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hanif abdurraqib, from “THE GHOST OF MARVIN GAYE STANDS OVER HIS FATHER’S GRAVE AND FORGETS TO ASK FOR AN APOLOGY” in A Fortune For Your Disaster
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“...I'm kind of buzzed. I'm kind of buzzing. I'm kind of a hive with no begging and hollow cavities.”
It Is Once Again the Summer of My Discontent & This Is How We Do It by Hanif Abdurraqib
#It Is Once Again the Summer of My Discontent & This Is How We Do It#Hanif Abdurraqib#Quote#A Fortune for Your Disaster#Poetry
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Being on tour for the last year has been amazing. We have a handful of shows left after a week in Japan. I've met tons of fans, and some have seen us over 20 times including old club gigs. That makes me feel all kinds of things - all good, but like whoa. US? We were ready to never tour again, settle into family and retirement, and now I know why we are still here. I'm humbled.
So hi, how are you? I'm looking forward to catching up at some point.
Sending my love from the other side of the apocalypse. @tinseltownstarter
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literally was just feeling comically woeful and something caught my eye and it was THE BEAUTIFUL MOON and then a BAT flew in front of it so peace and love on planet earth restored
#was thinking to myself ‘I did a pretty good job of damage control today’ and then.#well I dropped my travel mug almost directly onto the cables and extension cord didn’t I! fortunately no mortal disasters here but like#instances that make you consider buying a fire extinguisher for electrical fires because whadda hell would I have done!#fire extinguishers in your home aren’t really a thing here as far as I know? but like. why#ANYWAY that wasn’t the point of the post everything is fine disaster swerved the moon is here 🌔#OH or it was a bird that flies at night not a bat. but my dads been bat watching and also watching the owls that live here hunting the bats#so. they’re around ✌️
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i could learn to pity fools as i’m the worst of all and i can’t stop feeling sorry for myself. truly one of my favorite fob lyrics of all time.
#and i’m just a painter and i’m drawing a blank. and a fortune for your disaster of hanif abdurraqib fame. thank you pete.#fob
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i wish more people understood the concept of activism burnout and compassion fatigue. you do like genuinely have to pick your battles, and that usually means something local that you can make a real difference with. if you get overwhelmed with every problem nothing is going to change.
#i have friends in organizations similar to DWB and the like. and when there are disasters they are sent overseas to go help.#whereas my focus remains here because i cant handle more disaster relief tbh and thats. thats okay.#i still take part in programs for queer rights in local politics and providing aid to those without permanent residence#i get that like. its frustrating to hear people not talking ab whatever Your thing is#but they also have Their things#absolutely fucking no one on this website has ever spoken about the rising houseless and opioid problems in new hampshire. but i still help#headspace hotel is right. if you hear about every disaster and think you have a personal responsibility to do something for all of them.#youre going to lose hope so so so fast bc it feels like the world is unfixable#but its not. its just only fixed a little bit at a time. on a very individual level.#everyone talks ab activism and caring but theyd make more change by googling ''charities in my area''#unrebloggable for now bc im mostly just venting tbh#fortunately this is pretty much only an issue online so i know when i do my next thing itll feel like the world is okay again.#until then this is a worrying rise and im really worried that younger people will think activism is useless#or worse that if you see someone not talking ab a specific issue youll assume they dont care at all#when theres just nothing they can do.
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hanif abdurraqib save me... save me hanif abdurraqib...
#picked up a fortune for your disaster at the library then saw a mid play#omw home gonna buy a semla then read too much of it before panic cleaning for the maintenance people coming over tomorrow morning#ö
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Donating to Ao3 is like paying for Netflix; it's just paying for an entertainment service you use. Servers are fucking expensive, and Ao3 is a really big archive. Just throw five bucks at them once a year if you can, it's really not a big deal.
Also please do NOT donate to all the Palestine go-fund-me's floating around here, the majority of them are just blatant scams. I've had one of those blogs send me two completely different sob stories a few days apart, and also had two different blogs send me the exact same sob story, right down to the fucking emoji usage. If you want to help Palestinians, donate to the Red Cross, or Doctors Without Borders. Or any organized, professional relief group that is actively working in Palestine right now, because they can actually access that money easily and use it to buy large amounts of food and medical supplies at a steep discount. Donating to THEM will do a hell of a lot more than sending a random Palestinian civilian five american dollars over the internet.
Should I donate to AO3?
#anyways some of y'all really dont care about palestine in the slightest. you just like feeling morally superior#you are allowed to pay for things that you personally enjoy without feeling horrifically guilty for not giving that money to charity#if you dedicate every moment of your life to helping those less fortunate you'll just burn out#and then nobody gets helped at all#take a fucking break. read some fanfic. support a massive independent archive that protects its users from legal harassment#(which is a VERY REAL CONCERN we used to have. guys some famous authors used to dox people for writing fanfic of their stuff)#ao3 is handling your server space. your firewall. your software fixes. and your legal fees.#ffs its not like the extra money they get from donation drives is wasted. they ask for the bare minimum to survive#giving them more means they have the breathing room to improve. or to overcome a disaster
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fics with fall out boy lyrics are titles you will always be famous, to me
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hanif abdurraqib, from “IT’S NOT LIKE NIKOLA TESLA KNEW ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DIE” in A Fortune For Your Disaster
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“...I tell my boys there is a reason songs from the 90s are having a revival and it's because the heart and tongue are the muscles with the most irresistible histories...”
It Is Once Again the Summer of My Discontent & This Is How We Do It by Hanif Abdurraqib
#It Is Once Again the Summer of My Discontent & This Is How We Do It#Hanif Abdurraqib#Quote#Poetry#A Fortune For Your Disaster
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words for your dystopian novel
Bad situation
abend, accident, adversity, anarchy, apocalypse, backwash, bad scene, bane, bedlam, bind, blooper, bottleneck, bug, bummer, can of worms, cataclysm, catch, chaos, clog, cobweb, collision, commotion, conflict, contempt, crisis, crunch, damage, deadlock, debacle, decline, deficiency, detriment, difficulty, disadvantage(s), disaster, discomfiture, disorganization, disservice, disturbance, downfall, drag, drawback, duress, emergency, error, exigency/exigence, failing, famine, fiasco, fix, flash point, flip-flop, flotsam, friction, gadfly, hang-up, harm, havoc, hell, histrionics, holdup, hurdle, impasse, impropriety, inconvenience, infirmity, jalopy, jump, lapse, limitation, lose, madhouse, malfunction, maze, mire, misery, misfortune/mishap, mix-up, neglect, nightmare, obstacle, onus, ordeal, pall, pass, pell-mell, pickle, pitfall, plague, poison, press, problem, quagmire, question, restraint, reverse, ruin, scandal, scrape, shambles, showdown, smash, snare, spot, storm, strife, syndrome, tiff, to-do, trap, trouble, turmoil, undoing, uprising, upset, weight, wreck
Danger
act of God, bad trip, calamity, cataclysm, crapshoot, curse, dilemma, emergency, hardship, ill, mayhem, peril, risk, seriousness, threat, trouble, violence
Fate
accident, break, bummer, chaff, contingency, damnation, destiny, doom, downfall, duty, flip-flop, fortune, future, good, judgment, limbo, lot, misfortune/mishap, outlook, penalty, plague, predestination, setback, suspense, undoing, windfall
Morality
abandon, affirmative action, blasphemy, conscience, craft, decadence, delinquency, dirt, enormity, equality, ethics/ethic, excess, faithfulness, falsity, favoritism, good, good will/goodwill, guile, guise, honesty, ideals, imposture, infamy, infraction, iniquity, innocence, liability, loyalty, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed/ misdemeanor, morals, obscenity, outrage, principle/principles, profanity, responsibility, sacrilege, scandal, score, sin, treachery, trespass, trickery, turpitude, validity, veracity, virtue, wrong
Assert
accredit, adduce, advocate, affirmation, allege, announcement, attest, bemoan, bluster, brag, bring out, come clean, crow, declaim, declare, deny, drum into, emphasize, exclaim, exult, gloat, gloss, gush, impute, insist, justify, level, maintain, mockery, overrate, play down, plead, point out, proclaim, promote, pronounce, punctuate, push, rave, retract, rumor, speak out/speak up, state, stress, support, swear, testify, testimony, underscore, vindicate, vouch, whitewash, witness
Authorize
accede, accredit, acknowledgment, affirm, appoint, approve, assign, back, bar, bless, certify, chicken out, concession, constitute, countenance, crown, dedicate, delegation, disown, enable, endorse, enjoin, entrust, exempt, forgive, induct, invest, lay, let off, make, negate, nominate, notarize, okay, order, overrule, permission, place, prohibit, recall, release, repeal, revoke, spare, subscribe, validate, veto, warrant, witness
Criticize
abuse, admonition, aspersion, assault, bad-mouth, baste, beef, berate, browbeat, castigate, chasten, chew out, come down on, complaint, condemnation, correct, criticism, critique, cut, damn, debase, denigrate, denunciation, deprecate, deride, detract, diatribe, disparage, dress down, flak, fulminate, gainsay, gird, gripe, grouch, hiss, humiliate, impugn, invective, jaw, knock, lament, lay into, malign, mortify, mug, nag, offense, pick at/pick on, protest, rail, rap, reflection, reprimand, reprove, revile, row, sarcasm, scorn, sit-in, sneer, storm, swear, tell off, upbraid, vituperate
Demand
adjure, beckon, behest, bidding, call, charge, command, crave, cross-examine, debrief, demand, direct, enjoin, exact, extortion, grease, importune, inflict, instruct, necessitate, order, petition, query, request, requisition, solicit, squeeze, supplicate, take on
Government action
abdicate, abolition, administer, amnesty, cease-fire, command, depose, dethrone, dominate, enforce, exile, filibuster, override/overrule, reign, run in, second, tax, veto
Government organization
administration, cabinet, capitol, confederacy, cop, court, democracy, dictatorship, empire, government, jury, police/police officer, regime, sovereignty, tyranny
Political action
amnesty, arbitration, campaign, crusade, demonstration, drive, elect, endorse, mutiny, nomination, picket, poll, reaction, revolt, riot, sedition, vote
Restrict
bar, bind, bound, brake, circumscribe, cocoon, constrain, constrict, control, curb, dam, defer, deferment/deferral, desensitize, embargo, enjoin, expatriate, expulsion, fetters, forbear, gag, grind, hamper, handicap, hem/hem in, hobble, hold back/hold off, impair, imposition, inhibit, keep one’s cool, localize, moderate, obligate, ostracism, prohibit, rein, restrain, retard, shackle, slowdown, squelch, strangle, subdue, suspend, tie/tie up
Symbol
arms, autograph, beep, capital, charm, code, cue, device, emblem, ensign, flag, flourish, graffiti, handwriting, herald, imprint, indication, John Hancock, landmark, letter, logo, notation, numeral, script, sign, spot, stripe, tag, tick, trademark, type, writing
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Excerpted from Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Updated and Expanded 3rd Edition, in Dictionary Form, edited by The Princeton Language Institute.
The above are concepts classified according to subject and usage. It not only helps writers and thinkers to organize their ideas but leads them from those very ideas to the words that can best express them.
It was, in part, created to turn an idea into a specific word. By linking together the main entries that share similar concepts, the index makes possible creative semantic connections between words in our language, stimulating thought and broadening vocabulary. Writing Resources PDFs
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eve ewing jumpscare in a poetry collection im reading. i forgot shes mainly a poet/sociologist and not just the person whos writing ironheart and black panther
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