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This is basically all I have these days 😭

— Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” (1967) (via lunamonchtuna)

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Tipping Point

You shuffle forward, slowly. Step by step, inch by inch. You aren't scared, you just want to see. You peer down. A bit further.

Everyone says it's fine, you tell yourself. No one else seems worried.

Another step. Another. Look again. You can almost see over the edge now.

What's down there?

Somewhere in the distance there is a sound. Behind you. A voice, strained. Fearful.

You keep on, one last step and you'll be able to see the whole way.

The earth crumbles under your toes as you lean forward. Little bits of grit and dirt chatter their way downward.

That voice again; dissenting, urgent.

Finally you've gone far enough forward; you can see everything from up here. It's such an incredible way down, you could never have imagined.

Your eyes widen as you turn back. The cries are clear in your ears now—sharp and desperate. You heed the warning…

…but you've already lost your balance.

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Doom is like a wave, a great roar, deafening louder and more intense, washing over you until you can feel it all around you, enveloping every thought and impulse. Doom comes this way.

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Vain glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts

~ Francis Bacon

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Chapter Five, part one of Aria of the Wayward is live on WattPad.

After a rough first day at the College with precious little reprieve, Taiera finds herself thrown in the deep end with Medic Cana: a formidable intellect and rigorous lecturer, who has little pity for the frivolous and unprepared in her classroom(!)

Drop by to read now: https://www.wattpad.com/1446447189-aria-of-the-wayward-chapter-five-part-one

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#these are the real luxuries

“I crave uncomplicated quiet, and the sky.”

— Marilyn Hacker, from Winter Numbers: Poems   (via s-t-u-p-o-r-e)

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Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

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Chapter Four: Taiera rides into town

Sora's act has concluded, and now it's Taiera's time in the limelight! Arriving in miserable weather to a foreign city that doesn't seem to want her there, things don't get off to the best start though...

The first three parts of chapter four of Aria of the Wayward are live on WattPad, with part four dropping on June 5th.

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Woop! Concluding part of the first arc of this story is live now. Next week we shift focus from Sora and her experiences of university life to Taiera, as she comes crashing into the picture 😂

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The latest part of this story, the penultimate part of Chapter Three, is up as of today! Please drop by and leave a pretty little star; it would make my day! ❤️

Sometimes I write things that feel so profound someone has almost certainly already said them (and phrased it better), and sometimes... I use too many ellipses in dialogue 😭 It's my toxic trait

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Sometimes I write things that feel so profound someone has almost certainly already said them (and phrased it better), and sometimes... I use too many ellipses in dialogue 😭 It's my toxic trait

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Of all stars the most beautiful

~ Sappho

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all the time that's the problem

do you ever realise just how lonely you actually are 

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I think it is because not everyone experiences the joy, but everyone experiences the torment that comes with trying to create

Kafka's Diaries play a vital role in soothing the many struggling writers out there and I feel we all tend to connect with each other through sorrow like these. Often people are incapable of sharing happiness much the same as they could share grief and it is solely this ache within us that binds us all in some way or the other in different forms.

Franz kafka// Unending torments

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I made a lil' teaser for my book Aria of the Wayward to keep my serotonin levels up. LMK what you think?

(all content public domain/cc0 licensed via Pexels.com. Music is First Snow by Scott Buckley ❤️)

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‘The merciful refuse what they deserve; the graceful accept what they deserve not.’

~M.J. Large, Aria of the Wayward

(It me. I wrote this one 💖)