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I LOVE THE WORLD FROM LOVING YOU
Chen Chen, ‘Elegy’ Mitski, ‘Strawberry Blond’ Ellen He, The Good-Morrow Holly Warburton, a moment! Danez Smith, ‘Acknowledgments’ E.C., ‘Love Freely’
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Thank you for this! It’s Gloucester boys time hehehe. Tagging @princess-of-france because the more I read about Edmund and Cordelia the more I need it in my life. Both of y’all’s headcanons for these characters are so great, and needless to say, they’ve inspired my understanding of how they live and breathe. Sending love to the both of you!!
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Edmund shuffled on his feet, downing the rest of his champagne in the futile effort to make himself if only the slightest bit tipsy. The glass hadn’t even been his; it was Edgar’s before he had given it to Edmund to drink. His brother had only taken it in the first place in order to be polite, but everyone who knew Edgar knew that he had never touched a drop of alcohol in his entire life. Everyone also knew that Edgar was a saint, something that, knowing full well to the contrary, annoyed Edmund. It was one more thing pushing against his frustratingly sober state of mind.
Perhaps it had been the music. Vivaldi string music was a contrast from the normal party Edmund had been to, and there was something slightly refreshing about not having to risk his ears to deafness against the rage of the bass in the synth music. At the same time, the lag in pace grated against his ever waning temper.
From his corner of the ballroom, he saw his brother dancing with Cordelia. It was clumsy, stiff kind of dancing full of courtship. Edmund couldn’t help but roll his eyes as he saw her laugh at one of his awkward movements. He also felt a strange sense of pity for her, only dancing with Edgar to be kind. It seemed, the more Edmund watched, that Edgar was the only person in this entire societal echelon that could enjoy life sober.
“Wishing that could be you, huh?” Goneril leaned back against the wall as she sipped her champagne. Before Edmund could carelessly deny it, she continued. “Everyone wishes they could be with Cordelia,”
“Oh yeah?” Edmund asked, still watching the girl from across the room.
There was a slight pause.
“He lost his mind, didn’t he?” she asked, still looking at the pair on the ballroom floor, rather than at him.
The question caught Edmund slightly off-guard, but perhaps he was finally feeling remotely drunk, or perhaps it was jealousy; he couldn’t quite tell. His head swam all the same, blocking any smarter intuition to negate her.
“Yeah,” he said, with an air of casualty that in the presence of his brother would have been appalling. He blinked, realizing something of a mistake. “But he’s getting better now,”
“Not quite fully there yet though?” she continued, the response almost too quick.
Edmund thought this time before responding, taking a moment to study the woman he had been conversing with. There was something rigid about her stance, even as she leaned against the wall. Her dress was rather modest in comparison to her sisters, despite the extravagance of all three gowns. Then his eyes met hers.
“Are any of us?” Edmund didn’t break her gaze.
She laughed a little, sighed.
“I suppose you have a point,” she said, looking back at her youngest sister, envy striking her irises. It was a look Edmund had recognized in his own reflection when he thought about the same girl, dancing with his brother. One could live without having earned a cent being the favorite child. They got everything without a second thought.
“So what’s your wild secret?” Goneril’s voice caught hold of him again. He banished his train of thought, reminding himself of the days when his brother couldn’t get out of bed, when he looked like a hollow shell with dead eyes, when he heard people who weren’t there. Instead, he laughed a little.
“Oh,” Edmund shrugged. “You know... drugs... sex...” a little quieter, almost embarrassed, “lots of sex...”
“Trust me, you’re not the only one,” Goneril nearly cut him off, swirling the small amount of liquid left in her glass around as if she were bored. “No rock and roll?”
“Well, I -“ he stuttered, off of his usual game.
“It’s a joke,” she finished with a short breath before looking back at the couple on the dance floor. Edmund felt as though her eyes were now on Edgar. “What about him?”
“Who, Edgar?” Edmund tilted his head back a little, as if his body were surprised by the question, though the conversation had perhaps prompted it well enough. “He doesn’t have any,”
“None?” Goneril didn’t seem surprised, despite the response.
“No,” Edmund said, dismissive. “No, he’s got nothing. He’s got nothing while the rest of us have got something. I guess that’s why he um... lost it,”
It was a lie. A terrible, almost amusing lie.
“Shame,” Goneril’s voice echoed in his head, though he couldn’t take his eyes off of Cordelia, even as she parted with Edgar on the floor.
B.anica's stomach would either be really gross cuz of all the weird shit she eats or empty cuz her stomach just digests all the food that fast.
True end: her stomach is actually a vore dimension a la gluttony from f m a
that feeling of knowing you are falling into a really deep hole and are relapsing into self destructive behaviours and you know you need help but you don't care about yourself enough to want to get better and ask for it. so you just suffer each day in silence hoping one day someone will notice.
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stasera ho finito di lavorare alle 22:25. Faccio consegne in una pizzeria e prendo le telefonate: è più facile se le prendo io perché hameda e ahmad non è che capiscono benissimo i nomi delle vie anzi manco i cognomi delle persone anzi manco i numeri di telefono ogni tanto si sbagliano e me li scrivono in arabo. Hameda ha un bambino di 7 mesi patatone e una moglie che ha tre anni più di me e non li vede da 4 mesi, è tranquillo non lo dice con nostalgia ma ha il telefono pieno di foto di questo bimbo che mi fa vedere ogni 20 minuti. È laureato in storia contemporanea ma fa i kebab. La pizzeria è brutta e gialla ma c’è sempre tanta gente e Hameda ride sempre quando si vede Paperissima mentre i clienti mangiano di fuori, a me fa troppa tristezza quel programma ma un po’ lo assecondo e ascolto tutti i suoi racconti. Dentro la pizzeria fanno all’incirca 45 gradi ma questi matti fanno il ramadan fino alla fine e neanche bevono l’acqua. Li ammiro molto in questo. Mi sgridano se non scrivo le pizze abbreviate perché il pizzaiolo capisce solo le lettere no le parole. “M è marghirita, oke? Diavula, D. Buscaiola gon funghi scrive solo B + F. Va bene leila?” e io sì sì grazie. Oggi è venuto un ragazzino di 12 13 anni un po’ tonto un po’ lento coi baffetti che ha detto: vorrei un po’ di pizza kebab (tragica loro invenzione: pizza rossa con kebab ketchup e maionese), ma mi mancano 20 centesimi per arrivare a €0,50. Hamada gli ha dato un pezzettino di pizza e lui ha pagato con tutti mini centesimi una cascata di centesimi. nel frattempo ha ricevuto una chiamata dal padre e si impicciava tantissimo non sapeva come tenere in mano le cose e hamada ha detto: un bo’ sdrano sto rigasso. Quando sono tornata a casa ho pensato a questo ragazzino più del dovuto: io lo so che sono esagerata ma ho pianto giusto due lacrime perché ho pensato che quasi sicuramente lo prendono in giro a scuola e non mi va, non voglio, mi fa soffrire pensare che lo possano prendere in giro. Mi accollo tutte le sofferenze del mondo anche quelle inesistenti e mi chiedo come fanno gli altri a stare sereni, stoici, o comunque restare divertiti da queste cose. Oggi ho pensato mezz’ora ad un articolo che mostrava l’esecuzione di due ragazzi iracheni dell’età mia perché erano gay, poi altri 40 minuti buoni ad una vecchietta che in fermata aspettava l’autobus col maglione, con questo caldo. Mi fa un po’ soffrire tutto. Oggi con me a fare le consegne ci stava una ragazza molto nota qui che insegna danza e su instagram pubblica molti video di lei che: balla. Da sola in salotto. Tutta la pizzeria si girava a guardarla quando passava tutti le guardavano le gambe uno ha anche chiesto: “ma quella ragazza.. no no mica lei (ovvero io grz) (lui rabbrividito nel dirlo)... lo sai dove abita? ;-)”. A me non è che mi pareva tanto bella. Però mi sa che faccio sempre risaltare le amiche mie intorno a me o comunque tutte quelle che c’ho attorno sennò non si spiega niente neanche quando mi dicono “no vbbb ma sei uguale a tu sorella uguali cazzoooo vi confondooooo!!!!!!!!! gemelleeee!! certo però eh tu sorella è proprio bella ;) mora ;) ha un bel fisico ;) che fa suona il violino? ;) bello. Te che fai? Ah vabbè. Ma tornando a tu sorella spiegame na cosa”. Io in generale mi sento molto amata ma queste cose mi fanno sentire come quando c’avevo 13 anni. 13 anni per sempre. E non stavo per niente bene a 13 anni. In pizzeria mi diverto molto ascolto tante storie servo molti supplì e le persone sono sempre contente di vedermi davanti la loro porta. Mi so messa a lavorare là anche perché è inspiegabile il senso di colpa che mi sento per aver scelto una università privata o per aver prenotato le vacanze con ludo. Non è che ho capito tanto bene se i miei sono contenti del fatto che me ne vado in grecia una settimana. Mi sa di no ma me lo lasciano fare perché si sforzano di essere moderni. E poi perché mi pago tutto io. Tra un po’ di giorni ho l’orale della maturità, sono un po’ preoccupata ma giusto un pochino, non vedo l’ora di andarmene al mare ma soprattutto di lasciare marcire per sempre lontano dai miei occhi tutti quelli di classe mia. Per la versione di latino feci uno schema dei posti in modo tale che i più bravi a passare stessero tutti intorno ai bravi a tradurre e anche chi stava al primo banco potesse copiare, tutti, pure chi non mi ha mai rivolto parola o chi mi ha detto un sacco di cattiverie dietro. Era perfetto ci ho messo tanto impegno tanta cura tanta voglia di far andare bene tutti quanti a quella prova ma poi certi infami non volevano passare la versione e tutti hanno litigato per qualsiasi cosa. Non vedo l’ora di saperli mezzo indietro con gli esami in ritardo con un paio di sessioni o che mi vengano a chiedere gli accrediti per i concerti miei. a nfamiiiiiiiiiii
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