It's posted! "S(wallow)" @PorterHouseLit is about losing a mentor, learning to swallow correctly as a kid, and having straight sex in undergrad for homework, but like, poetic and shit. (It won the Editor's Prize & I'm still shocked & honored) Read & share! https://t.co/NJPBn7UM7v
In case anyone else is still here, I'm done. The X on my app and the website and you know, the dude being a terrible human. I'm on threads and instagram (cmeaksmeaker) and will be on blue sky when it's up and running.
Like also, brains are weird. Why has it taken this long to be able to see myself in that relationship? I can see her in every moment, but I can't see myself ever.
I'm writing an essay about my abusive ex and after working on it for six months, my memory is finally letting me take a good hard look at who I was in that relationship and owwww. Like I just made a Donna Reed comparison and yikes. My journey with gender is a fucking onion
Can confirm that moving couches out of apartments is dumb. Questioning whether ever having a couch is worth it considering it might have to be moved out one day
Every time I start working on anything that isn't moving, my brain starts running through my moving checklist. I really hope this is the last time I have to move for the next five years. I'm too old for this shit.
@pmijatov But I'm moving now so it's gotta happen now cause I'm not moving with it again. I really doubt it's worth anything since it was bought in the 80s so if no one wants it, it's getting dropped at goodwill
Things my mother brought me two moves ago and I've moved with out of obligation but have never opened: a fucking china set my grandma bought me for "my wedding" when I was five
@lexderman It's been several weeks and I haven't heard from them so I assume I didn't get it which is just as well cause I want to be in new york and that one thing has been gnawing at me anyway
A few weeks ago I had an interview for a playwriting teaching job and they were flabbergasted at my intro syllabus where students write a monologue, 10 minute play, and one act. They insinuated it was too much work for an intro class and I haven't stopped thinking about it since
@lexderman I know, right? Like we do a 10 minute so they can practice beginning middle end before tackling longer work, but otherwise the ten minute is just sort of meh
@Hammy1780 Exactly. My Intermediate class did three 30-40 page submissions over the semester. But one student ended up doing three full-lengths because they wanted to push themself and that student just learned so much more! Write write write and finish things! It's not too much.
The problem with being a broken-brain person who feels unworthy of love is when you receive sexts about your body you instinctually check over your shoulder to see who they're talking to.