You curse my name, but these things aren't the same

[sovay]

It has been an exhausted and exhausting week. Yesterday I socialized with a friend who made chicken soup from scratch and we talked about music and folklore. That was nice. Today I did very little of practical value and it did not result in anything except the desperate feeling that if I did not have commitments tomorrow that obliged me to leave the house, I wouldn't.

1. Courtesy of selkie: Casimir Nonbinary Pulaski.

2. Austin Smith's "Cat Moving Kittens" made me cry, which is not usually a reaction I have to poetry, but here we are.

3. Joseph Coelho's "The Watchers" feels like a lost episode of Sapphire & Steel.

4. When rushthatspeaks reviewed Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy (2014), they talked about its subversion of the trope of all-female societies as insectile, hive-like. Katie Bickham's "The Blades" does something of the same, very differently.

5. I like everything about Emma Porsbjerg's "Starbucks mermaid stole ur gf but she don't mind," which is not a poem.

I am having a difficult time dealing with things I can't even metaphorically subtweet about; the things I can say all feel repetitious and tiresome. I would like to sleep. I would like to be in much less physical pain. I am not looking for medical advice. I want the world to be different. I don't think I believe any longer that I can make it so, which does not exempt me from having to try, but it makes it hurt more.

Comments

[radiantfracture]

Austin Smith's "Cat Moving Kittens"

Well, that broke my heart.

I want things to be better for you.

[thisbluespirit]

3. Joseph Coelho's "The Watchers" feels like a lost episode of Sapphire & Steel.

Or possibly a crossover involving the Weeping Angels.

I am having a difficult time dealing with things I can't even metaphorically subtweet about; the things I can say all feel repetitious and tiresome. I would like to sleep. I would like to be in much less physical pain. I am not looking for medical advice. I want the world to be different. I don't think I believe any longer that I can make it so, which does not exempt me from having to try, but it makes it hurt more.

<3

[sholio]

<33333

[landingtree]

Oh, I like all five of these!

(Although with 2. and 4. it isn't really so much exclamation-mark-with-a-bounce kind of liking. They'll be in my head a while).

I hope things spiral into more energy and less pain.

[cmcmck]

The Smith poem is wonderful.

I DO get that reaction to poetry which is perhaps why I write it!

[isis]

What a lovely selection of interesting things! The article about Casimir Pulaski was fascinating, and I loved the mermaid/girlfriend art.

[lemon_badgeress]

you change the world for me. your investment in human art frequently helps me find the floor under my feet again.

[asakiyume]

"Cat Moving Kittens" is great--so is the Starbucks mermaid pic.

Your remark about all-female societies makes me wonder about stories of all-male societies. Are there any stories of such? I mean, there are stories about armies and stories about religious communities that are all male--but those are institutions within society or deliberately set apart from them; they're not attempting to "do" all of society.... well, I guess some monastic communities sort of are, come to think of it. But monastic communities have all-female counterparts. What I wonder is, are there stories of "races of all men" the way Amazons were supposed to be a race of all women. I'm thinking not, the reason being that for much of history, **humanity** was basically considered, by many men, to be a race of all men, with women simply the vector of propagation.

[gwynnega]

I hope things get better for you.

[selkie]

I feel like I, too, am just stuck, and all I can offer are hugs and snacks, but.... we got snacks. *hugs*

[brigdh]

Oh, wow, "Cat Moving Kittens" is just fantastic.