"Old friend" is a gayass thing to call someone
talk soon
4/24/22
i wrote this one after getting off the phone with an old friend
aries: once cried because there were so many worlds to conquer and he hadn't even managed to conquer one
taurus: (when nobody could tame the horse bucephalus and the horse was ordered away) kept talking about how bucephalus was a wonderful horse and they were losing a beautiful creature by taking him away over and over until finally his father let him try to tame the horse
gemini: slept with his copy of the iliad under his pillow
cancer: treated the conquered persians well after he drove king darius to flight because, in his words, darius was his enemy, not persia
leo: would get pissy whenever news of one of his father's great victories would come because he was worried his father wouldn't leave any conquering for him to do
virgo: had a habit of quoting poetry and plays and even did so in terrible situations such as when his father was killed or he was wounded in battle
libra: had a great distaste for athletes and would set up all sorts of competitions for poets and musicians and hunters while pointedly not awarding prizes for more athletic competitions
scorpio: once got mad at a guy and drunkenly threw a cup at him, then made fun of his father when his father was too drunk to do anything about it
saggitarius: traveled so quickly along the coast of pamphylia as to make a legend of himself and then played it off as if it were nothing special
capricorn: slept late on the day when he was supposed to meet darius in battle, and when questioned as to why he was sleeping as if he had already won, smiled and said that he was already victorious for finally getting to go into battle with darius rather than having to chase darius all over the place
aquarius: so admired diogenes the cynic that when diogenes was a dick to him he said that if he were not alexander, he would be diogenes
pisces: after a night of drinking would sleep usually until midday and sometimes even slept the entire day
Alexey Kondakov
Marie Curie’s century-old notebooks are still radioactive, so they’re kept in lead-lined boxes for protection against radiation exposure.
Photo via: Wellcome Library, London
Anyone wishing to handle her notebooks, personal effects, or other items have to wear protective gear and sign a liability waiver, just in case. She basically walked around carrying radium and polonium in her pockets, so… yeah.
Photo via: Amanda Macias/Business Insider
Marie and her husband Pierre are buried in Paris’s Panthéon, a mausoleum in that contains the remains of distinguished French citizens — including philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire.
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night time boardwalk stroll
splinters kindly avoiding
my sandy bare soles
another eclipse haiku from 4/8/24
~about me~
25 years old, she/they
queer writer, dramaturg, and musician
lover of books, sea creatures, poetry, winter, bugs, theatre, illustrations, music, art, nature, and so much more
hater of capital letters
welcome to my blog!
(i go by Juana or JP and use them interchangeably)
something I often do of this page is pair a piece of poetry I’ve written with an ai generated art piece!
i wrote this poem in a car ride home from a music festival at the end of the summer. it one of those poems that i wrote because everything was so perfect in the moment and i had to write something down to capture the moment. :)