fieldnotes

mostly rambling, often dazing

[flowerytale]

Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

[firstfullmoon]

Jeremy Radin, “Day’s End”

[catie-does-things]

IDK sometimes this website makes me feel like “death of the author” is soon to be followed by “death of the text”, where subjective interpretation and wish fulfillment is all that matters, and readings with the right political capital gain acceptance on that merit alone, even totally unsupported by the work itself.

[rneliflua]

see also: rewriting the movie as critiquing the movie. the whole ‘how it should have ended’ concept. no one cares about the story actually being told anymore. everyone just wants to be told the story they want to hear. and they will either ignore or distort the text to make it fit or they will cite the fact that it doesn’t fit their expectations as a flaw (x)

[ttintricacies]

When Anaïs Nin said “I have belonged to you in a way you haven’t to me” and when Byron said “although I am not beloved, still let me love” and when Mary Shelley said “although I may not be yours, I can never be another’s” and when Alexandre Dumas-Fils said “no matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”

[feral-ballad]

Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”

[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]

[mollyhengcheang]

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from "What a Cyborg Wants"

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from "I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame"

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[weltenwellen]

Margaret Atwood, from “Europe on $5 a Day”, The Door

[weltenwellen]

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[ixioideae-letters]

i miss you more than i remember you

clementine von radics / c. c. aurel / miles johnston / ranata suzuki / clementine von radics / sue zhao / madeline miller / lily thula / salma deera / clementine von radics / shelby eileen / jedaleyjd via pinterest / holly warburton / mary oliver / mitski / sea wolf / nickie zimov / the mountain goats

[kingchai]

haley heynderickx, jo / arthur kearns via @obsob / minnie bruce pratt, the fact of the garden 

[typewriter-worries]

Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo ( @atarqxiia ) | The Light The Living See, Ada Limón | @soracities

[academiaipromise]

so i watched everything everywhere all at once again yesterday and having seen the movie before made the line “you have unlimited potential because you’re so bad at everything,” which when I initially watched hit like a joke, wreck me. the idea that having hopes and dreams and hobbies that are half pursued isn’t wasted time rather proof that you yourself are limitless just. yeah. leave me be please.

[dogdayafternoon1975]

no thoughts just the opening shot to EEAAO being the family together at center frame surrounded by shadow and the closing shot being Evelyn also centered & in a bright environment having realized she’d been underappreciating her family and the moments of familial intimacy shown in that opening shot while jamie lee curtis says “you listened but you didn’t listen” which also describes how Evelyn in this last scene taps in on moments of connection and empathy happening across universes and at the same time ignoring the tax stuff jamie lee is going over that she had been prioritizing over her own family and what really matters aka depicting the thesis thru the first and last images which is what great movies tend to do . if u even care

[temprarytattoos]

Everything Everywhere All At Once really said "you could be the absolute worst version of yourself in any timeline, and you can still be happy if you choose love and kindness and finding ways to enjoy the mundane."

I just got emotional because my husband always leaves the light on for me when I get home late. we've never talked about it, I've never asked him to, but that back porch light gives me so much joy.