Xismosa Xit

Hello all,

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by the wheel of time, where if you’re late enough, you actually end up at the time you wanted. AKA, I had originally wanted this to be sent out on Mondays anyway.

Discussion of sexual assault will be marked by **at the beginning and end of the discussion.** Like I say, I try to keep this light and funny, but my life leaks flows into my writing. Don’t feel the need to read if you can’t/don’t want to! Skip to a hoestory in Rabbit holes instead 🙂

Prose and Poetry of the Week

Pearly Whites

I present this to you in honor of the Lore Olympus: Volume One book coming out, which comforted me in an unfortunate way. (Firekeeper’s Daughter was also part of the comfort.) And, I finally wrote about the following experience in a nonfiction sense this past week. But this particular piece is technically fiction. 

**Alexa Baczak argues that you should write what terrifies you, especially when it comes to your trauma. Her article is my inspiration for writing this piece. I was raped my senior year of college by a guy I invited to my room. Your immediate reaction to that might have been that I brought it on myself then. Our culture leads you to think that, but I hope you think better of me than our culture. Before that, I went on a date with a guy that I had said I would go home with, and then I changed my mind on the way there. He was mad at me for it. This story is a melding of both unsettling experiences, and how I wish I had had power over them.**

Library Search

I wrote this while procrastinating studying for exams my sophomore year of college, when I was a Sociology and Physics double major (I was in Physics only for a year). I had been staring at physics and spherical coordinates for a few hours in a carroll at the library, even ordering in Lemon Thai there. I walked the stacks and found Latinx authors and I wanted to check out all the books.

Rabbitholes

Things I’ve learned, laughed about, and/or obsessed over

• “suddenly his subconscious finishes putting the pieces together and gives his conscious a resounding bitch slap” – I can only find it here and I’m in love with it.
• Holland and I started watching Doctor Who, which led them on a Lord Byron Wikipedia rabbit hole, and I love drawing family trees, so we made this family hoestory! Sibling-cousins are WAY too prevalent.

Personal Chisme

chisme = gossip

• I think I have exciting work things coming up! After the holiday season, I’m not sure what’s next for me, but I like to think:

• I was thrown against the wall by the booster vaccine.
• I HATE STANDARD TIME. IT’S SO DARK SO EARLY, AND FOR WHAT? COWARDICE.
• Not switching time is the ONE thing that Arizona, Hawaii, and parts of Indiana do RIGHT.

I hope you still enjoyed today’s newsletter. For lighter ones, please explore my blog at Colochos de Flores. 

Abrazos and/or high-fives,

Ariana