#today is an 18/9

[blondrichclosetwitch]

One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small

And the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice

When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits

And you know you're going to fall

Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar

Has given you the call

Call Alice

When she was just small

When the men on the chessboard

Get up and tell you where to go

And you've just had some kind of mushroom

And your mind is moving low

Go ask Alice

I think she'll know

When logic and proportion

Have fallen sloppy dead

And the White Knight is talking backwards

And the Red Queen's off with her head

Remember what the dormouse said

Feed your head

Feed your head

From you, I get the story

[luobingmeis]

this is gonna be the most career-specific vent i make but like. ik i'm not supposed to take things personally while teaching. esp teaching college. however. trying my best to make questions/discussion prompts that students will respond to and being met with silence and/or the same five students is definitely disheartening lmao

[writing-for-life]

I’m a bit tired and burned out, so no Haiku from me today—I promise I’ll catch up and post my contribution another day.

But my 9 year old daughter, who loves the (heavily abridged) Sandman, too, has been sitting with me for the past two weeks and loved the idea. She was itching to contribute from day one, and this was her chance. Honestly, I’m so impressed, I don’t think I can improve on this.

So here is Angelpaws’ (her choice of pseud) contribution for today, no help whatsoever:

The ruby fades—go!

Reborn as an emerald.

Goodbye Morpheus.

Inktober prompts modified by @orionsangel86 for #sandtober2023

[esta-elavaris]

Had a moment today that exemplifies how my family thinks but like, in a way that’s just very sad and makes me glad I don’t think that way.

Showed a relative the amazing painting that friend did for me, and her first response was “you’d be able to sell that for some good money!!!”

Like. No????

For months I’ve discussed this creative trade with this friend, we’ve talked about what the other wants, we’ve gotten excited about it and traded progress pics as we work on it for each other, gotten stoked over making plans to get to the post office and seeing the other finally get it, and it’s just been a very wholesome and very fun project. It took six weeks for us to complete these projects, and now I have something on display in my room that makes me very happy, that’s objectively beautiful, and that I know a friend put a lot of effort into making for me and was THRILLED when I adored it.

And my family’s immediate line of thinking is “make a few quid from it lol”.

I can’t imagine the headspace it must take to go through life like that.

[softshuji]

eldest daughter syndrome really do be kicking my ass tbh

[vargaslovinghours]

They grow up so fast

[seekingthestars]

i hate that i do think it'll be cute to have so many more flowers on eevee 3.0 bc hand-sewing 72 appliqués is gonna be a huge pain 😭

[rowenabean]

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[iceeericeee]

I wonder how many tags i can add on to this

[freckliedan]

worlds most evil threesome only because i woudl be third wheeling the entire time. still doing it though i NEED to get sister dan pregnant i swear

i literally don't even care that i'd be third wheeling i need to put a baby in that man.

[effervescentdragon]

death to my uterus

[blondrichclosetwitch]

Jeremy spoke in class today

Started to lose control

They can’t get enough of that doomsday song

Ignoring the pain of their particular diseases

They can work with Satan while they dress like the saints

Only one knows they're watching it die

You've learned to think life is for somebody else

You make it hard to live it for yourself

Yeah, make up any excuse to remedy you can't control

I had forgiven you for tricking me again

But I have been tricked again (she tricked me again)

I'm stiff on my legend

The films that I made

Forget that I'm fifty cause you just got paid

Summer

Did all y’all know I’m obsessed with recycling/composting and freak out about plastic constantly and that my mom, brother and I used to pick up aluminum cans on the side of the road for money

Well I can tell by your game you’re gonna start a flame

Oh-ah, I inhaled and breathed

But angels start to tell me, "It's okay to not feel okay"

Devil's talkin' to me, angel's talkin' to me

I know that you'd be proud if you was here today

I know God breathed on me

One less, when its all done

My voice is back home while I'm in hell

Cried oh Private Presley, “she swayed like the trees”

Swinging hard Jack

Maggie’s back

“….when I tell you it’s an offer you can never refuse.”

All these bad cats, in this bad town

And I'm gonna tell you what I think that you should know

Saw you smoking with all those new friends you've got to spare, and melting back in focus the sunday crowd, started sleeping with white trash heroes, tv's turned down

Well, I guess the best that I can do now is pretend that I done nothing wrong

(Never let me go)

And the arms of the ocean are carrying me

And all this devotion was rushing out of me

But the arms of the ocean deliver me

And it's over

And I'm going under

In this dark and lonely night I long to have you by my side(there might be more)

The violets explode inside of me when I meet your eyes

Then I’m spinning like a cloud of starlings

“Try my lies for size while I fantasize. You might swallow them. Try my lies for size.”

This has battered me

That's my history

Hold this shaking frame

Pull this back together

Amazing Grace, you know the rest

there will be many dangers, toils, and snares

Every perversion is justified.

You can leave it all behind just like the missionaries did so many years ago

Oh, I've had me my fill of cocaine and pills

Seems I've seen that devil fruit since the world begun

You, you said you'd wait til the end of the world

“And all must love the human form, in heathen, Turk, or Jew;

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell there God is dwelling too. “

Ain't it funny? Rumors fly

And I know you heard about me

Forever waiting for some car crash

I'm sorry that I lost my patience

I promise you won't feel a thing

Hey little girl, sometimes I wish that I was dead

My days end best when this sunset gets itself behind that little lady sitting on the passenger side

That's magic in a cheetah print coat

The only moment we were alone

Jack of Diamonds

I know the truth is in between the first and the fortieth drink

Celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain as you sh-sh- shock me sane

You can be cruel i don’t know why

Hypnotized by your rotten behavior

Yeah, the politics of the worlds greatest liar

The scars I hide are not your business

The booze turns a tall, gentle boy to a terrible totem And the kids gather 'round trying to see what's inside

I think when he's drinking, he's drowning some riot

I will follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you

[pendragora]

for the love of god ewan can we just sleep for like 12-ish hours? 😭 may you give us permission to rest?

[farharbour]

what if i played fallout 1 and played the outer worlds and played prey 2017 and played metal gear 2: solid snake and played disco elysium all at the same time. AND what if i was making a new gifset and watching a 4 hour long video essay about mgs4 and drawing jesse in a bunch of cozy sweaters while i did it.

[butchyena]

good morning everyone its the 18th anniversary of my mom’s death and the one day a year i let myself willingly collapse into a weeping heap of shit and im gonna try to not to do that this year

[theswandragon]

Daily Poem 9/18/23

Another step through the cycle As peace waxes clean And chaos bristles, bridled, waning

With theories and patterns as our guide Our north star, our dim beacon Our sextant on a shaking stormy sea

Each and every step taken brings change Some bring pain, some bring life Some are infinitely infinitesimal, but still taken

We seek healing, growth, safety Following those who came before Even as we forge our own path

Some steps take us back Into the dark and the lost Some steps are cataclysmic falls

So many wounds in need of healing So many wounds invisible to the eye So many wounds carved unknowingly By ourselves and those who should've seen

So take another step through the cycle, The cycle of life and loss. We wash clean our worries, Until the wheel turns again, And, in new forms, the darkness bubbles forth.

Because there are no clean breaks From what hides within. But the greatest lesson I ever learned Was the meaning of catharsis: First you must feel, yes; But then you must understand.

Know what brings hurt, Know what brings relief. Your past is a part of you But ultimately you are You. Take what has happened, Take your best guess as to what will, And become the next version of You.

Not every step will lead to what we want, And not every cycle will pass with love, But we are alive, living, becoming, Even as we suffer, despair, doubt. The hurt may return with every cycle, But it is weakened, changed, diminished, Because we have healed, laughed, played, And found ways to stride through the darkness.

With every ounce of peace and love I can carry, Ready to laugh and cry and lose and find, I step into the next cycle.

~Swan