I think you always had a feeling
Like you knew it all along
I kept believing I was never meant to be
But maybe I just had it wrong
In a world that isn’t ours
In a place we shouldn’t be
For a minute
Just a minute
We made it feel like home
For a minute
Just for a minute
We made it feel like home
And I will haunt these hills forever
Without a reason to believe
When I can feel you beating inside of me
I have everything I need
In a world that isn’t ours
In a place we shouldn’t be
For a minute
Just a minute
We made it feel like home
For a minute
Just for a minute
We made it feel…
(Home, home)
(Home, home)
(Home, home)
I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“And God? He just kinda let it happen, didn’t he? See that? That’s the part I cannot square. Because you’re right, there is so much suffering in the world. So much. And then there’s this higher power. This higher power who could erase all that pain, just wave his hand and make it all go away, but doesn’t? No. No, thank you. The worst part is that it lets all the rest of us off the hook.”
MIDNIGHT MASS (2021)
— dir. Mike Flanagan
listen i am more than aware that hormonal birth control can do fucky things to your brain and body. i have been there and i have dealt with it and i don't take that lightly. but i do want to say that if you're sexually active and can get pregnant, the last people online you should be listening to are the "divine femininity" cryptofash tradgirl influencers who are spouting leftist-sounding rhetoric while telling you to throw out your birth control and "just track your cycles naturally" at a time when it's functionally impossible to get an abortion in many states. i cannot stress this enough. these people are white supremacists who have learned to cloak their right-wing, reject-modernity beliefs in language that sounds appealing to the left, and they are winning, and you need to be really vigilant about the influencers and messaging you are following and consuming and helping give more of a platform. because this shit is everywhere and women are going to die because of it.
[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
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