christine and the queens - saint claude

June 29, 2016

loot

June 28, 2016


I do not have a problem
This is perfectly acceptable behaviour.
...
I fucking love books.


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seb jarnot // tina chang

June 26, 2016

the pleasures club


'I am haunted by how much our mothers do not know.
How a republic falls because of its backhanded deals,
stairwell secrets. My mother does not know I am lying
with a man who is darker than me, that we do not
have names for how we truly treat our bodies.
What we do with them. The other possesses me.
Without him the perception of me fails to exist.
My mother now is taking her sheers and cutting
through live shrimp. When I was a child she peeled
each flushed grape until only the pale fleshy bead
remained. She placed them onto a plate in one shining
mound, deseeded, in front of me. How I sucked and bled
the fruit of all their juice, hypnotized in front of the buzz
of television in each version of my childhood. I am
her daughter. This is certain. I am lying down with a man
who is darker than me and maybe this poem is my
real republic, my face is my face, or is it stolen from
my mother and hung over mine? If I were a dream
you could say my countenance was a string of flickering lights
made of teeth or an expression unraveling like a carpet
into a narrow river of another life. Does truth matter
when it's floating face up or face down?
The answer to this makes all the difference.'


Love

snow white


"'Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.'"


Snow White
(Page 79)


"'The refusal of emotion produces nervousness,' Bill said dipping into the barrel of decadent absinthe. 'Remember that. You are tense as a wire-walker, Hubert. If it is still possible to heave a sigh you should heave it. If it is still possible to rip out a groan you should rip it out. If it is still possible to smite the brow with anguished forefinger then you should let that forefinger fall.'"


- (Page 145)



I hated this.

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martin stranka // stevie smith

Holes in the Sky


'I sigh for the heavenly country,
Where the heavenly people pass,
And the sea is as quiet as a mirror
Of beautiful beautiful glass.

I walk in the heavenly field,
With lilies and poppies bright,
I am dressed in a heavenly coat
Of polished white.

When I walk in the heavenly parkland
My feet on the pasture are bare,
Tall waves the grass, but no harmful
Creature is there.

At night I fly over the housetops,
And stand on the bright moony beams;
Gold are all heaven’s rivers,
And silver her streams.'


The Heavenly City

holychild feat. rac - power play

June 25, 2016

rkcb feat. demo taped - open arms

sick


The result of being a dick and requesting a pony from the shops.
It's so pink...

I did love them as a kid.
When they still looked like horses and not anime puke:
vs

But i am not a Brony.
I repeat:
I am not a fucking Brony.
I may however now need to re-watch the original movie.
...
For nostalgia's sake....
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the girl with all the gifts

June 23, 2016

ployart // sutzkever

AnimalKindIII


'What potion should I give the night so she’ll always wonder?
Her pounding heart’s a rider galloping from the burning wood.

Maybe my pharmacist is awake the next street over?
In a crucible of  bone, snake tears mixed with herbs.

Should I hurry? Call the doctor? A heart like hers is rare.
And to tell the truth, if it shattered, what would I do?'


What potion should I give the night so she'll always wonder?

broken beak - nausea

there once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbour's baby


'The piano—that, too, was an adventure. A little girl tried to learn to play it. Her mother insisted, forced her to sit there and practice. Nothing came of it; stubbornness won out in the end, the stubbornness that protects us from the will of others, that defends our right to live our life the way we want. Even if it means life will turn out worse than anyone planned, will turn into a poor life—but it'll be one's own, however it is, even without music, even without talent.'


There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby
(There's Someone in the House)
(Page 126)

broken beak // saint/humble/deliver

penny dreadfulness

June 21, 2016

HOW
DARE
THEY
?!

sleep forever


Once upon a pre-teen, my eternally tomboyish brainpan wouldn't be seen dead without a cap atop it.
I'd've been essentially naked without one.
It just didn't happen to the point where it's become a seasoned anecdote in reference to the history of me.
And my cap of choice? A red number with Tweety Pie and Sylvester emblazoned on the front.
It was as cool as it sounds.
But then adolescence hit and migraine hell commenced.
My skull is so pitiful that the tiniest amount of pressure can cause full-blown cranial warfare.
Even the fucking clouds give me headaches.


And thus, i put away childish things and resigned myself to a decade of unadorned noggin-based melancholy.
That was until Mr MRDR released this sucker and i thought, fuck it, that belongs on my head, migraines be damned.

We'll see if i'm still as headstrong - badoom tshh - when i'm buried under my duvet, clawing at my temples trying to prevent any brain matter seeping through my pores and attempting to not vomit out of my eyeballs.
Wish me luck?

charles, meet burt

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tolmachev // mcdonough

toilet


"Our cabdriver tells us how Somalia is better
than here because in Islam we execute murderers.
So, fewer murders. But isn't there civil war
there now? Aren't there a lot of murders?
Yes, but in general it's better. Not
now, but most of the time. He tells us about how
smart the system is, how it's hard to bear
false witness. We nod. We're learning a lot.
I say—once we are close to the house—I say, What
about us? Two women, married to each other.
Don't be offended, he says, gravely. But a man
with a man, a woman with a woman: it would be
a public execution. We nod. A little silence along
the Southeast Corridor. Then I say, Yeah,
I love my country. This makes him laugh; we all laugh.
We aren't offended, says Josey. We love you. Sometimes
I feel like we're proselytizing, spreading the Word of Gay.
The cab is shaking with laughter, the poor man
relieved we're not mad he sort of wants us dead.
The two of us soothing him, wanting him comfortable,
wanting him to laugh. We love our country,
we tell him. And Josey tips him. She tips him well."


Three a.m.

keaton henson // behaving

June 20, 2016



All.
But especially this:

the devil's footprints

June 18, 2016


'I used to think the dead travelled away, out to some great distance, as they decayed, over weeks, or months, or years. I didn't believe in the stories they told at school, stories of heaven, little fables of the afterlife; I thought the dead went back to nothing, breaking down slowly, like fallen leaves, or the scatter of bones you find out in the marshland, the bones of a dog or a bird, whitening and breaking down in the sun, everything going to powder, then scattering on the wind.'


The Devil's Footprints
(Page 106)

obvious child


Jenny Slate just reminding me how much of a god damn queen she is.
And how god damn good Paul Simon used to be:

charlie

June 17, 2016

son lux - cage of bones



Slays.
Me.

dan mangan - whistleblower // forgetery redux (feat. tegan quin)


irina albastra

June 14, 2016

the communist unicorn VI

sleigh bells - rule number one

June 13, 2016

sea of bees - willis

luke o'sullivan

June 12, 2016





the book collector

June 11, 2016


'As a bookshop owner, Archie was a bibliophile. He collected books, generally valuable first editions, for his own private collection, too. Their house was becoming more and more full of books. He would buy books and bring them back, like a hunter bringing back the corpses of small animals.'


The Book Collector
(Page 11)

candice tripp

June 09, 2016

Prospect Hill

until the end of the world

June 07, 2016

You can't say i'm not dependable.
The confetti culprit.
Laburnum be thy name.

kate brinkworth

A Window

murdstone

June 06, 2016



I cannot be stopped.
Except by maybe the bank.
Definitely the bank.
I needs me a money tree:

abused

June 05, 2016

Business as usual.
Quite content.
And then Charles happened:
This is right before he slithered up next to me, scented my arm, bit my elbow, bit my knee and then bit the Preacher man.
Such. An. Asshole.
As a result i scampered inside to get away from the fluffy demon.
I do not live up to the claims of my sweatshirt:
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