#ko writes poetry

[whiteteaandlily]

Nauseated (2022)

Wretching and wretched, Wretch again, Until everything inside Is outside And the acid settles And nothing more Tries to crawl it's way Out of my throat And into the world

[perfectfeelings]

It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.

Lisa Ko, The Leavers

[quotefeeling]

It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.

Lisa Ko, The Leavers

[fayrobertsuk]

It's been a long year and it's only February…

Well, it's time to put this out there: I've had a fairly shitty few years (like, haven't we all, obviously), but it's included a long, expensive legal battle against unscrupulous cysts, which is finally concluded satisfactorily save being left somewhat skint on the other side of it. Doesn’t help that said battle meant that I had to move house - not exactly a low activity on the expense and stress scales…

So I'm looking for extra work, to help while we wait for the Luxury Space Communism to kick in (I'd settle for Universal Basic Income or an end to the Housing and Cost of Living Crisis, tbh).

Things I do to a professional standard include:

Creative Mentoring and Tutoring (writing and performance techniques, especially for poetry - bespoke or standard workshops available for groups as well as one-to-one).

Project Management (feeling overwhelmed by a project you want to get off the ground and/ or run within budget and timescale? I can help with that).

Business Change Management (you need to expand or shift your business focus? I can help that happen in a well-managed fashion).

Performance Poetry (got a bunch of poems, 18 years' experience delivering them live, and a nice voice).

Writing to Commission (especially poetry, but I write both fictive prose and essays too).

Voice Acting and Narration (I've acted in audio dramas and narrated short stories, training videos, and so far one documentary).

Book and Pamphlet Production (I operate a small press).

Basic website setup and maintenance.

Training on any of the above.

I have a sliding scale of rates depending on customer circumstances, and you can book me for a free initial consultation via my website: https://www.fayroberts.co.uk/crass-commercialism/services/

And if you fancy just sending me money because you're generous, I have a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fayroberts

[thoughtkick]

It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.

Lisa Ko, The Leavers

[nicosraf]

lines from "an angel song from the ether" and "paradises", both by me and in Devout: An Anthology of Angels. You can pre-order it here ! :>

[thehopefulquotes]

It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.

Lisa Ko, The Leavers

[surqrised]

It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.

Lisa Ko, The Leavers

[deadmanscity]

Hey! Hey!

I'm not crazy new, but this is my first post! So, I'm going to do an introduction:

I'm DeadmansCity

》and I'm active on a not-so popular social media called amino (I go by DeadMan♡ on there)

》I'm transgender/enby, and recently got the courage to go by she/her! I go by anything.

》I'm pansexual, polyamorous and demisexual.

》I'm an ambivert, but often call myself an Introvert

》I'm pretty open minded, and you may use me as a therapist friend ^^ just post it in my asks. (No names if you're venting about a person)

》I deeply enjoy writing poetry, stories, and drawing! You can request fanart! No limits on Fandom, just keep it pg14 :)

》You can even request fanfiction for me to write (I've never written 18+ works, and I have no idea if I may be comfortable with it or not, so, for now, it's off limits) all Fandom tags are the ones I'm active on (and I'll only do xreader, no OC or canon x canon)

[rustbeltjessie]

And what of those men you only loved for a night, for the price of a drink and a bed to sleep in, though you never slept, just sat in a window and watched your sisters in leopard, in velvet, walk the streets. Those nights, wide and dark as boulevards. You find yourself glancing up at where you lived in how many apartments and houses, with how many windows? Where, as a child, you watched the stoplights change; yellow-red-green and back, in the postwar suburbs of Philadelphia. Or Chicago’s tableaus: sleepless vigils of doomed loves, regrets, the sick sheen of your skin, striated by streetlamp light, the overflowing ashtrays.

—Jessie Lynn McMains, from "Insomniac Glosa"

I posted a recent poem of mine on Ko-fi. If you become a supporter (one-time or reoccurring) of $20 or more, you can unlock the full poem!

[whiteteaandlily]

Every Year (2024)

Every year more beyond thirty I keep thinking back to the hospital to the urge to disappear and feeling it all over again wanting to just not exist but every year I persist in spite of that feeling

[perfectquote]

It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.

Lisa Ko, The Leavers

[talesfromthebitterbeast]

innocence dies when a good man does nothing.

exclusive for Acknowledgements members on Ko-fi, 'why didn't you do something?' is now up!

[writerofweird]

TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY!

Today's my birthday so please help me celebrate by reading my stories and poems, and of course, buying my books.

Stories and poems: https://myweirdwriting.wordpress.com/

Books: https://myweirdwriting.wordpress.com/my-books/

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/myweirdwriting

[rqgnarok]

help me and my parents pay for college! (writing commissions)

i really hate having to do this but i wouldn’t if i had any more options left, hi! my name is leo, and i’m currently in my third semester of college as a psych major in méxico. me and my family have always had financial difficulties but lately things have taken a turn for the worse and i’m in desperate need of financial aid to help pay for my next semester. 

my dad runs a self made business that’s been struggling well before the pandemic and he got sick a couple of years ago with nephrotic syndrome- in remission now, but its still a hit to us financially. my mom had to find work when things got tight, but as the last of four children, i’m having a really hard time getting through my college education.

writing comissions are open for fanfiction, oc work, and poetry, as you can see in this post here. i can also work as an english/spanish translator, editor, and beta reader. here’s a link to my ao3 if you wanna see examples of my work, along with my masterlist here on tumblr, though i haven’t written much for this site in a little bit.

i also wanna link up my ko-fi account in case any of you can help me out- any kind of support is so greatly appreciated and thanked profusely. 

thank you so so much for reading and sharing, i appreciate you all very much.

[sokokoko]

Just binged Oshi no ko 2 days ago. That and a prompt about masks inspired me to write this poem:

Survival As The Fittest

Once, I only knew genuinity;

I think I was happier for it

But to bear the real you

Is dangerous

It is vital to adapt—

Doesn't every creature do this?

Evolve, develop traits

To help them survive the world?

A mask, a camouflage for every terrain,

A show for every person

Facets of one's being tailored

To measure up to the desires

And standards

Each expects

If I let you see my face unmasked

What if you scar it?

What if you hate it, hate me

Attack the real me,

My vulnerabilities?

My set of masks

Can help me be

Whatever is needed

(Who is it that needs the truth, anyways?)