deepfriedwater

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  • I don’t know how relatable this is to other L2 English speakers, but I used to truly despise this language. I hated it on principle. I hated what people used it for in the false name of “freedom”. I hated its inconsistencies and its spelling and its grammar. I hated that I was forced to learn it at a young age in order to be able to talk to other people that were forced to learn it in similar circumstances.

    But I’ve come around in recent years. I realized that it’s just a language, after all. You can use it to create good and nice and beautiful things. I’d never really delved into English poetry though.

    That is to say, thanks for posting this poem. I really dig it and I doubt I would’ve discovered it on my own.





  • deepfriedwatertovideos@hexbear.netSo, Linus Torvalds is a jerk
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    5 months ago

    When I was younger, maybe junior high, I got roped into watching my 3 month old niece while my sister got her hair done. So there I am, sitting in the waiting area of a hair salon with my niece, and who walks in but Linus Torvalds!

    I was nervous as fuck, and just kept looking at him as he read a magazine and waited, but didn’t know what to say. Pretty soon though my niece started crying, and I’m trying to quiet her down because I didn’t want her to bother Linus, but she just wouldn’t stop. Pretty soon he gets up and walks over. He started running his hands through her hair and asking what was wrong. I replied that she was probably hungry or something. So, Linus put down his magazine, picked up my niece and lifted his shirt. He breast fed her right there in the middle of a hair salon. Chill guy, really nice about it.




  • I could’t find any decent translation so here’s my attempt

    A mauve girl jumps off the apartment building and leaves behind
    A streak of white sparks and a room in which we wait for her
    From which we watch as the world swallows, the world swallows, the world swallows the world And leaves us without her, and leaves us without her…

    My room is as dark as a heart
    Wherever I throw, I keep hitting and breaking something
    My room is as dark as a heart
    Wherever I throw, I keep hitting…

    Love lasts, so love matters
    Love can’t see us, it doesn’t brake, it speeds up
    And Natașa cut my safety belt
    Natașa left without telling me who I am
    Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am…

    With blood full of marjoram and heroin
    A mauve girl waits for me in a car
    Amnesiac and blameless
    A new life waits under rust
    With blood full of marjoram and heroin
    A mauve girl waits for me naked/empty in a car
    Amnesiac and blameless
    A new life…

    You told me to be brave…

    A mauve girl jumps off the apartment building
    A mauve girl jumps off the apartment building
    A mauve girl jumps off the apartment building
    And leaves nothing behind