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After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural - Summer Farah "I make paintings and watercolors of Tamalpais. Again and again. Why do I insist? Am I trying to hold some image, to capture some meaning, to assert its presence, to measure myself to its timelessness, to fight, or to accept? —Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais" I understand, I tell her, the desire to not only return but to be consumed. I have had obsessions, I have been made small by those obsessions, I wonder if you would agree it is possible for something to be absolute but still unseen. I was Cassandra, once. I wanted dearly to go to the mountain. Instead of cliches, I design my pulse to loneliness anew. It’s different than ten years ago—I go outside, now, take its contradiction with me. Oh the most painful love-story of them all! These gaps between comprehension! I could never forget, no matter how many times they beg me to. The mountain was there before us and it will be there after. Yes, a return; each journey wrought another history, each day I try to capture its form; why do I insist? In lieu of a paintbrush, I sew my voice in its throat. In the Beginning, there was Blood, Horror, Myth, Obsession; and then there was Love, there was, I swear, when the static spilled! again and again, our eyes stained with its evidence, We find new proof uncovered on every return. We were all Cassandra, once, young and hysterical, oh, I hope you’ll understand I take it so seriously when I say the violence shifted subjects. Oh, we screamed! we screamed! We swore our eyes were true! Audience becomes the blood, the horror, the myth, the static, Again, and again, you said, again, and again, I say, again, again.

Chart with the categories "disproved by canon / not disproved by canon / actually canon" on the horizontal line and "lightly implied / heavily implied / practically canon" on vertical line with a still of dean and castiel supernatural hugging filling up every section

happy november 5 👼 poets.org/poem/after-m...

these make verrry thoughtful gifts, by the way. any haunt commissioned now will be done in time for da holidayz

stingrays active in the DMV area.

make sure your turn off mobile data while outside unless absolutely necessary and leave your phones at home during protests (or at minimum, turn mobile data off & airplane mode on)

Could you flip the fuse?

Qualcuno ha tagliato gli alberi

A Reading List for Native American Heritage Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Native American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of November, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend…

Celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list! Featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Love you!!!! Glad for the updates

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Cranberry witch

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

I am having Such a good time on eBay with the 1998 calendars :) I also was like WOAH ANNAS GUYS

www.ebay.com/itm/27738469... @zenyanna.bsky.social :]

i just learned you can use 1998 calendars for 2026 @zenyanna.bsky.social www.ebay.com/itm/19418991...

Ooh I love all the different Vietnamese vermicelli noodle bowls and soups you can top with a fistful of fresh herbs.

I painted ur dog

that's her blessing

Grayscale geometric design with glyphs that almost look like words. The "words" "kinship" and "adjoining" can be made out, but not many others.

ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry!

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One Poem by February Spikener the (dead)name speaks What my girl will never see is her mother digging in the night, screaming like a horse about to be shot as she unearths my tomb. Only I am witness to my own desecration: her mother holding herself over my grave, all my ashes dried jagged in her open mouth.

One more from the archives!

the (dead)name speaks by February Spikener from beestung for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

a digital drawing of a tiny cat with a straw hat rowing a tiny rowboat through a cranberry bog. giant frogs stare at it. the cat says, "frogs and cranberries it must be fall."

was going through the archives for a patreon post and remembered probably one of my top 10 fave catcrumbs ive ever drawn

a simple drawing of a cat being picked up by the tail by tweezers. text reads, "pick it up and take it away!"

#catcrumb

I know he's just his bones but he looks so skinny I didn't recognize him

One of the best to ever do it

Does it not start to get blunt again?

I trust you enough to try it!! Kenji that cheese was just getting ready to go to university...

a melon memento mori for #peachtober25 day 19: melon

old bay sweater 🦀🦐🍗 thank you very much 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

really circling back to changeling adjacent abductions

I will try it even tho sometimes I get nervous about cheese spread for personal reasons