#openlylesbian

[beholdingslut]

top five poems from 2016?

this is a touch repetitive but

ada limon, “during the impossible age of everyone”

jeremy radin, “so i locked myself inside a star for twenty years”

camille rankine, “fireblight”

wendy xu, “retrospective”

alejandra pizarnik, “paths of the mirror”

[beholdingslut]

this might be a day or 2 late but happy bday maddie (the most taurus that's ever been a taurus)

im so useless at not replying 2 things promptly but ilysm thank u 4 acknowledging my place in the world

[softgods]

one of my fav books rn is house of leaves? but sharp objects also got me fucked up

i’ve seen house of leaves on my dash from time to time but i haven’t read it. what’s it about? 😊

season: spring | summer | autumn | winter

mythical creature: faery | mermaid | dragon | phoenix | ghost

element: water | fire | earth | air

place: art museum | antique bookstore | fancy café | beautiful garden | mysterious forest | midnight-blue ocean

celestial object: stars | moon | sun | sky

olympian: zeus | hera | poseidon | demeter | athena | apollo | artemis | ares | aphrodite | hephaestus | hermes | dionysus | hestia

want one?

[heartmagician]

a, f, z?

already answered a & f, but! 

write a couplet (a short poem with just two lines) about pulse points.

they put two fingers to my wrist in the hospital, and that’s when i decided i was still here. 

[crowsummer]

key lime

key lime: where do you want to be right now?

With the Object Of My Affections TM. Or, at the point in my life in which I have become a raging success. Or, on some form of transport, going somewhere. 

I am a bit of a problem.

Send me some ice cream asks!

[phereinnike]

1) you're a bitch (in the best way possible) 2) you're slytherin af 3) you're a great friend to the ppl who've earned your trust

damn that’s going hard hahaha, thanks so much you’re a great friend too <3

go on anon and tell me at least 3 facts you’ve learned about me since following me

[medeae]

okay, okay... by popular demand here is my Bitching... so I have this classmate who smirks every time she answers questions so I was like damn! got 2 stay away (I'm superficial sorry), then I overhead her telling another classmate that lit in uni was soooo easy cause she'd taken it for A levels so this was a breeze for her so I was like... bye, never going to stand anywhere near you again! after class I joined my other friends and she was there because she knew one of my friends' friend, so we had lunch together. They went to get lunch but I was studying so I stayed at the table and she stayed there too, and she started talking to me about how much she hated Shakespeare... so I was like okay... then she said she liked Romeo and Juliet (1996) because it was trashy and it was just as trashy as Shakespeare himself and Shakespeare was bad and not a classic or whatever... then she asked me a question about the lecture we'd just had on beowulf but I hate her so I'm not going to tell her the answer lmao so I said idk, I can't read my handwriting, then she said I can! let me see! and she took my damn notebook... and started flipping through... I took it back from her lmao ! ! ! then my other friends came back and we started talking about the allegory of good and evil in Beowulf and how everyone was afraid of more dragons after Beowulf died because the dragon is a metaphor for the inner evil etc etc and she said but the dragon is dead, Beowulf is a straightforward tale about good and evil, there are no allegories, why do people bother reading so much into such a story... then we went to class and she sat with me so we had another painful discussion about Beowulf... so today we had another class together and she straight up told our tutor that uni was Too Easy... that we did Nothing in class... and the tutor was like no offence but you are wrong and the ones who think they need the least help are the ones who need it the most! bye!

[medeae]

perhaps one of the troubling things which show white privilege in the context of Singapore(as the man I'm about to talk about is the "founder" of it, but this could apply to Southeast Asia as well) is the rafflesia, the world’s smelliest flower, being named after Sir Stamford raffles himself (while some argue that this credit should go to his assistant, another white man, Dr Joseph Arnold, it was his Indonesian tour guide that led him to it), when the natives of some parts of Southeast Asia where the flower is found, (so the people of Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia) were already exposed to and knew of the flower, but it was a white man who “discovered it” and took credit as the leader of the exploration, and this same white man sent off the discoveries about the flower to a white man’s society of flora and fauna or something that it was then named the “rafflesia”, thereby implying (or outright saying!) that things are only “found” or have value accorded to them when it is a white man that “finds it” and the experiences or discoveries of people that are not white and are also victims of colonisation, by the way, are not valid until then.