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I want to go back.

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there is no amount (of crying i can do for you) / webweaving

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grieving love you had to let go of for the best

christine garren / anne magill / vladimir mayakovsky / savannah brown / @tapeworrmart / @discountgospel / sylvia plath / kaye baer / @hel7l7 / andreea dumata

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“the point of kintsugi is to treat broken pieces and their repair as part of the history of an object”

David Mitchell // Hanif Abdurraqib // photo by @lakevida // @ashstfu // tiktok comment by @/muddafrigga // Miranda July // Pete Wentz // @jovialtorchlight // caption from Penny Reid [x]

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[Image ID: The poem “One Source of Bad Information”, by Robert Bly.  There’s a boy in you about three years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand Years. Sometime it’s a girl.  The child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like:  “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”  You live with this child, but you don’t know it.  You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy  At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy  You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas.  Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you. 

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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (clutches my head and remembers that poem about All my dead friends and the frightening door

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Editor’s Current Reads for January (2024)

Novelist as a Vocation—Haruki Murakami

As a writer themselves our editor feels it is necessary to keep themselves up to date on other writers’ views and conversations on the topics of writing craft, publishing, and the journey of becoming/existing as an author. We are only about a half-way through the collection of essays be wha have found them touching, meaningful, and insightful all the way through.

A Court of Thorns and Roses-Sarah J. Maas

This is one is simply pure indulgence, I mean, sexy fae—who can resist? The fae are all parts mysterious, intriguing, dangerous, and intoxicating. Is it a serious read? I don’t know, some people take romantsy very seriously, and that’s alright by me.

What are your reads this month? What you looking forward to on your TBR? Tell is in the reblogs and the tags—we want to know what you are into!

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Sorry, just had the wildest discussion with a group of friends (old friends) and I had to wonder--what is your top Disney Renaissance Villain?

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Even More Kickstarter Projects We Are Excited About (30 Minutes to New Year's Day)

Theater Projects:

This is, as expected, a feminist project about what it means to leave one religion for another idealism. It is a personal project for a theater in NYC and though I won't get to watch it, there are probably people who would go to NYC to watch a play they backed or who live in NYC and would back the arts for the sake of backing the arts and interesting play/dance performance. It is a great way to get in on the ground floor and it only needs 400 people with ten dollars to back it; honestly for the love of theater there is no wrong way to spend ten dollars when it comes to something like this--this is truly art for the sake of art and that's a beautiful thing, isn't it? Closes: 01/19/24.

Podcast Projects:

A throughly deconstructive and invigorating idea that offers real solutions to the problems of modern activism and ideological campaigning. Only needs 60 people with ten dollars to make, so it seems like a great thing to get behind while you can. Also it just seems informative and fun as hell--it is a little slice of academia and theory and real life application brought into the small corners of the internet and idk I just think that's neat. Ends 01/21/24.

Another project close to my queer and suffering little heart--I so badly want this to go forward; if I could be anymore involved I would--this is fantastically difficult and honestly, wonderful work this person is doing and I know that there is a lot of trouble talking about something like this but in all goshdarn wonderful honesty I just think this could be healing and a nice outlet for a lot of people and it would mean alot to me if it succeeded. Only needs 210 people with 10 dollars to make the dream work. Please share all you can of this post with as many people as possible.

I am so sorry that it is so long, it took me all day to work on it and to gather up the goodies and the links and write these descriptions and I did it because I care so much about these projects so, please, please share it as many times in as many places as you possibly can.

Also share the earlier post because I had to chop it in two at the last possible moment because of Tumblr restriction on links and lengths--ay caramba, am I right?

Lots of love--

B.A. O'Connell (they/them)

Editor of Death's Dormant Daughter

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Projects We Love on Kickstarter (meaning they've been backed with our editor's own money, and we would hate to see them go goal unmet or unfunded...)

Posted 12/31/23

Literature Projects:

The Apex Cycle Audiobook Kickstarter completes in 9 days (01/9/24) and is less than half-way to its 5000-dollar goal; but if even just 250 people donated ten dollars or more it could meet its goal, no problemo, so even if you can't donate the cash--spreading it around Tumblr would be sure to catch the eye of a few somebodies who love sci-fi, audiobooks, and young adult trilogies...

Film Projects:

This is a short film project about the struggles of young love and fast paced romance in urban Shanghai--the clips I saw are already sooo beautiful and powerful and I love it so very much--it only has 201$ as of typing this--but I think it deserves all the love--it is such a potentially impactful piece, especially on the young adult/new adult audience it is aiming for--it only has 6 days (01/7/24) but it would only take 250 people pledging 10 dollars each to reach its funding goal.

So, this film speaks closely to the heart of many young people's experiences in education in urban centers and the differences of the often, very conservative, rural areas where they grew up. I think it is an evocative and sharp narrative that deserves to be explored--the film is only about 100 dollars from being fully funded (the campaign ends 01/16/24)--so just ten people with ten dollars can make this a reality. As always spreading the message around Tumblr can help so very very much..

This film touches on mental health, aging, motherhood, mother/daughter relationships and the stress, grief, and emotion of caretaking for a loved one who isn't who you remember them as. It also tackles the questions of care for mental health and depression in a uniquely Southern Asian way--the filmmaker makes it clear that she wants to explore this part of her and her mother's culture with respect and clarity. This is an incredibly personal and profound look into the filmmaker's life, and I know something this special only comes along ever once in a good while--it needs quite a bit of cash to get funded--but 4000 with ten dollars could do it--we just gotta find those 4000 people who are interested in seeing it happen; this could be a beautiful thing--truly. (This Kickstarter ends on 02/02/24)

Sister Anna is a film for all those romantics out there who also love period dramas and tense family dynamics--probably appealing to those who love Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Romeo and Juliet. This is a broody short film meant to capture the tension of being beholden to one person or another. With a seemingly impossible situation to make it through--this film sings with intensity. Again, it needs a bit of money, about 1000 dollars, but that's just, you guessed it 100 people with ten dollars; surely those somebodies are floating in the ether of Tumblr and beyond somehow. This campaign ends (01/16/23)

A highly philosophical film looking at Ernest Becker's idea of why humans do what they do and how it ties into his Pulitzer Prize winning book THE DENIAL OF DEATH--this film ponders what human deception could lead or is the source of in the modern virtual age--what does it mean to be human now, when deception and denial are so easily accessible to us? Personally, I am fascinated by this question. I love philosphy--I think a lot of other people on this sight do too--hopefully we can find them out there because this project needs 2000 with ten dollars to achieves its goal. The window for backing closes in ten days on 01/10/24.

A unique look at the division within former Yugoslavia and it's struggles with both fascist and communist ideals--and it means specifically for a complicated and controversial monument; the documentary is not about blame but more about the struggle to save this important historical icon. It needs about 2600 people with ten dollars to get fully funded, but I think there is enough interest in history and soviet/fascist ideological fall-out/consequences to reach those people on Tumblr and beyond to where ever you all see fit to share it; please talk to your friends about all the projects on this list--they are so so so important for the arts and the expansion humanity's understanding of itself and where it came from. The end date for this film's campaign is 02/04/24.

Farewell is a story about what it means to be heartbroken, bereaved, and what it is to dig up the past in order to work through the present. The directors, writers, and crew are all very interested in presenting a relationship of tenderness between male friends in a distinct defiance of the ideals of modern masculinity which shies away from these moments in media and literature. I for one think allowing tenderness as a possibility is frankly a beautiful cause. This needs 500 backers with ten dollars--surely somewhere out on the internet they exist. Please donate if you can, please share if you can't. It can make a huge difference in some young creatives' careers. Campaign ends 01/8/24.

A tense and thrilling psychological horror which present the tense and ever vigilante question in a young person's mind in the modern age--are we ever safe with the people we decided to trust our lives to? Is dating ever a safe bet? Can ever really know what another person is capable of? These are age old questions which have tantalized the mind of philosophers, horror directors, writers, and actors alike. This film needs 400 backers with ten dollars each to make--it presents such a fascinating and exciting take on an ancient question--when should we trust our intuition and our fear and when should we rationalize our way out of it? --it would break my heart if this wasn't funded; it really would. Campaign closes 01/16/23.

A story about what it means to define oneself and one's relationship when the boundaries are secret even from one's own internal and external senses of self--this story takes a look at two queer young men's relationship with one another and what it means to be in a relationship and outside of it at the same time. It is definitely gonna hit a nerve with many queer people and what it means to be undefinable.

{A little aside here: I am so excited for this project and hope to be credited as a producer--which would just be so fucking cool as a kid from bumfucknowhere TX (who went through queer conversion therapy and the works as a teen and beyond) to be a producer on a queer film would just make my little tomboi's heart sing; I might even cry--never mind it's not about me; the point is this seems so poignant and powerful and I just want a story like this told and I just want to be a small piece of that story to be possible because of me and because of people like me out there in the interwebs. }

It only needs 150 backers with ten dollars to be fully funded and good God what a gift that would be. Campaign closes 01/23/34.

I am so sorry that it is so long, it took me all day to work on it and to gather up the goodies and the links and write these descriptions and I did it because I care so much about these projects so please please share it as many times in as many places as you possibly can.

Lots of love--

B.A. O'Connell (they/them)

Editor of Death's Dormant Daughter

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Five Reasons We Love Andrew Scott’s Hamlet

Hey all—I know we’ve been posting a lot of web weaving lately (we love a good web weave—especially about grief, loss, and torturous love—it’s kinda what we are all about on this blog—) but we have decided to shake it up and post about the especially lovely adaptation of Hamlet we watched just before Christmas—nearly four hours long but 100% worth it.

REASON NUMBER ONE:

He does insane, sassy, and irritated so damn well. This mockery of Polonious is classic—just because Hamlet has lost his marbles doesn’t mean is stupid—he knows what’s up and he know’s he is being watched every moment of his frenzied dive into the abyss.

REASON NUMBER TWO:

He wears the veil of doubt with sincerity and desperation—to be so resistant to do what the Ghost has said—to still be giving his Uncle even an ounce of leeway, shows that in Hamlet’s heart there is still some tenderness yet and Andrew Scott shows that desperate clinging to tenderness and compromise as a beautiful, yet painful thing—it makes Hamlet’s fatal flaw all the more apparent.

REASON NUMBER THREE

His performance of the most famous speech in Hamlet is so quietly despairing and so subtlety laced with sorrow’s edge. Most (at least in my experience) actors at this point dive full on into loud and angry and crashing; but Scott decides to embrace the soulful and soft pondering of the depression and grief within Hamlet—I love the different take!

REASON NUMBER FOUR

He embraces the absurdity with wonderful restraint. Scott’s decision to focus the underlying tension within Hamlet’s understanding that the situation is absurd—from the funeral to the wedding to the call to vengeance—he is acutely aware that the situation is ridiculous and that all will be unsatisfactorily resolved and yet he is compelled to try to find a resolution that will solve the mounting problems in Denmark. Scott plays it fantastically—humor at ever turn and yet such sorrow and awareness that much is doomed.

REASON NUMBER FIVE:

In the graveyard scene his genuine surprise, grief, and tenderness towards Yorrick only makes the following scene with Ophelia much more heartbreaking—it seems, at some point at his time he had forgotten the mortality of those outside himself, suprising as it is in the fallout of his father’s death—and the gentle reminder to be follow by the dagger of sharp and large reminder through Ophelia is played through so very very well.

In conclusion—please watch Hamlet with Andrew Scott—you won’t regret it. I’ll even link it down below.

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faithful and virtuous night, louise glück// ?//-// vampire empire, big thief// night shift, lucy dacus// me & my dog, boygenius// ?// ?

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some inexplicable feelings & words.

blythe baird // isabel allende // clarice lispector // of age - the frights // olivia laing // unknown // alexandra latos.

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queer? celebrate christmas? you might enjoy my 12+ hour playlist of christmas music by* queer artists, spanning most genres known to man with 89 artists & counting

*mostly just performed by them, each track contains at least 1 queer artist

(also also, an artist being on this playlist isn't some kind of personal endorsement of them, it's basically just every christmas song i know from queer artists. i don't even like all of them lol)

also, if you spot any songs that Should be on this playlist but aren't, feel free to let me know & i'll add 'em

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Andal, "Noisy Among the Shenbaka Flowers" (trans. A. K. Ramanujan) // Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, "Ophelia" (trans. Barbara Bogoczek & Tony Howard) // Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves // Richard Siken, "Seaside Improvisation" // James Patterson, The Angel Experiment // Renée Vivien, "The Ransom" (trans. Mary Anne Caws) // @haru38485696 on Twitter // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

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on anticipatory grief

victoria chang \\ louise glück averno: "persephone is wandering" \\ musubu hagi \\ @judas-redeemed \\ franz kafka letters to milena \\ musubu hagi

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jihyun yun some are always hungry: "reversal" (via @feral-ballad) \\ x \\ louise glück averno: "persephone the wanderer" \\ charles bukowski come on in!: "hurry slowly" (via @tamsoj) \\ jihyun yun some are always hungry: "reversal" (via @feral-ballad) \\ julie myerson sleepwalking

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