#reading her poems

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[caruccio]

Imagine sitting in a garden with her, she looks at the flowers and i look at mine.

[kvothes]

two poems by hedgie choi in the american poetry review

[avicecaro]

i think it’s important everyone knows about the little roman girl who died at only five years and seven months old, and her grave reads "dum vixi, lusi" or "while i lived, i played"

[ssaltlicker]

I feel like you can tell who reads and doesnt read poetry by how they took the “dirt under your nails” comment. To me, it immediately read as “we are inseparable” like saying “the salt and the sea” or something. You arent focusing on the pieces individually, but the whole that they form together. AKA, being so close to someone/something that you are forever intertwined.

Its just shocking how many people took it as some kind of dig or insult. Getting your hands dirty symbolizes hard work. Someone that “never gets their hands dirty” is someone that doesnt work hard. Caitlyn WAS the latter, the elite that puts the work on other people. The whole point is that she has changed through work, but also through her relationship with vi.

Also; the phrase is actually pretty common in some regions (usually some alteration of it, anyways). Its been a phrase of affection for a while. Just funny how you can tell a lot about someones background by how they interpret certain phrases

[welcometogrouchland]

I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry

[stardotnet]

yes, there will be singing

[the-cassandriad]

i've not written poetry in years (i'm more of a novelist) but i allowed myself some cassandra thoughts (as a treat). i actually had a lot of fun with this and i'm desperate to do more with the idea in the future so we will see.

inspired obviously by my own muses, @two-bees-poetry for the brilliant contrapuntal poems about greek myth, and anne carson, specifically when she talks about cassandra's speech being split in two and her bridging of past and future!

more of my logic in the tags because i'm annoying!

[lxvenderjewel]

stars

why do you look at me like i hung the stars?

it’s much more likely that it was you

sparkling even in smothering dark

even i could shine if i was next to you

we’re like the moon and sun

i’m only there because you are too

but you don’t need me to be yourself

and when i’m the moon, i rarely get to see you

we’re like light and a black hole

you glow in so many shades of blue

but of course, i suck it all up

and leave you without a clue

why do you look at me like i hung the stars?

don’t you know i hung them for you?

[caruccio]

“Moon of my Heart.”

[raemimuse]

but Why were we taught to fear the witches & not those who burnt them alive?

[echosdevil]

these snippets about gemma in rickens book. crying blood

[silent-insanities]

Books are my only escape.

[authenticity2025]

She is his sunset. He is her storm. Unknown

[penumbra-mayhem]

Darlin’ HCs

• They get scared shitless every time they use a toaster. Every. Damn. Time.

• When they do manage to eat (which is rare prior to Sam), they wolf everything down (haha) so fucking fast

• They devour sour candy; it’s a wonder they have any taste buds left

• They love pranking Asher by giving him candy that doesn’t look sour to see his (very dramatic) reaction

(He falls for it every time, that man can’t resist sugar. And sometimes the candy actually isn’t sour, so he can never predict it.)

• They have a stutter that developed from head trauma during their last fight with Quinn (more about that here)

• After they come back home, Darlin’ starts working for a soup kitchen. They work in the warehouse packing/distribution center.

• They love their job cause it allows them to do physical work for a good cause without having to interact with many people

• They are constantly changing their hair color/style, but their favorite colors to dye it are black and neon purple

• Darlin has been punk since high school. The jacket they never take off is their battle jacket.

• Their (very beat up) headphones are blasting music 24/7

• Darlin’ has moral OCD, but they don’t know for the longest time

• Quinn quickly picks up on this fact, but doesn’t tell them. He instead uses their obsessions against them to make them believe they are the scum of the earth

• Sam also picks up on their OCD and does a lot of research. He gently introduces the idea to them and helps them get a proper diagnosis and therapy

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton