[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[lotrmusical]

the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm

[id: tumblr tags reading 'dude This Fucking Rules', 'holy fucking shit! that was legit so cool?', 'holy shit that is fucking metal', 'oh this fucks severely', 'yeah no this fucking SLAPS', 'yo this RULES']

[wilwheaton]

Holy fucking shit this is one of the most incredible things I have ever read. I am dead serious. I PROMISE you that you want to read this, and you're going to immediately send it to all your weird friends who you also know will love it.

[neil-gaiman]

The original link is down -- you can read it at

Song of the Worm - A Poem by Eliza Cook

Song of the Worm is a poem by Eliza Cook. THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domainIn the field that is stored with its millions of slain

[danielcomma]

The worm as the god of time, of entropy, victor over Ozymandias.

Dune was on to something.

[sorrrowfull]

[evaughn]

[dduane]

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

[danielcomma]

Your life should be a museum to you--not the things you own. A record of your living.

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[danielcomma]

God it fuckin HURTS to have old friendsclassmatesacquaintances start popping up under “People you may know” on a LinkedIn profile I waited four years to make because the most recent thing on it is still Assistant Store Manager at Family Dollar. HURTS to see them all exactly where you’d expect them to be with their finished degrees and few years of experience. And like a bad breakup I’ve got to swear on an arbitrary Eve like this one that it’s the last time I let it HURT me. The last time I accept some feeling of lacking for moving exactly forward on exactly my own path because there exists some measure that says every one of them is somehow further ahead.

Accept my work. Do what I want. Move.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[kuitsuku]

Let’s Get It Started!

This will be up on Teefury tomorrow (Friday)!! So much fun to draw, thanks to the teefury team for making it possible! <3

[amandapalmer]

[neil-gaiman]

Everything you need to know about me, in one tweet.

[hellaonearth-blog]

[lightlickerinthedust-deactivate]

#mood “#hollowsquad”

[myszko]

My first year at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, there was one poet of color in the poetry program. Out of 50. Someone like Hudson would have likely seen that and thought, Lucky her, she’ll probably get special treatment and I won’t. But I looked at it and thought, Why the fuck is everyone here white, relatively wealthy, and college educated? That can’t possibly be the only type of person who can write good poetry. And it’s not. But anyone with even a shred of sense can see why that is precisely the kind of person who pursues poetry, a profession that almost all but guarantees a lifetime of not being paid for writing poetry no matter how “good” one gets. Anyone willing to put some effort into it can see why those are the kinds of people who apply to poetry MFA programs, who even know about poetry MFA programs, who can even imagine a future as a poet.

They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don’t Exist (via myszko)

[weareallmixedup]

I saw these tweets of this white woman commenting on Zendaya’s post about her pride in being African American, denying her identity. She said that she can’t be black because she’s half white? This woman says that she shuts down the idea of her (half black) children being black. But like “be real. be you” ? okaaaaaay is that what you’re gonna tell your kids when they tell you they feel like they’re black and not white?

I’m just so disgusted, look at these beautiful little kids. They’re gonna grow up with so much self hate 😓

[we-the-anon-family]

Atena Farghadani is a 28-year-old Iranian artist. She was recently sentenced to 12 years and 9 months in prison for drawing a cartoon.

This cartoon, that she posted on her Facebook page last year, depicts members of the Iranian parliament as animals. It was drawn in protest of new legislature in Iran that will restrict access to contraception and criminalise voluntary sterilisation. Atena’s charges include ‘spreading propaganda against the system’ and ‘insulting members of parliament through paintings’.

Last August, 12 members of the elite Revolutionary Guard came to Atena’s house, blindfolded her and took her to the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran. According to Amnesty International:

“While in prison last year, Atena flattened paper cups to use them as a surface to paint on. When the prison guards realised what she had been doing, they confiscated her paintings and stopped giving her paper cups. When Atena found some cups in the bathroom, she smuggled them into her cell. Soon after, she was beaten by prison guards, when she refused to strip naked for a full body search. Atena says that they knew about her taking the cups because they had installed cameras in the toilet and bathroom facilities – cameras detainees had been told were not operating.”

She was released in November and gave media interviews and posted a video on YouTube detailing her beatings, constant interrogations and humiliating body searches. She was then rearrested possibly in retaliation for speaking out and has been imprisoned ever since. In January, Atena went on a hunger strike to protest the horrible prison conditions. Her health suffered dramatically, and after losing consciousness and suffering a heart attack in February, she was forced to eat again.

The quote used in the comic is taken from the speech Atena gave at her trial. It has been translated into English by the Free Atena Facebook page. You can read the whole thing here.

Time is now against her, she has just two weeks to lodge an appeal. Michael Cavna, comic journalist for The Washington Post, has launched a campaign appealing to artists to help bring awareness to Atena’s case by creating their own artwork in support of Atena and using the hashtag#Draw4Atena. Can a bunch of artists and a hashtag really make a difference and put pressure on the Iranian Government to release Atena? Probably not. But just remember that Atena is currently in prison enduring horrible conditions, and if her appeal isn’t successful, she will be there for another twelve years. FOR DRAWING A CARTOON AND POSTING IT ON FACEBOOK. Don’t we owe it to her to at least try?

Alot worse actually happens out there.. once Being a soldier (which turned me into an activist) showed me..

Signal boost.

[artzandmusiczloverstuff]

This definitely deserves a boost

[worldpeaceinformant]

Just nasty….

[scary-monsters-and-super-creeps]

#IF YA WENT HARD FOR CHARLIE HEBDO YOU SHOULD GO HARD FOR THIS

[gothic1997]

Black girls with natural hair get made fun of and black girls with fake hair get made fun of and black girls with no hair get made fun of so like what are black girls supposed to do but not give a fuck abt u

[tomorrowsofyesterday]

um hello yes i have a conspiracy theory, it’s called the systematic oppression of people of color and women leading to an underrepresentation of both groups in the media and in leadership roles, idk maybe that’s why all the 20 acting noms are white and all the director noms are men

[wordizbond]

The deeper you go in history the blacker God gets

Cypha 

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truly

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