( literary )

You know what's amazing?

Hadestown! It's a folk-rock opera/concept album based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and set in a combination of the southern United States during the Great Depression and a dream-like post-societal-collapse future dystopia. Hadestown is an underground city of relative wealth that's extremely hard to get into or out of ( Read more... )

1. Man, nobody has to like Valentine's Day, and I get a lot of the reasons why people don't (consumerism, the erasure of spiritual and religious aspects from what was once a holy festival, general tackiness), but I enjoy many aspects of it! And I am, wait for it, dating a woman! Even though I am also a woman!  And we are into the tackiness, let me ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a month! I'm sorry; I haven't felt up to writing much of anything substantial.

...If I'm honest, I still don't. Oh, well. I keep having attacks of really acute self-loathing at odd times and for odd reasons; this is a normal state for me, though. I also have, for some reason, recently happened to read several opinion articles to the ( Read more... )

I went to one class and it was okay ( Read more... )

Unlike my friend spacklegeek, I think New Year's Resolutions are a pretty good idea. The way I think of it is, no matter what other goals, aspirations, or wouldn't-it-be-nice-ifs I have for the upcoming year, the NYR is the one thing-- or several things-- that I am going to do in the twelve-month period, come hell or high water.

I don't want to publicly state ( Read more... )

-Wearing high heels (surreptitious toe-walking FTW! I don't like/can't wear narrow-toed shoes at all, so that can be a problem, but the lift at the heel, even when quite steep or high, rarely bothers me ( Read more... )

- The fetishization and glamorization of suffering as ennobling and brave
- The fetishization and glamorization of violence as empowering and brave
- The idea that survival means anything about a person's character
- The idea that it's cowardly to kill oneself
-The idea that brave acts are always right/good and cowardly ones are always wrong/bad
- The ( Read more... )

My P.O. box! It LIVES! I can get mail and everything. And now I get to sit under a light that shines like a prosthetic summertime, which makes me feel rather like a certain Robin McKinley protagonist. The real sun is setting early now, and the sky is striped in pale hues of blue and gray and gold outside my window, the colors broken into long ( Read more... )

I am so hopeless sometimes. One thing makes me happy and then another makes me feel like shit; my problem is that I compare myself to other people, and it's kind of funny in a bleak way because I'll berate myself for the ways in which I fall short of who they are and what they've done, but also for the ways in which I'm more positively exceptional ( Read more... )