cleric of blood, acolyte of leeches

nathaniel orion g. k. 28. bi & trans. he/they jewish antizionist desperately in love main is @amnesiaguy

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why are you always desperately in love?

Well, my partner of four and a half years and I are in a very happy relationship :)

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I don't know if you've grown somewhat resentful of your older poems, I know they've been very widely distributed across the internet in a way that might kind of suck for you, do you think the increased exposure to work you made at a younger age is more good or bad for you as a writer?

probably bad lol but there’s nothing i can do about it, so i try not to dwell on it. i was a very sad young person sharing my most intimate thoughts and feelings thru poetry, and that young person really needed to be heard. and oh boy was i! it did give me a lot of confidence in my writerly voice, which i carry with me to this day, so it wasn’t all bad. but i do look back and cringe, yes… if i could remove it all, blank slate, i probably would

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Nathaniel Orion G. K. / 11.21.24

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I will be starting at my first phlebotomy job in three weeks! This process felt both immensely quick and torturously slow, but it’s still difficult to believe it was less than a year between my very first stick and full time employment! And I owe it all to my beloved, whose love inspires poems and big career moves :)

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Nathaniel Orion G. K. / 11.21.24

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As of this week, I am officially a licensed & certified phlebotomist! So I am sending this poem around again in celebration :)

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I came here for the poetry only to find out you are in fact one of my favourite supernatural writers jfjdjjdje you are Haunting me (and it's good I'm so glad to be reading some of your original work as well now :D)

LMAO I do often wonder how many people know me for my serious business poems & then get jump scared by destiel at some point

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hi I'm wanting to post some of my own poetry here on Tumblr but I don't completely know how to format it. I was wondering what the "G. K." means on your posts?

lol it’s my last initials

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Thinking deeply about titling my manuscript-in-progress “the needle begs the salt to follow”. Perhaps a little long winded…

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Which title grabs you the most?

The Needle Begs the Salt to Follow

Sin Has Been Kissed

Voting ended onDec 5, 2024

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Thinking deeply about titling my manuscript-in-progress “the needle begs the salt to follow”. Perhaps a little long winded…

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just read phlebotomy poem 3 times in a row to myself on the train. I love the way you use words so much 💝

thank you very much 🩷 I recently finished my phlebotomy course and I must admit I romanticized the whole thing!

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Nathaniel Orion G. K. / 11.21.24

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hello!!! i’ve been trying to find your poem on cain and abel for the longest.. would you mind telling me where i can read it? 🫶🏼

I took down a bunch of my poems unfortunately, but if you remember anything specific about which Cain and Abel poem you're talking about, I'll DM it to you :)

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how do you feel about quotes from your poems being attributed to fictional characters for things like fanart (with credit)? like an illustration or short comic?

i admit, the characters I’m thinking of specifically are from Supernatural, so I would understand if you were okay with people doing that for other shows/characters but not Supernatural (because it’s such a cesspit of a show, and also because it’s so Christian).

sorry to bother you! 🙌 hope you’re having a good day!

I’m actually a bit embarrassed to admit I love supernatural 😭 I have a destiel blog @sodomitecastiel, you’re more than welcome to put my quotes on your spn posts lol

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This is probably going to come off as very silly, and I hope you don't mind. I know it's important to you that when you reference Judaism in your poetry it not be reattributed to Christianity. So I was just going to leave the "Jewish poetry" tag in my reblogs. But is that weird? Like you if saw that would you think that's reductive or is it okay for me to tag it that way lol I'm sorry this is so silly I just want to be respectful :')

I appreciate you being so careful! Feel free to keep the tag in your reblog, sounds normal to me :)

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time capsule

Nathaniel Orion G. K. / 12/23

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Red Light is so beautiful!

It felt really good to get to be nostalgic about the first time I read Siken and first time I watched Winter Soldier, honestly. But even without that context-- you're so talented! Stunning stunning stunning work as always. I felt EVERYTHING.

Thank you for sharing. Xoxo

You are too kind!! It was definitely fun to stumble across and remember how I was feeling when I wrote it :)

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Do you all want to read the fourteen paragraph Bucky Barnes themed prose poem I wrote in the style of Siken’s You Are Jeff at age seventeen? I recently found it again after a long time buried & found myself very fond :-)

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Alright, well, you’ve been warned— it’s a long sonofabitch and I’m only posting it because my lover egged me on. Much love!!

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Do you all want to read the fourteen paragraph Bucky Barnes themed prose poem I wrote in the style of Siken’s You Are Jeff at age seventeen? I recently found it again after a long time buried & found myself very fond :-)