Ashley HalliwellMar 22

Eight wrote this in 2022.

it’s images like this i’d live and die for
kept securely within my chest,
a less piercing form of homesickness
more beautiful -
you aren’t here and yet i feel - and i want you -
as if you were in the next room

it’s been years and i am just now telling you
things that i, before, kept lodged in my throat
it scares me still but i want you to know
the same way i did that way in july when i first
overcame my fear
so let me find words for the finest kind
of golden hour within my mind -

you call me a hurricane, a sea
but what if, for a moment, i was still,
held, wrists in your hands
above my head?
i am all angles and curves in all the wrong places
hard-edged everywhere i should be soft
eyes too dark to be this light
but what if i was beautiful, something close to gentle,
then, there, to you?
i’ve spent my life as soon as i could
running, but what if, for once,
i didn’t want to flee,
held fast in that early morning light?
then at last, desperation could go unspoken,
but be known and seen and felt…



#2022 #eight #implicationsGoBrr #Juneau #ourPoetry
GeethaMar 17

“ #Spinning #eight” #AI #Music #song on #youtube using #Suno with #my #lyrics and my #voice / #Gospel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X43l7MJHF6k

Gospel Spinning Eight

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GeethaMar 17

“ #Spinning #eight” #AI #Music #song on #youtube using #Suno with #my #lyrics and my #voice / #Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATJvLIY-kmA

Blues Spinning Eight

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CBC SaskatchewanMar 14
How a toothless cat evaded rescuers for 8 months before deciding to go inside
After evading capture and every trap possible for eight months, Erwin the toothless tuxedo cat rescued himself from a prairie winter and walked into a stranger's basement. Now he's looking for a permanent home.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/erwin-the-toothless-cat-regina-cat-recue-adoption-9.7128544?cmp=rss
misryoum global news networkMar 7

**Livewire** Operation Epic Fury Day Eight

https://misryoum.com/us/us/livewire-operation-epic-fury-day-eight/

The military operation against Iran entered its eighth day on Saturday. Israeli forces continued to expand their strikes against Iranian proxies Hezbollah in Lebanon, while the remnants of the leadership in Tehran vowed to keep fighting but apologized for hitting...

#Livewire #Operation #Epic #Fury #Day #Eight #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

**Livewire** Operation Epic Fury Day Eight

The military operation against Iran entered its eighth day on Saturday. Israeli forces continued to expand their strikes against Iranian proxies Hezbollah

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Osna.FMMar 7
The bees that have become a nationwide curiosity have clearly weathered the harsh winter with only marginal losses.Daniel Holstein, a volunteer beekeeper for th... https://news.osna.fm/?p=37224 | #news #beehives #bundestag #colonies #eight
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InarticulateQuilterMar 5

E is for #Eight

#ArtABCs
No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed

#Quilting #NCAA

Ashley HalliwellMar 5

Be The Fletcher To My Island

Sometimes having DID and headmates that are JUST as talented as you at both the same things – and different ones – is a fuckin’ gas, y’all.

Back in 2014-ish I wrote a poem that turned into one of my better-known songs about a crush of mine. It was called “My Island”. I was obsessed with the Mutiny on the Bounty for reasons I still can’t quite articulate, and the second verse contains one of my favorite lines I’ve ever written:

“Be the Fletcher to my island, be the Fletcher coming coming home”

I’m not entirely sure why that line gets me so bad more than a decade later. It may be the fact that it’s a reference to Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty, choosing the South Pacific over duty, country, etc., and settling with a few members of his crew in one of the most remote places on Earth, Pitcairn Island, after mutinying, and wanting to feel chosen like that. Maybe it’s my love for history references in general. Maybe it’s that I still yearn for people like I did when I was 14-17 and I struggle to express it now, and I love that line so much because it’s My Peak Teenage Yearning, something I feel like I can’t verbalize anymore, even though I’m arguably more safe now to do so than I was then.

Anyway, here’s the original take as it appeared on our first self released EP Fletcher Coming Home: Good Stuff From 2014.

A different cut appeared awhile later on our first album The Mellon Session as well:

But my favorite version of “My Island” came much later when Eight was host and he snuck into a church while bored out of his fucking skull to record this absolutely achingly beautiful take of “My Island” for his then-partner Juneau.

I can still feel the longing even now, and his arrangement is so fucking beautiful.

Holy shit.

-Allēna

#altTakes #eight #fletcherComingHome #gay #Juneau #longing #mellonSession #music #myIsland #ourmusic
OnyxRose Queen Of The RoseMar 1

https://onyxrose.net/p/decisions

Ah, the #good old #days of pre #facialfeminizationsurgery #ffs It was stressful trying to get everything #set up. It is a #wonder I was not thrown into a #crohn's #flare. #gender #trans #transgender #nonbinary #liplift #plastic #surgery. All in all, the surgery #eight #procedures took #twelve #hours. And #i am on the other #side and #feeling #wonderful. i #look wonderful to #me, and that is most #important. #lgbtqia #writing #writer #beehiiv https://onyxrose.net

Decisions

I have been struggling with a heavy decision in my life.

OnyxRose: Presence Not Permission
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Borussia Dortmund took on RB Leipzig in the 23rd round of the Bundesliga - a match that finished 2-2 after Leipzig had opened the scoring and gone ahead twice.... https://news.osna.fm/?p=35403 | #news #bayerns #dortmund #draw #eight
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