nothing has ever hit me more than seeing that single word at the end of a series of unfortunate events
how else can I describe discovering the series on my school's shelves, reading the books through the next grade because i didn't know i could go to the local library?
seeing those little inscriptions and dedications and messages that fascinated me- made me feel like i was peering through a peephole on a secret otherwise unknown
a bit of mystery never uncovered, this beatrice, this long lost love that our author has endeared us to and that we've been to endeared to him as a result
because, my little brain thought, who even reads those dedications at the beginning? i always skipped through them, nothing more than a couple of words usually
and yet it always felt like fate the first time i caught my eyes on those looping words, the spark in my brain when i realized there was a story there
a secret, i realized, a tragic mystery waiting to be read between lines
i showed it to my teachers, these clever little dedications, was excited to go to the library to check out more
i gushed over them to my siblings, scavenged for clues of this love story told through ironic for's and hypotheticals that get too detailed too quickly
running to the library and pulling the previously read books off the shelves to see the other for beatrice's that i had never paid any mind, even going as far as memorizing some of them because i liked the way the words jerked and softened and exhaled and never inhaled
how could i describe the culmination of that, of those for's, of those single sentences that ran through my head again and again
of the circular narrative clever as it is bittersweet, of the almost wrongness of seeing such a word in a place such as this- of the icy tragedy that that word implies
all of it turned on its head, for just one single word? how could i describe that?
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OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH Beatrice.....
OOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHH BEATRICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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right person, wrong time (variations on heartbreak)
@leemartenspoetry on tumblr
vita sackville-west & fegan’s 1924 café in dublin
everything everywhere all at once (2022)
@heavensghost on tumblr
i had to get out by indigo de souza
‘calling a wolf a wolf' by kaveh akbar
river by joni mitchell
‘english song’ in a little larger than the entire universe: selected poems by fernando pessoa
slumber by ron hicks
fish in exile by vi khi nao
penitent magdalene by antonio ciseri
@ojibwa on tumblr
this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & the awakening by angelo morbelli
as good as it gets by fizz
lonely this christmas by mud & picture of the christmas tree at trinity college dublin, taken by me in december of 2022
this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & picture by andrew collins via globalnews.ca
@inanotherunivrs on tumblr & a polaroid of me taken by my ex-boyfriend
‘in a dream you saw a way to survive’ by clementine von radics & a picture of my ex-boyfriend's window, taken by me
bluets by maggie nelson & the poolbeg generating station, dublin
‘unrequited’ by sasha m george & inheritance by matthew w. cornell
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@ faraway on instagram & lavender sprigs farm cut by linda jacobus
the museum of heartbreak by meg leder
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‘seaside improvisation’ by richard siken
@ dracarysgang on twitter
@-love-letters-i-never-sent
@fromdarzaitoleeza on tumblr
explosions by ellie goulding
‘i had a dream about you’ by richard siken
the beatrice letters by lemony snicket
la la land (2016)
‘catalog of unabashed gratitude’ by ross gay
@stuckinapril on tumblr
@deathlywounded on tumblr
some are always hungry by jihyun yun
‘speaking practice’ by franny choi
a self-portrait in letters by anna sexton & a picture of my ex-boyfriend in a lake in Orfű, Hungary
@sunsbleeding on tumblr
‘there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying’ by p.d
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“A Sudanese girl holds a sign as supporters of Sudan People's Liberation Army leader John Garang wait for his arrival on the tarmac of the Rumbek, south Sudan, airport.”
Photographed by Beatrice Debut.
10 June 2004.
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