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"...how terrible all the words were for body parts and how fast you used them up. Rod, manliness, womanliness, soft mounds, staff, nub, pleasure bud, stiff peaks. [...] Sugar stick, cranny hunter, fornicating engine, plugtail? [...] Cat heads or Cupid's kettledrums for breasts. [...] tuzzy muzzy, dumb glutton, crinkum crankum, venerable monosyllable...
[this book is so full of joy]" — Mar 13, 2026 03:54AM
"...how terrible all the words were for body parts and how fast you used them up. Rod, manliness, womanliness, soft mounds, staff, nub, pleasure bud, stiff peaks. [...] Sugar stick, cranny hunter, fornicating engine, plugtail? [...] Cat heads or Cupid's kettledrums for breasts. [...] tuzzy muzzy, dumb glutton, crinkum crankum, venerable monosyllable...
[this book is so full of joy]" — Mar 13, 2026 03:54AM
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"oh my god oh my god what have I done why did I ever think I could sing, why did I ever think I could be seen, be known
[oof this is more disemboweling than anything involving knives]" — Jan 18, 2026 09:37AM
"oh my god oh my god what have I done why did I ever think I could sing, why did I ever think I could be seen, be known
[oof this is more disemboweling than anything involving knives]" — Jan 18, 2026 09:37AM
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"Her throat bore pinkish words reading, _This machine is not a place of honor._
[from Hailey Piper’s “The Majestic Art of Flesh”. I’m probably not supposed to think this at this point in the story but a Sandia nuclear waste warning tattoo is extremely hot]" — Dec 22, 2024 07:09AM
[from Hailey Piper’s “The Majestic Art of Flesh”. I’m probably not supposed to think this at this point in the story but a Sandia nuclear waste warning tattoo is extremely hot]" — Dec 22, 2024 07:09AM
Trans women in real life are different from trans women on television. For one thing, when you take away the mystification, misconceptions and mystery, they’re at least as boring as everybody else. Oh, neurosis! Oh, trauma! Oh, look at me,
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“Ajax falls on his sword. Juliet drinks the poison. Jane Eyre is undone by fire. Prometheus pays for his transgression with his liver.”
― How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
― How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
“But humans aren’t meant to survive divorced from the help and hope and love of others, and neither are the drones. We must reject calls for self-sufficiency, self-care, and self-actualization. We help the drones, but we have to help each other too.”
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“There is no such thing as prose. There is the alphabet, and then there are verses which are more or less closely knit, more or less diffuse. So long as there is a straining toward style, there is versification.”
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“All of this makes dying sound meaningful and sweet. And it is true that, if you are lucky, there is a seam of sweetness and meaning to be found within it, a vein of silver in a dark cave a thousand feet underground. Still, the cave is a cave.”
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
“Some poets have argued that the rejection of line carries a kind of political charge, just as poets once felt that the rejection of rhyming verse for blank verse or blank verse for free verse carried a political charge. This may be true in a particular time at a particular place. But it cannot be true categorically. For example, even if the heroic couplet was once associated with hierarchical thinking in the eighteenth century, it does not follow that the heroic couplet will always inevitably be doomed to reproduce the same hierarchies in our thought. The relationship between formal choice and ideological position is constantly shifting, and it isn’t possible to predict the repercussions of formal decisions except inasmuch as we might see them played out in the work of individual poets.”
― The Art of the Poetic Line
― The Art of the Poetic Line
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