sam

@lunarriviera.bsky.social

she/her | just another writer with a tabby cat | danmei/dangai main | p大 enthusiast, 肉包 enjoyer | entitled to #dmbj compensation | lunarriviera.carrd.co

it's always a weirdly kinda fun/kinda awful sensation, to feel your body go in the space of a half-hour from "little tired and grumpy" to "oh no this is actually a virus, i'm actually coming down with something"—that rapid slide into realization and then you force down some water and topple into bed

do you ever just get assaulted by an edit that would take weeks and be emotionally distressing on a visceral level and you absolutely cannot make? yeah well anyway uts s2 du cheng set to maps by the yeah yeah yeahs you're welcome

stray memory: being lost one day up around abiquiú, when i lived in tesuque new mexico, trying to find some hiking trail. winding around on a dirt road, and suddenly looking up and seeing pedernal, unmistakeable, in my rear-view mirror. i thought: the perfect way to see it. and i didn't turn around.

cerró pedernal near abiquiú lake new mexico

imagine someone saying this to you and surviving it: “之前你遇到我, 也算是一种仪式。你知道我的, 你走不出我放不下, 不管你愿不愿意, 我都得拉住你。你躲不掉我的。” "…you know what i'm like—you can't run away, and i'm not going to let you go. like it or not, i'm holding onto you. there's no getting rid of me." DID YOU KNOW LUO WENZHOU INVENTED LOVE

lwz telling fei du he's never letting go of him, now. fei du looking up at him like he's never felt whatever this emotion is in his life before. #jitd

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i know this is tendentious but i refuse to call it "political science" don't try to rules-lawyer yourself out of the humanities. i'm sorry if you look at data or demographics and think that makes you an actual scientist, we all do that now? you're not special? (this post sponsored by fandom studies)

so you know how a thing about me is, i have exiled politics from this account forever? i will never do anything here but talk about The Character and sometimes make you read a poem. but so having said this: WOW THE POLITICS ARE SO AWFUL THEY ARE SO BAD RN. okay back to some little guy and/or beauty!

successfully submitted essay to 9 magazines. also, because i wrote it in blood, i deliberately only picked outlets that actually pay money, not just contributor's copies and their high regard. i think this one might actually find its place, so decided i deserve a few hundred dollars to pay rent with

flat out sobbing about anne carson. in fall 1992 my college girlfriend, also a poet, came running into my room with a copy of yale review. “you’ve got to see this,” she half yelled before shoving it at me. it was “short talks.” then we found eros the bittersweet. and then. maybe the gods do exist.

prefatory paragraph to short talks

dreamed about the late mr. quincy, my former service dog. he loved providing services, zoomies, rolling on dead fish on the beach, and hot dogs. i hope he’s running forever in some doggy afterlife. literally the best boy to ever do it.

mr quincy, an english cream
 retriever who had some opinions

chat reminded me that i made this helpful diagram at some point. reluctantly impressed by my attention to detail here, also i think i'm right. about where everyone's legs are #jitd

qiu zhongwei is all of us atm

it's taken me 24 hours to figure out that this is either a mistranslation or benjamin didn't know the right word, but the pasta shape should be: spaghetti. they're eating SPAGHETTI with their hands. i know you were all hanging on by a thread, desperate for this information. so everyone can relax now

sam@lunarriviera.bsky.social · 4d ago

sometimes (mostly) i don't understand how my "academic" "research" brain is attempting to amass and organize information, i just found this quotation in a folder labeled "spectacle theory" which…i guess…it loosely…is…? but. why. did i save it. for what article

i don't even know who wrote this. about macaroni

completely buckwild when your therapist turns out to actually have wise thoughts to offer which do in fact change your own thinking and/or thereby your feelings. almost like therapy works or something idk?