#it’s the 1 version too which is just soooooo 💘💘💘

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btw i got a gidle album today ^-^

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✒️ please!!

Send me a ✒️ and I'll pick a poem I think you'd like

After flipping through my notebooks I decided to go with my first instinct for you, which was "A Toast to the Alchemists" by Laura Gilpin. This poem hasn't been published online officially, so they're aren't a ton of sites that have it that I could find with a quick Google search. However I've attatched photos of a reddit post with it along with my version in my journal.

I picked this poem because of its themes of time and the passage of time, as well as magic and giving emotional significance to the most mundane and clinical of things (atoms and elements). In other words, taking magic from the world around us, especially through a lens usually seen as lacking wonder or whimsy. Also vibes, I mainly did it based on vibes.

Some other poems I considered in my search/additional recommendations are listed under the cut:

If you liked the writing of this poem, and haven't read it already (or have) I definitely recommend "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin. It's by the same author and is her most famous poem and is fairly well known and also soooooo good. So good.

Poems with similar themes:

Poems with similar themes to "A Toast to the Alchemists" are

"Dusting" by Marilyn Nelson 💘 (literally cried to this. To be fair it was 10 minutes after I finished the HDM finale so it was mainly because of that but still. Great poem.)

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye" by Albert Goldbarth

"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (90% sure you've read this one its the time theme but inverted and it's great if you haven't)

Rejected picks/Poems that gave me Anu vibes (many for no particular reason):

Poems by Ted Kooser for some reason??? NO idea why they're very different from the ones above but some of my faves are "Selecting a Reader", "In a Country Cemetery in Iowa", "The Constellation Orion" and "Flying by Night" (I'm v much questioning this pick now but I'll keep it up here just in case)

Honestly a bunch of random unrelated stuff was popping out at me ("Listen" by Miller Williams, "Cartoon Physics, Part 1" by Nick Flynn, "Snow" by David Berman) and like a million billion more which I all got from the same anthology (Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins) so if you want to read a bunch more poetry, based on vibes alone, I'd say look for the book, the website, or the sequel. The poems from that book aren't too similar to the one above but it's really one of two books I generally recommend people right off the bat (it was my lit teachers favorite lol) because it's meant to get young adults and teens into poetry and introduce contemporary poetry in general. Idk how much poetry you've read whatever but even if you aren't new to it it's still a good compilation of late 90s/early 00s poetry that makes you think but isn't super long/totally incomprehensible

Anyways that got WAY longer than I anticipated or anyone probably wanted but poetry is an obsession of mine and recommending poetry is much more complicated and harder that it looks, even for the people you know best in the whole world AFTER interviewing their opinions on poetry, not to mention how difficult it would be for internet friends on tumblr. But anyways there's a couple poems, I got the vibes as close as I could with the poems I had on file. (Although i do feel like I'm missing something big 🤔) Anyways thanks for the ask Anu! Hope you thought my pick was alright!

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8 13 24 !! 💛🤍🤍🤍

💖💘🥂✨💥mwah malihah

8. Pre-N52 or N52?

n52 because pre-n52 art makes my skin crawl. pre-n52 comics colors (ESPECIALLY the 2000s) taste like dust and the fear of being trapped in an alternate-dimension version your grandmother's old house where no one will hear you scream. also because if the ramifications of n52 storylines were explored properly you would have literally the most spectacular most engaging stories ever, like. there is soooooo much potential there for angst and introspection and action! i mean forever evil and the fallout alone are the perfect base for any amount of dick grayson angst (malihah ygm ☆) so I favour it for the potential it has alone. but also n52 starfire and n52 cass+steph and n52 diana...darlings of my heart im so so sorry

13. DCEU or DCAU?

dcau dcau dcau. while i have my gripes with the dcau (namely animation style and coloring) not only does the DCAU have hal jordan ☆ and damian wayne ♡, it also has dickkory ✨🎯💘💖 as well as wonder woman: bloodlines💥💖🥵🥰🥂, which is an animated version of the live-action wonder woman however is several thousand billion times better than ww 2017, in that it doesn't have known IDF supporter g*l g*dot playing my favourite superhero, and that it actually made me cry real tears because the storyline was actually that moving.

24. If you had total control what would you change?

habibti...what WOULDN'T I change...

but fr:

#1. cut out tim drake. I would just get rid of him. rewrite dc canon to make steph the third robin. I just think thematically it's a better choice ok

#2. actually invest time and money into the wonders - donna troy solo books hello??? diana actually being bisexual hello?? etc.

#3. get rid of the current DCEU trinity. batfleck can stay if they end up doing batman beyond but can we PLEASE get a younger batman also I hate g*l g*dot why was she hired she can't even act. henry cavill superman is too built to be superman bring back christopher reeve-style superman. hot in a soft way . fyi its v v important that the new hypothetical bruce wayne actor should have CHEEKBONES. yeah

#4. get rid of young justice season 3. it's gone. buh-bye.

#5. fix all the awful dragon-lady caricatures in comics. talia shiva jade etc they are so much more than stupid outdated horrific stereotypes ! we deserve to see them as characters with actual drives and motives and not just background villains

#6. no more toms in comics. society has moved past the need for toms writing comics.