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Indigo, Ellen Bass
#quotes#poetry#quote#poem#ellen bass#id in alt text#girl that has seen Hannibal……I’m getting Abigail Hobbs vibes from this……..
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atm i'm sick over charlie hauling al into a hug after he's helped her figure out the answer to something monumental, and luci can see the easy implicit trusting way she leans into him
#and like. we know he could never lose her; charlie loves w all her heart and then some#but for one terrible second he WONDERS#bc he wasn't there.#and he loves charlie ofc‚ it goes without saying‚ but he /wasn't there/#and now she's sinking into the arms of an overlord w a smile on her face like it's all she ever wanted#truth be told i'm also sick abt how in the process of isolating charlie from her family she becomes his soft spot#& he ends up personally offended over luci's absence on her behalf#yes folks i am STILL plagued by the-bridge-scene-from-arcane-but-charlastor#that poem by Ellen bass: and life will never be the same. even when you get her back. hell leaves it's mark.#LIKE. I WISH CHARLIE'S HEARTACHE W HER DAD HAD MORE ROOM TO BREATHE#i wish a LOT more shit had room to breathe#charlastor
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— and maybe my life has been scarred with loss, and at times it felt inescapable. But that’s the risk of love, right? For the first time in my life, the love that I feel is infinitely more powerful than the fear of losing it.
ellen bass, the thing is.
#cause this poem has been living in my head for months#had to get it out somehow#911: lone star#tk strand#tarlos#words#poetry#911lonestaredit#carlos reyes#ellen bass#the thing is#myedits
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"You're the Top", Ellen Bass
#read this poem & was like GODDAMNIT ELLEN BASS EVERY TIME weeping crying screaming wailing i really got devastated by it & looked to see her#anyway. need this here because she gets me every time and also because i feel absolutely unhinged about the bits of the middle where it goe#there are no gods / but not everyone is cursed every moment. there are minutes / hours / sometimes even whole days#when the earth is spinning 1.6 million miles around the sun and nothing tragic happens to you.#i do not have to enter the land of everlasting sorrow.#vestigial old gods detroit au#for fucking SURE and then also. jack eichel. connor mcdavid. because where's drartemysia i want to slide this into#ajax jack#ellen. ellen. my god. ->#but i tell myself it's too soon to give it up. though the dark seems darker than i ever remember.#and the world resolves as if it were a problem you had to solve
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getting into bed on a December night by Ellen Bass
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Ellen Bass - Getting Into Bed On A December Night
When I slip beneath the quilt and fold into
your warmth, I think we are like the pages
of a love letter written thirty years ago
that some aging god still reads each day
and then tucks back into its envelope.
- Getting Into Bed On A December Night by Ellen Bass
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Relax
by Ellen Bass
Bad things are going to happen.
Your tomatoes will grow a fungus
and your cat will get run over.
Someone will leave the bag with the ice cream
melting in the car and throw
your blue cashmere sweater in the drier.
Your husband will sleep
with a girl your daughter’s age, her breasts spilling
out of her blouse. Or your wife
will remember she’s a lesbian
and leave you for the woman next door. The other cat--
the one you never really liked--will contract a disease
that requires you to pry open its feverish mouth
every four hours. Your parents will die.
No matter how many vitamins you take,
how much Pilates, you’ll lose your keys,
your hair and your memory. If your daughter
doesn’t plug her heart
into every live socket she passes,
you’ll come home to find your son has emptied
the refrigerator, dragged it to the curb,
and called the used appliance store for a pick up--drug money.
There’s a Buddhist story of a woman chased by a tiger.
When she comes to a cliff, she sees a sturdy vine
and climbs half way down. But there’s also a tiger below.
And two mice--one white, one black--scurry out
and begin to gnaw at the vine. At this point
she notices a wild strawberry growing from a crevice.
She looks up, down, at the mice.
Then she eats the strawberry.
So here’s the view, the breeze, the pulse
in your throat. Your wallet will be stolen, you’ll get fat,
slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel
and crack your hip. You’ll be lonely.
Oh taste how sweet and tart
the red juice is, how the tiny seeds
crunch between your teeth.
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hi pauline - my friend is trying to get into poetry (and reading in general) but hasn't really read much, and i was wondering if you know any poems/poets that are good for a beginner?
oh man I remember the first thrills of poetry creeping up on me. here is a list of good poems for beginners that have been sweeping me off my feet for years and will hopefully do the same to your friend. most poets mentioned here are really great for beginners in my opinion so feel free to explore more of their works
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
“The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass
“How to Not Be a Perfectionist” by Molly Brodak
“A Blessing” by James Wright
“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara
“What the Living Do” by Marie Howe
“Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“Stolen Moments” by Kim Addonizio
“Ode to Friendship” by Noor Hindi
“Wish” by W. S. Merwin
“The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road” by Ada Limón
“Elegy for My Sadness” by Chen Chen
“When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows” by Paige Lewis
“For M” by Mikko Harvey
“Try to Praise the Mutilated World” by Adam Zagajewski
“Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” by Ocean Vuong
“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by e.e. cummings
“Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris
“Good Bones” by Maggie Smith
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
“Please Read” by Mary Ruefle
“Grass Moon” by Matthew Dickman
“O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love” by Anne Carson
“Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” by Matthew Olzmann
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ORV Poetry Series: Getting Into Bed on a December Night by Ellen Bass
#its pretty much a series now aint it#orv poetry series#orv#omniscient reader's viewpoint#omniscient reader#yoohankim#yhk#kim dokja#han sooyoung#yoo joonghyuk#orv fanart#my art#long post#orv spoilers#oh my god i forgot to tag spoilers earlier#ORV NOVEL SPOILERS#ORV EPILOGUE SPOILERS
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hi yaz 💕 i was wondering if you had any recs to start reading poetry. i like reading dreamy, melancholic or warm concepts? i don’t even know if this is useful. but i literally have no idea where to begin 😢
hi hi hi! omg i’m actually so excited on your behalf... getting into poetry is like opening a door you always knew was there for the very first time and stepping into a brand new world laid out just for u! there is absolutely no wrong way to go about exploring it. 💌
firstly i really recommend signing up for a daily poetry newsletter because i have found so many wonderful poems that way. you can sign up for the poetry foundation newsletter here & the academy of american poets newsletter here & the paris review newsletter here! poetry anthologies are also a wonderful way of getting a taste of a lot of different works centered around a particular time period or theme & poking around in the poetry section for an interesting one next time u find yourself at a bookstore might be very rewarding for you!
and secondly here are some recs that came to mind when i thought of the words dreamy, melancholic, and warm. luckily there are lots of poems out there that fit these parameters. i hope u like them!
heart by dorianne laux
there is a gold light in certain old paintings by donald justice
the shampoo by elizabeth bishop
we have not long to love by tennessee williams
the leaving by brigit pegeen kelly
winter love by linda gregg
your night is of lilac by mahmoud darwish
my mother’s music by emilie buchwald
this morning by jay wright
effort at speech between two people by muriel rukeyser
in the museum of lost objects by rebecca lindenberg
sometimes, when the light by lisel mueller
a girl ago by lucie brock-broido
a song on the end of the world by czesław miłosz
dead butterfly by ellen bass
the spinner by paul valéry
#it took me a day to get back to u because i really did want to find the right poems. but some part of me worries that a few are almost too#similar to each other in terms of vibes… so let me know if you’d like any other recommendations! 🌟#asks#ref#uploads
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Getting Into Bed On A December Night
When I slip beneath the quilt and fold into
your warmth, I think we are like the pages
of a love letter written thirty years ago
that some aging god still reads each day
and then tucks back into its envelope.
Ellen Bass
#poetry#words#ellen bass#december nights#man#woman#couple#in bed#fairy lights#christmas lights#tenderness#black and white
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i'm feeling defeated about a lot of things in my life lately (but mainly my career), can you recommend any poems/quotes/anything with words of encouragement? i don't want to give up, but i deeply feel "why bother?"
hi anon 🦋 I deeply relate to ur words even though our circumstances r probably very different. I’ve been in an awful place lately and it’s only two days ago that I decided that I would get my life together even if I didn’t want to live it. Looking for quotes to bring u some comfort ended up comforting me in return by reminding me of things I believe in. So I want to thank you and I truly hope reading all those poems and quotes make you feel somewhat better. You ask “why bother?” and there are thousands of things I could say to contradict you but I simply want to as you in return: “why not?”
Your Shadow Invents You Every Time Light Fails to Pass Through You by Michael Wasson (Listen, my love. This year is just a visitor & next year’s / ghost. Take care of it because yes—yes, you do deserve flowers for once / in your life.)
Snowdrops by Louise Glück (afraid, yes, but among you again / crying yes risk joy / in the raw wind of the new world.)
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón (Fine then, / I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf / unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.)
The Thing Is by Ellen Bass (to love life, to love it even / when you have no stomach for it)
The Letter by Linda Gregg (I’m not feeling strong yet, but I am taking / good care of myself)
Letters To a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” and “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”)
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Ask Polly: ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’
Ask Polly: Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World! (”You are young and you are learning how to live”)
Ask Polly: Why Should I Keep Going? (” You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself.”)
“Ask Polly: Is Life All Downhill From Here?” (“Stop cringing — at your future, at your failure, at yourself in the mirror — and stand up and look directly at who you are. Not who you should’ve been, but who you are now. Let that person in. Let her be as mediocre and wrong and shameful and sad and miserable and brilliant and hilarious as she wants to be, because she knows exactly what you need to feel good. She has plans for you. She wants to show you what comes next. She wants to take you into the future you’re dreading and say, “See? You never would’ve imagined this.”)
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Kinda want to get a tiny little "travel bass" so that I can actually take a bass on the bus with me bc I am NOT bringing Ellen Ripley to gigs, even if I did have enough hands for her, my synth hardware, AND my backpack gear.
also it just kinda looks sick af to me like fuck your flying V I got a flying nothing (and it's not like I use the tone knobs anyways, I use fuzz pedals lol)
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top 5 poems (or lines of poetry) please and thank u <333
hi bel!!! <333
oh my this was hard! took a bit of time to think! will still need to get back to u on these bc im like not 100% sure what my all time favs are but some i really like are:
"the thing is" Ellen Bass
"poem" langston hughes
"Scheherazade" richard siken
"moments," Mary oliver
"the cremation of sam mcGee" which i have at multiple points memorized w my brother & we have said to each other forever.. & has inspired part of an original story im working on! like "There are strange things done in the midnight sun / By the men who moil for gold; / The Arctic trails have their secret tales / That would make your blood run cold..." ugh
honorary mention to this part from mary oliver's "franz marc's blue horses" - "maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of god in each of us" which i have thought abt a lot for my major & in general
what are yours?? a goal of mine is to read more & diff types of poetry!!
ask me my top 5 of anything :)
#ty ty bel 🥰🥰#in true tumblr fashion we have richard siken & mary oliver on this list!#if anyone else has poetry recs too pls lmk :)#bel tag#asks
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Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden, Postcard greetings, (Digital track), 2024
Johan Graden: arrangement, mellotron
Ellen Arkbro: vocals, trumpet
Josefin Runsteen: viola
Pär-Ola Landin: bass
Per Texas Johansson: bass clarinet
Composed and produced by Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden
First appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of I get along without you very well
#graphic design#art#music#music album#cover#ellen arkbro#josefin runsteen#pär ola landin#per texas johansson#2020s
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task 001. 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚎𝚛.
last updated 02/20/2024
BASICS.
𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 seth hiroshi masters — seth hiroshi from birth, masters 1996-onwards, following his legal adoption.
𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 cowboy greeting professionally, apparently; gnomerodeo if you know him from online. believe it or not, it is a coincidence.
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌 will sharpe
𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐒 thin scar cutting through his eyebrow, healed-broken nose, occasional facial twitch/spasm
𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐒 / 𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒
japanese maple (right shoulder); canada goose in flight (right bicep); soot sprites (left forearm); kermode bear [spirit bear] (crook of left elbow); pistols pointing down (matching, both hips); portuguese water dog [his childhood dog sam] in play (left calf)
pierced right ear, small gold hoop
𝐀𝐆𝐄 / 𝐃.𝐎.𝐁. 38 years old / 2.2.1986
𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂 aquarius sun: unconventional, abstract, boundary-pushing, roots for the underdog; scorpio moon: intense, passionate, dramatic, struggles to let others in; sagittarius rising: independent, optimistic, confident, charismatic yet blunt and critical
𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍 powell river, b.c. / brampton, ontario
𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘
ellen and rod masters (parents); mackenzie irish (sister); brandon irish (brother-in-law); june irish (niece)
kaiko mcintyre-masters (daughter, lives with her mother) — his favourite person on planet earth, hands down, would do anything for her, keeps several pictures of her in his wallet, will not be letting anyone here who doesn't already know she exists know about her.
𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 / 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒 cis man, he/him
𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 gay
𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒 single, never married.
enjoys hookups and casual relationships; has dated on-and-off; last serious relationship ended several years ago; says he's prioritizing work and his daughter, truly has no interest in committing to the people he meets.
𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐒 thoughtful, considerate, loyal, obedient
𝐍𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐒 timid, disconnected, tendency towards disinvestment, capacity for fixation/malicious compliance
𝐇𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐒 vaping, compulsive gaming, more-than-occasional drug and alcohol use, late night wandering, not texting back
𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒 gaming (particularly world of warcraft and rust, social games); bass guitar; powerlifting; cooking; rec-league rugby
𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐒 (𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄) tobiko — tiny crusty white mutt. sometimes known as tobi or toebeans. currently being cared for by his parents.
THE FOUNDATION.
𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐅𝐅 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄 jr. researcher
𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍(𝐒) jr. researcher for the reintegration department; field analyst doing site evaluations on a number of mtfs — some might call this "glorified operative hall monitor", which he would resent
𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 last worked for the anomalous entities engagement division (aeed), researching the efficacy of humane containment procedures and enrichment programs against more traditional methods of containment — some might describe this as "glorified scp babysitter", which he wouldn't necessarily object to
𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐒 / 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒
formal credentials include: a b.a. in psychology, with a focus in cognitive and behavioural psych; a masters of social work, with a focus in public policy and family systems; several years of experience writing policy in the non-profit sector, several years of experience working with vulnerable clients in the field
informal credentials include: an impossibly high tolerance for bureaucratic bullshit, an iron stomach, thicker skin than you'd imagine, genuinely sense of care for those around him, not caring whether or not he personally gets fired, fluency in boardspeak
EXTRAS.
𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘 to be added.
𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 to be added.
𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 / 𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒 to be added.
𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 gideon nav, the locked tomb; dr. wilson, house; antigone, jean anouilh's antigone; camilla hect, the locked tomb; oh dae-su, oldboy
𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒 to be expanded upon. for the time being, see my cg tag.
#fhq.task#fhq.seth#seth.task#LOTS I STILL NEED TO ADD I KNOW I JUST WANTED . SOMETHING UP#least unsettling list of character inspirations /s
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