[guineapiggies]

Via dindin.inparis

[cocoloveyume]

[coolthingoftheday]

In 2005, a group of artists in Italy built a giant 200-foot-long plushie rabbit in the countryside, and just left it there. It’s been there ever since. 

(Source)

[annnmoody]

i think about this all the time

[annnmoody]

Wonder what he’s doing now…

[annnmoody]

That’s his decaying body in 2011

And 2012

He’s made of natural materials and is expected to completely disintegrate by 2025. Me too, bro

[annnmoody]

This is my favorite pic of him in the winter of 2006

[soulspark]

[arrowfortea]

"can you explain this gap in your resume" i lay in dark and dreaming sleep while countless wars and ages passed; i woke still weak a year before i joined you

[3frogs]

Fleur de Lion in a pink/yellow colourway. 28″x22″. Photo by Cathy Calahan

Fleur de Lion in a yellow/blue colourway. 20″x16″. Stitched by Jennifer of twinfibers

Made with Studio Twelve's Instant Stitchery Kits from 1972. Found on knitting-and, documented by Sarah Bradberry

[marbirds]

week 21 - ancient astronaut

[cozyvu]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdrxMNJD/

[uknow]

[mochatchi]

nagomimakuri memos

[jeffcross5000]

[lifeinpoetry]

do u have any collections u would recommend?

I think this is the right time for me to do my favorite poetry collections read in 2018. I read a lot of poetry so forgive the length.

Full-Length Poetry Collections (2018)

The Carrying by Ada Limón

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Premonitions by Elizabeth Schmuhl

From the Inside Quietly by Eloisa Amezcua

A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon

Brown by Kevin Young

This Is How We Lost Each Other by Karese Burrows

Red Channel in the Rupture by Amber Flora Thomas

Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

She Used to Be on a Milk Carton by Kailey Tedesco

Autobiography of a Wound by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Registers of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah

Virgin by Analicia Sotelo

High Ground Coward by Alicia Mountain

Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway

Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez

bury it by Sam Sax

When Rap Spoke Straight to God by Erica Dawson

Refuse by Julian Randall

Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez

Perennial by Kelly Forsythe

Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Junk by Tommy Pico

New Poets of Native Nations ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins

Tenderling by Emily Corwin

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

Empty Clip by Emilia Phillips

Indictus by Natalie Eilbert

Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan

Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips

Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed

Anagnorisis by Kyle Dargan

Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey

Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa

Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism ed. Danielle Barnhart & Iris Mahan

Full-Length Poetry Collections

blud by Rachel McKibbens

The Easy Body by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley

Sin: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad

The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison

Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

Together and By Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov

how to get over by t'ai freedom ford

Forgiveness Forgiveness by Shane McCrae

I have to live by Aisha Sasha John

Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora

Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 by Lucille Clifton

poems for the sound of the sky before thunder by Topaz Winters

How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee

Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane

Thieves in the Afterlife by Kendra Decolo

The Yearning Feed by Manuel Paul Lopez

L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert

Chapbooks (2018)

We Begin in the Dark by Zara Williams

poems to carry in your pocket by Laura Villareal

As If by Anna Meister

Lemon Effigies by Zaina Alsous

Oracle: A Cosmology by Destiny Hemphill

Riding with Anne Sexton by Jen Rouse

On My Way to Liberation by H. Melt

Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body by Kanika Lawton

Dreamland for Keeps by Sarah Nichols

ghost exhibit by Melissa Atkinson Mercer

Before Vanishing by Jen Rouse

Tunsiya-Amrikiya by Leila Chatti

Ebb by Leila Chatti

Pamper Me to Hell & Back by Hera Lindsay Bird

Thin Fire by Alicia Mountain

Knock by Melissa Atkinson Mercer

Reasons for Smoking by Xandria Phillips

Bad Anatomy by Hannah Cohen

Chapbooks

al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas by George Abraham

Poor Banished Child of Eve by Joanna Climaxus (links to PDF) 

Drapetomania by Jasmine Gibson

Flower Wars by Nico Amador

The Ophelia Letters by Rebecca Tamás

Mexicamericana by Eloisa Amezcua

Vibe Check by Candice Wuehle

Poetry Audiobooks (2018)

The Carrying by Ada Limón

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert

Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan

A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Brown by Kevin Young

IRL by Tommy Pico 

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (technically a verse novel)

Poetry Audiobooks

Floating, Brilliant, Gone by Franny Choi 

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Zaatardiva by Suheir Hammad

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (technically a verse novel)

[brokenwinebox]

The Circle Of Life

og tweet | part one | part two | part three

Circles are a major factor in season three of The Bear. In my meta, “Carmy: Regression,” I discuss the possibility of the intent behind making characters go through the same arcs as before. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of this was about life going through full circle and season four could break the cycle.

The circle of life is represented as a circle because it’s a constant loop of birth, survival, and death. But it’s also deeply important to understand that it also states that some circumstances will be much smaller or larger than others.

As apart of their loop, Sydney ended up meeting an award-winning chef of fine dining all over again. Richie and Carmy are back at each others throats with Marcus and Sydney between them.

Carmy going through this dream-like state is apart of his journey. Sydney struggling with leaving The Beef/The Bear is apart of her journey. I suppose in a sense, it doesn’t really matter about how much repetition a person goes through. As long as they finally understand in the end and break their cycle, just the simple fact that you got there is what’s important.

Massive shoutout to @whenmemorydies for linking this video!

It’s probably also vital to note what that meant for television. If all of this is intentional, they would have to know what that meant for themselves. People would be saying they lost the magic and have a massive blow during award season.

The Lion King is a coming of an age film about a young lion named Simba who flees when his father is murdered. In my massive post about what their characters theme song was, Matty mentioned Hakuna Matata which means no worries in Swahili.

@outmakingmoonshine has already discussed the possibility that the Faks are the inner voice/imaginary friends for the protagonist (Carmy).

In the context of the film, Timon and Pumbaa could be represented with the Faks while Simba was Carmy.

Especially when in the film, Simba was essentially ‘running away from the responsibility of the accident’ which he believed he caused but in actuality didn’t. It’s worth noting that I don’t believe this is an exact and accurate depiction of the characters. Although, I do think that this is somewhat apart of Carmy’s dream-like state while going through his avoidance.

Carmy definitely needs to put the past behind him but only after he’s confronted it. Within the film, Timon and Pumbaa probably weren’t the best influences for Simba but that was all he had. Sometimes avoidance is a way to survive in fear that the reality of it all will cripple you.

In the season three finale, Carmy finally confronted his boss, the man who contributed to his panic attacks, nightmares, and ulcers. Carmy’s urge to ensure that David understood what negative influences he caused was for naught because of David’s inability to see nothing but the ‘excellent’ chef he created from it all. Even though this was brutal, it might have been necessary for Carmy to understand what he needs to do to let go of the trauma.

While the conversation between them didn’t end well, the conversation between Chef Terry and him did. And I wonder if Terry managed to really get through to him because he managed to confront one of his main issues in the kitchen.

It’s so interesting that after his confrontation with Chef David and his refusal to see the issues with what Carmy said, Chef Terry’s advice right after was that not knowing what she’s doing is what makes them invincible.

Venn diagrams are overlapping circles to illustrate relationships between two or more sets. They typically highlight the differences and similarities between one and another. What was so fun about researching this topic was figuring out that Venn diagrams could also used as tools for navigating life.

“It’s like making a Venn diagram, but out of a thousand circles. That’s why those moments when you get something, or you get it right, it does feel so special — because it’s like, that’s insane. That’s insane that there’s a thousand circles but found the one overlapping point.” Ayo Edebiri in IndieWire’s Ayo Edebiri Says Directing ‘The Bear’ Was Like ‘Making a Venn Diagram Out of a Thousand Circles

All of The Bear characters are like these circles within circles that intersect endlessly, showcasing how they’re all connected and bonded forever. And in those circles are the challenges that we have to face whether they failed and succeeded.

Hardships are what makes our successes more special and valuable. Typically the gradual change in life or back and forth isn’t necessarily suited for television. But they definitely had a vision for where these characters will go. If season four is its last, it will be a very beautiful and realistic depiction of the less stagnant version of the characters we love, acknowledging we wouldn’t have gotten there without the isolated emotional turmoil in season three.

Before, I recommended that season three might have been an unconscious defense mechanism because of Carmy’s regression that manifests as a way to communicate distress.

I’d argue that Carmy felt a bit immature this season. I’d even go as far as to say, with Carmy as the catalyst, the rest of the characters had also went through some form of a stagnant state as well.

This season had been assumed to be the blue period before it aired and we truly got it. We just didn’t anticipate it being throughout all the episodes. In the season finales, we end off on some form of a positive note with some characters. But I think it’s been since season one, that they all truly felt united. And it will be a great full circle moment if we get that in season four. (After seeing the s4 trailer, we might actually see it!)

@thoughtfulchaos773, you mentioned to me once this is all a flat circle on my meta and how Carl Jung might have been the inspiration for the writers pertaining the negative aspect of the Anima in the male psyche. You couldn’t have been more right! I don’t think it’s a coincidence his name popped up while researching about regression.

An aspect of the life we live, is the surprises and spontaneous moments we experience along the way. And I believe Carmy hasn’t understood that because of his toxic learning and traumatic experience with Chef David. Not to mention his strained relationships with some of his family. Carmy finally experiencing amusement and enjoyment all while being embraced by his family will be really beautiful character development to watch for the closing of this series. And with that love, it will transcend to the food.

“People don’t remember the food. It’s the people that we remember.”

“… regression is not necessarily a retrograde step in the sense of a backwards development or degeneration, but rather represents a necessary phase of development.”

The circle of life is us. It’s an ideology that we’re all connected and every living thing—plants, animals, and humans exist as part of a fragile and delicate balance.

Feel Free To Disagree With Me. See Y’all In Season Four!

[thoughtfulchaos773]

This is so good! I love deep psychoanalysis like this, and you're right regression isn't all bad if he's finding his inner child and happiness. Love it!

[bitchvirgo]

u know what's great? im not in highschool anymore

[archivistcookbook]

Alexander McQueen Fall 1996

[mariaramosbravo]

[948]

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