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I can totally see why people ship Darius and Philo, but to me they are intensely devoted and sexually charged while remaining firmly platonic without choosing to venture into the sexual and/or romantic. It just isn't in the cards for them in this universe. There are plenty of alternate universes that are more conducive, that are kinder to those other facets of their relationship.

But no matter what other feelings they do or don't have, they are always friends. The best of friends.

And I think that's beautiful.

#i fucking hate that there's only TWO SEASONS #carnival row #rycroft philostrate #darius prowell #snafuwrites

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A lot of the time I don't mind ads for things I can't stand bc I enjoy the fact that they're wasting money putting whatever it is in front of me. But the Hulu and tumblr ads for Ta¥l0r $wift's new album are over the top annoying.

#she's only a little older than me but she still writes like the child she was when she first made it big almost 2 DECADES ago #how does anyone have zero growth over such a long period of time #even considering the out-of-touch mega popstar life there should still be SOME growth?? #but no #snafuwrites

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Well that's not concerning at all

#tumblr ads #snafuwrites #undescribed

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A page removed from a book and used for blackout poetry. The words are circled and connected with a green-silver line. The poem reads, "With halting steps I pace, shouldering the darkness; the biting, anxious pieces of myself now congealed into cheap blackness, all but deserted."

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#snafustuff #snafuwrites #blackout poetry #mental illness #anxiety #depression #low self worth #blackout poem #poem #image description #alt text

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A page removed from the book Moby Dick and used for blackout poetry. The words are circled in and connected with a thick, gold line. The poem reads: The fate of the immortal; Death is my true substance; Life is but the mistaken shadow of it

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#blackout poem #blackout poetry #immortal #poem #snafuwrites #image description #immortality #alt text

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POV you have chronic anxiety.

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A page removed from a book and used for blackout poetry. The words are connected with a thick, curving black line flanked by dotted lines in gold, green, and blue.

The poem reads: Secret feelings coupled with conjured tortures; the same conclusions; turning over and over again

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#blackout poetry #anxiety #mental illness #blackout poem #poem #snafuwrites #snafustuff #image description #alt text

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Queer mutual pining, am I right?

Materials: Sharpie, Gelly Roll pens, and a page from a Dickens novel.

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A page removed from a book and used for blackout poetry.The poem begins at the top of the page and continues down towards the bottom, connected by a white line that meanders and varies in thickness. The words at the top of the page are circled in metallic yellow. The words in the next quarter of the page are circled in metallic green. The words in the next quarter of the page are circled in metallic blue. And the words at the bottom of the page are circled in metallic purple. The poem reads:

It ain't a queer romance Before The lingering And sleepless nights The best hell Before The downfall triumphant

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#blackout poetry #blackout poem #poetry #queer #queer artist #snafustuff #snafuwrites #image description

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Rot Oblique

Materials: Sharpies, Sakura Gelly Roll pens, and a page from Moby Dick

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A page removed from a book and used for blackout poetry. The words are circled in a shimmery bronze color, connected by straight lines of the same color. The poem reads:

Voyage to a place,

Long untouched,

Warped upon recall,

Rot oblique

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#blackout poetry #blackout poem #voyage #memory #poem #snafuwrites #image description #moby dick

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Dwell Beyond the Veil

Materials: Sharpie, gel pen, and a page from a Dickens novel

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A page removed from a book and used for blackout poetry. The words of the poem are circled and connected by a thick, light green line. The poem reads:

They crowd upon the tomb

And at the veil!

Barter for their breath

But

Cold hearts cease to beat

The tears fell fast

From you that dwell

Beyond the veil

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#blackout poetry #blackout poem #queer artist #graveyard #the veil #afterlife #image description #snafuwrites #snafustuff

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Big NAF (not a fan) Energy around romanticizing cpr/rescue breathing as a plot device

#snafuwrites #snafustuff

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"Who needs a prophecy when you have the sense to see an opportunity and seize it?" --Sophie Longerbane, Carnival Row S02E02, "New Dawn"

#carnival row #sophie longerbane #she really is a fascinating character #it's a shame this show only got two seasons #i want to see where she would've ended up #jonah breakspear #snafuwrites #quotes

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This one goes out to all the men who love men <3 Follow the twisting rainbow from top to bottom!

The perfectly startling state of things!

Two men, the very picture of delight

Full of pride

Bursting

Beyond the power of suppression

#blackoutpoem #blackoutpoetry #queerartistsofinstagram #queerart #queerartist #mlm #menlovingmen #menlovemen #gaymen #gay #bisexual #bimen #bisexualmen #pansexual #panmen #pansexualmen #transmlm #queermen #queer #mlmpositivity #mlmpride #redactedpoetry #foundpoetry #alteredart #bookpagepoetry #poetsofinstagram #gellyroll #sakuragellyroll #alttext

#just found this in my drafts from pver a year ago??? #anyway #blackout poetry #blackout poem #gay #queer #mlm #snafustuff #snafuwrites

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@chai-coffee-cat I was going to put this in the replies to my post, but then it turned into it’s own little essay. 😆 I’m far too passionate about this show lol

Your reply to my post was that you thought the Woodsman’s daughter had been a lost soul turned to edelwood. Here’s my own reasoning of why that was never the case.

Remember at the very end of the show when we see the Woodsman sitting on the porch of his old home? And then his daughter walks out the front door and finds him there? She wouldn’t have been there to do that had she actually been an edelwood tree. The souls who were turned into trees to feed the Lantern didn’t return to flesh and blood just because the Beast’s life-force was snuffed out, so she wouldn’t have been there had she ever been an edelwood tree.

The Beast tricked the Woodsman into thinking he put his daughter’s spirit in the Lantern, similarly to how we saw the Beast try to trick Wirt. But there is a key difference. I don’t think the Woodsman’s daughter ever came close to becoming an edelwood tree like Greg. I don’t think she ever came close to being dead. I think that there was some kind of accident--possibly even orchestrated by the Beast--that made it seem like the Woodsman’s daughter died. Something where the body could not be recovered, like drowning in a swift river or falling through the ice on a pond or losing her footing at the edge of a ravine. Basically, the Beast’s ruse culminated in that trope where a person is nowhere to be found but there’s a piece of their clothing lying near a dangerous place, and the other character just assumes the worst.

So.

The Beast took advantage of the Woodsman’s desperation to have his daughter back by lying about putting her spirit in the Lantern. And then the Beast just kept feeding the Woodsman’s guilt and grief to keep him away from the home where the Beast knew his daughter actually was, safe and well (having no idea where her father was or if HE was alive, I might add). The evidence for this is in one of the Beast’s final ploys to get the Woodsman back under his control. He says, “Are you really ready to go back to that empty house?!” And we see how deeply that affects the poor Woodsman! It’s the only time we see him cry!

The Beast had manipulated the man and fed his despair to such an extent that the Woodsman couldn’t even bring himself to go back to the home he had shared with his daughter. He instead chose to roam the forests of the Unknown alone, supposedly keeping his daughter’s spirit alive (even though “her flame” never reacted with any sort of sentience). He preferred to have this one-sided relationship with an inanimate object--and this horrible arrangement with the Beast--over going back home and accepting his daughter’s death. 

The ultimate tragedy in all this being that, if the Woodsman had been able to bring himself to go home before the events of ep. 10, he would have immediately found his daughter alive and well. The ultimate tragedy in all this being that he unwittingly spent years keeping the Beast alive, resulting in more lost souls turned into trees, burned into nothing.

The ultimate tragedy in all this being that “he who carries the Dark Lantern must be the Beast.”

#chai-coffee-cat #snafuresponds #snafuwrites #otgw #otgw meta #otgw the woodsman #otgw the beast #over the garden wall

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Aromantic Writing Month/AroWriMo 2021

Click for better quality! Blackout poetry created using both week one prompts of romo/loveless and future. Materials: Sharpie, gel pen, and a page torn from a Charles Dickens novel. Caption below the cut. @arowrimo​

[Image ID: A page torn out of a book and used for blackout poetry. The words of the poem are surrounded in short, green lines resembling fringe trim. Looping, gray lines connect the words. The poem reads:

I am not unhappy Not at all I am rapture I, my love

You see a disappointment A wreck You talked dreadful nonsense with that doubt But I am not to blame

I should be enough for me!

The poem ends with a green heart drawn beside the last line.

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#arowrimo #blackout poetry #poem #aromantic #aro spectrum #writing #arophobia #amatonormativity #queer #snafuwrites #snafustuff

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Hurricane Ida is nearly a category 5 storm and will hit Southeast Louisiana today, August 29th, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In New Orleans that storm wiped out whole neighborhoods outside of the levees. Then the levees failed, flooding 80% of the city inside. That’s not to mention all the horrible things that took place in the aftermath and recovery.

Ida’s forecast got so intense so quickly on Friday that New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell said the only reason she wouldn’t call for a mandatory evacuation was because there was no time. Many people were able to evacuate on their own, but many had to stay. And while billions of dollars have gone into making the levees so much stronger, there will still be horrendous damage from this storm even though they are unlikely to fail again.

Keep the city and all of Southeast Louisiana in your thoughts today. If you pray, please offer those up too. The anniversary of Katrina stirs up traumatic memories every year as it is. Now there’s another extremely powerful storm about to hit, with many people sheltering in place in their homes, in jails, in hospitals, in homeless shelters, in assisted living facilities, in college dormitories. And there are many people who evacuated but whose loved ones, neighbors, homes, and communities are still in Ida’s path.

#hurricane ida #hurricane katrina #new orleans #southeast louisiana #louisiana #us south #hurricane #it’s hurricane season y’all #natural disasters #manmade disasters #united states #snafustuff #snafuwrites

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Horror movies should do way less of ‘the character with psychosis isn’t believed about the supernatural threat until the other characters have their own hallucinations’ and do more of ‘everyone is gonna die from the supernatural threat that causes hallucinations until the character with psychosis saves them because they have so much skill at challenging their own hallucinations that they are a match for the otherworldly entity.’

#basically #fuck your ableism #and your stigma of psychotic disorders #and all your other shit #horror #psychosis #mental illness #tv and movies #snafuwrites