the title of this is apparently “tag nine people with excellent taste” which like. never let it be said i won’t succumb to flattery eventually @literalliterature

Colour(s): black, dark red, forest green, purple (radiant orchid, even, still), medium grey. i know this is criminally boring of me but bright colors are giving me the dysphorias or something rn so i’ll have to live with being disowned by all of my friends who know about color

Last band t-shirt I bought: mountain goats, “no haven safer than the one they tore down”

Last band I saw live: the mountain goats

Last song I listened to: “swans (life after death)”, islands

Last movie I watched: all but the last twenty minutes of jupiter ascending

Last three TV shows I watched: planet earth II, planet earth II, planet earth II, time isn’t real

Last 3 characters I identified with: hahaha christ. um. unfortunately all of my answers here are either real people or the first-person narrators of poems i read recently, which might also be real people. several cops, in a fanfic for a show i’ve never seen.

Book I’m currently reading: technically hume’s enquiry concerning human understanding but emotionally it’s still left hand of darkness, as it has been for like three consecutive months. oh also two anne carson books

tagging @raisedbyhyenas @harridanford @garden-ghoul @genghisrae and then after that i run out of steam but you know, whoever, i’m always excited to find out if other people know how to like or have opinions on things

what up, I’m jared

what’s your favourite book?

for sheer comfort i could say basically any diana wynne jones; anything more serious and i end up with poetry, so uh, louise glück’s the wild iris or possibly mei mei berssenbrugge’s hello the roses

as it turns out i don’t exactly read books.

terrible news: a thing has learned to eat salads

hey do any of you do “layering a short sleeved t shirt over another thing”, and if so, what do you do with it/how do you do it in a cool way. i have like, turtlenecks and button-downs and stuff altho none of them are great. i have some concepts but i’m not sure what to do with my tees that are boat necks or w/e. how do you layer under a boat neck.

a thing about now having bangs kind of is that i keep thinking that my sleeping roommate is moving around when really i am just seeing pieces of my hair in my peripheral vision. not constantly scaring yourself with imaginary visions is femme privilege, discuss

i won’t get better, but someday i’ll be free/cause i am not this body that imprisons me

i’ll be reborn someday, someday/if i wait long enough

nobody’s gonna drag you up/to get into the light where you belong

hmmmm am i going to eat a very large meal and then immediately go swimming alone at 10:30pm? maybe

lmao remember when i thought “lonesome surprise” was an example of an “unlistenable” mountain goats song? i was a child. a baby

bragging post but like, bragging about my brother, so it’s fine

my little brother is applying to colleges this year and of the ones he’s applied to he’s been accepted to all 7 that he’s heard back from so far, all with direct admissions to the graphic design programs he wants, multiple with honors college spots/scholarships as well– these are really good schools too, basically all the major midwest public schools w/ art programs (so far he most likes msu and uiuc and u of m where he just got admitted today, and we could definitely afford uiuc at least) and i just–

god, i’m so proud of him, he deserves this! he works really hard, he’s a really talented artist, he has had a miserable past three years and been horribly chronically ill and had to deal with a whole bunch of awful shit from my parents, way more than i ever did tbh, and i’m just so glad that he’s going to get to go to college somewhere he likes and study what he loves. he’s a really good person, and i love him so much, and sometimes things work out! sometimes a situation is just uncomplicatedly good and you get to watch someone you love succeed at something they care about.