#lane speaks

[lemondoddle]

number one all-time sad wet cat jay moment imo. look at him.

#lane speaks #ive posted about this exact scene before bc LOOK AT HIM #pathetic #ur poor little meow meows could never #marble hornets #mh #jay merrick #entry 42

[laneaconite]

To my Lovely Onlookers: an Introduction!

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Hello, my name is Lane! I've been known to call myself a jack of all trades, but my heart's been set on authorship since the tender age of two.

Now, while my lifespan development textbooks like to call that premature identity foreclosure, I call it a dream. I'm creating this blog to archive my past and future works. What can initially be expected is a lot of poetry as well as some short prose pieces. The goal has always been to eventually work up to brick-length novels, but lately all I've got is poems pouring out of my ears. I'm composing them in my sleep. A lot of what I've written so far is about chronic pain, sapphism, transitional experiences, childhood, and trauma. Not every poem or prose piece is meant to be taken as a literal reflection of something that happened to me, but a lot of what I've written over the last few years have been in order to process my experiences. I find that I communicate best in rhetorical devices than in ordinary speech. This is extra funny (an inside joke to myself) because I spent the first fourteen years of my life as a self-declared poetry hater, despite my life long declaration of wanting to write. There were several things that caused me to reevaluate this stance, the primary three being: 1) If I didn't graduate high school I was never getting out of that horribly isolated, middle of nowhere town. 2) Writing was the only thing I knew I could be passionate about both in a personally fulfilling way, but also in a work way. Now, the only way I could successfully do that would be by forcing myself to engage with the entire other half of it I'd convinced myself I hated out of inadequate education. 3) Reading Maya Angelou's book, Poems (1981). We were given a large analysis project of one poet's whole collected works (or the closest edition we could find) and I chose Angelou because I remembered an excerpt from I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969) being read aloud to my 7th grade class. It was her rhythm, rhetorical depth, and her humor that reformed my entire approach to the genre. I can't thank her enough.

"So," one might be asking, "Where does The Peach With Teeth fit into this, though?" And ohohohoh! The Peach With Teeth is several things. Primarily, I spent five months painstakingly embroidering it to be the cover of a hand-bound poetry chapbook. At this point, however, I'm thinking more of a compendium for the amount of poems I have, and for how many I'll write before I learn how to book bind. So, in that meantime the Peach is the cover of this blog.

The Peach is also a poem that I wrote in September of 2022, which is included below. That peach was deprived of teeth, tongue, and uvula, but had a more grounded horror within.

The Peach

I rinse the fuzz off, gently In the sink. The skin is a sunset of yellow, Magenta, pink. The first bite is honey sweet, The flesh slippery, My teeth peel away the skin I eat.

A bitter taste begins in my periphery And I see brown spreading around, Like a core. The tender sweet flesh peels away From its darkened sore.

Disgust rises in my body but I persist I eat the dripping good parts, I eat until the bad parts come too And they come veined with blue The pit itself, peeled back Is dusted with mold.

The poem is both a literal thing that happened—I did eat a moldy peach even though I saw an off patch on its skin and I could have stopped—also a metaphor. It's about seeing the signs that this won't end well, but needing another bite of sweetness to satiate that ache. It's about overconfidence and ignoring one's instincts. After a long while of hunger, the bitterness gets easier to ignore. That Peach and the Peach With Teeth, and many other Peaches can be expected to appear in my work. It's not my fault, I swear: my family had a peach tree in the backyard growing up. And if you, my darling reader, haven't tasted a sun-warmed peach right off the branch in late summer: I'm so sorry. The ones in the grocery store just don't compare when they're picked early to be shipped across country and thusly chemically ripened. They never get so thoroughly sweet through injected ethylene as by sunlight. It's only the skin that turns pink and softens, with the inside remaining hard, crisp, off-yellow. That these peaches are the only kind I can eat now, meaning I don't eat peaches, are part of what informed the teeth. Finally, the Peach With Teeth and her cousin The Peach poem have to be acknowledged for their sensual, even sexual, elements. 7/10 friends who I have shown The Peach With Teeth to have said "that looks like a vulva." Now, this was utterly unintentional, but when all your pretty queer friends say it enough times, you start to give up examine the metaphor closer. It's been said often that peaches and this girl right here 🍑 are used as euphemisms for the vulva/vagina. Now, when people are reduced to just their genitals, that's objectification. Not to say that the euphemism always is, as I can imagine some sappy sapphic love note tucked to sleep on a shelf somewhere. When I designed my embroidery pattern, I chose teeth for a core because of the utter contrast between the soft sweet flesh and the hard bone-bite of a chipped tooth. I was imagining it biting back and drawing blood. This is where my accident, the final image reading far more sensually than originally planned, synthesizes the ideas that have been rolling around in my head this whole time. It's about visceral misperception, of leaning to close to the lantern's gentle glow only for the grinning monster holding it to bite your head clean off. It becomes a euphemism flipped on its head: no more soft, sweet, hairless, harmless peaches. What we've got are teeth and tongues, a jaw unhinged but ready to snap right down at any time. Now, of course, to many of my 7/10 friends, this is still sexy.

#writing #poetry #introduction #blog intro #lane speaks #fun fact the teeth are based on xrays & dental photos of my own teeth #& for embroidery pals I used 1 strand dmc thread for all but the tongue. that was 2 strands #embroidery

[ourownside]

Tagged by @gohoubi !!! Ty :D

seven comfort films, seven people

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Hard Day's Night

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Rushmore

Little Miss Sunshine

O Brother Where Art Thou

Inside The Mind Of A Cat

tags: @grainsystem @arts-n-anarchy @deathandgreenteapockys @dragonslover98 @emthrys @ginger-in-a-fez @mywingsareonwheels

#tag game #thanks for tagging me! #lane speaks

[harghoes]

Soap is MY babygirl

#lane speaks #john mactavish #john soap mactavish #he’s just so #FINE ASF

[nofacednerd]

“oh if kara ever comes to mawsm, she’ll be such a sweetiepie like clark is :)” no. listen to me. you aren’t seeing my vision here.

#my adventures with superman #my art #doodles #clark kent #lois lane #kara zor el #shes not mean shes just 13 and is taking the 'protect your cousin' task a little too seriously #shes not mean shes just chronically 13 LMAO #also i imagine shes speaking kryptonian here or maybe shes just calling lois a bitch idk take your pick #also yeah. she is foaming at the mouth here I was struggling to show her face w the pose

[loser-jpg]

may i present: same person different font

theyre all the same person. all 4 of them

#loser speaks #lance mcclain #lois lane #sokka #luz noceda #voltron #my adventures with superman #atla #avatar the last airbender #toh #the owl house

[supermanshield]

What form! What grace!

Superman #32

#once again don't know what to say to make this funnier #just gonna let this one speak for itself #clark kent #lois lane #superman

[layne-thepencilthing]

ONE SECONDARY SMILE,,,, TO GO THAT EXTRA MILE!!!! TO MAKE ME FEEL TODAY!!!!! TO MAKE IT GO AWAY!!!!! THE CHEMISTRY IS GONE - TAKEN FOR A RIDE!!!!! FAR AWAY FROM YOU,,, NO LONGER LEFT INSIDE!!!!!!!

#tally hall #i can't get over this part you don't understand #lane speaks words

[wakkoroni]

GUYS WAIT HOLD THE PHONE

WE GOT SUPERSONS IN WFA

I REPEAT- WE GOT SUPERSONS IN WFA

Not like in costume but Jon and Damian being together and being bffs like- AH

Look at them

They’re besties

Plus

We got Lois being a mom and we all love her. Why is she so cute tho-

#Jon Kent #Damian Wayne #lois lane #wayne family adventures #wfa spoilers #the vibe speaks #super sons #batfam #superfam #Jon and Damian being besties #because they are #THEYRE ADORABLE #SO TINYY #MY BABIES

[robbed-ghost]

First, they discontinue super sons issues, bringing it back for a Halloween special edition and then ghost.

Then, they have Jon age up and date immediately in time for pride, no warning.

Then, he’s Superman.

Then, we get a super sons movie where he’s 10 again (?)

Then, they have Jon and Dick team up as a protege-mentee situation—not bad! Just…not quite the character we’ve just established. Not quite Jon

Then, they have Jon and Damian babysitting wonder woman’s daughter for *checks books* 7 years????? Making Damian and Jon 21 and 24 respectively??? Ok…?

Then, they do Beastworld, and Nightwing comics, AND Superman comics AND Wonder Woman issues with Jon in ALL OF THEM at the SAME TIME and looking vastly different in all of them, with vastly different characterizations, none of them solid, consistent, or acknowledging the fact that he’s been trapped inside a volcano and travelling the multiverse and having a boyfriend all in the same breath.

What am I supposed to be believing right now, DC.

#what am I supposed to take away from this other than Jon from their greedy stupid hands #they don’t know what to do with him or how to characterize him and it’s so so sad #his parents are CLARK KENT and LOIS LANE and he was the perfect coming of age character. so much potential. #he could be smart and sly and emotional and kind all in one in canon IN CANONNNNN #we’ve already shown it’s possible in the comics before super sons w him and his family #dc #jonathan kent #salt #super sons #trinity #girrrllll I am reading this back a few days later and when I tell you I was so mad 💀 #i wrote this right after reading the newest Trinity comic and seeing Jon confirm Damian’s not straight IN A THROWAWAY JOKE HED NEVER SAY??!! #like sir. you do not speak like that but also even if you did the writers should do better to not just jump to that #anyway.

[sicksadmayhem]

Daria and Jane dating would have been the best representation. The lesbians would be so powerful.

#speaking as a lesbian myself they are definitely dating #daria #daria mtv #jane lane #daria morgendorffer #daria and jane #jane and daria #daria x jane #text post #text

[lemondoddle]

#lane speaks #GUESS WHO GOT POLLS BABY HELL YEAH #polls

[laneaconite]

It’s alright, History is continual We can make it.

-Lane Aconite, September 23rd, 2023

#poetry #lane archives #my work #I originally categorized this as a fragment thinking I'd “finish” it but I couldn't do anything better than what was already there #sometimes elaboration isn't necessary #& this thusly is one of my faves for that little personal lesson :) #lane speaks

[ourownside]

wanting to get in on the small corner of arsenic love on tumblr especially after discovering a very cool piece of art by @doomdels of @cinemacrypt's arsenic ocs- i had no idea arsenic ocs ever existed but i love it

#also just coping with my last 3 showings of arsenic and old lace at my local theater being cancelled... #arsenic and old lace #lane speaks

[harghoes]

dating in this time is literally the worst. and for someone like me who didn’t get much attention in my formable years, it’s damn near impossible.

during the day and to everyone i’m content with my life and my heart is full of love already, but deep down i am so desperate for any form of intimacy. i want to be wanted. i want someone to make me their priority.

it’s the worst when you’re talking to someone, and you think that you are finally getting somewhere! they really like you! and you really like them! and then they say “oh i just got out of a relationship, i’m not looking for anything serious atm” or “i just want something casual” or literally anything that doesn’t fit your wants.

i just needed to vent this because i’m really upset and my heart absolutely hurts today. i just want to be able to find my person to love and for them to actually want me. i don’t feel like that is too much to ask for. :(((((

#lane speaks #delete later

[doortotomorrow]

LOIS LANE: idol

#Smallville #Lois Lane #Erica Durance #smallvilleedit #speaking of idols #Lois is mine #I've always loved Lois #ever since I was a baby I've looked up to her