#madina
Everyone do this please! I’ve listed twelve words/concepts below, please reblog this post with either a word or short phrase you associate with each listed word/concept. Alternatively, you can use these as prompts for art or writing. Thanks!1. COLLEGE FOOTBALL:
2. GRAPEFRUIT:
3. SEA:
4. ANTLERS:
5. DISASTROUS:
6. NYMPH:
7. FRESHMAN:
8. LACE:
9. SMOOTHEN:
10. FAMILY DEATH:
11. RACCOON:
12. MEADOW:
1. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: my high school boys were underachievers, and it showed. there was no trophy lining the halls, nothing to prove themselves of their worth. but they sought it through different avenues, didn’t they? thousands of millions of rupiahs down in the drain for the vapid thrill of it in the clubs and bars lining senopati and pondok indah. and of course there were the ones who thought they were above it all. they carried that glory in the way they skipped school and paid their schoolwork off. i can’t believe they still think any of this is enough.
2. GRAPEFRUIT: the scent of many fancy soaps lining high-end hotels.
3. SEA: bali, before the 2010s, before my concept of families fractured into nothing.
4. ANTLERS: the flesh of it shedding anew. the not-pain, apparently, even though it seems like rivulets of blood sinking down.
5. DISASTROUS: what i do to myself, unwittingly. i’m trying so hard to change that, though.
6. NYMPH: bidadari, kahyangan.
7. FRESHMAN: it was supposed to be 2 perfect semesters, but it wasn’t. but i’m grateful.
8. LACE: white western lace, but also scratchy, colorful, beautiful kebaya.
9. SMOOTHEN: a hot, smooth rock
10. FAMILY DEATH: august 2020? the world shattering below me. a lifeline cut off. a trip to halmahera, now forever a fleeting what-if. a generation sliced away cleanly from me.
11. RACCOON: skittering along the powerlines
12. MEADOW: i’ve never seen one, i think. i’d love to.