porcelain-engine
porcelain-engine
porcelain engine
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Electric hums eternal in the forest that exaggerates its glow
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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[ID: an excerpt from ‘New Years Day,’ a poem by Audre Lorde
“Ghostly unmalicious fingers pluck over my dreaming hiding whatever it is of sorrow that would profit me I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”]
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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the kind of music asks i always want to see
so i made my own list:
1.    a song from the year you were born 2.    a song that reminds you of school 3.    a song tied to a specific moment in your life 4.     a song that is not sung in your native language 5.     a song over 5 minutes long 6.     a song under 2 minutes long 7.     an instrumental 8.     a classical piece 9.     a song with no percussion 10.   something you’ve heard performed live 11.   something you’d give ANYTHING to hear performed live 12.   a song by an artist who’s from where you’re from (town/city/state/country) 13.   a song made suddenly precious because of a special someone 14.   a song made suddenly awful because of a special someone 15.   something to BELT SHAMELESSLY/do DIVA HANDS to 16.   something to SCREAM ALONG to 17.   a song for raging 18.   a song that demands lipsyncing into a makeshift microphone 19.   the last song you had stuck in your head 20.   a song you’re dying to master all the words to 21.   a song that you could SLAY at karaoke 22.   a song you can’t help but dance to 23.   a song that makes you want to dance on a table 24.   a song that makes you wanna STRIP 25.   a song with a great music video 26.   a song that makes you act out the music video when you hear it 27.   a song with counting 28.   a song with spelling 29.   a song with lots of clapping 30.   a song 40 years older than you 31.   a song you wish your parents didn’t know the words to 32.   a song whose lyrics shocked you once you were old enough to understand them 33.   a song you have ZERO patience for 34.   a song you’d like your favorite artist to cover 35.   a great song you discovered thanks to a movie 36.   a great song you discovered thanks to television 37.   a song you’re ashamed to have in your music library 38.   ok what’s the song you were too ashamed to even post for #37 39.   the most played song in your music library 40.   favorite disney song
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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the circle game, margaret atwood
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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“Infinity doesn’t interest me / not altogether / anymore / I crawl and kneel and grub about / I beg and listen for / what can go away / (as easily as love)”
— June Jordan, from Haruko/Love Poems: New and Selected Poems; “On a New Year’s Eve” (via luthienne)
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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migration: c.p.r., margaret atwood
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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CA Conrad, from ‘I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead’, ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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You called me vicious. I said that’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. I’m worse than vicious—I’m capable
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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- Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life.
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Drawings made by Charles Darwin’s children on the back-leaves of drafts for his ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1859).
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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[image description: a quote from Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood.
‘You sliced me loose 
and said it was Creation. I could feel the knife.]
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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Marcus Aurelius Please Stop Owning Me From The Year Of Our Lord 170 CE challenge
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porcelain-engine · 6 years ago
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Alicia Ostriker, from The Imaginary Lover: Poems; “25th Year of Marriage, It Goes On,”
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undercover ss 05
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