house / thrice, firebreather / amy meissner, spontaneous combustion / camille rankine, self-portrait as an allegory / gustave moreau, study for lady macbeth / matthew stover, revenge of the sith.

[wickershells]

from Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao

[dulcewrites]

Fatimah Asghar, “How’d Your Parents Die Again?” // Alexander McQueen, Anemone dress // Catherine Lacey, “Cut” // Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium // Gustav Klimt, Judith and the Head of Holofernes // Joseph Lefebvre, The Cicada // Paris Paloma, the fruits // Kill Bill Vol 1

the fruits - Elinor Easton, The Cursed Bride, Lady Vengence

[llovelymoonn]

Hi! Can you do a web weave on the feeling of being on fire? On how warm blood is? How violently you love? On how soft you wish you were but can’t ever be? On being a hurricane? On living in the holler?

angela carter unicorn \\ carolee schneemann hand heart for ana mendieta (1986) \\ sally wen mao mad honey symposium \\ haruki murakami norwegian wood \\ philippe de champaigne saint augustin (1645-1650) [detail] \\ josé olivarez i wake in a field of wolves with the moon \\ jamaal may the big book of exit strategies \\ hélène cixous the love of the wolf \\ marge piercy a key to common lethal fungi \\ christian schloe portrait of a burning heart

kofi

[gennsoup]

Outlast, outgrow, outshine all midnight, all opposition.

Sally Wen Mao, Searching for the Queen Bee

[tavtime]

anyway anyway anyway when the implied speaker in the opening poem of Mad Honey Symposium compares their lover to something grown, carnivorous, beautifully hungry. and how. how Minthara is transformed, in rejection by her goddesses, into a kind of divine embodiment in her own right. the reverence of the poetic speaker for their beloved as a source of protection - the. god. the implied sapphic yearning in "an armory for cunning loves" - and as something greedy, consumptive. this love devours light. the lover's nature as a threat and an enticement.

this poem is minthara To Me. look at it. you see my vision.

(poem is "Valentine for a Flytrap," by Sally Wen Mao, taken from the collection referenced above)

[fandom-space-princess]

"Valentine for a Flytrap," Mad Honey Symposium, Sally Wen Mao

[erstwhilesparrow]

like everything alive i was meant to be split open

sources:

Fishnet Pattern, Wallpaper Design; Tommi Parzinger / apology; George Abraham / Ash Ode; Dean Young / anncapictures on Pixabay / Algae and Corallines of the Bay & Harbor of New York; Charles F. Durant / Wishbone; Richard Siken / Wet Market; Sally Wen Mao / Big Fish Eat Little Fish; Pieter Bruegel the Elder / Grendel; Roger Reeves / Mad Honey Symposium; Sally Wen Mao / Studies of Hands; Edwin Howland Blashfield

[linaket]

a weave for my wip, Mortal Teeth.

[transcript / credits:

the loneliness of what we did; the loneliness of what was done to us. Tony Hoagland, The Complex Sentence

and horror really can't be talked about because it's alive, because it's mute and goes on growing George Seferis, Last Stop

our father who art in heaven. our father who art buried in the yard. Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain

"we came form dirt we have to swallow it."

The reason for suffering isn't some bad choice you made, or something you did wrong, it isn't anybody's fault; it just exists, it is a condition of this place; and the only purpose that it serves is that it wakes us up, at certain moments in our lives, it rouses us to get up on our feet and find the door. Tony Hoagland, Faulkner

you cannot follow the dead but you can follow a legend until it stains you on the lips, jaw, teeth, until you are its primary evidence. Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium

some say God is where we put our sorrow. God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first? Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

What could be more useless than you limping offstage to die in a dead language? Of course the guys upstairs would love that. Your gods crafted a soul too big for the space of life they give you live in. Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

but It Cannot Be A Mistake to have cared... It Cannot Be An Error to have tried... It Cannot Be Incorrect to have loved. Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors ]

[professorlegaspi]

You won’t get this chance again - Josh

My love for you will never die - Otis Rush // Mad Honey Symposium - Alice James // 1984 - George Orwell // @obeliskandmetronome // I’ll wait for you- the originals // @iasoup (deactivated) // The Final Word - Melissa Gunther (p. 68)