Alda Merini, una delle più grandi poetesse italiane, ha lasciato un segno indelebile nel mondo della poesia. Nata a Milano nel 1931, la sua vita è stata segnata da una serie di alti e bassi, tra cui periodi di malattia mentale e ricoveri in ospedale. Nonostante queste difficoltà, Merini ha prodotto una vasta gamma di poesie che esplorano temi come l’amore, la sofferenza, la bellezza e la spiritualità.
Quelle come me
“Quelle come me regalano sogni, anche a costo di rimanerne prive.
Quelle come me donano l’anima, perché un’anima da sola è come una goccia d’acqua nel deserto.
Eliza: I am not broke. I just find certain things stressful, like, bills, invoices, payments, debits, deposits, withdraws, transfers, checks, money orders, money market, savings, interest, account numbers, pin numbers, and prime numbers? Maybe? What are those, again?
Charmonique: Numbers greater than 1 that are divisible only by themselves and 1. #TeamCharmonique.
Eliza: Those are fine, but the rest of that stuff freaks me the freak out.
English Dub voice actress Rachael Lillis has passed away on August 10, 2024 at the age of 55 due to breast cancer.
Lillis is best known as the original English Dub voice actress of Misty, Jessie, and various pokémon such as Jigglypuff and Goldeen in the Pokémon anime. Her other well-known English dub roles include Utena Tenjō in Revolutionary Girl Utena, Martina in Slayers Next, Micott Bartsch in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Nagi Kirima in Boogiepop Phantom, Yuriko Star in The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Kanaka Ohno in Genshiken, and Ami Kurimoto in DNA².
"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."
I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.
And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.