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yeah no sorry i'm going to disappear. yeah it's gonna be an all day forever thing sorry. yeah no there's a big fog i'm running towards. it's going to swallow me whole. sorry.

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Ada Limón, from “The Great Blue Heron Of Dunbar Road”, Bright Dead Things

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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (so devoted the lines blur)

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Analicia Sotelo, “My Mother as the Face of God”

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the cunt who makes my life decisions (me) and the idiot who has to live with them (also me) somehow have diametrically opposed world views how am i supposed to live like this

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characters who view themselves as tools/weapons first and people second... characters who martyr themselves for a cause because they think that's the only way they can be worth something... characters who push themselves past their breaking point again and again and again... characters for whom devotion and masochism are inseparable... characters whose self-sacrifice becomes self-annihilation...... what was my point again? i had a point. anyway.

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— Tatève Simonyan

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Alice Notley, In the Pines

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kaeya + khaenr’iah headcanons

kaeya has an accent

khaenriahn is his mother tongue. they taught him some common language to prepare him for mondstadt, but not much

crepus figured that he didn’t know common but never pressed him about it. he got kaeya tutored, (alongside diluc later on) and read to him to teach him common

his accent is very thick when he’s first learning. the mondstadt kids bullied him for this (and for everything else) (diluc stands up for him)

his way of speaking is then very influenced by the Ragvindrs, very proper upper crust eloquent. but he takes it up one whole step to mask the accent. he speaks the way he does in game (very suave and flowery) to overcompensate for it.

when he’s alone with diluc, on nights when hes the last person at angels share. or when he comes by the dawn winery, his real accent slips out. he doesnt feel the need to hide.

kaeya’s eye

kaeya has heterochromia,,, i guess. his right eye is gold, like a swirling galaxy. with a diamond star pupil.

my guess is this is a distinctly khaenrian trait, with either both eyes or one eye being a gleaming gold color.

he’s covered it since arriving in mondstadt. he wouldnt let anyone touch his eyepatch, not even crepus or adelinde. nobody has seen his eye, except for one person.

his eyepatch was ripped off during his fight with diluc. that was the first and last time diluc ever saw his right eye. naturally, they dont talk about it.

occasionally, he gets a sharp shooting pain behind his eye. kaeya thinks nothing of it for now, but it will get worse. eventually it will deteriorate into an actual erosion, where the skin and tissue around his eye begins to dry and crack. it will spread to the rest of his body, maybe the rest of his face.

kaeya and hilichurls

kaeya doesn’t like fighting hilichurls. as much as possible, he tries to avoid them on missions or patrols.

sometimes the hilichurls beg, they scream. in anger. in desperation. kaeya pretends not to hear them.

when his party clears out a hilichurl camp for the first time, he urges the others to go forward without him. he tells them to check for other threats, he’ll clear the mess. when they’re gone, kaeya looks at the masses of bodies around him. he falls to his knees and cries. once hes done, he takes them to the side, as carefully as possible. he doesnt dare look at what’s under their masks.

after this, he never cries again. when he has to fight, he aims to knock them out. to freeze them long enough for the rest of his team to get to safety

when he has to kill, he makes it fast. he says a silent prayer in khaenrian for them. he hopes that this is a mercy.

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The Hour is Devoted to Revenge (1999)

© Louise Bourgeois

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Having an abusive parent is kinda funny in retrospect like mommy why do you have beef with me im 4 i love you

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normalize hand tattoos for people with boring, normal careers 2023

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as an empath there are many bony fish species i can't make eye contact with because their emotions flood my brain at such high pressure it gives me nosebleeds but cartilaginous fish are no problem as 700 years ago i was a smalltooth sawfish

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“I went out into the clear air and raised my eyes to the heavens to understand our stars and their January brilliance.”

— Varlam Shalamov, from The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry; “I went out into the clear air…”

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Battle Creek Enquirer, Michigan, January 1, 1954