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I’m just…off, today. Some mildly shitty stuff happened, but I don’t even think it was that. I had a very vivid, very violent nightmare last night. It was about a real, historical event, which I was aware of prior to this. But I do not know enough about it to have had such a vivid dream about it. It was so vivid and real I feel like I time-traveled in my sleep. I can’t shake it.

#rust belt jessie #personal #dreams #please do not ask me for more details about the nightmare #I wrote a long entry in my personal journal just to get it out #and I don’t want to relive it beyond that

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I have friends at Indiana University and they've been saying there are snipers on IU Bloomington campus. And theres a bunch of cops everywhere. This is wild.

#uh seriously? #wtf?

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Getting these in while it’s still Tummy Tuesday.

#rust belt jessie #my photos #photos of me #tummy tuesday #nonbinary #they/she/he

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04/22/2024

Help us get groceries!

It's the day before I get paid, but we have too many expenses to be able to really make room for a lot of food so we need help!!!

We just need enough to be able to fill in the gaps and get some groceries so we can stop relying on takeout, it's unsustainable to have to keep ordering out so we really need this!!!

We need $120 by today

CA: $lezsalt or $sleepyhen

VM: wildwotko

Dm 4 PP

#boosting

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New update on the GFM, progress and life stuff.

#boos #boosting

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Help out a depressed disabled lesbian 😞

I'm running out of essentials and really need to get some groceries. I hate to do this, but could I please get some help? My chronic pain has been getting worse and I've been really down; I'm not doing very well. Thank you for any help and for also reblogging. Words cannot express my gratitude. 🩵🩷🤍

p/ypal: Saintsilence6

c/shapp: Saintsilence

#boost #boosting

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I'm gonna try to keep this brief because I already have a post about this that's gotten like 1,000 notes, I just haven't met this goal and need to soon.

I have been having seizures, and I have a GP appt to get referred to a neurologist. I have been speaking to the clinic system handling my care, and I should be put on a cancelation list as soon as my referral is received. Because of this, I ideally would have the funds for the neurologist appointment by the time they get my referral. That way if someone cancels, and they call me with an hours notice to get to that appt, I will be able to actually make the appt. Currently I need $385 for this.

I am grateful the clinic is willing to rush this appointment. They did this with my roommate last year, and it saved his life. But based on our experience with that, I am stressed about getting the money in time.

Anyone who helps us towards this goal can contact me at @theartistrans and I will do art for you. I also sell the pieces I make there, dm me there abt that too if you want.

PP -- $C -- V -- kofi

#boosting

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Hello my fellow dykes, we have officially become visible ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

All sillies aside, please consider donating to Emily Gwen or sharing this if you can! Link

#boosting

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Pout

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

#reblog game #words

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[image description: the bugs bunny in a tuxedo "I wish all a very pleasant evening" meme edited to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant passover". Next to bugs is a photo of a small stack of matzo and the cup of Elijah. ]

#passover

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77 years young 🔥🍾💥

Happy Birthday to James Newell Osterberg aka Iggy Pop, designated the "Godfather of Punk, born on this day in 1947, Muskegon, Michigan

Photo by Rob Baker Ashton

#happy birthday #iggy pop #go in the notes if you wanna see a guy being big mad about iggy pop being referred to as the godfather of punk lol

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Please share and keep an eye out if you’re in the Atlanta or NOLA areas!!

#boosting

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there's also loveonblackwomen by shavonda sisson u could be donating to that gives funds directly to black women and enbies and has personally saved my ass multiple times

#boosting #and i'll donate asap #because i've lived in milwaukee and yeah it is really that bad

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To what purpose, April, do you return again? (or: finally, a pinned post for April)

Hi all. I'm Jessie Lynn McMains, aka Rust Belt Jessie. I'm an Xennial/Elder Millenial (please don't call me a Geriatric Millenial, thank you) writer/artist/zine-maker/etc. (I wear many hats.) I'm queer and nonbinary/genderfluid, and as far as pronouns go, I’m okay with any human pronoun (they and she are my most-used, but I like he, too, and I especially like it when people switch up the pronouns they use for me). I’m disabled and neurodivergent.

I live with my partner and our two kiddos, both of whom are also neurodivergent, and right now I’m supporting all of us on whatever money I earn. I do freelance copywriting and editing as my main thing, but I also make a decent chunk of my income from selling my zines and books and pins and whatever else I make, so the more I sell, the better able I am to pay bills and take care of my family.

Through my Ko-fi, you can buy my zines and books (I have both poetry and prose available) and pins, as well as commission me to make you a music-inspired mini-collage or hire me to edit your own writing. Or also just throw me a few bucks if you appreciate the content I make available for free.

If you live outside the US (I can only ship within the US via Ko-fi, because setting up shipping for multiple countries is a pain the butt), or just prefer to purchase something or donate via a different platform, I also have PayPal and Venmo (@ JessieLynnMcMains).

I also have a Substack newsletter. I try to send something out at least once a month. Sometimes it's a longer piece about music and nostalgia (I recently started a series called These Fucking Songs, for just that purpose), sometimes it's just updates on what I'm up to, sometimes it's something else. I'm currently working on one about poetry, and my writing process, and revision.

As if that weren't enough, this month I'm doing a 30/30 on the Tupelo Press site, which not only means I have to write a poem every day to be posted the next day, but I am also fundraising for Tupelo Press. My goal is to raise $350 by the end of the month. You can follow along with my daily poems here (the newest is always at the top; scroll down to read previous days), and the fundraising page is here. (I'm also offering some cool incentives for people who donate; more info about all that is available on the fundraising page.)

I'm pro-trans, pro-vaccine, pro-sex worker, pro-abortion, pro-Black Lives Matter. I'm for harm reduction for any drug user or addict, meaning I want them to be able to use drugs as safely as possible, rather than forcing them into rehab or incarcerating them. I'm anti-censorship and anti-fascist. I believe everyone, everyone, should have a safe place to sleep and enough to eat without having to earn it. I consider myself an anarcho-socialist, basically, but I do vote. I'm telling you all that because if you are vehemently against any of those things, we'll probably not get along.

I'm a forever-goth/punk who loves all kinds of music. (Things on heavy rotation for me as I write this are: The Replacements, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Oliver Nelson.) I'm femme but I'm a disaster femme; when I use nailpolish it's always sloppy and/or chipped, when I wear eyeliner it's always crooked and/or smeared, and I am incapable of not ripping a hole or two in every pair of tights and stockings I own. I love art and film and theater and literature and music. I'm a Shakespeare stan, I love growing my own vegetables, I collect souvenir pennies and stick and poke tattoos. I'm always a slut in theory, even when not always in practice. I'm perpetually nostalgic, melancholy, and restless. I spend all my free time posting pictures of myself on the internet and trying to prove I'm punk to anyone that'll listen.

Want more Jessie content? There's my website (still under construction, but it exists). Or you could try searching the my writing, my art, Jessie Lynn McMains, or Rust Belt Jessie tags on this blog. I also have a side blog, where I tend to post more frequently than I do on this blog. If you ask nice, I'll probably give you the URL.

On that note, my DMs and asks are open, and, as of right now, anon is on.

I think that's it! As always, whether you can send any $$ my way (or to my fundraiser) currently or not, keeping this post circulating helps. Thanks much. 🖤

#plz keep this going if you can! #i’m way off my donation goal for the 30/30 and i only have 10 days left!

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Sonnet Reducer (pay-what-you-want, starting at $0)

Susan Sontag once wrote: “If I had to choose between the Doors and Dostoyevsky, then — of course — I’d choose Dostoyevsky. But do I have to choose?” When I first read that quotation, I thought of a journal entry I wrote in 2002, wherein I said: “I love Shakespeare and the Ramones. People want me to choose between high and low culture, but do I have to choose?” If I had to choose between the Ramones and Shakespeare, then - of course - I’d choose the Ramones, but the great thing is that I don’t have to choose. This zine lives in that split between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture (which is a false dichotomy, anyway, but I digress) - sonnets (which are often considered a pretentious form of poetry) about punk stuff, stuff like mosh pits, drinking on rooftops, battle vests…and the Ramones.

I originally wrote and published this zine in early 2014, but it has been out of print for a while, so I decided to upload a .pdf version of it.

#bringing this back #bc it was the most fun i’ve ever had writing poetry #sonnet reducer #ain’t no loser

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They put a fence around it and everything; to keep people from chipping off the bark. Then someone burned it down. Now there’s just a wood post there, with a photo of the half-tree, before it burned.

—Jessie Lynn McMains, from “A Memorial to A Memorial of a Tree” (Tupelo Press 30/30, Day 20)

Each day’s poems can be found here. My fundraising page for the month is here.

#jessie lynn mcmains #my writing #poetry #spilled ink #napowrimo 2024 #excerpt #tupelo press 30/30 #memory #trees

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April 19: Dinner was pork chops with a miso apple caramel (+ teriyaki rice and roasted asparagus).

#rust belt jessie #my photos #food #home cooking #things i made