David M. de León

@davidmdeleon.blacksky.app

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Writer, academic, poet, nerd 🇵🇷 PhD in literature and Black studies. MPhil in skullduggery. Poetry in places. Mixed everything. http://davidmdeleon.com

Cd cover of Bloem de Ligny's Zink
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders cover art, with baguette, goldfish, a broom with eyes, and a conspicuous set of fake nose glasses
A graham cracker kitchen full of little toys
A needlessly elaborate gingerbread house of three stories and an annex
Title page of Epic Black by David M de León
Screenshot of Steam account history listing the first five games bought: Left for Dead 2, Team Fortress 2 upgrade, Serious Sam HD, and Sunless Sea
A four panel comic from Zach Weinersmith's smbc-comics.com. Two people are talking, one is holding a calculator. Panel 1: Character 1: "Hey, check it out! I got France to run on this old calculator!" Character 2: "What?" Panel 2: Character 1: "France is substrate independent! It’s just a collection of agents that believe themselves to be in a location with certain history and relationships! France is software!" Panel 3: Character 2: "France is not software." Panel 4: Character 1: "Look! It’s smoking and complaining about bread!" Character 2: "I’ll be damned." Calculator: "putain!"
Long black hair, black and white dress, a genderqueer person with a beard and soft glam makeup holds their hair up while staring off into the distance
Two people of dubious ethnicity hug while huddled under a purple blanket
Someone in a black slip and black fishnets with a cheap plastic cowboy hat and a beard sits crosslegged on a blue couch
Sonia Sanchez, looking tiny and chic in a black coat with a long scarf, poses while people cheer. Behind her is a chocolate cake she won't eat.
Screenshot of Poets_house Instagram reading: "Community is the grave that's been dug for commoning, which is creative poetic, anti and ante-political, social, and spiritual practicing, which ain't free but mutual, ain't interpretive but mutually read, or red, black, and green. " -Fred Moten
A still from the early 2000s cartoon Futurama, where a menacing alien, Lrrr of Omicron Persei 8, shouts "We will begin with the firemen, then the math teachers, and so on in that fashion." This is his plan for eating all the humans on earth in retaliation for earthlings accidentally eating Omicronian babies as fast food.
Someone with long black hair and red glasses wearing a black blouse in a basement piercing studio. They sport a small gold-ish ear stud.
Wearing all black with a mesh shirt over a black bra and a gothy skirt, black hair up and curly
A post from budpuertorico on Threads: "Bad Bunny’s new song “Una velita”, released on the eve on the 7th anniversary of Hurricane María, includes a lyric about knocking down the palm tree in which politicians want to hang Puertp Rico. The palm tree is the symbol of the pro-statehood PNP party."
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A bearded person in a black crop top glowers in bright sunshine overlooking the ocean
Two gender nonconforming people, one in a crop top and the other in a Wu Tang t shirt
A guitarist in a plaid skirt and sports bra whose meaty calves look a little too masculine
A blue Subaru pickup truck with a giant window sign reading "Less Friends/ More Money"
A scene from Futurama, where the balif informs Judge Whitey that the mental institutions are full since he ruled that being poor is a mental illness
The author takes a bathroom mirror selfie with playful long hair done up with a scrunchie, pink nails, and a Goldfrapp T-shirt
A person with long black hair, a dress, a chest hair
a screenshot saying: "0 search results for 'Glissant;" "Do you mean croissant?"
A person with long curly dark hair held up in a scrunchie, wearing a corduroy blazer. They wear earrings and a hamsa.
A three-tiered bookshelf in an otherwise sparse office, colorful books displayed face-out. The books are in contemporary poetry and Black studies. A small plush Link figure sits at one end. The picture-taker's shoes are up on the desk in front of them with bright fuscia shoelaces.
A cardboard sword with gold foil and a white ribbon tied in a bow for the guard.
Highlighted book text: "It is likely that the society of the United States will get past this stumbling block of racist division (the alternative being an accepted, if not official, fascism), but surely not without losses and tragedies.... violent oppositions among ethnic groups will occur. It seems that, even if Barack Obama's government ends up moving to the right, whether through a natural tendency or a strategic choice, it will not put an end to these upheavals. In any case, the present trend can never be undone: something is operating that has escaped from the Abyss or been fed by the earth."
A screencap of a text entry box. First name: David. Last Name: de León. An error message says: "Please enter a valid last name"
A bespectacled, close-shaven fella looks off into the distance as if there were something interesting over there, even though there isn't.
A home office with a chair draped majesterially in an earthen-toned knitted cape.
Image from national book.org, with ten book covers from poetry books.
An album from Belle & Sebastian, reading "Fold your hands child, you text like a bottom"
Text from an academic book: "Their heart more frozen than the kidney of a mongoose touched at the loin, breathless, who turns to death in itself to spit at the spearhead serpent's venom"
ren and stimpy image: "We're not hitchhiking anymore, we're riding"
A desk with a colorful 65% size keyboard