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You never look for a fight

It finds you in dark corners

When you thought you were intact

Jokes on you

We don't heal

We just learn

No more blissful meets

No innocent kisses

Everything comes with cost

And you thought you had it

Together.

We don't heal.

We just learn.

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I played a game of chess

With myself, and I lost.

Their winnings being the opportunity to

Open the gates of the generations of trauma

Focused on the single living revenant

Of the genius they craved.

It's just how she is, they whisper.

Keep her calm, behind a closed hand.

If you'd make the mistake to think me insane,

It would be your second.

Your first mistake was bringing me into this world.

Speak soft. Walk silent.

Is it a wolf in the wood?

Is it-

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I am cold.

I am rage.

I am tattered ribbons

And scarred skin

I am broken teeth

And crooked bones

The shattered mirror shows whole

The breaks hidden under new glass

I am quiet

I am cold

I am rage

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Most immortals become the angsty “everyone I have ever loved is gone” kind of immortal. You, on the other hand, instead took it upon yourself to be a loving presence to entire generations of your chosen family, because they are descended from someone you once loved long ago.

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Tumblr is so odd sometimes. I don't hang around much but I lurk, and on the day that I really need to feel my roots, I happen to log in and find a bunch of notifications that just warm the entirety of my lightning blasted soul.

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Same goes for art

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It is one thing to break your teeth and nails crawling out of a grave you dig for yourself.

It is another to have to break them again crawling from a grave someone dug for you.

-C. McLean

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Vogue US, 1961. Ph. Irving Penn

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sounds silly but. one of the greatest things ever as someone with a trauma background is learning that things aren't inherently as bad or as scary as I thought. it IS possible to assemble Ikea furniture without arguments. is IS possible to discuss boundaries without having something thrown at me for speaking out of turn. it IS possible to spend hours on end sharing your favourite things with your favourite people, and not get called annoying for it. the world is an incredible place

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Down in the dungeon, where hunger resides 🩸

I wanted to make a dungeon meshi fanart for a while, and man, I love Falin, so here we go

I hope you like it :)