#i want a pdf of the blog

[roughentumble]

tumblr should make it easy to download an entire blog in reverse-chronological order in an easy to access filetype to fulfill its destiny of becoming the new pdf

#theres a book review blog i want to read on my ereader but the question is how..... #i want a pdf of the blog

[poetrysmackdown]

hi hiii i wanted to say that your account is so refreshing to see, esp with the passion you have for the arts. as someone who's been meaning to read (and write) more poetry, do you have any recommendations? some classics that everyone and their mothers know? perhaps some underrated pieces that changed you? or even just authors you like, I'm very open to suggestions :]]

Hi! Thank you so much for this kind ask :) So exciting that you’re looking to delve deeper into reading and writing! I had to take a little time to answer this because my thoughts were all over the place lol.

For a review of notable/classic poems/poets, I honestly just recommend looking at lists online or, hell, just binging Wikipedia pages for different countries’ poetry if that’s something you’re into, just to get a sense of the chronology. I read one of those little Oxford Very Short Introductions on American Poetry and thought it was pretty good, but online is quicker if you’re just searching for poets or movements to hone in on. Poetry Foundation also has lots of resources, in addition to all the poems in their database. I guess my one big classic recommendation would have to be Emily Dickinson (<3), but really the best move is just to find a poet you already enjoy and then look around to see who their peers were/are, who they were inspired by, who they’ve maybe translated here and there, etc. and follow it down the line as far as you can.

For some personal recs, here are some collections I’ve really enjoyed over the past two years or so. Bolded favorites, and linking where select poems from the book have been published online. But also, if you want a preview of a couple poems from another of the books to see if they interest you, DM me and I can send them over! You can also feel free to pilfer through my poetry tag for more stuff lol

Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon trans. Don Mee Choi

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo

DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

Hardly War by Don Mee Choi

Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Mouth: Eats Color—Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals by Sawako Nakayasu

The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam trans. W.S. Merwin and Clarence Brown

The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright

This Journey by James Wright

God’s Silence by Franz Wright

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke (the translation I read was by Alfred Corn—I thought it was great, but idk if there are better ones out there!)

DMZ Colony, Hardly War, Dictee, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, and partially Whereas are all book-length poems with some prose poetry and varying levels of weirdness/denseness/multilingualism—if you were to pick one to start with, I’d say do Don’t Let Me Be Lonely or Whereas. Mouth: Eats Color is some experimental translations of Japanese modernist poet Chika Sagawa, with other translations and some of Nakayasu’s original stuff mixed in—it's definitely a bit disorienting but ultimately I remember having such fun with it, as much fun as Nakayasu probably had making it. It’s a book that emphasizes co-creation and a spirit of play, and completely changed my attitude towards translation.

If you’re less interested in that kind of formal fuckery stuff though (I get it), can’t go wrong with the other books! Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings is the one I read most recently, and it’s great—Harjo also featured in Round 1! Franz Wright also featured, and God's Silence is the collection which "Night Walk" comes from. James Wright (father of Franz) is one of my favorite poets of all time, though his poetry isn’t perfect. Even so, I’m honestly surprised he’s not doing numbers on Tumblr—Mary Oliver was a big fan of his, even wrote her "Three Poems for James Wright" after his death.

I mentioned in another post that one of my favorite poets is Paul Celan, so I’ll also recommend him here. I read Memory Rose into Threshold Speech which is a translated collection of his earlier poems, but it’s quite long if you’re just getting to know him as a poet—fortunately, both Poetry Foundation and Poets.org have a ton of his poems in their collections. There’s also an article by Ilya Kaminsky about him titled “Of Strangeness That Wakes Us” (!!!!!) that’s a great place to start, and is honestly kind of my whole mission statement when I’m reading and writing poetry. Looking at the books I’ve recommended above, a lot of them share feelings of separateness or alienation—from others, from oneself, from one’s country, from language—that breed strange, private modes of expression. That tends to be what I’m drawn to personally, and that’s some of what Kaminsky talks about.

Sorry of the length of this—I hope it's useful as a jumping-off point! And if you or anyone ends up exploring any of these poets, let me know what you think! If folks wanna reply with recommendations themselves too that'd be great :)

#ask #not a poll #i originally was going to link to previews of the books directly on this post but for some reason I suddenly feel very paranoid about #copyright LMAO. ik this blog is already like copyright infringement central but I feel like I can at least make an argument for the polls #being fair use lol. in the way that i could not for the pdf previews I made. (i also have a full pdf of hardly war if anyone wants lol) #and i know it's not entirely rational bc this is tumblr and nobody looks on tumblr. but i'm not used to having this many followers lol so i #admittedly just getting anxious about silly things #but please please feel free to DM me! or send an ask off anon #discussion

[demico-art]

Years later I decided to find and buy a copy of this comic book in English :D When it first came out, I ordered it on Amazon, but made a mistake when filling out the order form, so it arrived, but went back. Anyway, turns out some book stores here had untranslated versions of this book, and here it is!

#gravity falls #merch #demico blogs #I read a pdf of it anyway #but wanted a physical copy #gravity falls lost legends

[kinocharlley]

does anyone know any software that converts pdf to jpg/png with out loosing quality and it's free? i tried a bunch of sites and softwares and either file was too big or i was loosing quality...

#kino babbles #pdf #looking for software #like it's quite a big pdf #and i wanted to post some of pages for my 2nd blog #for aesthetic reasons #and i can't find any easy way to convert the pages #adobe #i guess since im talking about pdfs

[birdmenmanga]

gonna run this by my mom first but I think if I'm going to be designing the interior of the notebook and I'm going to put chibis in the corner I may as well draw not just suletta and miorine but either the rest of the major earth house cast (A LOT OF CHARS ACTUALLY??? nika + martin; till + aliya; chuchu + lilique; nuno + ojelo) OR the boys. and then they'd be paired e4 + e5 (elans; sorry e0 you were just kind of there lol) and guel + shaddiq (men rejected in favor of lesbianism)

#just thinking thoughts... #CHRIST EARTH HOUSE IS HUGE #idk I think my pairings for the earth house make sense. #till and aliya are like besties... nuno and ojelo are like worsties... #nika and martin are. I just think they're neat. hashtag give him tummyaches nika #I just think chuchu and lilique work together in some way. girls night out type beat. #like I can pair nika with chuchu but martin and lilique don't work. do you understand. #but yeah running it by my mom. bc I'm pretty sure I'll have to compile this into a pdf?? but if I'm doing that #I have total control over all the pages #it's not like I'm like yeah okay 48 page notebook the interior is all going to look like this #I think??? #anyways that's what I have to ask my mom about. #I might. god. I might run a poll on my art blog asking if they want the benerit boys or the earth house lol

[nero1forte]

i hate law*light so much. i hate it i hate it i h haaaatteeeerrufuguHUEGRGRGRUEHF. sorry i had to be a hater

#my blog i can hate what i want when i want #.pdf

[umokmartin]

#I want more physical books but I don’t have the space #unfortunately pdf screenshots aren’t very aesthetic #so I found these off Pinterest or maybe it was Instagram #I don’t remember #islam #islamic #muslim #study blog #study notes #studyblr #booklr #books & libraries

[kindnessoverperfection]

really wild how helpful it is to just... be open with myself about vulnerable feelings

had anxiety paralysis yesterday. i've never been one to experience anxiety- maybe this sounds weird, but i prided myself on not having it. before covid gave me depression, i prided myself on not having that too. (like i wasnt ableist to ppl who did, it was just... internalized stuff from a different alter's trauma)

i wonder how many of my NPD symptoms come up to try and hide thoughts/feelings i see as "weak" or "unlikable". i'm so used to motivating myself out of harsh self-beliefs ("if you can't do this one simple thing you're [insert mean shit here]") or supply ("look at me, i'm so capable and perfect, i never struggle, i'm so good at everything, you'll stop hating me now right")

I've been doing my best for a while now to stop motivating myself that way. And recently I've been putting effort into noticing and acknowledging underlying emotional responses.

So... even though it was a bit harder, and took longer, I put in the effort to treat myself with kindness. Used stress-relief and anxiety-management skills, and gentle self-talk.

And it was worth it. Because yeah self-criticism may be ""effective"" in the short-term, it's utterly destroyed my quality of life. This is better.

#actuallynpd recovery #this was more personal and chatty. but i decided to put it in the tag anyway #posts don't have to be perfectly formatted in a specific way to be put in the tag. kinda want it to just be a nice recovery space for the #community and if it's casual that's totally fine #also i've been thinking of compiling npd-specific coping skills in a pdf file or something #and i can look through my blog later to gather notes for it #i believe in myself... i'll get better. and i'll use my experiences to help others who struggle similarly

[caruliaa]

screaming bc theres a song (no i wont tell u what one but its by an artisit i dont listen to rly to much except for the last two days but i do like what of her music iv heard) that like. i rly feel like fits a ship (I WILL DEFF NOT TELL U WHICH ONE !!!!! but its like. not one i rly ship tht much but i do think its cute and im slowly getting more into it) in like. a weird way bc like. im not like omg this song is so this ship its so cute i mean the first time i listened to the song which was a while back when it first came out i was like this feels like ppl r gonna talk abt it w tht ship or like the song feels very like. like a fanfiction to me like generally and to me i feel like its like a modern au fanfic for the ship nd i listened to the song again today nd iv been thinking abt tht but the thing is i looked to see if anyone in any context has put that ship with that song before expecting to find lots of stuff but i literally found NOTHING its ubsurddd !!!

#like. searched tumblr w the ship + song name nd the ship + artist name? no results #went to google w either? just got results w either the ship or the song or tumblr blogs #that showed up bc they had prob posted seperate posts abt the musicain/song and the ship #and like. a fucking archive.org pdf of a totally unrelated article on the first page of google #searched the artist and song name on ao3 showing only options with that ship #in hopes id find a fic titled after a lyric from the song w that in the description? #no resulfs either!! #like i feel insane how has no one ever pointed out this ship w this song ever #i do NOT!! want to be the first one babes. esp since no i feel like im almost definatly wrong #abt it fitting the ship. but i mean im also not thats someone modern au fanfic of them as a song #i mean like. i dont rly ship the ship as said but iv seen what theyre fromm !!!! #okay. the friendship between one of the characters in the ship and another character is a part of like. #why it fits bc w like the framing device of the song it fits #so perhaps i am putting too much emphasis on that friendship idk how much ppl care esp in the context of tht ship alongside it #but they shld care more abt tht friendship like ik general tbh. bc i care more abt tht then the ship tbhh 😭😭 #also like. i feel a littol dumb for not realising this earlier but maybe its bc the song is like. #a bit of a timeline on the relationship nd loke. dowsnt mention any point of any dislike #at the beginning and i think that is a thing with is ship but also COME ONN #the song doesnt need to encapsulate every single moment or aspect of the ship for someone somewhere to say it fits #im also kind of like how in character is this but i mean like. its a big the most popular probably ship in a fandom theres lots of ppl who #dont care if its in character thats not a reason someone wldnt have mentioned it either #ik its like. not a big deal ig but im so baffled tht like. no one seems to have seen this popular ship and i think prettty popular when it #released (and that was last! year!) song together that iv become obsessed w finding someone who has #im going to look thru spotify playlists for the ship and ao3 more thoroughly later bit rn im making pancakes <3 #flappy rambles #EDIT: also for cotext in not telling the ship not bc i think its ‘cringe’ its bc ik many of u ship it #and again. dont want to b the weird oe w this song that made me think others wld associate it w thw ship #which apparently not a soul hasss !!!!! which is like i said freaking me out a lil bc im sure someone wld have

[drawnecromancy]

Find the word!

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier

As always if you want to do these, feel free to consider yourself tagged by me !

Words I have to find : Hide, Seek, Blow, Wish

Words I'm giving you : Figure, Ice, Rope, End

(What the extracts are from will be noted at the end of the extract.)

--

Hide

"Silence stretched between the two for several seconds, but the linguist’s drunk brain was completely incapable of providing him with sensible topics of conversation. In fact, it currently only had two desires : either go to bed and sleep, or do something completely inappropriate that he definitely should not even be thinking about, no matter what he thought of the prince’s looks.

He was unfortunately thinking about it very hard when he felt the prince’s hand cup his face and their eyes met for a brief second. Velannen looked away, not fast enough to hide what he’d been thinking, and the next moment he felt the prince’s lips touch his, almost shyly. He inhaled sharply, his hands grabbing the wall behind him, and prince Malvern looked at him questioningly."

– The Festival of Fire (short story starring Velannen and prince Malvern)

Seek

"– You're a revered hero in the empire - no, don't make this face, people love you - and have been a strong influence on people through that, you're also a veteran of the Guild and people seek your advice constantly, and yet. You ate dirt in my garden just a month ago, to see if it made you sick."

– Dirt (a short story starring Nathan and Eleanor)

Blow

The only one I found is something that contains the word blowjob, which I'm not sure i can post. What can I say, sometimes I write nsfw stories. Should compile them up in a single doc sometime.

Wish

"But you are worried, and I shall tell you about my new life here.

It is surprisingly all right. Mind you, I do not like the court nor the people that are part of it, but there’s more to learn than I could ever have imagined. You’d laugh at all the petty fights that go on there - if you wish, I could chronicle some of them to you, when I am certain that my letters are not being read."

– Lumeria's letter to her mother, from a short story starring Lumeria and the Emperor

#tag games #my writing #note. i know i'm late on some other games you tagged me on ? i just cannot recall which currently #i'll do them when i get the time/brain klsdjkdgsdk #find the word #i'm at school lmfao. drafting a blog post while waiting to have a mockup oral exam. #or whatever that might be called in english #more and more I'm thinking of compiling the random bits I write into PDFs and slapping them online for like 5€ #or pay what you want #idk

[bare1ythere]

yeah yeah chem profs will give you literally 20 pages of practice problems for the review units but youll get to new shit and theyll give you 5 problems and call it a day

#shut up me #OCHEM. #dude how am i supposed to learn how to predict these reactions if I have no way to fucking practice #this kind of thing only comes from practice. what is wrong with you #Im struggling to find a solid pdf of practice problems online too #god im so fucking tired #fuck chemistry fuck chemistry fuck chemistry #I dont want to do this anymore #they should pay me $1000/hour for blogging and being funny when the situation calls for it #the worst part is i think if I had enough support I mightve actually liked ochem. in theory i like predicting reactions #but theyre giving me nothing so im just frustrated and confused all the time

[bestomato]

i fucking love writing because i always know there is an awkward flow to the words i use and they have no musicality or good rhythm whatsoever BUT in terms of symbolism and conveying emotion i am DAMN GOOD at it. and that is MORE THAN ENOUGH to me

#blog tag #genuinely considering selling a lil pdf with some silly little writings for 3 usd. i want money and also show ppl my art #i love doing this. i love writing and drawing and singing RAGHFGHHH!!!!

[let-us-meet-aga1n]

shes not here i wanna kms

#one of the other teachers (who's her “friend”) said she was lying when she said she had a swollen eye that couldn't open and i wanted to #shredding tearing maiming #i've had a swollen eye that couldn't move due to hives so i wanted to tear her (the other teacher) to pieces #☘️.pdf #tc blog #female tc #female teacher crush #tc community #tcc feelings #tcc thoughts #tcc tumblr #tccblr #tcc struggles

[buckttommy]

what's the name of the short story?

It's called Miami Relatives, by Ana Menéndez. Very disturbing!

#I have it on PDF but I can DM you screenshots of it if you want #I was thinking about uploading the story to my lit blog for myself anyway #jack answers mail

[mackmp3]

trying to figure out what i want to read to get Gallifrey Deep Lore but oh my god the eu actually goes on forever how will i ever read of all this? on the upside i like reading and maybe i will read instead of wasting my time on tumblr dot com as i learn things about the doctor to tell my one (1) irl doctor who friend (i don't think they have seen past like. a little bit of eleven) oh well!

#doctor who #i am normal about this. this is fine. #the thing is i really really really want to read all this stuff but also like. i have a life also!! #whatever i should just spend less time on my computer blogging and more time reading pdfs of edas with really small words

[morticry]

drafted a long flavor text post for GAUZE but unsure if that would enrich GAUZE or be considered a patronage spoiler. not directly, but through what can be surmised. oops lmao.

I am also realizing GAUZE is muddying my blog's appearance so I may make a sideblog to update it through. stay tuned.

#pros of sideblog: contained. option for update notifs. if blog ends up flagged its not a main blog problem #cons of sideblog: have to make sideblog #ig and twt juries want all pages but with censoring as needed so maybe I will roll it all out and just package the uncensored ver as a pdf? #if/when I finish. realized it'll be closer to 30 pages #need 2 return 2 patronage soon lmao #mortitypes #GAUZE