"poetry survives because it haunts, and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted." — louise glück
kat, late 20s, cat mom to keats, eighteenth-centuryist, virginia woolf enthusiast
i hate that this is on “bad two sentence horror” because its actually good
Anonymous:
hello ! i was wondering if you have opinions on the mike flanagan netflix shows, idk if you've talked about them before but just curious!
i love them! i wasn’t a huge fan of the midnight club, but i’ve been big fans of the rest of his shows. my ranking is probably hill house, bly manor, usher, midnight mass, midnight club. i’ve read stuff about people saying he ~ruined~ the story of hill house or whatever, but i don’t think you can think of hill house (the show) as an adaptation of jackson’s novel (which i adore, btw; could not be a more beautiful book). the two are barely similar at all plot wise. and usher is even more complex, i think, because it plays with so many different poe works. idk, i’m a huge horror person, and i think flanagan is a smart writer and director. i enjoy his storytelling and characterization a great deal, and i think the acting in almost every show is top tier. his shows are fun and gruesome and melancholy. and Gay. and we love that, you know? also every show has such beautiful people. what’s not to love.
A Nation in Exile, Poems by Mahmoud Darwish, Prints by Rachid Koraïchi, Calligraphy by Hassan Massoudy, Text by Abdelkébir Khatibi, Darat al Funun, Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Amman, 1997 (pdf here) (pdf with text here)
it doesn't sound embarrassing at all to lose passion for reading when you go through burn out and stress with college, even if you've given yourself months of time off. i feel the same way with my studies. i hope the love you had for reading finds you again soon and i hope ur being gentle with yourself. u deserve it. you've done great things and will keep doing great things
awww this is so sweet of you to send! thank you so much. i hope so too <3
pulling your wife’s teeth with pliers in the basement because she can’t and won’t let anyone other than you that close. and you have to do it because there’s no one else and you love her
i never even finished my x files or my lost rewatches but you know what i should also rewatch now (for the 3rd? i think? time). THE AMERICANS.
pretty sure i ate the equivalent of a whole baguette by myself tonight. and almost half of a huge onion galette thing. i don’t even like onion. but the bread was so good.
