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this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

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“I was born in the wrong generation” Can’t relate. I love reading books about 7ft lesbian orcs who open coffee shops in small towns.

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i love how the community fandom just follows around whatever joel mchale and danny pudi are in. like yeah those are our little guys

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immediately showering and furiously washing the blood off my hands after stabbing someone, not because i feel any guilt or remorse for what i did but because i have sensory issues

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I love how we've accidentally cursed our good friends Jonathan Harker & Co. to live stuck in an inescapable time loop

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It's not optional

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“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

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the wuthering heights tag on this site is so painfully sanitised and booktoked discussion of the text is either rendered utterly vacant and shallow or ignored entirely in favour of wuthering heights as a Classic #wutheringheights #janeeyre #thepictureofdoriangray #darkacademia on a post that says some shit like ‘imagine drinking black coffee in the oxford university library… 🤎’. can we talk about the foul celtic knot of incest/pseudoincest between what starts as two families and becomes the family (cathy and heathcliff raised like brother and sister, cathy jr and linton talking about how they wish they were siblings and comparing themselves to mother and son and him being a caricature of her father his actual uncle and then getting married) as a metaphor for corruption through obsessive repetition and sinking rot

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oh they're queer icons for sure (at least according to me and this is not open for debate 🤷‍♀️)

i rewatched chicago 2002 today and i never realised how wlw coded roxie is?? excuse me for being blind

i mean this movie def was for the sapphics (and i enjoyed it a lot) but i never thought about how roxie viewed women in this

i mean i think her true love really is the fame, and that is why she views everything as a jazz show hence the musical numbers, but when you think abt it i don’t think she ever really loved amos and she only got w the guy she killed (i forgot his name) because he promised her an opportunity for fame

whereas when you see how she views women, she is like sooo obsessed with velma, i think it’s a "do i want to be her or be with her" type of situation and for me it ends up being both

but the moment i really realised it was wlw coded was in mama morton’s song bc why are you imagining her in such a seductive way when she’s actually just here for business? i mean when you compare her introduction to billy’s in "all i care about is love", his definitely seems more comedic whereas even though hers is more seducing

anyway maybe i’m reaching, or maybe roxie hart and velma kelly are queer icons you tell me

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"we need more traumatized characters/ characters with ptsd and/or who are abuse victims portrayed realistically with symptoms that Arent cute and soft and pretty!" you guys couldnt even handle jeff winger

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more and more, margaret atwood

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Not to be a Frankenstein apologist but if it were a choice between actually writing my essays for my degree and creating life in an act of hubris against God frankly my procrastination skills are incredibly powerful

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AITA for not telling my fiancé I know he’s queer? 

I 20s (F) have a 20s (M) fiancé, V, and he’s been talking about this terrible secret he cannot tell me and he keeps almost starting to come out and then backing out. The issue is V and I were raised together by his parents, and my surrogate 40s (M) father and (now deceased) surrogate mother arranged for our marriage back when we were both children. They thought it was the best for us and at the time we were too young to realize the implications and had no reason to reject to the match. When we were teenagers our mother was on her deathbed and she told us again that she wished for us to marry, and of course we both agreed. However, V is also best friends with a 20s (M) guy called H, and they were nearly inseparable as boys and teens. They also went to university together and shared an apartment but V had to come home due to family reasons. Lately he’s been going out all day and coming home at night hours later. He insists that he’s fine and that we all leave him alone and not worry for him, but I think he and H have been sneaking around. He even delayed our wedding day by arranging a trip to go to England alone with H. It’s exhausting for all of us and I think I should just tell V I know and support him and that we can call off the marriage, but I’m not sure that’s the best course of action? I’m completely fine with not marrying him - he always felt more like a brother to me anyway - but I worry it might come off wrong. The worst part is he’s really beating himself up about it. He’s so guilty it’s beginning to take a toll on his health. I don’t care if he has a boyfriend I just want him to be happy.

EDIT: nvm he built an 8ft creature in his dorm

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The Creature: You made me, therefore you must bear the consequences of my creation.

Victor Frankenstein: Nuh-uh

The Creature: fym nuh-uh?

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reading Frankenstein like a basic literature enthusiast and getting in the feels (annotating most of it in the most excessive manner possible and ruminating on the arrogant nature of man 🥰)