#theres a poem in here somewhere

[svamppp]

There are certain things I've always known about myself, one of those is how my emotions work. I am a blank slate, my emotions pushed so far beneath the surface that I cannot discern their meanings anymore. instead, they mirror the environment around me. passively I feel the things I am told about, less harshly but there none the less.

I can listen to the lands and to those I know and feel their feelings, it's beautiful and helpful. it protects me, but I wonder what it would be like to have organic emotions. not harvested from another

[rathockey]

the pit of longing in my stomach is growing teeth. i fear it may soon become ravenous.

[mielicy]

everything happening rn is like a perfect mirror of 2015-2018 and its tripping me tf out

[wordvomitbitch]

[celestialmudd]

I lent someone a graphic novel i bought on a trip, and i do miss it

But i hope that friend is enjoying it

And i want it back

[azalearanger]

*puts on conspiracy theory hat*

I know it is written somewhere that jrrt never intended for Gil-galad to be the son of Fingon, but I have found something that made me reconsider it:

So i'm reading Beren and Lúthien, and theres this small section (part of an excerpt from the Lay of Leithian) describing the northern landscape approaching Angband:

" Once wide and smooth a plain was spread, / where King Fingolfin proudly led / his silver armies on the green, / his horses white, his lances keen; / his helmets tall of steel were hewn; / his shields were shining as the moon. "

And who is Fingolfin? That's right, the father of Fingon.

Now you might already be seeing what I was seeing, but I when I read this, I was like hmmmm why does this sound familiar??

So we all remember the poem "The Fall of Gil-galad" yes? The one Bilbo translated into common speech and that Sam recited on Weathertop in Fellowship? Here's the second stanza:

" His sword was long, his lance was keen. / His shining helm afar was seen; / the countless stars of heaven's field / were mirrored in his silver shield. "

Am I going crazy? Maybe! But there sure are a lot of similarities in the language here....

UPDATE: after writing all this above, I peeked at the Tolkien Gateway Wiki and discovered that Tolkien did in fact recycle phrasing from the Lay for the poem in the Fellowship, so my point may be moot BUT we go on:

I don't think there's an "in-story" author for the Lay (is the Lay as a text/poem canon within legendarium/tolkien universe? Like is it something the characters know?), other wise I would have just said the in-story authors of these two poems were probably just Gilgalad son-of-Fingon son-of-Fingolfin truthers.

But since the Ley seems to just exist as an external narrative (as in, it doesn't seem to be a text that exists within the story like the Fall of Gilgalad does), that tells me it kinda reflects what Tolkien himself was thinking. So maybe he just recycled the phrasing because it sounded nice, or MAYBE he recycled it because he was considering the link between Fingolfin and Ereinion Gilgalad.

UPDATE UPDATE: A few pages later in Beren and Lúthien we get this:

" In that vast shadow once of yore / Fingolfin stood: his shield he bore / with field of heaven's blue and star / of crystal shining pale afar. "

AGAIN the word similarities with the second stanza of TFoGg, but also with the last two lines of the third stanza:

" for into darkness fell his star / in Mordor where the shadows are. "

Well, if you've read this far, thank you for following my conspiracy theory literary analysis. Am I a Gil-galad son of Fingon son of Fingolfin truther? Maybe! Who knows??

[supernova25]

Like the movies

dates with genshin men!

characters . . scaramouche, xiao, kaeya, alhaitham, albedo, childe, baizhu

a/n: added baizhu in here because i can hehe, i also made albedos part longer because i gave him too little in the original one<//3

c/w: maybe ooc for baizhu and childe maybe? i dont know them well :( | wordcount . . 420 | masterlist

scaramouche | nothing too much. he’d prefer something simple. dinner at your place or a picnic. i also feel like he’d prefer having night picnics. he also likes café dates, also arcade dates(is that what you call them?). anything simple.

xiao | another simple dinner enjoyer. if he were to pick it would be something simple, a restaurant maybe, but not too fancy. something cozy. maybe cafe dates here and there.

kaeya | an eye catching restaurant with a romantic aura. he’s also ready with a bouquet of your favorite flowers. every date with him is really memorable. 

alhaitham | it really depends. if its just a regular date then he’ll prefer something simple, if you two are going out for something special, like your birthday, anniversary, etc.. then he’d make it as memorable as possible, keeping your likes and dislikes in mind. 

albedo | i feel like i didn't do albedo justice in the last one since his part was so short. albedo prefers having you choose the dates, but if you make him decide then something so simple but super cute. movie nights, simple dinner at your place or at his place. if you like drawing then he’d just stay at home with you and draw. maybe even do that thing where you two exchange drawings every few minutes. it also depends on what you like, he puts that into consideration. if you like going out to eat then he’ll pick a restaurant, somewhere you haven't been to yet but somewhere you’ll enjoy. you like a romantic aura? then he’ll pick somewhere with a romantic aura. 

childe | ugh, dont get me started with this stupidly rich man. saying that he loves spoiling you is an understatement. he also takes every thing you like into consideration. whats your favorite type of food? italian? indian? chinese? do you want it to be really romantic? or do you want it simple? do you have a favorite restaurant? (jollibee) if so, then he’ll take you to a restaurant similar to your favorite, if theres none then he’ll take you to your favorite restaurant.

baizhu | i dont know much about baizhu so please bear with me. i asked baizhus spouse(vi) to describe his personality, so based on what she said i feel like he’ll take you somewhere new. ive also heard from vi that he’s poetic, with that being said i can see him making you some poems as a gift. (i can see him working on the poem during his break jksjsjs)

[hockeyisforthegays]

did you read 264 and 265 chapter's of jjk? if so what are you thoughts? you don't have to answer i'm just curious about what you think because i feel like you have really unique observations

(love you writing, thank you in advance if you end up answering)

oh shit anon let me write you an essay. and by essay i mean a disjointed series of long ass bulletpoints. also im gonna be focusing mostly on 265 because as my friends put it i am "ceo of itadori yuuji" or the proprietor of the "itadori cinematic universe" so you could say. that i am biased

okay. one. as an overall thing. i wish that for pretty much everything . that they would just lean into it more. theres a lot of concepts im into but everything lately seems to be presented without exploration or followup. like im about to analyze this to shit but i feel like im gluing meat to a skeleton. help me out here gege

FOR EXAMPLE yuuji's ultimatum to sukuna. i wish. i wish there was more here. like in theory this is really cool to me. yuuji says You Choose Whether I Eat You Or Kill You. Will You Live With Me? Or Will You Die Alone?

I lay my Body down as a Sacrifice

but more so as a Prison

but most of all as a Mercy

the first to my Friend, the second to my Curse, and the third to the Person i hope is buried deep down inside that evil.

aaaaand then this is kinda undercut by sukuna's reaction to me. not that i need him to go full on mahito quaking rabbit ass on us tbc. but the stubborn non-engagement with the premise just makes me roll my eyes and groan. i wish gege had found a way to let this reveal SOME new or unexplored aspect of sukuna's character? one chink in the armour. one stray thought that we wouldn't expect to hear from him. something. something to latch onto.

this may be unreasonable also given that gege is writing in literally a different language but i hope we find our way somehow to the double meaning of the phrase "flesh and blood" btw. like. sukuna is yuuji's uncle and they shared a body. yuuji is trying to make sukuna come back to that body. theres something there i swear it.

sukuna, come home. we're family. you're my flesh and blood.

(while beating his ass)

like make it scary. god PLEASE put some metamorphosis stank on it. gimme that I Am You flavourrrrr

okay now also. yuuji's domain. i want to talk about yuuji's domain so bad. one thing i noticed was that he doesn't name it. at first i was pretty disappointed because im a weirdo and i love their weird word salad names, i love that e.g. fushiguro and mahito just bust out full poems on i guess instinct when they use their domains for the first time!! so the fact that yuuji didn't get one felt at first like he was being... slighted by the convention almost? but.

this is again a thing i think could have been cool if leaned into, in a few ways. ive just been having these ideas about how yuuji's domain is different from other domains, one of those ways being in its lack of a name.

first of all from a character perspective - yuuji's whole persona in battle is like warpath, tunnel vision, beat your ass shit, so it does kinda make sense that his domain would be just as no muss no fuss just get it the fuck done, in a way. once again. lean into this!!

but also, i started thinking about what we saw with characters like gojo and sukuna, and the idea of jujutsu as the art of elision. when those characters wanted to juice their big moves, they reverted rituals that included vocal incantations. that exact word salad shit. i started thinking - those word salad domain names are like, that, you know? maybe this is explicit and i just missed it somewhere. or i forgor. but perhaps invoking a domain's name makes it more powerful, or easier to establish, or something

(i so much dont want to reread to figure this out. RIP)

if this is the case, yuuji not using a domain name would say a darn something about his power huh???

LEAN INTO THIS. LIKE SUKUNA COMMENT ON IT FOR FUCK SAKE i know you are allergic to acknolwedging your nephew but its for the AUDIENCE'S SAKE NOT YOURS

gege i am fucking inventing lore for you to make it cooler. why wont you. come back here

but anyway. what IS yuuji's domain and what does it do. he learned from kusakabe, so it's at least somewhat akin to a simple domain, but we also know yuuji's body holds the memory of malevolent shrine - does that have any influence on how the domain turned out? it seems pretty... big, for lack of a better way of describing a mental projection. no other simple domain really HAD projections. are there no techniques imbued in it? what about vows, like sukuna with his whatever barrier bullshit? yuuji's forces sukuna back into the yuukuna body. why? how? we've seen how domains can make its targets abide by rules, what rule is this? sukuna also acts nonviolently for as long as yuuji strings him through illusory sendai, and i dont know if this is a choice by sukuna (which idk whether i do or do not understand as a character choice at this point) or if it's enforced by the domain somehow.

(I feel like, these things either need to be More or even Less clear. like i understand just enough to have burning questions. if this were more obtuse and symbolic, i would probably be content to ride the vibes, actually. BUT IM NOT. ANSWER ME GEGE. YOU'VE TOLD ME SO MUCH LORE I DONT CARE ABOUT!!! WHAT OF MY SON!)

anyway closing thoughts wrt 266 you may be able to tell from my Fucking Fanfiction but i have literally been waiting for yuuji's own fingers to become cursed objects for EVER. i was imagining scenarios while watching season 1. im crazy stupid about it. i hope i hope i hope this finger shakes out into something WORTHWHILE. and sorry again this is entirely yuuji centred my only thoughts about the characters who were in 264 is the frustration of the way they got sidelined so carelessly RIP

[veggieburgertrash]

I like the idea of different

theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,

a Bronx where people talk

like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow

kind, perhaps in the nook

of a cousin universe I’ve never defiled or betrayed

anyone. Here I have

two hands and they are vanishing, the hollow of your back

to rest my cheek against

white ferrari - frank ocean / everything everywhere all at once - daniel kwan, daniel scheinert / another life - sza / past lives - celine song / birds of a feather - billie eilish / other lives and dimensions and finally a love poem - bob hicok

[lichen-punk]

1, 3, 9, 20, 25, 27, 28, 39, 45, 47 SORRY THIS IS SO MANY LOLL

o my goodness ok im putting a cut here for everyone's sanity cause all these questions got me excited

Do you have a favorite place near you to “touch grass”?

theres a little woodsy park near my house just within easy walking distance which is easy to get into regardless of time of day or night and has an incredible hill where you can sit under an oak tree in the tall grass and watch the sun or the moon come up or set depending on time of day and year and i love love love it one of the only good things about my town i go up there for my Rituals And Things gkjhsf

3. If you could see any extinct species in the wild, what would it be?

im a sucker for megafauna id love to see an irish elk or an aurochs or a woolly mammoth that would be so so cool

9. Do you have a favorite nature photo you’ve ever taken?

here's some of the best photos ive ever taken in my life, and then some pictures from the hike back to the cabin when we realized the sun was setting sooner than we thought it would and it was about to get WAY too cold for how we were dressed

20. What’s your favorite poem or song lyric about nature?

definitely a gerard manley hopkins!!! he's my fave poet ever and half his work is about nature. i'm torn between two, tho: i think my favorite of all time, really my favorite poem entirely, is the windhover (ive been trying to copy and paste it here without ruining the formatting but it is not working alas so you must google it sorry), but the last stanza of another of my favorites of his poems, inversnaid, is also just. fucking killer

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

25. What’s your favorite plant to grow yourself?

i unfortunately live in a terrible spot to grow stuff, the yard of my family's little house is like. straight dry clay and entirely shady, so my thumb has never gotten even the barest hint of green to it. one day id like to grow wheat or corn or some such tho

27. What’s your favorite outdoor activity?

honestly????? i love to just Sit And Observe. i used to love love love swimming in creeks and lakes and things, but obv i havent swum in anything for a very long time. hopefully i will again one dayy im also a big big fan of a fire for singing around. and to be honest shakespeare doesnt feel right unless its performed somewhere outdoors and beautiful now

28. What’s your favorite local animal you see all the time but still love?

ALL OF THEMMMMMM we get raccoons and possums and squirrels and mule deer and black tailed deer and crows and ravens and pigeons and rats and mice and apparently frogs i learned recently and newts and theyre all my best friends and i get so excited when i see them

39. What ecosystem do you consider your “home” ecosystem?

absolutely all american pacific northwest shit i love a temperate rainforest with redwoods and doug firs and such and then the deciduous layer underneath all ferns and moss and little creeks and then the harsh cliffs down to the beach all cold and foggy and windy. that's where i Belong easy peasy. i do also associate the more aggressively californian Beige Grassy Hills With Lonely Scrappy Little Coast Live Oaks or Valley Oaks On Top type biome with home and growing up, but its always been a little too harsh and dry and sunny for me here.

45. What is your favorite wildflower?

o god thats hard i love wildflowers. im a sucker for daisies, obv, and i love forget-me-nots and california poppies and indian paintbrush and columbine and and and

47. What is your favorite species of tree?

o no thats hard too!!!!! ummm probably oak trees, especially white oaks like the valley oak or the oregon white oak, especially the really big old wise looking ones, but i also adore sequoioideae and other conifers, unsurprisingly, and rowans and apple trees among others hold personal spiritual significance, and theres this specific kind of maple or sweetgum idk what it is but they grew outside the theatre i grew up in so they always make me nostalgic. OH and i LOVE the smell of california bay laurel thats the Good Summertime Smell for me

[omorinintendoswitchedition]

so i ran the skills through the hunger games simulator because i was feeling nostalgic

thankyou @biocrafthero for suggesting this i love youuuu

-lots of runners here

-holy shit authority is already going for it.

-half-light fucking drowned. how.

-picking flowers is such a conceptualisation thing to do

-suggestion holy shit??? already????

-perception and viscalc both finding a cave is very fitting

-drama :(

-drama and savvy <3

-the horrific necktie coming in very handy rn

-IT IS ONLY DAY 2 SO MANY FUCKIGN PEOPLE ARE DEAD

-inland empire and viscalc…

-thats so fitting for pain threshold

-SHIVERS. NO. I WANTED HER TO WIN.

-pretty uneventful night

-pretty uneventful day. dont know why endurance didnt kill here.

-theres a poem in volition and composure making a suicide pact somewhere

-FUCK. INLAND EMPIRE MY FAVOURITE.

-dont have much to say abt this night. rip logic ig.

-the feast was brutal. shoutout echem for not going at all.

-also fairly uneventful

-????what????the fuck??????

CONGRATS TO HAND-EYE ON WINNING

[tex-now]

um hello. you said i could yap here? if i remember correctly

well whatever i hope you like cats the musical (or at least tolerate it) because here we gooo

okay so basically if youve never watched it its a musical by andrew lloyd webber based off a book of poems by ts elliot. the musical originated in london and first premiered in 1981. i really like it

its about a group of cats called the jellicles and like every year or whatever they have a jellicle ball where their leader(?) chooses one cat to send to the heavyside layer (which i guess is like the afterlife or something) and basically the whole musical is them trying to get picked to go there

im going to be talking about the MUSICAL as in LIVE PERFORMANCE and NOT the 2019 movie because that movie is horrible and terrifying. (even though it was my introduction to the musical the live performance is way way way way wayyyy better)

okay so like the most important thing in a musical: music! the music is very very fun and silly (for the most part. theres a part in the middle where it gets a little boring but! right after it is one of the most fun songs in the musical! skimbleshanks i love you! skiiimble shanks theeeee railway cat!1 the cat OF THE RAILWAY TRAAIIINNN) and just the music is very fun and i love it.

next is the choreography. which is absolutely amazing its so fun. everyone acts like cats which can come off as weird but like. its so cool. people do jumps! and flips! and cartwheels! (at least in the 1998 recorded version. i havent seen it live in a few years so i dont remember if they still do flips. they probably do though lmao) girls drop into the splits all the time ! and its because they are acting like cats! and it just is so dramatic and feels so alive !!

next is the costumes. which most people consider the weird part. but the costumes are so fun and creative like yes they are skin tight but who cares! the makeup is also so creative too and they have these wigs and just ugh im gonna show some pictures they are just so funky and fun (thank you pinterest)

i personally think this musical is very creative and very fun because like. its a musical about cats and the way they portray the cats is so cool and its just so ughhhh i love it. i get why people might not like it though. (my dad had to watch it like 5 billion times because of me and finally started to like it) it is kind of (very) weird and some people are unsettled by the costumes but its really such a fun show and i wish it didnt have so much negativity around it

my favorite character is probably mr mistoffelees. hes a magician and theres a whole song about him and its just so awesome. in the live shows ive seen he comes out in a jacket that has like. rainbow leds on it and its just so. wow. (if not the leds then very sparkly) (sorry had to add pictures) also! apparently sometimes they cast a professional ballerina for his part because of all his dancing and stuff and he doesnt have many lines

on the left is him in like the start and then the left is when he becomes sparklyyy ✨

this musical is just so cool! and you can tell the actors are having fun and its a great time and its just so fun! ive seen it live twice and its just.. so cool. (the 2019 movie did it sooo dirty..) if you were to watch it at home i would recommend the 1998 recorded version i think you can rent it on like amazon prime or something.(or just pirate it if you really wanted to. you could probably find it on a random website somewhere) i watched it ALL THE TIME in the start of covid im not even joking my parents had to buy it. (but be aware there might be some lines in the older script where its outdated because.. yk its old)

i hope you were okay with this random yap i just watched it tonight and wanted to yap because i love it. (also! theres an area conversation on pjsk where tsukasa and nene are telling emu about it. so yes i fear the circus kids might enjoy this musical)

(also how you do the small text is highlight the text like you would do italics or something and press the ‘<s>’ button. forgot to tell you oops. also tell me if you want more pictures from the musical or if you wanted you could just search google or pinterest or something)

OMIGOD YAAYYAYSYSYYSYSYAYA THANK YOU!!! cats sounds very fun I'll look into it :3 I haven't gotten into a new musical in YEARS so this'll be FUN :D

Also YAYAA TY TY!!! I can type tiny now :3

[cacchieressa]

Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem

My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of my palms tell me so. Never argue with rivers. Never expect your lives to finish at the same time. I think

praying, I think clapping is how hands mourn. I think staying up and waiting for paintings to sigh is science. In another dimension this is exactly what's happening,

it's what they write grants about: the chromodynamics of mournful Whistlers, the audible sorrow and beta decay of "Old Battersea Bridge." I like the idea of different

theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass, a Bronx where people talk like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow kind, perhaps in the nook

of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed anyone. Here I have two hands and they are vanishing, the hollow of your back to rest my cheek against,

your voice and little else but my assiduous fear to cherish. My hands are webbed like the wind-torn work of a spider, like they squeezed something in the womb

but couldn't hang on. One of those other worlds or a life I felt passing through mine, or the ocean inside my mother's belly she had to scream out.

Here when I say "I never want to be without you," somewhere else I am saying "I never want to be without you again." And when I touch you in each of the places we meet

in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.

--Bob Hicok

[centipedefriends]

waiting at the bus stop with a persimmon in my pocket and bouquet of flowers theres a poem in here somewhere

[paintedwithaknife]

Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally, A Love Poem

My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers

of my palms tell me so.

Never argue with rivers. Never expect your lives to finish

at the same time. I think

praying, I think clapping is how hands mourn. I think

staying up and waiting

for paintings to sigh is science. In another dimension this

is exactly what’s happening,

it’s what they write grants about: the chromodynamics

of mournful Whistlers,

the audible sorrow and beta decay of Old Battersea Bridge.

I like the idea of different

theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,

a Bronx where people talk

like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow

kind, perhaps in the nook

of a cousin universe I’ve never defiled or betrayed

anyone. Here I have

two hands and they are vanishing, the hollow of your back

to rest my cheek against,

your voice and little else but my assiduous fear to cherish.

My hands are webbed

like the wind-torn work of a spider, like they squeezed

something in the womb

but couldn’t hang on. One of those other worlds

or a life I felt

passing through mine, or the ocean inside my mother’s belly

she had to scream out.

Here, when I say I never want to be without you,

somewhere else I am saying

I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you

in each of the places we meet,

in all of the lives we are, it’s with hands that are dying

and resurrected.

When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life,

in each place and forever.

-- Bob Hicok

[sir-sillybunny]

its truly tragic how the common opinion of minecraft now is that it sucks and was only good like 10 years ago becuz like. as someone who has been playing the game for as long as i can remember (i was like 7 when the game was released on xbox 360 lol), the game is exactly the same as its always been. and i mean that so literally. like yes the textures are different and theres a lot of different features now but like literally everything else about it is exactly the same. i was exploring older versions a minute ago and its actually funny how minecraft at its core is still the same game it was 14 years ago. you make a new save, you gather materials, you build, you explore. its all the same. when i opened the beta version i spawned in a pretty grass plain surrounded by flowers and trees and animals. when i opened 1.20 i spawned in a pretty grass plain surrounded by flowers and trees and animals. the game hasnt changed at all the userbase is just old now and standards for video games is different. people want big story driven adventure games with complex quests to follow and they cant appreciate the simple sandbox that minecraft is. which if fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinions of the game. but its just a lie that the game is super different than it used to be. its really sad honestly. i know minecraft is just a video game and not a person but its so sad to see how minecraft has tried so hard to stay the same as its always been only for people to turn on it and say its different now when in reality its the player that has changed. theres a poem in here somewhere