Wandering Limerence

✍🏻 Kael Sora, Editor of Wandering Limerence 📚 I soak myself in slowburns, silences, and emotional moments.

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“you’re coming too, right?”

he likes his bros and loud laughter and pulling people into orbit around him.

you like sitting alone in your studio making music at 2am.

and yet somehow, every single time, he still turns to you first and says:

“you’re coming too, right?” 🩵

~ kael

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Unrecoverable

I send my heart across the sea, a whisper vanished through the summer breeze Your name still stirs the silent air, as though you are here, and not God knows where. The stars remember how I crave, witnessing it all, my wistful gaze. Still, I ache where words can’t go, a love out of reach, nothing left to hold. 🩵

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“because of you, i no longer long to drift.”

something about that line quietly destroyed me.

not because it was dramatic.

because someone loved you enough that wandering stopped feeling necessary.

is it a hold? or is it hole that fileld?

wrote more about 防空洞 (air-raid shelter) as a metaphor for love on wandering limerence.

防空洞 | Air-raid shelter

Two Chinese songs. One air-raid shelter. Do you want a love that keeps you safe?

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Oh, Love

some loves expand you.

some loves are the cave.

My new music essay 防空洞 is now on Substack.

防空洞 | Air-raid shelter

Two Chinese songs. One air-raid shelter. Do you want a love that keeps you safe?

~ Kael / Wandering Limerence

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防空洞

防 = protect

空洞 = emptiness. hollow.

to protect the hollow.

isn't that what a lot of love really is?

not fixing you.

just sitting beside the emptiness so it doesn't swallow you whole.

~ kael / wandering limerence

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The Emptiness in You Greets the Emptiness in Me

空的你，空的我。空空洞洞。 we are all emptied out.

Yet, we 相依为命。 Depending on each other to live.

no logic. no plans. just two people, slightly crazed, clinging to each other in the dark.

a disaster, probably. forever spring, definitely.

🎵 防空洞 essay about two Chinese songs, one shelter, one question about love. Read on Substack.

防空洞 | Air-raid shelter

Two Chinese songs. One air-raid shelter. Do you want a love that keeps you safe?

~ Kael / Wandering Limerence

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love is also:

extroverts continuing to invite their introverted person everywhere without resentment.

just quietly making space for them in every future plan. 🩵

~ kael

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防空洞. air-raid shelter.

two Chinese songs with completely different vibes used the same word to describe love.

I have been thinking about that for longer than I'd like to admit.

because what if love isn't what expands you?

what if sometimes, love is just the cave you crawl into. when it's snowing outside.

new essay on Substack.

防空洞 | Air-raid shelter

Two Chinese songs. One air-raid shelter. Do you want a love that keeps you safe?

~ Kael / Wandering Limerence

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累了借你我的肩 when you're tired, borrow my shoulder

wrote this about the love that doesn't announce itself. quiet. certain. already all the way in.

🎵 走向前 (Move Forward). original C-pop lyrics by me, melody generated with AI. full song and essay on Substack.

走向前 (zǒu xiàng qián), Move Forward

Song drop. There’s a specific kind of love.

~ Kael / Wandering Limerence

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走向前 (zǒu xiàng qián)，Move Forward

there's a specific kind of love this song is about.

not the falling. not the longing from across the room.

the already. the settled. the person who pulls you in front of them, so you block the sun. not because they planned to. just because that's who they are around you.

最好的風景是你我 the best scenery is you and me

new original C-pop on Substack. lyrics mine. melody AI-generated on Suno.

走向前 (zǒu xiàng qián), Move Forward

Song drop. There’s a specific kind of love.

~ Kael / Wandering Limerence

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the person who wants adventures only because you're coming too.

that's the whole song. that's the whole thing.

🎵 走向前 — now on Substack

~ Kael / Wandering Limerence

走向前 (zǒu xiàng qián), Move Forward

Song drop. There’s a specific kind of love.

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the pattern-seeing is just how I'm wired.

two songs from different decades using the same word for love. a Tang dynasty poet saying something that sounds exactly like last Tuesday. a BL scene and an ancient poem quietly tugging the same heartstring in different costumes.

Wandering Limerence exists because of that.

for the ones who linger after the show ends. who feel everything but may not show much.

hello, new digital magazine on Substack. first post is up.

Starting from Zero and why Wandering Limerence?

Hello, Substack.

~ Kael / Wandering Limerence

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or would you run away?

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Visit Original Link

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can you tell which is my brave front?

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do you still dare to love... me?