Don't you dream impossible things

Katrina/30something/Rep Stan/Evermore Defender/NZ/She/Her

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Epica ➢ Obsidian Heart

[Verse 1] Fire I burn with desire Madness I'm feeding the sadness I hear the silence in my head so loud It fills my heart with doubt Behind the pain the flame will reappear

[Chorus] Into the madness Keep feeding the sadness Into the heart of a hurricane Beware, or you'll go insane Fight it

[Verse 2] Silence I have no more sense left Blackness I'm drowning defenseless I feel the thunder in my hеart is strong Hard to keep holding on The air that once lived in my lungs has gonе

[Chorus] Into the madness Keep feeding the sadness Into the heart of a hurricane Beware, or you'll go insane Fight Breathing the fire Burn deep with desire No happy end to the fairytale A mind where the shadows reigned, ruined

[Bridge] Tempta evitare Obscurari a dolore Tempta evitare Obscurari a dolore

Tempta evitare Obscurari a dolore Tempta evitare Obscurari a dolore

[Verse 3] Fire You make me feel higher Madness I part with the sadness

[Chorus] Into the madness I'm done with the sadness Out of the heart of a hurricane Beware, or you'll go insane Fight Evoke the fire Burn bright in desire A happy end to the fairytale Behold, it lives in the flame Feel it

[Outro] Into the madness Into the madness Higher

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Epica ➢ Arcana

[Intro] Hear me I want you to hear me My cries See me As I want you to see me Alive

[Verse 1] Life It feels eternal when you're close to me A bird without its wings cannot be free Your spirit feels a cold embrace that slowly fades Rise I see a future bright and crystal clear Be brave, aim higher and don't disappear Defy the odds Into eternity and endlessly

[Pre-Chorus] Heal me I want you to heal me My heart

[Chorus] And in the dark I see you hiding from the light Your destiny there writtеn in the stars until the end of timе

[Post-Chorus] Heal me I want you to heal me My heart See me As I want you to see me Alive

[Verse 2] Breathe (breathe) And through the pain and tears we truly feel You'll find a way through chaos and all fear No soul denies a symmetry that's meant to be Fly (fly) Your wings will catch the wind and set you free Cast off the weight and dreams will reappear A king and queen Ride on eternally forever free

[Pre-Chorus] Free me I long to be free

[Chorus] And in the dark I see you hiding from the light Your destiny there written in the stars until the end of time

[Post-Chorus] Hear me I want you to hear me My cries See me As I want you to heal me To be alive

[Bridge] Step in the light, your heart is fighting for your life We resonate, a dueled fate lives deep within the grand design

[Outro] See me I want you to see me Hear me As I want you to hear me Free me (See) I want you to free me (It's my time to rise from the debris) Heal me (Break) As I want you to heal me (All the chains on me) See me (Breathe) I want you to see me (And release the toxic energy) Hear me (Find) As I want you to hear me (Your serenity) Be alive

[antonjesus]

EPICA - Arcana (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

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Epica ➢ Arcana [✧]

[songsofwaves]

EPICA - Arcana (x)

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Epica ➢ Cross The Divide

Dive into a cosmic sea Unravel all its mysteries Navigate our spirits flying higher As we join the endless choir We all unite

[Pre-Chorus] And now we rise We fly, and cross the divide

[Chorus] All I want is to go back in time Change all moments lost in the tide Taking back control Cross the divide All I want is to go back in time Change all moments lost in the tide Taking back control Cross the divide

[Verse 2] Time to wander through the mind Immortal shadows intertwine Navigate your way through cosmic sea Our hearts infinity They will align

[Pre-Chorus] Give us the sign to fly And cross the divide

[Chorus] All I want is to go back in time Change all moments lost in the tide Taking back control Cross the divide All I want is to go back in time Change all moments lost in the tide Taking back control Cross the divide

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge] Everywhere I look, I see the sadness in their bloodshot eyes Everytime I feel the horror creeping through our children's minds I cry

[Chorus] Cross the divide All I want is to go back in time Change all moments lost in the tide Taking back control Cross the divide All I want is to go back in time Change all moments lost in the tide Taking back control Cross the divide

[Outro] Echoes of all stories untold blinded by the night Cross the divide Gravity is growing stronger Bending shape of time in our lives

[bitchautism-deactivated20250906]

dislike how many mental health posts on here are just "you've never done anything wrong in your life ever and they were evil for that"

[bitchautism-deactivated20250906]

maybe you did do something wrong. maybe you hurt someone. maybe you have said awful things. maybe you were just as bad as them. maybe. but what matters is that you move on. you have to try. you have to wake up and be kinder. you have to learn and listen and grow. maybe you did do something wrong but that doesn't mean you have to keep doing that. as long as you are alive, you can change

[apatheistlesbian]

Anyway this disability pride month I would like to shoutout disabled folks whose creativity has suffered because of their condition. I’m talking people with hand tremors and pain that stop them from drawing, knitting, and playing instruments. People whose thinking has become so disorganized that nothing they write makes sense to other people. People with chronic pain who can no longer dance. People so over medicated in a fruitless attempt to maintain stability that the wells of their imagination have run dry.

I see you and I love you. You are more than your creative output. You are not a shell of what you used to be. You are a whole, complete person, regardless of what your creativity has been, is now, or will be in the future.

[creekfiend]

relational trauma has to be healed relationally. the best way to practice having relatively "safe" interactions with ppl is joining a hobby group/club/whatever. I've recently joined like ten Fancy Leather Bag groups on fb out of deep curiosity and interest and the communities ppl will build around literally everything I swear to god. I've seen multiple ladies in these purse groups being like "thank you everyone in this hobby for getting me through my chemotherapy" like ... sometimes we dismiss the middle aged purse lady demographic but you know what they have got is a functional community where they support each other that just happens to be centered around purses. having now read many posts from these groups for several weeks I can see that the object being collected IS important, and is certainly the superifival draw into the space as well as something that provides an immediate shared interest, the actual benefit of localish hobby/collecting spaces is largely community and social support.

those of us who are Very Online Only could stand to learn from this sort of thing I think. it doesn't have to be purses it could be anything. but like. (gestures at the purse ladies who are getting each other through chemotherapy) Shared Interest Facebook Group And/Or Subreddit has it for you. i think.

[creekfiend]

this is actually my first step of learning emotional regulation. yes yes, restful sleep and physiologically appropriate exercise and getting outside and eating nutritious meals. these are all good. but also MEET. YOUR. SOCIAL. NEEDS. you need the relational foundation to cushion you while you work on these skills! i know it's really scary because we all have relational trauma but that doesn't mean we don't have a need for social connection and support!!!

[ticklebait]

when you talk shit about drug addicts who aren’t “functioning members of society” you are talking shit about disabled people. this is not up for debate.

[ticklebait]

happy disability pride month to addicts

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[parkayquarts]

so many amazing words in the english language. you have clandestine and precarious and serendipity and iconoclast and then you also have staunch and sludge and slurp and smudge

[homunculus-argument]

I love informed consent, I love dignity of risk, I love the thought of having someone willing to tell me why the thing that I'm about to do is a bad idea, telling me in detail exactly what the consequences are, what's going to happen and why, and what's the worst that can happen, and then having no power to stop me when I decide to do it anyway because I'm an adult and I'm allowed to get my shit kicked in so fucking bad while doing something stupid if I so choose.

[bellossom]

"I'm not here to make friends"

I am

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[draconym]

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

[likeawolfatthemoon]

TS Album Thesis Statement Tournament

Round 2.5: The Tortured Poets Department - Of these songs, which is closest to being (or containing) the thesis statement of The Tortured Poets Department?

loml

I Can Do It With a Broken Heart

The Prophecy

The Manuscript

Remaining time: 4 days 14 hours

Thesis statement: the central claim of a piece of work; provides the audience a lens through which to interpret the work

Tournament rules under the cut!

In round 1, all albums will have enough polls to include each song on the album (including deluxe/vault tracks - not including remix/acoustic versions).

For round 2, the top 4 will be pitted against one another again, distributing the votes from songs that didn't reach the top 4.

(Round 2.5 will take place for TTPD: The Anthology, as side A and side B will be competing individually up until this point. Round 2.5 will include the top 2 from each side to determine the final top 2 overall.)

(If at any point there is a tie for the last place of a bracket, a 1 day deciding poll will take place between just the tied songs.)

In round 3, the top 2 will be put to the final test to determine the album thesis!