Not crap at all, you was good!
That’s nice of you, but it actually wasn’t. I can picture my 16yo self slapping me. You would never believe I actually went to drama school. But I was determined to get that thing recorded!!
November 2010
10 posts
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Sorry it’s a bit crap, I was super nervous.
Transcript:
Hi everyone. This is my contribution to the Great Tumblr Poetry Reading.
The crew was complete: it included a Boots —
A maker of Bonnets and Hoods —
A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes —
And a Broker, to value their goods.
I totally want to participate in this poetry reading thing but can’t figure out how to record! Someone help me out?
Is this really one of those things we want to use Internet cuteification shorthand on?
Over the last few months, I’ve noticed “TW” being used as shorthand for “trigger warning” a lot. I’m wondering why on earth is that? and where did this come from? But mostly, why has it taken off?
Is a trigger warning really something you want ambiguity around? Is it something you really want to use community shorthand for, like it’s something you have to get in with the right spaces and the right people to comprehend? I mean, when I first started reading social justice blogs and saw the term “trigger warning,” I didn’t know exactly what it meant but it was reasonably evident that it was a warning that upsetting reactions could be triggered by the content below. But in just using “TW,” a lot of people unfamiliar with the term are going to sail right on by those two little letters and get triggered.
I don’t mean to say that trigger warnings are perfect or that they necessarily warn for the sorts of things that are going to trigger anyone or anything like that. I mean that this cuteified shortening renders trigger warnings in a way I find really offputting, and a lot of people are going to find not even useless, but harmful.
Library, by Chally and Xands
I
I am so excited about the library
which is where I am going
II
I’m glad you are
I eat in the library
what are books
III
what are libraries
how are they
how do you do
IV
i complained about the bagel shop
in my precious library
where dreams are made
then i tasted the bagels
damn sweet capitalism
V
sweet capitalist librarian
filling our dreams
and our bagels
with cream cheese
and power
POEM BY CHALLY'S MUM
I’m never going to get the internet
Now that you don’t have to study.
Fin.
NEW COLLABORATIVE POEM BY XANDS AND CHALLY: Friendship in Space
I
you need to buy me a space island
made out of eclairs
II
eclairs
in space
zero g excess
III
I will surprise you
with our eclair-based
friendship
friendship in a delicious vacuum
IV
surprises
they’re a surprise
Oh wow, everyone
I woke up this morning and realised I have absolutely no pressure on me today. No exams to write, no deadlines until next week, no entertaining required. I can just sit here and eat cake and read novels.
CHALLYMAS KNOWLEDGE, a collaborative poem by Chally and Xands
I
WOO KNOWLEDGE
IT TEACHES YOU STUFF
NAMELY, ITSELF
II
SHAPED LIKE ITSELF
WHAT’S A VASE LOOK LIKE
A VASE
October 2010
60 posts
“It’s like ‘well I don’t want to give up my internet cool kids friend card sooo’.”
—One of the reasons I can’t take a lot of social media/blogging as seriously as I did anymore. People, really. (via rhymeswithnothing)
Chally's tip of the day
If you have a conversation in which I’m misracialised, don’t pretend you didn’t, because you know that people have screencaps of that shit, whether you delete it or not. Then don’t use your lies against my friends. And don’t make me relive that pain by lying about it over and over again.
