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Miranda Thinks About Things

@miranmiran / miranmiran.tumblr.com

She/her, 30s. Loves television, history, ladies, and laughing. Mostly television.
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hey, solidarity to everyone out in philly tonight protesting the police murder of walter wallace jr. i know the story’s probably gonna get buried by all the supreme court stuff, so if anyone out there has a specific bail fund or mutual aid org that people trust out there please let me know about it so i can boost it. i’ll be keeping an eye out in the coming days

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legallyhermione
#Philadelphia#police violence
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hymnsofheresy
“Platonic love is vital, essential, and perhaps the one thing left in this wretched landscape that could save us all for a little bit longer than we deserve. I love my friends even when I don’t tell them enough. I have crawled from the wreckage of enough heartbreak to know who will still be standing when I emerge and who won’t, and I hold those still standing close to me.”

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, “Carly Rae Jepsen and the Kingdom of Desire” in MTV (via merulae)

#Carly Rae Jepsen
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lemonistas
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bill-blake-fans-anonymous

I really need to bookmark this page to look at whenever I'm feeling discouraged. It dissects the creation of Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," a poem that is so perfect in form and execution as to seem completely inevitable. But of course, there are fifteen drafts of the poem before the final one, and each draft evidences enormous struggling and meandering on Bishop's part. She's fighting with the poem the whole way through, and an enormous effort went into refining it over and over until it took on a viable shape. So it's not that I'm a shitty poet, necessarily; maybe the poetry just needs to go through a thousand drafts.

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sungodsevenoclock

Yeah. As Mayakovsky said

Поэзия — та же добыча радия: В грамм добыча, в годы труды. Изводишь единого слова ради Тысячи тонн словесной руды.

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deadpanwalking
#poetry#Elizabeth Bishop#One Art
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lemonistas
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existentialcrisistime
One thing I did notice quickly, in music, is it’s hard to convince people that you’re not telling your own story. You spend a lot of intellectual energy going, No, no, this is not my story. But then you grow up and you go, Look, if I tell you a story, there’s a piece of me in it. I have come all the way, full circle, from “none of my work is autobiographical” to really believing that all work is, to some extent, nonfiction. It doesn’t matter what you’re writing; you’re telling me something about yourself. I used to find this terrifying, and now I find it kind of comforting. It means down there, at the bottom, at your core, there’s something that’s you, and it always tries to make itself known in everything you do.

— John Darnielle, interviewed by Helen Rossner in The New Yorker, 24 April 2022

#John Darnielle#storytelling
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rue-bennett

You know, when I was a kid, I had this ritual. I closed my eyes before I walked into my room, ‘cause I thought that one day when I opened them my sister would be there. Just lying in bed, like nothing ever happened. You know, I’m still walking into that room… everyday of my life.

the x files → 1.04 conduit
#oof#when you go back to conduit for the 'i want to believe' scene and you get this#X Files#I'm still walking into that room#ritual#trauma#grief#haunting#where can i put it down?
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tmgbanter
jesuswasasexual-deactivated2017 asked:

This is the only good blog in existence thank you! I wish i could remember properly a thing jd said about up the wolves at a concert. It was about abusive parents and how u want to destroy them but u also miss them deeply when they are no longer there.

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tmgbanter answered:

I definitely feel like I’ve heard that banter but I wasn’t able to find it in any of his intros for Up the Wolves. The closest I was able to find was here:

“If you are one of the people who likes The Sunset Tree because you, like me, lived in an abusive household, a thing happens when your abuser dies that’s like an egg breaking open and all of the good stuff coming out. And you shouldn’t- not you shouldn’t. You don’t want to say, “oh, I’m so glad that guy died.” Because you’re not. It’s a complex situation. But at the same time, there’s a freedom that comes for you. It comes stealing up on you like a great shadow, and a really warm and enveloping shadow that’s a great place.”

I know that’s not really the right one, but I’ll definitely keep an eye out for it in the future.

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#yeah...yeah#thank you john who else is talking about this no one#Up the Wolves#grief#abuse#Sunset Tree#The Mountain Goats
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