Pinned
I tried to be really cool posing in this picture with the little bird my friend won me and the bigger bird my wife won me, but then I remembered the birds and pictured them in my mind and immediately lost my Chill Cool Guy Face.
Clove Themes 10 Years Ago: What if you had the explicit chance for salvation, the straight-up, obvious opportunity to improve yourself and be a healthier person with a more fulfilled life, and you consciously denied it? What if you were passionate and incredible at what you did and that in itself was enough for so many people to either not see that you were dissolving inside, or to decide it didn't matter? What if you chose to get worse, because all of this in the first place was your choice and your fault the whole time?
Clove Themes Now: What if you stuck around, despite everything? What if you saw the wounds of your psyche and decided you would tend to them, despite the unbelievable amounts of time and effort that took? What if you got rid of the parasite of romanticized suffering, even if it meant ripping it out with your bare hands? What if you stopped pretending the you you used to be wasn't still alive and desperate for your attention, for somebody to finally see them? What if you stuck around, despite everything?
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In looking for old scripts I realized the friend I recently reconnected with was the lead in the one full-length play I produced on stage. I asked her if she had the script - which she might - but it resulted in this delightful exchange
Yellow Mustang was one of the novels I wrote in high school that actually had a few characters and dynamics that ended up being better refined in Songbird Elegies.
That being said, I have no idea what soft shell crab references I put in that book. I don't think I've read it at all since maybe senior year. The one physical copy is at my parents house so unless I find it somewhere else there's a good chance I'll never read it in it's original state again.
It's almost as memorable to my friend as the premise itself. Was it a whole motif? Was I doing crab-based leitmotifs???
I feel like high school Clove might have made a scene about vulnerability while eating crab because shells and protective casings and letting people in, yknow?
Yeah uh I wish that was the case but 16 year old Clove was just starting to form their sense of hope and optimism and I'm pretty sure the crab reference was used to describe a character's bone breaking.
In looking for old scripts I realized the friend I recently reconnected with was the lead in the one full-length play I produced on stage. I asked her if she had the script - which she might - but it resulted in this delightful exchange
Yellow Mustang was one of the novels I wrote in high school that actually had a few characters and dynamics that ended up being better refined in Songbird Elegies.
That being said, I have no idea what soft shell crab references I put in that book. I don't think I've read it at all since maybe senior year. The one physical copy is at my parents house so unless I find it somewhere else there's a good chance I'll never read it in it's original state again.
It's almost as memorable to my friend as the premise itself. Was it a whole motif? Was I doing crab-based leitmotifs???
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I just wanted to let you know that you reblogged some art of the Arcane guy who's like a little freak furry (I think his name is Hermbo) and I almost left a comment saying "who's this possum gay for, bas?"
Then I remembered what reblogs were and that other people would see me say that and so I held back my truth and stayed silent.
i am CACKLING always speak your truth. who IS that possum gay for? youre asking the important questions of society
and do you mean heimerdinger?? the lorax ripoff looking guy????
"hermbo" is WILD . fuck it heimerdinger now has an estranged identical twin brother named hermbo who is indeed a homosexual
Ah yes it's Hurgle, the best guy in all of Arcade, the animated spin off of the popular computer game Halo.
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IMPERSONATE ME IN MY INBOX I WANNA SEE WHAT YOU GUYS RETAIN FROM ALL MY SHITTY POSTS
DO THIS DO THIS DO THISSS
I think I follow mostly writers so this might be a mistake. Let's see if anyone can manifest a quality Clove Doppelganger.
hi do you want a script to either perform or make art with but can't afford royalty rights? have a free script!
Looking through my personal archives of writing I've decided to do what I wanted to do years ago and publish any old scripts I can find under a Creative Commons license, allowing people who enjoy them to produce or create with them in whatever way they'd like.
They're fully free - you literally do not have the option to pay me for these. If you do something with them I'd like to see it. Even if it's something you perceive to be "amateur-ish" or whatever. I would love to see it and marvel at our long-distance collaborative artistic experience.
I have one more series of shorter one-acts (more dark comedy than this, which is just a bummer because I was still pretty young), and two about 60-min plays. I'd love to offer the full-length play I wrote, but I have no idea where it is. Anyways, I hope this inspires someone!
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Sometimes I feel resentment at the many adults who watched me clearly traumatized and did little/nothing to help.
But like there are a handful of adults (almost all teachers) who did what they could. Props to my high school drama teacher who saw the script I wrote for me and my friends and gave the all clear for use to perform it in front of an audience of parents and students.
It was like an explicit cry for help (though I didn't realize it). He never approached me about the themes. But he did see it and decide to inflict it on a live audience, most of which approached me after to say how it made them cry.
I can't get too into the insane possible implications of this public high school teacher silently allowing the production of this particular one act with zero warning or prep. It was for a fun end of year event where usually band kids and musical theater kids do little performances to entertain each other and their parents and family. Including what I wrote could've potentially been really bad for my teacher.
But uh props to him I guess.
my drama teacher: so you play dinah? you play this character that you wrote specifically for yourself?
me: yup!
my drama teacher (inwardly): i am 1000% not equipped in any way to even approach what the fuck all of this is about in any long-term useful way
me: can we perform this in front of parents and students hoping to relax and have a fun night?
my drama teacher: absolutely you can
Sometimes I feel resentment at the many adults who watched me clearly traumatized and did little/nothing to help.
But like there are a handful of adults (almost all teachers) who did what they could. Props to my high school drama teacher who saw the script I wrote for me and my friends and gave the all clear for use to perform it in front of an audience of parents and students.
It was like an explicit cry for help (though I didn't realize it). He never approached me about the themes. But he did see it and decide to inflict it on a live audience, most of which approached me after to say how it made them cry.
I can't get too into the insane possible implications of this public high school teacher silently allowing the production of this particular one act with zero warning or prep. It was for a fun end of year event where usually band kids and musical theater kids do little performances to entertain each other and their parents and family. Including what I wrote could've potentially been really bad for my teacher.
But uh props to him I guess.
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Researching names is always fun because you get a peek at how wild naming websites are.
Hey, Mom Junction? Mom Junction Dot Com? Who the fuck is the Giant of Africa? They can't be referring to the size of the country of Nigeria because that's not the biggest country on the continent, so I ask again - who is the Giant of Africa and why do they pick your names??
Hey Mom Junction Dot Com what the fuck are you doing here???
oh what the fuck
Meta this site is insane
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Researching names is always fun because you get a peek at how wild naming websites are.
Hey, Mom Junction? Mom Junction Dot Com? Who the fuck is the Giant of Africa? They can't be referring to the size of the country of Nigeria because that's not the biggest country on the continent, so I ask again - who is the Giant of Africa and why do they pick your names??
Hey Mom Junction Dot Com what the fuck are you doing here???
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Researching names is always fun because you get a peek at how wild naming websites are.
Hey, Mom Junction? Mom Junction Dot Com? Who the fuck is the Giant of Africa? They can't be referring to the size of the country of Nigeria because that's not the biggest country on the continent, so I ask again - who is the Giant of Africa and why do they pick your names??
Hey Mom Junction Dot Com what the fuck are you doing here???
Researching names is always fun because you get a peek at how wild naming websites are.
Hey, Mom Junction? Mom Junction Dot Com? Who the fuck is the Giant of Africa? They can't be referring to the size of the country of Nigeria because that's not the biggest country on the continent, so I ask again - who is the Giant of Africa and why do they pick your names??
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Me: I'm tired of people teasing me for never finding a cisgender man attractive. I've found some attractive! Maybe not any I've met in person in life, but there are men that have captured my heart and loins -
Riley: you have to stop talking about Donald Sutherland in Klute -
Me: He has a sensitive, weary masculinity to him like a cowboy taking a sabbatical to teach a creative writing workshop.
Riley: you have to stop sending me pictures of young Donald Sutherland I don't know who this man is I don't want to look at him anymore
I can kinda see it? He's very, tumblr wet beast coded. Looks like hes on the verge of tears depending on which scene. Also Jane Fondas fur outfit is great
HES EVEN BETTER IN THE MOVIE. like I think it doesn't do him justice in still image because the reason why that movie sticks with me is because it's like a crime/detective film but the hero isn't a cool badass it's just a sort of awkward guy and I love him I love Klute.