River and Celia in Underland
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Mad-hap shenanigans, scrawlings, art and stuff ;)
Poetry Collection, Is this All We Get?
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This Is Not For Metrics
We shared a poem today. Emotionally raw and quite devastating. I watched my wife cry as they wrote. I held them when they pressed, 'submit'. Yes submit. Place your vulnerabilities out into the world—for understanding, for solidarity, for survival. For peace.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Poets
A Life in Three Parts. First Place in Pride Under Pressure Challenge. Content Warning.
The world is fuzzy. You think you’ve been here before, or maybe this isn’t the first time you’ve woken up. There’s beeping. Voices in the distance—hushed. You don’t think you’re allowed to know what they’re saying. You don’t care.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Pride
Poe Vices
Introducing Poe ‘Vices: Life Advice You Definitely Didn’t Ask For or Need. From chaos gremlin to cosmic counsellor, Poe (The infinite, scream-Beam) is now solving your deepest problems with her signature style: shouting, biting things, and chicken, obvs. Fools.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Writers
We’re Just Here for the Chicken
I used to stick a pin on a map and go. Pack a bag. Be there in a day. New life, new start. That was my little segment of white privilege. Sure, I wasn’t always safe as a woman. I was born poor and short. And Welsh. I could, if I so chose, bugger off to wherever. Whenever. Teach the language of my closest living relatives, all because the English white dispensation had made it possible. Through blood and rape and tears. Not something I’m proud of. But not an opportunity someone like me was going to pass up either. Bottom line is I could. Because they did.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Pride
The Things She Carried. First Place in I Wrote This Challenge.
“This is Bisan from Gaza. I’m still alive.” You say it to prove survival. But it is not a triumph. It is a reckoning. You are twenty-five years old. You have documented life under siege. But you have not seen war—
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Writers
Poe 'Vices
Introducing Poe ‘Vices: Life Advice You Definitely Didn’t Ask For or Need. From chaos gremlin to cosmic counsellor, Poe (The infinite, scream-Beam) is now solving your deepest problems with her signature style: shouting, biting things, and chicken, obvs. Fools.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Motivation
Poe 'Vices
Introducing Poe ‘Vices: Life Advice You Definitely Didn’t Ask For or Need. From chaos gremlin to cosmic counsellor, Poe (The infinite, scream-Beam) is now solving your deepest problems with her signature style: shouting, biting things, and chicken, obvs. Fools.
By River and Celia in Underland 9 months ago in Motivation
