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Okay Chosen One Kristen au where she STAYS, where she goes the buddy dawn path, where she's full repressed homosexuality Helio prophet

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the last stand

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cant stop seeing the work of a professor im going to let down in a week and it makes me nauseous when i see his name

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there was a tornado warning today like sirens and texts to take shelter and everything. it was thankfully brief n even tho I was very scared in the moment all I can think of in hindsight is how aabria iyengar only stayed here at uiowa for like one semester or smth partially bc tornadoes r scary and like. yeah. ever since coming here my nightmares about tornadoes had SPIKED. don't care what my Midwest friends say about how common these are n how it's never really a big deal it is never not terrifying. would take a hurricane over a tornado any single goddamn day.

but the weather after is always nice! so that's cool.

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sometimes you just need to call your mom who's halfway across the country and cry over the phone to her and curl up in your bed like she's holding you. and listen to her help make a schedule and tell you what to do next. and you call her a few times throughout the day to let her know how you're doing and she texts you pictures of bunnies and tells you that you're so strong. and then you can get your work done :)

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Jo and Roach, girls for a wlw short story about vampires and legal disputes in south Paris

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taking my advanced writing class and learning that poetry (or any literary art in general ig) doesn't need to make literal sense to make sense was a game changer for me I think. you don't need to understand what the words are saying to understand the poem. it could make sense through the sounds of the words, through the vibe they create, through the way they look on a page -- even if it's all just gibberish!! (shout out to Gertrude Stein)

and reading an interview of my favorite poet (shout-out to franny choi) where they say that lines in their poems don't need to be fully making sense to be doing their job. sometimes their job is just to sound right in that little slot they're in! you don't even need to know what the line you wrote really means as long as you know what its doing for the poem and that you like it there!!!

like!!! things can make sense in different ways! poetry is not bound by the meanings of the words!!! I feel a little freer as someone who is constantly hung up on writing things that don't fully make sense to me in what the lines actually mean. realizing that those lines still have their place in poems and contribute greatly to the work!!

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FAIRLY SOCIOPATHIC, SOCIALLY STUNTED, AWKWARD, UNCOOL FREAKS. oil and acrylic on canvas and mesh window screen

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“My friends are cyborgs, but that’s okay” is a mockumentary project made to imagine a world where Asian bodies navigate as cyborgs in a hegemonic human society. It explores the complex state of being cyborgs and asian — fluid, transgressive, marginalized but also stereotyped as unemotional and inhuman. In A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway once suggested that “'women of color' might be understood as a cyborg identity, a potent subjectivity synthesized from fusions of outsider identities''. Cyborg myth for Haraway is about “transgressed boundaries, potent fusions, and dangerous possibilities which progressive people might explore as one part of needed political work”. Asian bodies especially, in the media and in general are often seen as robotic, intelligent but less human. Different from Orientalism, the Techno-Orientalism found in many speculative fiction films and books, such as Blade Runner, imagines the future to be hypo technological cities resembling Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and sexualized, dehumanized asian looking cyborgs. The series is an attempt to create a narrative of cyborgs of our own: My friends are cyborgs, but that’s okay. It is to envision a change of the prevalent binary view, reconstructing the boundaries of daily life and to create a dangerously happy ever after posthuman world for cyborgs.

so enamored by this photo project by ramona jingru wang

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Anne Carson, “Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides” / George William Joy, “Sleeping Joan of Arc” / Andrei Tarkovsky / Anne Sexton / “Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian”, Il Sodoma / Caroline Walker Bynum, “The Holy Feast and the Holy Fast” / “St. Denis Picking up His Head”, 19th century Panthéon murals / Margaret Atwood, “Half Hanged Mary”

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sea, swallow me

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had a dream last night that I worked for some like. FBI-adjacent thing. and my job was making picrews that looked like the victims and painting/dealing with the haunted portrait of the perpetrator. which like I think the guy was still alive so how was his portrait haunted??? I have no idea.

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made a guy btw

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"why do you keep calling things you find beautiful, inexplicable, and unsettling angels" i'm just doing what british wartime radar technicians did first

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Shapes...

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wanted to share my favorite art pieces from the google drive collection of 300 free-to-use palestine-related posters by Artists Against Apartheid

poster numbers: 10, 102, 128 226, 20 34, 204, 127 158, 176, 26