Ilya

Persephone-Ilya | i write stuff. fanfic, novellas, poetry; you name it, i probably write it | Ao3: @age_of_innocence | he/him

[measure-for-measure]

Greetings, gentlefolk, thou may callest this one Ilya-Persephone, Ilya, or Persephone; I use Ilya as a name, and Persephone for organisation. This body uses He | Him pronouns.

Other such associating sundries for interaction:

Ao3: persephone_in_ormaie

i also use many pseuds, so, apologies.

I will be discussing triggering topics in my writings. If you are one who has a traumatic experience, i would advise you not to read my stories.

Tags i use for organisation:

#persephone speaks, #persephone vents, #persephone explains, #persephone writes, #persephone fanart, #persephone fanfic, #persephone nolite, #persephone prompts, #persephone help, #persephone shorts, #persephone [etc. etc. whatever series im writing].

My asks and messages are open - even if you dont follow me feel free to pop in; if you just wish to leave a message without a clear purpose (eg. ‘hey' or 'howre you doing') i may or may not answer, depending on how busy i am.

DO NOT INTERACT IF YOU ARE:

-racist

-anti-semantic

-anti-BLM

-bl*e liv*s matter

-ableist

-homophobic

-transphobic

-pro tr*mp

-pro ch*na

-anti-neopronouns

-aro, ace, or bi phobic

-aro, ace, or bi exclusionist

-TERFs

-RadFems

That is all, friends! I hope you enjoy my writings!

[Text ID for the Reading-ally Impaired: That is all, friends! I hope you enjoy my writings!]

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

[headspace-hotel]

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

[headspace-hotel]

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

[agent-octopus]

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

[headspace-hotel]

there's art now

[jetlaggingbehind]

[questions-within-questions]

Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.

[normal-horoscopes]

I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.

[stargazing-enby]

This is my new favourite post in the world

[astronomical-bagel]

everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

And, predictably, it's because it was about gay sex

[blythebaird]

-blythe baird (@blythebrooklyn)

[blythebaird]

“WHAT’S IN MY PURSE A baby tooth, cracked in half. Bits of tin foil. A pro-choice button. The family forecast. Six bobby pins. Your least favorite flavor of gum. Pepper spray. Peppermints. Pepper the Drug Dealer’s phone number. A coupon for ninety-five percent off your mother’s warnings at Victoria’s Secret. A forgotten fifteenth birthday. The wrapper of an almond granola bar you pretended to eat. An expired bus pass. Two empty packs of apologies. One leaking pouch of I Desperately Want You To Like Me. A milk carton with me, the missing kid, on its back. A coy tube of pin-up peach lipstick. A gram or two of Things You Thought I Should Try. An earring. This poem. Crumbs of a sentence you wouldn’t let me say, once. An expired drivers permit. A leg of your parents approval. A colorful leaf I thought was neat. Three sets of flash cards of Things I Have Learned About Your Life. The last bite of advice I didn’t take. A list of people who are proud of me. One unique fact about myself.”

— WHAT’S IN MY PURSE, by Blythe Baird

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[thingsfandomshavetaughtme]

I just really hate the word "fandom". It's just a portmanteau of "fan" and "random". It sounds like some desperate attempt to be quirky and different. Plus, the word "fanbase" already exists.

idk, i thought it was fan + kingdom, or fanatic + domain??

but yeah, it is a bit weird how we have ‘fandom’ when ‘fanbase’ already existed? but that’s language for you, always changing all the time

[madmaudlingoes]

Actually, Anon, fandom is significantly older than fan base or fanbase; the OED gives the first known citation of fandom meaning “the community of fans of a thing” from 1903, while their first entry for fan base isn’t until the 1970s. If you compare the frequencies of the two terms in Google Ngram Viewer, you’ll see that fandom has historically been far more frequent, with fan base running a distant second (and the closed form fanbase an even more distant third).

The OED also rejects your portmanteau hypothesis, though I suppose sportswriters from the 1900s might’ve been trying to be quirky and different when they coined fandom from the productive derivational suffix -dom, which the OED also gives copies examples of throughout the 1800s (including BA-dom, old fogey-dom, blizzard-dom and theater-dom.

Respect the fandom, guys. It’s older than Steve Rogers. 

[fipindustries]

art history will be like "this is the most revolutionary painting of its time!" and you will look at it and is just a normal painting of a lady sitting under a tree and then an art historian will explain "this is the first time a painting ever used this specific shade of blue which challenged all understood conventions of how to depict light and launched a movement known as auzureism, and also the lady is looking at a sparrow which in its time it was a sign of fierce sexual liberation and it was considered scandalous" and then you find out the painter was expelled from the academy of art of stockholm because of the painting and that the king of sweeden paid three thousand marcs (equivallent to ten million dollars now a days) to have the painting in his room and the painting still looks like a generic painting of a lady under a tree

[bebx]

[nightlyquotes]

“How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour; Hold Still

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Melissa Cox

[mactiir]

obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

[callmesel]

Are people on Tumblr aware that you can customize your kudo message??

got it from this twt post (has more stuff in the thread)

og reddit post here

[callmesel]

Are people on Tumblr aware that you can customize your kudo message??

got it from this twt post (has more stuff in the thread)

og reddit post here

[bebx]

[mikanseinic]

“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

[two-bees-poetry]

so soft it hurts

[two-bees-poetry]

Happy late 1-year anniversary to so soft it hurts !! It was accidentally responsible for a massive amount of my audience here, and it was WILD when it started blowing up.

When I first posted this, I didn’t sign it, because I had no idea that anyone would be interested. The unsigned version of it went viral, but I’ve since replaced it with a signed version. Thank you to all of you guys, with special thanks to the people I see in the wild commenting under the unsigned version, telling them who wrote it!

There are other poems on here that I am more proud of, but I will always be thankful to this one for bringing me lots of you <3