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Daniel 🌷✨🌇
@iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social
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kismet 🌸 poet/essayist/chismosa 🌸 local brown femme hottie (international) 🌸 hispanic never hispeace 🌸 buy me tostones 🌸 inter/e/views editor @ split lip magazine 🌸 micro editor @ the offing

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don’t talk to me until I’ve had my picture of the moon 🌕❤️

y’all, who is this scarlet diva ??? I took this last night (and more) and I will forever waiting for her to write a love poem back to me 😭😍 this bashful show-off

the moon 😩 the longing, the yearning, the unfulfillment, the solitude

DIVA
picture of the moon, entirely full. who is this scarlet diva? the halo, the corona. picture of the full moon, exposure turned down slightly; very copper-sienna, very demure picture of the full moon, exposure and focus turned down slightly. the moon is orange-yellow-brown here, and there’s some tree branches in front of it. the moon is, as ever, that girl. picture of the moon above a building and a nearby parking lot. she is completely full and blazing scarlet. the picture doesn’t do it justice. truly the stuff of magic and diva-dust.
August 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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happy 4th of july to this diva ONLY
July 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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can’t even front, this would work on me
May 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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every day I’m reminded that the moon is really that girl
A picture taken by @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social; in it, a view of an apartment building with several windows and some balconies. Above/behind the building, a huge yellow crane, and, to the left of the crane, the moon: faded, not yet full, but visible.
April 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I posted this a few days ago & accidentally tagged the wrong person (sorry lol), but shoutout to Dr. @roxanegay.bsky.social for signing my skillet at AWP!! thank you for being so sweet too ❤️🙏🏼
March 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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last night, I managed to get into the book signing & @rgay.bsky.social was kind enough to sign my tiny skillet !!!! Dr. Gay was so sweet thank you so much ❤️

I’m also finding other writers I admire to sign, so if you see a young baddie running around with a frying pan, mind your business lol

#AWP25
A tiny black skillet addressed to Daniel, signed by Roxane Gay. After the address, a recommendation: “Keep it spicy!”
March 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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AWP friends, come thru tomorrow!!!
March 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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hi friends, for your afternoon reading pleasure: today’s Micro essay by @finndeerhart.bsky.social, out in @theoffingmag.bsky.social! I love how it sets its insight on friendship & sex against its lonely, suffocating occasion. A treat to publish. 🛣️🌙

https://theoffingmag.com/micro/miles-like-friends/
Photo of the outside of a brown concrete bar with bright string lights dangling from an overhead pavilion/tent above a dark, outside sitting area at night. In the distance, a white car is pulling away. The blue string lights cast a glow on the pavement; near the ground are bright yellow marquee letter signs that spell "bar." Photo is by Sacre Bleu on Unsplash.
March 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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hi friends, for your morning reading, here’s a Micro by Elizabeth Bolton, out in @theoffingmag.bsky.social yesterday! it’s so refreshing to see a piece that looks at parenting through the lens of regret, and to see that reflected in its diction. 🏡☕️✨

https://theoffingmag.com/micro/lunch-al-fresco/
A photo of a house at a slight upward angle; out of frame, the sun shines in near the top left corner and there are white roses with pinkish edges around many of the petals blooming in front of the house. Photo is by Palak Pitroda on Unsplash.
March 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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who is this DIVA 😍😍😍
picture of an open-mouthed leopard (or jaguar, idk) looking back at the camera; its tail is spun upward into a spiral that falls over half the animal’s face, making it look especially cunty. very fierce. covergirl is shaking.
February 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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hi friends, for your evening reading pleasure, this Micro by Shasparay, out in @theoffingmag.bsky.social! such fun editing this piece, & I love how it looks at the moralization of fatphobia. the artwork offers a possible layer of extra meaning too. 🌊✨🐍

https://theoffingmag.com/micro/judgment-day/
Black and white photo of the upper half of a sliding scale, the kind of typically seen in a doctor’s office. The photo is taken at an angle, and on one of the balancing weight blocks there is a caduceus at the center in gray. The photo is by Samuel Ramos on Unsplash.
February 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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to this day, the phrase “creativity privilege” is seared along whatever parts of my brain are responsible for processing information

what a burden memory is, sometimes.
A screenshot of a pair of tweets from Panesh Prakash; @pranesh on Twitter. The first is a quote retweet; it says: “I not only implicitly approve the idea that artists and people should have their works "stolen" (i.e., fed into a neural network that recognizes patterns), but l explicitly approve it. It's a great idea. “Why should creative people be allowed to retain their creativity privilege?” And the second tweet says: “Creativity is one more unearned privilege. Generative Al democratizes creativity to an extent and allows those who aren't innately creative to be more so. “Those with privilege will argue that making that privilege available to more people is "stealing" and morally abhorrent.”
February 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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hi friends, for your reading pleasure this afternoon: this Micro by Andrew Israel Reed, out in @theoffingmag.bsky.social! It’s a haiku, and I’m so drawn in by the soft, slicing sounds, the image of feet in the title, shuffling. And that skyline! 🗡️🌳

https://theoffingmag.com/micro/walking-up-teuhtli/
Photo of a green trees canopy against a bright blue sky with a thin, wispy cloud. Photo by Hilda Trinidad on Unsplash.
February 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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hi friends, for your evening reading: today's micro by @thirteenthstory.bsky.social, out in @theoffingmag.bsky.social! I love this piece's ambiguity—are the results medical, educational, etc.?—& how, really, it doesn't matter. just devastation. well done, Jaye! 🌱🔪🌊✨

theoffingmag.com/micro/test-r...
Close-up photo of a field of short grass; the grass is green and there are unfocused trees in the background with the sun shining through. Photo is by Jake Givens on Unsplash.
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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hi friends, for your afternoon reading pleasure is this micro by Ava Chen, out in @theoffingmag.bsky.social today! it’s a tiny, focused piece, and I love the way it opens with a moment of sun, almost as a kind of invasive entity. loved editing this piece. ☀️🛏️

https://theoffingmag.com/micro/parable/
Two queen sized beds in a hotel room. Between the beds is a single nightstand with two lamps mounted into the wall; the right side of the room is shadowed, and the left side has sunlight shining in through an unseen window.
January 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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kinda sorta old news, but this year has been a lot and I never got around to sharing on here or on Twitter, which is to say—earlier this year, I was awarded a residency with Vermont Studio Center next year! I’ve never been to Vermont, but I hear it’s lovely.

a small win, but I’m happy nonetheless ❤️
December 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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always, the moon

✨🌙🌆
low exposure photo of the moon above some trees and streetlamps; the sky has a rainbow gradient tint to it.
December 15, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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- Nikki Giovanni

🕷️❄️
Picture of Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Allowables” Poem text is— “Allowables” I killed a spider Not even a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of paper spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn’t And she scared me And I smashed her I don’t think I’m allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened Picture of “Winter Poem” by Nikki Giovanni Poem text is— “Winter Poem” once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then i reached to love them all and i squeezed them and they became a spring rain and i stood perfectly still and was a flower
December 10, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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forever wishing I could be a bumblebee taking a nap inside a flower
Three panel picture of three purple flowers; inside each one is pollen-covered bumblebee, who is very tired and taking a nap.
December 7, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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like gurl what the fuck does this even mean? lmao why am I so heated by this???
A post from a Facebook group with the caption, “You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, but are you ready for” followed by what appear to be some sort zoom-in/close-up of microorganisms underwater, followed right after another picture, this time of an overhead look at a marsh or swamp environment; many rivers and tributaries run through the green-brown pieces of land/swamp.
December 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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just about every December on Twitter I’d post something along the lines of how it’s insane not that the grinch was thinking he could get away with stealing Christmas but that he could get away with having this much cake and I fully intend to keep this tradition up here

merr early crimmuh, y’all 🎄✨
December 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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I don't think much of it anymore, but in honor of ten (10!) years of ED recovery, here's an essay about opossums, womanhood, fatphobia, & a deadly obsession I once held, published some years ago with Michigan Quarterly Review.

always & always: I love you Daniel.

sites.lsa.umich.edu/mixtape/2021...
Screenshot of an excerpt from an essay published in Michigan Quarterly Review called "Playing Dead" by Daniel Garcia. The essay opens with an epigraph from Plath; a line from her poem "Lady Lazarus." The line is, "I do it so it feels like hell." The excerpt is the first paragraph of an essay, and the numbers in brackets are indicative of endnotes that appear later in the essay. The excerpt reads: "The Virginia opossum, species name didelphis virginiana, is the only marsupial indigenous to North America. Known colloquially as “trash kitties” on social media for their hissing, panic-stricken faces, and propensity for scouring dumpsters for scraps, the stereotypes aren’t that far removed: opossums are scavengers, and their diet often consists of fruit, snakes, ticks (sometimes over five thousand a season!) and even roadkill. Female opossums, jills, are known for carrying their offspring, joeys, on their physical person, like humans.[1] Opossums spend much of their time in trees, hidden from the world despite being in it.[2] Stereotypes aside, because opossums store food sources within memory, they are superior at locating food—and therefore nourishing themselves—than other animals.[3] Given their near-immunity to rabies and other wildlife illnesses, opossums are also incredibly healthy mammals, notable for their proximity to death by what’s called thanatosis or “playing possum.”[4] In thanatosis, opossums enter tonic immobility, a state wherein an animal’s motor skills temporarily stall. They lie on their sides or backs, rigid, mouths agape. It seems unproductive, certainly, to lie inert, aware of what promises to extinguish you; however, it’s not without purpose: opossums, in mimicking death, release a subtle scent through their anal glands akin to decomposition.[5] This plays at a wildlife predator’s instinct to avoid rotten meat, which may result in abandoning the opossum, giving it a chance to escape.[6]"
November 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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POV: you’re a bodacious yung hottie who is happily single and about to turn thirty, looking down at the three piece chicken egg roll from Jack in the Box that you’re absolutely about fuck up with wild and torrid abandon
Picture of a dizzy, blushing, lovestruck Ariel (from the Disney film The Little Mermaid) looking out a window with her head propped up on one hand while wearing a pink nightgown.
November 22, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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& of course, ever full of herself & in the best of ways, the moon.

✨🌕
Image of the full moon, bright and with the sun’s corona behind it, taken by @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Already shared on Twitter, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to here—my essay in Quarterly West, “August 30th, 2017” is a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023! It’s my fourth Notable overall, and my first flash essay to get one. ✨🌷🕳

Read it here: https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-106-garcia
October 20, 2023 at 1:41 PM