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@gr8earlofhell
failson/multi-hyphenate (depends on day) • they • proud dad @fifthwheelpress
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Jan 24, 2025
    this may still get buried even tho i'm using code words but as mainstream social media continues to disintegrate, this is your reminder that the best way to stay updated on my practice is by navigating to my full name dot sub stack dot com and hitting that sweet subscribe button
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Dec 11, 2022
    poem energy but no poem in brain
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Jun 3, 2022
    whoooooooooa, we're halfway there!
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Feb 20, 2022
    the rejections from my last round of frantic submitting are rolling in
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Sep 24, 2023
    "we don't accept simultaneous submissions" ok 🖕
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Jun 30, 2021
    Replying to @gr8earlofhell and @FlawsofCouture
    my foot issues were just as bad, if not worse, when i weight 120 vs 200 and he acted like losing weight was my only option. treat fat people like people, please, i am begging y’all. (2/2)
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Apr 15, 2022
    the thing with giving a designer "complete creative freedom" is that you still need to tell them what you're looking for so you're not stuck in revision hell. creative professionals aren't mind readers; you're gonna have to do SOME work in the process.
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Jan 23, 2022
    i am the editor who replies to your formal email in all lowercase to say "fuck yeah! that sounds great" with some kind of emoji
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Jun 22, 2021
    Replying to @MediumSizeMeech
    i’m 100% convinced this is just the shitty NYT headline photoshopped but i did *cackle in homosexual* when i read that sentence so
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Feb 14, 2022
    it's february 14 and i have 24 pieces coming out this year already?
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Jun 30, 2021
    Replying to @FlawsofCouture
    i was very thin for a lot of my life and then i went through some metabolism changes and gained about 80lbs over the course of a few years. i cannot emphasize enough how true this entire thread is. the one that really blew my mind when i gained wait was my podiatrist (1/2)
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Aug 14, 2021
    Replying to @gothloglady
    how to say “i do not want to respect my roommate but expect them to cater to my every whim” in as many words as possible
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Jan 3, 2023
    yeehaw! my collection of astrology placement essayettes was picked up by Bottlecap Press and is now available for purchase! bottlecap.press/products/portr…
    A deep gold slide with the cover of 'self portrait as several clusters of stars' by nat raum in the center, set on either side by two black asterisks.
    A deep gold slide with the following excerpt: "my dad used to tell me i was vain for taking so many pictures of myself. this was before the advent of a front camera, when you had to flip your silver LG EnV backwards to take a photo of yourself with it. back then, my angle was simply not to look at the camera. (i was fairly shy still.) but i remained a steadfast defender of the selfie as an act of confidence, not vanity; i even carried it onward to 2017, when my new year’s resolution was simply More Selfies, and i reminded myself and my instagram followers with a matching hashtag. i still staunchly champion the selfie, particularly now that it doubles as a way to feed social media algorithms exactly what they want to see, which is tangentially a great way to make them boost your work: slap a selfie on it. milk ‘em for all they’ve got."
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    @gr8earlofhell
    Oct 4, 2023
    the poet / the poem
    a photograph of nat raum sitting at a barstool in the mount royal tavern
    the sky said trans rights my dad and i used to saturday on the shores of loch raven or prettyboy when the snowfall season befell, tracing my camera lens across patterns of windblown ice and snow. tonight i touch my bare toes to the back deck’s knots and recall every other time the winter sky said trans rights, where the bands of white cirrostratus spread salmonpink through the setting sun against sealike sky and i stared until the westward suburbs stole her away from me. in dreams i am waveside in the summertime, mountains away from swamp-level winters, but i see the most sugarflossed sunsets thread their way through january and february— mountain goat and water bearer seasons of soup and woodstove warmth, the kind i couldn’t attribute to the hottest summer.
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