Icky’s Poetry

[ickywritespoetry]

Consider this an introduction.

Consider this an induction.

Consider this an infatuation.

I am Icky🤍.

I write about politics and my personal story.

The short story will be tagged.

#BlissBlight

The politics will be tagged.

#politics.

The latter is less common by far.

I wish all who see this a good time here.

-Icky🤍

[koalaphoenix]

When I close my eyes there is static.

When I close my eyes there is noise.

When I squeeze them tight 

There is star stuff inside

Simply filling up all of that void. 

When I close my eyes there is quiet.

When I close my eyes there is peace. 

When I squeeze them tight 

Leave the whole world outside

And exist where the silence has lease.

When I open my eyes there is panic. 

When I open my eyes there is pain.

But when I squeeze them tight 

There's no one left - I might 

Never want them to open again.

When I close my eyes there is safety.

When I close my eyes I am dead. 

When I squeeze them tight 

And you're out of my sight

I can forget my terror and dread.

When I open my eyes it's a nightmare.

So I'll close them. And then you will see. 

Open eyes, scared of what they see there.

Only closed is there Static and Peace.

[plslemmedie]

(You can ignore this)

Does it hurt?

Knowing it’s your fault?

Does it ache?

Somewhere behind your chest?

Would you forgive yourself?

If your daughter came to you.

And begged you on her knees.

Please put an to end me.

The world will whisper

Inside of your heart

Don’t listen to his voice

He’ll tear you apart

Listen close wretched mother

To the song of hope

Built upon the blessed child

Whom you almost broke

Ok I don’t know what the actual frack this is but I started writing and this just popped up so enjoy the Celine poem?

[ickywritespoetry]

I enjoy strong poetry.

I enjoy powerful poetry.

I enjoy these lines.

I enjoy this truth.

Thank you for your art.

-Icky🤍

[ickywritespoetry]

Sometimes, you crave comfort like it’s survival.

Sometimes, that neediness consumes it all.

Sometimes, that starvation for attention corrodes your very core.

Sometimes, you wonder if you’ll be alone forevermore.

Sometimes, you feel it is forever until you’ll get to see her.

It hurts.

That is alright.

There is a certain irony to this agony.

There is a certain clarity in agony.

Revel in it.

Rebel in it.

Rebel against your body.

Rebel against that attaching apathy.

Rebel against that insatiable need.

Create comfort in your yearning.

Let it hurt, that feeling.

Let it grow, that needing.

Restless love helps nobody.

Love even her absence.

Reckless.

-Icky🤍

[ickywritespoetry]

A failure once to the victims

A failure twice to the nation

A failure thrice when this happens again.

What reckless humor do you dare preach?

What foolish flippancy do you dare teach?

You should be furious at the fascists.

You should be furious at all of this.

And yet where are you?

And yet what are you doing?

Was your humor worth it, in the face of a sucking child?

Was your meme culture worth it, in the mouth of an infant?

Was your laughter worth it, in the face of what it costs?

Stop.

Be better.

-Icky🤍

[ickywritespoetry]

My country has concentration camps.

My home has concentration camps.

It all feels a little unreal.

It all feels a little painful.

It all feels like fantasy.

It is reality.

People are dying in these camps.

Children are too.

You might, one day.

Liberate the camps.

Liberate the children.

Liberate the camps, liberate the children, liberate the country.

-Icky🤍

[ickywritespoetry]

Don’t you dare forget that fire. Don’t you dare stop before we can put them to the pyre. Don’t you dare dally, feel that rage rally. Let your anger consume her. Let your anger ignite and become the light that lets us melt that ICE tonight.

I will not stand for another fascistic failure. I will not stand for another crushed underboot. I will not stand for another lost life due to rot and regrets.

Light your hungry hope ablaze and let that righteous rage consume and force the fascist’s failure sooner rather than later.

Never again is right now. Get to work.

[ickywritespoetry]

I experience my monotony.

I experience my lobotomy.

I experience my phlebotomy.

Every moment is a drain.

Every moment is a pain.

Every moment sends insane.

It is all in a rhythm.

It is all cutting a schism.

Between glory and monotony.

Between my life and me.

My life could be scintillating sugar saccharine.

My life can show shining silver screens.

My life, lived like canned sardines.

I have to wonder.

How much of this is me?

How much would you see,

if you had my life?

if you had my spark?

Would the difference be sharp,

cutting in its contrast,

reminding me in an agony that I came

last?

Would the difference be dull,

should show I lived life to the full,

but I feel such living lacks a soul.

What would that say about my fate,

to be broken?

to be hurting just to have ate?

I think it’d be worth it.

I think mundanity is worth it for me.

I think monotony is happy for me.

I find it soothing.

I find it lobotomy.

I hope to be left empty.

_icky<3

[ickywritespoetry]

https://youtu.be/Oir_Gg3qHRI?si=hd5HGUxnUVB6UUlj

What is this nonsense?

Are we drip feeding it?

Is this a GTA update?

I stole this joke from a comment.

I am still enraged.

-Icky🤍

[semiplural]

What it's Like (A Zine)

Obligatory disclaimer: this zine is based off our own experiences, and other systems may have wildly different experiences with and feelings about their plurality. We are one group out of the many who have existed and will exist. Look at other people's work to get a broader idea of what plurality can feel like.

If you'd like to print out this zine, then you can find it on itch.io for free (but donations are always appreciated).

[ickywritespoetry]

This is beautiful.

This is relatable.

This is plural.

Thank you for this.

Thank you for this art.

Thank you for this glory.

-Icky🤍

[sophieinwonderland]

Samantha Fulnecky needs to fail, and this controversy is an assault on science

A girl is asked in a psychology class to write a response to a study about the association between gender typicality and popularity, and the mental health effects of teasing children for not being gender typical.

The girl's response essay barely touches on the topic at all. Most of it is a meandering mess that ends up attacking trans people, calling them demonic, and claiming that there being more than one gender is a lie spread by Satan. It goes off on irrelevant tangents like the Hebrew word for helper in the Bible and why women being made to support men is fine.

She rightfully got a very deserved failing grade for this, and has since claimed that she's being discriminated against for her faith.

Whatever your views on her opinions, the essay she wrote was clearly NOT the assignment.

The vast majority of her paper doesn't link back to the study she's supposed to be reacting to at all. There are a couple lines that do connect to the study in small ways.

For example, Samantha says this:

The article discussed peers using teasing as a way to enforce  gender norms. I do not necessarily see this as a problem.

But she doesn't justify it. She launches into a rant about God designing people to be certain genders, and expects that to serve her argument. But it doesn't make a case for why teasing kids for going against gender norms would be acceptable or okay. It's a non-sequitur.

Especially when the study makes the case for children with low gender-typicality being more likely to suffer negative mental health outcomes. When hearing Samantha Fulnecky describe this as "not necessarily a problem," let's look at some quotes from the article she is supposed to be reacting to.

(From the abstract) low gender typicality predicted more negative mental health outcomes for boys. These relationships were, at times, mediated by experiences with gender-based teasing, suggesting that negative mental health outcomes may be a result of the social repercussions of being low in gender typicality rather than a direct result of low typicality.

(From the introduction) Recent media coverage of teen suicides led to a widespread public discourse about the impact of teasing on adolescents, particularly when that teasing was related to teens ‘not fitting in’ as a typical boy or typical girl. In addition, media coverage has highlighted the ways that peers harass and ostracize boys and girls who are deemed atypical for their gender

Gender typicality has not only been linked with positive and negative peer relations, but with mental health outcomes as well. Children who are low in gender typicality, or considered gender atypical, are more likely to have lower feelings of self-worth, more likely to be perceived by others as depressed and anxious, and at greater risk for suicide"

So the science is saying... gender-based teasing of kids can make them more depressed and more likely to take their lives.

When Samantha says she doesn't see this as a problem, one of two possibilities needs to be considered. The first is that she's just... pure evil. Kids being more likely do be depressed and take their lives is totally fine with her. In which case, giving her a psychology degree is extremely dangerous. A therapist who is okay with children taking their own lives is a danger to the public.

The more generous possibility is that Samantha simply skimmed the study. She didn't understand it and doesn't comprehend the harm gender-based teasing causes.

She simply failed to absorb the fact that this study is concerned with factors that can lead to children taking their lives.

But that's precisely what reaction essays like this are meant to test for. She was tasked with reading a study, absorbing the material, and seeing if she could write a coherent 650-word essay reacting to the study. Instead, most of her reaction was unrelated tangents. And when she did mention something directly from the study, she failed to show she understood the science behind it!

And this is the fundamental problem. The reason papers like hers NEED to fail in a health academic environment. We cannot have people going into scientific fields who cannot even demonstrate a basic understanding of scientific papers. And the more scientists who advance without acquiring these skills, the less trust the public will have in science as a whole.

I am not saying either that students should have to necessarily agree with the science as presented. After all, critical thinking is something academia should be nurturing. IF Samantha had wanted to poke holes in the methodology of the study she reacted to, or presented counter studies that contradicted its findings, that would have at least shown she read and understood the study. She didn't do that though.

Today, it's a student demanding a passing a grade for a religious sermon that fails to engage with or demonstrate an understanding of the psychology paper they were supposed to read.

If she gets a passing grade from this, then tomorrow it will be a student tasked with discussing a study about evolutionary biology ignoring the assignment and responding by giving a sermon about how evolution is a lie because the world is only 6,000 years old according to the Bible, and you're discriminating against them if you don't give them a good grade. Just as somebody who refuses to learn and engage with biology as a science is not entitled to a passing grade in their biology class, neither should somebody who refuses to learn and engage with psychology as a science be given a passing grade in a psychology class.

Worse yet, punishing the teacher for their grade of Samantha's paper creates a hostile environment, where professors fear that giving fair and honest grades (like Samantha's) in science classes to students who refuse to understand and engage with the science will get THEM punished... simply for doing their jobs.

If professors cannot give bad grades freely to papers who fail to prove a an understanding of the material, the result is an academic environment where more young "scientists" across America are given free passes in courses due to their religion, without them knowing the science.

It is not an exaggeration to say that what is at stake in this case is the very legitimacy of academia in America.

PS. I apologize for any spelling or grammatical errors in this post. Unlike Samantha Fulnecky who was given an entire semester to write a 650-word essay demonstrating she understood the paper, I threw this 1000-word post together in an afternoon.

[ickywritespoetry]

Agreed.

This is a failure of the school.

This is a failure of the law.

This is a failure of the administration.

Samatha should be expelled.

Samantha should be failed.

-Icky🤍

[ickywritespoetry]

[sophieinwonderland]

If Democrats regain power, MAGA and the neo-Confederacy need to be annihilated. Full stop.

The problem with fascism is that we need to win every single time to preserve democracy. If a large enough movement rose up in opposition to democracy and successfully destroy it, that's the end.

There is no pendulum to swing back, and the only way to ever have a chance of democracy again will be to resort to violence. Which probably will just end up with another authoritarian taking control.

I don't know if Democrats will ever have a chance at power again. But if we do, we can't try to go back to how things were before. We need to rebuild. We need to reinforce our institutions.

But we also need to make sure that what is happening today can't happen again.

Democrats lost because they grew sloppy and complacent.

They took it for granted that people would always just support democracy, and if they lost power then it would be a temporary setback and they could regain it in the next election.

That has proven to be both ignorant and dangerous.

[ickywritespoetry]

I hate this fact.

It is accurate.

There is no going back from autocracy.

We should probably install more protections against it.

This country was not built for this population.

-Icky🤍

[ickywritespoetry]

For Blissblight.

[theplaceinsidetheblizzard]

Y’know an awful lot of Terry Pratchett’s books are concerned with how powerful women are when they get angry and how important anger is as a driving force to defend what is right and to tackle injustice. 

A lot of his most interesting and most deeply moral characters are angry ones. Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching. All are to a large extent driven to do good by anger.

And that honestly means a lot to me.

[thebibliosphere]

Terry was an angry man. This is not the same as saying he was a bad man. He held a righteous fury, the kind that comes from looking at the world, and knowing just how much better it could be if only we stopped being bastards. He held a genuine belief that people can and do change the world for the better, not by big things, but by the little. He believed in the kindness of others, and that kindness means more than wishing well and prayers. He knew the difference between being good and doing good, and that you technically couldn’t be the first without the latter.

He was angry at the world because he loved it, and he wanted us to feel the same, to not feel helpless, to know that something can be done, to know that anger is not just the tool of abusers and tyrants but the chisel by which The People might chip away at oppression and fear and bring it crumbling down. He gave us the drive needed to believe in hope. because he wanted to make the world better with words and not violence.

I hope he knows that he did.

[sophieinwonderland]

Ghost threatened to stab childrens' eyes out.

[ickywritespoetry]

May I have context?

Context seems important here.

Thank you in advance.

-Icky🤍

[ickywritespoetry]

I have a pretty vase.

It just wants to break.

It just wants to spill ash.

It is precious to me.

It is damned by birth.

It is damned by death.

It is mine.

I will not let it break.

I will not break.

-Icky🤍