February 2012
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notes from a unicorn →
seth fischer’s essay on the rumpus on being bisexual.
this had me crying into my rum&coke as i read it this evening. i’ve wracked my brain and i can’t think of a single piece of writing by someone who just got bisexuality the way seth does. which (his ability) makes sense, as he is one too. even among the people i love and trust the most, i often feel erased, or like a...
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I got drunk, and I suppose it was nice to have soft edges instead of hard ones,...
– Jo Walton, Among Others (via holdonmagnolia)
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I believe in my soul that the thing that happens to you when you are sixteen is...
– -John Darnielle
a nobody:
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oh my god i can’t wait to get home tonight and go to bed. no classes tomorrow, & after today nothing due until sunday. i’m staying under the covers till noon, and reading saki all day.
or at least for a couple hours until i feel guilty and start studying again.
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you can’t fix your mistakes. once people are dead, you can’t make them undead.
– (via partythighs)
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my reading of 'the wasteland' is too jungian for...
and i don’t care because
a) the woman who first influenced me in the way i interpret eliot was flawless.
b) archetypes are more fun.
c) i’d rather spend my class-free day tomorrow drinking rivers of tea and reading saki and wilde, but instead i have to write a paper on representations of women in joyce and eliot.
d) despite loving the poem i think its author was a horrid,...
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Be radically sincere. Be in love with the world because the world is this...
– Catherynne M. Valente, continuing to be flawless
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chelsea hotel
so last night, after the derrick brown/noors nederlanse dans performance (which was sublime and transformative, and i’m not quite ready to talk about it yet), and a delicious home cooked meal, the bff and i went to see her friend (ben elliott, the dude in white (& he gets such a good entrance, you guys.) in chelsea hotel at the firehall. it’s a look at leonard cohen’s...
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You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
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– Richard Siken, excerpt from “Straw House, Straw Dog” (via wolvesatnight)
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Fighting and failing became beautiful, hard,
Screwing up became part of the...
– Derrick Brown, from “The Victory Explosion” (via kavachai)
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finally winding down enough to sleep only to wake up half an hour later to another, worse, panic attack: MY FAVOURITE THING
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manifestations & symptoms of my anxiety &...
invisiblestories:
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
panic attacks
exhaustion
shivers
pain - especially in the chest and upper torso and neck
headaches
tension throughout my body
muscle spasms
heartburn, stomach aches, nausea, indigestion, etc
fear. irrational & lots of it.
insomnia/wacked-out sleeping patterns
nightmares & bizarre dreams
hyperventilation/strange...
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