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🏳️‍🌈 He/they. Enby. Deceptively weighty. Music and art and other stuff. https://linktr.ee/cubaRhodes
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If 👏 thou 👏 wast 👏 not 👏 granted 👏 to 👏 sing 👏 thou 👏 would’st 👏 surely 👏 die 👏
Section four of Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" Text reads: 4 In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song. Song of the bleeding throat, Death’s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die.)
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I do not get more millennial
Text message exchange Sent: Can bring clof bar pls Sent: Or salty bar Received: Kk Sent: can u get clof bar Sent: clof bar hurt baby top of head
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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One thing that's helpful when I'm not sure how to abstract something is to look at origami
Sketches of birds based on origami Sketches of birds based on origami
November 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Album cover of Keep It Like a Secret by Built to Spill
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I think I'm making a cardigan for a bday present? Arms to be gray like the keys once I decide what gray that should be etc
Blue field with a pattern of white keys across it
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Men don't like the vehicle
Kira and Jen riding landstriders in a still from The Dark Crystal
October 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I want this?
Text conversation Sent: Kirkus review looks good re new danielewski but also it's 1232 pages Received: That's more than I'm ready to commit to for sure Received: I'll probably wait until a real human I trust tells me I'd like it Sent: Absolutely fair Sent: Rereading my previous message I see how the syntax is unclear and that it could be read as saying the kirkus review is 1232 pages long, and I think that's exactly something danielewski himself would do Received Only if the number 1232 had some weird arbitrary significance in the book itself Sent: House of leaves isn't *not* a kirkus review tbh Received: He would write a 90 page novella, but if you look up the review it would actually be the full text of a fictional novel mentioned in the novella
October 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Vulnerability hangover
Text conversation Received: I hate nerves! Received: I only ever talk way too much because I can't help myself but I think while it leaves us with vulnerability hangovers it's a relief to others who are shy and quiet Sent: Vulnerability hangoverrrrrr Sent: That's exactly it
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The American go-getter, though he has no quarrel with the status quo, is as much a perpetual juvenile as any revolutionary
Text reading: Arthur Koestler suggests that there is in the revolutionary “some defective quality” which keeps him from growing up. The indications are, however, that the present trend toward juvenile behavior has been gathering force for over a century and has affected people who cannot be classed as revolutionaries. . . . The American go-getter, though he has no quarrel with the status quo, is as much a perpetual juvenile as any revolutionary. —Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Times
September 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Propp's Morphology of the Folktale is good but also big oof re:

A feeling of shortage is also often not motivated by anything at all. The tsar calls his children together [...] and sends them out on a quest.
Excerpt from Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale, the text reads There are a great many ways by which a lack is realized. Envy, poverty (for rationalized forms), the daring and strength of the hero, and many other things can call forth a quest. Even a desire to have children may create an independent move (the hero is dispatched in order to search for the remedy for childlessness). This occurrence is very interesting. It shows that any tale element (in this case, the tsar’s lack of children) can, as it were, accumulate action, can evolve into an independent story, or can cause one. But like any living thing, the tale can generate only forms that resemble itself. If any cell of a tale organism becomes a small tale within a larger one, it is built, as we shall see later, according to the same rules as any fairy tale. A feeling of shortage is also often not motivated by anything at all. The tsar calls his children together, saying, “Do me a service,” etc., and sends them out on a quest.
September 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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But really wtf
Screenshot of text message exchange Sent, a photo of the cover of Blood Harmony by Barry Mazor featuring the title in bold red over a black and white photo of the Everly Brothers Sent: why did they make this look like a horror Received: Because their hair is so tall...? Sent: Their hair is so big because it's full of murders
September 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This is what I'm wearing today

This is what I was wearing when I felt compelled to explain that as a child I supported the Charlotte hornets just because I liked the colors
Fortyish bald beardy white queer with teal glasses, a purple undershirt, and black polo
September 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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idk if you need a photo of hec yawning but maybe you do
Small black and brown hound poking his head out of strongly backlit yellow curtains and doing a big yawn
September 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Not a prescriptivist I just don't like when new words seem like branding
Text exchange Sent: But like telephone is a word that didn't exist and had to be created. So they took tele for at a distance and phone for sound and smashed em together to have telephone Received: Right but at some point both tele and phone were just made up, so I guess I don't see the difference. Sent: Because someone unfamiliar with telephones but familiar with telegraphs and familiar with phonics can understand telephone Sent: Whereas if you just called it a Splam there's no chance of figuring it out Received I think you know what I'm going to say which is I'm going to be calling them splams from now on Sent: I had to think of something I wouldn't hate to hear
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
CD compilation entitled The Beginning of the End - The Existential Psychodrama in Country Music (1956-1972)
August 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Wrote a whole thing about "magic system" sff and this sketch by Philip Guston and deleted the draft

But maybe you want to look at this and think about how the drawing was more specific than any word he could have put there
Photo of a sketchbook page. Philip Guston has written in pencil: ALL THE ELEMENTS MUST The statement terminates in a complex (and perhaps impossible) knot drawn in the same pencil
August 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Is this a... meme Man labeled: Me Butterfly labeled: Yalom's description of the self Bottom text: is this golden sunflower?
August 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Reading Yalom today but hearing Ginsberg
Excerpt from Irvin D. Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy: The therapist wishes to say, “No, you are not your career, you are not your splendid body, you are not mother or father or wise man or eternal nurse. You are your self, your core essence. Draw a line around it: the other things, the things that fall outside, they are not you; they can vanish, and you will still exist.” Excerpt from Allen Ginsberg's Sunflower Sutra: and deliver my sermon to my soul, and Jack’s soul too, and anyone who’ll listen, —We’re not our skin of grime, we’re not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we’re all golden sunflowers inside, blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.
August 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Pardon me but we already have a The Argument and it's unsurpassable so...
Album cover of The Argument by Fugazi
August 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/c...
Excerpt from the linked piece, Changing the Framework: Disability Justice by Mia Mingus With disability justice, we want to move away from the “myth of independence,” that everyone can and should be able to do everything on their own. I am not fighting for independence, as much of the disability rights movement rallies behind. I am fighting for an interdependence that embraces need and tells the truth: no one does it on their own and the myth of independence is just that, a myth.
August 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Yale's got digitized collections of William Carlos Williams prescription pad notes and it's exactly as legible as that implies but I do like this one very much
Prescription pad of William C Williams M.D. Blue text lists office hours, phone number, address etc as well as blank lines for the patient's name, address, and the date the prescription was written Near the top of the field where the actual content of the prescription would be written is the word "Today" handwritten. There is no other written text
August 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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as if it mattered
Excerpt from Stoner by John Williams What did you expect? he thought again. A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure—as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such thoughts were mean, unworthy of what his life had been.
August 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Mari Ruti was so good
Excerpt from Mari Ruti's The Ethics of Opting Out This is precisely Lacan’s point about the ethical injunction to love thy neighbor: this injunction domesticates the other’s alienness, with the consequence that when this alienness resurfaces, “love” washes away in a flood of aggression.
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
Thirty Helens from Kids in the Hall
August 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Sarah Michelle Gellar Prinze Junior*
Screenshot of Sarah Michelle Gellar's Instagram post, a photo of a place card for a table read of the new Buffy pilot reading: Sarah Michelle Gellar Prinze "BUFFY SUMMERS"
July 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM