#but dont read into that susan

[unseenwizzard]

Death: belief and hope are pointless and justice is made up

Also death: I saved hogswatch just because. no real reason. still literally heartless I swear. pls be nice to me susan. u can keep the rat. I love u. u can play my ribs like a xylophone if u want

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #death #death of rats #hogswatch #hogfather #but dont read into that susan #*hastily shoves his feelings under the bed like theyre dirty laundry* dw i definitely didnt save the little match girl #or steal a feast for his buddies from soul music #susan sto helit #og #to clarify. i know that he wasnt saying it was pointless this was a joke i was trying to be funny

[shitposttcentral]

What The RDR2 Characters Would Do At Pride || pt 2

Hosea Matthews - Says he's getting too old to do this but he really does have fun. He's the designated driver and kind of mothers everyone. Drink more water. Put on sunscreen. Go stand in the shade a while. When was the last time you ate? He's also trying to stop Dutch from adopting more wayward queer children. Micah Bell - No one invited his ass. He sat at home on 4Chan all sad. They didn't invite him because he's a "they made star wars woke by adding a woman" kind of person. Arthur is hoping they finally delete him from the group chat. Charles Smith - He's kind of quietly observing everyone else making sure they're all okay. He is happy for is first pride as a married man and makes sure to get lots of pictures. He seems to smile bigger and more often that day than anyone has seen him smile since they met him. Gives Arthur a big ole kiss quite a few times and lots of people cheer which maybe makes him blush. Sean MacGuire - Gets really drunk and keeps shouting WOOO I LOVE GAY PEOPLE. Tells every gay person he meets that he has lots of gay friends and he's an ally. Hosea finally dragged his ass home after he passed out in a bush and spilled a fun fruity cocktail on himself. Sadie Adler - Is looking for the future Mrs. Adler if you know what I mean 😏 Tilly Jackson - Helped Hosea with bussing all the drunken fools home after the party. Took the pictures that Charles couldn't and probably told off some protestors for good measure. Simon Pearson - Has a food stall where he's selling some pretty good stuff that everyone is into. Good looking guys get a discount. Josiah Trelawny - Is found telling people the story of how he threw the first brick at Stonewall. People know that logically he probably wasn't but he's such a good storyteller that no one cares all that much. Susan Grimshaw - She's on Dutch's side actually and wants more displaced queer kids in their found family. It worked so well with the ones they have now why shouldn't they? When Hosea steers Dutch away from offering shelter to displaced kids she's giving them her number and some waters saying she'll come help them if they ever need anything.

#hosea matthews #michal bell #charles smith #sean macguire #sadie adler #tilly jackson #simon pearson #josiah trelawny #susan grimshaw #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #don't like dont read

[fungiissad]

I tried to compact my thoughts about Yukio into a sentence but there's so much to say that I can barely get my point across with such little space 😩

Old and new fans alike keep overlooking Yukio because "He tried to kill Rin!!" And sure, the way he acts is bad but... He's just depressed and has no one to rely on. Lashing out is pretty normal in this case, it's the only way he knows how to act, considering that he's been raised in a violent environment (he was taught to KILL at fucking seven, c'mon) he only knows how to be agressive, not look for help.

It's honestly amazinf how long he held out his urge to just go insane. He's been expected to be calm, collected and protect his brother since he was a child, plus he's been seen — more like he's always seen himself — as weaker than Rin despite the fact that he's the one with 9+ years of experience.

Also, I'm like 99% that Yukio knew that no matter what he does, he can't kill Rin so even if he shot him, it wouldn't do anything.

#ao no exorcist #aoex #blue exorcist #yukio okumura #hes traumatized susan #I feel like theres more i could say #but nothing comes to mind rn #im a simp #yukio 🔛🔝 #tik tok learn to read between the line #please #they dont even know the definition of critical thinking #also #they're Rin dick riders?? #they act like he's perfect #ignoring the years of terrorising other kids his age #breaking his own dad's ribs #generally being an actual threat to society #but he shot rin!!! #good for him

[biillys]

a c in english and a c- in spanish. yeah. well, that's not normal for you. if you say so.

STRANGER THINGS — 4.01: the hellfire club

#m #gifs #long post #this post is literally too long but u know what. don't care. didn't ask. #anyway. in the hot version of st that lives in my mind where billy survives #we get like. a parallel type of cut scene here. with max in her school mandated counseling session #then billy in his hospital mandated therapy session #and it cuts between them both #max fidgeting with her headphones. billy tearing what's left of his nails apart. #both being unable to sit still. #them both being stubburn and holding every single fucking emotion so deep inside that they know it'll never see the light of day #both their answers mirroring each other even when they're like. fucking miles apart and have barely spoke since everything happened #like they've seen each other. max basically lives at the hospital. but billy's throats fucked. and max isn't really the chatty type #and they honestly don't even know what to say to each other #so max just sits. reads comics. listens to music. and billy just lies there. prays for death. prays to visit the fucking ocean again. #and they don't talk. but they're there for each other and they Get It in the only way they know how #OR. the au where neil was possessed and both him and susan die #billy and max having to go to see the councelor. fuckin family counseling sessions. or seperate i guess #is billy still in school? i dont actually understand american ages and schooling it has to be said #but like. councelor kelley just being like. wow. they sure are siblings. #okay but if he's not in school then like. court mandated therapy sessions for legal guadian custody of max idk #i just think i would like to see the parallels that couldve been. but like. #sadie sink i owe you my life for making season four have some good scenes and i would die for u #maxmayfieldedit #max mayfield #anyway again this is not the scene i set out to gif. just made like 30 gifs of a scene i didnt even intend on giffing. fuck me

[famousblueraincoatmp3]

drinking an entire bottle of wine on a saturday night and editing writing. in usual order

#sam.txt #im also reading....if anyone cares #im still reading the shards. its taking forever i dont care #it's like if american psycho was 600 pages its too much i think. #im really into fictional bret easton ellis love triangle with susan and thom though #rip donna tartt i mean debbie #we know too much about these people #i could read a donna tartt novel and immidiately know which one was bret easton ellis and vice versa #that is too much #if i had a time machine i would go back in time and manipulate bret easton ellis into going to nyu

[malewifehenrycooldown]

there's .... another hunger games movie coming this year??!

#*confused noises* where did this come from???!! #I DONT remember susan publishing books after the main trilogy of books?! <- has never read hunger games

[ironasss]

lying on my side with my goofy little auto-rotate off in my goofy little grandmother's house reading my goofy little classic who fanfiction

#The first doctor #First doctor #Thats who im reading about specifically #One is such a little bitch you dont understand #ian chesterton #Him too #Specific to that fanfiction #Shoutout to barbara and susan for being mentioned i guess #classic who #classic doctor who #doctor who #the doctor #Dr who #dr who fanfic

[unimportant-ramblings]

Reading any Wikipedia article about first wave feminists inevitably goes like

#history #books #white feminism #susan b. anthony #no good very bad dont do it #i was reading about l frank baum this morning. YIKES #it should not surprise me at this point. but it does

[helloidkwhatimdoing-0]

Can feel my nose getting stuffy and i just want to say. It was nice knowing you all

#/j #moss mumbles #if theres one thing everyone should know about me #its that i HATE having a blocked nose #obviously people normally dont like it #but like #i would rather be in bed with a fever than deal with a stuffed nose #bc WHY #when im struggling to BREATHE #do i also have to deal with NORMAL LIFE #LET ME STAY HOME IN BED #'oh its just a blocked nose' #JUST?!?!?! #THIS IS THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE SUSAN #anyway so thats how my nights going #i also accidentally stayed up late reading oops #going to bed now tho lol

[callmedarthrevan]

Once again reeling over the fact that one of my college professors used to lesbian date susan sontag

#on camp susan sontag #you know the one #and if you dont maybe do a little reading this holiday seaso

[reefyslider]

How dare you say we piss on the poor

#yes i am way more invested in the overworked blorbo poll that id like to #the tags after this will just be annoyed ranting so if you dont want to potentially ruin your mood dont read further #oh my god the question is literally which is your FAVOURITE overworked blorbo #not which one is MORE overworked #it doesnt matter if the character is a child or an adult #who do you LIKE more??? #at this point i hate molly just because how much people annoy me #yes it is extremely childish but i do not care #i hope susan wins and that people would stop getting so invested in these polls #im people #OR THAT PEOPLE LEARN TO FUCKING READ #uuggghhhh #im annoyed at myself and everyone who insists molly should win bc shes more overworked #insist she should win bc you love her smth or bc you like her more out of the two

[devotedlystrangewizard]

fighting in the war on sex on the side of the sex

#fandom purity culture sucks i want to rail that old man and you will hear about it! #might... have to... put an 18+ on my account... #not even as a 'im going to kill every minor on my page' bc honestly if ur a minor and u ignore an 18+ warning I put up? idc #more as a warning than a rule #like im absolutely of the opinion that minors should scroll past minors dni stuff bc it can make the artists themselves uncomfy but idc #if ur a minor and you read something you shouldnt. thats on you #this also is not a sex repulsed ace safe space. not bc i dont support them just because i am the direct opposite #'weirdos who sexualize everything' maybe those two middleaged pirates fucked. susan.

[soracities]

what are your suggestions for starter poetry for people who dont have strong reading/analysis backgrounds

I've answered this a few times so I'm going to compile and expand them all into one post here.

I think if you haven't read much poetry before or aren't sure of your own tastes yet, then poetry anthologies are a great place to start: many of them will have a unifying theme so you can hone in based on a subject that interests you, or pick your way through something more general. I haven't read all of the ones below, but I have read most of them; the rest I came across in my own readings and added to my list either because I like the concept or am familiar with the editor(s) / their work:

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (ed. Nick Astley) & Being Alive: The Sequel to Staying Alive (there's two more books in this series, but I'm recommending these two just because it's where I started)

The Rattlebag (ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes)

The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (ed. Ilya Kaminsky & Susan Harris)

The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa (ed. Robert Hass)

A Book of Luminous Things (ed. Czesław Miłosz )

Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns by Robert Hass (this may be a good place to start if you're also looking for commentary on the poems themselves)

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World(ed. Pádraig Ó'Tuama)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (ed. Kevin Young)

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (ed. Kevin Young)

Lifelines: Letters from Famous People about their Favourite Poems

The following lists are authors I love in one regard or another and is a small mix of different styles / time periods which I think are still fairly accessible regardless of what your reading background is! It's be no means exhaustice but hopefully it gives you even just a small glimpse of the range that's available so you can branch off and explore for yourself if any particular work speaks to you.

But in any case, for individual collections, I would try:

anything by Sara Teasdale

Devotions / Wild Geese / Felicity by Mary Oliver

Selected Poems and Prose by Christina Rossetti

Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel Silverstein

Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez

Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr

Rose: Poems by Li-Young Lee

A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor / Barefoot Souls by Maram al-Masri

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Tell Me: Poems / What is This Thing Called Love? by Kim Addonizio

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins (Billy Collins is THE go-to for accessible / beginner poetry in my view so I think any of his collections would probably do)

Crush by Richard Siken

Rapture / The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman

View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska

Collected Poems by Vasko Popa

Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas (this is a play, but Thomas is a poet and the language & structure is definitely poetic to me)

Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire,

Nostalgia, My Enemy: Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef

As for individual poems:

“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

[Dear The Vatican] erasure poem by Pádraig Ó'Tuama // "The Pedagogy of Conflict"

"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith

"The Author Writes the First Draft of His Weddings Vows (An erasure of Virginia Woolf's suicide letter to her husband, Leonard)" by Hanif Abdurraqib

"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye" by Albert Goldbarth

"One Last Poem for Richard" by Sandra Cisneros

"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky

“I’m Explaining a Few Things”by Pablo Neruda

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" //"Nothing Gold Can Stay"//"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost

"Tablets: I // II // III"by Dunya Mikhail

"What Were They Like?" by Denise Levertov

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden,

"The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider

“I, too” // "The Negro Speaks of Rivers” // "Harlem” // “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes

“The Mower” // "The Trees" // "High Windows" by Philip Larkin

“The Leash” // “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” // "Downhearted" by Ada Limón

“The Flea” by John Donne

"The Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore

"Beauty" // "Please don't" // "How it Adds Up" by Tony Hoagland

“My Friend Yeshi” by Alice Walker

"De Humanis Corporis Fabrica"byJohn Burnside

“What Do Women Want?” // “For Desire” // "Stolen Moments" // "The Numbers" by Kim Addonizio

“Hummingbird” // "For Tess" by Raymond Carver

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin

“Bleecker Street, Summer” by Derek Walcott

“Dirge Without Music” // "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Digging” // “Mid-Term Break” // “The Rain Stick” // "Blackberry Picking" // "Twice Shy" by Seamus Heaney

“Dulce Et Decorum Est”by Wilfred Owen

“Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition”by Wislawa Szymborska

"Hour" //"Medusa" byCarol Ann Duffy

“The More Loving One” // “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden

“Small Kindnesses” // "Feeding the Worms" by Danusha Laméris

"Down by the Salley Gardens” // “The Stolen Child” by W.B. Yeats

"The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass

"The Last Love Letter from an Entymologist" by Jared Singer

"[i like my body when it is with your]" by e.e. cummings

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje

"Last Night I Dreamed I Made Myself" by Paige Lewis

"A Dream Within a Dream" // "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (highly recommend reading the last one out loud or listening to it recited)

"Ars Poetica?" // "Encounter" // "A Song on the End of the World"by Czeslaw Milosz

"Wandering Around an Albequerque Airport Terminal” // "Two Countries” // "Kindness” by Naoimi Shihab Nye

"Slow Dance” by Matthew Dickman

"The Archipelago of Kisses" // "The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel

"Mimesis" by Fady Joudah

"The Great Fires" // "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" // "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert

"The Mermaid" // "Virtuosi" by Lisel Mueller

"Macrophobia (Fear of Waiting)" by Jamaal May

"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

I would also recommend spending some times with essays, interviews, or other non-fiction, creative or otherwise (especially by other poets) if you want to broaden and improve how you read poetry; they can help give you a wider idea of the landscape behind and beyond the actual poems themselves, or even just let you acquaint yourself with how particular writers see and describe things in the world around them. The following are some of my favourites:

Upstream: Essays by Mary Oliver

"Theory and Play of the Duende" by Federico García Lorca

"The White Bird" and "Some Notes on Song" by John Berger

In That Great River: A Notebook by Anna Kamienska

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

"Of Strangeness That Wakes Us" and "Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky" by Ilya Kaminsky

"The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Garielle Lutz

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty

Paris, When It's Naked by Etel Adnan

#ask #anonymous #beginner guides

[transgenderer]

i read a chunk of on photography by sontag on the plane and i found it very frustrating. i feel like the goal (problematizing photography) is interesting but she goes about it in a fundamentally kind of lazy way? like. she just sort of bombards you with unsubstantiated claims about the nature of photography. and then i keep reacting "idk if i buy that susan". make a case! dont just say a bunch of conclusions!

[jeongtothein]

SKZ AS UNQUALIFIED TEACHERS

Bang Chan ★

(Average reading teacher)

“PLEASE do not touch that.”

“why Mr. Chan??”

“some other kid yesterday touched it and he went missing. I don’t know what’s wrong with that thing.”

”oh naw wtf.”

★ - Probably talking about the cat clock in the corner

★ - Hes trying his best!!

Lee know ★

(Average culinary teacher)

“Mister, how do I roll the dough.”

“…with the thing next to the dough..”

“But Susan ate it—“

”SUSAN WHAT NOW??”

★ - Wants to kick a kid in every period he has

★ - him and Susan have beef

Changbin ★

(Average gym teacher)

”COME ON EVERYBODY 50 JUMPING JACKS!”

”it’s 7:45..”

“DO NOT TALK WHILE DOING THE JUMPING JACKS!”

“I’m gonna jump off this whole school.”

★ - actually a good teacher but overdoes it 😭

★ - has kids looking like a dried raisin after

Hyunjin ★

(Average art teacher)

“that’s beautiful!! Make sure to color it and make it pop!!”

“I recommend for you to blend the orange and red for the leaves a little and add a slight bit of yellow.”

“right, so you want to make the face more . . .”

★ - actually likes his job

★ - gives good advice and is that nice and friendly teacher everybody loves

Han ★

(average music teacher)

“DONT TOUCH THAT.”

“but it ha—“

“You’re a trumpet player get away from the percussion zone dumbass.”

“..my bad.”

★ - suppose to be the average music teacher but is now teaching band???

★ - the kids like to torment him

Felix ★

(Average counselor)

“So what brings you to my office today?”

“S-so I’ve been really stressed and I just wanted to come here and ask you if I can just sit here and relax..?”

“yeah of course I don’t mind.”

★ - not even a teacher, he doesn’t know how he got this job ngl

★ - kids just like to sit in office and calm down (he just watches TikTok the whole time)

Seungmin ★

(average math teacher)

“what’s 15 times 3?”

“uhm.. 76??”

“.. yall dumb as fuck I quit.”

★ - had to teach intensive math for 3rd period and he almost threw a chair at a kid

★ - quit the second he saw the kids

Jeongin ★

(science teacher)

”so what happened??”

“so this girl, her names Amelia she cheated on. . .”

“say ong.”

“ONG.”

★ - he’s just there for the drama

★ - forgot his ass had to teach science and jumped up his seat when the principal (and her keys) walked in the room

#bang chan #changbin #felix #jeongin #lee felix #seungmin #skz #skz felix #stray kids #stray kids fake texts #skz han #skz hyunjin #skz imagines #stray kids maknae line #stray kids twitter #stray kids texts #skz maknae line #lee know #han jisung #hyunjin

[meruz]

Lightbox Expo 2023 is over!! Thank you to everyone who stopped by the table. I can't believe I sold out of both my sketchbooks AND my digimon fanbook... (multiple prints too?!)! I'm incredibly grateful... I will have a 2nd print run of both sketchbooks and online orders for the digimon book up in the next couple weeks so please keep an eye out for that!

More gushing abt the weekend under the cut

I sell at an average of idk... 3-4 events a year? So I would consider myself a frequent congoer though not necessarily full time lol. I'm a little jaded like it's not that I don't enjoy going to cons but theres definitely a bunch that feel like just-another-con-weekend to me lol, sometimes it's more work than play I guess. But this con felt really different! For the first time in a while I left a convention feeling really thrilled and giddy that I had been there. The kind of feeling I used to get when I would table at anime cons in highschool! And I think a lot of that is the people I met and talked to and the overall vibes at the event. Oh also I literally just had surgery and going to this con is like the only thing ive done this week besides lay in bed and play Story of Seasons on the nintendo switch and I thought I would be in pain and miserable but actually I HAD SO MUCH FUN...!!!! even when i skipped after-hours socializing every night to go home early and sleep 12 hours lol. SO ANYWAYS. YEAH. IT'S CORNY. BUT I wanna say thank you again to everyone who stopped by the table. Especially all the coworkers and long time mutuals who I met in person for the first time this weekend!! And the long time followers who told me they have been following me since homestuck or naruto or whenever. And college classmates who I haven't seen since graduation, crazy talented underclassmen who I'd never met but stopped by to say hi... So many people who absolutely made my day. SPECIAL thank you to my table partner Emi who is the best and such a good sport and accommodating to the point that I feel ridiculous when she thanks me for anything. And um also thank you to the artists who were cool and nice when I went up to their tables and blurted out 24917596 compliments in rapid succession. or only got one really awkward compliment out to LMAO... I felt so inspired and awe struck by everyone's work! God it was just so cool to be there. I LOVE ART....

Ok yeah thats it. its been a while since ive written a post-con blog post so earnestly lol.. here's my obscene haul photo I was buying stuff at this con like I was dying and couldn't take it with me LMAO.

I'm not gonna go tag everyone because I don't think everyones on tumblr but if you dont mind doing a little google search legwork: big x-men prints from chase conley, prints from jacki li/bguavas, azusa tojo, xanthe bouma, nicodaboy, susan yung, hormstuck, nessa tweneboah, linda liu, ash tahilan, zines also from jason dwyer, ash tahilan, aprilyn cunanan, veggiecakeface, deb lee, dune5and, uhh yoichi nishikawa art book and parakid calendar, stickers again from ash, marie lum, hormstuck, chiou, and emi hartana/crowlets OKAY I THINK I COVERED EVERYTHING THANKS FOR READING

#lifeblogging