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solipseismic · 1 year

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2022 poetry rec list

wrapping up this year w another poetry rec list! this year i’ve leaned a lot more into actively reading and writing much more poetry and hope to be publishing a compilation of my work (hopefully!) this time next year as well :) once again, i’ve tried to link what i could back to original sources + authors but a few of these link to tumblr posts / screenshots. this one is MUCH longer so i’ve organized it into my fav 15 + the rest below the cut!

top fifteen:

desert hymns no.2 (@/prophetfromthecrypt)

despite my efforts even my prayers have turned into threats (kaveh akbar)

erishkigal specializes in butchery (joan tierney)

for the dogs who barked at me on the sidewalks in connecticut (hanif abdurraqib)

fricatives (eric yip)

hammond b3 organ cistern (gabrielle calvocoressi)

let your father die energy drink (daniel lavery)

morning prayer with rat king (kaveh akbar)

not even this (ocean vuong)

on coming back as a buzzard (lia purpura)

the swan (@/tinyghosthands)

sometimes i wish i felt the side effects (danez smith)

song of the insensible (andrew kozma)

space boy wearing skirt (lee jenny)

the stars are warm (chung ho-seung)

everyone else:

14 lines from love letters or suicide notes (doc luben)

blood makes the blade holy (evan knoll)

border patrol agent (eduardo c corral)

carpet bomb (kenyatta rogers)

death comes to me again, a girl (dorianne laux)

desert (john gould fletcher)

do you consider writing to be therapeutic? (andrew grace)

dust (dorianne laux)

first will and testament + missing persons (sam sax)

fish (richelle buccilli)

for the feral splendor that remains (caconrad)

glitter (keaton st james)

gravedigger (andrew thomas huang)

heart condition (jericho brown)

it is maybe time to admit that michael jordan definitely pushed off (hanif abdurraqib)

leaves (lloyd schwartz)

letter to s, hospital (emily skaja)

metaphors for my body on the examination table (torrin a greathouse)

miss you. would like to grab that chilled tofu we love (gabrielle calvocoressi)

my brother, asleep (steven espada dawson)

my brother out of rehab, points, (ron riekki)

my cat is sad (spencer madsen)

notes from jonah's lecture series (tanya olsen)

publick universal friend contends with orthgraphy & meditates in an emergency (day heisinger-nixon)

red stains (allen tate)

red shift (david baker)

salvage (hedgie choi)

shoulders (naomi shihab nye)

social skills training (solmaz sharif)

the 17-year-old & the gay bar (danez smith)

the desert dispels this hallowed ground of coarse insinuations (julia wong kcomt)

the twelfth day (rosanna warren)

two-mom energy drink (daniel lavery)

two poems (rachel nelson)

two times i loved you the most in a car (dorothea grossman)

un [naming] / trans (after golden) (angelic proof)

valentine for ernest mann (naomi shihab nye)

vi. wisdom: the voice of god (mary karr)

WAITING (keaton st james)

what mary magdalene said to the young transsexual (elle emerson)

wild geese (mary oliver)

worms (shyla hardwick)

#poetry #poems #poetry recs #poetry rec list #masterlist #croidhe #2022 #happy new year everyone :)#excited to see what next year's poetry is in store for me !#to be is to be backlit #writing

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zytes · 5 months

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this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

#misc #I encourage anyone dyslexic to try rotating him in your mind. I can’t do that; which is why I’m asking you to.#also: a bunch of tags are surprised this isn’t ‘shopped #it’s the lighting. backlit by the sun (which is diffused through the water) but also forelit artificially #the artificial light - a flash pack or something - casts a hard shadow under the creatures arm #which normally wouldn’t be possible if backlit by the SUN; you’d see a less-hard/more-fragmented shadow above water #as light sources ‘compete’ in a sense - and since there aren’t any light sources which can outshine the literal sun #it looks a bit weird when the darkest shadow is being cast from any other origin point - which is what’s essentially happening here #I don’t know the mechanics of how light travels through water; but I know the effect is substantial even with relatively short distances #also: it’s been balanced and color corrected by the author of the photo - who made deliberate choices to bring out the full potential #so it’s not like it’s a fresh and untouched export #but the kind of ‘tacked on’ appearance of the creature is a result of the lighting conditions within the image

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excavatinglizard · 3 months

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I’m Your Man

He’d killed a man fifty iles back, Vash pretending not to have heard the gunshot, but long before that, he’d wanted.

Sometimes the best part about being an artist is being able to do art for your own fics

Usually I would have done the paper sketch larger on the next page but I liked what I had so I just. Cut and pasted bits of it into procreate and lined from there

#vashwood #trigun fanart #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun maximum #fellas. fellas is it gay to stare up at your homie backlit by stained glass in the middle of a sand storm #illustration #excavatinglizardsart #trigun #religious imagery #‘again with the religious imagery lizard. really?’ I hear you say #I’m so sorry they’re just stuck in my brain #i have a whole sketchbook without religious imagery I swear!#or. mostly #yes wolfwood’s nose looks different in every step I was SUFFERING

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doctorsiren · 1 month

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Part 10

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luddlestons · 9 months

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one thing they don't tell you about levitation cantrips is that they make it very easy even for your scrawny wizard boyfriend to sweep you off your feet

#critical role #shadowgast #my art #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #i said i was gonna take it easy coloring this one #and then i decided for them to be backlit from 4 light sources #apparently that's taking it easy these days #dancing lights is just really pretty ok

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hauntedbystorytelling · 2 months

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Yasui Nakaji / Nakaji Yasui : 安井仲治

蛾（二）/ Moth (2), 1934

#Yasui Nakaji #moth #1930s #Nakaji yasui #蛾 #安井仲治 #japanese photographer #insects #backlight #backlit

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campodefiori9 · 4 months

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Angelic Titmouse at Tupelo meadow ,Central park.

#tuftedtitmouse #titmouse #angelic #cute #backlit #bird #centralpark #newyork #manhattan

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leemiya · 3 months

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TZUYU I Got You

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textless · 3 months

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#flower #morning glory #blue #heavenly blue #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #arizona #macro #backlighting #in the yard #garden #backlit #fall #autumn #october #whats the story morning glory

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ashtreehollow · 11 months

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Cinematic parallels

#generation loss #genloss #genloss finale #genloss spoilers #i don't think this was on purpose but the inspiration is just so #i love solid color backlit characters on the verge of death #Ash blabs #ranboo #THIS IS JUST ME MAKING A FUN OBSERVATION AMD THIS SHOT WAS INSPIRED BY TGWDLM THEN THAT'S VERY COOL

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solipseismic · 4 months

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2023 poetry rec list

technically a day late but who cares! i don't. it's gonna be a long one this year too despite not having read or written as much poetry as of late; i'm putting my overall fifteen favorite + poetry book recs up here and the rest below a cut to spare your dashboards :)

2022

2021

books:

calling a wolf a wolf (kaveh akbar)

cinema of the present (lisa robertson)

dictee (theresa hak kyung cha)

pilgrim bell (kaveh akbar)

prelude to bruise (saeed jones)

the crown ain't worth much (hanif abdurraqib)

top 15:

abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphym subjugation of a wild indian reservation (natalie diaz)

about eight minutes of light (robert king)

at luca signorelli's resurrection of the body (jorie graham)

ginen the micronesian kingfisher [i sihek] (craig santos perez)

gods, gods, powers, lord, universe-- (chen chen)

kupu rere kē (alice te punga somerville)

look (solmaz sharif)

ode to the 9,000 year old woman (@/goodbyevitamin)

one art (elizabeth bishop)

petitioning the patron saint of childbirth (danielle boodoo-fortuné)

so mexicans are taking jobs from americans (jimmy santiago baca)

the death loop (jon lovett)

the difficult miracle of black poetry in america: something like a sonnet for phillis wheatley (june jordan)

the madwoman as rasta medusa (shara mccallum)

vocabulary (safia elhillo)

& the gun echoed for centuries; interlude with drug of course; & the light devours us all (yasmin belkhyr)

a brother named gethsemane (natalie diaz)

a map to the next world (joy harjo)

between autumn equinox and winter solstice, today (emily jungmin yoon)

cherish this ecstasy (david james duncan)

coffins (derick thomson)

conflict resolution for holy beings (joy harjo)

failing and flying (jack gilbert)

ginen tidelands [latte stone park] [hagåtña, guåhan] (craig santos perez)

how to be a dog (andrew kane)

i love you to the moon & (chen chen)

i'm sorry birds (@/quezify)

insomnia and the seven steps to grace (joy harjo)

i was sleeping where the black oaks move (louise erdrich)

i watch her eat the apple (natalie diaz)

moth wings and other things (@/grendel-menz)

my father (ollie schminkey)

my soldier, my stranger (scherezade siobhan)

new year's day (joan tierney)

october (louise glück)

praise song for oceania (craig santos perez)

praise the rain (joy harjo)

real estate (richard siken)

sharing a cigarette with joan of arc (dante emile)

song of the anti-sisyphus (chen chen)

table (edip cansever, transl. richard tillinghast)

tear it down (jack gilbert)

temporary job (minnie bruce pratt)

the blue dress (saeed jones)

the lesson of the moth (don marquis)

the universe, as in one last song for the lonely hearts (michelle hulan)

throwing children (ross gay)

untitled (joan tierney)

voices (naomi shihab nye)

when i die i want your hands on my eyes (pablo neruda)

why i am not coming in to work today (jess zimmerman)

wolf moon (nina maclaughlin)

yes, it was the mountain echo (william wordsworth)

#2023 #last post of the 2023 tag :)#here's to another year of gay poetry #to be is to be backlit #poems #poetry #croidhe #poetry recs #poetry rec list #writing

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rhapsoddity · 5 months

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so ive only drawn this AUs Owen ONCE, in one panel that was it

come get ur pretty boy~

#vigilante sheriff au #owengejuicetv #empires smp #empires smp au #empiresblr #you KNOW i love me some backlit sillies #lemon literally begged me to draw owen so this was due eventually lmao

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whereifindsanity · 6 months

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#skatboarding #skater girl #backlit

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royaltea000 · 5 days

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And how many times have you come back now, devil?

#ugh I’m dying #save me melodramatic Prussia angst.. save me…#the whiplash from drawing hole to drawing Teutonic Knights angst is killing me #It’s probably heavenly punishment or something #luckily I have some backlogged sketches lol #I like this one but I have no idea how to color it style wise #backlit bastard #historical hetalia #hetalia fanart #hetalia #hws teutonic knights #hws prussia #aph prussia #gilbert beilschmidt #digital art #my art #commissions open #artists on tumblr #fanart

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thesummerfox · 2 years

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Dream in Chapter 5: 24/7

#the sandman #thesandmanedit #sandmanedit #dcedit #tvedit #morpheus #dream of the endless #capkcreates #the sandman spoilers #backlit scenes my beloathed #I very much liked his face here tho so I needed to do this anyway

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kweenratking · 18 days

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"I wasn't decided when I called him. I just called him. I decided when I heard his voice"

?? Hello?? ? most underrated line in the show???

That is some romance movie shit right there I'm so serious

#hannibal #hannigram #nbc hannibal #like fr if i told someone this was a line from the notebook #they would believe me #the scene is immaculate too #that icy and melancholy backlit Will #with his motherfuckinf beanie on #working on an boat engine so he Can sail across the sea to find Hannibal #just fuck me up #can u tell im on a rewatch rn #yeah?#thought so

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