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Mela Koehler (1885-1960)

“Yellow Roses”

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Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

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for those of you who remember cgtextures circa 2008, texture.ninja has a large repository of public domain textures without annoying hoops to jump through.

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under the sodium vapors

by dev

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update re: virion/ray piece. my classmate 110% understood the nature of their dynamic and we started giggling about it and virion all the way to our next class. another common dub.

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I HATE THEM !!!!!!!!!

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did i mention i hate them

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adark.lana

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THE GLORY (2023)

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"A MAN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN A POLICE CAR" LEONARD FREED | NYC, 1978 [gelatin silver print | 11 × 14"]

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they would NOT fucking have communication skills that good

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just wasting time until we meet again.

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everyday i reblog things onto the wrong blogs anyways novel picture edit coming soon bc i miss wenwillow bad

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The Drew Barrymore Show

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— Rudy Francisco

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I wonder sometimes if I will ever be known hundreds of years from now. For some reason, I have it in my head that being buried in a history of more important people is worse than death.

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