Traveling Alone
for JT
I always miss you most
when coming back to you
from some faraway coast,
some unfamiliar view.
The closer I arrive,
the further that I feel.
Airports are netherworlds
where nothing is revealed.
I want to glimpse your face
before I know I can,
impatient for the place
where I'll see you again—
no crowded airplane aisles,
no evening flight delays.
I want to shrink the miles
until they fall away—
no suitcases to claim,
no rush hour to fight.
I'd like to blink my eyes,
come home without a flight.
At home at last with you
and weary from my life,
I'm private once again,
unfettered as your wife.
Allison Joseph
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Sweep the walk and cook the dinner,
have his babies but stay thinner.
Raise his children, feed them knowledge,
clean the house with spit and polish.
Wipe their noses, scrub their fingers,
do their laundry, tweeze their splinters,
buy the groceries, sew on patches,
while your hair falls out in thatches.
Chop the veggies, fry the bacon,
tell your girlfriends they're mistaken
when they see your husband straying,
though his hair is dull and graying.
Wash the windows, weed the garden,
feel yourself begin to harden
as your husband packs his suitcase,
shines his shoes then ties each shoelace...
--from "Parable" by Allison Joseph
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𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷 “𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂” 𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓴𝓪 !
˚✧ ₊˚ʚ THE BASICS !
— ❥ FULL NAME: Allison Marilyn Tanaka.
— ❥ NICKNAMES: Ally (most commonly used), Al, A, Princess of Darkness, Tattoo Girl (by Matthew Knies for a while), Naka, sweetheart, honey.
— ❥ DATE OF BIRTH: October 30th, 1998 (Scorpio).
— ❥ BIRTHPLACE: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
— ❥ CURRENT RESIDENCE: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
— ❥ SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, French (not fluently), Japanese (not fluently).
— ❥ ORIENTATION: Panromantic, pansexual.
— ❥ GENDER IDENTITY: Cisgender female (she/her pronouns).
— ❥ OCCUPATION: Tattoo artist.
— ❥ FACECLAIM: Lyrica Okano.
˚✧ ₊˚ʚ PERSONALITY !
— ❥ HOGWARTS HOUSE: Slytherin (ambitious, cunning, determined).
— ❥ MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE: ISFJ - The Defender (observant, reliable, humble).
— ❥ ENNEAGRAM TYPE: Type Four - The Individualist (reserved, honest, self-aware).
— ❥ MORAL ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Good.
— ❥ LOVE LANGUAGES: Acts of service for both giving and receiving.
— ❥ SKILLS: Tattoo artistry, sketching, makeup, hair styling, calligraphy, jewelry-making, dancing, painting, deadpan snarking.
— ❥ LIKES: Romance novels (secretly), drawing to relax, getting her eye makeup right on the first try, when a tattoo turns out exactly like she wanted, punk music, when people give her a wide berth on the street because of her appearance, spending time with her family, laying in someone’s lap and letting them play with her hair.
— ❥ DISLIKES: Fake people, people being rude for no reason, people saying she’ll only be pretty “if she stops wearing so much black,” being scolded for things she feels justified in, her makeup or hair getting messed up, people who use religion as an excuse to be assholes, coffee, pigeons.
— ❥ FEARS/PHOBIAS: Complete darkness, getting trapped in an elevator, getting hit in the face, being left by the people she cares about.
˚✧ ₊˚ʚ RELATIONSHIPS !
— ❥ FAMILY: Hina Tanaka (mother), David Tanaka (father), Audrey Tanaka (younger sister).
— ❥ FRIENDS: Cameron Findlay, Jason Brightford, Lily Walters, Matthew Knies, Pontus Holmberg, Fraser Minten, Connor Dewar.
— ❥ ACQUAINTANCES: Remainder of the Toronto Maple Leafs roster, Trevor Zegras, Quinn Hughes, Jason Robertson.
— ❥ ROMANTIC INTERESTS: Kira Holloway (first crush), Ariana Cole (former crush), Grace Darcy (first girlfriend), Hayden Donnell (first boyfriend), Jason Brightford (ex-partner), Ayman Hadid (ex-girlfriend), Joseph Woll (current romantic interest).
˚✧ ₊˚ʚ FUN FACTS !
— ❥ Both Ally’s middle name, Marilyn, and her older sister’s name, Audrey, come from classic movie actresses - Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, because their mother is a big lover of black-and-white movies.
— ❥ Ally has been in love with romance novels ever since she was eleven and read an old copy of The Princess Bride that she borrowed from her sister. She’s never been exactly good at sharing her love of them with people, but actually falling in love herself has been enough to open her up about it a little bit more.
— ❥ Despite the stereotype of tattoo artists being covered in ink, Ally only has two tattoos of her own: a pair of deer antlers with flowers curling around them on her ribs, and some small bats flying through a starry sky on her left shoulder. She wants some more in the future, but she also wants any future tattoos to be based on designs she’s drawn herself, and she has yet to pick any that she really wants on her body.
— ❥ In addition to her reading of romance novels, Ally is a huge Neil Gaiman fan, and has read almost all of his books and watched all the movie and TV adaptations of his works. Some of her favorites include the Sandman graphic novels and show, Good Omens, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
— ❥ Even though everyone who looks at her generally expects her to love black coffee, Ally actually doesn’t like coffee at all - she’s a big tea drinker, especially a nice cup of Oolong first thing in the morning.
tagging @lovings4turn, @hiya-itsamber, & @theopenlocker !
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Kent State University, Kent, OH, May 4, 1970 / 2023
Allison Beth Krause (April 23, 1951 – May 4, 1970), student
Jeffrey Glenn Miller (March 28, 1950 – May 4, 1970), student
Sandra Lee Scheuer (August 11, 1949 – May 4, 1970), student
William Knox Schroeder (July 20, 1950 – May 4, 1970), student
Nine students wounded: Alan Michael Canfora, John R. Cleary, Thomas Mark Grace, Dean R. Kahler, Joseph Lewis Jr., Donald Scott Mackenzie, James Dennis Russell, Robert Follis Stamps, Douglas Alan Wrentmore
(Bibl.: The Truth About Kent State. A Challenge to the American Conscience, by Peter Davies and the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1973. Plus: The Kent State Shootings. An Annotated Bibliography, by William A. Gordon)
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