#is this even considered poetry???

[lonelychicago]

A LIST OF THINGS EDDIE DIAZ DESERVES by evan buckley

you deserve to be happy,

you deserve to smile so big and so strong that it makes your cheeks hurt and your eyes shine brighter than the sun.

you deserve to be free to be whoever you want to be,

free to love whoever you want to love.

you deserve bones that only ache from falling asleep on the couch on movie night, with your head on my shoulder and my arm around you.

you deserve quiet days in your kitchen with us washing the dishes while we laugh about the dumb joke your sister sent you

you deserve watching your kid grow up and learn and love

you deserve to watch at the family you chose and feel proud for how far you've come

you deserve to be soft and let yourself cry whenever you need to

you deserve tenderness

you deserve a full night of sleep, peaceful and nightmares free

you deserve breakfast in bed, my head between your thighs

you deserve to tangle your fingers in my hair, my lips worshiping every inch of your body— even the parts you think are broken

you deserve to scream yourself hoarse, not from sorrow or sadness

but from pleasure and happiness

you deserve someone who'll stay

you deserve someone who'll love you anyway

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[hmooncreates]

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[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Movie!Tails 🤝 Nine

Getting all 😳😊 when Sonic says that he considers them a friend

[lollytea]

I really love hope is a thing with feathers and I also really LOVE the hope as a sewer rat poem too but I wish it was not explicity written as "well actually" against Dickinson asgvsjnk. The imagery is SO GOOD but this whole vibe of "my metaphor is better than your metaphor" kinda sours it for me

[faneth]

take a shot every time you see a halo

[selamat-linting]

its so funny to be a cm punk dickrider while simultaenously hating tumblr punks with a passion lmao. my tag for thirsting over this guy is mixed with discourse about posers lol.

[fatal-fun]

My Ingredients:

A stroll in nature,

A sprinkle of fantasy,

A chat with my friends,

And a hug with family.

These are my ingredients,

For my creative flow.

I mix them up inside my brain,

And let inspiration grow.

A calming quiet,

A cloaking dark,

A gentle breeze,

Thats my favorite part.

Its in the silence and the calm,

After a full day of color.

It fills me like a healing balm,

And sets my thoughts a flutter.

I go and stumble till i find,

A freshly planted seed.

Then from there,

It’s just like magic.

Out comes pouring all the words,

Imbued with subtle feelings.

The only way that i can share,

The unique patterns of my breathing.

[brown-little-robin]

AUGH

[solar-halos]

pov i do the accent challenge

[bitt3rcrawl]

Lit Up Hope

The day my life had begun to crumble

all for that one piece of paper

in my hands, handed by you,

I told myself there was no going back

to the room where I had once

brought justice, and lit up hope in those lost.

And it was just 2 weeks after

that you came back

or maybe I came back to you?

I was worried, perhaps, that there

were was nowhere for you to go,

for nowhere for us to go,

that we were wandering aimlessly

on some unforgiving streets.

The people snickered and sneered

catching a glimpse of me grasping

for a miracle from just a few years past.

You would have been only 7 or 8

when I still had miracles,

when I could still light hope.

And as I was lost once more

you took me by the hand and said

"I'll work so we can live,"

And that's the story of how

you had lit up hope in me.

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[m4rcyonstation]

an ai looks into the night sky

it sees a black plane

sprinkled with white dots

they are known as stars

every night, they stay in the same place

but when it moves to another town

some parts look familiar

yet ever so slightly different

predictably so, though

soon enough, it knows where every dot is

and where every dot would be

at any given place

and any given time

a human walks up to the ai

"Don't the stars look so beautiful tonight?"

the stars? they are the same as ever

"Don't you see it?"

see what?

"The bear."

[drowningparty]

THE WAY ABAURYCY JUST SMASHES THROUGH A WINDOW

AND LIGIA JUST GOES YEAH. I'LL GRAB A SHOVEL

[ggeneralgrunt]

ON UNJUSTIFIED WORSHIP

how can you praise a god

when the ground on which you worship him

is dirtied with the crimson remnants of gorged guts

and is reeking with the pungence of blood's metallic tang?

the shame suffocates me while it all lay clear to you.

[ridrawsart]

God, I loved Matthias so much!!! and Ortus!! I definitely cried during the Ortus and Harrow hug scene and then when Harrow's heart crumpled at watching Ortus, bleeding and struggling, I absolutely broke too. The whole thing with the ghosts in Canaan House was SO GOOD. Decided to do a design of Matthias Nonius because I just wanted to draw this bloody destructive poetic twink GOD.

I hope that Ortus, Matthias, and Pro are all happy now that they're together in the river.

(Also alternate versions because I have no chill lol)