#lit stacks

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It's not as simple as that. I've been realizing that I—

Charles and Edwin // excerpt from "The Fear" by Clementine Von Radics

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. “god is fucking with my oblivion. if he wants forgiveness, he shouldn’t have given us memory.”

2. “your god comes and he is ordinary and terrible. he confers with the doctors at your kitchen table and tells you to eat….”

3. “our father who art in heaven. our father who art buried in the yard.”

4. “at the trial of god, we will ask: ‘why did you allow all this?’ and the answer will be an echo: ‘why did you allow all this?’”

5. “i don’t believe in god as much as i believe in the interrogation room. i believe in someone placing a loaded gun on a metal table between me and a door. who gets to be god then? will god be the bullet or the table or the door.”

6. “every spy knows this. some say god is where we put our sorrow. god says, which one of you fuckers can get to me first?”/end transcript.]

vi khi nao— fish in exile/leila chatti— portrait of the illness as nightmare/richard siken— snow and dirty rain/ilya kaminsky— a city like a guillotine shivers on its way to the neck/hanif abdurraqib— all the tv shows are about cops/richard siken— war of the foxes

[infinityonhighvevo]

jon bellion on fathers and sons in FATHER FIGURE (2025)

FATHER FIGURE // MY BOY // DON’T SHOOT

[fluocininide]

salma deera - letters from medea | hbo's the last of us | frank o'hara - having a coke with you | amal el-mohtar - this is how you lose the time war | hbo's the last of us | langston hughes - poem | marina tsvetaeva - i'm glad your sickness... | hbo's the last of us | the mountain goats - love love love

[morepeachyogurt]

oh my love, only you and i matter

1. Jill Santopolo | 2. Leo Tolstoy | 3. @boyist | 4. Valentini Mavrodogl | 5. Grace Lau | 6. Jeanette Winterson | 7. Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger | 8. Frank O’Hara | 9. Vladimir Nabokov | 10. Micah Nemerever | 11. Jorge Damiani | 12. Benjamin Alire Sáenz | 13. Doris Dana | 14. James Baldwin | 15. Anne Magill |

[ribombeee]

twin fantasy (those boys) - car seat headrest

junya watanabe

thank you for sending me an angel - talking heads

brutus - the buttress

gattaca (1997) - andrew niccol

20 dollar nose bleed - fall out boy

[marlborodean]

"birth of serpents," the mountain goats ; "the raid," supernatural ; madeleine l'engle ; liana finck ; "first love / late spring," mitski ; "are you from pinner?" killing eve ; dylan moran

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[candescent-wick]

rumpled love:

cardigan by taylor swift

star witness

@livingchancy