citationless behavior

Richard Siken continues to kill it on twitter. He just explained why his poetry is so popular in tumblr graphics - "you can take any of my quotes and apply them to any fandom or picture and they will work because they are sad and mopey and full of longing" and then proceeded to demonstrate this. With cat pictures. With lines of his poetry slightly altered to be lol cat speak.

(from his twitter thread here)

People are doing their own versions in response and he is complimenting them.

spam emails are horrifying on an entirely different level once you actually begin to grapple with the material reality of ‘cyberspace’. how many servers were involved in dumping this message into my trash folder, where are they located, how much water goes into cooling them every day? where did the metals come from to build these facilities, who maintains them, how much labour and suffering and exploitation is required to bombard me with 50 messages a day i don’t even look at for products i will never buy? not just useless or a nuisance, but actively harming the earth & its people, and for what. zero social value, zero human communication, just capital trying to metastasise

guy who has “committing to the bit” on the skill section of his resume

Sol, Miami Beach Resort Hotel - Miami, FL (1992)

Designed by Charles Pereira & José Martinez of P/M Studio 

Scanned from the October 1992 issue of Designer’s West Magazine 

You just know a sharp cheddar hit different here

just saw a horse scurry under the fridge

reject booktok culture. go to the library and get a weird little novel you’ve never heard of in your life and read it all in 2 days like god intended.

this too tbh

gonna say something controversial and it’s that carrot cake is fucking delicious and possibly the best cake flavour 

also I keep seeing people saying they thought richard siken was long dead. one person said they thought he was a colonial poet. quick question. what.

thou art in a wagon with a comely lad

me. me when a poem says something ive felt before

てらす or Terrace by Karin Hosono

it is so funny to me that palamedes and camilla are set up as The Reasonable People in gtn and continue to be viewed though that lens by many other characters throughout the books but every single book just strengthens the hypothesis that they are actually kind of insane. like. they are absolutely unhinged. palamedes made himself a river bubble despite all existing evidence saying it was impossible to do and camilla scraped 96 tiny skull fragments off the floor and glued them together and they shared a physical form for six months and at the end of things they chose mutual destruction rather than confront the possibility of one person continuing to exist without the other. all of these things are backed up with theorems and mathematics but it does not change the fact that they’re not quite the actions of Normal People

i could be so powerful if i got over my fear of everything that exists

Four of Swords

I TRIED TO CONVERT A NON-FUNCTIONING VIDEO IN VEGAS AND IT FUCKED UP

fully sober and lucid walking down the street googling "is it normal to get a haircut" "am i allowed to get a haircut" "is the guy at the barber shop going to be mad at me when i go in there"

grocery store mission barely accomplished took massive damage to the hull and all internal systems. shield repair could take days