A Jar of Me

27 poorly spent years. NL based but Southern at heart. Literature fanatic, royal know-it-all, overall pain in the ass.

[utopians]

UNETHICAL and shocking: he was forced to attend the classes he signed up for

[strawberryswinger]

if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now

[stantler]

Normalize, romanticize, problematize, caramelize, pathologize, real eyes, realize, real lies, materialize, destabilize, McDonald’s fries, contextualize

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

Red Doc>, Anne Carson

[ID: To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.]

[shadowprince27-deactivated20200]

“And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back.”

— Red, White, & Royal Blue

[elvenbean]

Are you alright?

I’m always alright.

[perhapsarat]

JK Rowling in 2019: Lily was pregnant with Snape’s baby when she died and that baby…turned out to be Dobby.

[perhapsarat]

#scarlett johansson is cast as dobby in the marauder era film

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

How can she play Dobby when she’s also playing the mother of Cho Chang

[kerasines]

Bold of you to assume Dobby hasn’t been Cho Chang’s mother all along

[dontthinkonithermione]

How do I begin to explain this website to my parents.

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“I am not the kind that can be emptied.”

— Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Silence,”

[slowheart]

is it SOUL-EXPANDING? is it going to leave me better than it found me? is it gay? if not i am not interested

[bewbin]

nunchucks are illegal in some states but guns are not. so if you tie two guns together and create gunchucks it’s neither legal or illegal

[trupowieszcz-moved-deactivated2]

schroedinger’s gunchucks

[worldeaterouroboros]

Why does schroedinger have so many things

[kairibloodheart]

Schrodinger’s hording problem

[sneez]

frédéric chopin: you will listen to my étude no 3 in e major opus 10 now and you will cry about it. you will think about life and the tragedy of an existence without love. you will lie on the floor. you will do this because i tell you to

me, half in half out of the shower: yes sir mr chopin sir. also how did you get in my house

frédéric chopin: unimportant. *turns into a small flock of doves and flies away*

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“When I can’t stand it, I invent anything, even memories.”

— Erin Mouré, from O Cidadán: Poems; “A Real Motorcycle,” publ. c. 2005

[ithrowmyviolets]

– Valentine Auckland (1906-1969), “When I Have Said”

from Everyman’s LOVE SPEAKS ITS NAME: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems anthology

[cockroach-queer]

Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then 

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“The wound of the sun is fading and I am here with my darkness,”

— Ioanna Tsatsou, tr. by Jean Demos, from The Collected Poems; “Birth,”

[thatsmoderatelyraven]

Sometimes my brain is a lush lavender meadow but sometimes it’s a harshly lit fluorescent bathroom flickering on and off

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“Did you enter my wound from another wound?”

— Lola Ridge, from To The Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Secrets,”