30 days of prompts: days 20 & 21
Hi!
No post yesterday because I forgot.
Today, I have two prompts for you to make up for that, though.
& what else?
Housekeeping
What I read last week
Tweets
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Prompts:
Day 20: Prompt
Listen to a song you love. Write a poem inspired by that song.
Day 21: Prompt
Write a poem about something ~ending.~
Housekeeping:
I have a bunch of art out today. View it here.
I had a poem come out last week, too.
What I read last week:
How Ellen DeGeneres won, and then lost, a generation of viewers (open in incognito to avoid the paywall)
Tweets:
Charles Manson was not present at murder scenes and did not commit actual murders, but found guilty because of his influence over his followers. How’s that any different from Tucker Carlson, who heavily influenced the Buffalo Shooter, with his replacement theory?
this is as good a time as any to remember that in evaluating the thoughtfulness of modern Trek's writers, Discovery has had multiple approving references to Elon Musk as an amazing figure in their history, including one character going to a Musk High School
I don’t want to be buried or cremated or made into compost I want to be made into a blue diamond and worn on the neck of my eternal love who will swallow me upon their death and themselves be made into a diamond around my diamond so we embrace for eternity is that too much to ask
this post still gets notes on a daily basis. it's almost as if the problem was never individual consumers behaving wastefully and greedily at all, or something
Devon Price @drdevonprice
I find the atlantic’s new big books push extremely difficult to reconcile with the way they’ve both-sidesed trans people’s existence. Sadly you don’t get to have credibility among terfs and book critics at the same time
Me writing the beginning of my book: ooooh the plot thickens!!
Me writing the middle of my book: hmm the plot thinnens
The ultra-rich will react to this news in an extremely normal way, I'm sure.
NPR @NPR
guy posting photo of himself w a cute dog is the equivalent of a girl posting a hot swimsuit pic. if anything it’s thirstier, sluttier, for the streets even more so.
That’s all I have for today. Have a good one!
See you tomorrow—
-DB