simplyxoj

twenty-two // mpls cis; she/her infp // pansexual

[pirategf]

weirded out by homes with no pets. like where is your creature

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I hate deleting things off my desktop so I'm uploading them here for keepers (see image notes).

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[nevver]

August is the month of last chances, Nigel Van Wieck

[rachelspoetrycorner]

Thanksgiving (2019) by Rachel Long

In Episode 199, Rachel shares a poet recommended by a listener, Milo Rey!

Rachel: In fact, Rachel Long is actually a founder of a poetry collective called the Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour. She talks a lot about the experience of being what she calls, like, both the invisible and also hyper visible.

[...] And so that poem kind of gets at that a little bit, of just this idea of like trying to exist in this space and be what somebody else wants you to be, you know? And I mean, obviously I don’t have that exact experience, but that experience of being with somebody that you feel is different than you, and trying to just keep everything unique about yourself, like, hidden.

This poem always manages to catch me off guard; it's title and opening lines seem to be guiding the reader towards a peaceful, and even tender, road. But suddenly, you finish reading it and realise that, without even noticing it, you'd been steered right to the edge of a cliff. It's such a quiet, heartbreaking poem.

If you’d like to hear more about the author's experience, you can do so here: In Relationship with the Orbeez, from 23:38 - 35:00

[zegalba]

Selva Aparicio: Childhood Memories (2020) hand carved tapestry directly into wooden flooring

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Spring by Wolfgang Grässe, 1980

[lacefuneral]

this is one of the gayest conversations i've ever seen

[taxidermychrist-deactivated2025]

the women in my bluetooth headphones sounds mad at me :(

[vampire-cathedral]

[simply-oj]

The “Fleabag” Era of Dissociative Feminism Must End

Rather than complaining about their oppression, the young, contrarian women of TikTok have decided to simply exist as pained beings.

[simply-oj]

Quinni's Daily Schedule (Heartbreak High, S1E6)

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[thecorefather]

this is how we fix society

[pomegranaterubies-deactivated20]

Beguiled (1995)

Barry Windsor Smith

[hyperallergic]

At “1-800 Happy Birthday,” payphones ring with loving voicemails from the families and strangers of loved ones slain by police — “there are no deathdates.” 

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SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK MY SCHOOL PUT UP A LARGE BANNER DEDICATED TO THE :-) EMOTICON

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[id: a banner with a huge image of the :-) (smiley face with nose) emoticon captioned “smiley / first emoted here / 19 september 1982 / computer science department / www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley / carnegie mellon.” end id]

happy birthday :-) face

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it’s that time of the year again everyone say happy 40th birthday :-)

[weaver-z]

This is apparently what was contained in the original message that invented the :-) and I'm obsessed with Fahlman's diction here

[magbeth]

like to charge reblog to cast