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nolongersummer · 21 days

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I am possessed by love and have no option.

Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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gotyourfire · 22 days

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“He took my hand between the two shabby front seats of the Ford, and it was dark, and I was looking the other way, but now that hand casts everywhere an octopus shadow from which I can never escape. The tremendous gentleness of that moment smothers me under; all through the night it is centaurs hoofed and galloping over my heart: the poison has got into my blood.”

— Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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perfectfeelings · 3 months

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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quotefeeling · 3 months

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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resqectable · 6 months

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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perfeqt · 6 months

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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red-ibis-red · 25 days

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Once I skulked wistfully through dim streets, aching after this unknown, hoping to pass by unnoticed in my drab dress and lopsided shoes with high heels, hoping, thus surreptitiously, to come upon it. But I was afraid, I was timid, and I did not believe, I hoped.

I thought it would be like a bird in the hand, not a wild sea that treated me like flotsam.

But I have become a part of the earth: I am one of its waves flooding and leaping. I am the same tune now as the trees, hummingbirds, sky, fruits, vegetables in rows. I am all or any of these. I can metamorphose at will.

Do you need some joy or love? Are you sodden leaves in some forsaken yard? Are you deserted or cold or starved or paralysed or blind? Handfuls and handfuls for you, and to spare!

Make them up into bedsocks, teacosies, cushions against the cold, for their electricity is perpetual warmth, and can contaminate everything, and build at one touch a new and adorable world.

This is Today. This is where all roads strove to lead, all feet to attain.

—Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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thehopefulquotes · 1 year

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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nolongersummer · 21 days

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All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more than now, and before this nothing was.

Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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surqrised · 1 year

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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stay-close · 2 years

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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egipci · 9 months

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would like to hear more thoughts about fem!sam and deanjohn!

hmmm I don't really have super complex or coherent thoughts about fem!sam + j/d other than I think it could really interesting! I tend to see so much more fem!dean on my dash (both w/m!sam or f!sam) but never really f!S/m!D (this is just how my dash skews, I don't know if that's necessarily representative of spn fandom at large)--- and also I think a genderswap would be as interesting in context of Sam's character as it is for Dean's (I don't really care for the tired "female-coded" discussion all that much --- I mean this in the sense of "imagine if everything stayed the same but also Sam is a girl").

The J/D part of things adds a layer that I find really compelling, obviously informed by certain ideas I have about how pre-series world operates and my strong John-is-Dean's-first-love convictions, etc. I think Sam being a girl would simultaneously add a greater degree of protectiveness on John's and Dean's end that would also potentially translate to more softness from John, in some ways, and more anxiety re: her leaving, and obviously an even stronger sense of obligation on Dean’s side — but I think there would also be a more profound distance along gender lines. (I also have some very strong, and seemingly fringe beliefs, about how m/m j/d on the whole would be MUCH more palatable and easier for John than John/Deanna ever could be -- but that's for a different conversation -- and this extends even to s/d where Dean does reciprocate, because fucking his baby sister is orders of magnitude more terrible than fucking his baby brother) and Sam being a girl would amplify 1. the angst/bitterness of why is my otherwise straight brother more into Dad than he is into me (this recalls some gender-related anxieties from Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept that I find really moving); 2. the forcefulness of Sam’s advances towards Dean, if that’s something that happens; and 3. the victim-blaming/lack of sympathy/understanding Sam would feel towards Dean and his dogged loyalty to Dad, because obviously he’s a cool manly dude and it should be much easier for him to assert himself or resist or think for himself vis-a-vis her own gendered experience etc.

And this is also really fascinating in relation to J/D from John’s pov. It seems to me that even with girl Sam who (maybe) looks like her mom and acts like her mom did back in the day with the assertiveness and the desire to escape her family and all the affection John holds for her independently as his daughter, it would still be Dean he fucks (or however close they get to that), in part because of the gender stuff mentioned above, but also because it’s Dean, and that sort of thing is only really possible with Dean and in the context of their relationship (tho I suppose this depends entirely on what you think the j/d relationship is about and John’s motivations and rationale are.)

So, anyway, it’s cool interesting stuff! Someone should write this!

#Ahhh #john/dean #I guess #asks

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perfectfeelings · 2 months

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

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farsouthproject · 4 months

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Books of the Year 2023

Strange, but as usual, I didn’t think I’d read so many books this year. Then I count them up and get to thirty-eight. Not bad. Jon Fosse novels were a stand-out at the beginning of the year.. At the end of 2022 I’d read the first two volumes of Septology and was then was gifted the one volume version. Trilogy and Aliss at the Fire followed. Interesting how trends in my reading continued from the previous year: a couple of Denis Johnson books, one a reread, the other one I’d missed when it came out. Reread Mary Gaitskill. Spent less time with the Beat Reading Group but I joined in with Interzone and Kerouac’s Doctor Sax; in addition I reread Burroughs’ Last Words. Dipped into Tanizaki again with Seven Japanese Tales that had some great stories – notably The Bridge of Dreams. Pushkin Press put out a short story collection - The Siren’s Song – that showcases three of Tanizaki’s early works. A little poetry in troubled times was welcome in Philip Gross’s Deep Field. On the noir front, The Cage by Kenzo Kitakata gave me a lot of insight into ordinary Japanese supermarket business and a parallel insight into the Yakuza world. I followed up with Ashes, his Yakuza story of a ‘dog’ rising through the ranks of a crime family. Andrew Nette’s Orphan Road was trip into the past with reverberations in the present: an unsolved heist story with a gothic twist. Gary Chance, the main character from his previous novel Gunshine Coast goes on a dangerous peregrination through the Melbourne underworld and beyond.

O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker was a delight recommended by Val in Seattle. I was deeply impressed by the ambition and prose style of When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut. I was a bit disappointed by his follow-up The Maniac. The final section on AI was excellent, so no complaints. Whenever a Pascal Quignard volume comes out, I’m excited: The Fount of Time was no exception. I was completely absorbed by Jeremy Cooper’s Brian that delved into the mind of a lonely bookkeeper who becomes a film-buff. Cooper has an unsentimental compassion for Brian’s social awkwardness, his ordinariness and a deep respect for his knowledge of Cinema. A masterpiece even? Maybe so.

Septology – Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls)

Trilogy – Jon Fosse (trans. May-Brit Akerholt)

Aliss at the Fire – Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls)

Interzone – William Burroughs (reread)

Doctor Sax – Jack Kerouac (reread)

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Deep Field – Philip Gross reread

Bad Behaviour – Mary Gaitskill reread

The Name of the World – Denis Johnson reread

Angels – Denis Johnson

The Kingdom of this World – Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet De Onis)

The Year of Living Dangerously – Christopher Koch – more depth after seeing the movie.

Brian – Jeremy Cooper

When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamin Labatut (trans. Adrian Nathan West)

The Maniac – Benjamin Labatut

O Caledonia – Elspeth Barker

Selected Poems – George Barker

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept – Elizabeth Smart

Seven Japanese Tales – Junichiro Tanizaki (trans. Howard Hibbert)

The Siren’s Lament – Junichiro Tanizaki (trans. Bryan Karetnyk)

Noir

The Cage – Kenzo Kitakata (trans. Paul Warham) – chance find on the library shelves

Ashes – Kenzo Kitakata (trans. Emi Shimokawa)

The Dark Room – Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (trans. John Bester) – following on from Japanese Film Festival showings of the films of Ko Nakahira.

The Strangers in the House – Georges Simenon (trans. Robert Baldick)

Black Wings has my Angel – Elliot Chaze – chance find on the library shelves

He Died With His Eyes Open – Derek Raymond – recommended by John L Williams

How the Dead Live – Derek Raymond– recommended by my mate John L Williams

Orphan Road – Andrew Nette – a great heist story set in Melbourne

Nonfiction

Kazuo Ohno’s World from Within and Without – Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno (trans. John Barret with Toshio Mizohata)

Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Grey Grits – Bruce Baird

Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings – Susan Sontag ed. – (trans. Helen Weaver)

Maya Deren: Choreography for Cinema – Mark Alice Durant – an excellent biography

Getting Carter – Nick Triplow – a great biography of Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

Time Within Time – Andrey Tarkovsky (trans. Kitty Hunter-Blair)

Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors – Ian Penman – personal essays time and cinema

Unclassifiable

The Fount of Time – Pascal Quignard (trans. Chris Turner) – Inimitable and Brilliant.

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kylo-wrecked · 1 year

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ultimate media consumption: 2022 faves

reads of the year-

scattered all over the earth (yoko tawada, 2022)

aesthetica (allie rowbottom, 2022)

liberation day (saunders, 2022)

by grand central station i sat down and wept (elizabeth smart, 1945)

watches of the year-

exotica (1994)

crimes of the future (2022)

tar (2022)

flux gourmet (2022)

the eternal daughter (2022)

earworms of the year-

frozen (madonna feat sickick & 070 shake, 2022)

loving you like always (nto, tricky, marta, 2022)

dreams and bells (camille mandoki, 2016)

the entirety of of lawrence english's approach is pure noise (2022)

binges of the year-

severance (2022-)

midnight mass (2021)

the english (2022)

it's a sin (2021)

the bear (2022)

runners up-

stranger things vol. 4 (2022)

the sandman (2022-)

the great (2020-)

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i viewed and listened to and devoured more art and media over the course of 2022 than... ever. here are some of the things i enjoyed most! what exciting discoveries did you make in 2022, if any? what old favorites did you revisit? feel free to switch up the categories and add as many or as few recs as you like.

tagging :// @ofthestcrs, @poewingsdameron, @smokinmirrors, @stillfocvsed, @datapadz, @lastxdragon, @hopegained, @liftingrocks, @chromium-siren, @cceancycs, @multi-muse-transect, @graysistance, @yunharlaquin, @godresembled, @jakkuforce, @corinnebaileyrp, @affcgato, @talesofshadowandlight, @kyberllcore, @ncxile, @ronmanmob, @normallyxstranger, @etoilebleu, @desireandduty, @nightmarefuele, @errantwish, @luposcainus, @wxr-zxne, @sankta-alina-s, @spookynebula, @shuuhuu, @micaela-arg — and you!

#ooc #about the mun #2022 review #recs

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