Maybe the real Trick-Or-Treat were the friends we made along the way

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Prose and Poetry of the Week

Soft On You My Love

Written about the love I have for my friends and that I can only hope they have for me as well. The prompt was that every line of the poem has to do with one of the five senses. I love all kinds of love, but right now I’m really focusing on platonic love. Society forgets to recognize how important platonic love is. I truly believe that it gets us through life even more than romantic love because even romantic love should come from a place of friendship (and friendships breaks-ups hurt just as much, if not more). Also, I’m not sure how to explain it yet, but for me platonic and romantic love are not mutually exclusive. I have platonic soulmates, and I recently discussed with a loved one about platonic life partners as in “we are here to do life together, even if we do not live together” and I really loved that.

Another loved one recently told me I have so much love to give, and I hope that all of you who have met me also find that to be true.

Jackalope Burrows

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

The opposite of love: the greed of the family in The Fall Of The House Of Usher on Netflix. I usually refuse to watch scary stuff but i loved the ~layers~ of this one, especially surrounding Edgar Allan Poe stories! See the deep dives I watched here, here, and here.
This also lead me to this two-hour long rant about another show from the same writer, Mike Flannigan (sp), Midnight Mass on Netflix, which I have yet to fully watch but already find it fascinating.

(Funny enough, I had already watched a video about Midnight Mass by Genetically Modified Skeptic)
Art, which will eventually be a playlist on my YouTube channel AND as an album on this godforsaken+blessed website. AKA: Welcome to my mind! It’s covered in creative shit, which gets a little too hoarded ~~most~~sometimes.
Healthy life choices are sooooo booooooriiiiiiiinnnnnggggg

(As I try to keep in mind my friend who said “good choices are only boring if you let them be”)

Turtle Races!!! Will report back

Y’all remember Ed, Edd n Eddy?

It’s Spoopy Season, Baby!

Special Edition

THE GLORY THAT IS CHUNK 1
REMEMBER TO ENLIST FOR THE SKELETON WAR

I already found some recruits:
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Ghost Nova 👻

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.

Because all I’ve been about to do is listen to the same audiobooks over and over and over again (@Tamsyn Muir and her literal godforsaken lesbian necromancers), here are

Stories That Haunt Me And I Love It

A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner
- The first short story I read that I truly appreciated, especially because every sentence counted.
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
- I love that every word is important.
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez (sp)
- the image from the last 3 pages kept me up until 4am.

Quotes Quail

I’m always listening 😈 y’all are funny

“Wake up, mate!” *loud smack sound* – Bluey, Season 1, Episode 2, watched after receiving instructions from two (2) cousins with kids to watch this show to me (a cousin without children)

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“Every time I blink there’s something new!” – beautiful baby about my crochet clothes

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“Is that your natural curl pattern?” – a friend of a friend of a friend and I was flattered because it is, in fact, my natural curl pattern and I’m so glad they noticed!

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“I’m sharing embarrassing stories” – me
“That’s what you’re here for!” – my favorite little shit when I went to go visit him for his birthday and got to meet his friends

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“Do you have cocaine?!” – cutie #1
“Which pocket?” – cutie #2
And They Were Roommates™️!

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“What kind of music do you fuck with?” – baby cousin
“Angry Women” – an angry woman (me)
“Nice” – baby cousin

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“GMO baby! These are not 2014’s grapes!” – my brother when I tried green grapes for the first time in YEARS because they were always sour to me and these were perfectly and deliciously sweet

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“Shoutsout Ariana horchata incident” – my favorite beaner
For context!
Picture it: Arizona suburb, circa 2005.
Sprouts had on horchata drink in a box
The box lid was quite flimsy
I opened it, remembered I had to shake the drink first, and “closed” the lid
Shook the box
Immediately got showered in boxed horchata
My favorite beaner sees it ALL
It’s the first time he has laughed AT ME and he RELISHED IT

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“What that mouth do?” – my little shit of a friend as I gargled mouthwash so I almost choked but I didn’t because she would’ve enjoyed that 😜😜😜

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“The un-sexy side of self-care” – a friend I hadn’t physically seen since the late 2010s when I told them about how cleaning my room makes me feel better, wildly enough

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I watched someone close to me dip a CHURRO PANCAKE into HOLLANDAISE SAUCE!!!!!!!

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“Oh! Look at her! Your wife!” – a loved one who knows what I’m about (read: I’m about The Moon)

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“It’s done for you bitches” – my mother trying to repeat the phrase “it’s over for you hoes” that I had taught her recently

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“That’s why I’m not famous. It’s a choice.” – a guitarist friend of mine who doesn’t write songs nor practice his guitar

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“Do not let the fear of being cringe stop you”

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“BYOS: bring your own sporks bitch!” – said to a server in my vicinity

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“That was DEEP in my memory, like five miles back” – me when I told someone that a Sex In The City movie even existed.
If I had a nickel for every Gen Z couple I knew that binged Sex In The City in the past couple of months, I’d have two nickels, which is not a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

(O)possum Playlists of the Quarter

Here, we scream.

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

Hot Pink
- Mostly Chappell Roan, Charlie XCX, and Britney Spears
Neva Play
- Guess who’s on the first song. Go on. Guess.
- [cut out pic of Megan Thee Stallion on cover]
Fabulous
Alecto “Killgod” The Ninth

Cuervos Chismoses

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

Lala turned 16!!!!!!!!

and I made the little hat she’s wearing!!!

Have I ever told y’all about my potato bar dream? That one day, I would like to host a party! And have a potato bar that has curly fries, waffle fries, shoestring fries, tater tots, (I don’t like home fries), hash browns, loaded potato, baked potato, sweet potato, vodka. And I saw a glimpse of that dream:

Tag yourself! I’m “pork sauge”
What are you going to be for Halloween?

And I was 💚

I’m a Frog!! I made Every! Single! Piece!

The Void Shouts Back

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