Japanese Rakugo [落語家]

A Metaphor and a Simile walked into a Bar… (via Story Empire)

A Metaphor and a Simile walked into a Bar…

A Metaphor and a Simile walked into a Bar… (via Story Empire)

She was already loosened like long hair

and surrendered like fallen rain

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Orpheus Eurydice Hermes,” The Essential Rilke, transl. Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann (Ecco, 2000)

Make a call on the phone1 [スマホで通話する1]

Does anyone else get whiplash from their phone memories? 📱❄️

Exactly three years ago today, I was chasing a false spring, barefoot in a creek with golden light cutting through the trees. Today? The view from my window is a monochrome study of white and grey.

Time is a strange editor. It splices these moments together—the warmth of the past and the freeze of the present—reminding us that seasons change, often violently, but always inevitably.

I wrote a new spoken word piece for @dversepoets based on this contrast. It’s about the electric truth of cold water and keeping a little bit of sunlight in your pocket to survive the winter.
https://wp.me/p71dCs-7Rw
#dVersePoets #SpokenWord #PoetryCommunity #WinterWriting #FalseSpring #WritersOfInstagram #TimeIsAStrangeEditor #PoetryChallenge

Time is a Strange Editor (Spoken Word for dVerse)

I use AI for my art

I meant Advanced Illustration not Artificial “Intelligence” why would I let a clanker draw grotesque and unrealistic shapes LMAO

craft talk: Against Simile: on a poetics of the unbearable (audio)

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. […] those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter’s tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”

— Salman Rushdie, from The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt & Co., 1999)

Stand up and smile to guide2 [立って笑顔で案内2]

I’m taking a break from posting fanart and I’m gonna start drawing a bunch of eyes that represent personality traits.

“The simile is a rhetorical magic trick, like a pun pulled out of a hat. A metaphor, however, feels not clever but true. Take away the announcement of like, and we read and write on a much less sophisticated level, on a level that has been called primitive, because it recalls the staggering ancient power of words as curses, as spells to transform someone into a frog, a stag, a satanic serpent.”

Max Byrd

You treat me just like the guy with the word “kill” in his first legal name once did

“It tastes like a Panda’s toenail” -Unknown

love when i’m going for metaphor and autocorrect tells me i actually meant to make it a simile

no i did not mean it was like i meant it was

“Memories hung like undeveloped photographs, and I closed my eyes to see them properly.”

— Eliza Moss, from What It’s Like in Words (Henry Holt & Co., 2024)

my pussy like motor oil

Giving people extras after your main art post is like dessert after a delicious dinner.

I just realized I’m going to have a harder time doing birdcage and bird/ribcage and heart similes in Finnish.

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