Tahini Al-Jamil saying ‘I had never felt quite so seen as when she saw me’ sounds like something straight out of a dark academia novel, where the protagonist is describing their ‘friend’ who they’re definitely NOT in love with
No words can describe the pain I feel for my trans sisters who have to live in a world where women like jk rowling exist and write. No words. I will always protect you and be vocal and open about your struggles and about your beauty.
“But as fire engulfed the sacred site on Monday, Catholics across the world reacted in horror and disbelief, particularly when the cathedral’s iconic spire toppled amid the flames.” - CNN, 4/15/19
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Rest In Peace Neil Perry. It’s such a shame you never got to watch Perks of Being a Wallflower. You would have loved Perks of Being a Wallflower
not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)
You're the Top by Ellen Bass
Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy
Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro
Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker
Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley
Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland
Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller
At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey
In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr
Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston
Midsummer by Charles Simic
Today by Frank O'Hara
Naturally by Stephen Dunn
Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang
Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck
The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell
Lucky Life by Gerald Stern
Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander
Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley
A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill
On Coming Home by Lisa Summe
G-9 by Tim Dlugos
Five Haiku by Billy Collins
The Fates by David Kirby
Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason
Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin
Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young
Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown
Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck
ASMR by Corey Van Landingham
A Welcome by Joanna Klink
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier
Religious cults in ancient societies
Poison and why it’s so prominent in mystery novels
Methods of forensic investigations throughout the years
Influence of fashion based on past media
The transition to the Renaissance and renaissance philosophy
The pioneers of Pop Art
Artists in times of war
Music and political propaganda
Symbolism in surrealistic art
The Trail of Tears
Dead branches of evolution
Art Fraud
Barbie doll fashion
Southern Asian Empires
Advance of science and maths in Islamic kingdoms
Dark academia and its subtle racism and elitism/classisms
What defines as ‘alien’ in different cultures
Opium War
Modernism in South America
Egyptian revolution
White washing in media
Racial identity in the Caribbean
History of puppetry in Chinese drama
Problems revolving organized crimes
Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War
any true crime case that fascinates you
Your views on immortality
Feral children and the impact of isolation
Themes of self discovery in Albert Camus ‘The Stranger’
Early concepts of feminism in literature and then later on music
Add some of your own in the comments :)