#i80

[nephilot]

🔥 topic: writing ?

-i80

ok i have such a hot take for this one... and it is MESSY.

writing that tries to be unproblematic will never resonate with me the way writing does that writes towards the problem. a piece of lit with a glossy sheen, characters who talk like they just got out of therapy, and no one saying anything REAL bc they're all afraid to offend genuinely offends me more than speakers who say things that are wrong.

bc this is truly a hot take. but let's look at the poem "daddy" by sylvia plath...

sylvia plath was a notorious antisemite and racist and xenophobe. obviously, terrible, terrible things to be. i don't think she should have had the framework she had for viewing the world. and yet, when i read "daddy," i think - wow. if she hadn't been such an antisemite, if she hadn't hated the jew -

An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.    I began to talk like a Jew. I think I may well be a Jew.

"i began to talk like a jew/i think i may well be a jew" so i mean. the jew is not an ontological state of victimhood. and in its most literal terms, it is not a way of speaking, a way of being, accessible to sylvia plath as a gentile. AND. this is obviously like. egregious, right? egregious to compare her state to the state of victims of genocide.

AND YET. this poem is sooo fucking messy it's getting into it it's like. it's like. i don't even have the words for it but it's beautiful to me. it's writing towards the problem. it's this woman who hated jews sitting down and seeing her state as comparable to the state of a jew. "jew" becomes a metaphysical state of being.

and that is wrong!! idk. that is wrong. "jew" is not a metaphysical state of suffering, a theoretical victim or a fantastical ethnic metaphor BUT. this poem works for me. it works for me so much more than a book written by an author who thinks they're morally pure and antiracist (often while being super racist). bc the author was writing towards a problem. the power of the poem comes from its danger.

[queer-as-in]

sam small penis...........smiles smeetly

-i80

sam 👏 small 👏 penis 👏 I am picking up what you are jerking off

especially especially because, yes it's smaller than average, but it's not small like someone would be shocked by its existence except. him so big and tall

[davetada]

Somewhere along I-80

Park City, UT

[americanunlife]

cold shoulder

[johndunwin]

a shelter of sorts

A transmission tower stands beside trees planted as windbreak near an Iowa farmhouse. Shot from I-80 in January 2021, the scene appears calm—ice, fence, gray sky—but everything here works: the tower collecting data, the trees blocking wind, even my passing camera recording.

What looks like stillness is a landscape of infrastructure. The tower's role remains invisible except for its form. The trees were placed deliberately decades ago for summer shade and winter wind. The fence marks property and keeps livestock. And somewhere in that moment, the tower likely registered my phone as I drove past, noting my passage through this frame I thought I was simply capturing.

Nothing here is wild. Nothing here is still.

[lichtschimmer]

USA, Wyoming, I80, Wamsutter - webcam

[tadviv]

[irlnoladarling]

An extremely dear family friend of mine is missing.

Tonee Turner is believed to be traveling down route interstate 80 with paths to ohio, Utah, nevada, or anywhere of the like. She is 5'2", has black hair down to her chin, has a labret piercing underneath her lip, a watercolor tattoo on her left shoulder, and is usually wearing colorful clothing that makes her stand out.

I am trying to spread this around as much as possible. We need to bring her home. Her phone was found along with her keys by a firefighter in the homestead, pa area. She was last contacted on December 30th around 6pm. She has not used her phone after 6pm.

Please contact me if you have the tiniest idea that you may have seen someone that looks like her and I will contact her sister and mother.