We Love Poetry: Letters Sent, and Letters Unsent.
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Concerning the Sentiments of a Gentleman by kbd_cryptid
Fandoms: Shoot From The Hip Sketches, We Love Poetry - Shoot From The Hip Sketch
24 Jan 2026
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I tell myself that this is admiration, nothing more.
That it is natural to notice such things, to be pleased by talent, by intelligence, by a familiar presence made momentarily unfamiliar by light or laughter. I tell myself that I have always been attentive, that this is merely habit dressed up as meaning.
And yet I find my thoughts returning to you without instruction, rehearsing moments that require no rehearsal, lingering where they ought to pass on.
I ask myself when attention becomes attachment, and when attachment becomes something I am no longer permitted to name.
Or, the poet writes a thousand (and a half) words to say i love you without ever actually saying it.
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On the Uses of Scholarship and the Necessity of Poetry (a novel) by kbd_cryptid
Fandoms: Shoot From The Hip Sketches, We Love Poetry - Shoot From The Hip Sketch
08 Mar 2026
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Speaking of friends, I have none quite yet.
I am surrounded by young men of excellent breeding and considerable opinion, who dine with me, walk with me, and argue with great enthusiasm over matters neither of us will remember a fortnight hence. They are clever enough, most of them, and earnest in the way one learns quickly at a place like this, but everything feels performed rather than felt. Each seems to carry himself as though already observed and judged, careful to say the right thing, to admire the right authorities, to become precisely the sort of man Oxford intends to produce.
I find myself liking them well enough in the moment, and mistrusting the liking as soon as we part. Perhaps this is the natural caution of new acquaintance, or perhaps it is only that I am difficult to know; I cannot yet tell. Still, you remain my truest, and dearest friend.
Or, Percival Cunningsworth and his correspondences to one Franklin Bennet during his years at Oxford.
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