"We Both Worked At Orchard But At Separate Times. He Was There For A Year, Me A Year Later, Then Again
"We both worked at Orchard but at separate times. He was there for a year, me a year later, then again the year after that. He went shopping there a lot and we talked some, then one day he asked me on a date and you know how things go. We had both gone to the same high school and didn't even realize it; never once had we seen or heard of each other. Funny how things like that happen."
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Sometimes I hyperfocus so hard on something, I forget I’m a person until someone interacts with me. I feel like some wild animal seeing a human being for the first time. I’m like “oh yeah I’m supposed to speak and stuff”
im just a normal girl . i sit near a body of water and immediately experience the entire range of human emotions
My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s
Dreamed I was swimming with fish, then I jumped out of the water and flew with the birds, then I fell and turned into a rock, then I grew into a tree.
so we've talked about southern gothic but what about northern gothic? is that a thing?
There wasn’t so we invented one!
Southern gothic is a conventional literary genre, but northern gothic fiction would just get encapsulated in the overall Gothic genre. BUT. Tumblr made a meme. Because of course we did. It’s here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/regional-gothic.
So far I’ve found Midwest Gothic: here here and here
Southern California Gothic, which is popular (because of fucking course): here here here here and fuckin here
Northern England Gothic: here and here and here
not to mention chucklefucking Alaskan Gothic: really? i mean really?? fuck you. fuck you alaska.
And fuck me there’s even Gothic subgenres for cities that shouldn’t exist in the first place. Kansas City. Minneapolis. Small town Michigan Gothic?? Toronto? Yeah fucking Toronto.
In fact, there’s assorted Canada Gothic? There’s so much hell-forsaken Canada Gothic, too fuckin much.
International Gothic? Fuck this. There’s So Much Australian Gothic. There’s Finland Gothic. There is so much more and I want nothing to do with it.
But the worse, the absolute worse of the whole satan-forsaken toxic hellpile: Ohio Gothic. I hate Ohio. I am. from. Ohio. I was born there. One day I will die there. I fear Ohio. Because in Ohio: “Holes in the sidewalk. Holes on the street. Holes on the freeway. Holes in your mind.” And Ohioans know: HELL IS REAL.
the one-two punch of “eat your young” and “damage gets done” is so fucking underrated btw. this really raunchy, visceral callout of war profiteering and the people in power who sold out future generations for the sake of capital, followed immediately by this soaring coming-of-age anthem about waking up into the harsh reality of the world we were handed, being expected to bear both the consequences AND the blame, the feeling of powerlessness and the deep, aching nostalgia for a time when we didn’t have to constantly reckon with such a bleak existence
MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie
Sometimes, and only sometimes, she drips with melancholy.
Dreaming of a time when all that existed were two curled bodies, intertwined in thought and mind.
But more often than not she smiles with false teeth.
Interlaced fingers, a soft note of contentment, kisses, sweet nothings and bittersweet smiles.
