dear heart,

oh. is this going to be a writeblr?

[ahotknife]

oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

[all-seeing-eyer]

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You already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this, Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again, as if for the very first time.

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[cherryys]

(in the voice of a guy that will defy fate to save you) i don't care

[enyafans4communism]

fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning

[quietwingsinthesky]

one more thing. if a character ascends to godhood/divinity/some form of power that makes them practically omnipotent and no longer human. and they had a partner before that who didn’t rise with them. you are legally required to make that situation as terrifying as it would rightly be. it’s bad enough to get the attention of a god. it is ruinous to be loved by one. that is not the person you knew anymore. that is something that never has to let you leave, or have secrets, or disobey it. it will fix every problem you so much as glance at, and it will shower you in grace and gifts until you drown, and it will make you a holy artifact in its own story. you have to understand, it doesn’t remember how horrible death is, so it strikes you to cinders like a snide comment and brings you back with an apology it needs you to accept. that is how it’s going to love you forever, because it might not be inclined to let you die.

[fadedlovemp3]

www.destroyedandbetrayedyourselffornothing.com/careers

[wretchmp4]

when i was 15 or so i started writing a story about a world that, only 7 months in, realized that aliens had landed on earth and were living among humans. which of course led to terrible a hunt for the aliens. and the protagonist was earth-born but also seemed off to most people, which meant people started hunting her too, believing she was an alien in disguise. and she found a home with the aliens i think, i didn’t finish it.

anyway for 7 more years i wondered if i actually had anxiety or was making it all up in my head.

[annabelle--cane]

the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

[petaltexturedskies]

Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

[twilightarcade]

looper

[canadiandogteeth-deactivated202]

robsroom ~ One Day He Combusted

[wretchmp4]

reading my old stuff and what the fuck i could actually write. and now nothing comes out of my hands. this sucks is this what happens when you write for work

[thedeafprophet]

forced immortality is a fun trope. unappreciated. someone/something wants you to remain so it makes you. it will not let you die

[buffyseasonsix]

Dubcon but it's me bringing you back from the dead

[cyberxbattalion]

[valtsv]

thinking about how the word "haunt" can act as a synonym for both "pursuit" and "dwelling"

[valtsv]

be careful what you allow to make a home in you

[beguines]

Meghan Kemp-Gee, The Animal in the Room

[digitalbeachrave]

died and came back wrong and no one could tell the difference

[megamindsupremacy]

died and came back wrong but only to myself. died and came back and nobody noticed i died. died and people think i came back better. died and came back wrong only in a specific sense of "wrong". died and fought like hell to come back and everyone thinks it was easy. died and came back mentally wrong and physically fine and tearing myself apart from the inside. died and hiding everything that went wrong. died and trying so hard to show what is wrong and nobody notices.