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lunchboxpoems · 1 year

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ELEGY FOR KENTUCKY

Nowhere to drive, night upon night that last summer, but back back to the cokey couple I was crashing with in their 26-year habit. On the way there the same horse always dying at the curve before I turned, like a kitschy disco ball, onto their street, name I can’t recall. There she lay toppled like a toy figurine. Calm but huffing, a laboring machine making steam, though the cold air belonged to June, its grief. A filly done before becoming a mother, great belly black & wide as all surrender & that magnificent face still against the grass waiting on the end. There she was every time whispering something to me, a line throbbing, a visible heartbeat I watched in the mirror for hours with my huge horse eyes. I needed to see her, to make sure she was still there. I went the same way each evening wanting to feel something, to see this once-immortal creature get up. Any weak thing was welcome to finish me then & when he came into the room with bridle & bit, on his 26-year high, when he came up on me where I was lying at that curve in my mind, arms & teeth numb, I did not resist. Just a muted yell inside for months before it lit on me like an ancestor. As a child, I followed my grandfather across the street behind our house Longfield Avenue, backside of the track where the thoroughbreds for that May’s Derby were trapped, bored of what they were bred for, all their royalty within a corral. My hand, a child’s offering, was empty when they snorted & drew their worn noses across my palm, yet, it was in their nature to remain friendly toward me. My home did not keep its promise after my grandfather died. There was no protection for what I was without him. Lone black filly. Finished before becoming. She must have tired of standing there high-headed, waiting for me to ride her out of that war, to call out let’s go. We are done here.

JOY PRIEST

#joy priest #poem #poetry #horses #horse poem #kentucky #animal poem #animal poetry

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tomorroe-jones · 20 days

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I think of Whitney Houston in her sequined glamour She’s centerstage It’s 1988 Her head Thrown back against a black backdrop She is the only thing glowing So distant from us in the universe

of her voice She is already dying when I hear her sing the first time When I slip inside my rhinestone leotard white tights Before a mic My vocal chords are still elastic Vibrating harpstring

Not yet sclerotic with unlovely smoke and shame I’m drawn to Whitney like a cardinal on a branch in winter Beauty too bright for camouflage Her story a constellation twinned with mine. I love myself because of her. Our sweet lip sweat sparkling in the flame light. I went home inside myself too. The world became so small. Secrets collapsing my life into a vacuum. To burn a little longer— Whitney, you know no one is coming—you must save yourself.

#poetry #joy priest

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thesefevereddays · 1 year

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When I See the Stars in the Night Sky

By Joy Priest

I think of Whitney Houston in her sequined glamour

She’s centerstage It’s 1988 Her head

Thrown back against a black backdrop She is the only thing

glowing So distant from us in the universe

of her voice She is already dying when

I hear her sing the first time When I slip inside

my rhinestone leotard white tights Before a mic

My vocal chords are still elastic Vibrating harpstring

Not yet sclerotic with unlovely smoke and shame

I’m drawn to Whitney like a cardinal on a branch

in winter Beauty too bright for camouflage Her story

a constellation twinned with mine. I love myself

because of her. Our sweet lip sweat sparkling in the flame

light. I went home inside myself too. The world became so small.

Secrets collapsing my life into a vacuum. To burn a little longer—

Whitney, you know no one is coming—you must save yourself.

#poetry #joy priest

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thegoodmorningman · 1 month

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It spreads on so thick. Good Morning!!!

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brother-emperors · 5 months

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I adore how you manage to tickle these very intimate emotional moments from tiny detached throw-away sentences describing historical events. You're a master at filling in the deeply human blanks of history. I hope to one day be as good as you are at extrapolating emotion and nuance and momentary life from the often very broad strokes history is written with.

a couple years ago, I got ahold of M. L. Clarke's The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus and his Repuptation, and the way the book closes rewired something forever in my heart

it shifted my focus from being a spectacle enjoyer to wanting to sit around these figures like machiavelli writes about doing and ask them questions and see what reply is given, which also made the political spectacle more interesting

and a huge part of it is that one of my favorite genres is romance, and erotica is fun too. its a genre that is character heavy and reliant on intimacy and I LOVE character driven narratives. my favorite kind of stuff from my other two beloved genres, horror and mystery, tend to be focused on character moments, driven by internal and external arcs (OCN's the Guest, you'll always be number one in my heart forever and ever).

even though I'm doing circus stuff with historical figures, the fiction aspect of it is HEAVILY influenced by those genres because that's a lot of what I read and also enjoy writing. I'll never be good at writing dense political fiction spanning across a huge world (the thought of attempting anything on the world building scale of ASoIaF makes my brain hurt, and Im also not interested in doing that), but my god will I pick a guy and spend months in his ribcage imagining situations and wondering what he liked to eat for breakfast.

this was!!! really nice to read!!!!! thank you so so much, anon

#ALSO I AM ROOTING FOR YOU! i hope that you have fun and find joy in creating narratives!!!#the journey getting to where you want to be is the most fun part #im constantly in awe of Priest and every time i re read one of their novels im like. GOD. that's where i want to BE #ask tag

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oldmen-enjoyer · 5 months

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I know it's not as bad as that time where the wiki team immediately labelled him as "romantically interested in Amy" just cause he's old and a man ( he's just being manipulative to the core)

But holy shit just call him demon or like, "high ranking demon" WHY YOU DIAGNOSED HIM WITH ALPHA

#faith airdorf #faith the unholy trinity #gary miller #cant get #it #idk about John #ig hes a beta priest then #im joking please i dont like omegaverse #like /neu #joy rambling

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cheezitofthevalley · 11 days

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music blinkies: Pt 1

ngl I have no idea where most of these are from. If anyone knows comment and I'll give credit/remove if they want.

more coming!

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toaster-fire-art · 1 year

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double date vibes

because the alt text has a character limit, heres the quotes:

For the Faraway Wanderers one:

(Wen KeXing) “What...do you think makes a good person? Why do people have to be good?”

(Zhou Zishu) “Think about it. If you only rely on yourself your whole life, always being on guard against everyone else, having no relationships or anyone to care for you, wouldn’t that be too pitiful? It’s too miserable, being a bad person.”

For the Lord Seventh one:

(Wu Xi) “Beiyuan.”

(Jing Beiyuan) “Hmmm?”

(WX) “In this life, you will be the only one in my heart. In the next life, and the life after. I will frever remember you, so long as my soul hasn’t scattered.”

(JBY) “I don’t know who I’ll be in the next life.”

“The head won’t remember, but the heart will. I must have said something like this is a past life.”

“I don’t...remember you saying anything like this in my past life.”

“Even If I didn’t say it for you to hear, I have recited it a million times as I watched your back.”

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sky-kiss · 6 months

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Raphael comes to her with sharp edges and teeth, searching for control and finding it in the play of her body.

She thinks, sometimes, that she would find it comical if it wasn’t so tragic. Raphael demands what she would give freely. Her devil comes to her in a flurry of movement. He longs to fight and conquer, but the gates are open, her surrender tendered.

(NO ONE LOOK AT ME. I KNOW. I SPENT ALL DAY SAYING HE DOESN’T CARE. HE ISN’T SOFT. I KNOW. I RECOGNIZE MY SINS. I’M A HYPOCRITE.)

#bg3 raphael #raphael x tav #raphael x oc #baldur's gate 3 fanfiction #my writing #oc: joi #hormones got the best of me #Frikk #need priest Raphael #to repent of my sins

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canisalbus · 10 months

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been scrolling through your art today because the way your shapes flow is such an inspiration and i had a question pop to mind. Machete is part of a religious institution and seems to command some respect as an adult, what's his rank Like bishop, cardinal ect I found myself curious about it!

He's a cardinal!

#answered #justmaghookit #bishops typically got this purplish fuchsia color going on whereas cardinals are themed bright red #all of these start out as basic priests who wear all black and they can continue to wear black even if they get elevated to a higher rank #the pope is the only member dressing fully in white #at least in broad strokes I believe #technically you usually need to be a bishop before becoming a cardinal so he's that too but mostly in name only #thank you! I'm glad you find my shapes flowy #I think I might be a very shape driven artist they spark joy in me

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notchainedtotrauma · 2 years

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“Everyone wanna put hands on a piece of your life”

Joy Priest

#antiblackness as the foundation of the world #the afterlife of slavery #the terrible terror of social death #Joy Priest

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den-ai-d · 9 months

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Commission for FanaticofBeads on twitter!

The incubus Samuel presents his recently made crop top (scissors were involved) to the appropriately mortified Fr. Javier😆

#art #commission #artists on tumblr #I loooooove getting cute couple commissions #working on them is just a joy #and this one's priest x devil #which is like #PERFECT SHIP MATERIAL

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casketvamps · 8 months

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my favorite thing about that season 2 dvd extra where the boys are standing in the dark playing a band naming game is when you can hear brendon and tommy almost break and start laughing a little bit because it just makes it sound like they are all having the time of their fucking lives

#metalocalypse #''heheehee hey guys! judas priest!! oh wows!!! heehee''#they're cute when they're not being shitheads <3 #murderface especially sounds like he's having so much fucking fun. he's so goddamn happy. finally some joy in his life

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thesefevereddays · 1 year

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Looking for the Beautiful Things

By Joy Priest

I live in Texas now. & in the next lane over on I-10

BIG JEFF is soaring at twin-speed toward the dusk-pending horizon

& something base & graceful has taken us over

like, if I took my hands off the wheel, we could lift into the air & become

part of the indistinguishable wave of laughing gulls above.

BIG JEFF says his license plate, which I first checked when I let him pass

10 miles back because his lights behind me

were the Second Coming (or the First Coming, in his case, if we’re making

the usual jokes about men with big trucks).

But I don’t want to make unbecoming jokes about BIG JEFF, who is

right now, accompanying me down this interstate

of solitude, not leaving me behind or riding my bumper, just gliding

beside me as if he needs someone too, as if he trusts me

& said to himself in his blue-lit interior, Hey, I’m gonna hang on her wing.

She seems to know how to get where we’re going.

She’s probably a hellcat. No balls hanging from his tow bar, just BIG JEFF

on his pearlescent Ford Super Duty, which has a row of three

headlights on each side & which, I admit, I was more than annoyed by

when he came up behind me like an astrodome

on wheels. But Texas is home now & this is the way of things—BIG JEFF

& NASA, tacos & trucks. The only state with more guns

than Kentucky, the expert at the range told me before I left. I am an expert

at beginnings, a Lone Star once again, as I have been

in every state I’ve lived—the Bluegrass, the Garden, the Palmetto, the Bay—

each time hoping I’m closer to the beautiful things.

#poetry #joy priest

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mejomonster · 10 months

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I got potential news (not happy, but I mean not sad). Latest justice in the dark (rumor) updates: was taken down due to legal issues (likely copyright) and they do plan to re air from the beginning at a later date once issue is taken care of and cdrama airing timing is right. Rumor is actors were requested to rake down their farewell letters. Meaning... the show is back in hiatus. Like the past several months. Except now the 8 episodes can only be watched on unofficial sites in the meantime.

Schrodingers cat isn't probably the right comparison but like. It's the potentially perpetual unknown status show. ToT

Anyway I saw 2 posts on weibo which were rumor only, mentioning airing later, and one post on weibo mentioning the reason for taking the show off was copyright issues.

On mydramalist comments someone mentioned a Twitter thread on why it was taken down, but I can't see shit on Twitter right now so im just going by what the comment said. The Twitter thing they quoted: Cao5903 (@cao5903) Staff Youku said: "Due to some unexpected reasons that could not be controlled in time, we had to take down #JusticeInTheDark to handle it. Wait for it to be okay and then replay it from the beginning."

#rant #justice in the dark #modu #so 1 i am literally going to WILL this show to finish airing or fucking leak full drop like joy of life did #i mean it i will make the universe. im like #im over the WALL my favorite priest novel got ALL this quality only to be unseen. FUCK #2 i maintain (very illogically and based in absolutely nothing) that the shows i want to air #will air when i heal. so by that metric? jitd will air possibly within a few months #since i can eat bread again and am starting to sprint again #assuming i get a solid month of better health the outlook is good (i sound so random lmao)#and hyx will likely air september to january (if ever) if im Optimistic that i can start lowering my medicines this fall #and an aside i Wish someone fucking leaked hyx just dropped the whole thing joy of life style #the script already got leaked for fucks sake #(i have a copy if u want to read it i guess?)#but like the studio made hyx to be the Biggest danmei of all time and then missed the #hype train ans word of honor took the crown #and now who knows if hyx will ever be SEEN

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i--am-the--one · 1 year

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"God doesn't love you. Not like I do."

#The Witch and the Priest. Ain't that interesting?#ewan mitchell #anya taylor joy #olga of the birch forest #osferth #the northman #the last kingdom

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