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“You Could Start A Cult” - Niall Horan / “This Is How You Lose the Time War” - Amal El-Mohtar / “A History of My Brief Body” - Belcourt / “For My Lover” - Tracy Chapman / “Wouldn’t Come Back” - Trousdale
#niall horan#you could start a cult#tracy chapman#a history of my brief body#amal el mohtar#this is how you lose the time war#word weaving#word webs#wouldn’t come back#trousdale
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
Trains are arguably the centre of everything. The sinew of civilisation for muggles and wizards alike. They are where all walks of life converge. Congregate. In synchronised traversal. Shared agony inflicted by the piercing screech of metal on metal, bonding all patrons aboard a carriage. And outside. A passing glimpse of someone you thought you’d never see again. Trains. They change everything.
“You’re still with Timothy McKinnon?”
“Yeah.”
He nodded and took a swig of beer.
“Actually we’re engaged.”
He put down the glass a little too roughly. “Oh.”
Oh.
Lust is so inadequate. And loving exhausts me.
— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters
― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy
Lily was breath and bucking hips and grappling fingers. She was a plant in darkness and he was the sun. Light streaming through a window. Hot breath on her neck. He was temptation, salvation. And Lily was nothing if not indulgent.
— Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
“What’s got her wand in a knot?” Peter asked as Dorcas returned to the other end of the Gryffindor table.
Dorcas shrugged. “She wouldn’t say.” She snatched up a muffin just as James, whose face had maintained a glum quality since the previous evening, pushed hastily from the table and stormed out of the Great Hall.
— Carrie Underwood, Look at Me
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#BTDATS#jily#jple#ansgt#smut#fluff#slow burn#uncertainwallflower#images source: pinterest unfortunately#between the desire and the spasm#virgina woolf#virginia woolf: selected diaries#anne sexton#a self portrait in letters#margaret atwood#you are happy#billy ray belcourt#a history of my brief body#carrie underwood#look at me
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“To love someone is firstly to confess: I’m prepared to be devastated by you.”
— Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
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“I want to be a bad girl
I want to be a bad girl so there’s a musicality to my rebellion
To be a bad girl is to be one of the most furious things in the modern world
To be a bad girl is to be one of the most admonished things in the modern world
A bad girl is she who has rid herself of the brutalities of socialization
The antithesis of the bad girl is the man who self destructs”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
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To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.
— Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
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“If I were to rank my aesthetic concerns, ambiguity would come before veracity.”
-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
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To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.
Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
#Billy-Ray Belcourt#A History of My Brief Body#quote#quotes#love#someone#confess#prepared#devastated
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a history of my brief body by billy-ray belcourt
#poetry#writing#a history of my brief body#billy ray belcourt#quotes#this whole book is hitting me but i felt like the tumblrinas would really like this one#post#ok to rb
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“To love someone is firstly to confess: I’m prepared to be devastated by you.”
Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
#wehavewords#billy ray belcourt#A History of My Brief Body#words#quotes#life quotes#life#quotes about life#true words#quotes about love#love#favorite quotes#book inspiration#book quotes
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a history of my brief body by billy-ray belcourt
#a history of my brief body#billy ray belcourt#book quote#book excerpt#literature#literature quotes#literary quotes#acab#abolish the police#this entire passage is incredible
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"If I try to compose anything but sad poems, I fear it'll be akin to a widower trying to convince others that he has found happiness again by wearing a T-shirt that says HAPPINESS."
-A History of My Brief Body: Essays
Billy-Ray Belcourt
#billy ray belcourt#a history of my brief body#i often discuss with my therapist that i am unable to write happy poems#or enter a creative space that burns anything other than trauma as fuel#and i don’t think its healthy or sustainable#but perhaps its what i need right now#maybe being unsustainable isn’t always bad#essays#poetry#book quotes
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"To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you."
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“my last partner turned states evidence against me...”
#mine*#herbert west#reanimator#beyond reanimator#bride of reanimator#danbert#horror ///#just making myself sad. for fun#quote is from A History of My Brief Body by Billy Ray Belcourt fyi
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“To my mind, joy is a constitutive part of the emotional rhetoric and comportment of those against whom the present swells at an annihilating pace. With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance.”
A History of My Brief Body - Billy-Ray Belcourt
#quotes#literature#a history of my brief body#billy ray belcourt#joy#resistance#creativity#lgbtq#queer#indigenous writers
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My current Puppet History theory is that the Professor is a ghost who is using the mystery box to keep himself on this plane of existence (who set it up for him? a different question), and that at the end of the season he's going to possess Ryan so he can have a physical body again.
All the rewards this season are gonna be self-care type items because the Professor is priming that beef boy for a body swap (best case scenario?) or a full possession where they're brain roommates (worst case scenario???).
(my other, less prevalent theory is that that isn't the Professor and the real one is going to show up at the end of the season to save Ryan)
(but that theory lacks vengeance, so)
(I'm not feeling it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
#puppet history#watcher#tell me im wrong#my brief theory though#was that the Professor was gonna#shove him into the box#to MAKE a new body#but i feel like thats#too many special effects#and complicated#either way we're gonna see ryans best#professor impression#i can feel it
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There is a dead future with my name on it in the territory of my people. There isn’t much one can do but run when the future becomes roadkill. I didn’t wish to find out what it might take to incorporate roadkill into the everyday, to drain it of shock value. One would likely need to sacrifice inner life, uninvent it. In Introduction to the History of Art, which I took years ago, the instructor informed us that photography, much like portraiture, enticed many to rethink the contours of the self, also sometimes called the soul. Perhaps in leaving I didn't choose to be soulless. I chose instead to continue looking at myself.
Billy-Ray Belcourt, History of My Brief Body.
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