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thebluelagooncompany-567 · 1 year

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Bang,bang, BAANG! 🔫🔫

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luckynightkryptonite · 2 years

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"Whitman Fever" Revy.

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comicwaren · 1 year

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From Savage Avengers Vol. 2 #007, “Shock to the System”

Art by Carlos Magno and Espen Grundetjern

Written by David Pepose

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jstor · 1 year

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Spring has sprung and here are some poems

Well hey, here's some spring poetry for everyone. 21 poems, all free and open, no login needed!

Image by Yunyao Chen from the SVA COVID Collection on JSTOR

Spring William Carlos Williams (1919)

Spring Symphony Walt Whitman (1919)

One Spring Eda Lou Walton (1920)

Early Spring John Moreland (1923)

Spring Poems by a Fifth Grade Elsa Miller (1907)

Ode to Spring Henry C. Watson (1866)

Spring Has Come Eleanor Hatch (1922)

Spring Fever Faith Shearing (2002)

Spring in Canterbury Charlotte F. Babcock (1927)

Pulse of Spring Mark Turbyfill (1917)

Spring Albrecht Reu (1915)

An English Spring S. F. Hopkins (1907)

A Forward Spring Lisa Williams (1988)

A Spring View Kokan Shiren, translated by Marian Ury (1992)

Spring Sounds Mercedes de Acosta (1925)

Arpeggio—Spring Winifred Waldron (1923)

Spring Morning Marion Strobel (1922)

One Spring Eda Lou Walton (1920)

Spring Torrents Sara Teasdale (1919)

Spring Day Grace Hazard Conkling (1917)

And we end with:

The End of Spring Lisa Williams (1988)

#poetry #poems #open content #spring #jstor

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monstrousgourmandizingcats · 8 months

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Jackie thinks she's driving Shauna crazy in a "teehee I'm making her jealous" way, and if Shauna herself were more stable she'd be right. Jackie is actually driving Shauna crazy in a Black Lagoon "Whitman fever" I'm-going-to-take-this-rifle-up-a-clock-tower-and-see-who-I-hit way.

#yellowjackets #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #sick fuck shauna #shaunajackie #like shipping necrosis with a wound

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alexis-royce · 3 months

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Youuuuuu got it @windienine ! Updating an old post since the formatting broke on it:

Like any good OC gremlin, I have playlists for all my favs. The one I’ll put before the cut, though, is Kinesis’ theme song, written by Andrew Huang. He legit wrote it for Evil Plan. It’s both about my OC and it has a slick guitar theme that is just….EVERYTHING. It is the best character theme I have and I adore it.

Here’s a pile (though not even close to all) of character songs under the cut:

Evil Plan

Kinesis: Upside down - Barenaked Ladies, Defeat You- Smash Mouth, half the Dr. Horrible Soundtrack because of course, Evil Genius - Pat Benatar, Bank Job- BNL. A reader also once sent me “Sexy Supervillain” by Fanatical, and I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.

Alice: Science Vs Romance, Rilo Kiley , Do It - Spice Girls.

William: Vanishing, BNL.

Lemon and Lime - Sunday Morning - Maroon 5

Sire

Anna & Susan - Odds Are - BNL

(Cannot for the life of me find the rest of those playlists. I’m sure there were a ton. Anyway I know a fuckton of weird old musicals, it’s mostly them.)

morphE - Mage: The Awakening Campaign

Campaign Theme: Dark Blue - Jack’s Mannequin

Ammi: Esperandote - Rika Muranaka & Vanesa Quiroz

Sanguine (The First One) - Mister Blue Sky in G Major

Amical: Golden and Green - The Builders and the Butchers, Hurricane - Panic!, Killer Queen - Queen

Billy Thatcher: Every fucking song from Chess, The Musical, by Tim Rice and the boys from Abba

Hendrik Rakove: Hurt So Good - John Mellencamp, Lovefool - Spencer Day’s Cover, Love Me Dead - Ludo, Grace Kelly - BYU A cappella cover, Talk about You - MIKA, It’s All Been Done - BNL, The Show Must Not Go On - Harvey Danger, Circus- Drew Gasparini and Lindsay Mandez.

Talaiporia- Choke - I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Andrew Cross: Camisado- Panic!

Closing Shop - (The weird experimental meta campaign that literally ate itself)

Steam Rising - Murder By Death, Devil’s Calling - Florence and the Machine, Talkin at the Texaco - James McMurtry, Keepin’ It Real - Barenak BLOW BY KESHA BLOW BY KESHA GET MY SONG RIGHT GET IT RIGHT, Sometimes the Line Walks You - Murder By Death

Exit Signs- Slashers/mixed nWoD Campaign

Season One theme: What if I’m Wrong - Damien Rice

Season Two Theme: I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers

Cyril: Disaster - Drew Weston, A Little Irony - Tom Milsom.

Dea ‘Exit’ DeLus: When I Grow Up - Tim Minchin, Break Your Heart - BNL, If I Had a Heart - Fever Ray, Crystalline - Bjork, Still - Ben Folds, Come Into My Head - Kimbra, Dinner at Eight - Rufus Wainwright, What You Know - Two Door Cinema Club, Big Dark Love - Murder By Death, Bitter and Sick - One Two,

DRT: Bitter Rivals - Sleigh Bells, Passcode - BNL.

Swing: Boogie Feet - Kesha.

Deirdre Whitman: Welcome to the Ball - Rufus Wainwright.

NonPlatonic Forms

I’m Gonna Win- Rob Cantor Boomerang - Lucy Schwartz, Hate that you know me so well- Bleachers, Jericho - Rufus Wainwright, Guster - Center of Attention, Toe to Toe - BNL, Give It Back to You - BNL, Limits -BNL (I apologize for nothing I love Silverball), Blood - ANIMA!, and of COURSE- Dead Inside by Patricia Taxxon!

- Other characters -

Channery Keene

Artificial Heart - JoCo, Erase Me - Ben Folds Five, Desperate Measures - Marianas Trench, Haunted - Maya Kern, Cake - Melanie Martinez, Bulletproof- La Roux, Cassandra - Area 11, Stolen - Greentree, Guster - Simple Machine, Make Me Feel - Janelle Monae, Could I Leave You - (specifically Donna Murphy at the Sondheim’s 80th concert).

Chrome and Prism

Kiss with a Fist - Florence and the Machine, Langhorns - Spybeat, Dancing’s Not a Crime - Panic!, Thanks I Hate It - Simple Creatures, Sweet Talk - Saint Motel, This Is Love - Air Traffic Controller, Nothing Without You- Vienna Teng

Harold Ludicael

Consequence Free - Great Big Sea, Sea of No Cares- Great Big Sea, Don’t Threaten me with a Good Time - Panic!, Dust and Ashes from Great Comet, I Need to Know from Jekyll and Hyde; Boy Decide - Murder by Death, Spring Break 1899 - Murder By Death, My Type - Saint Motel.

#ocs #character songs #I think I also have a playlist for Gray Jacket but I can’t find it #I apologize in advance for no Academic songs yet #haven’t been listening to enough new music lately #But I used to burn CDs for my tabletop groups #I made cover art and liner notes with art for the tracklists too #And I also spliced songs together on occasion #the Keepin’ It Real track in Closing Shop started glitching in the middle #before turning into Kesha’s Blow #It was a way to both characterize the villain AND have them pull off a 4th wall break #The fact that I don’t do webcomics or twice a week tabletop sessions anymore is #like I took the weights off #if anyone wonders how I make so much stuff #it’s because is was forced in a terrible crucible #XD

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strykingback · 10 months

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@krowsselfindulgy How bad is Black lagoon? Since you compared it to RWBY I feel concerned for the formers quality.

Okay just before I begin. Black Lagoon is in no way means of bad. I was just saying that it was better than RWBY. Since on twitter someone was making some idiotic comparisons on how RWBY was better than [anime name]. But I'll happily tell you that this IS WHAT A GOOD MEAL IS LIKE IN A SHOWWW!!!

But before I go ahead. WARNING: There will be spoilers for the First Two Seasons of Black Lagoon . (I'll cover the Roberta's Blood Trail Arc another time) Also Further warning! The following triggers will contain blood, gore, violence and I mean lots of violence. N*zi's, R*pe, G*re, and some racism, including Police Brutality (Also this was done during 2006 like this was a time when things were unhinged!) ___________________

Now I think we're gonna go through a few of the characters, some favorite moments of mine from the series. Then we'll just leave everything for a second part? Perhaps? Because seriously theres a lot of memorable characters and moments from this show and its no wonder why everyone is hoping for a Season 3 one day! Okay where do we start? Well why not with the fact that any RWBY stan is gonna complain and say there are no "strong women" in Black Lagoon. Yeah you know what thats kind of true y'know I should agree with them. . . .

FUCKING DEAD FUCKING WRONG.

Lets start with someone from our main cast of characters shall we?

Enter Rebecca "Revy" Lee, an Chinese American born woman who lived in an impoverished part of New York City where he would have to suffer both Physical and Sexual abuse from both her father and THE POLICE. Which leads her to have a very nihilistic viewpoint of the world and its religion as she states herself (Mostly from the Manga) that: "God didn't do shit" for her because of all the abuse she had to suffer. Not to mention at one point when she was arrested SHE WAS LITERALLY- Um.. hold up a minute. Ahaha! Redo of Healer'd!

Oh and by the way she was also killing and getting in fights with the police all at A YOUNG AGE. Oh my god she was literally putting on Black Timberlands instead of Black Air Forces..... this was until she met Dutch who she would join him as the brawn to the ELCO PT Boat, the Black Lagoon.

However her greatest flaw is her "Whitman Fever" which can lead to her violently killing anyone who gets in her way (with a few exceptions). However, its also most possible that the reason why she shoots and kills is a way to cope with her trauma...... as anyone who treats her with genuine kindness instead of attempting to betray her and somehow... this person was none other than our Rock that we'll be talking about another time. but for now... lets show some memorable moments.

Such as.. her terrifying Speech towards our Other Main Protagonist Rock (Which we will :

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Or WHEN SHE AND DUTCH GOT ON A BOAT THAT WAS HIJACKED BY NEO-N*ZI'S AND SLAUGHTERED THEM ALL.. LIKE DEAR GOD LOOK AT THIS

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Then there comes our second character and dear God she is.... fucking legendary... THE FORMER SOVIET VETERAN OF WAR HERSELF.

ENTER SOFIYA PAVLOVNA AKA BALALAIKA My god this woman is the definition of "I am the Shit and I dont sit around and fuck around" unlike Salem and her dumbass sitting on a Grimm throne for the past like what oh wait.. one (Volume 4), two (Volume 5), three (Volume 6), Four (Volume 7), and FIVE (Volume 8) Goddamn times! Like holy fuckin shit Salem is one of them lazy villains. but for Balalaika, she is the true meaning of Fuck around and FIND OUT.

She was a former Soviet War Veteran who participated in the Soviet-Afghan War before being disavowed and thus, she would join Hotel Moscow and regain her soldiers who were all also former soviet paratroopers. When i say she will get shit done I MEAN SHE WILL GET IT DONE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Such as when someone was blabbing about when they were going to assassinate the entire Lagoon Company (Which who Revy is part of) and she pulls up on him and gives off the MOST HELLA DARKEST GLARES EVER.

YOU CANNOT TELL ME SHE'S LIKE THIS IS TERRIFYING TO LOOK AT CAUSE MY GOD SHE IS THE SHIT. SALEM EAT YOUR FUCKIN' HEART OUT!

Lets not forget when Roberta the Maid (I may have to talk about that another time....) pulled up, Balalaika did her research and found out who she was and cornered her with her Vysotniki (Basically her personal army of Red Army, VDV, and Spetznaz soldiers) and still...she commands the respect of all of them. ....

Theres also the fact that she went to "war" with many gangs but when Hotel Moscows Japan branch was having trouble. She pulled up and had the Yakuza running for their life. The only thing that would be capable of saving them would be Kazama Ki- Oh yeah thats right he was still in Prison and didn't get out until 2005. Still she blitzkrieged the Yakuza quickly and made them beg for mercy!!! But no joke. Balalaika has the respect of her men has the skills of a leader, even to the point where she would happily do a favor for a dear friend. Because at one point Dutch did rescue her and she returned the favor three times.

It was no joke that Revy said that Balalaika gets off on war.... cause boy howdy she was right...but that doesnt mean shes all but a war maniac. Somewhere deep inside she has a soft spot for her men she served with as she would go as far as to avenge them by any means necessary.

Like during the Vampire Twins Arc... and I kid you not as I say this.....

BALALAIKA HAD TO SIFT THROUGH 250 SNUFF FILMS IN ORDER TO FIND THE TWO TWINS THAT KILLED HER MEN....

There was going to be no way that I would be able to get through even be able to get through the first five minutes of just ONE. Like I said before... Balalaika. DOES NOT FUCK AROUND.

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Such as when Balalaika gets her vengeance on one of the killers

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Or her meeting with the Kosa clan when she makes fun of the guards FLIMSY GUN AND SHOOTS THEM BOTH WITH IT!!

Okay so enough of that cause it is 7:30 PM over here... and I think I may have to save this for a part two um... so have a REALLY Funny moment from Black Lagoon that gets me rolling.

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#RWDE #Does this count as RWDE #//Apologies for the wait on this #Youtube

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kawaiistarfishbeliever · 2 months

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"Whitman fever".

#anime and manga #Hair down #Chinese-American character #seinen #madhouse studio #black lagoon #season 1 #Dual Beretta 92FS #gifs #Vs. Neo Nazis #gunslinger character #Mentally unstable character #Mentally unstable gunslinger character #maryke hendrikse #Megumi Toyoguchi #Lagoon Company member

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el-im · 1 year

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2023

key ↻ = re-read ☞ = continuing (started previously) ✑ = for school ☏ = others recommended and/or gifted to me ✧ = favorites 𓆱 = northern arizona

- hard aground by james w. wall - ↻ moby-dick; or, the whale by herman melville - shockwave by paul ruditis - the expanse by j. m. dillard - last full measure by michael a. martin & andy mangels - surprise! by nichelle nichols, sondra marshak, & myrna culbreath - the good that men do by michael a. martin & andy mangels - and how are you, doctor sacks?: a biographical memoir of oliver sacks by lawrence weschler - how to change your mind: what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence by michael pollan - ✑ rhetoric and human consciousness: a history (5th ed) by craig r. smith - ✑ how english works: a linguistic introduction (3rd ed) by anne curzan and michael p. adams - ✑ goodbye to all that by joan didion - ✑ disappearance by carrie brownstein - ✑ debts and lessons by zadie smith - ✑ baby yeah by anthony veasna so - bone in the throat by anthony bourdain - the man who loved alien landscapes by albert wendland - ✑ notice by jessica handler - ✑ joyas voladoras by brian doyle - ✑ proxies: essays near knowing by brian blanchfield - ↻ night sea journey by john barthes - ✑ consider the lobster by david foster wallace - admissions: a life in brain surgery by henry marsh - dino: living high in the dirty business of dreams by nick tosches - ✑ the book of delights: essays by ross gay - frank sinatra has a cold by gay talese - inventing jerry lewis by frank krutnik - ✑ whatever the weather by linda tran - ✑ the gift of strawberries by robin wall-kimmerer - fried walleye and cherry pie: midwestern writers on food, edited by peggy wolff - tomorrow and beyond: masterpieces of science fiction art, edited by ian summers - stories and prose poems by aleksandr solzhenitsyn, trans. michael glenny - ✑ in cold blood by truman capote - w. h. auden: selected poems, edited by edward mendelson - 95 poems by e. e. cummings - ↻ dawn by elie wiesel - ☏ 20020: the future of college football by jon bois - ☏ the postman by david brin - slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion - who by fire: leonard cohen in the sinai by matti friedman - in the house upon the dirt between the lake and the woods by matt bell - zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into values by robert m. pirsig - ✑ essays one by lydia davis - the book of eulogies: a collection of memorial tributes, poetry, essays, and letters of condolence, edited by phyllis theroux - ✧ kneller's happy campers by etgar keret - the bus driver who wanted to be god and other stories by etgar keret - ↻ where the sidewalk ends: poems and drawings by shel silverstein - aperture 12:4, 1964, edited by minor white - the complete peanuts, 1959-1960 by charles m. shultz - ✧ letters to milena by franz kafka - aredo by grace smith - the last lecture by randy pausch & jeffrey zaslow - the bug wars by robert asprin - leaves of grass: “first” and “death-bed” editions by walt whitman - something alive by keegan grau - ↻ moby dick; or, the whale by herman melville - hunger makes me a modern girl by carrie brownstein - ✧ our numbered days by neil hilborn - book of mercy by leonard cohen - some ether by nick flynn - death of a lady's man by leonard cohen - the white album by joan didion - in fact: the best of creative nonfiction, edited by lee gutkind - ✧ kurt vonnegut: letters, edited by dan wakefield - spent saints & other stories by brian jabas smith - reckless daughter: a profile of joni mitchell by david yaffe - day by elie wiesel - william carlos williams: the collected poems 1909-1939, edited by walton litz and christopher macgowan - 𓆱 quench your thirst with salt: essays by nicole walker - 𓆱 package fever by anahi molina - 𓆱 tumbling toward awareness by anahi molina - 𓆱 if i could just see the levee from my backyard by anahi molina - 𓆱 undertones by anahi molina - 𓆱 building the dream: lego friends and the construction of human capital by christopher schaberg, ginger grimstein, waverly evans, paige franckiewicz, nino hernandez, terran lumpkin, anahi molina, & adelaide wight - 𓆱 interview with margarida vale de gato by anahi molina - love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcía márquez, trans. edith grossman - bagombo snuff box: uncollected short fiction by kurt vonnegut - 𓆱 evening with grandma by anahi molina - 𓆱 the gods are dead by anahi molina - 𓆱 namesakes by anahi molina - ☏ a book of common prayer: a novel by joan didion - grapefruit: a book of instructions and drawings by yoko ono - ☏ bluets by maggie nelson - cradle book: stories & fables by craig morgan teicher - ☏↻ the gift: poems by hafiz, the great sufi master, trans. daniel ladinsky - ☏ i heard god laughing: renderings of hafiz by daniel ladinsky - hunger: a memoir of (my) body by roxane gay - our babies, ourselves: how biology and culture shape the way we parent by meredith f. small - ☏ the overstory: a novel by richard powers - ☏ having and being had by eula biss - the two cultures and the scientific revolution by c. p. snow - ☏ dogsucker: the written oral by lawrence lenhart - 𓆱 backvalley ferrets: a rewilding of the colorado plateau by lawrence lenhart - post office by charles bukowski - consider the lobster and other essays by david foster wallace - zoologies: on animals and the human spirit by alison hawthorne-deming - ↻ the rainbabies by laura krauss melmed - billions & billions: thoughts of life and death at the brink of the millenium by carl sagan - ☏ zami: a new spelling of my name: a biomythography by audre lorde - the paper menagerie by ken liu - ☏ the member of the wedding by carson mccullers - the handsomest drowned man in the world by gabriel garcía márquez - the joy of sex by alex comfort - open all night: new poems by charles bukowski - ham on rye by charles bukowski - howl’s moving castle by diana wynne jones - ☏ norwegian wood by haruki murakami - the gales of november: the sinking of the edmund fitzgerald by robert j. hemming - ✑ the rise of silas lapham by william dean howells - ✑ girl by jamaica kincid - everyone but me wrote this by anahi molina - ✑ a rose for emily by william faulkner - ✑ sister carrie by theodore dreiser - ✑ in praise of gossip by patricia meyer spacks - ✑ the husband stitch by carmen maria machado - ✑ the way the end of days should be by diane cook - ✑ the tomb of wrestling by jo ann beard - ✑ oronooko: or, the royal slave by aphra behn - ✑ the jungle by upton sinclair ☇ new york times article reading list - ✑ bless me, ultima by rudolfo anaya - ✑ kindred by octavia butler - ✑ the awakening by kate chopin - ✑ behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst by robert sapolsky - ☏ happening by annie ernaux - ✑ m. butterfly by david henry hwang - ✑ my ántonia by willa cather - here is your war by ernie pyle - ✑ the whale caller by zakes mda - ✑ sáanii dahataał / the women are singing: poems and stories by luci tapahonso - ✑ in dubious battle by john steinbeck - ↻ sarah, plain and tall by patricia mclachlan - ✑ “the rockpile” by james baldwin - i will not leave you comfortless: a memoir by jeremy jackson - fifty famous people by james baldwin - ✑ “shiloh” by bobbie ann mason - ✑ “cathedral” by raymond carver - you get so alone sometimes that it just makes sense by charles bukowski - ✑ slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut - dead babies by martin amis

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#booklist #YEAR TWO!#will b updating w links as i go along.

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crymeariveronceagain · 2 years

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If you could describe all the kotlc kids with a poem. What would it be? I read your stories w Biana/Alvar and poetry so now I'm kinda curious-

oooooh what a fun askkkk!!!

Sophie Foster: "Ozymandias", by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Keefe Sencen: "The Fool's Prayer", by Edward Roland Sill.

’T is not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; ’T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away.

Fitz Vacker: "Genius Child" by Langston Hughes.

Can you love an eagle, Tame or wild? Can you love an eagle, Wild or tame? Can you love a monster Of frightening name?

Nobody loves a genius child.

Kill him - and let his soul run wild.

Biana Vacker: Henry The Fifth's Monologue in Act Four, Scene One, by William Shakespeare.

What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!

Tam Song: "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself.

Linh Song: "Sea-Fever", by John Masefield.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

Marella Redek: "We Real Cool", by Gwendolyn Brooks.

We real cool. We Left school. We

Lurk late. We Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We Die soon.

Dex Dizznee: "The Owl-Critic", by James Thomas Fields.

Anatomy teaches, Ornithology preaches, An owl has a toe That can't turn out so! I've made the white owl my study for years, And to see such a job almost moves me to tears! Mr. Brown, I'm amazed You should be so gone crazed As to put up a bird In that posture absurd! To look at that owl really brings on a dizziness; The man who stuffed him don't half know his business!" And the barber kept shaving.

Stina Heks: "Marriage", by Marrianne Moore.

She loves herself so much, she cannot see herself enough -- a statuette of ivory on ivory, the logical last touch to an expansive splendor earned as wages for work done:

Maruca Chebota: "Crossing The Brooklyn Ferry", by Walt Whitman.

It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, The dark threw its patches down upon me also, The best I had done seem’d to me blank and suspicious, My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?

Glimmer(because I love the idea of her I've created in my mind): "There's A Certain Slant Of Light" by Emily Dickinson.

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference – Where the Meanings, are –

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thebluelagooncompany-567 · 1 year

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Say hello to the Fuhuer for me.

#Whitman Fever #Revy #Two-hands #Gifs #Black Lagoon #Season 1 #Twin Modified Beretta 92FS inox #gunslinger #mentally ill character #Rebecca Lee #Revy Lee #chinese-american #rei hiroe #Seinen #Crime #Thriller #action #Girls with guns

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luckynightkryptonite · 1 year

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The "Whitman Fever" .

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avengerphobic · 2 years

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was that brief time i was like obsessed with dane whitman a fever dream cuz i cannot find the posts

#dane whitman

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nizynskis · 2 years

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tagged by leslie @columbo-fever to post 5 movies, 4 songs, 3 essentials, 2 books, and 1 quote tysm this is a good way to wake up ^^

5 movies

- the lighthouse (2019)

- the talented mr ripley (1999)

- the handmaiden (2016)

- dog day afternoon (1975)

- my beautiful laundrette (1985)

4 songs

- one fine day by the chiffons

- why by carly simon

- come on let’s go by ritchie valens

- taro by alt-j

3 essentials

- ugly gray fleece from my dad’s workplace

- pink and green bracelet my friend lucas made me

- wristwatch from my late uncle

2 books

- camera lucida by roland barthes

- three steps on the ladder of writing by hélène cixous

1 quote

- ‘I too pass from the night, I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.’ Walt Whitman, “The Sleepers”

tagging @sera-wasnever @lycanthrology @pletzl :-)

#whitman has been on my mind lately because of an episode with my little cousin I believed she was a hidden poet so I got her whitman for her #birthday but then I discovered from a picture the crumpled poem my grandmother found was actually mine and I wrote it when I was little #maybe am destined to be a poet. maybe should steal whitman back from my poor suffering cousin.

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clearandsweet · 21 days

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Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation, The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new, My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues, The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love, The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations, Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events; These come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself.

--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

#quotes #poetry #song of myself #walt whitman #poem #lit

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wyrmfedgrave · 3 months

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Pics: HPL denigrates Walt Whitman!

1. Lovecraft's Weird Tales poems - collected!

2 thru 4. Walt Whitman, considered one of the U.S.'s most important writers. Certainly one of its most influential.

5 & 6. A quote from Whitman & a quote about him...

1912: "Walt Whitman" fragment.

Intro: An unfinished poem putting the "Father of Free Verse¹" down. Or, so Howard hoped²...

Bio: Whitman was an American journalist, philosopher, novelist, essayist, poet & Civil War nurse!

Walt's major works are described as a mix of transcendentalism³ & realism.

Whitman is best known for his book of poetry, "Leaves of Grass", which celebrates nature, love, democracy & friendship.

Walt also worked as a school teacher, printer, newspaper editor, carpenter & civil servant.

Plot: This isn't any kind of a balanced job of criticism. It's mostly HPL's take- down of Whitman & resembles a modern rap battle in style.

Except that it's all one sided⁴.

Mostly, Lovecraft describes Walt as a writer who "delights... rakes (&) warms (up) swine."

Walt, Howard states, has "sunk to the level of the beast, (his) wit run wild."

Continuing in this way, HPL decries how Whitman's "rough brain... play(s) the brute alone."

And traces these "gross thoughts (to) Adam's beastial child⁵!"

Then, Lovecraft further puts down Walt's talent as mere "fevered fancy (that) shuns... measured pace⁶."

And traces this to Whitman's "copies (of) Ovid's filth⁷, without (any) grace."

Then, Howard really gets personal...

Claiming that Walt was "void of (any) shame", "adverse to culture" & "never knew the pleasures of the mind."

Ouch...

The most telling put down has to be how Whitman is "strange to human- kind⁸."

Notes:

1. Free verse is poetry with no classical structure or rhyme. It's different from prose due to its rhythm, 'heightened' language & word placement.

2. When it 1st came out, Walt's work was considered obscene! So, the prudish HPL wasn't alone in his criticism.

But, it's strange to see Lovecraft defend the same establishment that didn't understand what Howard himself was doing.

3. Transcendentalism is an American philosophical school concerned with pantheistic mysticism.

Though Whitman was a bit of a religious skeptic, he was into pantheism. This is a belief of "God being in everyone & everything."

4. Or, as David Howard put it, "That's the most bizarre bit of poetry I've ever read. Lovecraft criticizing Whitman in the style of Pope!"

But, actually, Howard criticized most of the fiction of his day, blaming consumer capitalism for corrupting literature itself!!

And, Lovecraft looked down on most professional writers. All because they wrote of 'mere' human interactions - something that he wasn't interested in doing or reading about.

5. This is a reference to Cain, who - in some Hebrew legends - becomes a beast & is hunted down to death.

6. HPL hated Whitman for giving free verse respectability.

Howard didn't approve of anyone defying the classical standards that he, himself, strongly supported.

7. Ovid's 'filth' must describe one of the Roman poet's main subjects - sexual passion.

As we have already seen (in an earlier post), Ovid also wrote on mythology & the sorrows of exile.

8. Walt's poetry was, at 1st, unpopular. His celebration of sex & exploration of taboo subjects led to the censorship of his work.

It's not just that Whitman's free verse was seen as too radical. "Leaves of Grass" also contains some overt sexual & homoerotic references.

Mild in our porn obsessed, modern world. But, it led to "Leaves" being banned from libraries, schools & book stores!

Weird Bits:

1. Walt's work was used, by socialists of the time, as evidence of the sexual depravity of capitalism!!

2. Whitman's work got a very different reception in Europe - where he got more respect than in the U.S.!

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