there’s a genre of phrases that sound like they’re from the bible or like paradise lost, but really, really aren’t. like “there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see” which is ofc a jordan peterson tweet about a bottle of evian. what are the others?
I’m sorry I don’t think it’s an overreaction to be outraged or incensed or depressed by this. Everyone should expect far better from any published writer. This isn’t just bad or even just lazy it is entirely torpid. It does nothing.
Happening right now in Arts West at UniMelb — the Acting Provost has told students that they have until 2:30pm to leave: “If you are not out of the building within an hour, the university will have to make decisions that will seriously escalate the tension”
I remember when I worked at McDonalds an older Indigenous man called me “sistergirl” and I thought he just hadn’t clocked me but I just found out that that’s actually a word used by First Nations people to describe trans women specifically
Got this Calvin Klein dress for 25 dollars. My life is so fortunate and so easy. The days just slide off me with zero friction I’m not even living that’s how little I struggle. That’s how lucky I am
It’s so funny that contemporary transphobia basically hinges on the idea that nobody in history has ever theorised selfhood before and that theorising selfhood WILL cause your brain to explode
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@LINGUA_IGNOTA_
I hope you’re convalescing well also I hope when you do end up coming to Australia at some point I get to give you this Canterbury Cathedral tea towel
Imagine me in this outfit carrying 20 rolls of toilet paper a latte and my phone and then dropping the coffee in the middle of an intersection because that’s what happened 22 minutes ago
Was wearing this at the discount grocery store when a woman gestured towards me and said “I love that suit”. I gave her my full-throated thanks. She looked taken aback. I turned around to see a shelf of canned soup behind me. She loves… that soup… that SOUP
Sylvia Plath’s food diary (which has more followers than the one that posts her poetry) the sunny side of Kafka + his letters to Milena in a way. I know it’s not an actual problem I just don’t like to see dullness or sentimentality vindicated en masse
Get your ass up and make a groundbreaking ambient folk album about shapes. It seems like nobody wants to fucking make a groundbreaking ambient folk album about shapes anymore.
It’s cool that the opening remarks of Australia’s National Literature (sic) are just “This is hell, we’re in hell, it’s like the land itself was formed through violence and just being here makes everyone want to kill everyone and themselves”
These floods are no joke guys I’m so petite And little I just got washed away into the sea this is crazy. If you’re as delicate and small as I am pls stay safe
Photos taken by Nils Strindberg, one of three members of the failed 1897 Arctic expedition led S.A. Andrée. They survived for nearly 4 months after their balloon crashed.
This is what I named myself after. We had it in my shower when I was 7 and it smelled like a long long sad dream and I decided if I ever had a daughter I’d call her Iris. Now I’m my daughter
The death of the private letter is a very stale thing to get angsty about but it left us with only confrontational or simulated-confrontational modes of communication and I find that frustrating if not truly sad
I don’t do fruit imagery in poems or apply my imagination to fruit in my poems because of that one time I was on shrooms and was cutting a capsicum and I started to feel like I was doing surgery on a dog’s uterus
it's frightening how inarticulate young and youngish writers of self-consciously highbrow stuff are now, as a rule. they just do not seem at home in language
I know that posting about my s/o is akin to forcing you all to listen to me recount a dream I had But I wanted to alert you all to the fact that my boyfriend has a tattoo of Eastern Bloc Itchy and Scratchy. You can’t see it but this post is just a self-soothing thing anyway
Kit Connor on the narrative around those who are bisexual:
“It’s the experience of maybe you’re too straight to be gay and you’re too gay to be straight. So it’s like, ‘Where do I sit?’ But I feel much more secure in myself now.”
I just want to fill my room with incense smoke and write all over the walls but I’m doomed to make soft serves for people and then drop the soft serve and cry about it and clean up the soft serve off the floor and make another one