#lying is bad? no i dont care about that. honest communication is important maybe? i feel like i need a central theme for this.
what's the theme you're fucking going for here voliiii!!! what are you fucking getting at!!! what are you trying to say, what's the point??
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WSBH chara q’s: (you don’t have to answer all the numbers, just whatever you want to 𖢘)
16/35/51 for Scotch
1/6/55 for Atlas
I LOVE YOU
16. What kinds of people do they have arguments with in their head?
okay i truly think scotch argues with seraph in his head all the time. ALL the time. scotch largely ignores them, and vice versa, because he dislikes them and they know it. seraph is very conflict avoidant lol, and as long as hes not a "threat" they dont care to talk to him about their problems. he probably argues with atlas and jacob (his older brother) too, atlas about more stupid small stuff, and jacob about childhood and life stuff :p
im trying to think of more general groups he would argue with but i cant come up with anything BAHAH. hes not exactly conflict avoidant in the annoying libra way that seraph is, he more just ignores conflict for his friends’ (mostly atlas’) sake. idk if that makes sense LOL
35. What is the smallest, morally questionable choice they’ve made?
hmmm.. smallest? i mean scotch strings eloise along for most of the time pre timeskip. its not a main focus but its definitely important in order to understand scotch as a whole. she and scotch go out for a while, and mid way through that he realizes hes GAY gay. lol. and obviously lying to her about that is pretty questionable after a while. especially since he and atlas have been 👉👌 like the whole time. but she kind of knows. well
something a little bigger would be him encouraging or otherwise turning a blind eye to all the weird stuff atlas is up to. he doesn't know what it's like to be a werewolf, he can't say anything, right? lol.... murder is okay if its a talking dog doing it. scotch enabler supreme. actually when seraph is introduced, he and atlas have a 'joke' (kind of starts being real) about luring seraph somewhere to kill them. obviously doesnt happen and gets abandoned. but i think its important to know about their dynamic LOL
51. What’s a phrase they say a lot?
this guy is kind of goofy. i cant think of phrases rn but he has a specific way of speaking.. you could watch pretty much any old pop punk band interview and kind of get the idea. HAHAH
1. What’s the lie your character says most often?
atlas is a big fan of saying 'its fine' for all situations ever. family in mortal danger? its fine. completely splitting? its fine. arthritis excruciating? its fine. hes one of those people that dont like to deal with the fawning of others unless hes feeling real special. Ends up putting people in more danger a lot of the time. i think eloise is the only fan of communication in this friend group to be honest. i should have made her the main character
he tends to make promises he cant keep as well, but thats more general..
6. What’s their favorite [insert anything] that they’ve never recommended to anyone before?
i have NO idea. i feel like atlas would be a music snob, so maybe his favorite 'super underground' bands. otherwise he'd probably never recommend raw human meat to another human (no matter how much scotch asks -__-).. (he would chicken out anyway)
55. What’s something they’re expected to enjoy based on their hobbies / profession that they actually dislike / hate?
um. so atlas hates working out. he especially hates running, you know, the thing that wolves are known for doing a lot of? unfortunately the lycanthropy came with a side effect of pretty bad arthritis, so that doesnt exactly encourage him. he DOES exercise, a lot since hes pretty much required for his ermm "side job", but he hates it 😸 besides the arthritis it’s mostly because I think it’s silly that he hates it. yay
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How do u cope with perceived rejection? I'm at the point rn where I don't want to leave the house bc I don't want to interact with anyone anymore.
oof, that sucks. im sorry anon.
honestly for me its a combo of a lot of little things and techniques but also its still hard sometimes. I also don't have any issue when it comes to strangers. I dont care if random people don't like or reject me or think negatively of me I only care if the people I care about and want to like me don't like me. if that makes sense? so sorry if some of this isnt as helpful for those kinds of situations
but okay so my main steps are usually firstly reminding myself that I'm not that important in peoples lives. and I dont mean that in a self depreciating way so just stay with me. most people are self centered in that were all the most important person to ourselves, we live in our own brains and with our own thoughts 24/7 and so were constantly thinking about ourselves and our behavior and our life and all the things going on in it that are important to us. and like thats a good normal thing but that also means that so is everyone else. no one is paying as much attention to me and what im doing as I am, because theyre paying attention to themselves.
so I remind myself of that and remind myself that most people have a lot going on that has nothing to do with me and so their bad mood or their quietness or their weird vibe isnt them hating and rejecting me, it just means theyre upset and theres a millions reasons why that could be that are more important to them than some little thing i did.
next up is that whatever the most mundane and casual explination that exists is, is probably the truth. and even if i truly think it isnt, i act as if it is until someone directly tells me otherwise. is someone not talking to me today or hasnt replied in hours? theyre probably really busy at work or eating or showering or maybe their phone is dead, and it helps me to ask myself “well when are some times ive taken 2 hours to respond and why was that” and if im being actually honest with myself i will find times when i have behaved the same but wasnt mad at someone or rejecting them. so i always force myself to believe the mundane solution, which helps me not act on any of my feelings.
because even if i really cant believe it in the moment, i can act like i do. so say someone hasnt talked to me and i feel like theyre rejecting me, i tell myself its just because theyre busy and not because theyre mad and force myself to act accodingly. i message them a normal amount and i dont mention my feelings or suspicions and then eventually they always talk to me again like normal and then i can be like “see, eveyrthing was fine and we were just being crazy. glad i didnt do anything about it”
only act on direct information, never assumptions. i act like nothing is wrong until someone directly tells me it is, because i dont live in their head and i cant read their thoughts. i dont truly know how they’re thinking and feeling until they tell me. (and for all u other aspd and npd assholes out there NO U DONT. genuinly and honestly. people are always capable of surprising us and even when we think we have them nailed and know exactly what their thinking, even if were right, u cannot just assume someones thoughts and take it as fact. its disordered and unhealthy and u need to stop doing it if u want better relationships with others) and if they haven’t directly told me something is wrong, then they haven’t communicated properly and that is on them. i dont read into vagueposts or status updates or tweets or level of activity or anything. i notice all of it because my brain is crazy but i force myself to ignore everything except the direct words someone says to me.
is their discord status something super upset that i think vaguely relates to me? that means nothing what was the last thing they said to me? oh that they love me and then we had a totally normal interaction. thats whats the truth, and if they were lying and they actually are mad at me, then thats on them for literally communicating the exact opposite of their feelings.
and lastly, if its people who ur close with, u can also ask for reassurance or validation in a way that doesnt accuse them of doing anything wrong. i will often go to my wife and instead of being like “are u mad at me?” or something i’ll say “im feeling really fragile today can u help reassure me that u love me and that im good?” or “I know u love me but can u tell me again i need to hear it extra today” or if its a friend sometimes i’ll say “hey im feeling kind of insecure and anixious today, when u get a chance could u reassure me that we’re still friends?” or literally just coming in the chat like “hello friends i require validation today” and then people will repsond with emojis and “god mood” and i will feel better
these are good ways to ask for support because they dont put any blame or onus on the other person, its about u and ur feelings, and usually if its people who care about u they’ll have no problem doing that. my friends and i tell eachother very often that we love and care about and genuinly like one another because reassurance and validation is Good and it should be a normal part of ur relationships. (no one insert a screenshot of that time ryo said he was feeling paranoid we hated him so i instantly sent him screenshots of my dms about my crush on him i will skin u)
but yea. those are the main things i do and tell myself and sorry this got so long but i dont know how to explain things like this without a million words lol i hope that made sense and that some of it was helpfull for u
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✧・゚( persephone + jordan fisher + demiguy ) 𝒎𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒂 !! have you seen Bastien Lalande around ? they/he have/has been in kaos for fourteen months. the twenty-six year old is a botanist from martinique. people say they can be detached but maybe that’s not too bad ‘cause they can also be amicable. whenever i think of them, i can’t help but think of (( a sunlit greenhouse, sand underfoot on a temperate beach, a streak of dirt smudged across the cheek )). ・゚✧
Bio
Bastien Lalande was born and raised on the island of Martinique to Danielle and Henri Lalande. Their plan was to have a flock of children. Family was what they prized most in this world. They could imagine no happier future than peering out the window of their sizable family home and see kinds running through the grass, kicking back and forth a football. Their plans were abruptly thwarted. Between their first and third years of life, Bastien was too young to understand or remember the complications that Danielle experienced with having another child. How close she came to passing away after the third surgery. It was this near-death experience which prompted the couple to mutually agree on focusing raising Bastien, and to spare Danielle anymore physical and emotional pain. Despite their agreement, a fragment of Henri and Danielle died; their dreams shattered as though a rock had been thrown squarely into a mirror. Because of this, a seed was planted deep within their minds that, just maybe, if they hadn’t had Bastien, they would still have some semblance of future aspiration.
Life on Martinique was personal. Communal. Familial. Everyone said hello to one another as they passed. Honking was a sign of neighborly greeting, not irritation at the traffic. You can imagine that, growing up in this culture, Bastien became quite the socialite. They were charming, active, knowledgeable, and sportive. People loved seeing him skipping down the road on his way to school, and cheered him on as captain of the Yole Sailing team. He was the picture of stability, as his parents’ world was on the decline. Running a cafe was difficult with a staff of three, and even harder when you had to run operations at the age of thirteen. There were days when he was in charge of opening and closing procedures, and some days more during which he would have to miss school in order to help out at the shop. Bastien was growing to resent the positions into which he was thrust. He was convinced that he should be out enjoying his life, not toiling under responsibilities which should not be his own. A heavy weight began to oppress his shoulders. His personality began to dampen, despite his best efforts. What was worse, he didn’t let on to the community that he was struggling. He felt that, for the sake of dignity (or some other noble reason), he had to keep private the fact that his parents were no longer fit to care for him.
After several years, a poetic path appeared. A divergence of destiny. Bastien could travel halfway across the world and attend the University of Hawaii at Manoa, or they could continue looking after their parents, who severely needed their help. The decision sent the youngling into a depressive state. He knew his dreams lay at the other side of that graduation stage in Hawaii, but he also knew that there was no real choice; he had to stay for his parents, despite their contentious relationship. Danielle was fatigued more often than not, and if Bastien couldn’t anticipate her needs, she would find it in her energy to berate him (putting it kindly). At that point, Henri had enough of a reason to despise Bastien. Not only did his son take away three more children from him, but contributed to the heartbreak and physical condition of his beloved as well. It was at this important crossroads that Bastien’s behavior altered radically, deviating from his usual sunny disposition. As it happened, nothing went unnoticed by his extended family for long. By and by, upon discovering his dilemma, they practically made the decision for him. They would take care of his parents and send him off to college.
Sparing unnecessary details of Bastien’s college life, he obtained an undergraduate degree in biology, and went on to get his Master’s degree in Botany from the very same school. His intelligence and charisma had his professor’s hooked, and it was easy for him to be admitted to the PhD program there. His advising professor won a grant from the NSF and was further funded by the university to conduct a field school on the island of Kaos in Greece. Before applications even opened, the professor had made his decision, for the only name that jumped into his mind for a field assistant was none other than Bastien Lalande.
The two, along with four undergraduates, have been on the island for just over a year, doing extensive research on Mediterranean vegetation. Bastien is using this opportunity to develop his doctoral research, simultaneously writing his dissertation. Weekdays, Bastien can be found in the field and in the lab, running soil samples, or peering into microscopes. On the weekends, he clacks away at his keyboard, synthesizing as much information as possible. When he finds free-time, or needs to clear his head, he loves swimming, or sailing if he can find a boat.
Running into Bastien, one would encounter a shining smile, a charming accent, and hospitality that would make you feel as though you knew him for an eternity. He might invite you on a hike, or show you a greenhouse. It is rare to catch him without a flower tucked behind the ear. However, if one truly tried to dig deeper beneath the surface than the charisma that he emanates, they might find that there isn’t much they actual know about Bastien, as if all information on his deep, honest thoughts have been entombed far beneath the ground.
Although they miss the Caribbean islands, they feel something deep in the pit of their stomach which anchors them to Kaos. A lifetime’s worth of knowledge sits at their feet in Greece. It would take all of their willpower to turn away from it.
Headcanons
very much “gerry durrell” from the durrels in corfu vibes
if you havent seen it i recommend
but instead of being obsessed with animals hes obsessed with plants
very smiley, outgoing, charismatic, loves chatting with strangers as long as the questions dont get too personal
A-1 athlete, can swim until the cows come home
flower aesthetics galore. he likes to draw flowers, wear flowers (prints and real flowers, ofc), and grow flowers in his window sills and from hanging pots
are u french ? he will speak french to u if so
underneath, hes a lil moody. his parents began to blame him for his mother’s health complications. they wanted a family so badly that they kinda alienated their only child
he loves loves loves martinique but dreads going back to that life that was hard, tortuous even
writes to his family to make sure everyone is okay, but doesnt talk to anyone on kaos about it
kinda wonders if he should blame himself for complications ?
can be found lying in the dirt contemplating his woes. or singing. or singing because of his woes.
you honestly cant be a fan of botany without developing a relationship with bugs. in this case, bastien l o v e s them. even the scary ones
Insp
click the link !
Playlist
orange trees - marina
le monarque des indes - pierre lapointe
be my baby - the ronettes
harvest moon - neil young
sweet creature - harry styles
at last - etta james
buttercup - hippo campus
semaphore - requin chagrin
home again - first aid kit
motivation - normani
dream a little dream of me - doris day
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All The Things You Never Knew You Did.
There's so many things you have done for me. Things that you do without a second thought because they come so naturally to you. I am not excellent with words, by any means, but I would like to try and communicate all the wonderful things you've done for me, things I don't even think you know you do.
You are someone who cares that saying good morning is important to me, and knows that it's significance lays between my admiration and love of my father. You are a man who pays enough attention to know that certain words mean something is wrong even if I dont say it. You always know what makes me laugh and how to cheer me up because my life is very dreary and gloomy. You are neverendingly smart and incredibly intelligent. You are not my kind of smart, but a different kind of smart, so we can constantly learn new things from each other.
You are always understanding of how marshmallowy soft my feelings are and can always tell when I need a kind word or a firm one. You understand that I dont open up to people and sometimes you have got to drag shit out of me, but in a nice way. You have worked so tirelessly towards understanding my crybaby moments and always try so hard to make me laugh.
You have always be beyond accepting of my weird sexual kinks. Always willing to explore and push my boundaries when asked, but simultaneously sharing yourself with me and all that encompasses. Giving up No's for Maybe's and trusting me with those changes. Openly sharing your desires and love with me. You know I constantly feel like I'm never good enough and are always able to make me feel otherwise.
You never take advantage of my kindness and more importantly, my generosity. I tend to always see the good in people and it gets me hurt a lot. You have become a place for me to center myself when things go wrong. I feel like I can depend on you always and that you will take my burdens on as your own to help get me through when I am weak or weary. I know it hurts you, but you try to be okay with how easily things make me cry, good or bad. Always wanting to make me smile and be a guiding light of good, even when the universe has beaten me down into a dark hole.
I know you to be forgiving, of me and of yourself because I will always forgive the one I love for all faults and errors beyond reason. Forgiving of my mistakes, tantrums, misdoings, and flat out mean or negative behaviors. Loving me despite all faults and imperfections, all my self hate and doubt.
You are an incredible leader, I will neither respect nor follow in the footsteps of a man who I dont trust to guide me. I trust you with all I have and believe in your naturally good nature to always bring me back to the light. You always know just how to turn my bad days around and amplify my good ones.
I love that you're never afraid to be soft, able to talk about things bothering you and trust me to stand by you without fail regardless of the circumstances. Sometimes you are honest to a fault, but I would rather have you hurt my feelings in honesty than spare them by lying to me. I know trust does not come easy for you, especially in women, but please trust me in that I will care for you always, forgive you always, and I love you always.
I love the way you love my body. Even when I feel like I am grotesque and disgusting, you always make me feel beautiful and confident. You never make me feel ashamed or self conscious. I already feel those things and you dont amplify those feelings of negativity. It is such a wonderful feeling to have someone love you so deeply that physical, mental, emotional flaws do not even matter. You accept me as I am and it is truly a thing of supernatural beauty.
I love you for being a little broken because I love being able to say positive things to make you smile or feel better and that's really hard when you are always so well put together and constantly positive. I love those moments when you are down and out, but I make you laugh and smile. It is truly a wonderful feeling. You are always okay with giving me unnecessary amounts of attention because I'm a brat and love attention. You punish me when I step out of line and hold me accountable for my actions. The punishments always fit the crime, even if I disagree with them.
You make me feel like I bring happiness into your life in spite of myself and who I am. I want constant affection and love because I'm the type to give constant affection and love, and I know you give me all you can. I never ask for anything that I myself am not willing to do or give in a partnership, relationship, friendship. You always treat me as an equal, value my thoughts and opinions, but understand that I treat and respect you as my superior, my guardian and my protector.
I'm submissive by nature but not weak. I hate making decisions and dont enjoy it at all, you are always able to take the reins and guide me without being overly forceful, domineering, or pompous. You have incredible ability to tolerate the dumb shit I do, like refusing to decide what's for dinner. My submission is not an option. It's the only time I truly feel like myself. You always lead well and make me feel like I can be myself around you. You have earned my trust and with that, my submission.
I need to be able to be me in all my weirdness and uncomplicatedly strange expressionisms. You accept me and even occassionally embrace all of the peculiar and particularly weird things about me, making me love myself more for who I am and less for who people want me to be. You never pressure me to be someone I'm not or to do things that make me uncomfortable. You always know when to stand strong and when to give a little.
I couldnt be me without you. I hold so much fear and axienty inside about who I am for fear of judgement, but you love me just as I am. You take the things that my nightmares are made of and turn them into silly little notions to be mocked and ridiculed. You always show me the guiding light from dark.
I love that you sometimes need me, for an abundance of reasons. It feels good to feel wanted in all different realms of your life. You have taken so much time and effort to get to know who I am and have pushed me into a better me. Sharing in my love of reading, showing me new ways of life. I do not know how many other ways I can express the endearing and timeless love I have for you and how many different ways there are to say that you are incredible, magnificent, wonderful, extraordinary, spectacular, marvelous, phenomenal, amazing, stunning, unbelievable, breathtaking, and awe-inspiring.
You truly are the epitome of what an amazing man should be. Never forget all the things you never knew you did for me.
As you love me always, I love you forever.
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Regret the day I discovered alcohol as self-liberation, cuz really it was a prison.
there's so much to be
said about the nature of the
beast that
shuts down your brain in
sequential order, that
renders consent impossible and
makes so many bad things happen to your
body. there's
so much to be said for the
pressures we face growing up that are
unrealistic to meet. the
internalized stigma around our
bodies and the weird
pressure that creates within as we
internalize the violence that caused us the
harm in our childhood and we
continue to injure ourselves in
adolescence.
to think that sex
wasn't for me, that I was an
alien, to think that there was something
fundamentally wrong with me. for me not to be able to
understand what that fundamental thing was, to
not be able to get what was
happening with me. its a
cruel thing to have a child
immigrate and then encourage them
not to take advantage of
resources that are available in the
community.
to be raised in a world where
America wasn't form me and to be
given friends who at least on surface
cared about me, and
showed me an incredible
17th birthday, at least I
thought, but I'm so
conflicted because it was so
chock full of substances, the
same substances that took
vivek's life at
24.
in
college where I was
constantly feeling like a
monster. a layover from
high school where I
never went to
parties and even if I was
invited would
always feel left out.
I think people didn't want to
challenge my
visible
orthodoxy even if it was
begging for it. I was
screaming for
saving and
no-one felt
obliged.
and so I kinda
waifed out of
school, just amid w
weed smoke and
beer cans, and
loop pedals, and
isolation.
there I
wrote the beginnings of what would
become the
discography of my
life of which
most seems
lost. but still you
start over, and
over. eventually you get to a
point where you've collected enough that
you don't necessarily find yourself
going through old archives that you
made because the life you lived at the
time was just too harmful to
recollect.
[pause]
I understand that when my
brain was off and I was
trying to battle my
demons I was in the
company of people who were
chasing the dragon but not necessarily for the
reasons that I was.
its a difficult matter to try to
navigate and I really just need to
continue to be honest, like my
friends suggest. I think there's
nooks and crannies in my mind that need to be
explored yet and my friends
demand better from me. so
that's what I'll
do.
[pause]
I guess I'm left with the
harm that this
person experienced, and I
have to give them
space to express
that. if I
don't then I'm not like
doing my
part, or following my
friends advice, and really thats
all I have in this
stage. why would my
friends offer
advice if I wasn't going to
follow it.
[pause]
This is a part of my
being that is hard to
access. I guess
tears are coming out and I
don't want people who've experienced
harm to be lying in my
wake. its a
difficult matter to
navigate but I'm getting good
advice and I'd do well to
follow it.
[pause]
I wish I didn't have this sense of
romance when it came to
drinking, like this james
Bond-esque super-hero in a
suit in the 70's with
guns and
explosions and
girls. why is this like
fueling my romance of what it is to
drink. well dressed
chavs with
smarmy
charismatic
sneers
pasted on their
faces with
wild eyes and
hair
blowing in the
wind, and a
cold
glow about them. a
sense of
danger and
freedom. a
stubbly
chin and
immaculate
fingernails and
dapper
dress
interpreted through
chav
aesthetic.
[pause]
all of this and
more seems to
run through mind, like the
whimsical
joy of
carrying a
beer on the
train in the
UK and being
OK. the
freedom and
sexiness of it
all. but in
reality I think about how
unsexy being
too drunk is. how
terrible it can feel to
be weighed down by
whisky, to have the
shades
drawn
mentally and
medically have
parts of your brain
literally
de-activting as
per the
want of alcohol to
manifest.
[pause]
this
grandiose life that
wasn't for me, as an
immigrant, and a
kid with a
super religious
family, who'd
never approve of
partying. the
knowledge of doing exactly what you
weren't supposed to be doing was its own
reward, a stab
back at the
family that would
constantly
torture you
all day with all sorts of
clothing potions that you'd
never wear, all kinds of
smarmy remarks about your
body, asking you to weigh yourself on the
scales, asking you to
change your posture, asking you to
change your diet. this
always would
fuck with me and
contribute to a
sense of
two
terrible things.
[pause]
me and my
pal vivek would
pain the
town red and it was
grand, like all the
visions of
radness that had
plagued my
pre-teen
visions of
awesome were
manifesting at the
age of
19. I was the
badass id always
dreamed to be, and it
nearly
killed me. I
literally woke up in the
ER.
vivek, he went out in a
body bag. so
destructive was our
dream.
now I talk about
liberation and its
just weird to think that
libation is more of a
prison and this is almost a
slogan but the
truth is
damning.
damn it. I just wish that I wasn't sold this
golden vision of
substance abuse as a
fast track to
badassery. I never
smoked a cigarette outside of a
few chance parties, and
hated it
every time.
weed never
stuck. neither did any other
drug. it was always
alcohol for me. this
weird like,
sexification of a
substance that
was in all likelihood a
turnoff
the whole
time.
[pause]
and now I
guess I have a
conversation
pending with a
person whose experienced
harm due to
drinking and
thats going to be a
day of reckoning for
sure. I'm being given the
harsh
truth of things and id expect
nothing less from my
friends and
partners. it
is what it is, its
nothing to
sneeze at and I
need to step my
game here. I need to
center their
concerns.
they need to know that I
hear them.
[pause]
I grew up around
bro's. like I was a
chav growing up, also a
grammar school
kid, over in the
UK. a
northerner, a
manc, a
blackburnian, a
Lancastrian. we'd wear our
uniforms and
say our
prayers. and thats part of a
tradition of
schools of that
nature going back
hundreds of years. it was an
old world
thing.
we were raised to love
soccer. that was just the
way of it. there were
no bones about it, you were
there, you were
playing the game, you
loved the game. it was also a
city phenomenon, the
blackburn rovers, a
team that
used to be badass when I was a
kid but now
don't even
qualify for the main
league.
[pause]
soccer was a way for me to
continue a part of my culture as an
immigrant who otherwise had no place to
practice my
accent, or any other
trapping of my
britishness. and then
white adult comedians have the
audacity to
come to me and
mock the
state of my ability to
express my internalized and
still remembered
Britishness as a sign of my ...
[pause]
its a lot to
delve into. its
super painful for me to talk about the
way I was
harmed by
midwest
public
space to the
degree that I had to
self censure my own
accent in order to
find any escape from the
harm that was being
visited upon me
daily by
taking up space as a
british, identifiably british
person with
religious garb of a
faith they
misidentified
daily,
another thing that I
ended up leaving
behind to
step away from the
harm coming my
way.
[pause]
sometimes I wonder
where does it end, like this
weird tapestry of
harm that I've internalized, the
pain and the trauma, I
go through my
narrative and my
head spins, and its
hard for me to
ground myself. but
still, here I am all the
same.
[pause]
what can anyone
do anyway, given the
world. I
think about my
gender and how
thats buried in there
somewhere, how I'm an
immigrant and how
thats kinda
elusive for me to
understand, how like...
so many things.
like the
difficulty I have with
mascara, and the
few times I've worn a
dress, how they've
turned into
jokes amongst
friends.
[pause]
my body is a
problem for me as I... like...
you know, am not necessarily
drawn to the
standard
male
stuff with regards to
fashion
despite my
swarthy appearance, and in
saying that I feel like its
racist to use those
words. but I've
spoken so few
times about all this I have
a lot of
blunderousness in
vocab to
overcome.
my family used to
shame my body, my
clothing choice, my
posture, my body
shape,
despite being for many years the
sole source of all
nutrition for me. straight from my
mothers kitchen to my
stomach, to my
body, to their
eyes, their
lips, and to my
shame, the
pain, the
harm, the
trauma.
[pause]
and I think about the boy from
daycare, when I was a
pre-teen, I think about the
contact we made, their
hand on my cheek,
the electricity I
felt. I think about my
old neighbor, how we were
close, very close, and how I
missed that, and maybe they
never felt the
same, and maybe thats why they
avoided me in years
since. there have always been
boys, although I'm not
running after every
boy I see. I have a
type, and when it
strikes me, it
does.
[pause]
I'm about to do something
really difficult and
crazy, and I
think it
might work, but I am not going to
pretend like I
have everything figured out, I
dont. I'll
suck before I do
better.
[pause]
but before all that I
need to have this
conversation with this
person whose experienced
harm. it was a
surprise, a
horrible one, but I
have reached out and
let them know I'm
down to speak, and they
seem down too. who
knows what the
right move is from
there. but its important to
recognize the harm that
went down.
and I don't know whats
going to happen but it
needs to and
thats the main thing. on the
phone he
[their friend]
told me to center
their trauma over my
ego. I'm already there
trust me. but
sure, feel free to
say so.
[pause]
callouts and callins are
triggering to me especially when they
occur in
this city because they've in my experience been used to
fuel racist agendas that
never get addressed, because of the
power dynamics at
play. but in this case I
feel like maybe I can go through this
process without
being too worried about
that.
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