#chris abani

[orpheuslament]

Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani

[geryone]

Dog Woman, Chris Abani

[soracities]

Chris Abani, from "Fragrance", 3 poems pub. Air Light Magazine [transcript in ALT]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

BUT WHO COULD LOVE ME? I AM OUT OF MY MIND // IVAN & TILL

pinterest // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Anne Sexton Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, "The Papa and Mama Dance" // Fall Out Boy Hum Hallelujah // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden // Florence + the Machine Grace // Elliot Wake Black Iris // The National Daughters of the Soho Riots // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Mitski I Guess // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Writer in the Dark // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye // Chris Abani Dog Woman // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Warsan Shire Souvenir, "Our Men Do Not Belong to Us" // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night

[sicknessinmotion]

BRUISED MEAT; ON FLESH

lady lamb // scott conary // joan tierney // scott conary // nick flynn // scott conary // chris abani.

[lesangsaint]

Jesus, Chairil Anwar

[old-school-romantics]

— Chris Abani, from “Pilgrimage,” Sanctificum

[thighholsterdean]

The only thing we have left, Dean and me, is each other.

[muscle memory, jenny liou || the end, supernatural || crush, richard siken || wally lamb || the death of antinoüs, mark doty || daphne's lot, chris abani]

[masculinepeacock]

the story doesn't touch her

@garcavisconde || Strange Girl, Laura Marling || The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green || Poems, Louise Glück || How Bad I Wanna Live, Maya de Vitry || Ritual is Journey, Chris Abani || @creacherkeeper || The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green || Myth, Amythyst Kiah || @aweega

[Image Description: Ten images of text.

1: *covered in blood* i will.... *trembling* CHOOSE TO BE KIND... *in pain* i will be... NICE to others... *wanting to kill* i will see good in EVERYONE *yielding a knife* i will NOT be like those who hurt me... *screaming* i will be BETTER then who i was..."

2: "My lonely girl // MY angry girl // My brave // I love you, my strange girl".

3: "For many species of large animals in the twenty-first century, the single most important determinant of survival is whether their existence is useful to humans. But if you can't be of utility to people, the second best thing you can be is cute. You need an expressive face, ideally some large eyes. Your babies need to remind us of our babies. Something about you must make us feel guilty for eliminating you from the planet."

4: "My soul has been so fearful, so violent: forgive its brutality."

5: "only place for my heart is the very next step // only place for my hands is holding to the ground around me // i was lost from my body worse than i thought // now i love her more than ever, yeah she's all that i've got".

6: "As you lay dying I asked, What if your biggest regret? // Every kindness withheld, you said. // Every flicker of pleasure denied, you said. // Look, you said, sunlight."

7: "story magic is scared of her and the god of evil death and chaos wants to put her in a jar".

8: "But it's an exceptionally minor vice, and for whatever reason, I've always felt like I need a vice. I don't know whether this feeling is universal, but I have some way-down vibrating part of my subconscious that needs to self-destruct, at least a little bit."

9: "I said, somebody somewhere // will find what's left // Oh yeah // And we'll become a myth, man, // oh man".

10: "characters with prey animal rage // characters with both the abject terror and murderous desperation of an animal that knows it is cornered and destined to be eaten. you just can't get that kind of angst out a successful hunter. but alternatively i posit: predator animal fear. which is a totally different thing". /end ID]

[thus-always-to-tyrants]

caduceus.

@batancha // guillermo del toro // @wormbus-art // chris abani // tye martinez // ijeoma umebinyo // mia bergeron // rainer maria rilke (tr. joanna macy)

[geryone]

Sanctificum, Chris Abani

[soracities]

Chris Abani, from "Terminus", 3 poems pub. Air Light Magazine [transcript in ALT]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

MY ONE AND ONLY // ON LOVE THAT ISN'T ENOUGH

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Ribs // Chris Abani Dog Woman // System of a Down Lonely Day // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Catherynne M. Valente Deathless // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Olivia Gatwood "The Lover as a Cult," Life of the Party // Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love // @/perennials on ao3 (link to fic) // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Azra T. (quote via @wedarkacademia)

[emiliosandozsequence]

tron: legacy (2010) dir. joseph kosinski / dog woman, chris abani / sue zhao / diary of a philosophy student volume 1, 1926-1927; may 21st, 1927, simone de beauvoir / antibody, sonya vatomsky / unknown / constellations by the oh hellos / portrait of the illness as a nightmare, leila chatti / deus mortis, mimi evangeline / ramadan lament, leila chatti / the sparrow, mary doria russell

[lesangsaint]

Hands Washing Water, Chris Abani

[whoismims]

2023 was the year I was able to rediscover my love of reading after a difficult time, particularly at the height of the pandemic. Here are some of my favorite books that I read.