consider the shape of the future

sometimes poetry makes me see shrimp colors. alex. any pronouns. piracy craft enthusiast harlot. liargirl first and foremost. i contain multitudes. storygraph.

[28121997-deactivated20250923]

dni: incurious souls

[futchlings]

"incurious" still GOAT insult. You could be better but you're not. You could learn but you won't, and for no good reason, just a base dispositional apathy. Get fucked

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[dreamgirlvibes]

discipline is really just remembering who you said you wanted to be.

[larval-tear]

dude i think i might be The Other

[postarcadian]

this is another discussion tangential to the one about LotR/Tolkien, but I do also think that the cartoon-fascist cosplay that is in vogue on the US far right has hindered a lot of people's (especially Americans') ability to recognize or push back against strains of conservatism/fascism that rhetorically focus more on things like stability, tradition, family, and community rather than the worship of power and cruelty for the sake of power and cruelty. the deep Catholic conservatism that underpins LotR might seem opposed to the far-right politics that is in vogue right now in the US (see also the whole Pope Leo vs. Trump and Vance thing) but obviously there's a reason that fascists and conservatives have loved Tolkien's work for a long time, and there are more sophisticated and arguably more dangerous strains of fascism that are extremely skilled at weaponizing the same "universal" values that LotR's heroes are fighting for. and obviously I'm not immune to this, or the tendency to project my own politics onto LotR -- I watched the theatrical rerelease of The Two Towers the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered, and when Théoden says "so much death. what can men do against such reckless hate?" I felt myself moved almost to tears because it seemed to speak with such clarity to the precise moment. but there is a difference between "this is what the text seems to be saying to me in this moment" and "this is the value system underpinning the text itself."

[nuttybarzz]

Let me know all of you

[quietwingsinthesky]

we’re so lucky that gilgamesh survived and is a banger. can you imagine if we found the oldest written human story ever recorded and it sucked balls.

[funeral]

For it is not by describing that words acquire their power: it is by naming, by calling, by commanding, by intriguing, by seducing that they slice into the naturalness of existences, set humans on their path, separate them and unite them into communities. The word has many other things to imitate besides its meaning or its referent: the power of speech that brings it into existence, the movement of life, the gestures of an oration, the effect it anticipates, the addressee whose listening or reading it mimics beforehand.

Jacques Rancière, The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing

[catilinas]

i love shipping magazines and i especially love them when they sound like they were written by a mildly aggravated cargo ship

[noosphe-re]

He begins to know things a little with the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and in this way he begins to know the word that is within. It is this communication that is the sustenance of life. It is not food or drink that keeps man alive, it is this communication through the different senses to the extent that he understands what they have to say. It is this that makes man live.

Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Mysticism of Sound and Music

[loveridden1999]

the thing about phone in bed is that it's so awesome. almost makes you feel like betraying & destroying yourself for nothing isn't all so bad

[femmepoem]

bringing my literary book club back for 2026 summer! reads from 2025 summer included drive your plow over the bones of the dead, kindred, the gilda stories, insects are just like you and me except some of them have wings, the vegetarian, frankenstein, and the aleph. let me know if you would like an invite!

[miragefannumber3]

creates a porn sideblog and you look in there and its just pictures of fucked up stairs leading nowhere

[muninnhuginn]

love it when characters do a sacrifice play ostensibly to save others but mostly so they don't have to face themselves

[smsomah]

Hinged silver bracelets from Saada, Yemen. Scanned from the book Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba; 2014; Marjorie Ransom

[alivehouse]

whos ready for nothing worse than this will ever happen to me monday