Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 03/04/2026But this is the eBay mindset talking. I would also like you to bid on it because @danadiehl.bsky.social's essay is a very beautiful essay, and I would like you to support her work. Here we are. 110
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I know I'm supposed to share writing I like, but in this case I'm hesitant to share it because I want this paw print and would like you not to bid on it. 242
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026If it loses, I'm going back to not believing in God!!! 110
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026"Because craving connection with others, chasing it, is how we find communion; it’s how we survive our sadness." March Xness as a form of communion. This tournament's got me thinking a lot about belief. I'll pray (and vote) for "Glycerine" tonight, just to see how it goes. 093
Reposted by Danielle GellerEl is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I love the March Sadness essays that help me really appreciate a song either for the first time, or in entirely new ways. James Charlesworth’s piece on “The World I Know” is one of those, and its dual narratives are perfectly in sync. Recommended reading if you like hope and pigeons. 2103
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026You all dream up the best projects. I'm looking forward to all these Significant Objects. 010
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Something about a conspiracy, something-something about a recount. I love your essay, and it's hard to see how my heart will go on. 😭 140
Reposted by Danielle GellerMelissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Here we go, Team Crows! We’re up today in the @marchxness.bsky.social Elite 8 and need your help against a high priestess of sad! (Though I maintain Round Here is sadder.) Read the essays and vote! 🐦⬛🖤 0128
Reposted by Danielle GellerMartin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 18/03/2026"Let Her Cry" on the other hand—& as @kjmoulton.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay mentions—started small-scale & personal & became something you hear all the time at CVS. It clearly has pop ambitions, so it gets its damn message across. Bush's erwachsenetotenlied is great! But Hootie wins. 093
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I just saw it was one vote. I just spent the last few days in and out of consciousness with some cold. 😭😭😭 What even happens in the event of a tie? 131
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 11/03/2026If you measure Emma's essay with this handy wheel of emotions (www.mylocum.com/the-emotiona...), it's got all the sadness packed in the very first paragraph: vulnerability and depression and loneliness and guilt and despair. BUT. Blink-182? :[mylocum.comEmotional Wheel: Balance Mantra for In & Out of the HospitalThe Emotional Wheel: Your Mantra For Balance, In And Out Of The Hospital As a nurse or a doctor, you have some of the most stressful jobs possible. 110
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I'm pretty convinced by (and in love with) @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social's argument: "And that’s what makes this the ne plus ultra of break-up songs, sadder than all the rest: it dares to distribute the blame equally." marchxness.com#/1stround-so...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 020
Reposted by Danielle GellerLike “Beyond (Don) Delillo” @cbiondolillo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026💔 @silashansen.bsky.social gets my vote for invoking a very specific kind of @marchxness.bsky.social sadness, "not the loss of something I’d experienced, but the realization that I will likely never feel that, that it’s a feeling entirely out of my reach." 0122
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I will consider it, but how is this even possible: I was almost 31, it was January 2018, and I was with some friends. / “You’ve never heard ‘Linger’?!” someone asked. 110
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Hahaha, it actually wasn't too bad! I keep having dreams about taking my scared cat (Tim) into the world, and he got lost in a public garden near where I work. But he kept killing the little Golden-crowned Kinglets. :( 010
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Couldn't sleep, read @cbiondolillo.bsky.social's essay, and now certain I'm destined for some very sad dreams. 120
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 07/03/2026"There’s something to that, something about the ways our lives primes us for the music we fall in love with, and how we find it." The amount of ground Jamison Crabtree's essay on "Between the Bars" covers is impressive. marchxness.commarchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 141
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Dang. "I suppose it’s a gift, that I don’t feel sadness like I used to.... I know some people who still do, who white-knuckle it through life and eventually let go—their leaving itself a kind of sadness that threatens to pull me under." @mlfaliveno.bsky.social marchxness.com#/1stround-co...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 162
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026In the spirit of the season, I've been listening to some of my other favorites. This morning before work, when my husband wandered out of his office and found me crying, he just shook his head and laughed, "I don't understand your relationship with sadness." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuhB...youtube.comVirtute the Cat Explains Her DepartureYouTube video by The Weakerthans - Topic 010
Reposted by Danielle GellerMartin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Well @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay has persuaded me into not only tolerance but grudging affection for this damn Collective Soul song, which I had not thought possible. And that's not even among the top ten things this essay accomplishes. Do not miss it. 3125
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Ashley Naftule on "100,000 Fireflies:" "I have precious few words of wisdom to impart to anyone, let alone my younger self, but one thing I know is this: you should not place the burden of your own happiness on someone else. After all, you won’t be happy anyway." marchxness.com#/1stround-co...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 041
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I'm also convinced by Keegan's argument that "Everlong" “somehow managed to avoid the almost inevitable decline from uber-catchy earworm to corny corn fest like so many other popular songs from the 90s that tackle love...” 020
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 04/03/2026My vote for Chris Daley and Liz Phair:" "And if there’s one thing I’ve always tried to do is learn from mistakes, even other people’s, so here we are." marchxness.com#/1stround-re...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 082
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 03/03/2026"Roads" in the wild. Just a little too late for March Sadness! 🪦 010
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Congratulations to the victors, and well-played all around! Excited to see Myers moving forward but disbelievingly disappointed that BSB is out the first round. GG @doritoshangover.bsky.social! 041
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Just super impressed with the research & dedication on display in the Myers vs. Dylan match. Renner and Mensch left it all on the court. That's all the sports talk I've got in me. I cast my vote for Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social. 💛 140
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I can't believe I cast a vote for Backstreet Boys & "Show Me the Meaning..." but I'm in love with Lydia Pudzianowski's essay, which is so funny and so smart and tucked me right back in the nineties: marchxness.com#/1stround-ba...marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 062
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 03/03/2026March Sadness Round 2 has been full of personal surprises and hard decisions, and I still don't know what to do about the Sade vs. Third Eye Blind match. 😭 2102
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"What is religious belief, if not a response to negative space?" This essay is going to be a hard one to beat. (Song too.) 030
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 01/03/2026First round 1 vote cast! "It’s too dark to make out such detail, so I nod when reminded that every leaf in a compact mirror hits a target that we can’t see—at least on those occasions, as the song loops over and over again..." Sorry, Celine.marchxness.comMarch Sadness 90s EditionA yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe) 010
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 12/06/2025This is one of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s...nytimes.comThis Elusive Antarctic Squid Was Seen for the First Time 000
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The Malahat Review is accepting submissions for the Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling issue: malahatreview.ca/issues/233-i... 000
Reposted by Danielle GellerZoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 07/02/2025My next NEA project proposal: 051
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025This might be my new favorite hermit crab: "Let There Be More Spices," Carrie Gaffney: brevitymag.com/current-issu...brevitymag.comLet There Be More Spices | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction 000
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I have incomplete thoughts but am a fan of this essay in hngrmtn.org/issues/hunge... 000
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I usually find deadlines helpful/motivational, but what stops me from writing sometimes is that I'm not working on what I 'should' or 'need' to be doing. I'm trying to set aside a time in my day I can pursue whatever tangent—I guess I'll see how it goes! 000
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 01/02/2025"Maybe the melancholic's problem is desire to / remember everything. When everything has / already been decided, the pictures already taken." Victoria Chang (BRICK no.114) 000
