I saw a little piece of my writing translated into French — très fancy. Anybody who wants to translate me into French has my permission. Godspeed 🙏
Emily Bludworth de Barrios
@emilybloodwolf.bsky.social
www.emilybludworthdebarrios.com
I know my children love me dearly bc these are the characters they say I look like, which is Absurd
I have an idea for a showercap but it’s decorated to look like a toadstool. 🙏 I should be a designer! 🍄
I don’t like it how, when you visit a doctor, it’s Dr. So-and-So, but when you see the nurse practitioner everyone in the office calls her by her first name.
God, I’ll do anything to procrastinate. I’ll even write _poems_
Hera: what was it again mommy? Early dogs and late cats? Me: :) Morning larks and night owls
Hera: “I’m not very rich. I need to lose more teeth.”
In PSYCHO, when she gets into the shower, she puts her robe directly onto the toilet seat!
I don’t know the etymology of milquetoast, but it’s a great insult, and when I use it I always imagine someone who is so bland they dip their toast in MILK! Take that!
Me reading Walter Benjamin is just me producing a marked-up text that consists of …. One continuously highlighted text…. That’s also continuously underlined……. And whose margins are filled with exclamation points and stars. ⭐️ ❗️ ✨ ‼️ 🌟
If I adore a book — and someone else also adores that book — it makes me feel like we were friends as children — if that makes sense
I think if your birth year is even sort of vaguely on the cusp of where one generation ends and another begins, you get to choose which one you are.
Am I more confused by the text, or the decorations on his hat?
Thank god, I’ve been searching and searching for sheer clothing 🙏
“The food court” — that’s an awfully grand name, isn’t it?
Wednesday — Chicago 💜
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪@neonpajamas.bsky.social · last mo.Hosting six talented writers tomorrow night! See you there! @clairehopple.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social / @rgvaughan.bsky.social / @cardewjcardew.bsky.social / @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social / @whistlerchicago.bsky.social
Hera asked me if I’m “having a good adulthood”
Imagine the concept of a blurb but with a better name — a name that doesn’t sound like a frog releasing an air bubble beneath the surface of a pond
Something I think about sometimes is “the most Texas name” Is it Austin? Jared? Hunter? Cody? Travis? Dallas?
Remembering when Román was younger & he painted a blue shark & then he painted the water around it blue & then he had a blue sheet of paper painted entirely blue
Hypothetical list of all English language accents (including the most obscure) listed from most beautiful to least (as if such a thing could be determined)
When Crocs first appeared on the market it felt like a rip in the space-time continuum
Elite novelists who write exclusively while dangling from trees
NEON NIGHT MIC ON SEPT. 2! 📚 I’m so stoked for this lineup. Most folks are traveling from out of town to be with us. Hope to see you there! 🎤 @clairehopple.bsky.social 🎤 @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🎤 @emilybloodwolf.bsky.social 🎤 Jonathan Cardew 🎤 @jessicawalsh.bsky.social 🎤 @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
I met this poet at a party & it turns out we both when to Goldsmiths but at different times & when I told what years I was there he acted like I was the cryptkeeper, he almost threw up, if he had been able to throw me in the trash I think he would have
