#palinode

[elodieunderglass]

The HDM discord is evolving thoughts of genius

[vindikat]

Okay I don’t even read much fic but @elodieunderglass got me with the dungeon meshi/his dark materials crossover (His Delicious Materials) so here is my best girl Palinode with Kensuke.

I am much better at drawing cats than dogs but grandad had a Great Pyrenees so they will always have a special place in my heart.

[logicaldreamer]

I see your face turned toward the pink light of dusk. there are clouds in your living room. this is a golden hour love – gentle & illuminating. sometimes, I am afraid of the light. I have never wanted to empty myself for someone before you. suddenly, I am pouring out the past like thick honey. there are crusts of me coming undone. tomorrow is a scratchy vinyl & a warm rain & the cheese section of a local grocery store. this love makes me think about weddings in the produce aisle & ruining a dress in the pacific ocean. I usually prefer pants anyway. I told you I loved collarbones, so you cut the necks out of all your shirts. you wear blue & paint your nails black. we fog up the car windows with pho & neck kisses. it is all soft candlelight & bent elbows.

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I don’t know how to tell you I am afraid of the light. it took me twenty-seven days to come up with the words to write this. this is not uncommon. I tend to dwell, to stew in low places, sit in puddles, cry to the same three songs. I told you I loved collarbones, so you cut the necks out of all your shirts. that’s not what I meant. you worry about your life plan, about donating enough money, about continuity. I don’t know how to tell you god has ruined every plan I have ever made. I don’t know how to tell you that loss is not the worst thing a person can experience. I don’t know how to tell you that I am the one who does the leaving.

g.t.e. // panic palinode

[bostonpoetryslam]

Confess(ion): I’m starting to think I have an attraction to impossibility – tonight, the sky is a punched-out molar, & here I imagine a desire vast enough to bleed & float for – when you text me i love you, i drift to sleep & leave you on seen

George Abraham, “To All The Ghosts I’ve Loved Before: A Palinode in 15 Unsent Valentines,” published in the Missouri Review

[risissecupido]

WRITING THE KREUTZER SONATA

[elodieunderglass]

it’s been so long since we’ve seen her, so… 🪞for Palinode?

(OC character drawing meme - mirror/mask, draw character with a mask or mirror used to represent an aspect of themselves. Palinode - Laios's livestock guardian dog daemon, from His Delicious Materials.)

hey - hey. hang on google, I just want the link to my own fic, you don't need to -

it's on hiatus? I thought it was . on pause. google don't tell me I'm on hiatus - oh no, I'm on hiatus.

but there was also this:

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Here is Palinode in a mask, which is to say, her wolf collar and wolf armour. Livestock guardian dogs in remote areas sometimes wear similar things in our universe; usually handmade from metal, leather and nails. It was too awkward for her to bring into the story, but it represents several things; a natural companion to a knight's plate armour; the push-pull of her brother, a fey wolf-daemon; the push-pull of her duties and difficulties; and the inherent bitter comedy of buckling spikes onto a marshmallow.

Thank you so much for this and I promise to share more of Palinode soon! I suppose in a way I'd rather not close her story off, but it has to be done.

[risissecupido]

ODE TO BLINDNESS ft. phalaecian hendecasyllables

[writinginnorthnorfolk]

After the first step into the New Year

“we write past, present and futurefind possibilities in wordsbut we cannot swim like dolphinsor swoop and dive like birds”               from ‘Being Human’ by Kim M. Russell I couldn’t wait for the end of itafter so much worry and disenchantment,and longed to say goodbye to itall year long. Planets out of alignment,illness took the shine off it,and there was no chance of atonement.The past year…

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