#anybody: poems

[llovelymoonn]

Heyyyy hope you're doing wonderful, can I ask you for a web weaving about a daughter growing up to be more like her father?! I'm curious to see what you going to feed me, have a beautiful day.

joan didion blue nights (via @metamorphesque) \\ ari banias anybody: poems: "who you're about to be" \\ frederic belaubre chimeras 19-5 \\ -- \\ starry eyes (2014) dir. kevin kölsch & dennis widmyer \\ valérie bah the rage letters (tr. kama la mackerel) \\ @gorgynei

kofi

[decisions-at-3am]

I find myself calling you, By every name I've known you by. In hopes of finding the one That will bring you back to me.

[batthewcatthew]

It feels strange to know I'm somehow so important to you

How is that possible

What have I done

Why has a bond that started as a shared perversion become so meaningful

Answer me

I need to know

And you tell me

"I may not be a clever man but

When two freaks of nature collide

They hold on as tight as they can

For it is all they have

And now I would die for you without having used you as a body pillow yet"

We are two disgusting faggots

Caught in each other's embrace

And we love it

We will never wish to leave

[theoryofwhatnow]

big fan of when this happens

[krowmachine]

"I stood in my box of pity,

Smiles of sorrow.

Former joy of a young cub,

He was kindled from blood.

Wasn't worth to save,

But I was worth to give."

--

here's the ver with no lineart/lineless cause i like both and i cant pick from any of em

[quaranmine]

i think the whole cringe is dead, radical sincerity, depth of genuine emotion, earnest effort, and unironic love thing that tumblr has going on the past few years has transformed my outlook on things and changed me for the better. but it does mean that now the people i know irl will give me strange looks for being too sappy or too poetic or too dedicated or too excited about about something because they're still stuck in their "well i only like this ironically" phase. guess that's their problem tho not mine <3

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

Poetry from the Notes App: a mini zine

[authenticity2025]

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

[yourpalsalamander]

Asha in an alternate universe where she didn't get kidnapped and worked on by Doctor malpractice Starline 😗😈

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[gravitywonagain]

Sunshot Band AU - Fire in the Back of My Throat

Wangxian, Wangningxian?

Genderswapped WWX, WN, everybody else is the same — why? Taylor Momsen’s voice and bisexuality reasons; also I don't control my brain at 3am, it does what it wants; also also let ladies scream in metal!!

Sunshot lineup:

Wei Ying: lead vocals, unclean vocals, rhythm guitar, programming

Mianmian: lead guitar, backing vocals -> Replaced by Lan Zhan: lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

Wen Ning: bass, backing vocals, screaming, unclean vocals

Jiang Cheng: drums, percussion, backing vocals

Music insp:

The Pretty Reckless (Wei Ying sounds a lot like Taylor Momsen and switches often between rock vocals and classical vocals)

PVRIS

Halocene

Red Handed Denial, CrazyEightyEight (Wen Ning screams like Lauren Babic)

1. Audition:

Starts when Sunshot has to audition a new lead guitarist because Mianmian is leaving to finish out her pregnancy and be a stay at home mom who only occasionally does shows close to home -- it's her dream, we're not judging her about it -- and cannot go on tour.

When Lan Zhan auditions, he plays well, but Wei Ying is skeptical. She was actually hoping for a woman to replace MM and there's something about LZ's stoicism that just irks her or something, so she pushes.

"Yes, well done. Now play us something we haven't heard before."

LZ plays a classical guitar piece, but WY identifies it easily.

LZ plays a guqin piece that he's transposed for guitar, but, again, WY identifies it -- though maybe not as easily.

Finally, LZ plays a personal composition that he hasn't recorded on bandcamp or youtube yet.

WY smiles. "Why didn't you start with an original composition? Save us all the hassle."

"I needed to know you were worth my time, as well." [or something like that]

2. Distant Road (远道) Tour:

LZ steps into MM's role easily. His falsetto is good enough that they don't have to do too much reworking of the vocals for the tour.

On stage, WY, who has always flirted with both WN and MM, flirts with LZ, too. This causes a Public Stir, because what if WY is actually straight and she's just been baiting the audience for attention! Gasp!

WY, who has been openly vocal about being bisexual goes on a media rampage about it. "I've said for years that I go both ways!" [etc.]

She ends up kissing them both on stage while JC remains ever grateful that he's her brother and thus excluded from the nonsense.

Sometime during this tour, there will be at least a WNX threesome, if not a triad formed.

3. Forgetting Envy (忘羡) Album:

Sometime after the tour is over, Sunshot decides to invite LZ to stay in MM's place. They start writing their next album. But LZ brings with him piano skill as well. Now they incorporate keyboard into their sound, as well as LZ's intricate fingering and lower vocal range.

Writing the album is... a mess. But a good one, in the end.

When they perform on stage, there are songs that require keyboard, so LZ (for at least the first song) gives his guitar to WY so she can take over -- because she's also very skilled at intricate fingerings -- and he can play the keyboard. (Mostly because I think it would be really hot if this happened in real life. WY has her own guitar that she'll probably use on other songs and has used in the past when songs req more than two guitars. But like. I want this moment. Whether she steals the guitar while he's still wearing it or whether he lays the strap gently over her neck depends on the vibe of the crowd that night.)

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

whenever i’m writing poetry i always get more dramatic than like i know i should be realistically but it sounds nicer when i just let myself be overly dramatic but it’s not like fully real and it all just feels like smoke and mirrors

[jellicle-chants]

I've always wanted a CATS animated movie that depicts the characters as actual cats (rather than people in cat costumes), with either Don-Bluth-style traditional animation or more modern "hyper-realism" CGI. But I wonder if that would take the "theatre" appeal out of it for other people. What do you think?

I'll be honest, I've never really been in love with the idea of making CATS the musical an animated movie. I think the designs that exist from the proof of concept are cool, but there's also definitely reasons they struggled to take it past that stage. This is not to say that Eliot's poems could never be adapted into a children's animated movie, but I think making it specifically an adaptation of the stage show is what makes it iffy. I'll try to break it down more under the cut:

Problem A: at the end of the day, CATS is a dance show. A lot of the show is just dancing, and very involved dancing at that. What are you supposed to do with the 9 minute dance break from the Ball? It's too iconic to cut, and the non-anthropomorphic cats ironically don't have the articulation to pull off a lot of the dance moves. (I'm thinking of movies like The Aristocats for comparison, which really doesn't have the characters do much that actual cats physically couldn't. I guess if it were more like An American Tail it wouldn't be so jarring, but I'll get to that later.)

Problem B: CATS has too little plot for a traditionally structured movie. The 2019 version also ran into this problem, which of course it solved in the worst way conceivable, but it's still a problem. Movie and theatre audiences simply have different expectations, suspension of disbelief, etc. that CATS is too theatrical to cross over into. I think it would be really interesting to make a Fantasia-like movie with each of the poems/songs being a totally different short in an anthology, but I don't think that's what most people are imagining when they say they want an animated CATS movie.

Problem C: what do you do about humans? The cats of CATS live in a world clearly populated by humans, but they're never shown directly. Adding humans, to me at least, clearly poses a "power creep" problem: any adult human can easily overpower any cat, and also leans the movie towards a more plot-driven story (as I feel like a lot of animal movies with humans tend to have a human antagonist). On the other hand, you could just make the entire world be populated by cats, which would (mostly) solve the dancing problem. However, I feel like doing that misses the point of the original poems: to illustrate the different types of pet/stray cats. It's not as funny to imagine Skimbleshanks being in charge of a group of feline train workers (which could be a completely normal thing within talking-animal movies) than it is to imagine an entire train full of humans and the orange tabby cat who thinks he's in charge of all of them. The same goes for Bustopher Jones, Gus, Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer, etc., etc.

[ayasenisan1713]

I hear whispers in my ears.

So I pull you above the gray fog.

Listen to you ramble about your life,

Under another identity.

And when the Blood Moon has passed,

Now that you won’t lose control,

I send you back to your room,

And you sit there with your own thoughts.

Meanwhile I’m behind the door,

I also open my eyes,

Then look up at the ceiling,

Knowing all that happened to you.

———

Fors x Gehrman.

Then you have a fanart with Fors sitting on the floor while thinking and Gehrman leaning on the door outside the room.

It would be cool, right?

[budussy03]

first try.. I think? haha lmk

Overthinking, It Goes Deeper…

Overthinking is hard. 

The smallest noise, can be the harshest voice. 

You convince yourself it is about you, 

Or that you could’ve said that differently. 

It goes deeper… 

Knowing one thing to be true while also knowing the EXACT opposite?

Both contradict each other, yet your brain does not care.

People probably think ‘ Mind over Matter ‘ 

Precisely, except for us it's undoubtedly in every aspect, which is hard to minimize through spoken word, but here is my effort. 

It goes deeper… 

WE can be people pleasers while also tearing ourselves down. 

We are our worst critics and it. Is. exhausting. 

Let's go for another example, 

You hear a voice coming from her phone.

‘Are they doing something they said they won’t?’

However, you are self-isolated because of a fight for which you are most likely to blame. 

Are you? 

It goes deeper… 

Is the noise her watching a video? Entirely careless about the emotional warfare that just took place? 

Is the noise her on the phone with someone? 

Is she talking about you with, said, someone? If so, who? 

Is it her baby's father? Is it to get my reaction? Is it to talk about the babies? After all, we have them overnight tonight. 

Oh no… They’re here… They saw everything. 

It goes deeper…

They saw the way you behaved.

They saw the behavior in which you had vowed since you were in elementary school, to never bestow. 

After all, you have been through hell when it comes to experiencing the role models brought on by your mother that she had been sleeping with at the time. 

Have you learned nothing at all? Where is your development? It seems so easy to backslide. 

Learning. Maybe it’s about how you were taught to learn. 

Were you taught in school and by your parents, through examples of them showing you which behaviors to exhibit and you trying it on your own? 

Or…

Are we taught to learn from those who don’t particularly exhibit the good?

Are we really wired to not do what we are shown or do we just tell ourselves ‘I’ll never be like him’?

So is it my fault? Is it how I was raised and what I was taught? If I caused this fight then surely there are more within my relationship to which I should be accountable? 

Does it go beyond just my relationship? 

Overthinking 

As you can see I could go on and on, and that is only from life within the hour. 

I even had to stop myself for I then knew this word may lose the intended meaning. 

Rattling questions that follow:

Did it deliver?

Will it help me?

Could it help others? 

By others, those who need to be educated, or those who are inflicted?

Or both?

Who could even care though, right?

Did you even ask? 

[crumbleclub]

Something I think would destroy Michael when he finally got out of William's house:

At every turn, the adults who were supposed to care for him failed him. Now that he's an adult, nobody is expected to help him at all.