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sexy-sapphic-sorcerer · 6 months

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Recall the tale of Icarus.

Choose to be Icarus.

Linda K. Hughes, Text and Subtext in "Merlin and the Gleam", p.166 /// Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and the Gleam /// BBC Merlin, The Last Dragonlord (2x13) /// Natalie Wee, Patroclus Dreaming /// Hozier, I, Carrion (Icarian) /// BBC Merlin, The Wicked Day (4x03) /// Hozier /// Natalie Wee /// BBC Merlin, The Disir (5x05) /// Alfred Tennyson /// Hozier /// BBC Merlin, The Diamond of the Day: Part 2 (5x13) /// Natalie Wee /// Alfred Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur /// BBC Merlin, The Diamond of the Day: Part 2 (5x13) /// Hozier /// Alfred Tennyson /// Natalie Wee

#yes I am taking tennyson's poems that are very much about merlin the old man wizard and making it a gay romance #but!! many academics and tennyson's own son have said that merlin's grief for arthur in that poem was directly inspired by #the poet's grief for his almost-definitely-more-than-a-friend arthur hallam #I've been in a fun research rabbit hole today #I hope this post makes sense to literally anyone else lol #please just read the whole poem 'merlin and the gleam' cos there aren't many short parts I could use for this but the overall vibe #expresses this idea of destiny and blinding devotion far better. and it has a happier ending #merthur #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin web weave #merthur web weave #merthur meta #alfred tennyson #idylls of the king #arthurian legend

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introspectivememories · 7 months

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NICO: WE SHARED THE LIFT THIS MORNING! I WAS GOING TO THE POOL TRAMPOLINE WITH MY TWO DAUGHTERS AND HE WAS GOING TO THE RACETRACK. PINKHAM: VERY DIFFERENT LIVES YOU'RE CURRENTLY LEADING.

#that line from nico is like /the/ modern brocedes thesis to me #like this is their happy ending!!! it is not the one they dreamed of all those years ago in greece but is a happy ending.#it's not multiple shared championships or racing against each other for years or anything their 13 year-old-selves would've dreamed up but #it is them achieving their dreams. lewis has 7 wdcs and is aiming for an 8th. nico has a loving wife and 2 daughters he'd die for. they are #both doing the things they love. would it have been nice if those dreams included each other? yeah. would it have been nice that when ppl #mention their names it would be to talk about what great friends they are instead of how they tore each other apart? absolutely! but they #were doomed from the start. so maybe it doesn't matter that they didn't get their traditional 'happy ending'. at least they had a happy #start and a semi-happy middle. at least they have the lift to see each other. at least nico's daughters get to keep lewis in their lives in #a way nico will never get to again. they will never share a bowl of frosties again but at least their roots are so thoroughly tangled #together that they can never look back without haunting each other. at least they still have that.#anyway for all the non-americans who reblog or like this. the poem is 'the road not taken' by robert frost. very famous in america #every middle/high schooler has to analyze/read this poem at some point. i don't know how popular he is outside of america so i thought id #leave a note ig.#anyway. i am going crazy and i need to lie down. that 2nd line was sooo hard to find a photo for. wth does 'hence' even mean???#brocedes edit #brocedes #f1 web weaving #f1 #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #f1 edit #nr6 #lh44 #web weaving

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wooftphr · 3 months

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Muse

#my work #my poetry #my posts #poetry #art #writing #poems and poetry #poetic #draft #im working on a poem and ill probably include some of these lines but this paragraph alone made me feel smth #this is about how i keep seeing my friends jn really old art btw.#i keep thinking about how we loved eachother the same as we do now

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calamitys-child · 8 months

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Bought and sold and traded so many fantastic zines this weekend and honestly my favourite interaction I had was with a very shy but very very determined kid who asked politely if I'd like to trade them one of my angry political transgender poems for some drawings they did in class. I will treasure it forever it was so cute this kid has such a fun scrappy art style and I look forward to seeing them at future zine fairs with more little drawings. Weird queer accessible inclusive art fairs you have my heart always and forever 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

#other highlights:#woman who saw my against me! shirt and came over again 3hrs later to give me a list of other queer punk bands #the fact my partner went away from the table to get us lunch and immediately got handed a chick tract by some street preacher #which then became a bonding moment with someone who makes polyamorous blackout poetry from the bible and wants to turn #their old purity ring into a leather choker #the person who chatted about my late great aunt's poetry with me and gifted me a moomin badge he made #the no fewer than four people who gave me queer werewolf recommendations #the person who specifically bought my spooky queer poem for their friend because quote 'he keeps fucking getting haunted and needs to stop'#every single person who upon picking up my 'a trans person used this bathroom' free stickers and having me say that i want #to see those in every bathroom in scotland solemnly and excitedly promised to carry out this mission

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ilonacho · 1 month

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pompeii bastille fills me with such longing for days that are long gone

#been thinking about that poem 'it all seems very mundane' so much lately #god add ed sheeran castle on the hill i hadnt listened to that one in a while. ourgh #euughh emotions…. yuck #if any of my classmates are reading this by chance i wish i could go to the reunion so bad but im poor lol #i love u all so much i hope life is treating u all well #i miss the view from my dads old apartment. i miss snow. i miss running to catch the train home from school #i miss walking home late at night from downtown burbank. i miss the way the light from the streetlights fell on our floor #i miss staying up late in the livingroom and hearing my moms snoring. i miss sleepovers with friends #i miss late night drives with my mom with no destination. i miss long walks with my dad and brother #i miss going to my grandmas for a warm homemade meal #and i guess soon enough ill miss this too

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real-reulbbr-band · 10 months

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Ngl I love Mistoffelees being the worst cat to own so much. Like yea yea ik “Tugger is overly picky and inconvenient”, “Macavity exists” and “Mungo and Rump will destroy your house” but naur Misto out here making his owner think they’re delusional asf

Can you imagine just?

“But his voice has been heard on the roof When he was curled up by the fire”

“You have seen it one moment, and then it is gone! But you find it next week lying out on the lawn.”

“And I've known the family to call, Him in from the garden for hours. When he was asleep in the hall”

#Old possums book for practical cats #cats the musical #mr. mistoffelees #just something me and my friend were talking about so don’t take it too seriously #This is probably cause I assume all the poems about the cats are from the owner’s or a humans pov

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4harts · 6 months

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#tumblr polls #poetry #poets on tumblr #just something ive been thinking about lately #because i wrote a poem about an old friend and i was wondering if it would b weird to tell them #we dont rlly talk much anymore n its a big regret for me #because i know now what i should have done better #anyways thats a lot of info to dump #happy monday #mine

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rabble-dabble · 9 months

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it took a lot of thinking to settle on knowing if i was a trans guy but what really solidified it to me was being unable to live with the thought of dying as anything but an old man. i can't imagine not having grey facial hair and old faded top surgery scars and maybe grandchildren who call me "grandpa". i just cant live with the thought of my gravestone having "daughter, wife, aunt, niece, grandmother," carved into it along with the name of a stranger. they can't ask me to die as a her. They won't kill me as a her. they wont bury me as a her. Its not fair. They can carve the wrong name into stone and dig up my bones and say "this skeleton makes a woman" but i assure you i'm going to die as a man with the name those close to my heart know me by. and i'm going to live long enough to meet him, the future version of me, because if theyre gonna try to bury me as a woman theyre gonna have to try and kill the man in me to do it. and ill cackle from my casket knowing they had to try to erase me in death because i wouldnt let them do it while i was alive. I wouldnt let them.

#text post #transgender #trans #trans boy #i think about the high lgbtqia death rates and like. my parents having to bury me #if they try to bury me as a woman (which is likely) ill come back to haunt their lives. ill curse them beyond the grave #my friends would fight for me i think. i believe. even if my parents try to bury me as a daughter my friends would know better. i was a son #i like to think my spirit will go down kicking and screaming. dad if you see my pride flags and bury me as your daughter i hope i haunt you #i killed her actually. something something that one trans post about 'actually yeah your misgendered child IS dead. i took them over'#there is no daughter here. not anymore. she died and came back a son #also just something about living long enough to become old. to become wrinkled. to have a family and a lineage.#'yeah grandpa rabble was born a girl but he's always been grandpa'#at least if im buried in a dress or something i lived as i did #they can try and erase the boy in me but i already lived as him. HA. take that #they can try and bury me but they'll never be able to bury me alive. they'll never bury who i was to me.#ill die as i am. a trans gay bi man. and they can wring the satisfied life from my cold dead wrinkled hands #rabble poem

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blue-nebraska · 2 years

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Day thirty-one: Laura Palmer

Laura! Without her there would be no story, but who was she? I couldn’t think of what to draw for this, because her character is (of course) only represented in the show through others, remembering her more for what they wanted her to be than how she truly was. It may sound silly because she’s just a fictional character, but I wanted to draw something that felt true to her, rather than one of the empty tropes she embodies (prom queen/dead girl/doppelganger). I was working on previous prompts and watching the first episode of season two, where the Palmers, the Haywards, and Maddy are having their dinner party. Harriet read the poem she wrote about Laura and it struck me as being so authentic, and so unlike any other characters’ tribute to her, that I decided to use that as my foundation. I am really happy with this, I feel like I’ve done right by Laura which is what I set out to do with this last drawing.

ID: A black and white drawing. In the right is Laura Palmer, wearing a skirt and a sweater with her back towards us, looking over her shoulder. There is a white glow around her figure. Beyond her is a dark forest with trees white trees and branches that fold over her. To the left is the text from the poem by Harriet Hayward.

#im sorry im talking about laura like shes real okay i just have FEELINGS #also i didnt put this in the caption cause im not trying to make my post three feet long BUT i think what is special about harriet's poem #is that its one of the few things about laura that doesnt sexualize her or emphasize what laura was doing for her #which is what i hate about every man in twin peaks that had to do with her #did you kill her? no i... i loved her *ben horne looking at a FRAMED PHOTO of laura he has on his desk at WORK?? what a freak #and jacoby with all his 'bobby and leo were boys.. laura was a WOMAN!' LAURA WAS A 17 YEAR OLD HIGH SCHOOL GIRL!!!!!#but harriet remembers her as her sisters best friend. she probably tried to join in on their sleepovers #she probably remembers laura at their supper table once a week for her whole life #running into her in the bathroom and laura giving her a pad when shes getting her period for the first time #AUGGH #okay im done #twin peaks #twin peaks art #laura palmer #sheryl lee #inktober #fanart #described #tp

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butchlifeguard · 5 months

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hiiii >:D

waking up yr neighbors downstairs

i can't think of getting old

he said he wanted to

lets take the boat out on the bay

we're scanning the scene in the city tonight

#this is a pretty 6/10 poem imo. thats a good thing #songs are stay away from my friends pierce the veil. caught in the middle by paramore.#(i feel like youve posted about that song before?? maybe it was somsoen else but it made me listen to it like 5 times)#star bellied boy by bikini kill. (yeah uh. i had to make the executive decision to not use sugar but this isnt really better).#wendy clear by blink 182. and seek and destroy by metallica #'i cant think of getting old he said he wanted to' is actually fire though #like the contrast between present and past tense what happened.. did the speaker live and the guy die im Listening #SORRY. AM YAPPING THANKS FOR THE ASK 👍👍

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parktheghost · 2 years

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Finding exit wounds in the hospital waiting room by @parktheghost (P.C-M.)

#this is a little bit old but i wanted to post something #to clarify this was written when i got back my brain scan results and very luckily do not have a tumour #but it made me sad about the people i can't tell about it anymore because we're kind of strangers now #it's also somewhat about my ex because everything's somewhat about my ex #cancer tw #cancer #tw cancer #also im trying something new!! proper capitalisation everybody say wowwwwww #i hope my general constant feeling of loss can be felt through this poem #also everyone say YOOOO I DON'T HAVE CANCER #i got a round of applause when i announced it to my friends #i'm ecstatic frankly i know this poem doesnt reflect that but im so grateful that i'm okay #okay tags #poetry #poem #loss #grief #health #idk man i just want people to read my stuff #poets on tumblr #my poetry #gay poetry #trans poetry #queer poetry #on loss #gay #trans #queer #sad poetry #angry poetry

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mismatchsocks · 5 months

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nothing to offer but quotes from nbc hannibal/the blooper reel

#great teamwork guys. motive! motive! i’m out!#is it in the parking lot!?#alana! i love you!#i’m not gonna let this motherfucker have no fun #sorry i’ve realized i have no idea what i’m meant to be doing #I KNOW WHEN IM AWAKE!!!#you guys see the game on saturday #you wanna do dinner on friday?#did you forget her name? that’s bad.#we had a wonderful thirty seconds together #we can be anywhere in the east or the south in an hour and a half- that makes so fucking sense at all #or just a beer #two beers #i thought i could be so cool #they love and kill what they love #and eat what they love #don’t you crave change will?#i’m your friend will i don’t care about the lives you save i care about your life #i don’t find you that interesting #you’re here visiting an old flame #is your wife aware of how intimately you and hannibal know each other?#don’t say hannibal lecter #i’m saying hannibal lecter #this killer wrote you a poem. are you going to let his love go to waste?#not fond of eye contact are you?#eyes are distracting. see too much don’t see enough #it’s hard to focus when you’re thinking are those whites really white or he must of hepatitis or is that burst vein?#so yeah i try to avoid eyes whenever possible #where do you fall on the spectrum?#nbc hannibal

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inkstainednote · 5 months

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I forgot that summer.

I'm sorry.

I forgot the feeling of the sand on my feet.

I forgot the way the sea felt on my skin.

I forgot how the wind blew on my hair and I forgot the taste of ice cream melting on my hands on a hot day.

I forgot that one day when we walked around town and for once it felt like home.

I forgot the feel of your hand in mine, I forgot your smile, I forgot my laughter.

I forgot. I'm sorry.

I had to. I'm sorry.

You know I had to forget (I'm sorry).

It hurt. I'm sorry. You know I had to.

I'm sorry. You know I'm sorry.

I know you forgot.

You know I didn't. You know I didn't forget.

I remember.

I cannot forget.

I'm sorry. I know you forgot. I know you forgot me.

I'm sorry you forgot me.

I'm sorry I never forgot. I'm sorry I could never forget. I'm sorry I will never forget you.

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721km · 2 years

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i will forever wish to be like that one friends house where you feel safe. where you don’t dread the morning after a sleepover. where it feels like the house is hugging you. warm and comforting. I will forever wish to be the house that hugs

#text post #nostalgia #found family #childhood friends #old friends #poem #comfort #sleepover #vent post #old friendships #warm hugs #that one house #like a cup of tea #you know that one friends house I’m talking about #but you’re growing up so you can never go back #I’ll be the house from now on

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princess-adronitis · 5 months

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domesticated love

Love is domesticated , it is:

you have the tickets, and I will pick you up

It is mundane , and boring in a pleasant way

Please turn on the kettle ( I will get the cups)

It is not my cupboard (but I will choose my favourite mug , as I grab yours)

It’s “one second “

And

“Can you hold this for me ?”

It’s “oh yeah I almost forgot to tell you”

Love is friendship ,

Constant partnership

- jm

Apr 30/24

#my poetry #3 series #love #domesticated #love can be boring in a great way #I love the routine of old friends that just know what the other is gonna do #I love the way couples finish each others sentences #or get excited to tell the other about something they forgot to mention #poems #romance #spilled ink #thoughts

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the-ipre · 6 months

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You ever come up with the best character names and know you will never reach that peak again

#I have named the swordsbutch and their damsel !!#they live in a world of contradictory curses my friend made and the swordsbutch is an Incredibly talented fighter but they can never raise-#their sword of their own accord #and the damsel can heal people of their injuries by transferring them to someone who trusts her :))#it’s playing with images of courtly love where the damsel is casting herself as a damsel in distress a courtly beloved an image not an actor #while also being the one who tells her knight to lift their sword and fight and who to fight and when #so she is removed a step from the action and the swordsbutch is turned into a weapon in her hands !!#so names !!! the swordsbutch is Ser Penance because ! old fashioned virtue name and making up for what you have been done (what u have been-#made to do) and a name as a title and a role rather than a Person yk #and then the damsels name is Calliope Teryx !! named for the muse of muses who inspires awe and love and poems to be written about her !!!#and then full name based off of the family name for damselfly! calopertyx! because damselflies are lovely and elegant and dainty and also-#predators ! undergoing metamorphosis ! have elaborate courtship rituals ! it’s all about image while keeping your teeth sharp #I have been Rotating these guys and finally figured out their names last night and eheheheheheheheh I like them

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