#so i don't really want to be posting my weird grief poetry here

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[wispcherry]

second time around on the same url baby! I swear I am NOT a bot

hi okay so this is, at the moment, a fanpage. probably for fanart and mumblings and what have you. really been consumed by good omens (+ related Europeans) lately but i also get silly with poetry, geology, linguistics, art, Scooby Doo for some reason, dungeons and dragons, Zelda. I cannot stress it enough that I'm into Mitski, and everything queer under the sun. and out of it. we here at wispcherry stay goofy.

tag guides for your favoritest weird guy:

Good Omens (Good Fucking Grief Neil)

#past my ear = good omens reblogs! not my own thing

#the plume of my imaginary tante = my own ramblings about good omens.

Still working on a fanart tag because. I haven't posted fanart yet.

Supernatural (I haven't finished it so I can only post + look at so much. Grief)

#big super naturals = my own original spn posts. you're a tumblite you know what spn is

Scooby Doo

#ruh roh. reblog = this franchise consumed me at a young age

ZELDAAAAA

#skyward shitposting = im too tired for separate game tagging. love link and zelda though

Staged

#six characters in search of one single braincell = our boys.

Unhhh/Trixie Mattel/Katya Zamolodchikova

#i got a sunburn and im fucked now = definitely unhhh, until I post more this might just be an umbrella tag

gritted teeth. dungeons and dragons / dropout

#two hundred and twenty five adult blog posts = fantasy high reblogs and posts...

#hairy baby spam = the unsleeping city... oh god..

Castlevania. Drops to my Knees.

#my immortal netflix adaptation = feral about this but the hyperfixaton hasn't kicked into full swing yet

ohhhhgod. Doctor Who

#just a few days ago i was this really brilliant secondary blog = im on series 2 baby

ATLA (all versions. we don't talk about the old live action)

#the newly refurbished blog tag

ace attorney trilogy

#gay japanese and european. triple homocide

the other ones :]

#beanfreaking = just me carping around on this account. bein a little guy. reblogs and original bits

#wispy bits = it's a staged reference. it's men. it's. i like men. men related thing. women and others too. just folks i like :]. reblogs and original bits

#queue idiot. we could have been us = IM SORRY LMAO. queued bits.

if you want to get to know a brief bit about me:

Hi, my name is Monty, I'm a trans. Something. and I use he/they pronouns. 17 going on 18. Filipino-Japanese-German-Irish. It's a mouthful. Unfortunately a boykisser, luckily a ladyliker, always an appreciation for those in between. Friendly to most. Most. I think roleplaying is kind of sick (positive connotation) and that being in fandoms is positively delightful. AI is shit. Free Palestine. TERFs, MAPs, MRAs, fascists, you know the like, can fuck off. ACAB. Unless it's Inspector Constable. (Can't say much about inspectors and constables, I'm from the states.) I'm a silly guy but please be decent on the page. And off of it.

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Idk if you’re the right person to ask this question of but the Coleen Hoover post u reblogged got me thinking- I haven’t read much Good Literature like. Ever (I was very much a John green/divergent/etc kid and as an adult have just abandoned reading) but do you have any recommendations for like. Good books to read that might be a little easier for someone who doesn’t read much? Sorry if this is a weird question lol but I trust ur opinions! 💕💕

Aw thank you anon!! I can give more specific recommendations if you're comfortable coming off Anon and talking a bit

I guess my recommendation is to figure out what kind of stories you like (mysteries, sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction, romance, tragedies etc) and spend a bit of time researching that genre? What are the classics? Who are the authors making waves in that genre? Find lists for that genre, find online communities for it, find blogs and author websites

When you find an author you like find out what authors they like! Find out what authors their fans like. Social media can help with this but reading the acknowledgement pages at the end of books is another way to find new authors to check out.

So step 1 is find what you like them find more like it.

Step 2 is trying out new genres. Step out of your comfort zone. Sometimes you'll be surprised.

I'm very much a sci-fi nerd so id recommend All Systems Red by Martha Wells it's short but fantastic and if you enjoy sci-fi might be a good place to start.

If you want something more realistic I recently finished and really enjoyed Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. It's longer but I think it's still pretty accessible to someone who is getting back into reading. It's a novel about family and grief (among other things).

I'm also studying library science in college rn so I gotta plug your local library. Don't be afraid to go ask library staff for recommendations, we train for this. And you don't need a card to ask for help (but getting a card is usually free! And gives you access to thousands of books, CDs, games, movies etc). You can tell a librarian what your favourite movies/shows are and they'll help you find books you might enjoy.

I recommend making a list of topics you like in stories (for me it's: time travel, parallel universes, clones, doppelgangers, murder mysteries etc) and you can search for novels about those things (either on a library website or thru Google)

Short story collections might be a good place to start if you want to get back into reading? If you don't enjoy a story you can shake it off and start the next one. I enjoy reading the Best American Short Stories collection, not every story is going to work for you but it's a good way to find authors to check out. Other short story collections I really enjoyed: The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Steele, Exhalation by Ted Chiang.

I also really recommend not limiting yourself to just North American books, there are so many fantastic translated works out there these days. When you find a genre you're enjoying look for books translated into English in that genre. And if you find a translator who's work you enjoy you can follow them to find new authors!

And remember that reading is reading! Short stories count, comics & manga count, poetry counts, memoirs count, nonfiction counts. Any reading you do is good for you ! Don't get too hung up on Good Literature vs Bad Literature. It's important to try an expand your palette and to branch out to more challenging books but don't let shame over not reading the books you think you're supposed to be stop you from reading at all.

Here's my Goodreads account if u want to look around to see if any books sound interesting to you, and feel free to add me if you want to make an account :)

Hopefully at least some of this was helpful, feel free to message me on or off Anon for follow up if u want <3

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i'm back with less books but more to say. you decide which is worse!

blood on blood by devin kelly

perfect. to me. this poetry collection communes HEAVILY with bruce springsteen's album nevada, which i admittedly was not deeply familiarly with before reading. however, i don't think you really need to be to appreciate these poems. though i WOULD recommend diving in before or after reading. just a stellar album front to back, and one that deserves such a carefully crafted collection of poems. highlights for me included: watching your father drive, why i might coach the little league team, every body is sick with the flu, and how to use old sparky. not a lot to say besides please. please read.

someone to watch over me by lisa kleypas (bow street runners #1)

it's not lost on me i keep singing the praises of the historical romance genre, and yet in both wrap ups i've posted i'm complaining loudly about books i didn't care for. i LOVE kleypas so much, she's one of the authors who got me to fall in love with the genre! but this book just kind of annoyed me!! here's a chunk of my goodreads review: "morgan's whole revenge plot isn't interesting enough to justify how cruel it is, and even for a book published in 1999 it has weird baggage about courtesans" i didn't hate this book by any means, but it's just bleh. 2.5/5

my year of rest and relaxation by otessa moshfegh

i'm late, i am so so late! fun fact: i joined a zoom book club in april 2020 and this was supposed to be the first book. i got as far as buying the book before ghosting the book club and instead spending that month watching all the mission impossible movies. priorities. the book sat on my shelf until this month when a work friend who had also owned it for ages suggested we finally just read it together, and i'm so happy she did. most people have said that reading it in 2020 was kind of trippy, due to the isolation and staying at home, and while i feel a kind of fomo for that level of immersion, the place i was in during those first few months would probably not have benefitted from that experience lol. regardless, it's just a really interesting book, and one that definitely launched 10,000 imitators of varying levels of quality! i was worried i burned myself out on Woman Who Kind of Sucks lit, but i think my love of reading about Women Who Kind of Suck transcends trend. if you have also still somehow not read this book by 2024, i recommend! interesting meditation on depression and escape and grief.

sidney crosby: taking the game by storm by gare joyce

this book took me forever to finish, at first because i didn't want to rush through it- i'm running out of sid-centric books!! - and then because it became my Bag Book and i almost fully stopped reading it at home. it was my lunch break companion! my main takeaway here is i will always enjoy reading about sid, but if this book was about any other player i would've been begging joyce to pull back a little bit and talk some more about junior hockey. i think he starts conversations he doesn't have the time or space to finish. conversations he honestly probably could have had while using sid as a frame for it! anyways, it's not a bad book and it has its moments, but in terms of the sidney crosby season deep dive, i prefer shawna richer's the rookie. 

your blood, my bones by kelly andrew

i wish this was an adult novel, and i don't say that in the way some Adults Who Only Read YA wish that their ya books had sex scenes, i say that because i think a lot of the themes explored here would have benefitted from a darker, more visceral lens. which is not to say that you can't do good horror or horror elements in ya, please understand! i do just kind of tire of new ya being filled to the brim with these 18-20 year old characters in what feels like a bid to Adults Who Only Read YA, rather than the actual teens these books are supposed to be for. where are the 12-15 year old protagonists, i beg!! anyways i liked this book a lot, i read it basically in one sitting after the panthers lost game 5 and i was feeling really unmoored. i was awake until like 3:30, and it was honestly worth how terrible i felt at work the next day lmao. i'm bad at plot summaries (these wrap ups are less reviews, more stream of conscious thoughts on how i feel while i'm reading) but if you like haunted houses, doomed characters, and Breaking the Curse; i'd wager you'll probably like this one. i don't really read ya anymore except for special cases with beloved authors, but i'm rooting for kelly andrew (i got her debut the whispering dark as an arc and thought it was solid, though weaker than this one. i also got this one as an arc lol).

a river enchanted by rebecca ross (elements of cadence #1)

i inhaled this thang. a really good time that i absolutely was not expecting to have. i am frankly scared of the second half of this duology, a fire endless, but i am going to be incredibly brave and read it anyways. magic that slowly kills the user, two sides of an isle that have been at odds for generations, and sentient elemental spirits? i'm all in, babe! only real qualm is the twists don't really feel like twists, but the writing for the characters is good enough i kind of don't mind. secondary characters sidra and torin have the most interesting dynamic To Me (which makes sense because this is ross' adult debut and the reason she shifted it to being adult is because their story felt both too important to leave out, but too mature to stay ya. sorry this month has me talking so much about the transition from ya to adult lmao i have a Lot Of Thoughts) but i’m really interesting to see where this next book takes adaira’s development. fun time! i recommend 

all about love by bell hooks

one of those books where every few paragraphs you just kind of shout "god i KNOW" to yourself. self help/personal growth/relationship books are so personal, i think each reader will get something different out of it and will even pull different conclusions depending on the period in their lives when they do read it. that's the ideal, at least. and to me, this is kind of the ideal form of relationship writing. each focused chapter builds on the last, and while some of her conclusions feel like ones i may have already come to myself, the way she gets to them feels like she's giving me the full context after only ever reading the last page of a book. my only real complaint about it is how definitively every statement is made (idk man I Think It Depends), but i also wouldn't want someone to write one of these books if they didn't believe their point with every fiber of their being. so i know it's just an annoyance i have with the genre at large, not with this particular title. 

once again let me know if you read anything life changing this month. thank you love you bye

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Where I Ache by Megan O’Keeffe Genre: Nonfiction | Poetry Length: 157 pages Published on 10th June 2019 by Author Purchase*: Amazon *these are affiliate links Megan O’Keeffe: Website | Twitter | Goodreads Received for free from the author in exchange for an honest review

Synopsis: Where I Ache is broken up into six chapters ranging from themes such as depression, jealousy, death, and strength. These are delicate subjects to talk about and most people avoid them because of the uncomfortable vulnerability. I’ve always written and shared my poetry with the hope that readers would relate and feel less alone. I hope you feel a sense of community to all of those connected throughout this collection.

I want to open this review with the poem “Lay With Me” as it’s the first one that hit me in the gut.

I believe when reading poetry books you usually end up enjoying the ones that make you feel the most.

(I say this speaking from experience so perhaps it’s just a me thing. The experience being I read a Charle Bukowski collection on recommendation and whilst there was the odd one I liked, they didn’t really invoke much emotion from me.)

And feeling a lot whilst reading this collection I definitely did do.

When Megan reached out offering this for review she did perfectly warn me before hand that it was a collection that covered a handful of tough topics.  (Addiction, mental illness, grief, low self-esteem, etc)

I agreed because I was at a point where I was ready to handle it. But then life kicked me in the butt.

I’ve already spoken about my reading slump and how it was mostly due to real life events making things hard.

So I really had to make sure I picked this up on a steady day, a day I was in control of my emotions.

I really liked that it opened with an author’s note, addressing that the content may be triggering and seeking help is always an option. You do not have to fight your battles alone.

I felt heard and seen.

I had a lil cry and knew that my friendship group are amazing women. I’ll look up to them every day.

But the book, the poems!

I think with every poetry book there are definitely the ones that stand out to you and ones that you might not enjoy so much.

For me the ones I wasn’t really a fan of were those that focused heavily on grief or of losing someone as it’s not something I’ve personally experienced. This isn’t to say they were bad, I just didn’t have an emotional connection to them so when compared with the others that stuckout to me – they felt weaker.

They probably aren’t.

I think what I liked about this collection is that even though you can see the author working through a variety of personal problems there was a handful I still felt I could relate too strongly and that I constantly felt reminded and found myself coming to her final line in the author’s note.

You do not have to fight your battles alone.

Even though this isn’t stated explicitly throughout the poems, just to see these topics covered, written by someone else where enough of a reminder we’re not alone.

We can be strong alone, but we can also be stronger if we seek help.

Overall I did enjoy this poetry collection. It’s the style, genre, and topics that I tend to reach for when I read poetry. I’d definitely give this a recommendation to those who enjoy Amanda Lovelace’s work. I’d read more of Megan’s work and hope next time I’m not in such a weird life funk that I can appreciate it to a better extent.

Like I even enjoyed rereading the poems I screenshot for this review more this time around too!

3.5 stars / 5 stars

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Hi. I saw the post about abandoned farms and I'm confused. I'm new to tumblr and so I don't quite know what it is. Is it writing? Is it real? What is New Zealand gothic? I hate to be one of those annoying people who don't have any idea what the fuck is going on but here I am

okay i wouldn’t normally answer something like this but. idk. a lot of things have happened recently that have made me reconsider this blog and my writing and everything so i may as well answer, because you guys have been sending me such kind messages about my writing and i do really really appreciate it, so here’s a bit of an explanation. tw for death, trans/homophobia, and general family issues

the whole #brand and style of my writing was heavily influenced by the regional gothic movement on tumblr that happened a few years ago, and a lot of the stuff about rural horror really resonated with me and i have a lot of childhood experiences that really lend themselves to that kind of style. the specifics of ‘new zealand gothic’ are hard to pin down and really do come from a place of me growing up on what i believe to be incredibly haunted land. i don’t mean like literal ghosts or demons, i mean land that has seen untold amounts of violence and grief, and has held on to that like a lifeline. a lot of this comes from specific parts of new zealand history. all of new zealand was subject to brutal colonisation, but two places that have a particularly bloody history are the regions of taranaki and waikato, both of which i lived in until i was 18. if you would like to learn a bit more about that history i recommend starting with the invasion of the waikato and parihaka. so that kind of sets the scene for new zealand gothic and why i feel like land can be haunted. of course there are other awful parts in our history, but i can really only speak to what i know.

the rest of it is incredibly personal. a reoccurring theme in a lot of my writing is drowning and burying and death and decay which. all sounds super edgy but most of it is to do with being trans and dealing with That whole situation. a whole lot of that shit is really internalised but i don’t, really feel like that anymore?? which i think is a good thing. the farms i grew up on had a whole lot of nasty stuff attached to them, and a lot of the things i wrote are true. there were people squatting in the abandoned share milker’s cottages on the farm. there was a child that drowned in the pond on our farm. my nana did tell me about her going home and writing her will when she was sure she was going to die the next day (she didn’t). the things like my ‘guide to exploring abandoned farms’ (which i really wish i had never written) is mostly fake, but comes from various folklore and mythology and weird feelings you can get from growing up on farms. my dad is another huge part of that, since he has a deep knowledge of new zealand and folklore and it’s something we have always bonded over very strongly, which is nice because i have a tough relationship with him and he’s had a tough relationship with his family and all of that boiling together for 18 years on haunted land like. you get some lingering feelings about it.

so yeah, for the most part, this stuff is real, or it comes from a real place. some of it is embellished and exaggerated because it’s writing/poetry so you get a certain amount of wanting it to sound nice but. all this stuff is hugely personal and hard for me to properly explain. but i went back to one of the farms recently and it felt very sad and empty and quiet and i think that’s probably for the best.