#i love love your poetry and this one is on of my favorites

[acotars]

full listen through complete, here are all my initial thoughts in one place

finally post malone delivering the vocals we always knew he had i love this man’s voice

gorgeous harmonies

i’m sorry charlie puth?????? depressing to hear wish she could unrecord that.

who’s gonna hold you like me? because we’re CRAZYYYY. who’s gonna hold you? — me. KILLLLLLL ME (me-e-e!)

my boy only breaks his favorite toys x my boy billie eilish mashup when

down bad waking up in BLOOD??? in BLOOD?????

staring at the sky chinese satellite moment ?? staring at the sky would’ve could’ve should’ve when i’m screaming at the sky moment??

and i’m pissed off you let me give you all that youth for free :(((( this makes my whole body ache

you sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days and im just getting color back in my face :(

i’m having his baby!!!!!!!! first laugh of the album. so far it’s nothing but heart aching and then she’s like lol i’m pregnant jk lmao!!!

fresh out the slammer first second sounds like old western like guns drawn dueling in a ghost town

to the one who says i’m the girl of his american dreams UGH!!! i love her songwriting in this one it’s so mundane and winky. it’s so stolen moments of real life it’s so spoken word it’s so everything to me

my friends all smell like weed or little babies LMAO this feels like the sexy baby of ttpd

florence welch the woman that you are………

throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks / drove my car off the road to the lookout could’ve followed my fears all the way down

what if he’s written “mine” on my upper thigh only in my mind. INSANE LYRIC. insane lyric. terrifying horrifying lyric. she is a master

i keep these longings locked in lowercase inside a vault and then LOWERCASE LOML. lowercase love of my life. lowercase loss of my life.

guilty as sin is the most painful breakup song i’ve ever heard it’s so awful it hurts so bad i can’t even think about it without crying

love the screaming in who’s afraid of little old me but i fear in some ways the lyrics feel more juvenile than the rest of the album

i can fix him is and cowboy like me are sisters

LOSS OF MY LIFE??????????? LOSS!!!! of my LIFE!!!!!!!!!!

793 dead 1 bazillion injured

i can do it with a broken heart spotify video just being eras tour footage lol just shoot me. just shoot me in the chest

lights camera bitch smile 1 2 3 let’s go bitch

jehovah’s witness suit is exactly what i’m talking about with her lyricism it’s so real life details it’s so moments out of context turned into poetry

were you writing a book??? :((( :’(((( the desperation of wanting there to be a reason for it all and a reason for it all to be thrown away she’s so used to being used/mused :((((

the alchemy .,, i’ll pass. idc about this one sorry there’s too much matty and travis it makes me :/

YOU LOOK LIKE TAYLOR SWIFT???? AS THE OUTROOOOO she’s crazy for this she’s bonkers

i cried my way through clara bow and then started it over and cried again. and then spotify said oh did you want yoyok now??

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #long post #pers

[terranoctis]

I played Hades II a fair bit yesterday during my breaks and free time for Supergiant Games' technical test of the game. Part of me wants to keep playing today, but I got stuff to do and I do want to keep up the excitement for the early access. I wrote a rough, kind of unedited essay about it before I went to sleep last night though below, mostly for me to have record of my memories in written form. Some spoiler-y screenshots and random thoughts/analyses below if you want to read more. I mean it--there are spoilers and the most random long tangents because I like to analyze. (I do recommend playing first if you have a chance to)

First thing I'll say is that the game is pretty phenomenal and so damn fun. The experience reminds me of when I played Hades for the first time in their initial Early Access of the game years ago. Longtime Supergiant Games fan here (since Transistor release)! I remember running into a bug then and reporting it when I froze in-game, but I have not run into any noticeable bugs at all yet for Hades II. I've done some reports for minor bugs, but extremely minor ones that I actually feel bad for even reporting and adding to their list of messages to go through. Supergiant has their QA down, truly. I have so much respect for them and how they've developed the game. Darren Korb did an amazing job on the music again. It has that iconic Hades sound with the strings (that is not a guitar, I forget what it's called) while also being its own distinct soundtrack.

The 4th wall banter moments between Melinoë and Homer (who is revealed as narrator!) have been one of my favorite things about the story/narration execution. Her being cognizant of Homer does make it so there are rather funny moments, but also brings up the question of how that might shape the narrative later on. I'm so curious!

When I first started the game, I had a funny moment where I died almost instantly in the second room because I was testing out Melinoe's skillset and ran out of MP (?) and then got slapped because I wasn't actually doing damage when trying to use her bigger skills, heh. It did take me some time to get used to it, but Mel's skills and cast abilities are so much fun to use when utilized well. Her cast and its ability to hold your enemies for a time is one of the best upgrades to combat, in my opinion. For all I love the first Hades, I remember having to dash like crazy to escape exploding carts coming after me if I didn't have a good boon to mitigate or avoid that. With the cast for Melinoë, it'll change that to placing strategically some casts that can hold quick enemies or enemies that are very dangerous if they get close to you (wailers in this game are one such enemy). In terms of boons, Demeter's, Hestia's, and Apollo's have been some of my favorites. Aphrodite also has a phenomenal one for casts that will gather your enemies into your cast, making it an ideal combination with some devastating other boons that can easily damage groups of enemies all at once. Hephaestus also has a pretty fun one where I think he can explode in a certain proximity with your special or attack, I forget. I do wonder if they'll have to rebalance some of these boons because there are certain ones I can annihilate enemies with--but then again, maybe that is needed for later sections of the game.

The numerous references to the moon in the game are a nice nod to Melinoë's lore in Greek mythology and poetry too. Though she's more associated with being a goddess of ghosts (I find it a nice touch you can salute shades you meet in the Crossroads because of this) and nightmares (I don't think it's a coincidence Hypnos is the only other survivor of Hades' inner sanctum), Melinoë has at some point been referenced as a moon goddess as well of the underworld. Selene is the moon goddess and Artemis has also become known as a goddess of the moon in mythology in addition to being the goddess of the hunt. So that connection between the three and the friendship they share in the game is pretty cool in that regard (Selene calls you the "Silver Sisters.")

Having Artemis become your friend in Hades II, something akin to a friendly rivalry like Thanatos was to Zagreus, is such a fun story--and then you have Selene added into that mix as well. From the few runs I've done, I've gathered that Artemis and Hermes are the first of the Olympus gods who knew of Melinoë's existence in her youth as Hecate's pupil. She helped Hecate hide the truth of Melinoës survival (at least from the Olympus gods)--and when Melinoë was ready, it was only then that Artemis leaked through Apollo that Hades' daughter was coming to fight Chronos and had survived the fall of Hades. So the boons you get are because the twins, Artemis and Apollo, played a role in connecting you to Olympus for the fight against Chronos. There seems to be more in this background that I'm curious to learn about. Just from their banter, it's clear Artemis has spent much time with Melinoë and Selene in some form. I don't know if they have duo boons in this game (or boon-hex? Selene gives you a hex), but I'm curious to see what these two's duo boon(s) would be if they have them.

The game also does that thing the first game did so well of shifting the world as you progress and have changes in the relationships about you. Nemesis is one of the new characters in Hades II who doesn't seem to like you very much initially, but with your dialogue with Odysseus nearby, you get the sense that it wasn't always this way. When you gift her a nectar, Melinoë subtly starts calling her "Nem," and you can tell the two of them are very slowly mending whatever it is they have (Odysseus chuckles nearby probably seeing the progress). You also meet Doom Incarnate (Moros) and have to unlock having him at the Crossroads by invoking him, which is also pretty fun in terms of letting you slowly do more runs and experience the world more in order to gather enough "resources" to call him. It allows a natural progression of characterization and getting to know the people around Melinoë, in my opinion.

Dora's also one of my favorite character already. There's something so funny about Melinoë encouraging Dora as she tries to scare and haunt her as a proper ghost, but then also rather touching that she just accepts that Dora just likes to hang out in her room and not go out much. I love Arachne too, and how she's just chillin' like, I'm bored and alone and just spinning webs, so here Melinoë, have some clothes I made.

This game makes me love it as much as I loved the first one. In some ways, in terms of how they executed establishing background and connections between Melinoë and her companions (Odysseus' calls her a "little goddess" as a child! Hecate plays hide-and-go-seek with her!), I think they've started out much stronger than they did in the first game. And this one already starts with a sort of high-stakes situation from the get-go. Melinoë's entire family has been taken by Chronos and she grew up apart from them. The game does well of letting you step into the world even if you haven't played the first one--and playing on your affection for Hades, Persephone, and Zagreus if you did. After all, considering how hard you worked as Zagreus to bring back together that family in the first game, the second game logically comes back with a vengeance with Melinoë at the loss of such a family and a need for vengeance against Chronos for ruining it. The world feels familiar, yet the cast of characters are so different.

And the designs of all the new gods! And the new designs for the old gods! They're all extremely well-done. I've been a longtime fan of the artists for the characters and the environments. They've done stellar jobs on it again for this one, and there's more touches to icons and designs of the UI I like too. The dialogue log is one of my favorite things too, as someone who might miss a piece of dialogue here and there when I take off my headphones. The voice acting in this game is also a whole notch up from the previous game. Not to knock anyone from the first Hades, since I think they did a great job, but I do feel like the voices have been more professionally recorded this time around. Or something about it is a little more polished. Kudos to Supergiant for another game that's an A+ in my book thus far. Ahh!

I could keep going, but honestly, I think it's best to have people experience the game in Early Access. I mostly just wanted a record for myself to look back on for being a small part of Hades II's journey and share some of my excitement and the random analyses I had. It'll be fun for me to look back on how I read some things and how I felt when the finished version of the game comes out eventually.

#personal #hades 2 #hades ii #hades ii spoilers #readings and ramblings

[illyrianbitch]

Do you have any fic recs or author recs? Itching for Azriel of Eris 💘

hi lovey!! yes yes!!

as always, my baby 4ever @writingcroissant excels in all things azriel & @pellucid-constellations as well!

same with my love @itsswritten, and she also has an azris x reader series! then if youre cravin eris we got his pr queen over here @daycourtofficial with her eris agenda (my favorite sadist)

@historiaxvanserra is an AMAZING writer and has az & eris fics! (id call them poetry).

some more very very talented writers such as @prythianpages or @milswrites, also @florencemtrash has one of my favorite az series and its so very well written!

but like ive said i havent been reading much recently :( so any recs are welcome!

if anyone has some writers that are underappreciated/smaller and deserve some attention, pls lmk!! i want to pass some love to writers who deserve more of it <3 i think sometimes newer work can get drowned out by the more-known authors and fics on here, and i know that can be frustrating, so any and all recs are so so welcome in my inbox!!

#asks #rae’s recs #we support all authors here bb #i hope you guys dont mind me tagging all yall #hehe #i just get excited #azriel x reader #eris x reader

[stilljuststardust]

Going to manifest dream life, but confused what to manifest! Ya I have list but little, can u suggest me some things to manifest like main character girl, Wattpad like lifestyle, I can't decide

I LOVE what to manifest lists.

One thing I don't see other people doing is I find poetry and then I steal those descriptors for my new self. Personally I manifest having an ethereal or otherworldly quality.

Lifestyle:

Living in your desired city/town/country you could even make one up if you wanted

Everything matches your aesthetic exactly how you want it

Your dream closet

Your favorite show didn't get cancelled/had a better ending

You always sleep well

A healthy mindset

World:

No climate change

No bigotry or oppression

No fast fashion so the clothes are higher quality

Beauty standards aren't as toxic

The world is generally just safer to be in

Hygiene ig:

You always smell good

Your sweat smells like something else (could be vanilla lavender whatever you want)

Nobody has bad breath

Everyone wears deodorant

People always ask you what perfume you use

Your hair is never dry or greasy

Clear skin

Random ideas:

Impossibly soft skin

Unearthly singing voice. Haunting, ethereal, and melodic like something you'd hear in a dream or from a siren.

Prophetic dreams

haunting beauty

Tattoos that glow

Reverse freckles like little glowing flecks on your face

Everything in your life fits your aesthetic how you'd like it to

Everything feels as vivid as it did when you were a kid

#loa tumblr #loa blog #fun things to manifest #fun things to script #loa manifesting #loa advice #loa success #loassumption #loassblog #loass #loablr

[earlgodwin]

okay i know you've mentioned/answered this a million times but i would love to get your top recommendations for borgias published books and content.

i haven't really ventured into those selections but i really want to take the leap into that realm and buy/borrow some books and read them..!

(also i'm curious if you read many fanfictions for the borgias, and if so do you have any good recs?)

💞

hi <33! no worries at all! i love being asked questions about everything related to the borgias, as i get very enthusiastic about them. now, let's start with my favorite borgias biographies:

maria bellonci's 'lucrezia borgia' because i'm very obsessed with accuracy and avoiding cliché biased narratives. it's such a solid read really! it also portrays lucrezia in a way that i've always believed she was—a completely misunderstood woman who is a pawn in the power and ambition games of her father and brother. but deep down, she's just a silly, pretty poetry lover who's guilty by association. this book also debunks cesare's supposed "jealousy" towards juan as the shows how much he loves him (based on the letters to each other) and that rodrigo has always loved his children equally, which is a cherry on top lol.

emma lucas's 'lucrezia borgia.' while it's not entirely accurate because it satisfies my beloved (but not accurate) 'lucrezia is a femme fatale and not saintly' narrative (which i love, by the way), i'm fascinated by how it unexpectedly delves deep into her family, especially rodrigo, cesare, and juan. it also provides great anecdotes about the characters so there's that. despite having negative reviews, the biography is actually very well-written and highly entertaining! fuck the gossip!

christopher hibbert's 'the borgias and their enemies.' for some reason, i keep forgetting to recommend this book to my friends. i tend to get easily investedwith any borgia book that focuses on the pope and his children, providing narratives without forcing you to choose what to believe. the author obviously conducted extensive research before publishing it because when reading a biography (not historical fiction), i prefer to avoid biased perspectives that can be heavily misleading. i also appreciate the fact that machiavelli (and other important figures) plays an important role in this biography because i'm always excited about him.

ferdinand gregorovius' 'lucretia borgia according to original documents and correspondence of her day'. it's also a very unbiased excellent piece of history that is full of validated source. and i just adore how the author is pro-lucrezia as well.

samantha morris' 'cesare and lucrezia: brother and sister of history's most vilified family' is also well documented and well researched! while cesare was given more depth than lucrezia, still, lucrezia's character in this biography is more colorful. obviously the most popular narrative for the borgia family is them being incestuous, corrupt and violent, a family to be feared, but the author suggests otherwise as she sets out to prove this is not the full story and she does make a good argument! as she detailed how they've been portrayed by mainstream media as well as detailing what happened to their descendants.

sarah bradford's 'lucrezia borgia.' okay, so this one isn't a favorite of mine, but i'd recommend it to you or anyone who's a huge fan of ceslu. it's written like a love story biography exclusively about them. while i like how she wrote about ceslu, i heavily dislike how she wrote about juan and rodrigo and how she portrayed them based on narratives from the family's enemies. the author also manipulated a letter about the envoy boccaccio, which is supposed to praise both brothers. but instead, the author just one-upped him with cesare by dunking on him, which i personally find lame and intensely inaccurate since juan borgia was pretty much loved by his wife, his family, and his friends based on the retrieved documents and letters. that being said, i do enjoy the ceslu parts, of course, and i believe any fan of showtime's 'the borgias' who ships ceslu would enjoy this book and its fluent writing and can easily ignore the negatively inaccurate narratives about the other members of the family.

that's all for the biography books! now let's start with historical fiction:

sarah dunant's 'blood and beauty'. one thing about me is that i'm never gonna stop praising this book because it is absolutely my favorite historical fiction book about this extraordinary family! again, i get so invested in any book when the author does extensive research. also, if you're looking for a book about this family that reads like an episode of showtime's 'the borgias,' then this book is your go-to! full of interesting dynamics, and yes, cesare is as cruel and megalomaniacal as history and machiavelli portrayed him, lucrezia as a victim of her father and brother's political ambitions game, and juan as the flawed kid who was eventually sunk deep when he got dragged into his father's ambitions game. while the book doesn't provide a deeper exploration of the characters' psyche, it's more focused on the story by making it very engaging and sheds light on their complex relationships and their rise to power. and every character is highly sympathetic as the author brilliantly humanizes them. in short, it is emotionally intriguing and a must-read for the borgias enjoyers.

mario puzo's 'the family'. you know, i wasn't even surprised a bit that this book's writing and story being groundbreaking because after all, it is written by the author of 'the godfather'. the family is such a compelling book, such tender writing when it comes to lucrezia and cesare. the story becomes intriguing the more you read. i also loved puzo's portrayal of rodrigo as this family man who deeply loves his children yet he uses them as pawns (which is also similar to jeremy irons' portrayal). while i gotta criticize that the characters have no depth and his version of lucrezia as this damsel angel for her father and brother is, uhhh… quite boring. i like her when she's multilayered lol. i also think the way he tried to present cesare and give him the "from zero to hero" trope in order to make him relatable is also lame because cesare's success as a historical figure is because he was calculating and wicked, and definitely not a bitter loser. i mean, i could absolutely ignore the bitterness part, but at least françois arnaud's cesare added so many layers and swag in the characters, therefore you could ignore it. but i can overlook all that when there's an engaging story and great writing, no matter what the characterizations are like. so overall, it's impressive and entertaining, and you will definitely enjoy it.

regarding fanfiction; i'm sorry but i never read any because i feel quite satisfied by all 'the borgias' show canon that we have and all these historical books. i wish i could help with recommending fics :/

thank you very much for the question, and i hope this post answers it. have a great day 💕🫶

#silvermars 💌 #loved answering this one! #book recommendations #the borgias #biography #historical drama #historical fiction #historical figures #renaissance #house of borgia #lucrezia borgia #cesare borgia #juan borgia #rodrigo borgia #mario puzo #sarah bradford #text post

[ink-splotch]

Hey!!! The moon/ocean love poem you wrote is probably one of my favorite pieces of poetry in the world. I was interested in getting a tattoo based off of it and I wanted to check if you were comfortable with me including lines from the poem in the tattoo?

Absolutely! If you’re comfortable with it, I’d also love to see your tattoo design or which words you’re including if you want to share!

[stratospheric-bebop]

— The Uses of Intelligence, by Caroline Kizer, 1959.

#I really loved this one... gave me such a more fond and expanding perspective of intelligence. #One of my favorite things I've read this month. #So many intellects exists; and yet their attitude towards it can entirely rearrange what intelligence even means- #-and how it takes form. Either in their life or to them or their work and arts. Etcetera... #I've never really thought about intelligence within the context of your attitude towards it and how you specifically equip it; we're sort- #-of taught that intelligence is amalgamated all into this one thing but it's often much broader than that in practice. #And that's just so fascinating... WHATTT! #poetry #the uses of intelligence #caroline kizer #the poetry foundation #quotes #excerpts #words #philosophy #writing #intelligence #poetry on tumblr #poetry on intelligence

[queen0funova]

I was at a cute little poetry circle recently, and I read a poem of mine inspired by my favoritepoem. "Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God" by Meg Day (I'll put that poem under the cut). Someone then turned to me and asked if my "Batter My Heart" was the inspiration for it. Apparently they're the one who introduced the poem to the person who introduced me to it

Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God by Meg Day:

Batter my heart, transgender’d god, for yours

is the only ear that hears: place fear in my heart

where faith has grown my senses dull & reassures

my blood that it will never spill. Show every part

to every stranger’s anger, surprise them with my drawers

full up of maps that lead to vacancies & chart

the distance from my pride, my core. Terror, do not depart

but nest in the hollows of my loins & keep me on all fours.

My knees, bring me to them; force my head to bow again.

Replay the murders of my kin until my mind’s made new;

let Adam’s bite obstruct my breath ’til I respire men

& press his rib against my throat until my lips turn blue.

You, O duo, O twin, whose likeness is kind: unwind my confidence

& noose it round your fist so I might know you in vivid impermanence.

#idk I just thought this was silly and neat #glad to see someone else knows what runs through my head #obsessed with this poem tbh #The whole poetry circle was such a sweet and fun thing ngl #What if I just confessed my undying love #I got to see a bunch of people I haven't had a chance to be around in Months as well #One person made cupcakes themed around Wild Geese by Mary Oliver #I think I ate cupcakes that said 'wild geese head home' and 'the world offers itself' #Who is your favorite poet? #trans #transgender #Poetry #poems #poetry circle #My poem is about being queer but not specifically trans #I'm planning to submit it to a literary magazine soon so we'll see how that goes #lgbt #lgbtq #Meg Day #Batter My Heart Transgender’d God #queer #I'm poem #Great use of 3+ hours on a Sunday #I nearly cried on my way back home because I was just so overwhelmingly happy #I love you all to Fragments

[crossbackpoke-check]

Sometimes, I will come across your blog and read certain tags on certain pairs because, What? What? How are your thoughts my thoughts? How is someone else expressing (so perfectly) what I thought existed only in my head? The references (warm leftovers, please. Feel horribly proprietary over that poem.), the memes, the word choices. I know we all grew up on the same internet, but it's like we grew up in the same corner.

It rattles me each time it happens and yet, the next time I return, and wander through, reading along as if we were walking through my local arboretum and you were rambling and I was nodding along. Consider this ask my version of a reply in the arboretum world.

i-

when i got this i just had to sit there and read your message a few times because that is one of the loveliest compliments i’ve ever gotten and i hope you know i am overjoyed to be here rambling to you 💕 to have touched you in some way!! to form a connection!!! and all i can say is thank you and i love you and i would love to go for a walk in the arboretum with you any time

#no because WARM LEFTOVERS???? i think there’s a little bit of all of us who feels so proprietary over that poem #because it’s asking for a sense of ownership for a belonging and ohhhh it fucks me up every time. every time i cry and in particular #that you love that tangled-up half idea is just. so dear to me like please!! come share the brain!!! i want to listen to you!!! i fully #i don’t even. hearts for thumbs i am actually having the reaction right now of yeah sorry the idea of genuine human connection got to me. #you know how they opened up the mailboxes to trees? and people sent in poetry to them? this to me. weeping ok #liv in the replies #one of my favorite tags to yell is SAME BRAIN!!! 🧠 🧠🧠 and i get to do that with you today <3 #anyway. thank you for making my day also i PROMISE i am not scary i would love to be your friend #also the fact that i have been searching for where i pulled ‘quilted together’ from because i could not remember why for the longest time & #i think in looking yesterday i found that it was from black girls rising i-

[dragonsfell]

[ INBOX / always accepting ] ⸻ @architaciturn sent in ⸻ “Gods. Somebody studied Shakespear once and now it's everybody's problem.” (For Wyll, from Astarion. - architaciturn)

❝ I favor myself as someone who could quote the finer poetries of playwrights. ❞ It's said half distracted as he watches their wizard companion spout off Shakespeare. ❝ Yet this ⸺ ❞

Perhaps he spoke too soon when he had decided that Gale had become significantly less insufferable as they had all been traveling together. Tempering each other from wilder thoughts and darker intentions, bonding with one another. Nerves no longer crossed as often as they had back at the Grove.

He may be quite the romantic himself; guilty of evoking the great Bard with such flowery prose for a lover, here and there, but this was insufferable. Rare was a time that he and Astarion would find themselves agreeing on anything.

❝ Do you suppose it's some form of wizardry foreplay? ❞ Wyll suggests, if not to rile Astarion up a little more and decided that it's time perhaps they dip down this next street without their companions for sake of no longer having to bare witness to such displays. A further suggestion should be made that they get a room instead of the shared penthouse the rest of them slept.

❝ Yet here I thought you would be all in favor of speaking prose. ❞ Considering Astarion's age, which the Blade may be smiling at such implication. All of them in motley crew, Wyll included, wasn't above the harmless jokes every now and again. Agog had still a choicely word from the vampire.

#'kay but hear me out. one of my favorite lines is wyll saying gale became more tolerable after his second love #anyways this is that. #gale may not make automatons quote poetry #and this is where my brain went cause i just #“i used to believe the beauty of first love was unable to be surpassed but Gale you are so much more tolerable now you've found your second #LIKE gods. wyll's lines like that are my fave ever. #it's even funnier to me im probably gonna respond to caledonia and your gale ask today too xD #anyways consider wyll and astarion judging the romantics of others #as well the delight of wyll teasing cause he is a rascal #[ IC ] Wyll Ravengard #[ DUO ] wyll ravengard / architaciturn; astarion #architaciturn

[gazelonger]

i write letters to you that you’ll never read // original poem by me

#poem #my poem #poetry #my poetry #writing #my writing #words #idk #that one quote that’s like #‘it’s not about the 9 page love letter #it’s about the fact that she wrote it in your favorite color’ #:/ #i miss him lol but i think i really ruined it #i wish i was as lovely as he said i was #i want to be #he was so lovely #i would be happy for another chance #if he has a tumblr and sees this oh well #heartbreak #breakup

[writerwithtoomanyships]

One thing I've tried to learn is that there are people who will never be as connected to poetry as I am. There are people who won't understand it's just as much a part of me as my heartbeat, my bones, my soul, there are people who won't understand it brought me back from the dead, how it killed me and revived me and brought me out of what I've been through bruised and scarred but alive, there are some people who never had the connection to poetry I did, that I still do, because when the were falling poetry wasn't the branch they managed to grab onto for dear life. I forget this a lot.

#rambles #my rambles #the irony is i get hurt a lot bc of this #i say something poetic or show a poem to the wrong person and theyre just confused or just give an uninterested response #ig its why i keep that part of me to myself now #sometimes im scared ill never find someone as connected to poetry as i am #someone who understands my body is more ink than blood #idk #its a weird thought #it feels like everyone who adores poetry as much as I do died decades or centuries ago #do you ever wish you could back in time? to your favorite poet in particular #and just hug them and tell them you feel what they feel that both of you thought no one else ever would and write poetry with them #just be there #knowing youre not the only person in your time period to think in broken poetry #logically i know theres other people like me who probably feel what i feel and who loves poetry to the extent i do #but theyre always out of reach #how do you tell someone when you were 14 you were in a mental hospital and there was a rotting apple outside your room window #and it was the most poetic thing youve ever seen #how do you tell someone when you were even younger than that you saw a dead crow on the side of the road and it broke your heart so much #that you scribbled a poem (still your favorite one) about its stolen flight into one of your many notebooks #so it could be immortal #how do you explain all that to someone #especially someone who has never grabbed hold of a poem til their knuckles turned white bc it was the only thing keeping you alive #putting this in the tags bc i doubt anyone will read it

[kenobihater]

could you tell me more about vaslav nijinsky? I'm also bipolar and your posts/tags about him have piqued my interest

bipolar gang!! and i'm far from an expert, i really just know of him from the frank bidart poem the war of vaslav nijinsky and some cursory wikipedia research following me devouring said poem. it's a masterful poem, but tws for abuse and mental breakdowns. i do know that @sneakysnijinskyresearch has compiled a bunch of things on him for research on a student film, so i'd head there if you want a list of resources that can do him justice! nijinsky also wrote a diary while psychotic which has been published and i just found out about today. i'm ordering the unexpurgated edition :^)

#len answers #sorry i can't do him more justice. i really don't wanna talk outta my ass abt him when i've read 1 poem and 1 wiki article lmao #the poem though... god that poem is one of my favorites of all time. gonna maybe annotate it today bc i was hit with the urge lol #mr bidart i HATE HATE HATE some of your poems but this one was a slam dunk dude #if you're interested in more of bidart's poetry i'm currently reading and writing up a tw list for his entire half light collection bc boy #are some of those poems ROUGH. like i don't even have those triggers and even i struggle with some of them. so yeah i'd love to #blanket recommend his work but i can't in good conscience. the war of vaslav nijinsky is pretty good tho if you can deal with abuse and #mental instability as themes!!

[sacrificial-lamb-sam]

everyone share what you think cas' favourite poem is and please feel free to cheat and just say YOUR favourite poem and then talk about why it would be cas' but really it's just everything you like about the poem

#castiel #supernatural #spn #i'll go first: i think his favorite poem is little beasts by richard siken bc richard siken is my favorite poet #and little beasts is about. uh. well a lot of richard siken poetry is about violence and love and little beasts is the same #of desperately wanting love but you don't think you can have it. are allowed it. of trying and failing at love #love is big and scary and to love someone is to commit and act of violence #but also it has a lot of lines about not fitting in. about not knowing your place #of trying and failing at life in general #but also it has a few lines that i think would remind cas of sam and dean #like the bit about a man who eats pie with a knife and carves his face into a motel wall and learning how to do things by #mimicking him #which i think cas would relate to #no one reblog any of my other posts until this one gets 1k notes. im looking at u arkansasnatural with ur 700+ notes #share some of ur notes arkansasnatural

[kkoraki]

this may be the most evil thing ever to say but life always feels so much better when I’m the Favorite (TM)

#based on a very nice meeting i had at work today #call it golden oldest child fundie damage too many kids in your family syndrome idk #one of the worst experiences of my life was a college honors poetry class where two girls NOT ME were the Favorites #i hated it so much i did not know how to cope or how to engage with the class. peer relationships were dicey & i relied so much on older ppl #self #personal / #i know this is terrible but i truly get so fucked up inside when authority figures don't love me the most out of everyone #*i am forcibly removed from every progressive group*

[thedoorsofmyheart]

“Let me count all the freckles, On your arms alone

Let me smooth out the wrinkles, In the nicest shirt you own

Oh to love you, is sweet like a peach

I think your laugh is my cure

Oh to love you, is summer in reach

Kiss me, and tell me I'm yours

Andrew, I'm falling

Without a warning

Until the morning - Don't let me go

Just kiss me slow, oh-

I love you, you know.”

#over the ocean call #andrew #lizzy mcalpine #stardust and constellations in your freckles and eyes #if a song counts freckles compares love to summer and ends with I love you you know I MEAN I think your laugh is my cure #serinade me a love song why don’t ya #songs that could kill and revive me all in one #lyrical poetry #pure poetry #too poetic not to post #songs that could be love letters #music is art #love #soulmate #heartache #beautifully breathtaking #feel it in my heart mind and soul #lyrics I could spend hours digging into #a favorite song of mine #the way she sings #let me count all the freckles #oh to love you #I think your laugh is my cure #kiss me and tell me I’m yours #I love you you know #like an old love song #five seconds flat #I miss the ep #if someone wrote me a love song I’d pass out