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No Edges

They tried to draw me in lines straight ones, mostly clean and easy to understand like love was a hallway with only two doors

I kept opening windows

I don't fall for bodies the way they expect not shapes not categories not the names people cling to like instructions

I fall for gravity

For the way someone's mind pulls me in slow the way a voice can feel like home before I even know the address the way a soul can hum at the same frequency as mine

Call it confusing if you need to call it greedy indecisive too much

But I've never felt more certain than when I stopped choosing from the options I was given

Love isn't a box I check it's a current and I am done pretending I can only flow one way

I have loved softness and I have loved fire I have loved people who don't fit into your language and people who do but still surprise me

There are no edges here no borders to defend

Just connection raw and untranslatable spanning everything you tried to divide

And maybe that scares you this refusal to simplify

But I am not complicated

I am just honest in a world that prefers things to be smaller than they are

not me, pining after seven (7) other books in a series as the only one (1) book of said series that i own languishes (unread) on my floor

#text #personal #books #reading #IN MY DEFENSE THEYRE ALL VERY PRETTY AND VERY SMALL #and enough of them look up my alley that i might as well flesh out the whole set tbh #no edges #the calico series #two lines press #anyway theyre all little anthologies in translation #themed or by area #and theyre so pretty and theres a Russian one and chinese spec fic and arabic poetry #im also v interested in the caribbean one and the visible one looks neat #and at that point i might as well get the gay one and round out said series right 🫣😂#anyway there arent THAT many #but like. i should actually read the one i have huh

#your devoted muse #queer representation #lgbtqia #marquis bey #olivia liang #sherronda j brown #hanif abdurraqib #carmen maria machado #calvin arsenia #no edges #abolitionist literature #black magik cards #black queer women #queer liberation #black trans feminism #funny weather #a little devil in america #her body and other parties #refusing compulsory sexuality

trusova’s skating is...

#bad #just real bad #flaily #no run out #no edges #bad posture #no control #ugly spin positions #i dont like it #anyway #konner talks skating #sc19

I can't wait to be slayed by Black Panther cosplayers.

#cosplay #cosplayers #black panther #superhero #superheores #slayed #slaying #no edges

Well, If It Looks Like A Duck...

Books of 2023. THAT WE MAY LIVE and NO EDGES from Two Lines Press.

NO EDGES came in my Migrations subscription box earlier this year, and I finally got around to reading it this week! It's a collection of Swahili fiction translated to English. I love little multi-author anthologies because it's the perfect amount of taste testing without committing. My favorites were A Neighbor's Pot by Lusajo Mwaikenda Israel and the excerpt from Nakuruto by Clara Momanyi.

Up next is THAT WE MAY LIVE, which is speculative Chinese fiction in translation! The whole series of books looks really cool, so I'll probably be adding all of these to my library piecemeal.

#books of 2023 #book photography #my photography #books #calico #two lines press #in translation #no edges #that we may live #i will not be tagging authors there are simply Too Many lmao #featuring the nano pen and only truly orange mug i own (the owl is like orange brown lol)#i also read no edges over like three days because the stories are short and the book is short and there's a lot of white space lol #good little morsels #i think i prefer multi author anthologies to one author anthologies because there's more Variety?? like i go for collections for a sampling #--of everything and that's easier with More Authors #one quibble with these i've seen on goodreads is that there's not much Context Up Front #which is true. the stories are presented without comment #so far both of these have been themed by language/region but apparently they've got other themes too #the author and translator blurbs in the back are helpful though!!#unfortunately it doesn't look like i can find a copy of the whole of NAKURUTO (which is a novel) in translation anywhere lolsob #so that's kind of a bummer because i did like what i read!!#very excited for the chinese one because the stories look Weird and Fucked Up and that's My Jam