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@virgilioastram
The thread of History
History is made by racists By despicable men and women who were each less despicable than their peers Each of these had an idea a light that shone in darkness and a dream that maybe their way of life was antiquated Take to heart ye fools: looking back at corpses and finding evil is easy, finding good, our responsibility
If you want to read something serious
https://medium.com/@jrpn777/dont-forget-about-the-bomb-943c85fe8401
Moon River
If truly I could ride the currents of the moon Then I would take you there Just as you took me to your favorite garden And give you a kiss goodnight and goodmorning Oh how I wish you would return to me but you have chosen to ascend and that is fine, but I can’t forget you for you took away a piece of my heart with you Oh Moon River, If you are truly wider than a mile then let us two dream makers reunite, and cross you in style.
I’ve been out of the loop
I’ve been neglecting my writing for far too long. I’ve struggled to get a job and still am unemployed. I dunno what the future leads, but I need to get back to writing and storytelling. Virigilio Astram will remain my pen name and hobby blog, but I will be posting serious publications on Medium. Remember, if you like what I do and have a penny to spare, buy me a coffee or two. https://ko-fi.com/virgilioastram https://medium.com/@jrpn777 Let’s get the ball rolling shall we!
My Portfolio
https://jrporrata.onuniverse.com/?fbclid=IwAR1lpUzp57K26er2gQb-FUpsA5Wp1tFAConkX_VZbQkJ_TQmqLM1zH9jhgs Never know who’s watching and looking for a writer
The first step is done.
2 years ago, i began writing the first draft of my novella. After consulting and talking to my friends and other writers about a character i had locked in my mind and a style I used in the short story World Eater, I mused and told my friend Gil I would get to writing. It became longer than I planned it... it ended up becoming a novel almost. and if I add a few things it might have the 40k word count. this is important: this would be the first work I would try to push and publish. Maybe its it own thing. Maybe its part of a trilogy. i can't say. I've lost control over the work and its now real. Is it good? Is it bad? I don't care anymore. I dealt with heartbreak. I dealt with moving to Chicago and leaving behind my friends and family in a storm. I saw the death of my grandmother, Ligia Nélida Santiago, and I couldn't go to her funeral. A week later, my hero, Nicanor Parra, passed away. My friends and loved ones battled changes, impoverishment, unemployment. I made new friends, new people who helped me through the loneliness of the MA. I caught up with old friends. I went from 23 and now am gonna be 25 soon. I put my heart, my identity, my lunacy into this endeavor. I have an MA, I went through my first job ever and left it soon after due to personal issues with the job itself, but got to know amazing folk there. I dunno what the future holds, but if you are reading this, know that I finished the first draft of my novella, or maybe novel. And I wont rest until its published somehow. December 6th, 2018. Puerto Rican time. Virgilio Astram's first work: Cuando los Osos Reinan (When Bears Rule), has been completed it its infant stage. All my love and hate turned to words of a incomprehensible, Spanglish nature. Hope you give it a look when it's out.
Demiurge
It will be done the conception the finality cycles upon cycles maddening repetition all necessary for I am a lifegiver I am a creator. I am a Mad God
I wonder if Reddit is writer friendly...
Seriously :v
Hey Tumblr:
Fuck you. Sex workers need this venue to advertise themselves and engage with kink communities in an environment thats not out to extort money out of them. Kink Communities need a place to explore and share their interests without major judgement. LGBTTQ+ communities need to express themselves without judgement. Sexually and non sexually. ARTISTS THAT DRAW/PAINT/PHOTOGRAPHY NUDITY NEED ALL THE HELP THEY CAN GET TO SHARE THEIR WORK AND MAKE BANK. For fuck’s sake. You got hacked by Russians, you got porn bots off the wazoo. Instead of fixing those things you are doing something that will help marginalize communities and individuals that will end up moving to other venues. Venues that are not as inviting, user friendly, or established. A lot of people will lose momentum in their careers. They said they won’t flag text posts but LORD KNOWS THAT WILL BE THE NEXT FUCKING THING. But more importantly, you are doing this in demonization of adult oriented content, which is wrong. I’m legit thinking of stopping the use of tumblr and considering the ups and downs to it. If Tumblr as a medium dies because of what this means to sex workers, artists and the different queer communities, then let it stay dead.
If you give me money, I’ll be motivated to post more
https://www.ko-fi.com/B0B7KNC2
Never forget verse
Never put a moratorium on the dancing soundwaves the meter so carefully structured or ignored, for the sake of coherent thumps Never forget the pink skies or the green waves, sprawling the little kingbirds tinted blue and most importantly so their topaz shelled eggs Never forget the words to a song never forget substance or style never forget the smiles or tears And repeat after me: Never forget verse
Captured a bunny! Metaphorically i mean. Lucky shot, it posed! Still in its endeavor Cause it knew I was non threatening At the moment at least, I've eaten bunny meat. Tastes like beef.
Don’t force people to vote for a lesser of two evils
My friend told me he didn’t like Bernie Sanders. His logic was that Bernie’s ‘revolution’ (or reform, lets call it reform) was dividing power among left leaning groups. “Gringos all had to band together and defeat Trump, who represents the worst of all of these universes”. I didn’t agree, because Bernie’s group was evidence of the possibility of pushing the Democrats more to the left, as well as America changing for the better. Trump won, Hillary lost. This is either the prelude to the death of the US led world order or the disease before the cure. Now, the vote is something that if you believe in democracy, should be a sacred act. One is allowed to exercise it, one is allowed to not vote. As a Puerto Rican, and seeing the dominion of the two main parties, I refused to vote for the lesser of two evils and I voted for the workers’ party like a good socialist boy should have. They lost, but I slept soundly knowing I voted for the one with the charisma of a rock but the needed policy changes we needed. Now I’m in Illinois. JB Pritzker is on the run for governor and he is rich as fuck. His opponent is Bruce Rauner, who is also rich as fuck. I think both of them are shady, evil characters, but at least one is for legalizing weed, right? I guess in this case since conservatives have mostly lost it (though I guess folks like my dad and some of my classmates aren’t all that bad, as well as the libertarians possibly being a crowd we might need to persuade in the future), I’m willing to vote for the guy that wants to legalized weed and is SWEARING TO HELP OUT OUR MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES blah blah blah, because once he passes the legalization of weed we can find something to put him in jail for. But, this isn’t democratic, ain’t it? This electoral system is NOT DEMOCRATIC. It’s not democratic because of two ingrained parties within a system triumphing over independent candidates. It is because we see the need for left winged policies to makeup for a lot of the errors the right winged economic ones that we are trying to get the democrats to transition into a left winged party instead of a centrist one. it is because we keep having to vote for a lesser of two evils or not vote at all. Frankly speaking, if I could vote in the 2016 presidential elections, I wouldn’t have the moral fiber to vote for Hillary because she was SUCH A HORRIBLE CANDIDATE. The email scandal wasn’t even the biggest thing, her whole history in politics is one mired in controversy. I don’t care if Hillary would have saved us all from Trump, that universe is another one. This universe, we had to deal with a worst case scenario. Giant evil or less Giant Evil.
So, before somebody makes me write a 10 page term paper on why people should not have to vote for the lesser of two evils if they don’t want to, lets skip all that and leave those who didn’t have weak moral fiber alone, ok? Reminder: The democrats are a centrist politcal group that has tendencies to swing left due to its voter base, not a true leftist political group. So, it is no surprise leftists did not vote democrat, and specifically not Hillary.
note to self, no longer voting for Pritzker
Puerto Rico Strong: A Comics Anthology Supporting Puerto Rico Disaster (2018)
Puerto Rico Strong is a comics anthology that explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the diversity that exists within that concept, from today’s most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators. All profits will go to towards disaster relief and recovery programs to support Puerto Rico.
Despite being a US territory, Puerto Rico is often thought of as a foreign land, if it’s even a thought in the mind of the average American at all. Its people exist in all corners of America; some of them have parents who immigrated from the home island, others are a part of families that have been on the mainland for generations. Then there are those who have come to the states in search of a dream but struggle to integrate into an unfamiliar culture, while there are those who have lived in the United States all of their lives but still have the same struggle because of the color of their skin or their sexual identity. These stories follow individuals from diverse walks of life but are all part of the culture that is Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Strong features art and writing by Rosa Colon, Vita Ayala, Naomi Franquiz, Javier Cruz Winnik, Sabrina Cintron, Ronnie Garcia, Fabian Nicieza, Joamette Gil, and many more!Story: Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez
Get it here
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Don’t force people to vote for a lesser of two evils
My friend told me he didn’t like Bernie Sanders. His logic was that Bernie’s ‘revolution’ (or reform, lets call it reform) was dividing power among left leaning groups. “Gringos all had to band together and defeat Trump, who represents the worst of all of these universes”. I didn’t agree, because Bernie’s group was evidence of the possibility of pushing the Democrats more to the left, as well as America changing for the better. Trump won, Hillary lost. This is either the prelude to the death of the US led world order or the disease before the cure. Now, the vote is something that if you believe in democracy, should be a sacred act. One is allowed to exercise it, one is allowed to not vote. As a Puerto Rican, and seeing the dominion of the two main parties, I refused to vote for the lesser of two evils and I voted for the workers’ party like a good socialist boy should have. They lost, but I slept soundly knowing I voted for the one with the charisma of a rock but the needed policy changes we needed. Now I’m in Illinois. JB Pritzker is on the run for governor and he is rich as fuck. His opponent is Bruce Rauner, who is also rich as fuck. I think both of them are shady, evil characters, but at least one is for legalizing weed, right? I guess in this case since conservatives have mostly lost it (though I guess folks like my dad and some of my classmates aren’t all that bad, as well as the libertarians possibly being a crowd we might need to persuade in the future), I’m willing to vote for the guy that wants to legalized weed and is SWEARING TO HELP OUT OUR MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES blah blah blah, because once he passes the legalization of weed we can find something to put him in jail for. But, this isn’t democratic, ain’t it? This electoral system is NOT DEMOCRATIC. It’s not democratic because of two ingrained parties within a system triumphing over independent candidates. It is because we see the need for left winged policies to makeup for a lot of the errors the right winged economic ones that we are trying to get the democrats to transition into a left winged party instead of a centrist one. it is because we keep having to vote for a lesser of two evils or not vote at all. Frankly speaking, if I could vote in the 2016 presidential elections, I wouldn’t have the moral fiber to vote for Hillary because she was SUCH A HORRIBLE CANDIDATE. The email scandal wasn’t even the biggest thing, her whole history in politics is one mired in controversy. I don’t care if Hillary would have saved us all from Trump, that universe is another one. This universe, we had to deal with a worst case scenario. Giant evil or less Giant Evil.
So, before somebody makes me write a 10 page term paper on why people should not have to vote for the lesser of two evils if they don’t want to, lets skip all that and leave those who didn’t have weak moral fiber alone, ok? Reminder: The democrats are a centrist politcal group that has tendencies to swing left due to its voter base, not a true leftist political group. So, it is no surprise leftists did not vote democrat, and specifically not Hillary.
Sometimes I don’t wanna write
But I do anyways cause fuck the audience, I need to push myself to do this.
I have a ko-fi account
Yup. Selling out cause I’m unemployed and I’ve already begged strangers for money, so what’s stopping me now?
http://ko-fi.com/virgilioastram
