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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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i love you like a rotten dog, i love you like my canines are falling out of my gums. like a monster, like a beast. like something not worth loving back.

Marie Lu The Young Elites / @/bloodyhellharry (on tumblr) from The Infamous Willow Prank, Part Three / Hélène Cixous excerpt from Love of the Wolf, "Stigmata: Escaping Texts" / @/thymoss (on tumblr) / Virginia Woolf The Waves / Deborah Landau Soft Targets / Tory Adkisson Anecdote of the Pig

i. Marie Lu, The Young Elites

[ "So. Tell me, little wolf. Would you like to punish those who have wronged you?" ]

ii. @/bloodyhellharry

[ Pencil drawing of three panels of a comic strip. The first image is of a closed hatch. The second image shows the hatch being opened slightly. The third imagine is the largest. It shows a wolf with a large shadow, snarling at the cracked hatch. "IF HE'D GOT / AS FAR AS THIS HOUSE, / HE'D HAVE MET A FULLY GROWN / WEREWOLF" ]

iii. Hélène Cixous, Love of the Wolf

[ "The lamb loves its wolf. The wolf turns all white and starts quivering out of love of the lamb. The lamb loves the wolf's fragility, and the wolf loves the frail one's force. The wolf is now the lamb's lamb and the lamb has tamed the wolf. Love blackens the lamb." ]

iv. @/thymoss

[ Messy sketch of the head of an animal with teeth surrounding the outside of it's face, pointing away from it. "I will / remove my teeth, for I / want to remain / kind despite / my anger" ]

v. Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[ "I press you to me. / Come, pain, feed on me. / Bury our fangs into my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob." ]

vi. Deborah Landau, Soft Targets

[ "We are animal hungry down to our delicate bones." ]

vii. Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig

[ "Do you still believe myths / can save you? Foolish creature. / Let me be clear: every version of the story / ends with you being slaughtered." ]

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thighholsterdean · 4 months

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this is how it was always going to be. you know this. you've always known. you wrote the script.

[what resembles the grave but isn't, anne boyer || lazarus rising, supernatural || I didn't apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah) || unknown || grief lessons: four plays by euripides, anne carson || carry on, supernatural || the truth about grief, fortesa latifi || anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson || aeschylus: the oresteia, aeschylus || @/heavensghost]

#web weaving #dean winchester #supernatural #spn #anne carson #anne boyer #mahmoud darwish #fortesa latifi #aeschylus #tory adkisson

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evadneares · 10 months

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Tory Adkisson, "Anecdote of the Pig"

#writing #writerscommunity #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #creative writing #literature #writer things #writers #quotes #books and quotes #books and libraries #tory adkisson #anecdote of the pig

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craqueluring · 1 year

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NBC Hannibal (2013-2015) / Aeschylus, The Oresteia / Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig / Aeschylus, Agamemnon / Jean Anouilh (tr. Lewis Galantiere), Antigone

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corruptedtwinks · 2 months

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Tory Adkisson - Anecdote of the Pig /// Anne Sexton/Linda Pastan - The Poet Of Ignorance/Why Are Your Poems So Dark? /// Gregory Orr - Origin of the Marble /// Twenty One Pilots - Polarize /// Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale /// Ernest Hemingway - The Complete Short Stories

#web weaving #web weave #on rage #on grief #on loss of self #Tory Adkisson #Anne Sexton #Linda Pastan #Gregory Orr #Twenty One Pilots #Margaret Atwood #Ernest Hemingway #Ohm Ambros

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othellho · 7 months

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"Anecdote of the Pig," Tory Adkisson from The Flesh Between Us

#tory adkisson #poetry #minotaurs men and other monstrous things

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joontora · 7 months

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Ode to Sneakers

BY TORY ADKISSON

Cleveland, Ohio

arranged in a pile, stinking like wildflowers,

used gym socks protruding

from their “mouths” like stamen.

Why is the stink of bacteria so alluring to me?

The accumulation of single cells in a dark,

damp sole, the minutiae of Adidas, Chucks,

& Nikes lying on the floor

with mute tongues. This is my secret

that stops being a secret

when I write it. There are four guys

living here, around twenty or twenty-five pairs

between them. Upstairs I hear them snoring,

masturbating, watching old war movies

while I lean low & lift a shoe to my nose

to inhale its bitter acid. I’m breathing in

a chronicle of the day’s many male

labors—running track, basketball, P90X—

with closed eyes, aware that this metonymy

can’t draw me to a field, or us any

closer, than taste or touch might.

It’s too dark. Too difficult to grasp anything beyond

myself—& even then, being invisible is exciting.

Just listening is exciting. Above me

thunder rolls, mattresses squeak, bombs

are going off. Down here, I’m face down in the chasm

between shame & denial, my erection

a bridge to a better, more sensual world.

#words #poetry #tory adkisson #ode to sneakers

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whoreshippingbooks · 8 months

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“Do you still believe myths can save you? Foolish creature. Let me be clear: every version of the story ends with you being slaughtered.”

—Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig

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unfathomable-understanding · 1 year

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[The title cover of I AM THE PRETTY THING THAT LIVES IN THE HOUSE - Osgood Perkins, Netflix]

[ « I wasn’t beautiful anymore. / Now I looked like what I was, a raw wound. » Janet Fitch, White Oleander]

[ID: a scene from ‘I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House’. Lily is sitting in a chair, her back to us. She’s talking into an old phone. She is sat at a table, facing a window. The room is dark. A small lamp is on the left, close to a chair hung upside down on the wall. The subtitles read, This is how you rot. End ID]

[« At least she is there, / I’d thought, even if she is just a ghost and doesn’t speak, / at least she is / there » Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Whitching]

[A scene from I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House. Most of the image is pitch black; the characters on the far right are faintly illuminated. Ms Blum has her eyes closed while Poppy’s ghost whispers in her ear, her left hand up to hide her mouth.]

[« Let me be clear: every version of the story / ends with you being slaughtered. » Tory Adkisson, Anectode of the Pig.]

[« ‘Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them.’ / ‘I don’t believe in ghosts,’ I said, faintly. / ‘Some people can’t see the color red. That doesn’t mean it isn’t there,’ she replied. Sue Grafton, M is for Malice »

I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House, 2016

#grief #bodies #the imagery in this movie……#i love it so much #i am the pretty thing that lives in the house #ghost #web weaving #tory adkisson #sue grafton #janet fitch #helen oyeyemi #osgood perkins #netflix #movie #psychological horror #horror movies #quote #my art #pain

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musinghotline · 8 months

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I love you like a rotten dog, I love you like my canines are falling out of my gums, Like a monster, like a beast Like something not worth loving back.

#rp musing #a: tory adkisson #s: anecdote of the pig #musing

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solokabuto · 9 months

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mmmm morgan core

#i wrote the last one #funnily enough it wasn’t about Morgan but i found it in my poetry doc and was like hey it works #fgo #morgan le fay #poetry #the one about clenching fists is by venetta octavia and it’s called the burning #the one about slaughter is called the anecdote of the pig #by tori adkisson #love morgan sm #lb morgan not phh morgan that bitch can die in a fire #mordred >>>>>

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augment-techs · 2 years

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Zartus: Do you still believe myths can save you? Zordon: … Zartus: Foolish creature. Let me be clear: every version of the story ends with you being slaughtered.

#incorrect power rangers #source: tory adkisson #boom! comics power rangers #mmpr #ggpr #Mighty Morphin Comics #go go power rangers comic #Zartus of Eltar #Zordon of Eltar #The Eltarian War

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lovely-abeille · 1 month

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anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson // achilles & partoclus // house of dragon, 1x07 // plainwater, anne carson // the truth about forever, sarah dessen // lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

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mybloodystarlight · 5 months

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Dark Justiciar Shadowheart // Gale the God of Ambition // Vampire Ascendant Astarion

Richard Siken, “War of the Foxes” // Tory Adkisson, “Anecdote of the Pig”

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur’s gate iii #bg3 spoilers #baldur’s gate 3 spoilers #astarion #astarion ancunin #Shadowheart #gale dekarios #Gale bg3 #jenevelle hallowleaf #bg3 bad endings #web weave #intertextuality

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junepours · 26 days

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ribs, lorde / @inanotherunivrse / iain s. thomas, i wrote this for you / zadie smith, swing time / girlpool - before the world was big / clementine von radics, in a dream you saw a way to survive / lemony snicket, the beatrice letters / tory adkisson, anecdote of the pig / @boymiffy / @becherdireinen

#web weavings #on friendship

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othellho · 7 months

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"Ode to Sneakers," Tory Adkisson from The Flesh Between Us

#tory adkisson #poetry #this is not the poem I was looking for but its the one I found

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