not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)
You're the Top by Ellen Bass
Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy
Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro
Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker
Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley
Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland
Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller
At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey
In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr
Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston
Midsummer by Charles Simic
Today by Frank O'Hara
Naturally by Stephen Dunn
Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang
Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck
The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell
Lucky Life by Gerald Stern
Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander
Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley
A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill
On Coming Home by Lisa Summe
G-9 by Tim Dlugos
Five Haiku by Billy Collins
The Fates by David Kirby
Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason
Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin
Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young
Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown
Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck
ASMR by Corey Van Landingham
A Welcome by Joanna Klink
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier
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if you get this, answer with three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs! anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog <3
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i have a small (very healthy) obsession with candles. my favourite candle scent is vanilla! i find it a really relaxing scent. my comfort candle is almost completely burned down and i'm sad about it, but my friend got me a new vanilla one recently so i'm chilling
i have a chronic problem that i lovingly refer to as my "can't finish anything ever" disease. it primarily affects tv shows/anime but it's been known to spread to various other forms of media. like clockwork, i get about halfway through something and then the motivation to finish it disappears and i just abandon
i'm very weird about my spotify likes and ao3 bookmarks in particular. i am so picky about the stuff that gets added to them. even when i really enjoy a fic or a song i will hesitate about adding them until i've either searched through my history to reread it or looped it a hundred times in a week. i'm generally much more lenient with my ao3 bookmarks than my spotify likes though.
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My lil post about Antonio's relationship with Donnie! (Antonio is my oc, and imma stop putting that on each post individually, y'all already know at this point)
The art's uncolored because 1. I don't have the right colours for Don and 2. I'm in more of a writing kick than an art kick right now I think, so sorry bout that TuT
(prob some spoilers for the stories I'm writing for Antonio in this post btw)
Antonio was originally terrified by Donnie because he reminded them of the scientists that used to experiment on him, and the turtles catch on to this pretty quick. They all start referring to Donnie as a mechanic instead of a scientist, to try and help Antonio put some distance between Don and the other scientists in his head, and it does end up helping a bit.
Eventually (like a week into staying with the turtles) Antonio decides that Donnie isn't a threat and that they need to stop being afraid of him (they're not the best at being patient with themself), so they decide to sit in Donnie's "room" (lab) and watch him work.
They end up becoming interested in how the machines work and what they do, so Donnie (100 percent trying to get Antonio to leave them alone) gives them copies of the user manuals and a few less important blueprints. And Antonio, who spent their childhood reading the same dictionary over and over again, has a blast reading them.
They end up basically memorizing all of them, and now that they know what's going on, they enjoy watching Donnie work even more.
Donnie sometimes complains to the others about his space being invaded, but Antonio always stays out of the way when he's working, and has memorized what each tool is and does, so he's not the worst audience and can even be helpful if Donnie needs another hand. He also appreciates having a brother who actually reads the manuals he makes and knows the difference between a screwdriver and a drill.
It does take a long time for Antonio to fully get over his discomfort, and he still freaks out when Donnie holds a clipboard or does anything even near biology (he can't even watch him make prosthetics, or work on the battle shell with the arms, or even on shelldon), but he thinks that Donnie is super cool and would definitely kill for him.
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ok ok ok some richie hcs that i remember, off the top of my head.
>my main verse for him is chapter one/his childhood, just because
i rlly prefer the first movie, lmao. so keep that in mind, okay? okay.
>ok, my hc for his family life... throws book canon away, not because it's bad, i just heavily based mine off the movies and their implications. plus, just shit i generally made up back in the day, so! i suppose that sets the tone for this portrayal, huh?
>anyway, their family is actually rather well off, living on the 'fan
-cier' (for derry, anyway) side of town, his dad, wentworth, is the
resident dentist. he often works late hours, and isn't home at all.
>his mother, maggie, is a 'stay-at-home' mom, though you
will often find her hungover in the mornings, and at bars
in the evenings, leaving richie to mostly fend for himself.
>he has an older sister, around 20, who moved out two years
prior, her name was stephanie--or more often then not, steph.
>richie loves his older sister a lot, but can't help but childishly
feel a little abandoned, due to the house they both grew up in.
>actually really smart, even if he acts dumb, and struggles in school.
a math and science whiz, his 'plan b' if comedy never worked out,
is to be a rocket scientist, or an aerospace engineer in general.
>loves building model spaceships, and has a soft spot for
astronomy, too. has a telescope nearby his bedroom window.
>can program/code basic little things, makes little pick-your
-own-adventure type games for his friends too, sometimes.
>cannot cook to save his life, lives off cereal and popcorn, basically
>has clunky old braces, with colorful rubber-bands and everything.
>can play drums semi-decently because of learning from a cousin.
>his middle name is 'wentworth', so yes, it's 'richard wentworth tozier'.
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* things i want for inari;
people meeting her while she’s pretending to be human ( because she can hide her ears and tails, ) and thinking she’s totally, completely normal
other deities, gods, etc meeting inari and seeing their reactions to her since the god she sold her soul to was shunned and not supposed to have a champion
rivalries / enemy relationships with demons, etc
more friendships in general?? bc she doesn’t make friends easily and being a champion is lonely-
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