musings, prompts & memes

a resource sideblog for my muses, just where i keep useful stuff for my muses.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The flower was so silken and brilliant it had to be set on fire.

Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; “The Old One,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[shingojira]

hey whats

up

[devilsmusings]

—Alex Jones RP meme

WARNING FOR SWEARING / VULGAR LANGUAGE, SUICIDE MENTION.

“ I'm a pioneer. im an explorer. im a human and i'm coming.” “ I'm animated, i'm alive, my heart's big; it's got hot blood going through it fast. ” “ I like to fight too! ” “ I like to eat, I like to have children. ” “ I'm here! ” “ THIS IS A HUMAN, THIS IS WHAT WE LOOK LIKE, THIS IS WHAT WE ACT LIKE!!  ” “ I'M A THROWBACK! ” “ I'M HERE, I GOT THE FIRE OF HUMAN LIBERTY—I'M SETTING FIRES EVERYWHERE! ” “ HUMANS ARE TURNING ON EVERYWHERE ” “ How about Prozac? ... The U.S. number one cause of unnatural death is suicide now because they give people suicide mass murder pills. ... ” “ What do you think tap water is? It's a gay bomb, baby. ” “ I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that TURN THE FREAKIN' FROGSGAY! Do you understand that? ” “ All the scientific studies show my IQ has been reduced by at least 20 points. ” “ The shadow of who I would have been calls out from the grave. ” “ Twitter's designed to reduce the language, directly out of 1984! It's Ingsoc! ” “ you get in my face with that ill beat your god damn ass you son of a bitch, ” “ you piece of shit - you fucking god damn fucker... ” “ listen fuckhead. ” “ you have fucking crossed the line! get that through your god damn fucking head.”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Life goes more smoothly without a heart,

Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986; “The Woman Makes Peace With Her Faulty Heart,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

@hexsteel

[labias]

What A Time To Mind Your Business™

[amargedom]

But someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (via amargedom)

@targonian

[minuty]

If flowers can grow through blankets of melting snow, there is hope for me.

Tyler Knott Gregson, Haiku on Love (via minuty)

@purezavacia

[anorexics-deactivated20120421]

For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns.

Aleister Crowley, La Gitana  (via thedeadrosegarden)

@the-virtuoso

[m-l-rio]

coup de grâce (n.)

a death blow, especially one delivered mercifully to end suffering

any finishing or decisive stroke

[homofauxbic]

*has my feelings surgically removed*

[quotemadness]

There is blood in all the things you say.

Unknown (via quotemadness)

[lifeinpoetry]

look how many teeth / you have—the better to swallow the sky

Emily O’Neill, from “where St. Francis tamed the wolves,” Curious Specimens (via lifeinpoetry)

[lifeinpoetry]

But the wolf is always there, even // when I can’t see it.

Brianna Albers, from “The Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself,” published in DIALOGIST (via lifeinpoetry)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Her wild feral stare, her dark hair / Her winter lips as cold as stone.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from “Nobody’s Baby Now,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[quotemadness]

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Claude Monet (via quotemadness)

[auideas]

I’m made up of black coffee, untamed hair, and poorly suppressed anger.

The Never Book (via auideas)

[venettaoctavia]

You are shaking fists & trembling teeth. I know: You did not mean to be cruel. That does not mean you were kind.

Venetta Octavia, excerpt of “THE BURNING”, from my chapbook, “What We Left Behind” (via venettaoctavia)