I know the sunshine isn't promised, so I put it in my pocket
I have seen the news of the order to release Rümeysa Öztürk. I am glad of it and it should happen while she can still breathe. [edit: It did.] I had an asthma attack myself this morning and while I often have the feeling that I am being tortured to death by the medical establishment, she has a much better case against the state.
This week went past in such a combination of highlight and blur that I did not manage to share the tactile dialogue of the trans bog body poem which I read at the start of it, Izzy Wasserstein's "Come Back Wrong" (2025). Obviously I am biased in this department, but I would be fascinated to see someone who isn't me trace the motif of the bog body in queer/trans art, since Wasserstein's poem was instantly joined off the top of my head by Corvyn Appleby's Pull Me from the Earth (2021), Riwhi Kenny's bog body, watching (2024), and Tristwch y Fenywod's "Gelain Gors" (2024) with an asterisk for the community embrace of Hozier's "Like Real People Do" (2014). Even when I can read het variations, I strongly suspect there are more of the other kind which I have just not encountered yet. It was not an impetus for the taproot of Seamus Heaney, but that's what happens under the earth and the acids: things change.
I had no hesitations about this meme: instant travel and the ability to read any written language. Linear A or bust.
P.S. I have just been alerted by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks that my poem "Amitruq Nekyia" (2024) was one-third featured by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth in this week's Reading the Weird! What an honor. I love its company of the ecological niches of hauntings.
This week went past in such a combination of highlight and blur that I did not manage to share the tactile dialogue of the trans bog body poem which I read at the start of it, Izzy Wasserstein's "Come Back Wrong" (2025). Obviously I am biased in this department, but I would be fascinated to see someone who isn't me trace the motif of the bog body in queer/trans art, since Wasserstein's poem was instantly joined off the top of my head by Corvyn Appleby's Pull Me from the Earth (2021), Riwhi Kenny's bog body, watching (2024), and Tristwch y Fenywod's "Gelain Gors" (2024) with an asterisk for the community embrace of Hozier's "Like Real People Do" (2014). Even when I can read het variations, I strongly suspect there are more of the other kind which I have just not encountered yet. It was not an impetus for the taproot of Seamus Heaney, but that's what happens under the earth and the acids: things change.
I had no hesitations about this meme: instant travel and the ability to read any written language. Linear A or bust.
P.S. I have just been alerted by
rushthatspeaks that my poem "Amitruq Nekyia" (2024) was one-third featured by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth in this week's Reading the Weird! What an honor. I love its company of the ecological niches of hauntings.
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I'm sorry about your asthma attack and the lousiness of the medical establishment. But that is wonderful about your poem!
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I have seen that she is actually released and she should stay that way.
I'm sorry about your asthma attack and the lousiness of the medical establishment.
An ongoing theme!
But that is wonderful about your poem!
Thank you! I hadn't known and it does make me feel as though not everything I have put time into is instantly swallowed by entropy.
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Thank you for letting me know that she was released. It had not yet happened at the time when I saw the news of the judge's order and I was afraid it would be protracted into more un-extraordinary rendition. I would contribute cheerfully to the fund of students suing the government which detained them.
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I saw that news. The answer looked like "under no good circumstances."
I wish Stephen Miller did not behave so much like someone who thought the ewige Jude was a life goal.
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I think I like Paris' options better.
Thank you for pointing me to it! I had not seen it, and I like it.
An excellent opportunity to go through the magazine's back catalogue for speculative poetry to share with my class.
I am glad of this one good thing.
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Fewer goddesses to choose from.
Thank you for pointing me to it! I had not seen it, and I like it.
I'm so glad! You're welcome. I owe you for the Appleby.
An excellent opportunity to go through the magazine's back catalogue for speculative poetry to share with my class.
w00t! I look forward to your selections.
I am glad of this one good thing.
*hugs*
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Yeah, I think I'd pick the same out of those options, although I'm a bit torn between written and speak, and - given the instantaneous travel - I might come down on that, because otherwise magically popping up anywhere in the world might well get me into trouble. (I was looking for a "feel well" one but apparently, even in fantasy that's not happening. I'll have to just instantaneously travel places and then instantly travel back.)
I'm glad there was at least also some good news, and bog bodies going this week. <3
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Understood. I chose on the basis of wanting to be able to read languages which are no longer spoken and figuring that whichever contemporary ones I can read, I can pick up speaking in the ordinary fashion as much as possible and write in the meantime.
(I was looking for a "feel well" one but apparently, even in fantasy that's not happening. I'll have to just instantaneously travel places and then instantly travel back.)
Right? Keep your unlimited plastic surgery, I just want normal parameters of health!
I'm glad there was at least also some good news, and bog bodies going this week.
*hugs*
Thank you.
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It's very hard to imagine wanting unlimited plastic surgery anyway. Am I in some dystopia? (I mean, aside from this current dystopia; the endless plastic surgery one is defnitely a different sub-genre.)
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It might be the same one as "Have the largest social media following."
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And I am very glad for Rümeysa... may she remain safe.
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I would plunk down money for a trans/queer bog body anthology like a shot, are we kidding? I bet other people would, too. I think it's an entire aesthetic on Tumblr.
And I am very glad for Rümeysa... may she remain safe.
*hugs*
Amen.