If I’m going to die, let me live. Let me wade out into the darkest part of the night and name myself. Wild-haired bitch of the mongrel stars. Moon on her shoulders. Dirt-rich, proud.
Listening to: The Adventure Zone, Mabel, Wolf 359, Spines, The Leviathan Chronicles, The Far Meridian, Under Pressure, Alice Isn't Dead, The Elysium Podcast, The Black Tapes, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, The Bridge, and InkWyrm.
More ARK adventures comics (part 1 here). This videogame has taught me that these creatures must have gone extinct because kleptomania isn’t a useful evolutionary trait against meteors. Unless you can level up to steal meteors… hmmmm.
I was trying to crank out 10 pages in one week, but I ran out of time on the last two so I only did eight. So here are the missing three pages, which should actually be four but since two were already three I was too lazy to four the three.
When the king brands us p i r a t e s, he doesn’t mean to make us adversaries. He doesn’t mean to make us criminals. He means to make us m o n s t e r s. For that’s the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there’s a war coming, I don’t mean with the Scarborough, I don’t mean with King George or England. Civilizationis coming, and it means to e x t e r m i n a t e us. (insp)
To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.
Becoming yourself is not a growth process but a surrender of possibilities that we learn to regard as egregious, unbecoming. ‘Being yourself’ is inherently limiting … Social media offer a single profile for our singular identity, butour consciousness comprises multiple forms of identity simultaneously…
I am made and remade continuously. Different people draw different words from me.
I can’t be a singular expression of myself, there’s too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many troubles, too many journeys, too many mountains, too many rivers, so many.
When I show myself in a different light, I do not make a pretense. Rather I bare a different aspect to the world than they have seen before.
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing,the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
Instead of separating your behaviors and choices into good and bad categories, you need to learn how tolet yourself be a human of many seasons. Respect your natural ebb and flow.
I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.
Richard Siken, “Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light” - Heidi Priebe, This is Me Letting You Go - Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Rob Horning, “Social Media Is Not Self-Expression” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves - Solange Knowles, “Can I Hold the Mic” - Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate - James Baldwin, “Nothing Personal” - Hélène Cixous, Coming to Writing - Ask Polly, “I’m Starting a New Life, But There’s So Much Pressure to Get It Right!” - Madeline Miller, Circe.
Ducky and her friends, 2008 | Kate and Laurel, 2007 | Princeton and Lena, 2009 | Ronnie and Jo, 2005 | Simon and West, 9AM | Damian and Daughters, 2009 | Cat and Brittany, 2009 | Jentleman of Distinction, 2009 | Mandy, 2005 | David and Isaac, 2007
1- Trista Mateer / 2- @bloomingtrans / 3- David Levithan / 4- Ashe Vernon / 5- David Doc Luben / 6- David Levithan / 7- Olivia de Recat / 8- Madeline Miller / 9- Lori Gottlieb/ 10- Aja Kusick
