Sometimes I have wanted
to know if there is an underside to life,
& if it is inverted, so that there, we live
inside of light rather than below it.
I have found it better to believe in everything
than nothing —
Devin Kelly, from “Conditionally”
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Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale "The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths"
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Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale read their collaborative poem "The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths"
Improvised piano by Sarah Ruhlen
Video by Christopher
Poem first published by Bear Review
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Meditative Week of Poetry: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Because something about a hope I had that things could get easier.
Because something about age making wisdom.
Because my mind’s got sharper, not wiser.
Because I never expected to be tired all the time.
Because everything is in everything, and while some things change
some things don’t, and everything is still inside the everything.
Because the curtains hang in the same way they did last year
and the light finds its way round the edges and wakes my lover, not me.
Because there is still that cup with the chip, the abandoned bike,
the whetstone for the knives, the dent in the wall from when it missed,
the memory of shaking in my bones, the checking-in early,
the wasting of time, and the way I’ve lost all hope in hope.
Because I’ve not closed my eyes to pray in years.
It isn’t that I don’t believe, it’s that it hurts. So I pray with my eyes open.
Because it’s taken a year to write this prayer. Because thirty was easy
but forty shocked me — a knife inside the ear — and all I hear is:
nothing is changing and everything’s getting older, and,
everything is dying and anyway, what’s the fucking point?
Because I keep on dreaming about a day that never ends:
the glare of light. And prayer frightens me more and more.
So I prop my eyes open with toothpicks, whiskey, writing, paper, porn, poems,
blades, sand and sweat, prayers to wake the light that does not wake me.
Wake me.
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genuinely sobbing, look at him
(in case anyone wants the scam axolotl)
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Carmy Berzatto, if you read this, please DM me!! I would like to connect you to a prayer line! It is a phone number where anywhere from 4 to 13 menopausal, Afro-Caribbean, Pentecostal women from the church I grew up going to will pray with you and FOR YOU on the phone for however long you need. You just dial in. You don’t even have to speak! There is NO pressure. Let them pray for you! Carmy, DM me! Please!!! Let these women lay spiritual hands on you! Contact me ASAP!!!
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Benedict Cumberbatch´s year in review ✧ 2023.
“Don’t be afraid of failure, that’s only learning, don’t be afraid of being yourself, that’s the single most unique thing you have, and keep trying.”
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Spider-Man: Across the Apocalypse
Supernatural is trending because, yet again, you are all spreading news via Destiel. This is understandable, with the news including submarines sinking on the sites of previously sunken vessels, stock market fluctuations, vindictive cetaceans, and military coups in Russia. All of this before the ongoing backdrop of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Nearly half of this list is Spider-Man related. You really, really love Spider-Man. In other news, Sydney and Carmy are back with The Bear season 2, and the GIFs are giving. Everyone is still enjoying Tears of the Kingdom. The Redditors are settling in just fine. It sure is a time to be alive. This is Tumblr’s Week in Review.
Titanic
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
OceanGate
Reddit Blackout
Hobie Brown | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miguel O'Hara | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Pavitr Prabhakar | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Gwen Stacy | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Russia
Artists on Tumblr
Helluva Boss
The Bear
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Supernatural
Critical Role
Pokémon
Peter B. Parker | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The QSMP Minecraft Server
Meows Morales | the Spider-Man franchise
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Obsessed with this review for cocaine bear
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Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale read their collaborative poem "Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music"
Improvised piano by Sarah Ruhlen
Video by Christopher
Poem first published by Bear Review
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Meditative Week of Poetry: Sarah Carey
The black racer you remember played dead
in the dollarweed, holding the secret of his life
as you approached, or hid in the loropetalum
you pruned each spring, as part of your normal yard upkeep—
he’ll be there, as will the Carolina chickadees
you’d see each fall at the feeder, caching their thousands of seeds
for winter in cavities of bark and tree. Don’t forget
the lowly millipedes curled up on the porch—
the ones you swept away, time after time,
yet they crawled back, predictably—
an inconvenience, but what would life be without them, scavenging decay in spaces you’ll never go—
under logs, for example, or beneath the damp lawn thatch. All your precious Labradors will retrieve their leashes,
tethering strong bodies to you once again. Other friends, of course, and family will be present
in each beating heart and memory preserved in the guest book. The young, red-shouldered hawk
you’ll know by her muted feathers, a fixture
on the post where she always perches,
scans the scene of her last kill.
She’ll fly in. In space, you’ll know to listen
for our grief committee chairs, the sandhill cranes,
who see it all and call the meeting,
arrange tables for the lost, the newly bereaved—
in a sky of white cloths, with your mother’s silver,
gardenias for a centerpiece. They’ll bugle their flock
of mourners for you, setting every place.
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I love Sydney so much because, once upon a time, I was a sous and walked out during a lunch rush, so we are connected.
It's - not my proudest moment - I felt bad for my co-workers more than anything. But as employees in Illinois, we are at will here - the same way they can fire you well, you can quit without notice. It's the one weapon we have as employees anytime we have a shitty work environment.
But do you know the amount of burnout and bullshit you have to experience to get to that point?
Let me explain:
Sydney worked there from July-December, and she made so many changes and changed The Beef for Carmy. He wanted it fixed, and she fixed it. She gave him a blueprint of effective changes.
The 1x07 episode hints that Sydney has reached a breaking point with Carmy insulting her indirectly by calling the reviewer a hack, Richie asking her if she blew someone at the telegraph All these months, she spent showcasing her talent, making effective changes, and inspiring everyone else, and they insulted her when a reviewer compliments her dish.
Oh and when Carmy gave her the assignment to train Louie and handle the to go orders? And train richie on the new system? I'm getting overworked flashbacks. How many months did Carmy just assign things to Sydney because he was so used to her handling everything?
Then the one mistake - the pre-order option - and Carmy shouts and curses at her? In front of the staff, she helped manage? She had every right to quit.
Love Carmy- feel for him, and I love the gesture of starting this restaurant with Sydney the second season and giving her confidence, BUT he better pull his weight soon.
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EXTRA PROUD DAD-IO
Ebra was so proud of Sydney and she was watching him so adoringly.
I bet he'll come through for her in season 3.
Pick up some pieces, if you will
Papa Ebra and his kids
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