Xismosa Xit

I just want to be sword-wielding moss. Is that too much to ask?

Hello all,

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by trying to get at least 6 newsletters out this year because my number of newsletters has been dwindling per year and I’m not a fan of that so SOMEONE has to keep up the numbers.

Prose and Poetry of the Week

Call On Your Gods

I wrote this for a science fiction contest, which I didn’t win but I’m really proud of this piece and I couldn’t wait until the contest was over to share it with you 🙂

Pendulum Rain

I wrote the first draft in a v cool magical realism writing class, and then I reduced the word count to 100 words because I like that challenge. Plus listen to this while reading.

Brazos de Mar y Luna

Written for another class that I am unfortunately not remembering right now, probably because it was back in 2020 or 2021…

Jackalope Burrows

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

  • Not to brag to fully brag, I used to be the person in class who would find the free PDF and share it with the class (comment is from this video)
  • Funism! Includes googly eyes
  • me @y’all but also @me
  • speaking of which, have y’all breached your containment units yet?
  • I love it when my brain cells kiss 🥰 It’s very romantiqúe
  • Let caramel frappe motivate you! 50/50 chance guaranteed!

Oh To Be Sword-wielding Moss

Special Edition

  • There exists a TikTok, circa 2020-2021, of a woman who bought a $200 sword and then says/uses the sound effect “so when do I get some puss?”
  • I can’t find it ☹️
  • Slightly unrelated but bonus nonetheless:

“Baby” Animals

MINI Special Edition

  • Turtle Sanctuary!
  • HOW TO STOP A LESBIAN GECKO ARMY
    • easter egg! In making sure I spelled “lesbian” correctly, I re-stumbled upon this. To the girls and the gays, the queens and the queers: you’re welcome.

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.

  • I FINALLY FINISHED A FUCKING BOOK!!!
  • The Universe In Verse by (and compiled by) Maria Popova
    • Blurbs about scientific topics, followed by poetry that connects to those topics!
    • Just found out there are whole performances about it!
    • This author is actually one of the reasons I started this blog, as previously shared on my very first post.
    • BECAUSE I wanted to make a collection of my writings. This newsletter, as I hope you can see, is a labor of love. I get no money out of this, but I work on it because I want to and I have fun making it. I love learning new skills to enhance this website, PLUS I like the validation I get from y’all hehe

Quotes Quail

I’m always listening 😈 y’all are funny

  • “Más close” – my father about El Vaquero (the dog he didn’t want) wanting to squeeze in between him and my mother

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  • I Ho, You Ho, WeHo!

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  • EYES ON THE ROAD BABY GIRL
  • Did I have a crush on Josh Hutcherson pre-(and post, let’s be honest here)-Hunger Games? Yes. Therefore, this is WILD to see.

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  • “A small BARREL!” – my dad about the size of the “small”(?!?!?!?!??) drink at Regal Cinema Theatré

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  • “Stop acting so small, you are the universe in ecstatic motion” – Rumi

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  • “My SOUL needed that!” – barista #1 about my hugs
  • Then, at a later date:
  • “You squeeze a smile out of me!”

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  • “You feel like an older sister” – barista #2 about my hugs
  • “That’s because I am an older sister!” – me

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  • “The minute you don’t want to write a thing, then you have to write it because that’s where the good stuff is” – about what the guest’s father said about writing
  • Sascha Rothchild‘s episode, “The Journal,” on Family Secrets with Dani Shapiro podcast, minute 18:23

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  • “She is not burdened by the consciousness of original sin” – my brother about Lala having no shame in staring back at us while she poops

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  • “If you’re a bug and you’re seen by a human, then you’re bad at being a bug” – also my brother about a different animal 

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  • “Why you always lying?” – my cousin
  • *shrugs* “It just comes out.” – my father

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  • “May your light inspire them to do good in the world” – a beautiful soul 😭

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  • “If I die in a pussyass way you need to make up a cool story” – friend who I am ensuring will die after me
  • “What’s a pussyass way?” – me
  • “Natural causes”

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  • “I took all the stars in the universe and BOOM” – my beautiful friend while I and another one of our beautiful friends threw our hands down at the same time.
  • This was about what caffeinated drink concoction she made me.

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  • “What did you make me?” – me
  • “Fuck if I know” – see above, bc I told her to make me whatever she wanted

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  • “YOU are LATE!” – barista who sees me many mornings
  • “YOU were not here in the morning!” – me, in the afternoon, showing up at the coffee shop I went to already in the morning

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  • “Dylan do you think Paul has a crush on you?” – Noel Fielding
  • “I held his hand today” – Dylan about Paul Hollywood’s handshake 
  • Yes, the Great British Bake Off.
  • Yes, I love getting inspiration for recipes I’m never going to make.

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  • “Es muñeco!! (he’s a doll!!)” – my Nana upon seeing Dylan for the first time, or, as I like to call him, Mini Jason Momoa.

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  • “Smash or pass” – my friend getting her friend to decide quickly on what Disneyland rides she wanted to get on

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  • “Luz, I got leg hair older than you” – Eda on The Owl House

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  • “The only failure in life is not learning the lesson” – Jonathan Decker on The Nightmare Before Christmas episode of Cinema Therapy

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  • “I don’t need coffee. Coffee needs me” – pues quien más pero mi papa

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  • “he’s peanut butter and jealous” – see above, but he’s also been saying this since forever so idk how it started

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  • “the yin and yang of acrylic [nails]” – a friend about acrylic nails being stronger but kill your natural nails more than Gel X

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  • “why you so mean to me” – the receiving end of my bullying when I flip him off on FaceTime

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  • “I love having Aries friends because they make me look sane” – me, a water sign

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  • “i’m glad you’re here” – a friend and me melting bc I’m a slut for validation

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  • “There’s a part of you that wants to be cherished” – my therapist reading me for FILTH

(O)possum Playlists of the Quarter 

Here, we scream.

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

  • Shooting Stars
    • Yes it’s only 20 minutes
    • meme songs bc one of them got stuck in my head and I couldn’t do anything else until I found it and luckily my brother suggested searching “meme songs” and he was RIGHT
  • Calabria 2008
  • Hot Pink
  • La Chona
    • yes, just the song.
  • Trying to find a particular version of La Boda Del Huitlachoche…
  • Lil Boo Thang
    • my lil boo thang is: still me

Cuervos Chismoses

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

  • Hit me up if you ever wanna just, ya know, scream
  • I am viciously protecting my inner peace
  • AND YET I watched Midnight Mass, at TRIPLE RECOMMENDATION, and all I could think during ~the Easter Vigil scene~ was “why am I enjoying this??”

The Void Shouts Screams 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 are you “a lot”?

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Abrazos and/or high fives,

Ariana

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