when i was born, my mother gave a gift to me called Grief,
for many years unwanted kid like me read fairy tales
and foolishly mistook that gift with Care
because the vinyl records in our living room
were playing gentle lullabies into my ears
they drowned out man's yelling and the woman's cries
i didn't know the mother's hands should not be cold
i didn't know the bitter drinks in glasses smell like death
not knowing any better, i grew up her perfect copy –
the same dead look, dramatic outbursts and mourning of life
i longed for love but how can one discover something never seen?
it only grazed my heart in bathtubs, drawn by a path of pills
the actress passed a cursed theatric play to only child –
the ghost of one, who danced with Death more often
than with other people; her hugs were cold, awaited and familiar
tonight i take a cigarette and put it in between my bleeding lips
unknown singer lights it up for me, and suddenly i breathe –
your flame feels warm
your eyes see me
your touch is nothing but a gift of Care
so maybe if you sing the lullabies for me
the Death will never interrupt us
she won't dare
[Ray, Only Friends Series]
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Have you seen that short where Marcille goes to an "ex-dungeon lord support group"?? It's so funny that it EXISTS at all but it ends with her being awkward because everyone there lost something great and she's sitting there like "uh... I lost the will to do my hair." But it's so sweet because her hair is styled in that short by someone who cares for her 🥺
I did!! If I recall correctly, I think Pattadol actually set it up because she wants to help former dungeon lords heal?? It's very sweet and also SO funny.
And kind of tragic. Marcille thinks she got off easy because she doesn't remember how much she used to love taking care of her hair. It was such a huge part of who she was as a person and now she doesn't even remember it well enough to grieve it. She says "oh well, I guess I'll cut it short" like she didn't spend years growing it and taking care of it. Like it wasn't a point of pride for her, like it wasn't something she really loved about herself.
Sure. It's not as bad as what happened to Mithrun and Thistle, who had their entire selves taken away. But the demon still took a fundamental part of her in an active attempt to make her more vulnerable, and she doesn't even think it was a big deal...
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Tangentially related to some of the discussion i posted earlier but quiet literally the first RW Art Month i participated I did it completely on whim like, one day before it started. And I mostly did it because I hadn't drawn a ton of rain world and wanted to draw more. Fandom presence was a lot smaller than and I was one of a handful of artists who did the entire thing. Fast forward and I still do Art Month and I've gotten to work with VC directly.
But it was quite literally something I decided to do completely on whim that set the ball rolling, and for something a lil more niche and certainly with a lot more dev/fandom art involvement than most. It's really random how and why you might get noticed more than usual, especially with the "toss it into the search and hope it pays out' mechanism of Socmed
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