& each body a lion of courage

Sabrina (1954) dir. Billy Wilder

The Blush Silk Organdy Waltz Gown - use PAMMY to save

A not admitting of the wound (1188) by Emily Dickinson

together in our flock

Gouache on paper ,  12 x 12 in.

Yosano Akiko, from a poem featured in River of Stars: The Poetry of Yosano Akiko

jess keogh

despite its brevity that first sentence is genuinely such a rich text. genuinely fascinating implications of rap and hip hop being framed as specifically outside of the bounds of the "blorbo picturers," a phrase presumably meant to encapsulate what the asker considers to be the "typical" fandom blogger and with which they explicitly identify themself (note "us blorbo picturers"). the presumption that normative participation in fandom precludes knowledge of and familiarity with rap is, to say the least, a loaded one, which bears out years of formal and anecdotal analysis by nerds of color (NOC, if you will) that construct fandom as a space that treats whiteness as default and is thus often alienating if not outright outright hostile to NOC. in this essay I will

Obsession 2026, dir. Curry Barker

― Persepolis (2007) dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

Morning lights

Toni Morrison, excerpt from Beloved

qiuzhi / zheyuan wuxia comic

Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts