Discover Top Posts Tagged with #winters writes

Choose Your Own Adventure update

The poll over on Chapter 2 of the Choose Your Own Adventure has now ended, which means it's available to the public! Check it out on Patreon or Ko-Fi, and if you're a patron, the next chapter will be up by the 7th!

Winters Tales published a post on Ko-fi.com

#choose your own adventure #Winters Tales #Winters Writes

each year we learn softness again how to find the cracks in our defenses and let the air filter through we’ve built a fortress for a reason but we have the keys to the gate we will let in kindness

its not so easy, but it can be worth it, by winters

#words #softness #kindness #winters writes

forgetting you is, remembering how much love i have in my heart for the things you expected me to hate remembering that i shouldn't have to apologise for living it's relearning how to trust people, cautiously and okay, listening to songs you loved still sometimes makes me shudder i'm trying to be able to touch those scars without flinching, you don't deserve my remembrance, my old reverence of the way your words would frame things so pretty and sad thing is, you took so many things, and i trusted that you would hold them soft i became a wall to lean on, tired and unacknowledged feeling trapped in your love being the last picked for your team was hard to swallow oh, i was never allowed my own vulnerability everything was steeped in the shadows you cast and these things were hurts that happen to other people i wouldn't give any of it a name, but it had one now, i think about how avoidance became my favourite tactic and how when i left, i still loved you it's funny how we make excuses for people who don't deserve them i understand better now, how deep this all was in the end, you ruined so many things, and left tattered so many stories a one man war, against each person who cared too deeply i hate the word victim, when all i know is survivors you didn't break us wholly but hey, the conflict of my heart is settled now i'm stronger for it, despite the devastation you left my only regret is the length of time it took to put words to my anger i could have covered the distance you put me at, even with blunted claws and, one day you'll be the most minor of footnotes in my story a lesson i learned, and a mistake i won't dare make again so thanks, for nothing but that

i wonder if you'll ever realise what you did, i hope i never know by winters

#emotional manipulation #poetry #words #emotional abuse #this got wild. and dont take everything i say at face value please please. i wasnt alone i wasnt totally unacknowledged this is just #it's feelings #look at me making excuses it's a hard habit to kick lmao lmao #winters writes #i think one day i'll rework this but it reads mostly okay and i want it Done

it starts soft and involved, we’re constant and mostly happy even when our fists are clenched and we talk through tears. looking back it seems rose-toned that i remember things this way it shifts so easily,underneath my feet. it’s hard to pinpoint when things change, because i convinced myself so quickly that it was okay. i am fine. i still struggle.

i don’t know what i was thinking (i was in love), by winters

#winters writes #poetry #this is a snippet but i dont want to write it all

to use hands brought up clenched to make something of himself from out under a shadow so dense source of light casting blackness too deep source of light so bright it casts blackness too deep source of light too bright to ever cast against and measure up his own light, pinprick light dark deep enough to swallow him whole to use hands brought up trembling to pull himself from out under shadow cast embedded with dirt so ingrained he may never be clean again enough, enough, not enough he needs to be enough what's enough to use hands brought up protecting to forge a path dig in for courage hold delicate push up and out to meet the light equally and pull out from shadows cast

strive, by winters

#adam parrish #the raven cycle #poetry #winters writes