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01/31/2024

FINAL DAY TO SUBMIT for MIRRORBALL: How Taylor Swift Reflects the Loss, Hope & Love of Millions Around the World, an anthology of writings inspired by Taylor Swift and her music, edited by Chiwan Choi and me.

- We welcome submissions now through EOD tonight, January 31, 2024.
- Please submit 1-3 poems or prose up to 3500 words.
- Submissions may be in any style and format. Please upload your entire submission as one MS Word file. Be sure to include your name and contact information on the first page.
- Contributor pay is $50/poet and $100/essay or prose (one acceptance and one pay per contributor).
- All submissions must be previously unpublished. We are not accepting reprints for this project.

Whether you have published a dozen books or you are in school dreaming of your first publication, whether you spent hours making outfits to attend the Eras Tour or you were just your children’s driver, we can't wait to read your submissions for the !

Please submit your poetry/prose to EastOver Press at: bit.ly/3PW2HCS 📥

A project of EastOver Press, Cutleaf is an online literary journal with an annual print anthology. We welcome unsolicited and unpublished original poetry, short stories, essays, and other nonfiction in English from established and emerging writers.Cutleaf is open for submissions once per year in eac...

03/19/2022

thank you to and .met.roos for keeping things regular at this house 🏡

loving the fun workbook style energy and voice of the authors that make this a fun little read that promotes lifestyle changes that can help your sh*t stay consistent, and lets you know how to easily identify if something is up.

⚠️trigger warning: mention of ED & laxatives⚠️

holistic methods to helping alleviate discomfort or constipation are so important for people who have a history with eating disorders where laxative use can be a trigger. i highly appreciate books like this one that will promote knowledge that helps people who need it.

11/14/2020

“I use they pronouns now.”
“Of course. I’m sorry, dear! My mistake.”
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it really is that easy to respect someone’s pronouns and i love this book for actively working to normalize that.
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go read MOONCAKES by & () for ✨clear skin✨

10/20/2020

obsessed with these prints by — i just upgraded my crunchyroll subscription so now i can watch anime ad-free 🥳 right now i’m watching kuroko’s basketball and haikyuu! 🏀🏐 the way anime sports has my full attention 🤩
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ℚ: do you watch anime? what are some of your fav shows?
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⁂ sᴛᴀɴ ʏᴏʀᴜɪᴄʜɪ sᴏɪғᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴏɴ ᴋɪʟʟᴜᴀ ғᴏʀ ᴄʟᴇᴀʀ sᴋɪɴ ⁂ @ Playa Vista | Private Location

10/09/2020

who had hairy venomous puss caterpillars on their 2020 bingo card? (article via ) 🐛 // tiktok: 👾

09/28/2020

a few september favorites:
- Ask A Q***r Chick: A Guide to S*x, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls by Lindsay King-Miller ,
- this ‘sounds gay i’m in’ shirt from (use code travelingbooknerds to get 30% off your entire order). proceed from website sales are donated to youth gas orgs and leaders across 🇺🇸 via ;
- freaking romance on is a god-tier toon and zylith has given me the confidence to simply exist with cat ears at any time i desire (these are from );
- this collared crop top covered in kitten faces. need i say more? @ Playa Vista | Private Location

09/28/2020

sailor mars energy strong ⛩📿 overalls tip via , ‘there’s not going to be a summer 2020’ illustrated tee by ✍🏼
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q: which sailor scout’s off-duty fashion looks are your fav?
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[sailor moon screen caps via google image search] @ Los Angeles, California

08/06/2020

“Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation will not happen right away. Change often takes time. It rarely happens all at once. In the movement, we didn't know how history would play itself out. When we were getting arrested and waiting in jail or standing in unmovable lines on the courthouse steps, we didn’t know what would happen, but we knew it had to happen.

Use the words of the movement to pace yourself. We used to say that ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. And if we believe in the change we seek, then it is easy to commit to doing all we can, because the responsibility is ours alone to build a better society and a more peaceful world.”
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“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. […] Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don't be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself.”

— John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America.
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in april of 2017 i was lucky enough to get witness and in conversation at festival of books. recently reread these treasures (cont. in comments) @ Playa Vista | Private Location

08/03/2020

“people often confuse the words empathy and sympathy. empathy means ‘the ability to understand and share the feelings of another’ (as in, ‘both authors have the skill to make you feel empathy with their heroines’), whereas sympathy means ‘feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune’ (as in ‘they had great sympathy for the flood victims’).” — oxford dictionary of english.
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tl;dr: empathy > sympathy
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07/22/2020

07/13/2020

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Just some food for thought 💭 @ Playa Vista | Private Location