#seaside improvisation

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

Seaside Improvisation

Richard Siken, "Seaside Improvisation" // Doctor Who + The Master/Missy and The Doctor

Part 1 / Part 2

I sincerely apologize for any and all Missy feels I may have provoked.

#doctor who #richard siken #poetry #seaside improvisation #the doctor #the master #the mistress #missy #thoschei #twelvemissy #twissy #jacobi!master #dhwan!master #doctor x master #ten #tenth doctor #twelve #twelfth doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #original post #agent o

[astainedrose]

Romantic obsession is my first language. I live in a world of fantasies, infatuations and love poems. Sometimes I wonder if the yearning I’ve felt for others was more of a yearning for yearning itself. I’ve pined insatiably and repeatedly: for strangers, new lovers, unrequited flames. While the subjects changed, that feeling always remained. Perhaps, then, I have not been so infatuated with the people themselves, but with the act of longing.

Pink in the night ~ Mitski // Another Road in the Road~Mahmoud Darwish// Heart, Heart, Head ~ Meg Myers // Yves Saint Lauren (2014) // Seaside improvisation ~Richard Siken // Maurice (1987) // Melissa Broder

#yearning web weaving #web weaving #webweaving #Pink in the night #mitski #another road in the road #mahmoud darwish #hear heart head #meg myers #seaside improvisation #richard siken #maurice 1987 #maurice #melissa broder #yves saint laurent #yearning #longing #weaving a web

[malaisequotes]

“You do the math, you expect the trouble. The seaside town. The electric fence. Draw a circle with a piece of chalk. Imagine standing in a constant cone of light. Imagine surrender. Imagine being useless.”

Seaside Improvisation by Richard Siken

#Seaside Improvisation #Richard Siken #Quote #Poetry #Crush

[littlemisscollateraldamage]

oh GOD

#richard siken #seaside improvisation

[frompoemsthativeread]

I take off my hands and give them to you, but you don't

want them, so I take them back

and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

-Richard Siken, Seaside Improvisation. From Crush (2005).

#richard siken #seaside Improvisation #poetry

[asthmasam]

#seaside improvisation #richard siken #p #tell me you love this tell me you’re not miserable

[ro-sham-no]

excerpts from "seaside improvisation" - richard siken

His hands are screwed on backward, and there’s a stone in his father’s hand because he’s angry. The stone sliding down his throat, inside him, still hasn’t hit bottom.

In the millisecond-millennia of silence following his baby brother’s announcement of his imminent departure, Dean stared at him as one might stare through a window, removed from this plane of existence. 

Preoccupied with the slightly rustling blades of grass, the gentle descent of dandelion fuzz through the air outside removing him far away from the gut-wrenching, unprecedentedly nauseating situation at hand.

It takes him so far away and yet, at the same time, catapults him closer: 

The rustling blades of imaginary grass keep time with the movement of Sam’s hair, light and fluffy, with a levity that feels like a betrayal. The dandelion fuzz falls in sync with the dust kicked up from the motel mattress, disturbed by the way various possessions are being torn off it, hastily shoved back into the duffel that had erroneously spilled open, starting - or rather simply revealing - this whole nightmare in the first place. 

Just one errant piece of paper, screeching out, Congratulations, we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted… and it didn’t matter, ultimately, where the accepted led to. Cities under crowns of snow. Landscapes of sunny warmth. The seaside town. The electric fence, erected around it all, enforcing his absence.

As the battle wages on between father and youngest son in front of him, Dean stares, far removed and yet waylaid underneath the weight of it. As though looking through a window, counting birds as they viciously tear each other apart in the sky.

#dean is a dissociating baddie idc #( #spn #dean winchester #dean whump #kinda #codependency #seaside improvisation - richard siken #richard siken #)

[gingernutsenthusiast]

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

[unknown]

@ faraway on instagram & lavender sprigs farm cut by linda jacobus

the museum of heartbreak by meg leder

[unknown]

‘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

#web weave #web weaving #heartbreak #this is possibly too long and not well structured enough but oh weell #everything everywhere all at once #vita sackville west #richard siken #anna sexton #the beatrice letters #la la land #clementine von radics #kaveh akbar #gracie abrams #joni mitchell #fizz

[lucidloving]

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

#theme: unrequited love #web weaving #webs #web weave #webweave #poetry #prose #aesthetic #prose poetry #literature #art #book quotes #novels #novel quotes #books #quotes #words #writing #poem #poems #inspo #parallels #compilation #love quotes #unrequited love #richard siken #house of leaves #anne sexton #illustration #hanahaki

[sageandscorpiongrass]

Love, On Its Way Out.

Two Week Notice, Leanna Firestone | Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines, Pablo Neruda | Conversations Over Sanguinaccio Dolce, I.B. Vyache | Seaside Improvisation, Richard Siken | I never went to that movie at 12:45, Dolly Lemk | In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive, Clementine von Radics | Quote by Kate McGahan | Pillow Thoughts, Courtney Peppernell | Bluets, Maggie Nelson

(This isn't prompted by my real life so much as it is my love for that first song and also. blorbos.)

#web weaving #poetry #prose #on love #unrequited love #sad love #meloncholy #web weave #web weave love #web weaving poetry #༺✿ web weaves by basil ✿༻

[evan-collins90]

Assaggio restaurant - Boston, MA (mid 1990s)

Designed by Arteriors

"Enjoy Italian cuisine in a Renaissance ambiance. Assaggio, designed by Arteriors, re-creates experience of Rome in Boston. Artist-designer Stephanie and Amiel Mesner created an unconventional interior. They used no floor plan. Instead, they improvised as the project progressed. The idea originated from the artworks by Botticelli. The ceiling is filled with grapevines and ivy; Zeus and faux columns are attached to a wall that's decorated in trompe l'oeil marble blocks; the room is topped off full of woodland scenes, with a midnight-blue overhead rendering of the zodiac. Assaggio is a bistro with an underground wine bar. The ceiling is painted to simulate sunlight shining through; the stonewalls and ivy-clad columns are all faux art. The Napoli room is a recreation of a seaside villa."

Scanned from 'American Theme Restaurants' by I.M. Tao (1999)

#design #90s #interior design #interiors #architecture #1990s #colorful #renaissance #boston #restaurant #arteriors #themed #italian #sandro botticelli #mural #faux finish

[asukiess]

kuro neko

quote by richey edwards // washing machine heart by mitski // maud; a monodrama by alfred lord tennyson // seaside improvisation by richard siken // tumblr post by hurricaneforcefan // with sincerest regrets by russell edson // kuro neko transcript // this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar

#it's messy. it was somewhat cathartic. it was fun. #this isnt even my ladywalker specific one. #miraculous ladybug #kuro neko #catwalker #his reflection on the tv for the WHOLE segment up to where ladybug says hes a hero like any other #it's important to me #ml webweave

[loverboyromanroy]

roman & gerri + “seaside improvisation" by richard siken

#roman x gerri #roman roy #gerri kellman #romangerri #*sikenizes them again* #sorry but if i have to live with my own brain chanting 'tell me you love this tell me you're not miserable' on a loop over that scene #then so do you guys! #words words words

[malaisequotes]

“You wanted happiness, I can't blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable.”

Seaside Improvisation by Richard Siken

#Seaside Improvisation #Richard Siken #Quote #Poetry #Crush

[sokkastyles]

I take off my hands and I give them to you,

but you don't want them so I take them back

and put them on the wrong way,

the wrong wrists.

Tonight you're thinking of cities under crowns of snow

and I stare at you like I'm looking through a window,

counting birds.

Imagine standing in a constant cone of light.

Imagine surrender.

Imagine being useless.

The stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.

- Zutara + Seaside Improvisations by Richard Siken

#zutara #zuko #katara #it's about the hands #i stil didn't end up using half the screenshots #there are so many zutara hands

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

Seaside Improvisation

Richard Siken, "Seaside Improvisation" // Doctor Who + The Master/Missy and The Doctor

Part 1 / Part 2

so I haven't seen much of classic who, but for the "seaside town" line, I really wanted it to be accurate. as far as I can remember and could find, new who hasn't had a scene with the Master near the ocean.

so, like the title, I improvised! I searched "the Master seaside town" and after a bit of finagling and research I found out that there was an episode with the Third Doctor and the Master near the ocean - in it the Master creates an alliance with the Sea Devils (a Silurian-adjacent species that appear in new who with the Thirteenth Doctor).

so, that's why classic who appears in this one!

(fun fact: apparently that episode was also the first instance where it was implied that the Doctor and the Master were once friends!)

{p.s., I don't blame you for being upset at me about the twelvemissy bits. I wanted to cry just finding those shots}

#richard siken #doctor who #poetry #original post #the doctor #the master #doctor x master #thoschei #twelvemissy #twissy #that's such an awful ship name I'm sorry lol #missy #the mistress #classic who #new who #ten #tenth doctor #twelve #twelfth doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #three #third doctor #the sea devils #the end of time #the doctor falls #dhwan!master #simm!master #seaside improvisation