bonesandpoemsandflowers

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#i fuckin love that Oscar just refers you to Slimey #know thyself and thy strengths and weaknesses

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#a lil guy #accepting libations (after yelling for them) #mandatory bird updates #crows #corvidae

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the world is divided into spirits who would like us to fuck off (most of them) and spirits yelling at us about offerings (crows that fly to my front yard daily and caw at me until I bring out snacks)

Look I know I blog a lot about supernatural shit, but I actually love the regularnatural shit even more.

Sometimes consorting with spirits means getting bitched at by a hummingbird who thinks you should refill its feeder. Sometimes it's leaving a bowl of water on the back steps for the ants, so they don't have to invade your bathroom when the weather's dry.

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#me

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Trailer for The Phantom of the Opera in Antwerp, Belgium, Feb. 2025 (x) (h/t to @pianomanblaine!)

#phantom of the opera #he is power posing on that pipe organ bench like a chihuahua barking at the doorbell and i am here for it #loving christine's intrigued expression here. yes i am potentially interested in your ideas and would like to sign up for your newsletter

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Is that Jesus holding the guy from Chuck?

#i know i have a one track mind but #for me? #this visually reads as #VAMPIRE JESUS

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What Have I made

Context

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Oh, I don't know, I feel like the horrors of war are sort of directly opposed to the point of Anne Rice style vampires. That doesn't mean war isn't awful or shouldn't have art made about it. But fundamentally the point of at least Interview with the Vampire is--what if you were beautiful and immortal, gorgeous and untouchable to disease and maiming and aging and death, what if you were beautiful and powerful and everything was still awful? awful and pointless and suicide is distressingly common? what if you had everything and were still unhappy?

there's something inherently existentialist to IwtV. It's exactly why book Louis finds no real vampire elders--you don't get mentors in this setting, fool! You get no answers! Nothing so easy! You wait for Godot for a couple of centuries and then you give yourself to the fire.

now, as the series goes on and gets more fantastical, the force of Lestat's personality essentially drags us into a different and less bleak genre. but Louis? early game Louis lives in in existentialist hell. no god, no devil, no teachers, no masters, no answers.

existentialism is, of course, extremely compatible with the horrors of war. But the Anne Rice vampire angle isn't really, imo, because, again: what if you achieved perfection of physical form and that held no answers for you either?

So what I'm saying is that ww2 eastern europe is a fine place for a vampire story in general, but I don't think it really fits the spirit here.

#maybe i'm just salty because i'm here for the Lestat show! but i know this about myself.

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me three days before getting on a plane again: is there hair gel in bar form?

#as if I'm not a barbarian who decided my travel item is one rice protein shampoo bar that i also use as everything soap. #update: there is leave in conditioner + “curl definer” in bar form. i am suspicious but will report back.

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received a new friend to aid me and my suffering

#a friend!

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#we love a strategist who can play the long game

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I don't know, maybe there IS something to the fact that my most productive years as a writer by far happened to also be the years I was a runner as well as a powerlifter.

something something POWER OF IMAGINATION when you spend miles at a time deliberately thinking about being a gay werewolf in Montana (in winter) as you sprint through downtown and across the vertical steel bridge in 90+ degree weather and 100000% humidity.

"I am immune to cardio junkie propaganda," I say, as a weight lifter and injured therefore on the bench aerialist. "I can read Born to Run and feel nothing. It's all bro bullshit anyway. I bet I can do more chin ups than these fuckers. Who cares."

Me an hour later: what if the way to rehab the calf injury is to go running immediately.

#no headphones ever we die like men #pant pant wheeze snow winter cold awwooo pant wheeze #i hardly ever ran with Ernie Dog because he was *so* much faster than me #but to be fair #he also used to outrun greyhounds at the dog park

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"I am immune to cardio junkie propaganda," I say, as a weight lifter and injured therefore on the bench aerialist. "I can read Born to Run and feel nothing. It's all bro bullshit anyway. I bet I can do more chin ups than these fuckers. Who cares."

Me an hour later: what if the way to rehab the calf injury is to go running immediately.

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‘Isaac’s Servant Tying the Bracelet on Rebecca’s Arm’ (detail) by Benjamin West, c. 1775.

#yes yes it's beautiful it's intimate but listen. I have questions. #so like. #was ribbon (?) weaved into metal like a thing historically for jewelry? and not just a recent thing? #is this just for the aesthetic or is it serving as a closure/back up closure? #burning need. i must know. where is my box full of DIY beads and chains and shit. i have ideas.

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All throughout childhood, while my peers were socializing and making friends, I studied the blade read so many books that I am now almost legally blind, which left me with vast and deeply instinctual understanding of English grammar - and next to no ability to explain how it actually works. Friends will often ask me to proofread their writing and then get very mad when I say things like, "You need to completely reverse this sentence and cut this clause entirely; no, I'm sorry, i don't know why, I just know that the way it is now ITCHES 😭"

Now, what I want to see is a fantasy story where this plays out with MAGICAL grammar. Someone from a backwater town deeply steeped in folk magic arrives at Wizard Uni where all their fellow students are like "What do you mean, we should add another '𝞯∘⋇𝞿' to the incancation because it 'sounds better'? What do you mean, 'it could just be a regional thing'?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THIS SPELL JUST FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS A LIVE RAT'????"

#honestly...honestly... #yes #there is a kind of making shit up that comes from zero exposure to the canon #and a kind of making shit up that comes from thriving in super lethal immersive doses of the canon #these are very different but sometimes indistinguishable to the neophyte #sometimes the magic or the sentence DOES feel like a dead rat. so it needs. a live rat.

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"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.

#yes

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