#(WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE)

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

I have some bad news for the dim bulbs out there. “Penultimate” does not mean “the best”.

And please, don’t get me going on “nonplussed”. Barry O. misused it and people rewrote the fucking dictionaries rather than correct their living secular Saint.

[the-kitten69]

[midnottart]

🐍 • a quickie *zwinkizwonki*

[bored-dom]

does that smack prove we are real? We moved your head and dealt pain. We just call them mercy to fuck with you.

Chara's too tired to think rationally

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[personal-blog243]

I know that I can be extremely sensitive about certain things, but there are certain scenes in “A Christmas Story” that are hard for me to watch because they portray child abuse, which is hard to watch even though I know it’s considered the “normal” way to treat children.

There is a scene where Ralphie is in trouble for saying “fuck” even though he learned it from his dad. His mom wouldn’t accept that as an answer so Ralphie is forced to blame a friend and the friend’s mom has to be told over the phone. Because apparently mom just won’t accept that the dad swears in front of the kid??? Or doesn’t care and won’t blame the dad for some reason??? You then hear the other kids mom hysterically screeching like a wild fucking BANSHEE and frantically BEATING the ever loving SHIT out of Ralphie’s poor friend over the phone. Also Ralphie has his mouth washed out with toxic soap.

It can be genuinely hard to watch when you are surrounded by republican boomers laughing about their childhood abuse stories and talking about how it’s so much better than the way kids are treated now (even though child abuse is still rampant and absolutely nothing at all has changed in the way kids are treated).

Im not advocating censorship of the film I’m just saying it can be hard to watch in a certain context with people who overtly agree with treating children that way for a non violent non criminal behavior like saying “fuck”

[razorsadness]

99. Do you think Frank O'Hara was somewhere reading from Lunch Poems when some Black students were attacked for sitting at a Woolworth's lunch counter?

100. How about two actors play LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka discussing anti-Semitism in an episode of a less comedic season of poetic history set in the 1960s?

101. Is it possible to think of anything in the 1950s without thinking of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955?

102. Does Emmett Till or Rosa Parks trigger the Civil Rights Movement?

103. Did you know President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the same year James Baldwin published The Fire Next Time?

104. What would constitute a perfect poem for you?

105. Who kept loving Sylvia Plath and Jimi Hendrix after high school, college, and middle age?

106. Who, in general, lives longer, painters or poets?

107. What is Time?

108. What are (your) ecopoetics?

109. Did you know Lucille Clifton went to Howard University with Amiri Baraka when he was known as LeRoi Jones?

110. If the poet representative of the last American century is, like the century, a mess of experiments, contradictions, and conviction, isn't Baraka a pretty good representative poet?

111. How about a vision of the American poet starring a mother (Lucille Clifton) who writes poems while raising her six children in Maryland in the 1970s?

112. Can you believe that Baraka's 1968 anthology of Afro-American writing, Black Fire, featured essays by John Henrik Clarke and Harold Cruse and poems by Sun Ra, David Henderson, A.B. Spellman, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Dumas, Jay Wright, Stanley Crouch, Lorenzo Thomas, and Victor Hernández Cruz, but did not include poems by Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, or Audre Lorde?

113. What do you think of Audre Lorde's "Power"?

114. Have you ever read "Those Winter Sundays" and wondered what happened to the mother in the poem?

115. Have you ever met anyone familiar with the poems of Allen Ginsberg's father, Louis Ginsberg?

116. If you write a poem like "Howl," do you really need to write anything else?

117. Is "Howl" an example of a poem that actually changed things?

118. When you write a poem, what does it teach you about the past?

119. Did you know Ginsberg reads the entirety of his poem "When the Light Appears" in the song "When the Light Appears Boy" on the album When I Was Born for the 7th Time, released by Cornershop in 1997, the year of Ginsberg's death?

120. Did you know that was his voice on "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash ("Starved in metropolis / Hooked on necropolis / Addict of metropolis / Do the worm on acropolis / Slamdance the cosmopolis / Enlighten the populace...") ?

121. Do you sort of think of the Beat poets in the same way you think of the Grateful Dead, with members wandering around like several hairy, high Walt Whitmans?

122. Couldn't we debate whether Robert Lowell or Ginsberg is more confessional?

123. Is it true Bob Kaufman took a vow of silence to protest the Vietnam War?

124. Who brings more intimacy and toughness to poetry than Lucille Clifton?

125. What if every day you ask poetry of yourself?

—Terrance Hayes, from "Twentieth Century Examination Part V" (Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, Penguin Books, 2023)

[atheostic]

Christians really need to watch how they phrase things...

Me: You want your god to what now?

[california-112]

"Ohhh shi-"

[picturemecountingcards]

could only express this in green text format, bear with me

> be me

> in english class

> some guy delivers a meandering nihilistic monologue about how we're all just apes and our only purpose is reproducing, eating, dying and rotting (direct quote) that only vaguely pertains to the question he's being asked

> turn around to look at him

> see his laptop

> it's covered in southpark stickers

[quidcumque]

List of Things I Realized From TikTok Video I Do Good

I don't get shitty about trans-inclusionary language like "pregnant people" or "people who menstruate" if I hear it somewhere I legit forget that people take issue

List of Things I Realized From TikTok Video I Don't Do Good

I don't watch for trans-inclusionary language. I got WAY better about catching gender binary language, but I forget to watch for erroneous men/women generalizations, either when I'm talking or noting in other media

It's good to recognize both. That you're not a shit person and you have made active improvements. That you ain't aces at this yet and cannot rest on your "Yay Good Person" laurels

[swannsways]

🤸 Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully 🤸 – The Holdovers (2023)

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

[ohitslen]

Living together.

The snail video if you are interested :)

[000marie198]

Do you think Toothless ever grumbles and is sarcastic in his internal monologue and then goes: "Great. I must be exhausted I'm starting to sound like Hiccup."

Hiccup building a gadget in the forge two meters away: "Did you just make fun of me?"

Toothless grumbling about how it's a long time past midnight and they should be asleep, can't Hiccup tinker in the morning or something

Hiccup: "No one is forcing you to be here, Toothless."

Toothless howls at the other and glares. Hiccup glares back. They're having a glaring contest at two in the morning.

Moments later, Berk's heir is being dragged back to the hut by his sleeve by a dark creature that almost blends into the shadows save for annoyed vivid green eyes as the boy argues with the Unholy Offspring of Lightning and Death Itself in hushed grumbles.

..............

(Don't tag as a ship)

[lululeighsworld]

it was literally their moment and they just let us watch

(if you need me i'll be marinating in this for the foreseeable future)

[izzystizzys]

it’s canon to me that anakin skywalker and marshall commander fox are archnemeses of a shakespearean nature to eachother

why? well, fox’ life is a tragedy of galactic proportions. he’s a slave at best and straight up non-sentient property at worst, caught at the crossroads of being the face of the republic’s most corrupt establishment to his brothers who resent him for being forced to bear an authority he has no actual control over, and being the closest and easiest target for that very authority’s ire. made to enforce the rigged and deeply unjust laws against his own oppressed peoples, and no one understands better than fox how much coruscant truly despises them. the chancellor at the heart of it all, and anakin, the favored pupil - taken in by the flattery and empty promises like all the rest of them, the jedi most intimately connected to the senate who yet cares so little to know the clones who shed their blood in it every day that he never sees beyond his own very nose. no one asks the guard what they think, and fox despises them all for it, but the jedi who play at caring more than anything. it’s an impersonal, distanced dislike for the most part, but with skywalker it burns all the brighter for how often fox sees him walk the halls of the senate and never think to ask.

also fox cut anakin off in traffic once and he never forgave him for it