New vs. old. A redraw of an older piece that I really enjoyed working on. 🤟
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Bright a red as pomegranate seeds
As scalding as my slithering insides
It drips from my nostrils,
Cascades down my throat
Tongue swirling in a mouth full of copper
Filling my stomach with liquid lead
I gulp down my own blood
Spitting it between scarlet stained teeth
Ruby rain falls from my face
Into the clear waters below
Streaming like delicate ribbons
Sinking to the bottom of the white porcelain bowl
I watch in suffocating silence
Once again I am left alone
My pain dissolving into quiet ripples,
Until only the stillness remains
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"I'm sorry."
Whispers left your lips
Clinging like death's breath,
In the dank, claustrophobic air.
Cramped together in the dark
Your eyes met mine
With a primal fear and desperation
Mirroring the terror festering in my own.
"I'm sorry I hurt you,"
"Sorry I ruined you,"
"Sorry I couldn't be better."
Your words fell on deaf ears.
My heart pounding in my ears
Slamming against my ribcage
Desperate to escape before my body could
Your body smothering mine.
You had torn my chest apart,
Cracked ribs like brittle branches
And devoured my soft innards
Untouched until you savaged them.
What was there to be sorry for?
When either out of curiosity or malice,
You deliberately ignited the
Putrid decay of my mind.
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corruption kink where the corrupting influence is "getting what you actually want" because I think that ruins and unmakes people in a really radical scary way and opens you up to some powerful forces that will have their way with you like it or not
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Decided to paint outside in a storm to see what would happen.
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My fingers itch
Burning red from the bleach
That I use to
Scrub the grout, the baseboards,
The forgotten corners
The murky black stains
Of a lifetime of neglect.
My skin set a fire
As I scrub in a fever
To irradicate any sticky sludge you left
Poison the larva in the rotted wood
Fume out the figures
Lingering the my mind's fog
Flush any flashbacks laying in wait.
Today I will make this place mine.
You deserve no room here.
This is my domain,
Never again will it be yours.
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TRANS COWBOY COLLAGE CAN I GET A YEEHAW 💥🏳️⚧️💥🏳️⚧️
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Like most
sensitive souls
you already
know you’re
sensitive.
You soak up
others moods
and desires like
a sponge. You
absorb
sensation the
way a
paintbrush
grasps each
colour it touches
on a palette.
The ethereal
beauty of a
dandelion, the
shift of a
season, the
climax of a
song, or a
certain
stirring scent
can awaken
such wonder
they’ll become
your very
breath itself moving
through you as
fuel does to a fire
and wind does
to waves.
— Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder
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Wherever you are tonight,
go to the window.
Look past the cold air,
any discomforts, or thoughts or
tree lines,
or fog and winter winds.
There’s a sea of stars above all
of it. Let
them open you.
same as they open all our nights,
and remember again and again
that you’re in an awesomely wide
and wild
universe
that is vast and limitless.
Trust in possibility.
In yourself.
In all of this.
— Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder
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Things feel stagnant lately.
Murky, turbid, full of sludge.
To trade the wild woods for
Cookie cutter houses
That crumble in just a few years time.
Oh to be wild,
To walk the earth,
To be seen by the trees that tower
That whisper and speak in the wind.
That quietly acknowledge your presence.
To sit and listen
To all the life around you.
To the beating of wings, songs of birds,
Rustlings of a rabbit, babbling of a brook,
Whispering of leaves, crunch of gravel under foot.
All while the sun shined warm on my skin.
How I miss it all.
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A night of pleasure
Of substance and elevation
To celebrate another year
Encircled by beloved figures
I lay against you
Bodies fit together
Like puzzle pieces that
Didn't match at all
Chained to you like a dog
You tugged my leash every time you said
"I need a smoke."
Pulling me away from everyone
Cloth riding up
Choking my thighs
Your callused hands found their ways
Into places they shouldn't be
"He tempted me."
"He's teasing me."
You told all of my friends
When I was not around
And in secret
In the musky mildewed dark
You whispered sour staining words
Claiming my loved ones were evil
"Why do you have to get high,"
"Every time we're intimate?"
Questions you knew the answer to
When you forced yourself into my flesh
Your fingers went far beyond intimacy
Body horror and melted minds
As your dirty chipped nails
Sunk into my darkest depths
Always the victim
Until the very end
Where you shrieked that I was evil
A temptress, a villain, an incubus
Meanwhile you prey on the
Person you identify
As weak, easy, small
Someone to be trained like a dog
When did I ever
Change myself
To tempt you?
I didn't.
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Art is a kind of surgery. Something must be removed from inside of you. The process will irreversibly change you but if you don't go through with it you will continue to be poisoned. Are you listening this is important. You have to do it yourself like in Saw
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Fingers dig into the peel
Nails tugging at bright red flesh
To scoop out the insides
And eat the sweet seeds that
crunch between your teeth
Doomed to a fate
In the underworld
Just to satiate
Your hunger...
Was I just a prize to be won?
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I know who you are
Why you are here.
You're from my childhood
A firey figure forged from circumstances
That no child should ever have to face.
Always looking over me, you guide every decision
Your hand passing through my chest
Hardening my heart with fear.
You are the fortress, my knight, my shell
To my shattered soul, my damsel, my soft innards
Ordering that I must trust no one with my fragile being.
Constantly overpowering me,
Trying to take control where none could be had
But autonamy is ours now.
Finally there is no need for
High fortress walls, layers of armour, endless protection
Finally you can rest.
You might not feel it, you might fight me
As I lay you down in a field of flowers
You, who are unable to see the small joys of fragile blooms.
But despite everything we both have grown
You might not see it but we have
We are strong in different ways now.
I hope to teach you, hope for you to listen
Because even if we aren't safe,
We are not alone.
Isn't that beautiful?
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there is so much intimacy in creating something together
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Bothersome beast, comforting friend
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