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Hi friends!
If anyone still cares about this tumblr and wants to keep up with my hamfisted attempts to start writing poetry again, go follow my new blog!
SmilodonFatalis.tumblr.com
Enjoy! Or don’t enjoy. Who am I to tell you what to do?
Junji Ito inspired jack-o-lantern
October 2016
Dear Tumblr crush, Dear muse, Dear brilliant, beautiful boy,
I barely knew you, but you inspired me. You inspired me with your writing, your philosophy, and your humor. You made me want to be more than I am.
I can’t stop thinking about you and your loved ones today. The world is less bright without you in it and I can sense that diminished light even from across a continent. I will miss you, even though I barely knew you.
And to any of my followers who are struggling, please talk to me. Or to someone, at least. I may not be much actual help– I can offer no real advice– but I want to listen. Trust me, there are people all over this earth who love you and would be heartsick to see you go, even those you barely know. You are loved by the very earth, by the very stardust.
And so are you, my almost friend. To stardust you return. I hope you are far from here, drifting in the ebb and flow of some great cosmic tide, or orbiting some distant sun, or maybe just floating through the massive, tiny distances between two atoms.
I hope you are somewhere. I hope you are home.
Rest easy.
Wow I finally updated my tumblr app and I realize I was missing out on like 90% of my interactions on here. Plus like all deez emojis??!?
This week in tattoos I design and never get: Les Miserables meets Victorian flower language! And I need your help.
I’m trying to pick a flower to represent Grantaire. I’m currently thinking o f Spanish Jasmine which represents sensuality but I’m still not sold.
If any les mis fans have any ideas for an R flower pls let me know.
Well, this was a delightful nerdsnipe. From the looks of things, one issue with language of flowers stuff is that there were several somewhat different codebooks. I can only imagine the anxiety this must have caused anyone trying to convey serious emotional information via bouquets.
I found at least one book where Laurustinus was listed as ‘I DIE IF NEGLECTED’, which… oh, R.
Anyway, how about love-lies-bleeding (amaranthus caudatus)? That means, variously ‘love without hope’ or ‘hopeless, not heartless’.
Otherwise, wolfsbane is listed pretty much everywhere for misanthropy; you could combine this with a thorned rose (painful love), or, if you wanted to be particularly downery, a marigold (grief) or aloes (bitterness).
You could also go for wormwood - it means bitterness/absence, but is also a key ingredient of absinthe.
Daffodil keeps being listed in various places as ‘Regard, Unequalled Love, You’re the Only One, The Sun is Always Shining When I’m with You’… yeah.
However, I think my favourite candidate is the heliotrope. It’s so-called because it supposedly turns its flowers to follow the sun; it means ‘devotion; adoration’ but also ‘intoxication’ because its scent was supposed to make you slightly high(?). And, well, I’m just going to copy a passage from a book on flower meanings here: “It was associated with the sorrowful story of the nymph Clytie, who fell in love with Apollo, the Sun God. Apollo spurned her because he was in love with another, and Clytie fell into deep despair, spending every day prone on the cold, bare earth, her pleading eyes riveted on Apollo in his sun chariot. Out of pity, the gods turned her into a heliotrope, and so for all eternity she follows Apollo’s daily journey, her love unchanged’.
Yup.
O.o You just blew my mind. Thank you for your amazing help. You are the best.
I'm posting this on here cuz idk where else to post it without doing that annoying Facebook bragging thing. Ok so I just found out that I got full tuition scholarships to two law schools and then this amazing international law fellowship to case western which is #11 in the country for international law and that opportunity would include research and would let me travel all over the world on paid internships and work with the dean and stuff. But I'm waiting to hear back from 7 other schools including some top tier programs that are near and dear to my heart and the waiting is absolutely killing me. But anyway all my haters can sit in syrup cuz my ass is getting credentialed af. Also ha ha ex boyfriend who tried to convince me that law school just wasn't for me. You are wrong and you have always been wrong. ✌️
This week in tattoos I design and never get: Les Miserables meets Victorian flower language! And I need your help. I'm trying to pick a flower to represent Grantaire. I'm currently thinking o f Spanish Jasmine which represents sensuality but I'm still not sold. If any les mis fans have any ideas for an R flower pls let me know.
I want to write. I want to write. I want to write. Expect to see some words tonight.
It's back. It had been ebbing away for three years but it's back. I have been exploring the French Revolution from a more scholarly standpoint and I'm obsessed again. Pray for my family.
ngl 90% of why I'm applying to law school is so I can pretend to be enjolras then 5% to help the downtrodden and 5% cuz idk what else to do with my life
So I'm applying to law school
And I'm working on this personal statement for my apps and if someone would be willing to read it and just tell me if you think it's like glaringly fucking stupid that would be so helpful. Pls help. Anyone.
WIP. I need to rewrite “rise” to be more readable. Any advice from more advanced artists than my amateur ass? (Also aren’t I amazing at alliterating?)
“You and i are Earth 1661”. Tin-glazed earthenware plate found in a London sewer, from the Wellcome Collection’s “Dirt” exhibition.
I was out for a walk in the woods across from my house when my dad (who was following behind me) gasped and told me to stop moving. I immediately thought it was a snake or the dogman or something, so I froze. He told me to look by my right foot and about 6 inches from me was this perfect little fawn. She didn't move a muscle, so she was under a week old. I'm glad I didn't step on her!
“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene
