Specifically, to "swash a buckler" referred to the act of pounding a buckler (small shield) against one's own chest as a sort of macho display.
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Specifically, to "swash a buckler" referred to the act of pounding a buckler (small shield) against one's own chest as a sort of macho display.
Essential reading (poems, essays, articles):
The Glass Essay, Anne Carson (x)
Witch Burning, Sylvia Plath (x)
Lead, Mary Oliver (x)
Her Kind, Anne Sexton (x)
The End of Poetry, Ada Limon (x)
Please Follow Me, Sophie Calle & Jean Baudrillard (x)
Winter Hours, Mary Oliver (x)
Coming to Writing, Hélène Cixous (x)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Audre Lorde (x)
The Semiotics of Sex, Jeanette Winterson (x)
Twenty One Love Poems VIII, Adrienne Rich (x)
Burning the Old Year, Naomi Shihab Nye (x)
The Pain Scale, Eula Biss (x)
Eleven, Sandra Cisneros (x)
After Life, Joan Didion (x)
October, Mary Oliver (x)
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost (x)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (x)
Variations on the Right to Remain Silent, Anne Carson (x)
Morning in the Burned House, Margaret Atwood (x)
The Sentence, Anna Akhmatova (x)
Meditations in an Emergency, Cameron Awkward-Rich (x)
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison (x)
Taking Care, Callista Buchen (x)
Subtotals, Gregory Burnham (x)
How To Be Polite, Paul Ford (x)
Looking at War, Susan Sontag (x)
On Keeping a Notebook, Joan Didion (x)
Psalm, Dorianne Laux (x)
Inflammatory Essays, Jenny Holzer (x)
this excerpt from Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (x)
Elegy for My Sadness, Chen Chen (x)
When You Are Old, WB Yeats (x)
Invitation, Mary Oliver (x)
Having a Coke with You, Frank OāHara (x)
Small Kindnesses, Danusha Lameris (x)
The Things Is, Ellen Bass (x)
Variation on the Word Sleep, Margaret Atwood (x)
Poem, Langston Hughes (x)
Would a neurotypical god create that many beetles
i love hanging out with people who are more normal than i am it makes me feel like a fucked up deep sea creature
anyway blackout poetry not just as an art form, but as an act of violence against other works of art
taking a piece of text that someone probably put their heart and soul into creating and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything that you deem irrelevant to the point you want to make
i mean imagine cutting up a painting and using it to make a collage, or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces out of it to make a different sculpture
just to be clear: i love blackout poetry, im not criticizing it here. i am just waxing poetic about it. i dont really know where im going with this i just have Thoughts about art being destructive
Jan 11, 2022 - Daniel Handler joined the Beyond the Trope podcast to chat about writing, humor, kissing, and Poison for Breakfast (interview recorded Oct 2021). Starts at 1m30s, and the first 15 minutes offer some topics not extensively covered before.
āThis is the big difference between digital culture and analogue culture: Digital is good for searching, and analogue is good for wandering. So when youāre on your way looking up a word [in the dictionary], you see other words, which is sometimes what you really meant. (ā¦) Whereas Google will find only exactly what you said, but you canāt really wander.ā - Daniel Handler (22 min)
Ban The Simpsons?
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Sometimes I think about my life through the lens of the past.
How many things do I suffer though because of the greed of European āexplorersā and American imperialism.
I leave the āÄina. I leave my āohana. I leave my heart. And I suffer at a job I hate. And I spent years wearing a fakey costume and smiling for tourists and pretending I felt anything other than empty.
I colonized myself. Made myself palatable for tourists. Made myself palatable for tips and a paycheck. And I ate popcorn for dinner bc thatās what we could afford and I spent my extra money making sure my siblings didnāt feel the crushing weight of poverty. And every extra cent was spent trying to save them from how I felt.
Humiliated. Colonized. A joke.
And now I live on the mainland because we cannot afford to live on sacred land. Because haoles move there for paradise, and they kill us as they buy up beautiful houses and pave the road for resorts. Our land. Our āÄina. And Iām now a walking attraction. And I can do the hula style smile and I can make my eyes shine like diamonds. And people ask me if I picked coconuts from trees and I think about my elders who live in concrete apartments and I miss my grandfather and his warm smile. And I never know if I will see them again.
I used to stare at the statue of Kamehameha. His arm stretched out in a loving greeting. His other hand holding a spear to defend his people. But he leads with the hand. He leads with aloha.
Because thatās what we do. It is what we are born to do. We are born to aloha. To love. To compassion. Even now, even after everything, all I want to do is be kind.
And itās terrible. But sometimes I just wish he had lead with the spear.
I was going to say ādo not reblogā on this post, because itās so raw and rambling. But I changed my mind.
I need everyone to understand this is how it feels to be KÄnaka Maoli in this day and age.
We are hanging on here, but everyday it feels harder. And cultural revitalization has made huge steps, and we have come so far.
But they still pave roads for hotels. And most KÄnaka are homeless. And we work so hard but the economy is in shambles. And they bulldoze my people for a telescope. And the Navy poisons the water again and again and again and then dumps it into the ocean.
And we try and we try and we try and we try. And I am so tired.
America has perfectly trapped us in an eternal hell.
Tomorrow marks the annexation of The Hawaiian Kingdom. The turning point.
Please understand. There is no paradise under American occupation.
amab? afab? no im ahab. where the FUCK is that whale
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Foxes Practicing the Difficult Art of How to Shape Shift into Humans by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1840ā²s)
The bitch with the entirely fox head pointing and laughing is my favorite part.
It's fine to want nothing to do with Harry Potter now that JKR is being regularly and publicly terrible (I'm listing that way myself even though I don't want to because the association is just overpoweringly distasteful), but seeing the shift in how people discuss HP on this website to be like, "It seems obvious to me that this franchise was always poorly constructed, derivative drek littered with red flags anybody would notice with a cursory glance - there's absolutely nothing genuinely appealing about it." ...That's just very funny, sorry. Like yes that is unfortunately not how the relationship between a person's moral character and their skills works, but mostly I was alive and had a developed consciousness between 2000 and 2008, so I cannot take this seriously. It wasn't the biggest literature phenomenon of recent times because it had a uniquely strong marketing strategy, guys.
The books are well written with engaging characters, great worldbuilding, and a story that captured people like no other. There is literally no overestimating the phenom the books were. And no the movies did not make it. They were MASSIVE even before the films. Before the films even came out, the NYT made a separate children's bestseller list because a ton of people complained that 'kid's books' were taking up too many sports on the NYT bestsellers lists. It's honestly ridiculous to argue that HP's popularity was made by the movies. Come on.
And the thing about red flags, is that most things that are legitimately problematic in the books are fantasy staples. JKR didn't invent the anti-semitic portrayal of goblins. It's an old as hell trope that's in countless fantasy stories. The house elves were based on Brownie folklore, even down to the tradition of their freedom coming from a piece of clothing being given to them. People were not talking a lot about the casual transphobia in doing things like describing Rita Skeeter's hands as 'mannish' because casual transphobia was so ubiquitous that it was the norm, and that transphobia was often actively violent. I just don't think it crossed many people's minds that 'wow JKR described Rita Skeeter's hands as mannish once in the year 2000, so I think she's probably a T*RF.' And this doesn't make it okay, and it doesn't mean these aspects of the books aren't problematic! But it does mean that like, no it wasn't 'so obvious' even to MANY progressive minded people. And I also don't think it makes her a terrible person. What makes her a terrible person is what she's doing NOW.
The idea that they've 'always been awful' and we 'should have known' is really and actually just... kind of cowardly? Instead of acknowledging that unfortunately yes, bad people can make good things, people are taking the easy way out and going 'well obviously a bad person makes bad art. it's ALWAYS been bad, and my brain is so huge I know this', because god forbid we have a more nuanced view and don't see the world in the most simplistic terms possible. It sucks when bad people make good art, but you're not special for not ever liking Harry Potter.
also likeā¦. as a trans person who adored harry potterābecause god what little baby queer DOESNāT daydream about escaping their terrible mundane home life for a world where they can have friends and adventuresāthese takes are really frustrating. like why are you calling ME stupid because SHE betrayed a whole swathe of her fanbase. like youāre really using the heartbreak and hurt of thousands of trans hp fans as an opportunity for internet clout? you must really care about trans people
we should abandon the current US government system and replace it with the ranking system in warrior cats donāt @ me
babies. duh
Are you telling me kids are going to be apprentices for like twelve fuckin years,,,, thats 24 times as long,,,,
yes. 12 years: 1st grade to 12th grade, american school system. ive thought this through
And what the h*ck is the medicine cat
you guys are really not thinking this through huh itās a fucking doctor you degenerate
wait. what are cats then
ā¦theyre still cats what the fuck are you on
do we actually hunt for food or do we go grocery shopping and call it hunting
i said the ranking system guys not their lifestyle im going to lose it
the fuck is a warrior cat
someoneās going to die today and it sure as fuck is not going to be me
Would the time zones become the clans or would it just be randomly assigned
itās the ranking system. the leader is the president. itās one clan. weāre one clan canāt you fucking read iām this close to bursting into tears
ok but what about other countries? would there be americaclan and canadaclan and stuff?
it does say US government system on the original post. you saw that, right? you read the post? the US? just america?
wait does that mean the president rules until someone else comes along and wrecks their shit?
i mean, yeah. until that motherfucker dies heās leader, thatās how wc works. kill your leader, start a riot & shut the fuck up im so stressed
I, for one, do not think trump should get nine lives
neither should tigerstar but guess what
Isnāt this just a monarchy? Or a dictatorship?
itās the warrior cats ranking style thatās what it is
hey @tophat-octopus trying to hide this stupid question in the tags. what do you think a vice president is
what are two legs considered?
youre just like the guy who asked what cats would be. twolegs are people we just wouldnāt use that term??? im
probably a dumb question but what about rogues and loners
rogues arent even a part of the clan ranking system i do not think i can handle this thread much longer
what about other government officials? are they just warriors? or would they not exist??
thEYRE WARRIORS. THEY DONT EXIST I CANNOT DO THSI ANYMORE
why the fuck is firefox tweeting abt warrior cats
tweeting? iām tweeting? tweeting? this is Twitter? huh? is this fucking Twitter?
would cats be calledĀ āfourlegsā or what
cats theyd be called cats look at me dead in the eyes and tell me you think theyd be called fourlegs
āBut if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.ā
not even risking that shit
scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button.Ā
She aināt no games in real life so I take her serious all the time
Anyone with a name that starts with a āZā, ends with an āiā, and isnāt some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS
Iām not climbing no mountain with a pig on my back, š š½š š¾š šæ Negative.
Nope. I know better, have your reblog Madame Zeroni.
who the fuck is Madame Zeroni
Look at these stupid children who donāt know who Madame Zeroni is
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Man lissen if you donāt know you better ask somebody AFTER you hit the reblog button
Idk who she is but I have an exam today so Iāll reblog her
idk who she is but i have an exam today so iāll reblog her
^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
Because wise, I am.
Oh fucks no sheās back lmao must reblog. Iām sorry guys
2 million people arenāt wrong