#oliver baez bendorf

[hauntedbythenarrative]

I am at last myself. With no ambition greater than to walk where I please and to breathe the open air. To die unmarked and unnoticed and be free.

Susan Sontag, from “The Dummy”, featured in I, Etcetera: Stories//“Lilies,” House of Light, Mary Oliver//Postcard from gone, Leila Chatti//Ophelie, Arthur Rimbaud//Advantages of Being Evergreen, Oliver Baez Bendorf//Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon (2022-))

[havingapoemwithyou]

evergreen by Oliver Baez Bendorf

[quillaffinity]

"blessed are the merciful [and so cursed are we]" - AkiAngel Web Weave (CSM Spoilers)

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meeting you was a blessing i do not deserve but lover, must this be the curse we cost one another?

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(be not afraid) | wash me.

Chainsaw Man is written and drawn by Fujimoto Tatsuki  

csm / ethel cain, "ptolemaea" / csm / hozier, "from eden" / yohji yamamoto / csm / oliver baez bendorf / csm / leigh bardugo / k.c cramm / csm / bob hicok / csm / csm / salma deera / csm /  euripides, "orestes" (trans. anne carson) / leah horlick / richard siken / csm / csm / ??? / csm / csm / helen oyeyemi / csm / csm / sally wen mao

quill notes - YEAH. YEAH BENDORF????? HE'S MY FORMER POETRY PROF HOLY SHIT

[poemsforthesehours]

From Oliver Baez Bendorf's book, Advantages of Being Evergreen. (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019).

[wordsthatkeepmyfeetdry]

Dysphoria by Oliver Baez Bendorf

[inhernature]

New Moon Newton

Oliver Baez Bendorf

           God is Change,            And in the end,            God prevails.            But meanwhile . . .            Kindness eases Change.            Love quiets fear.                        —Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

stars whole patterns of them rocking around in the radiant arena above and around our heads on a night when the wind sang like a scream and the deer stood frozen as a statue of itself the sky was dark because la luna had finished revealing themself and was not yet ready to begin again

and I get it now: a stanza is like a little frame

and the frame is a little crooked

jenny calls from the road and we talk I walk so briefly we together move from our faraway states synced perhaps by the clap of hooves and burning oil and the telephone can be a line like any other wire

so can I say it: love frightens me the matter it contains the speed the direction even words of thanks at the reference desk from a patron gracias, amor haunt me in the quiet places . . .

but if “god is change” then is it god who sent my matter hurtling back into the open open

can anybody tell me how to contain it

clockwork even the moon on a calendar stacked fluxes away and comes back

striking disclosure arrives in flashes

(Source: Poem-A-Day)

[anyataylorjoy]

Ophelia (2018) // November Nights, Arden Mae // House of the Dragon (2022-) // Persephone Returns, Emily Rose Cole // Ophelia, Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser // Mystery of Love, Sufjan Stevens // Fire with Fire (1986) // Spring and All, Cathy Park Hong // On-drakón (2015) // The Complex Sentence, Tony Hoagland // The Musketeers (2014-2016) // [from a letter], Sylvia Plath // 1883 (2021-22) // The Leaving Season, Jihyun Yun // Dorian Gray (2009) // The Lady of Shalott, Alfred Tennyson // Anne of Green Gables (1985) // Advantages of Being Evergreen, Oliver Baez Bendorf // Ophelia, John Everett Millais // Hamlet, William Shakespeare // Melancholia (2011) // Wild Geese, Mary Oliver // Revenge of the Sith (2005) // Summer Morning, Mary Oliver

[seravphs]

drabbles:

✧ modern intimacy | 200 fluff

Gojo watches you get ready for your anniversary date.

✧ all roads lead home | 600 fluff

Gojo “my girl is mad at me I hope I die” Satoru, companion piece to modern intimacy

✧ all the rumors are true | 450 fluff

He’s an idol. You’re a hairstylist.

short/long fic:

✧ dinner plans | 1k fluff

Gojo's a brat.

✧ spoil | 1k fluff

Gojo Satoru likes his girls clingy. 

✧ sweetheart, psychopathic crush | 1.5k fluff and mild angst 

“What I want from the river is what I always want: / to be held by a stronger thing that, in the end, chooses mercy.” - Advantages of Being Evergreen by Oliver Baez Bendorf

✧ starboy | 1.6k fluff

Your job description entails taking care of one (1) astronaut on his way to Mars. It doesn’t say anything about falling in love with him. 

✧ arrive through obliteration | 3.5k smut

Gojo deserves a trophy for winning his fight against Sukuna. You’re happy to deliver.

✧ you get me closer to god | 3.7k fluff

Kneeling by your bed, rosary wrapped around your knuckles, lips pressed to the burnished rosewood, you pray. God, please send me another guardian angel. A blast of static from the TV behind you. The one you sent me- “Hey, how does the thing work?” Gojo says, accompanied by loud thumps. You cringe in silence. He’s strange.

✧ graveyard shift | 4.5k fluff | (not really a) mafia au

When you took the job, you knew working the night shift at your local convenience store would be boring. That’s fine; you’re here to make enough to pay rent, not to smile for strangers who don’t care anyways.The appearance of a stranger who seems to have a lot to hide is tantalizing bait to your boredom, but you can’t give in. That is, if you have a choice at all.

✧ the commutative property of relationships | 4.5k smut

Gojo and you have little to nothing in common besides a friend group and a shared crush on Nanami Kento. However, as befitting the sorcerer to end all sorcerers, of course Gojo has one up on you - he’s actually made a move on Nanami. If he offers to give you a taste through him, who are you to turn down such a golden opportunity?

✧ star power | 6.8k fluff

Gojo loves the untouchable. You’re an off limits rockstar who thinks he’s an idiot. The only thing he can do is take that as a challenge, right?

universes: 

✧ cruel summer 

✧ teen dad gojo 

series:

✧ let your hand become a blade so I may take it | royal au | 1/7 chapters

Updated knight! gojo x princess! reader

✧ the hand which holds the knife | royal au | 2 chapters 

OLD DRAFT of knight! gojo x princess! reader

✧ spring in hell and everything’s blooming | 2/5 chapters | estimated 12k 

There is before-Getou and after-Getou. In both spaces, Gojo exists.

✧ beating hearts promised to bared teeth | 1/2 chapters | estimated 20k

When a kind stranger offers you his home because your gambling addict of a father can’t pay rent, you’re left in charge of a shrine - with a catch. Once you arrive at your new home, you learn a crucial fact that he conveniently left out. You’re the new god in charge, and his familiar, who now belongs to you, does not like you. What’s a new god to do, especially when she finds herself slowly falling for the fox spirit?

[firstfullmoon]

hi! Do you have any recommendations for poems on how to make a body a home?

“Physical Therapy” by Franny Choi

“Against Dying” by Kaveh Akbar

“This Is Not the Body I Asked For” by Heather Christle

“Dysphoria” by Oliver Baez Bendorf

“Grass Moon” by Matthew Dickman

“Sway” by Ada Limón

[badatwebweaving]

This Empty Northern Hemisphere - Gregory Alan Isakov // Marybeth Gaskill - RDR2 // Rosyln - Bon Iver & St. Vincent // New Moon Newton - Oliver Baez Bendorf // Rises the Moon - Liana Flores // Barmouth Moonlight - Christopher Williams // Marybeth Gaskill - RDR2 // Hunter  - Bianca Stone // Moonlight, a Study at Millbank - Joseph Mallord William Turner // unknown // Desire [even in the time of the tyrant] - Leah Umansky // Under the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg // Itirk - Pinterest // To a dead friend - Langston Hughes // Marybeth Gaskill - RDR2 // An Opportunity to Go to the Moon - Reese Lansangan

[jumping-jackalope]

Viola LeBeau, Water is Memory // Natalie Diaz, First Water is the Body // Kablusiak, “Things that both a relative you haven't seen in a long time and the river could say” (2019), // Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass // Alessandro Puccinelli, Intersections // Oliver Baez Bendorf, Who Spit into the Pumpkin, Who They Waiting For // nathanallardart

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[havingapoemwithyou]

dysphoria by Oliver Baez Bendorf

[kyoshi-lesbians]

“I wanted to do it. I wanted to take out all my anger at him. But I couldn’t. I don’t know if it’s because I’m too weak to do it, or if it’s because I’m strong enough not to.”

atla episode The Southern Raiders // Oliver Baez Bendorf, Who Spit into the Pumpkin, Who They Waiting For

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[dulceskull]

The "From Here & Queer" book fundraiser page is UP!

30+ page kid's book on LGBT Iowa history & citizens, and a love letter to the LGBT+ community, illustrated by ME!

Pictured here: Mansoor Amjed, and Oliver Baez Bendorf!

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Advantages of Being Evergreen by Oliver Baez Bendorf

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis

Kiss Number 8 by Colleen A.F. Venable

Catfishing on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer

These are all queued! Thanks!

[pityroad]

“What I want from the river is what I always want: / to be held by a stronger thing that, in the end, chooses mercy.”

— Advantages of Being Evergreen, Oliver Baez Bendorf

i’m like touch starved but for a river