Sometimes there are people in your life and you used to love them so much and one day you look around and you realize this isn’t what being loved feels like.
You hold the idea of them in your palm like a worry stone polished smooth and you say, “I always feel like shit around you.”
And you ask yourself, “How much of that is your fault? And how much is mine?”
There isn’t a good answer. Because they are rarely as awful as they make you feel. But they did make you feel like that long enough that it’s your subconscious version of them.
You can love people who treat you poorly. Ask yourself if you should, though.
Maybe they’ll get better. Are you in a place to let them? How much forgiveness are you made out of? How much would they need?
Kicked dogs don’t bite the first time they’re kicked. They whimper. Fangs are for creatures tired of taking hits. Can you afford to forgive them?
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spoonkind in particular also is like. hello. theres NOTHING there for anyone to stab or otherwise Harm You conventionally unless great effort is put into it.
RIGHT LOL??????? JANE!!!!!!!
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yknow i've seen a few posts talking about people hoping their Rooks can bond with Lucanis over them raiding his chamber-pantry for a midnight snack, but never in a platonic way yet
so i'll be the first. i very much want to experience the profound understanding (and, yeah, very mild judgement) that exists between a woman who just got done experiencing that legendary Grey Warden stamina for the first time and is having difficulty walking, and the man who guards the cheeses.
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𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐥 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫; 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞.
excerpts from a book I’ll never write
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