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Hello all,

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Prose and Poetry of the Week

Coracao

I wrote this one trying to fulfill the 300-word limit of a challenge on Vocal but whoops! It’s 600 words. But I was still proud of it, and became even more so when it became a Top Story on the website! Feels nice to get outside validation 🙂

Jackalope Burrows

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

• My playlist of Non-threatening Chaotic (mostly) Men
  • it’s most white men, idk why. I would like to say bc it’s healing to see non-threatening (mostly) white (mostly) men. It’s just what I’ve found, maybe I can blame the algorithm.
• Speaking of chaotic men, I don’t know how to explain it, but I am In Love with Jason Mantzoukas who usually looks like this:

• put I found a picture of him with no beard and it’s freaking me out

• This dude who makes soccer balls just made his most powerful yet

• This would heal me

• and also dancing with this woman

• just like everyone else, obsessed with The Turkish Dad

• this post because I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING!!!

• Star Wars – and I cannot stress this enough – Burlesque

• ^When it’s so straight that it actually loops back to gay! @women “dressed” as men-coded characters
• so, drag?
• I, too, love eldritch horrors

• Painting at my local coffee shop, I wasn’t able to find who the artist is but will update if I do! (slideshow, there’s 3 pics)

• I have updated my albums! You can find most of them in the menu bar too 🙂
  • Anti-Capitalist
  • The Beauty of The Mundane
  • The Urge To Create/Creation Creates
  • Toxic Femininity, with a sneak peak: SNAKE PUBES

Put It On My Fucking Tombstone

Special Edition

Book Búho

What I’ve been reading/listening to bc audiobooks let me do both. Yes, comics count. And sacrilegiously, I even learn from ones I didn’t finish.

• Dreaming: Poems by Yesenia Luna
  • this one rocked my shit, WAY too fucking relatable, self-published.
  • Would y/all be interested in my own self-published work?
• Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology edited by Michael Walsh
  • started reading this in early 2022 and I’m still not done, and I still highly recommend
• Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  • audiobook for the second time, leading me to re-read:
• Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  • physical book AND audiobook
• Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  • ebook AND audiobook
• Hence! Me trying to find more Locked Tomb animatics, AND inspiring my Alecto “Killgod” The Ninth playlist

Quotes Quail

I’m always listening 😈 y’all are funny

• I made my father U-turn for this:

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• “perhaps”

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• “Fall in love with yourself, life, and then with whoever you want” – Frida Kahlo (please consider reading this article about cultural appropriation of Indigenous people)
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• I sent an update to a friend and she felt the need to respond with

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• “you know, the gay brunch spot.” – one friend
• “They’re all gay brunch spots.” – me and our other friend simultaneously
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• “Let. The House. Crumble.” – Atsuko Okatsuka about letting both men and women be lazy in the household chores
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• “I’m short, but I’m closer than any of you to the size of a gun” – another comedian at Chris Fleming’s show, I didn’t catch her name 😦
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• “The Jehovah’s Witness haven’t tried talking to me, and that’s a little fucked up” – a person that even Jehovah’s Witness could see is a lil shit
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• “Newly Single LA Hottie” – Megan Thee Stallion
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• “Are you single?” – me
• “I am free. I am crazy but I am free.” – a Newly Single LA Hottie
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• “Good ideas are boring if you let them be” – my handsome gorgeous friend
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• “Dommy mommy” – me about a friend who out-mom-friends me
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• “Don’t let someone take too much of your heart if they’re not gonna give it back. You deserve someone who’s going to give it back.” – another sweet friend I needed to hear.
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• “Maybe you just have bougie taste buds” – my cousin when I, for the first time in living memory, actually liked strawberries that just so happened to be FRESH-PICKED by our – my niece and nephew -own hands that morning
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• “Lala has three days. Reject, accept, fight… BEAST MODE” – My dad about Lala accepting Life cereal for breakfast
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• “my mind is three squirrels on cocaine in the middle of robbing a bank” – my friend who has three squirrels for a brain
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• “that’s my wife”
• “that’s my mom”
• “so I’m your stepmother”
• ^ my cousin and I looking at the moon. I’m The Wife.
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• “I’m too interesting for this.” – me, sometimes.

(O)possum Playlists of the Quarter 

Here, we scream.

And, “apparently,” I listen to my short playlists for a “wildly long time”

• Make Up Your Mind
  • inspired by The Locked Tomb animatics
• Fabulous
• Lil Boo Thang
  • where I am my lil book thang, and I only listen to Chappell Roan and Hozier
• Alecto “Killgod” The Ninth

Cuervos Chismoses

chisme = gossip. ”e” ending instead of “o/a” in Spanish for more gender inclusion

• I WENT TO THE MEGAN THEE STALLION CONCERT ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

• and I made a sticker of her 🥰 🐍

• I went to Mexico with my grandmother 🙂 (slideshow)

• Seeing this Pedro Pascal cutout that I was tempted to… take.

• I’ve been making my own crochet clothes! Love always doing something with my hands
• met a little frog friend

• Went to a Chris Fleming show because of this one clip

• The Full Moon in Aquarius rocking our fucking SHIT

• Thus: The Supermoon!

The Void Shouts Back

If you would like to respond but don’t know what to say, answer the question below. If you don’t want to, just respond with keysmashing or send me a hug with your thoughts. If you don’t want to do that either, that’s okay too.

• How do you ground yourself?

Thank you for reading and for your patience! These take me a week or two to make so I truly appreciate the read. If you want some cheap retail therapy to go along with it, please check out my stickers.

Abrazos and/or high fives,

Ariana