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Vibes of late as I work on a (maybe too) grand project. Thinking about the digital age, how antithetical this revolutionary tech has been to revolution.

Did I miss my stop?

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augnui posting and revisiting/revising (what’s really the difference) work from a year ago. I feel more at home in the third person, both in reading and writing. I’ll return to that thought later I think.

All work here is my own

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Mask for Mask outtake / happy accident

Explorations in queer masculinity. What happens to men when the identity they’ve been prescribed is denied them? How do we find freedom in our forced removal from hegemony, or otherwise attempt assimilation through simulation. And why do I feel like such a fool when I try?

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Musings on almost.

All writing is my own

Images in order: Edward Honaker, Untitled; James Coffman, Sun and Moon; Luka Khabelashvii, Multiple Personality

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the worse the weather, the happier the girl

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The honeysuckle are in bloom, which means it’s almost too hot to enjoy them—almost

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I will socialize I will grow up I will open myself up for new people I will split an atom with my teeth I will drive through red lights I will talk about my feelings I will cry at work I will read the assigned reading I will call my mom I will ferment in my room I will answer an email I will paint my nails red I will use the big knife I will yell

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"In 1984, a few years before his death, James Baldwin explained to an interviewer from the Village Voice that queers could see the precarity of heterosexuality, even as straights kept it hidden from themselves. 'The so-called straight person is no safer than I am, really. The terrors that homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if society itself did not go through so many terrors it doesn't want to admit.'

As Baldwin saw it, it is not simply that straight people are suffering and in denial about it, but that heterosexual misery expresses itself through the projection of terror onto the homosexual. One way to think about this is that homophobia is the outward expression of heterosexual misery; a kind of subconscious jealous rage against the gendered and sexual possibilities that lie beyond the violence and disappointments of straight culture."

-Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

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the audre lorde questionnaire to oneself, intended as a creative writing exercise by Divya Victor, who asks to be credited

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what do u think u would have been if u werent an artist?

dead

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RAIN!!!!!!!! the beautiful wonderful gorgeous cleansing RAIN!!!!!

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em dash — my best friend em dash —

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The gardener will be there a lifetime !!!!!!!!!!!

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [ID in ALT]

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i hope the anonymous person who sent the "i used to live in your house. i'm drunk in boston and it's the only address i know. happy holidays" postcard is aware that they wrote my favourite poem

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WILDWOOD, NJ | 2021

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I have answers prepared for questions I know you’ll never ask me

I have questions ready for you, if you’ll just give me the time