a wicked stitch for a frozen smile

call me harlem. i'm your friendly neighborhood writer. you can most likely find me overusing anaphora; making my characters look at the sky; and obsessing over dialogue. AO3:brokenharlem

[tench]

[travalicious]

[ashstfu]

fast food, fast fashion, songs being sped up, tv show seasons being only 8 episodes long, replacing youtube vlogs with fifteen second “day in the life” tiktoks, people in their 20s complaining about being too old...everything is so rushed, we have lost the art of lingering.

[nailgunstigmata]

i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma

[dashedwithromance]

i love it when you read multiple works from a writer and you start being able to pick out the things that stick with them. like the themes they keep thinking about, that can’t be satisfied with just one poem or novel or story. or the motifs they like to reuse and recycle throughout their works like an extradiagetic thread. it’s like drawing a map through a writer’s collection of all the things that keep them up at night

[brokenharlem]

writer’s block? start a silly, little, two-chapter fic that will hopefully make people sad!

[havingapoemwithyou]

 make out sonnet by F. Douglas Brown

[ahotknife]

popular culture used to be very much about eroticism. rockstars used to be on stage in sequins and thongs and thigh high boots playing guitars like they were masturbating. girls used to wear velvet mini dresses and no bras and red-brick-brown lipstick and mascara on their bottom lashes. people used to have body hair on television and in the movies. people used to be sweaty. people used to touch each other over denim and under cotton. foreplay used to be staring at someone over the rim of a glass across a bar across a park across a dinner table. people used to want. i think we’ve lost something

[aftermidnightfmk]

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Gillian Jacobs, Alaska 5000, Chris Fleming

Fuck Gillian, Fuck Alaska, Fuck Chris

This trio is optimized for exclusively two scenarios:

1. Orgy

2. The entourage you bring to your mother's funeral to illustrate to your estranged family how much you've blossomed in the intervening decades.

[brokenharlem]

did you know i cannot be stopped and i'm writing another shalaska fic? it's set in the style of Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" because i'm deeply strange.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

"The things Alaska carried were varied--physical, emotional, mental--but her best bet at being able to lighten her load was if she could get a little relief in this post-All Stars 2 world. The fan reaction was unhinged! Alaska had thought she was ready for the magnifying glass again, but she hadn't realized how different it would be now that she was considered a snake rather than a (mostly) beloved kook.

To get Alaska a different kind of a win with the fans, her manager set up a few shows with Sharon Needles. They wouldn't be writing parasocial posts about Alaska's shadiness if they were talking about 'Shalaska,' now would they? If Alaska so happened to find a little extra comfort in these few dates, well, would anyone be all that surprised?"

[orcboxer]

stop normalizing things we are running out of Weird Shit

[dragsource]

SHANNEL

♡ rpdr all stars 'bring back my pearls' runway.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i see a post talking doom and gloom about how we'll never escape toxic masculinity. i think about back in 2017 when american girl released their first boy doll, and a review for him went viral in the collecting community. the review was written by a mom, who said they went into the store to get their daughter a doll, only to see their son's eyes light up like fire when he saw a doll that looked like him, and now every night he puts his doll in pajamas and rocks him to sleep. i think about the toddler in my daycare room a few years back who was obsessed with baby dolls, carrying them everywhere, and his mom proudly told us he uses his sisters' old baby dolls and wants to be just like them. that toddler saw another toddler crying one day and gave her the doll he had to cheer her up. i think about the eight-year-old boy i saw a few years back, excitedly waving around raya's sword in a target checkout line like all his dreams were coming true. there was a video on my instagram the other day of a little boy at disneyworld crying with joy upon meeting his hero, mulan. i think about the voice actor for bow in the she-ra reboot saying his nephews only wanted adora action figures. celebrity men are wearing dresses on tv now. last halloween i saw a little boy dressed as elsa. i went to go see spiderverse over the summer, and in the line ahead of me was a boy who couldn't be older than twelve or thirteen, bouncing and beaming, giddy with excitement over getting to see the female-led romance movie elemental. i think about the five-year-old boy at my library who breathlessly asked me where the pinkalicious books were, eyes widening when i had more on my cart, his mom explaining that he is all about pinkalicious and fancy nancy. i saw so many pictures online of boys and men dressed in pink to see barbie. teenage boys are gonna open their phones and see the man who wrote fucking game of thrones dressed in pink to see barbie. when i was a kid, a boy dressing in pink was practically a social death sentence. there are boys running around in pink on my street right now.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Reading Comprehension Questions

Did OP say that misogyny had ended completely because of boys wearing pink?

Did OP say that men who wear pink cannot possibly do anything wrong?

Was this entire post about men wearing pink or just the last few sentences?

Does it seem like OP is suggesting we all fall into a matriarchal misandric dictatorship? Use quotes to support your answer. Anon if this is you you have a 250 word minimum and three hours before the saw trap goes off

[brokenharlem]

Tagged by @renn-the-rascal -- ooh, okay, why not?

Put your music player on shuffle and let your followers vote on the first 5 songs

Which one are you dancing to?

"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" by ABBA

"Sexy Motherfucker" by Prince

"Ziggy Stardust" by David Bowie

"Snow Machine" by Sharon Needles

"Magnetic Baby" by Semi Precious Weapons

Voting ended onJul 11, 2024

Wanna play? I just tagged you in this! Yay!

[datasoong47]

[brokenharlem]

me, looking at my last wip after finishing the other multi-chapter fic and one-shot: so uh... who are you again?

(39k words, 7 chapters)

me, sweating: i totally remember all the nuance i had for you!

[andtosaturn]

You can take me hot to go!