About

Featuring letters to myself and other people, things that keep me entertained during these long, lonely days, and other things that are not as easily classifiable.

prayerdesign's LATEST TWEETS

Cheshire - Created by Alter Imaging
2 years ago

Dear 13-Year-Old Girl From Teen Book Club With A Pentagram Tattoo on Your Calf And Emotional Issues

I never wanted to be your friend.  There, I said it.  I don’t feel like I should have been obligated to be your friend just because your parents got divorced and you didn’t handle it well.  You should have been more like your older brother who was also in Teen Book Club and dyed a red streak in your hair and gotten into skateboarding.  But no.  Instead, you got some shady back alley tattoo of a pentagram with a goat head in the middle of it right on your adolescent calf.  And that was your choice.

How did you even do that?  Seriously, you were 13, at most.  I remember because one of the librarians told me that you got suspended from your middle school for threatening a teacher.  Do you have a relative with questionable morals and a tattoo gun?  He’d also had to have some artistry, because it looked pretty good, you know, for a pentagram featuring a goat head.

What’s more, what was up with the Satanic body art?  Were you in a phase that you thought you’d be in for the rest of your life?  Spoiler alert, that wasn’t the case.

Anyway, all this is just the prelude to asking why you thought it was ok to bang on the store windows at the mall as I was driving away, yelling my name like I’d turn around and talk to you?  Especially when it wasn’t even me, but my best friend who looks absolutely nothing like me?  

In conclusion, it is clear that in all these years since we met, you have not once checked yourself.  And girlfriend, you’re long overdue for wrecking yourself.

With the utmost respect and cordiality, 

Emily

2 years ago | 1 note

Feelings and Shit

I like to personify my emotions.  Like my angst is this lady in her late twenties who is clutching a little too hard at her teenage years, which were spent being a totally misunderstood non-conformist, and she hangs out in my head with her legs crossed really tight like only super skinny women can do, and she just shakes her head and smokes her cigarette and pushes up her oversized Buddy Holly glasses (that she had before they had their comeback, by the way), and every once in a while she just says something like “Emily, I just don’t understand why you even fucking try.”  And it looks like she’s going to elaborate, but then she just shakes her head and slumps a little.

Right now, my optimism (which is a generally exuberant, mildly overweight, mildly ethnic man who has an excellent t-shirt collection) has taken PCP and is pummeling me mercilessly, yelling “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?  I AM GOING TO LIFT UP THIS WHOLE APARTMENT AND THROW IT AT YOUR FACE BECAUSE YOU ARE A DUMB WHORE!”  And that’s just not a fun way to spend a Friday night.

2 years ago
This is my youngest Neopet.  His name is Dossenus, so named after the clever hunchbacked character of Atellan farce, that classic form of improv from Ancient Rome.
This is my college education in action.

This is my youngest Neopet.  His name is Dossenus, so named after the clever hunchbacked character of Atellan farce, that classic form of improv from Ancient Rome.

This is my college education in action.