seen from China
seen from Canada
seen from United States
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seen from South Korea
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seen from United States
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seen from Morocco
seen from United States
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seen from Germany
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If I could, I’d bottle up the way you look at me and I would open it whenever I feel I need a kiss or maybe a little boost of confidence If I could, i’d take that look and wear it like a sweater and although feeling this all of the time would be nice, having you here would be better.
k.p.k
The Star Covers
Chapter 8: Glitz and Glam
In an effort to get the band prepared for the show, the girls decided to go and make new outfits to shine onstage, thanks to Veenas mom
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12:31am
I can’t help but think about a life where I didn’t know of your existence. A quieter sky, a road I would have walked alone, never knowing what was missing. But now your name lives in the spaces between my thoughts, and every version of the world without you feels a little less like home.
She moves through crowded rooms the way a traveler moves through a city after a long flight, present, but slightly detached from everything around her. People mistake it for shyness. Some lower their voices when they speak to her, as if she might break. Some offer sympathy she never asked for. Others tell her to smile more, unaware that she is already carrying enough weight without performing happiness too. What they cannot see is that she is busy with the exhausting work of returning to herself. The work happens in small, invisible moments: remembering to answer a text instead of staring at it for hours, standing in front of a wardrobe and choosing clothes when every option feels wrong, watching steam curl from a cup of coffee while her thoughts wander through old versions of her life. She isn’t sad in the dramatic way people understand sadness. She is rebuilding. Quietly. Brick by brick.
Most days, her mind feels like an old house after a storm. The furniture is still there. The walls are still standing. But everything sits in the wrong place. She walks through memories the way someone walks through dusty rooms, touching familiar objects and wondering why they no longer feel familiar. Outside, life continues with its usual certainty. Traffic lights change. Friends make plans. Strangers laugh into their phones. The world seems to know exactly where it is going. She watches it from behind a pane of glass only she can see, trying to remember when existing became something she had to consciously practice. Sometimes she catches herself staring at nothing in particular, the way sunlight pools on a pavement, the way leaves gather against a curb, the way rainwater clings to a window, and realizes entire conversations have happened around her without her hearing a word.
People call her quiet, but quiet is not the right word. There is nothing quiet about her mind. It is crowded with unfinished thoughts, old conversations, questions that arrive at midnight and stay until morning. She is carrying versions of herself she has not yet learned how to put down. The girl she used to be. The girl she thought she would become. The girl she is now. They all seem to walk beside her at once. So if she seems distant, if her smile arrives a little late, if her eyes linger somewhere beyond the person speaking to her, it is not because she doesn’t care. It is because she is still learning how to live after falling apart. Still learning how to make a home inside herself again.
@sparkandashes
Like steam pressed against the glass I felt my breathe growing heavier for something more than melancholy.
I am always one life behind.
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Character A Name & Core Archetype (e.g., The Shadow Daddy, The Golden Retriever)
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Current Status (Enemies, rivals, forced allies, strangers?)
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TENSION & ATTRACTION
Love Languages (How they show affection vs. how they receive it)
Emotional Shields (What walls do they put up around each other?)
Tension Triggers (What actions, words, or proximity push their boundaries?)
Micro-Tropes Present (e.g., "Touch her/him and die", "Who did this to you?")
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INTERNAL DYNAMICS
Intellectual Compatibility (Do they banter, clash, or outsmart each other?)
Shared Trauma/History (What unspoken pain connects them?)
Fundamental Ideological Clash (The boundary they refuse to cross for the other)
Power Dynamic (Who holds the physical power vs. who holds the emotional power?)
Mutual Vows (What would they blindly sacrifice for one another?)
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Court / Kingdom Affiliations (Are their factions at war?)
Magic System Interaction (Do their powers complement, cancel out, or amplify each other?)
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Shifting Alliances (Will political betrayals force them apart?)
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First Unintentional Touch
First Forced Proximity Crisis
The Vulnerability Breakthrough (First time sharing a secret)
The First Confession (Accidental or intentional)
The Breaking Point (The ultimate choice between duty and love)
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Doing the dishes, fulfilling responsibilities, walking around, laughing, drinking, listening to music, and talking to people with a heavy heart that has grown used to the pain. It feels like pretending; it doesn’t feel real, yet it is reality.
