#a burst of light

[covvboytears]

A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

[virtualplushy]

“i feel trapped on a lonely star. someone else is very sick next door, and the vibes are almost too painful to bear. but i must stop saying that now so glibly. someday something will, in fact, be too painful to bear and then i will have to act. does one simply get tired of living? i can’t imagine right now what that would be like, but that is because i feel filled with a fury to live — because i believe life can be good even when it is painful — a fury that my energies just don’t match my desires anymore.” — audre lorde, a burst of light

[dk-thrive]

A better question is—how do I want to live the rest of my life

A better question is—how do I want to live the rest of my life and what am I going to do to ensure that I get to do it exactly or as close as possible to how I want that living to be? I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes— everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!

— Audre Lorde, December 9, 1985. New York City. From "A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (‎Ixia Press, July 24, 2017) (via Last Tambourine)

[mad-rdr]

A Burst of Light - Audre Lorde

★ ★ ★ ★ ★/5

Audre Lorde never misses. This is the second collection of essays of hers that I've read. My favorite thing about her writing is her ability to incorporate intersectionality into literally everything. When talking about motherhood she challenges heteronormativity and sexism as well as talking about how race and racial prejudices play into how she must raise her kids. Despite being written well over 30 years ago, her voice and her convictions remain relevant in today's political atmosphere. By reading her work, I hope to be one that keeps her ideas of humanity and solidarity alive. We can do well by learning the lessons she wrote down and left behind for us.

[garblegarden]

never, EVER, underestimate the power of putting this shape in a piece of art

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 333

I once more believe Battinson Batman needs to be given a child. Or multiple. Multiple children. I am also once more rotating Ghosts Have Wings Au. 

So Batman, still early in his whole vigilante career ends up busting a shipment, nothing too surprising there. Pretty usual honestly. Except for what was in one of the crates already open. Because it looks like some sort of gemstones but… perfectly spherical. Strange. Suspicious. 

But it’s also late, er, early in the morning, and the GCPD is notoriously corrupt, so like, he’s not going to just leave the weird gemstones, each about the size of a plum or so. (Dear Gotham he’s apparently hungry, and might inwardly vow to never let anyone realize what his tired mind decided to use as measurement) 

So he, unknowingly spurred on by more than just a slight bit of ecto contamination, takes the strange spheres back home. Just puts them in his pockets and heads back to the manor that they moved back into after the whole Riddler mess. (He even found a cool cave! With a bunch of terrifying bats, but they made a glass separator! For safety!) 

But in Bruce’s defense of forgetting about them, he’s more than a little tired and hungry and just wants to sleep for a bit, y’know? So maybe he forgets about the gems as he falls asleep in the chair in the cave (Alfred was not pleased!) until he starts digging around for them. Erm. Did they fall out somewhere?? There’s no holes in his belt pockets… 

And maybe these sort of things shouldn’t slip his mind, the spheres had felt Weird with a capital W, but he gets forced to a circus and there’s an… accident. So maybe he pushed it away as not important because there’s now an angry grieving eight-year old living with him and he’s panickedly reading any and all sort of parenting books he can get a hold of because he has no clue what he’s doing. 

Yeah, maybe his back is itching like crazy no matter what he tries, and maybe he threw up the other day, but it’s fine. This is fine. 

….

Oh dear Gotham those are feathers, this is not fine- ALFREEED!

[p4nishers]

mobius standing there, surrounded in GREEN AND GOLD LIGHT as he talks about waiting a while and letting time pass, only for the next shot to be loki HEARING HIS VOICE and fucking SMILING. are we joking rn are we kidding like this GOT to be a fucking joke

[sophisticatedchaoss]

i made skykid regional capes yeeaarrs back and just rediscovered it. here

[yes-asil]

Episode 3 came for MY soul

[meowonaise]

happy isatversary!! heres to one whole year of escaping the loops!!!!

[merchantarthurn]

but i'm a witch--

my hyperfixation reignited with the chapter today ahaha

[ID: A marker drawing of Olruggio from Witch Hat Atelier. He has a distressed expression and is drawing a spell that is emitting fiery light. A large number of "curtain leeches" are closing in on him behind him. END ID]

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

imagine getting jumpscared by this guy. putting the night in nightwing.

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[thinwhitedoc]

SHERLOCK | Martin Freeman as John Watson

[obisamya]

SAM OBISANYA Ted Lasso (2020-2023)

[bonsiii-art]

🍪 coogie warms up from a while back