#turns it into a chore

[embossross]

I saw that you mentioned reading poetry, do you mind sharing any recs/suggestions?

oh this is tough because i'm not a good poetry reader. i think my education in it was very poor, so i'm trying to dip my toe in and having mixed results.

i do better with poets writing things that aren't strictly poetry, so i can give a mix:

Golden Ax by Rio Cortez - new collection i'm reading right now that has some longer line poetry that i find pretty powerful

Bluets by Maggie Nelson - an old favorite all about a love affair with the color blue. i found the thematic through line helped anchor me in this collection.

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood - this is a memoir, but you can tell she's a poet by trade long before she tells you. very funny look at the weirdness of the catholic church.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov - this is a strange mystery/experiment that unravels around a poem by an imaginary poet and its post-humous commentary. the poem is written out entirely and pretty fun to interpret (not easy but fun!)

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson - novel in verse; modern retelling of Greek myth, crazy beautiful prose

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - a novel that is ridiculously beautiful in its prose as well

Also, i really love stuff that read aloud has a certain musicality, so tender buttons by gertrude stein (actual poem) and any of sandra cisnero's novels, especially if you can properly pronounce the spanish, because it tastes so sumptuous on the tongue.

And then, i don't know if these are good, but i'm planning to read the poems of adrienne rich, joy harjo, and rainer maria rilke soon.

[fairycosmos]

i hate how 1 task is actually 100 micro tasks

[amygdalae]

(worth mentioning iirc the distinction between types isnt actually as much of a thing as ppl say i just think its fun to make polls and categorize things)

[deimcs]

The Chantry lost control of both the templars and mages. Now they argue over a new Divine while the Breach remains. The Inquisition could act when the Chantry cannot.

[deoidesign]

My comic is so pretty...

The hiatus is letting me take a little extra time on these episodes, and I'm definitely putting it to good use!!!

[neroushalvaus]

One very draining thing about having an openly gay presidential candidate is having the humanity and capability of us openly discoursed everywhere like it's fucking 2013 all over again

[birdmetaphors]

you're already guilty, sweetie

[theangrypomeranian]

I just want my passion back man idk why that's so much to ask for

[ambivartence]

DONGIL

[keeper-of-all-the-random-things]

How to Stay Motivated

So. Your dishes have piled up again. You’re running out of clean clothes. You have skipped bathing and are eating dubious leftovers from the back of your fridge. How do you overcome the slump?

Rescue a whumpee!

Not to do the work for you (though they may want to). No, no.

Rescue a whumpee because of the way they look up to you. The way they admire your relaxed domesticity as you clean dishes that you own. You have clothes that aren’t covered in blood and grime, warm from the dryer. Amazing. Bathing whenever you want. Inconceivable. Look at their wide-eyed wonder as you place fresh food before you both.

Rescue a whumpee and save two lives.

[cod-dump]

Graves, in a flirty tone: Tell me something dirty

Price: I'm not wearing underwear

Graves, grinning: Oh really-?

Price: Because you still haven't switched the laundry over to the dryer even though I have asked you ten times in the last thirty fucking minutes

Graves: Uh-

Nik: *laughs*

Price: What the fuck are you laughing at? You still haven't done the dishes!

Nik:

Graves: ... I can buy a dishwasher-

Price: No he's not getting out of this!

Graves: Sorry, Nikky. I tried

[coquelicoq]

post-canon every single member of kimcom likes to spoon kim dokja. nonsexually. it's just nice to know he's alive and there and feel his chest rise and fall within the circle of your arms. try to do something stupid now asshole. oh you can't? because of my octopus impression? that's right. take THAT. however i will make one exception for yoo joonghyuk. yoo joonghyuk may want to spoon kim dokja, but he never gets the opportunity because kim dokja wants to spoon him more. so the sleeping arrangement is yjh>kdj>all other kimcom members on rotation. actually i take it back there's one other household member who doesn't want to spoon kim dokja and it's yoo mia, but that's fine because she's one of the only people (besides kim dokja) who yoo joonghyuk would be comfortable spooning. so there's probably times when it's yma>yjh>kdj>today's lucky winner.

incidentally this is also the order for the doing-each-other's-hair train because while yoo mia WILL allow other people to do her hair, no one wants to because she always compares their skills unfavorably to her brother's. and she's really articulate about it. just utterly scathing. one time her criticism was so devastatingly, accurately incisive that she made lee hyunsung cry. yoo joonghyuk spooned him that night to cheer him up and yoo mia was so mad about it that lee hyunsung had to leave the country for a couple weeks. the household learned a valuable lesson that day. it's best not to disturb the delicate spooning/hair-train balance.

[impishtubist]

I simply think it would be very sexy if Wolfstar writers wrote fic where Remus has to actually put in the work to be a partner who is worthy of Sirius. None of this nonsense where Sirius is the one groveling and apologizing - why should he? Why is Sirius always the one apologizing in fics??? Why is Remus always the one who is mad? What does he have to be mad about?? Make noodly pathetic Remus spend the rest of his life groveling and apologizing for thinking Sirius was the traitor, leaving him in Azkaban, and never checking in on Harry. Maybe in twenty years Sirius will forgive him 😂

[8ball-wizard]

evil nautilus is once again psychically attacking me by making me go into a frustrated misery spiral

[thiirdchildren]

anime glasses glint

[wifihunters]

y'all week one of being on adderall and with all genuine feeling this is wild in a very good way