Jillian Spiridon

Joined February 2021

325 stories

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just another writer with too many cats

twitter: @jillianspiridon

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All Hail the Queen of Letting It Go. Top Story - May 2021.
When Disney's Frozen first took the world by storm in 2013, everyone was keen on examining the deuteragonist Elsa in a variety of ways. Was she a secret LGBTQ symbol? Was her iconic song "Let It Go" just a way to express the mechanisms of anxiety and depression? The ramping up of these discussions only grew with the release of Frozen II in November 2019.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Motivation
I'll Tell You Again Tomorrow
you were the sun I hovered 'round and 'round, even when you were an eclipse with all your darkened edges but I loved you the most
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
We're All Just Dolls, Aren't We?
putting on my make-up again, trying to filter out the pores, wondering where I'll go wrong— I see the plastic glaze my skin.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
The Matter of Eve
do you ever think of her, that first woman to walk the soil, the one who birthed realms after being thrown from paradise?
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
The Lonely Season
crystallized, a moment frozen in time, whispered, so cold we cannot sleep. dreaded, the chill steeps the bones, numbed,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
When Your Fingertips Met Grass
you pulled at the weeds as if they were choking the lifeblood out of you, a nemesis personified, but each time you tore at the grass brought hurt,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
The Kind of Girl I Wanted to Be in the 2000's. Top Story - May 2021.
I'm a 90's baby who became a 2000's teen. Music, for me, has always been a way of trying to find some craft that spoke to me and resonated in ways that made me go, "Yeah. I've felt that."
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Beat
Your Blues Colored My Skies
maybe I began not as a baby waiting inside you but the canvas you meant to be your masterpiece— flooded with all the paint of your cascading emotions.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
At the Crossroads of a Rainbow Bridge
you wouldn't see me, I don't think— or, at least, I'm not one you'd notice. a red arrow could be pointing right at me, but I would be as invisible as a mirage.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Flutter, Flow, Fly
each petal tells a story, each feather has a song, each moment is a history, each word is a beginning, each piece is a part,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Being Miss Picture Perfect
girls know what it's like to look at each other and compare all the fragments on display— the nose, the lips, the eyes, the curve of a cheek—
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets
Color-Coded Psyche
dreaming in lost colors, pondering what is real, taking the good with the bad, trying to move on, making the effort at every junction, crying at failure,
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Poets

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All Hail the Queen of Letting It Go. Top Story - May 2021.

I'll Tell You Again Tomorrow

We're All Just Dolls, Aren't We?

The Matter of Eve

The Lonely Season

When Your Fingertips Met Grass

The Kind of Girl I Wanted to Be in the 2000's. Top Story - May 2021.

Your Blues Colored My Skies

At the Crossroads of a Rainbow Bridge

Flutter, Flow, Fly

Being Miss Picture Perfect

Color-Coded Psyche

Stories (325)