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welcometogrouchland · 4 months

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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

#ramblings of a lunatic #dc comics #Jason Todd #batfamily #it's just a fun quirk! it's a fun lil detail and I simply cannot slight ppl for enjoying and incorporating it into works #like obviously jason isn't the only one. I'm a big believer in the batfam having over lapping interests they refuse to bond over #i know dick canonically used the robin hood stories (which are pretty flowery in their language far as i can tell) as inspo for Robin #and i know babs was a librarian and even tho her area of nerddom is characterized as more computery she probably knows quite a lot-#-about literature as well #duke is a hobbyist writer i believe? i saw a fan mention that- which if so is great and I hope he's also a nerd #(i mean he is canonically. i remember him being a puzzle nerd in his introduction. but i mean specifically a lit nerd)#damian called Shakespeare boring but also took acting classes so i think he's more of a theatre kid.#Tim's a dropout and i don't think he's ever shown distinct interest in english lit and i can't remember for Steph?#I'm ngl my brain hyperfocused on musician Steph i forget some of her other interests I'm sorry (minus softball and gymnastics!)#and then Cass had her whole (non linear but it's whatevs) arc about literacy and learning to read #went from struggling to read in batgirl 00 to memorizing Shakespeare in 'tec and is now an avid read in batgirls!#she's shown reading edgar allen poe but we don't know if it's his short stories or his poems #point to all of the above being: i know Jason's not the only lit nerd in the batfam #but also i do need him to be writing poetry in his spare time and reading and reviewing it #jason at the next dead robins society meeting: evening folks today I'll be assigning all of us poems based on laika the space dog #damian and steph who have been kidnapped and brought to jasons warehouse to hangout: LET US GO BITCH #speaking of^ random poem i think jason would like: space dog by alan shapiro #wake up one morning in an unfamiliar more mature body with a profound sense of abandonment. the last four lines. mmm tasty

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pinehutch · 8 months

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The Silt Verses my absolute beloved: I'm relistening and was so excited to get back to Chapter 17, and the way that most of the episode just sweeps over you with an unexpected degree of kindness. Important to be reminded that kindness — or something like it — is possible, even in this brutal world.

#the silt verses #tsv #the silt verses season 2 #pine's silt verses relisten #'the words are kind and i enjoy their closeness to my breath' love 2 have feelings about the way we reach for poetry for the ritualized wor #to soothe #as much as all the other things #and now thinking my little thoughts about prayers and rituals and liturgy and how the language of tsv often allows us to navigate #the horrors in a metaphorical-metaphysical?-way #the way the show uses a kind of mythical cadence in its narration carries us into the space of myth or fairy tale #and lets us sit outside it: this is a story #but the naturalistic dialogue and the immersive soundscapes and the so-real performances force us to be present #writing meta in the tags because its after midnight and i don't have it in me to really write this rn #but I'm eternally stunned by this show #no id #sorry i am in a lot of pain and am going to bed soon!

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six-white-venus · 2 months

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you asked for inspo so here:

"loneliness, habitually looking at your side and finding an empty space, late nights, missed calls, nostalgia"

(don't ask who hurt me lol)

i dream of him every day, you know? it’s been a year and two months since the last time we talked properly. more than 10 months since i saw his face. it’s summer of 2024 and i don’t know who i am to you. hell, i don’t know what i am to me, either. but when i close my eyes, i am in highschool and our shoulders are touching and i laugh at every stupid thing he says because of course i do. and his eyes always lit up when i did. in my dreams, he says that he loves me and that he’s sorry. but here’s the catch: i always know i’m dreaming.

to dream and know you’re dreaming is the greatest curse of them all. because it’s there, it’s right there, happiness that’s cotton candy sweet melting on your tongue it’s there it’s there but you know it’s not true. because you’ve never had cotton candy before and your mom has always told you girls with rotten teeth don’t deserve sweets. because he says he loves you. because he’s smiling and it’s not crooked and he says he loves you. because you’re thinking of him with a feather-light chest and not weeping into your best friend’s arms. because he says he loves you and your teeth is not rotten.

but i wake up and don’t cry. i miss him, but i don’t cry. i don’t even remember his face right but i miss him. but i don’t cry. when i do, it's always the stupidest things that set it off.

it's 11:30pm and i should be sleeping but here i am, staring at the tears staining my pillow and telling myself, "stop. stop crying. stop. why are you crying?"

it's all so incredibly stupid.

i can't play fight with my friends anymore because i'm afraid they'll just leave. i can't be mean for shits and giggles. because what if that's the breaking point? what if someone gets bored of my clown fuckery there and decides to give up on me. what will i do with my red nose and jester's hat and bleeding smile? what will i do?

i don't know if I miss you or miss who i was before you anymore. i don't remember what it felt like, to be so sure that i am loved. because i am, i know i am! but now with that knowledge comes a creeping whisper, "what's the price you have to pay to make them stay?"

i don't know. it terrifies me.

calls pile up on my phone and i hate that sometimes i can’t even care enough to be guilty about it. my friends text me often, “are you even alive? please call me back.” and i don’t know what to tell them. i don’t know who i am. can you come over? i’m afraid i’ll forget your face. can you come over? i’m afraid you’ll forget my face. can you come over? i am so lonely. can you come over? i can’t stop dreaming and nostalgia feels like a knife to my throat and i keep twisting it in deeper and deeper and deeper and-

can you come over? i don’t know why i can’t forget your laugh. i don’t know if i can ever stop screaming.

i look at my side and find it’s empty. i look for your photos in my gallery and come up empty because i deleted the last one a week ago. but it doesn’t matter, because they all look wrong, anyway. none of them know how you smile. none of them are real. none of them know you like i do. i can’t stop dreaming. i am a liar who knows he’s a liar and the knife twists deeper and why didn’t you look back? why can’t i stop dreaming?

#hope you find this one satisfactory anon #i won't ask you who hurt if if you don't ask me who hurt me #winks and finger guns #it sounds incomplete #it's intentional. an ongoing nightmare if you will #my writing #poetry #prose poetry #words #love #writeblr #prose #sorry about the very very late response i'm working on all the promts i promise #just. slowly #so you will get your poem soon enough #watch out #/threat

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buglaur · 1 year

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a healthy dose of gael for your troubles

#i'm very tired but i have tuesday off wooo!!!#i can play then #i got 20 mins of cas time but now i've gotta get back to homework #i hate you 5 page essay about the poetry of adrienne rich!!#ts4 #sims 4 #gael i missed you #can you believe he's been gone 5 months #feels like yesterday #i'm also sitting on a shit ton of asks but i'll answer them soon i promise #i'm so so sorry anon that asked me for a tutorial on converting nondefault skins to default #all the way back in september #its in the works i'm so sorry omfg #ts4 cas

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bigbrotherlouis · 21 days

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- grief hues - -

a little visual reflection over the past three months. i moved to new york city, and wanted to explore the tension that comes with going to a place everyone expects you to be excited about while the grief of leaving is still very heavy. all pictures by me.

(april 2024)

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crengarrion · 3 months

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few things are as touching as the appreciation hardworking, heartfelt, passionate, dedicated young people express when you support them. sometimes this appreciation is shown by those young people sending you unedited footage of their professional wrestling ambulance matches and it fucking rules.

#[ whispers ]#mango brought to my attention a ugandan pro wrestling promotion fundraising for their first wrestling ring and i decided to reach out #to them because i made a post raising awareness on my wrestling sideblog. they asked me to record a video saying hello to a young lady #wrestler of theirs i said i'm a fan of. so she can record a video saying hello back to me! and then sent me exclusive footage of a match!#i cannot stress this enough: reach out to dreamers. reach out to the people making their dreams reality. to artists and musicians and #writers and people blogging about their cultures' food and their daily lived experiences and dedicating their lives to community outreach #and harm reduction and activism and rescuing animals and raising awareness. tell the people making what you love that you love it and #admire their hard work. thank the person bagging your groceries and driving your bus with a big smile. tell the makeup artist standing with #palestine openly what that means to you. one of my favourite authors is on tumblr and i'm reaching out to her after i read her new book that #just published. one of my friends became a well known poet in pakistan because a group of us all sent CDs of our spoken word poetry to each #other and made all of our friends listen. i'm friends with youtubers because i've been vocally supporting their videos since pre-YT or early #into their channels and have met up with some of them to hang out and talk shop. don't just cheer people on silently! let them know!#long post #sorry. overcome by my simple love for humanity in the midst of unfathomably dark times. it will happen again

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the-cat-at-the-theatre-door · 8 months

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When will this end, exactly?

Seriously, can I have a specific date or something because I've sure as hell had enough and am begging everyone to just *move on* already.

#i'm sorry nobody has ever heard of breaking the fourth wall #because that's literally all that was - judi dench reading poetry to the audience for several minutes #like you know they just use them as the thumbnail too because it'll get clicks #when i can assure you there have been SO many more movies with shit endings #but that doesnt get lazy views right?#we get it cats 2019 had its issues - but if you do not like or get cats to begin with #i think you should have your rights to say anything about this movie taken away #anyway lmao this is boiling my beans way more #extemporize backchat #like how many times had watchmojo used cats now as a clickbait thumbnail - too many #and yeah theyre *watchmojo* so who cares but they are playing towards an audience who very much #eats consistent cheap shots up - it's a consistent fuel of a fire that should have been suffocated years ago #because you've beaten the horse to death

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stinkman007 · 8 months

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❥

there we stand next to eachother

but in silent sync

we copy each other's movements

there's something happening, i think

i follow you across the room

you meet me there

'he's literallly just some guy'

shut up!! what makes you think i care!!

i sit next to you earlier,

but i can't even say a word

it's okay though, i know you understand

it's just fine actually, though it still seems absurd

i know i'm not crazy this time!!

we're too awkward together

what are we to do about each other.....................

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chirsu · 9 months

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Page Five of When I Say No, I Feel Guilty by Manuel J. Smith, Ph.D. that I bought at a thrift store.

I am using the cut-up technique and going page by page.

#dave.txt #she speaks #poetry #self help books #When I Say No I Feel Guilty #Cut-up technique #coping #depression #This is about being discharged from the mental hospital when we were 14 and returning to school #And not being able to heal because we were too embarrassed to open up to our friends about the reality of our mental state #We were too busy thinking about how we must be overreacting.#Silently trying to piece ourselves together like a puzzle because we're afraid of using the wrong words and getting called fake #And for years we doubted our transness because we couldn't.. Tell if we were faking it for attention. Bc that's what it always feels like #It all feels so fake because every detail about ourselves feels like a grab for attention.#Just thinking about being depressed felt like we were making a mockery out of ppl who were actually depressed and suicidal #I'm sorry for being so emotional about this piece. For trauma dumping. I'm also sorry if you're reading this. And sorry that I was scared.#I am okay I'm just really tired. Tired of being sick. Being sick makes me cry. I feel so useless. Like a lump.#I am curling up in embarrassment #dear diary #vent

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thawthebeez · 7 months

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on today's episode of What the Hell is Tumblr Use Thawthebeez Going Crazy Insane About?

PROMISES IN HAIKYUU

specifically this one:

you know the one. the good ol' "I don't care how shitty the toss is, if it's sent my way, I'll hit it" said by none other than Hinata "I keep my promises" Shouyou.

now, in the midst of my monthly season 4 rewatch, i was reminded of the super tense points at the end of the Inarizaki vs. Karasuno match, including the one where Hinata uses his foot to score a point, which isn't the first time he's done it, but i'll be using it as my prime example anyway because i feel like the mood is less "omg he used his foot to score how crazy is that" and rather more of a "HEY GUYS LOOK AT THE CRAZY INSANE BOND BETWEEN THESE TWO CHARACTERS"

Let us begin.

Alrighty so we've got ourselves a pretty sticky situation here. The scores are tied 25-all, and letting Inarizaki get the point would just put the pressure back on Karasuno so it's best to avoid that. They're all getting pretty tired, it's taking more energy to get to places, reactions are delayed, all that.

So, Kageyama goes to set the ball and...

It kinda flops. Unfortunate, yes.

and To Be Fair, if this was ANY OTHER GUY this would have been a point lost for Karasuno. Easy. Literally no questioning that. If this was a toss to Tsukishima or Tanaka or Asahi or LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE, that ball would have dropped.

but it doesn't.

Because it's Hinata, that ball stays in play. Hinata picks it up anyway because this is a toss for HIM. Not getting it up would be breaking a promise.

now, a promise like this isn't too insane, but the timing of which it's made IS. that promise is made just after Tsukishima airs out all of Kageyama's dirty laundry from his middle school days, talking about the whole "no one was there" thing (which leads into the "no one was there" / "i'm here" interaction that literally make me explode every single time without fail).

to paraphrase in a Very Normal way: "my tosses were too fast and demanded too much and so the ball just dropped and that was the most traumatic thing to ever happen in my life second to my grandpa dying" followed by "okay Cool. whatever. I literally do not care actually (soz abt ur grandpa tho </3). you could set the ball to the other side of the school and as long as it was addressed to me i'll get it. i do not care. just toss to me pls i beg" and that's that. boom. promise made. will never be broken. ever.

And then there is, of course, the other promise that is "One day I'll win and stay on the court the longest" that gets established in the first episode and is KEPT and just. ugh. i love how this show establishes promises and no matter how crazy they may seem they're always kept.

I'm also just really normal about the way kghn exist and function in General. i swear everything they do is so insane to me THEY ARE INSANE. like the way their relationship is built on a foundation of trust that never even needed to be there in the first place, and the way that they've kept age old promises (like the one i mentioned in the previous paragraph and the fact that it took TEN YEARS for Hinata to finally make up on it), and the way they keep count of all their little competitions, and the way Hinata has always accepted Kageyama for who he is, flaws and all, and the way that Kageyama made a toss for Hinata that would let him fly as high as he wanted to (whenever i get to that part where they mention that most tosses are "setter sets and spiker meets that height" but point out that Hinata and Kageyama's attacks are always "spiker jumps and setter tosses to meet that height" I GO ABSOLUTELY WILD EVERY SINGLE TIME) OUGH i am so so so normal.

#volleyball guys #long post sorry i'm watching haikyuu again #THEY JUST GET ME OKAY?#all of kagehina's little things. everything they do. all that they are #there is so much poetry to be written about them #and there is so much writing i want to do about them but i'm so so scared because they're already perfect like i can't make them any better #than they already are THEY ARE PERFECT #also ignore the fact that this isn't cohesive at all pls ty

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cosmic-muses · 8 months

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Im feeling things that i don't know how to describe or express but its beautiful and i wanna cry and its wonderful

#its windy and gonna rain #the trees are beautiful #and I'm thinking about people #and i love this #god im so emotional why #poetry #i keep finding this feeling #sorry for all the posts about it rip

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trickstersaint · 1 year

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sainthood // september 2022

#i wrote this for a project for my postcolonial queer lit class and never posted it but.#was thinking about it. in wake of recent news.#and how i knew when i wrote it that the line 'another trans woman was murdered last month' would remain relevant no matter when it was read #and. you know. you know.#rip brianna. you are so so loved. i'm sorry i never got to know you.#and a peaceful rest to all my other sisters who are gone as well. you are remembered with love.#poetry #poems about religion #poems and poetry #poem #poems about being trans #poems about saints

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floralovebot · 8 months

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omg i’m so curious about your thoughts on the aisha tecna helia riven dynamic? or like any dynamic of the winx & specialists tbh!

honestly in my head i have so many headcanons of winx club. especially between the winx & specialists that i forget that they aren’t canon.

THIS is the aisha tecna helia riven dynamic of all time

akjdhglkjadhg i couldn't figure out how to say it so here's a helpful chart

but actually though i'm Obsessed with riven and helia both really respecting aisha and tecna and thinking they're sooo cool and strong meanwhile aisha and tecna are like are those guys still here ? wack. riven's like "ah yes aisha. she knows how to ride the hoverbikes and fight. our battle will be legendary." and aisha is just "move over greaseball" I'm OBSESSED. aisha canonically thinking helia's poems are Cringe while helia is a corner writing a little poem about how cool the winx are. riven calls tecna because he crashed his bike (he definitely doesn't need help how dare you) and tecna's like "i'll be there in five don't touch anything" (he definitely could've done it without her and he definitely didn't want to hangout but they may as well since she's there). riven and helia are so cringe coded and aisha and tecna love them for it akjdglk

ALSO SAME like what do you mean brandon and aisha don't go on hikes together in canon?? yes they do i literally saw them,, (ueueue) and bloom and timmy playing video games together is also canon? it literally happened on screen 🤨 these things are definitely canon and definitely not a product of my mind 🤨

#riven is shirtless to distract you from his hair #you may be wondering why aisha gets the special pose and clothing #its because i love her next question #also i drew her on a different day next question #alahdgl #i have so many friendship headcanons for the winx and specialists its actually an illness #there's no cure #DUDE i'd love to hear about your headcanons !!#also obsessed with how sad i made helia look oopsies #he's going through the terrors (all three of them made fun of his poetry)#tecna looks so bad i'm so sorry queen 😞#answered

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ironkissedmage · 1 month

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Absolutely desperate for this semester to be over 😩

#this has been one of the worst semesters in work load and I am completely drowning #it's been insane and it's not letting up and I skipped my first class all term today because i just!! couldn't do it!!#I've been trying to be strong but God damn I need a fucking break #But I can't have one 🙃#I have to read my poetry in public tomorrow and not throw up about it #and I have 2 20-25 page essays and a digital edition to make plus another assignment and WAY too many readings #not to mention that I am a Teaching Assistant and it's the end of term so I have another round of essays and finals to grade #this MA better be worth it 😭#give me strength to at least make it through reading the poems tmrw 😭#Sorry for rambling I'm just exhausted 😩😩#to delete later

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that-was-anticlimactic · 1 year

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lol my student teaching supervisor sent me my feedback video because he observed me friday and it was twenty minutes long and he essentially said that he was disappointed in me and that i did a disservice to american poetry so i'm feeling pretty good about myself

#lol this week sucked #he also said that it looks like i put a Little bit of effort into learning about whitman before teaching him but i honestly think i did #more than that and now i just feel like crap lol like ik his masters was in american lit and content knowledge isn't my strong suit but i #have PAGES of notes about whitman and tried to learn SO MUCH about him and did SO MUCH studying of the poems we read #idk ik i need to work on my content knowledge but like some of my eng ed student teaching friends and i were talking friday and he's being #like really harsh with everyone like has made almost all of us cry? one of my friends is considering not even going into teaching anymore #because his feedback was so negative like dude you weren't like this last semester? idk it's just hard to feel good about yourself and your #progress when your supervisor says he was disappointed in what he saw idk maybe i'm being overdramatic... i like to think i'm really #receptive to feedback both positive and negative but this one hurt ngl ik the class discussions weren't the best but they all hated poetry #and i was dragging as much as i could out of them and they're all restless because we haven't had a day off since january and idk. well #hopefully dickinson goes better ig - God i'm so scared for my mentor teacher to watch the video because she always does and she's great and #i don't want her to be disappointed in me lol #sorry just had a mini breakdown👍🏻

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