She's a Rebel, She's a Saint

@achillics, vulnerability

Joan Tierney (x)

Richard Siken, Wishbone

Ada Limón, The Good Fight

José Olivarez, I WAKE IN A FIELD OF WOLVES WITH THE MOON

Lady Gaga, Judas

@bipeds (x)

Tom Lehrer, The Masochism Tango

Yves Olade, When Rome Falls

Florence + The Machine, Kiss With a Fist

Schuyler Peck, Horoscope for the Heartbroken

Venetta Octavia, I Set It in Stone

@heavensghost, Dead Girls Don’t Lie

Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain

Dead Girl Walking, from Heathers: The Musical

Terrence Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Richard Siken, Primer for the Small Weird Loves

[kingdom hearts]

CR's never even made that kind of double-edged promise (except in jest). Their constant thing is instead: "we're going to do what we find interesting and fun, and we hope you like it."

It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:

like say I need to make dinner, but on my way to the kitchen I see a coat in a place it shouldn’t be. I don’t trust my memory enough where I could just register that and pick it up later– if I don’t do it right then, I probably won’t notice it again after dinner while getting ready for bed, and it might just be left there indefinitely. So my option is to just leave it there and make dinner immediately or to become “distracted” and put it away.

While I’m putting it away, I might notice my bag of prescription meds by the door, which at an earlier crosspoint I had moved on to the urgent thing (e.g. putting away groceries) and forgot to come back to it. I have a hard time processing time, so I don’t actually know how long the pills have been sitting there and how many times I have noticed them before without addressing them. I know that if I don’t bring the meds over, then I might not have them where I need them when I run out of what’s in my weekly pill container, and I don’t remember how many days are left. Now I have another decision: do I ignore the meds by the door for what could be the second or even third time so I can start dinner right away, or do I actually take the pill bottles out of the bag and put them on the table and shred the receipts?  If I decide to just do the first part, then I’m leaving receipts around which isn’t considerate. If I decide to shred it, I might notice that other things need to be shredded too. Should I shred them all at once, or only shred these receipts?

If I could trust my memory, then these observations about the room (the coat on the couch, the bag of pills by the door) would not be distracting from making food. Because I could just file the information away and think “I’ll make supper, eat supper, clean up after supper, and then take care of the coat and pill bottles, and then refill my weekly pill container.” But from experience, making that choice to “do it later” means I will not be able to withdraw that information I filed away, and it will not get done. If I don’t do something right away when I notice it, then I will not be able to remember it until I organically notice it again.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'