Epiphanies At Parties:

‘touching‘ shot by vassilis karidis for fantastic man, issue 30

More of my playlists :)

To Live Forever- a TSH playlist (songs I think fit) 

 matchbox cars- for driving all around Tokyo with friends (futuristic and retro at the same time) 

coming of age- if I made a teen show, this would be the soundtrack

House Arrest- for cleaning the house with a robot version of you

summer- for wasting your days with your small group of friends

mockingbirds- songs I’d listen to when I fake my death

clementines- for laying on your bed, feeling full and complete 

sunflowers- based on that Holly Warburton painting  

think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

One of the funniest (and unmentioned on tumblr) interactions in TSH is when Richard bumps into Dr Roland who talks about his imaginary car

‘I was uncertain if this referred to Bud or to a literal blue jay or if, perhaps, we were heading into the territory of senile dementia’

Masha and the Bear were one of the blueprints for the cottagecore aesthetic

Character quirks based off people I know II

- obsessed with making films even as a kid 

- has a weird red stain on her jumper that doesn’t seem to ever go away 

- has lost her viola about three times in a year  

- buys things to impress people (eg. fountain pen, notebook) 

- used to experience slight auditory hallucinations 

- wrote poems about raspberries being metaphors 

- suffers from burnout a lot 

- ‘my cutoff date is 28. I either die committing art theft or assassination or I don’t die at all.’ 

- despises the word soliloquy 

- continuously says the word soliloquy 

- has an (almost finished) KYD wall 

- constantly working on something 

-  brings board games to whatever house she goes to

- incredibly happy when gifted world maps 

- someone once called her dumb and now her life goal is to become better than them in every aspect 

- has leverage on anyone about everything 

- constantly treats everything as a (subtle) competition 

- *draws six lines on leg* “look I’m a guitar”

- constantly comes up with strange pick up lines 

- wants to ‘pull a Henry’ every time she slightly fails at something 

- has a specific due date for crying and it’s a friend’s birthday 

- named all the statues they could find in a small town 

- wore a plague doctor mask to a party 

- has a real knack for wrapping presents 

- her gift for her Valentine was a cheesy heart necklace and a poem based on TSH quotes

- still wanted to be in the rain, so put coats over each other and huddled together 

- her entire personality is ‘JAMES IS ALIVE.’ 

Found these clown plushies :3

not sure if anyone is interested in this but here is a list of the most joyfully vital poems I know :)

You're the Top by Ellen Bass

Grand Fugue by Peter E. Murphy

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Alive! by Emily Sernaker

Instructions for Assembling the Miracle by Peter Cooley

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower by Bradley Trumpfheller

At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading by Jeannine Hall Gailey

In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr

Chillary Clinton Said 'We Have to Bring Them to Heal' by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Midsummer by Charles Simic

Today by Frank O'Hara

Naturally by Stephen Dunn

Life is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is by Arthur Vogelsang

Ode to My Husband, Who Brings the Music by Zeina Hashem Beck

The Imaginal Stage by D.A. Powell

Lucky Life by Gerald Stern

Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander

Presidential Poetry Briefing by Albert Haley

A Poem for Uncertainties by Mark Terrill

On Coming Home by Lisa Summe

G-9 by Tim Dlugos

Five Haiku by Billy Collins

The Fates by David Kirby

Upon Receiving My Inheritance by William Fargason

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Easy as Falling Down Stairs by Dean Young

Psalm 150 by Jericho Brown

Pantoum for Sabbouha by Zeina Hashem Beck

ASMR by Corey Van Landingham

A Welcome by Joanna Klink

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says, by Michael Frazier