Ari

[icarian-iscariot]

It’s hard to think of a title for a poem about something I haven’t named yet, but here are my thoughts.

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I’m sitting in a hammock,

Everything delicately balanced, deliberately

Balanced

Swaying in the wind

A spruce tree, grounding me

Ants burrowing in my scalp, generous venomous kisses

Love bites, the pleasure-pain, pleasure-pain, and as I’m

Swaying in the wind,

I can’t decide

Which is which is which is which;

The hammock tips.

For one perfect moment, I’m flying,

Swimming in the pleasure-pain and totally weightless, one body, one

Love, I am falling, and

I hit the ground like lightning, I am

Electric.

Uninhibitable.

I am the dirt beneath and I am the sky above and I am the invert mistress of all crawling things, all

hungry things. Poor creatures.

They do not feel ashamed to be lowly.

Why should I?

The hammock is still

Swaying in the wind

I crush me in my fist and watch the juices squirrel out between my fingers. The

Ripest nectarine, bruised.

Rivulet and drip,

Drip and geyser

I watch, with detached interest,

My own biology at work,

Demanding violence.

I know how to be loved. I swear.

[yourfavouriteprettyboy]

you can pry sentences starting with And & But out of my cold dead hands

[warcrimesimulator]

thinking about creatures.

[warcrimesimulator]

look at this thing

[warcrimesimulator]

Tumblr users will see some kind of animal or beast and just slam the reblog button

[otiksimr]

That is a banded linsang.

They sit very politely.

[al-norton]

Caressed by words

[milliposting]

[saltish-sclera]

Requesting new tumblr feature. Not exactly blocking not exactly DMing just a button you can press to ask whatever post is on your screen “what exactly are you doing here”

[dirteater5000]

everyone shut up and look at this

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[pathcrier]

[wickedwonderlandd]

OK we see you cunty wizard

[argentinasexogay]

Ever since I was 13 and discovered fic in bed my life has gone to shit

[specialagentartemis]

settings I would love to see more in fantasy:

Deserts, but like, positive. Deserts portrayed as beautiful places full of life and wonder. Desert as homeland, desert as a place of beauty and intrinsic value.

Mountains. Andean-style settings where the world is mountainous and the land is organized into altitude zones, where uphill/downhill are more meaningful than east/west

Island archipelagos. We’ve gotten a few in fantasy recently but 1) I want More 2) I want someone to do a Fantasy Kula Ring

Something inspired by Tiwanaku or Chavín de Huántar

Independent city-states. They all are unified by basically the same culture but they are all also politically independent variously at war, making alliances, happily trading, in a trade war, conquered and subordinate to other city-states, founding new city-states, travelling to the central temples of other city-states’ patron gods, etc.

Full of prehistoric animals that never coexisted with humans but they do in this fantasy world because they’re Cool

[naiv3melody]

they should make a me thag isnt terribly in love with my best friend

[rlyehtaxidermist]

the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

[nondelphic]

writing historical fiction is like: yes i can write a beautiful scene with longing glances but FIRST i must know how people brushed their teeth in 1814

[thoodleoo]

positive affirmations:

i will be elected consul

my orations are evocative and effective

my broad-striped tunic is attractive and fashionable

i am not afraid of the tribune of the plebs

i will honor my ancestors and follow the mos maiorum

bitches love my bald spot

[three-cake-sandwich]

do you ever hear yourself talking and one word comes out very pronounced in you regional accent and you get irrationally embarrassed because oh no now people are going to know i’m from a place

[sourpatchbowl]

The silence was LOUD

[baddgercatz]

Hey is Torse called that because he’s a Trojan horse anyway so-