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huge thanks to the PFD team for enjoying the first bit of ‘like peanut butter and sesame’! ‘wechat-originating fake dating beard operation anti-romantic comedy’ is how i’ve described it to bemused & tolerant friends & family
Here's the shortlist for the Adult category of the PFD Queer Fiction Prize 2024!
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i got over my loudly man-hating sjw phase post-high school but the if books could kill episode abt men are from mars women are from venus emotionally rocketed me back to the tumblr days like i am sick to the stomach are men real also why do americans fall for the dumbest grifts
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jellyfish entertainment you have done exactly zero (0) things right this year from hongbin to gugudan hope u enjoy bankruptcy
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i was dared and am currently mid-panic attack so here are screenshots from my conversatiosn with soffee lee,
@weiweiwrites
, who called me an abuser for trying to talk to them about their tweets. im sorry if anything is out of order im genuinely so fucking confused and stressed
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@PJVogt
or.. let japanese women make the money with the tactics you wouldn’t scoff at white women for making & deploying 😬 it’s not as though her book hasn’t already helped her build an empire; is it just the netflix visibility & expansion into the us/cnd sphere that’s the problem ?
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quarterly reminder that if you submit plagiarized work to
@sinethetamag
and we find out (we always do. someone always tells us or
@stephchaang
does her own exhausting sleuthing) we will tell places that pubbed or awarded you before. we will tell places that pub you in the future.
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this would be a much more cutting take if it wasn’t about quannah who’s devoted every inch of her fame to fighting white supremacy and for native rights lmao
every met gala someone tries to claim that some rich person wearing expensive clothes is in fact fighting white supremacy by looking pretty
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people thinking wendy's ponds ad is racist have no understanding of skincare. its a vitamin c serum. it's meant to fade hyperpigmentation. no derivative of vitamin c in dermatologically sound concentrations can bleach your skin. yall are so annoying i swear
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this is what poets think they look like
to everyone who is confused what I do for work this is what I do for work
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you might think men who read are good but then you realize they might’ve been reading garbage if This was the bestselling nonfic book of a decade and it really just does not bode well for my interest in no longer being single like actually i think im good
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@MarcEvanJackson
@nbcthegoodplace
when michael returns memories to the characters, so they get every memory they’ve ever had? or just memories that are prominent? as humans, we lose so many memories each day—how would michael know which ones to give back?
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last . i dont understnad what i was supposedd to apologize for. their tweets recently have been so much i just wanted to talk at lelast one of them through. ive shared this conversation w others who agree im being gaslit.
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they’ve posted this. i never told them to dialogue “with these violent people” and we agreed in the above sceeenshots that twitter is not the place for nuance. i don’t know what to do when someone w a much larger platform than mine is woefully misconstruing messages i’ve laid out
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personally id find scant value in being taught by a university writer in residence who condescends to his peers, considers writing about colonialism to be beneath him, & does the "'i like pancakes' 'oh you HATE waffles?!'" thing after inserting himself into a thread not about him
@NatalieGDiaz
@AriaAber
Natalie, let’s not get into this but I was literally born in a communist regime & my parents literally fled with 0 money. I just don’t pull out that card because. Well. I have other things to write about.
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being an ocean vuong defender on the internet is getting harder bc he’s not necessarily wrong re: what he’s sharing abt the mores of diasporic poetry but this was perhaps really extremely not the right time or context
urgent words from ocean vuong's ig today
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what i got was them telling me my efforts towards dialogue hurt worse than the death threats, that i was sending them abuse. i don’t want to disavow or belittle the way they feel—as they write, impact outweighs intention—but i cant help feeling incredibly gaslit & misinterpreted.
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cw antisemitism: this is so egregious esp bc concentration camp prisoners oft had to maintain appearances to seem healthy and avoid being executed. heinous to see it be part of the wider trend of turning self-care as a survival strategy into self-care as consumerist self-soothing
i'm dropping
#BoraDeborah
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this comment really did not sit right with me and even tho at first i thought i might get over it, i just kept thinking about it for the last 3 hours. it's very insensitive to use Auschwitz in such context and the writer should fucking apologise.
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i understand the subversiveness of not naming your asian american female characters but just putting it out there this is DEEPLY ANNOYING for someone writing a dissertation about your books
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just won my college's poetry prize (co-won w another student!).. first prize i'd submitted to in over a year lol im trying to celebrate but am more nervous about the upcoming reading
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the "not everybody knows this" qrts: fair if the "everybody" in question is an orange farmer in rio grande valley or a librettist in vancouver but the people risen to the level to be in this room have the most liberal access to info about a notoriously shady & opaque industry
Brad Pitt is an abuser and none of his older children (the ones not legally obligated to) speak to him which should be very telling to all of you but Hollywood gonna Hollywood.
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@Thessaly
absolutely love contributing to ratioing this tweet but seriously all the asians in your mentions should show you that this was a bad take. do you think asians are some kind of primitive species? why are we always ancient?
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thank you to
@isaurarenwrites
for offering me support & kindness when this unfolded, even when we'd never spoken; to be pettily named, a transaction masquerading as productive critique or redistribution when it absolves its mediator of their responsibility, is gratuitous & weird.
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like many asian american babies born between 1997 & 2003 ocean vuong was my gateway into poetry and i had the chance to meet him at a reading 2 years back so yeah im getting a little stressed & pissed that whites who dont know similes are metaphors are deriding him
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if you're not good enough to get published, get better. dont become someone else. starting to think the ~youth-run lit mags are purposelessly mushrooming~ convo had some merit to it like what are you all doing?? how are you holding each other accountable besides via discord??
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ignoring the white woman rising to the defense of that horrible ploughshares poem to just say the obvious—white people seem to believe they have the prerogative to decide what’s raced & what isn’t, & that’s part of how they enforce racialized violence, by choosing when to do so
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why did you do this. what net good does this bring to pokémon-ruled childhoods. which five year old in whose jaded memory needed to see these
more horrifying fleshy men from the pokemon fusion universe!!!!!
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visiting brothels & being a cheater should not cause either life or death sentence
ppl reminding me about the brothels & cheating on his wife, ty! I'm honestly just reacting to most of what I saw in headlines being really focused on the drugs, and I really just wanted to highlight the different treatment in media in comparison to the rape/SA scandals.
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my parents not letting me, age 22, attend the sally wen mao and cathy park hong event at 7pm at night because “san francisco is not like what it was a few years ago it’s too dangerous to even be there by day” is going to be my VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY
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this fucking sucks, guys. simply bc they have a larger platform than i do, their voice & opinion will be treated w more weight than mine. all i asked for & am asking for is an equal part in the dialogue, an engagement from them abt tweets they made that hurt thousands of people.
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@isosteph
my dad beat the geographical quota odds to be a kid from a poor southern village at china's third-best uni w a perfect chem score on the gaokao and then went and had a kid who cried every other class of ap calc.. something went devastatingly wrong there
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there's a youth mag that ran a mentorship program charging mentees $100 USD and didnt pay the mentors?? the kids are not all right
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@WillSauser
@hebeipangzai
it’s good, esp w dumplings! would recommend but in little tiny bits at first & with mouthwash afterwards :)
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the sudden ocean vuong hate weird bc you can say night sky is a bad book bc self-orientalization but that’s not a critique unique to it but rather to 2010s asam poetry & you can dislike lines of on earth but it does what autofiction, epistles, & prose poems are supposed to do
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i wish i could defend myself, but anything i say would only fuel them. i’ve posted the screenshots from our dms & stand by what i said. again, sending people death & rape threats is disgusting, villainous behavior. don’t send that shit to them.
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american girl as a franchise needs to be razed it has contributed so much damage to young girls’ conceptions of american history while touting itself as an arbiter of change diversity and progressiveness
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*xf*rd giving me a full ride has led to the worst fiscal irresponsibility i have ever seen from myself. i bought things from 6 different stands at the farmers market today i regret none of it!!! the semiprecious stones jewelry lady has a chokehold on my wallet & that’s fine
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@isaurarenwrites
i literally dont get why new adult isnt a hit genre like why would you not want your protags to be able to legally drink but not yet be worn down by a decade of mortgages and uv damage
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maybe england’s problem isn’t immigrants but rather rampant murderous incels
BREAKING: Two victims, an 11-year-old girl and a 34-year-old woman, have been stabbed in Leicester Square.
A man has been arrested and is in custody.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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omg such a cute binder
from my personal manuscript copy of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency—
title page + epigraphs from Marina Tsvetaeva & Justin Chin
—
@chenchenwrites
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i hope people won't throw more harm & violence soffee's way. it helps no one. im posting this bc i think its fucked up that they've been posting a bunch of tweets, ignoring thoughtful & gently put backlash, & then calling me an abuser when i try to point that out to them.
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LMAO imagine qrting a kid on a gap year working to pay for college who’s had her poems that she worked hard on plagiarized 3x within the last 2 months & going “she’s obviously never worked a day in her life if she thinks poetry is work”
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i think showing this movie to whites was a mistake it would take years to explain why evelyns homophobia was so specifically charged & familiar & why her journey toward starting out of it was so forgivable. bc it was the plausible, imperfect thing for a bunch of queer 2gen asians
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i dont know what they're sayign about me or
@sinethetamag
but if its bad plesae know its 100% my fault, that m y team doesnt have anything to do with it. they're amazing hardworking people who dont deserve to get dragged into this.
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dont be shy did you republish it in 2019 or not
@pemamonaghan
We acknowledge the offence this story, first published in 1986, can cause.
We are having an urgent editorial meeting to discuss this.
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i was sad like as someone w a minuscule internet presence this makes me feel fucking insane but now im just mad. soffee lee if you could take the time to dig up my chinese name from a sin0 issue masthead, you can drop my @ for people to see the messages you said i could post
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of course i now wish i’d never even tried to talk to them, but im perennially unable to hold my tongue when i care about something, & i cared about trying to talk to them in the dms instead of in the qrts like everyone else had.
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did not write an abstract this morning but did go to the botanical gardens with my beautiful & beauty-loving friends and now i will write an abstract and possibly rewrite my conclusion?! there are so many hours until 11pm to figure this out
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because when you run a journal or you submit to a journal, you enter a liaison that implicates a bunch of people. and if you can't grasp or manage all that then maybe just like. wait. dont found that journal, join an existing masthead w procedure & experience. intern for someone!
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does not sit right w me that female artists are trotted out as smokescreens while male idols act w a disgraceful amount of impunity
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a bunch of teens plagiarizing each other and renowned, widely-published adults is not fucking normal. i have no idea how people are handling this on an individual, interpersonal, or institutional (journal) level. i suspect they just aren't!
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after reading another round of sinθ subs, i think a problem w telling young writers to just read more poems is they internalize what a poem is supposed to sound like & couch that sound within a loose, ill-defined theme like desire, or trauma, or love, or loss
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also to be clear death threats bad. do not send death threats unless they're vaguely worded and to evil politicians. even then reconsider. i dont expect this thread to depart the people i consider my ""community,"" as limited as possibility of that is on here, but if it does
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and if you aren't smarter, then maybe dont get involved in this shit! maybe wait until you understand how things work a little better! there is no race to publication no one cares if you're 37 or 13 a poem is a poem. take as much responsibility as you can carry & no more
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buzzing w excitement upon discovering my thesis could have a human ecology component to it.. also my advisor suggested i write my third chapter abt my own girlhood rather than a film so i am preparing to quite literally psychoanalyze and therapize myself for a whole year
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i’m so fucking tired just want this whole thing to fucking go away. 72 people liked their tweet accusing me of “trafficking hate.” adults who know me & know them & have not said or done anything i know who you are & i have lost so much respect for you.
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such an asian american in media tweet lol for some reason we feel so starved for recognized/lauded asam content that we’ll jump through hoops to defend its watchability or cultural importance in the same breath as acknowledging that very significance is colored by rape & misogyny
Shit. Beef deserves better than to be tanked by David Choe’s history of rape normalization. But what he boasted about was grotesque, and if he did it—he claims now he didn’t—it was criminal. And the actions that have been taken since then to stonewall have only made things worse.
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this weekend i graduated magna cum laude. four years ago i was sad & scared of everything; three days ago i was very much enabling a group of gangly men trying (& failing due to cowardice) to steal a cow pasturing on a local hill. i have loved this new lease on life
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sinθ has been steadily growing for 7 years, & in the market economy of creative arts, we balance compensating our contributors fairly and staying afloat as a volunteer-run indie mag w/o any major sponsors. your support, either through 1x donation or on patreon, is invaluable 🫶🏼
OUR ANNUAL SUMMER CONTEST IS COMING UP ☀️
The contest is:
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— hoping to grow our prize pool through new patron pledges; DM to make a one-off donation :-)
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in their dms to me, they conflated me w the people threatening them, & i dont to even tangentially engineer a reality in which i brought more pain & trauma to them than theyve already experienced. this thread is not about them—it's about me & who i am & am not. thank you!!
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i err on the side of forgive children but like. listen you should still have the sense to not plagiarize some of the most famous adult poets around right now, or your peers who would support growth in your craft otherwise. even if you are 16 you should be smarter
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thank you to
@aaww
for publishing this poem right at the decline of summer! 🍁 rn i envy everyone existing in places that experience seasons
"The body forgotten, an animal reversing
seamless & easy
as a glove."
Read more from "Afterword" by Yue Chen on
#TheMargins
for this week's
#PoetryTuesday
! ☁️
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@lidglue
most of the ones sending tweets that seem human are actually ppl who work for social media/publicity companies—big corporations have no business trusting interns w some of their biggest platforms!
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i like the movie but we cannot sit here & pretend it (& its marketing) is not infiltrated by vapid representation discourse like everything else asams touch. i also have never loved radical softness discourse though ill give them that one for having the dad carry that philosophy
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i was fortunate to converse w
@maryjean_chan
, who has extended so much kindness & warmth to me since we met & who is a fellow INFP! we talked multilingualism & friendship & tea & winnicott & alison bechdel & i felt as comforted & safe in conversation as i feel reading their work.
Senior Editor Yue Chen
@togekisskiss
interviews poet Mary Jean Chan
@maryjean_chan
, talking through linguistics and legibility, and love.
Staffmember C. Grace Chang speaks to artist and filmmaker April Lin 林森
@babe__lin
about collective care and community in their work.
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everyone who’s dragging nicole cliffe is emblematic of performative activism. prioritizing snippy tweets & finding an easy target who has a history of categorical, comprehensive kindness & generosity. who has used her privilege only to uplift others.
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to disclaim upfront: i know internal strife is hard to manage & conflict resoln doesnt happen overnight. but it's strange that this statement went up the day after i unpinned my screenshots w albert when the underblong team clearly didn't deem it necessary to contact me privately
As Underblong editors, we have decided to ask one of our readers, Albert Lee, to step away from our team. Read our full statement below.
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rest in peace linda pastan 😓 i first read “to a daughter leaving home” in high school. here’s that & a few more poems dealing w departure & loss
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thrilled that my gay yearning witchcraft ms was shortlisted in the YA category — excited to be in company with wips w such fascinating premises!!
We're thrilled to announce the shortlists for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize 2022! We had hundreds of incredible entries to choose from (with the invaluable help of
@NzeluWrites
&
@ELatimerWrites
), so huge congratulations to all. See the shorlistees below...
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my twitter corner is small lit mag twitter, poetry twitter, tech twitter, pokémon twitter, & mean girl twitter which basically means i get to encounter every single type of weirdo just by scrolling through the tall grass
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on the importance of language: terrorism is specifically & definitionally anti-state violence. this is an attempt to keep the current state in power—it’s very much pro-state. it is nationalism & white supremacy.
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found out today that when my family left the kitten at home alone for the first time she went and dragged a bunch of my brother’s stuffed animals out from his room to keep her company as she stood watch by the window waiting for everyone to return
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fyi chinese diasporics once you stop italicizing pinyin in otherwise english-language pieces everything becomes significantly less cringe. like you could maybe even get away with a grandmas kitchen poem in this day and age if you didnt italicize nainai or jiaozi or wo bu dong
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sorry i know men and women are different bc i gasped out loud at this vs the reply men’s “u stupid bitches go touch grass” oh yeah why don’t you go collect all your girlfriend’s favorite wildflowers & put them in a vase carved of gourd if you can’t even do that you dont love her
this guy i follow recently got into a relationship, his gf posted a pic of them with a caption "hard launch" and guess what he did... reposted it in his CLOSE FRIENDS
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write pieces that you share in informal workshops w trusted friends, who are often the most generous, incisive critics you'll get bc they understand you well. hold off on submitting until you're confident in your craft & your ability to not steal lmao.
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lrt from ocean vuong puts into sharp relief what i wish i could’ve articulated when a workshop story i wrote abt menstruation & being a chinese girl was called “grotesque” & “gross” & “too much” and the structure “wasn’t tight” & the story ultimately “didn’t make sense”
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reiterating that i published these screenshots (w/ soffee's permission (? sarcastic permission?)) not to "expose" them or pile onto some really vile shit thrown their way but bc people i respect—writers & poets who ive spoken to & really admire—follow them.
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i was worried that after they blocked me they would use their bigger following to slander me (fine) or my magazine (not fine). & i have def posted more abt this than they have today & im sorry for clogging feeds—i guess im lucky that no ones pulled one over me like this before
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the spacing i’m screaming but also the only context i’ve heard 滚 used in is when my parents fought a lot when i was small & i am pleased to release it upon white people
A Chinese Poem. Or, To the White People Who Say, Why Don’t You Put More Chinese in Your Poems?
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head in hands feels like everything is crashing down. like i can’t be a 9-9 employee And the manager of my college-aged brother’s academics And my parents’ therapist And an ex-student w ongoing academic interests & ambitions And someone in recovery i need to pick my battles
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white people will never love you back
I told my daughter that today is a big day. They’ve ended affirmative action. “Isn’t it what you’re been fighting for?” she asked. I said yes.
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been devoted to eeaao bc it’s the closest we’ve got to an interesting asam movie that’s captured public attention but beside its 2 central messages of unlimited ways to inhabit an immigrant positionality & intergenerational conflict never healing prettily it is. certainly a movie
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sorry for being a fucking literary twitter drama queen 2 days in a row i hate me too i want to post about pokémon & college but im not going to sit down and shrug at being told i shoved abuse into the dms of someone i barely know who has 30x my following
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& as long as their post to their 6k stays up, i, as self-obsessed or paranoid or neurotic this behavior is, dont intend to let them drag my name or my mag's name through the mud. i really appreciate the kind comments left & the support, but PLEASE dont send soffee threats.
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there are some people who are like "you shouldnt have approached soffee that way" and like fair! i now wish i hadn't approached them at all! that doesnt make what i said abuse, & it doesnt make it ok for soffee to tell me i have inherited abusive behavior or that i traffic hate
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glad other qrts are finding this vapid and insensitive like get a grip how are you an adult if your first reaction to reading a person’s account of SA and how they want it to affect discourse is to post abt how it affects a little intellectual purity game you play
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there are *4* interviews in here, *4* stories (2 set in outer space!!), like a dozen poems, & a bunch of cool art & photographs!! check her out while its still light outside & our shadows are still short ☺️
Shadows cut at our heels, heat shimmering in the air: slink into the shade at high noon to enjoy sinθ
#19
“HIGH NOON 午.” With works that cleave through the swelter and bring you to fever pitch, our 19th issue is a celebration of the pinnacle of the day.
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sorry not to be obsessed w my woes but i just combed the last text in more detail & the accusation of "intergenerationally inherited abusive behavior" is fucking hilarious like who are you tosay what my parents are or are not? also, the below—courtesy of a friend who gassed me up
last . i dont understnad what i was supposedd to apologize for. their tweets recently have been so much i just wanted to talk at lelast one of them through. ive shared this conversation w others who agree im being gaslit.
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super happy and thankful to have a poem in this issue of
@VarietyPack2
packed w beautiful writing & art! even if said poem is about seasonal affective disorder and how i could do w/o new england decembers and januarys and, im now discovering, also februarys
#Litmags
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Pick your faves and have more than a gander because Issue
#7
is live and out in the world friends and fam! So many great writers and artists featured here!
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friends foes countrymen i got into graduate school.. now does anyone have about 50,000 USD
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what is more exciting, that i got funding to join my friends at o***** next year or my thesis advisor said today she's quoting me in her new book
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six of crows is the exemplar of non-high octane YA fantasy; it’s just a solid, enjoyable book w only mildly racist worldbuilding and an eminently likable cast of misfits who grow into themselves/toward each other. soc & the raven cycle battled for the 2010s YA crown for a reason
update: she dnf-ed it & the comments on tiktok are roasting her. if she knew she wasn’t gonna like it then she shouldn’t have picked it up and started shitting on it bc her bio literally says “if it’s not smut, I probably won’t read it”
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