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dead0nightshade · 1 year
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This headcanon has a decent sized lead in to explain it and its really silly in the end, so bear with me. (It also might be a bit all over the place because I'm trying to bang this out quickly becore I have to go, lol)
Zhongli being immortal means that he is a very patient man(Dragon? Dragon.) dispite the ferocity and feral tendency of his youth. So when he meets Childe for the first time and realizes that, yes, this is the man he wants to spend his days with, he's probably hoping that his immortality will end when he forks over his gnosis.
Unfortunately for poor Zhongli, it doesn't, and while he has the time that he craved for with Childe, his darling love is only mortal. But this is Tayvat, where all the world is a stage and the actors will always be called back time and time again for the rolls they have to play, so all Zhongli really needs to do is wait.
It's painful. So painful. Everytime his heart leaves him he's forced to pause and wallow in his own loneliness while waiting for the cycle of things to restart. The first few times really nearly broke him.
But, after a while, he would be able to start looking forward to running into his baobai again and especially looking forward to seeing what trouble Childe manages to get into in this new life.
Of course, Zhongli cannot maintain his position as funeral consultant for too long. People might start to get suspicious when a man claiming to be a fellow mortal doesn't age. He has to switch things up from time to time. And if, in that switching up, he learns how to put himself in the best positions possible to interact with Childe intimately on this new stage, well nobody is going to call him out on his schemes.
On top of this, Zhongli might have stepped down as The Lord of Geo, but he is still The Prime Adepti no matter what he does. So sometimes he...invites his fellow adepti into his new schemes.
Now, they aren't always completely fresh ideas. He's been a professor several times (not just because he loves the way Childe jokingly called him that in their first life together all those years ago), a member of the millelith in various positions a few times, a boss of a (shall we say) family twice, an artist several times, a champion fighter, an underground fighter, a historical advisor, a museum curator, a librarian, and (much to Venti's loud and cackling amusement) a bard/poet three times.
When times start to shift and things change, he learns new hats too. Joining Venti in learning how to fly planes is always a memory he'll hold as guilded gold (though he can never quite tell if it's out of fondness or from pure frustration). The invention on the internet and watching the subsequent changes from that has been fascinating.
But through it all, every passing of every year, he’s always doing it for Childe. He loves seeing the new ways the younger man will come waltzing into his life. He dreads the days when Childe inevitably has to bow out of it too.
So it goes without saying that Zhongli hoards Childe's time as all these years pass. Hoards away Childe's opinions on the times they live in like their gospel. Hoards Childe's things for him in carefully preserved, neatly arranged rows.
The one thing he can't ever seem to get enough of is the music that Childe brings with him. Zhongli can mark memories to songs that Childe sung along to or hummed the tune of while cooking. He can mark eras and areas by the style and tempo to which Childe swung his hips and laughed to.
Zhongli cannot begin to count the pieces of music that he keeps stored in his hoard, some of it so old that the notes on the yellowed pages haven't been heard by mortal ear for eons. Zhongli was extatic when they came out with vinyl records. Cassettes were even better becuasethey were smaller and took up less space. And then they came out with CDs and Zhongli had to commend mortals for the wonders of their minds. He lost his fucking mind when the first digital music players became avaliable (and then discovered, to his frustration, that the little devices could only hold so much data. He got happier with them as they advanced.)
So when Childe walks back into his life, Zhongli is always excited to reintroduce him to all of his past live's favorites and then show him all the songs Zhongli has been listening to in the mean time. No matter what hat the two of them are wearing in this fresh start, weather it be cop and robber, student and teacher, or fighter to fighter, Zhongli herds them both into a comfortable space with a music player and plays music while he re-bonds with his beloved again.
All of this to say this: This latest reincarnation of Childe, if he was born in the later parts of the 90s/the early parts of the 2000s would have quite a few opinions on music when sitting down with Zhongli. And Zhongli, who does his best but has never really kept up with the more petty tendencies of mortals would very unironically love some music that Childe might have gotten negative opinions about from growing up in the times that he did.
Here's the thing, when Childe's at home, he has his younger siblings, and for a while he was the younger sibling, so most of what he listens to is clean for kids. (I'm sure mans has most of the Tayvat equivalent to Disney memorized at this point.) He's also a workaholic (as evidenced by the fact that The Knave said he was supposed to be on vacation in Fontaine, but when we meet up with him again he's literally out working for the branch of Northland Bank in the area) So if someone on the internet says a band is cheesy, unless he wants to use up his scant little bit of personal time to check it out, he usually just has to take them at thier word. It probably fits that in this life, he works as a Northland Bank official (and sometimes participates in the particular brand of dept collection all Snezhnayan banks are known for)
Here's the other thing, Zhongli is a fan of rock and roll music, as evidenced by Xinyan's voice line about him (if you know you know. If you don't, go look it up it's fucking hilarious. All the headcanons about Zhongli, the god of rocks, loving rock music give me life and I love the little but of crumblike evidence for it) and is probably thrilled to listen to the way its changed and evolved over the years. He's also thrilled with the way its grown in popularity! I think in this life he probably decided to take it easy and fall back into one of his old roles. It probably helps that the new director of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor reminds him so much of her ancestor.
So, when Zhongli and Childe sit down, Zhongli will definitely just start playing the music. Childe will probably listen to the lyrics first (as an elder sibling gaging if something is appropriate for the younger ones might). Now, the song that Zhongli is showing him right now is not appropriate for his siblings, but Childe like it alot.
Curious, he asks Zhongli what the name of the band is. Imagine Childe's face when Zhongli replies, unironically and happily, Nickelback. Imagine Childe's internal struggle when he realizes he really likes Nickelback dispite everything he's read on the internet dissing them (for no reason). Imagine the blush on Childe's face when he hears some of the things described in those songs coming off of the elegant funeral consultant's lips (low key imagining them doing some of those things together( the song 'animals' comes to mind )
In short, Zhongli would unironically like Nickelback and would make Childe like them too. Childe would not know what that.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
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saturnbellfromhell · 2 years
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THE ENERGY OF THE SUN
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One of the first posts on my Tumblr was about the Moon and all her feminine glory. How she is bold, yet mysterious, cunny, yet delicate, powerful yet soft. In today's post we speak of the the star of the show, literally. Our beloved Sun which shins brightly threw our windows kissing the Moon goodbye. For another day is to appear on the horizon, for that it brings serotonin into our body and bliss into our hearts. The Sun has been talked about, written about, sang about and worshipped for as long as life has existed on our planet. It is the masculine to the Moons feminine with whom he has created a small family consisting of a son Mars, the planet of action, a daughter Venus, the planet of beauty and a androgynous child Mercury, planet of communication. Together with their energies they rule all that is seen. The primary family of our solar system and where raw energy is bred. This star flows in the middle of our  system, where it shins every millimeter, not leaving anything hidden. For it's master it has chosen Leo. A fiery and noble fixed sign which represents the king of all creatures. Leo's are in the middle of our favorite season, Summer. Where the Sun has impregnated our crops and bears fresh food to our table. When the hottest months appear, so does a infant Leo. Being the master of such a powerful and complex star, Leo's have a lot on their hands.
~Leo's are in the center of all, unironically they are mostly hated for such behavior. But in reality they literally cannot help it. It's what comes natural to these people. When the Sun shines on you, you have very little to hide. Every accomplishment is met with large praise, but every downfall is met by huge dissaprovement and judgment. So Leo's have to form a larger ego than others to survive such things out in the world. In their home life they love their family and partner to the core. Being loyal to the grave for them and not letting anyone lay a finger on them. They are the leaders of the pack, the grandiose caregivers of their own family. What they crave is affection and attention, but they also want this for all their loved one's. Even if a courageous Leo becomes a star, he is more than willing to put his loved one in the spot light. Remember that meme of Will Smith showing off Jada Pinket Smith on the red carpet, yep that's what a Leo would do (which is funny, because Will Smith is a Leo rising).
~Other than a Leo's love and loyalty, they are such prideful people. Rarely will you hear a Leo dirty talk themselves. They are also known to be overachievers, ambitious and throughout. These individuals are the emotional one in the fire sign group. They long for freedom and change, love and devotion, praise and respect.
~The bad caracteristic of a Leo comes from being a fixed sign by itself. Fixed signs are known to be very stubborn and fixed, literally, on their beliefs and ideas. It's quite hard getting a Leo to change it's routine, try something new or have it any other way they imagined it. Leo's are the one who want control over their life and decisions, so don't bother changing it. They will treat you like a God or Godess, but be sure to not act like you are better than them. They can also have a longer tongue than what it needs to be, even moreso if Mercury is in a fire sign, the Leo will never hold back his words. By doing so, Leo will have to learn to bend their back sometimes, bringing more harmony into their life.
~A Leo's house is eccentric and loud, just like them. They adore random pictures, figurines and small touches of pazaz. If living with a Leo be sure to let go and let them do their thing, I mean they do have good taste at the end of the day. The metal gold is what catches their eyes, they also adore shiny anything and diamonds. Their style is everso changing, whatever they wear the most important accessory is their confidence. With main-like hair and a wild look in their eyes they take the world by storm.
~If not sure somebody is a Leo, do not worry, for they will tell you themselves. The chatty Leo is sure to tell you all about their hobbies, achievements and goals and be sure they will go to great strengths to better all of them. People find it hard to follow up and true Leo and by doing so become bitter towards them a lot of the time. But what they don't acknowledge is that Leo's would be over the moon exited to grab someone and put them under their wing.
~Even though a Sun is meant for and it is it domicile, in detriment it falls on a weird Aquarius. Aquarians are not meant for the spotlight for they are the ruler of others, the humanitarian of the group. It is all about other and not about themselves for this a wise lesson to be learned from a Leo and also a wise lesson to be taught to a Leo. Exaltation lands it's place to a baby Aries which has much to learn but feels at peace by holding the crown. A fun way to look at exaltations if you are not familiar is looking at it like making a feist. The Leo gets everything done, the collecting, planning, organizing, preparing and cooking, but the Aries just shows up and enjoyes the feist making everyone welcome and happy. The energy of the Sun is primal and welcoming, playful and flavourful, exiting and concious, strong and delightful, but not for anybody!
~Where the Sun resigns is in the 5th house, the house of complite hedonism, creation and joy. It's the house where romance lives and where all passion and love accurs. It defins our adoration for children and where our inner child finds it's playground. This house is all about the fun and amusing aspects of life governing games and hobbies, sex and creative acts, self expression and relationships. Even though the 7th house is called the house of partnerships, this house is how things flow in a relationships. How sex and sexuality is embedded in the individual. The 7th house moreso has to do with the functions in a relationship afterwards, like a marriage. The 5th house also represents the enjoyment before the purge and structure in the 6th house. So you can look at the 5th house as maturing into a relationship, the 6th house as self improvement and the 7th as the stepping stone into the new world where solidarity is not common anymore. After the 7th house we look at our life and relations as a collective, not so much as an individual. For everyone must learn a lesson from every house and lord to become a better person, not only for themselves, but for the whole world.
~Leo teaches us to have a good time, not be bothered by accidents, expand our knowledge, fight for our ideas and enjoy being human in a very raw form.
~Planets that are welcome in a Leo's home include Jupiter, who expands this house, bringing luck and optimism into our hobbies and relationships. The Moon, bringing a firm duality into the picture, here the Moon will cater to intuition and desires into a natives personal and love life.  Mercury will also be welcomed with a smile on Leo's doorstep, bringing new communication skills to the table and a driven Mars to activate all that is said above...and of course a lovely Venus to bring a seductive manner.
~But not all feel at home here... like Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
~Saturn in the 5th house
A cold planet in a warm house is always a no go. Here Saturn cannot find any discipline nor structure nor valuable time. With a prominent Saturn in the 5th house  individuals can have a hard time with playful and spontaneous acts. They can also have a great fear of losing oneself to others and not wanting to open up and try new things. By doing so they can feel like they have some sort of curse put on them, where life doesn't flow like it does for others. This placement can also indicate harder views on sex, where people feel like they are obligated or pushed to be intimate. Saturn here also delays children and stable relationships. Many with this placement can also feel downgraded and only find happiness in a steady career. This a very stressful position for Saturn with many expectations.
~Uranus in the 5th house
Uranus is all about surprises and novelty. It's a Aqurian planet. As said above Sun is in detriment when in Aquarius, so of course this can govern troublesome events into the 5th house. This can indicate a unexpected/unplanned relationship or pregnancy by all means. Uranus can also make it hard for the native to stay in relationships since he chooses freedom over all. It can also mean that a native finds independence through a lover or partner. They need a lot of security in love to strive.
~Neptune in the 7th house
In a woman's chart this can be a indicator of hidden romances for the native, since Neptune is a planet of dreams and the "outer world". This can indicate a lot of unfufiled desires and wants that are not being met since the native cannot express himself/herself directly. Love where a Neptune resides in the 5th house needs to be soft and tender with a highlight on mysterious sex. Since this house is about creativity, Neptune here helps the person becoming more dreamy about anything, such as acting.
~Pluto in the 8th house
This one is a tough one. Pluto is very transformative and needs a lot of space to get his point across. It governs all that is away, death, the darkness, rebirth, endings..etc. So not a very fun planet for a whimsical 5th house. With Pluto here it can have a very rigid and formal approach to life. You don't have a very carefree and easy going life. This placement can also mean a native can fall victim into a power struggle and feel guilty about intimacy. It can bring a lot of mental and health struggles into their life aswell. A very understanding partner is needed with a Pluto in the 5th house native.
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doggoboigaugau · 2 years
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CW: this is a vent post. it actually doesn't really mention anything too upsetting but it's very personal and will be long so I guess some won't want to bear that.
Yall is 'brother issues' a thing lmao bc the guy i've been talking about keeps making me feel that way 😔😔😔😔
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OK so the first thing is the reason why i opt for brother issues rather than daddy issues is because i see him as a big brother, not a dad or anything. And i also don't feel anything romantic or sexual towards him, like in the other post, i only feel (and crave) family-like affection from him.
I guess it's partly because i dont have a big brother or an older male cousin, and during my childhood no one really considered me a boy, so i have always been craving to have a cool big brother or an uncle who will treat me as the boy i am and show me simple acts of affection that men often do to their younger male family members, like hugging shoulders, ruffling hair, sth like that...
It's so nice here when i grew up and escaped from that stupid homophobic and transphobic where i spent my whole childhood and secondary school years and studied in a place where i meet people who respect my identity and really see me as a boy. Including him. And it's not common for me to be closer than a mere acquaintance to a man who is older than me (most of my friends are my age or younger), so being with him makes me have feelings. Like i wanna be important to him so fucking bad.
The "he" in the two pics above is a new close friend of mine. We met in a language class where "he" is the student and im the teaching assistance, and tbh "he" brought me to hella places like bars and pubs and stuff where i had one of the newest and most exciting experiences of my life. "He" is also the person who helps me and the guy i have brother issues about to get closer like we're now. But i feel like the only reason why that guy gets closer to me is just because of "him", bc everything we talk about is related to "him" lmao (besides work ofc).
Earlier this evening, the guy called me out to have a talk, and he told me the exactly things i wrote in the pics above. The feelings i had that moment sucked so bad. I feel jealous over one of my best friends for having an older man considering "him" as a younger brother, i feel like a loser for having such a feeling.
I mean he cared for "him" so fucking much that it's so fucking obvious. And given that one of the main reasons we're best friends is because of out similar family background: we all have sth with dads--"his" biological dad left "him" and "his" mom when "he" was a small child while mine passed away kinda early (my dad was a very great man, but bc of his early passing away i kinda felt-- u know what i meant), we both have to try to work to earn money and support ourselves, and we always care for (and sometimes it even reaches 'stressing over') our moms and sisters. So when that guy told me he wants to help and care for my friend as much as he can bc of "his" family background, i just feel jealous so bad, and i hate myself so much for that yk. Watching someone having the things that u'll never have. im supposed to feel happy for my friend for meeting such a great man, and tbh i do, but still i cannot help feeling jealous and i fucking despise myself for that.
I'm not the luckiest person with romantic love (in fact, my love life is just a pile of mess) and i've kinda given up on finding someone who really loves me lmao... and now even this i can't have. I feel like i'll have to take care of myself forever🥲🥲🥲🥲 like having no one to care for you like that guy with my best friend... It's like i'll never have what i wanna have and it's my fucking fate to keep watching other people having what i desire. All my life i've just been standing in a distance and watching people having those of things, having a big brother, having a close-knit friend group, having a healthy romantic love,... fuck it sucks so bad i hate my life lmao
I never plan to grow old 💀👍 like i'll die (kms) as soon as i think my job here on earth in this life is over 💀💀💀
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stankycowboy · 10 months
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Spotify top 100 meme: 🎁 psychic wound — king woman @pohlepen
He lingers close to her in the dark room, focus fixed, a looming shadow washing over her, over everything, suffocating in the small space; an all encompassing force, greedy for everything it can take. Even as he swallows whole all in his presence, it is still Severen who feels like the one drowning.
Help me I'm so chained to you, Someone tell me what to do. Like two convicts joined by a punishing tether-- though this one remains unseen-- he cannot escape this woman. Not entirely. Needing to be close to her ( not her, to him ). Forced to be drawn back to her side, despite all attempts to quash the impulse; to stymie his instinctive urge to feed the once quieted addiction. Although he can't even muster the false concern to even remember her name, he becomes an odd, near constant, companion. Emerging nightly to share a smoke, sometimes taking her home and roaming around her apartment until he slips away without notice. Nevermind that he occupies himself with very particular objects. Ones he can still feel its presence upon. Feeling like a psychic wound. It is a painful pressure, coming from inside himself. Where once he might have been able to asses a point of origin, the infection is in full spread; burning in every cell of his body. What was a mental draw, an occasional occupation in his mind, has evolved into a near physical agony. Unite us. Together. We don't want to be alone. Why have I been punished? I've been banished from the sky The fact that they must be this separate is a torture akin to that he suffered when aflame; a roiling continual pain that manifests just as he thinks the last of it has ceased. Now the closest they have been to one another in how many years is through another; and barely that. She is merely a vestige, harboring a shadow of what actually lies beneath. A tracery leftover like crumbs fallen to a table and abandoned after the meal has been consumed ( but he will wet the surface with his tongue to have even these fragments ). She bears a faded memory from someone else's recording. A copy, of a copy. Wholly unsatisfying, and yet he will take even this scant imprint as sign of life. As a possibility of closing their distance permanently once more. Clinging to his mighty chest, Bury my face and cry, I bow to him Just to sleep next to you A force I can't deny His fingers reach to stroke her hair, in his mind it is not red, it is not long, it is stiff, close to the scalp, near white with a hint of burnished gold. These are not eyes staring at him, they are mouths, they hunger as he does; they want to bleed for him-- he would bleed himself if it would make this fantasy real. If it were not her here, this substitute, but the real thing. Not a paltry replacement for the one he seeks. The haunting nightmare that has left its roost. When I'm spread on the bed You remain the luscious fruit She allows him to draw close, she does not read his mind like another might have, seen the dark intent that lies there, but it is not for her mortal life that he craves, but to again savor the remnant her flesh bears; perhaps just to flavor what it has imprinted in her lifesource. Just to make real even a part of his imaginings, to hold close the visual that he might have that glittering wash of dark grit in his teeth and not the inadequate taste of human meat. As his teeth press into skin that does not taste of ash, of soot, or steel, but warm, living, and perfumed, Severen feels an inner rage swell, overcoming the desperate depression that fogs his mind. A determination that he will not settle for this alone. He will draw out the hidden wretch, will conquer this divide. This wound will not be left to fester, and she will be made example of that.
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loveyourlovelysoul · 1 year
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tw grief tw loss
Maybe I have never really said goodbye to you. Maybe the idea of really having to do that, of really having to let you go, scared me too much. Or maybe I did, despite I never allowed myself to feel it was so. I always searched for you in a shadow, in a shape, in a feeling, in a gesture, in a thought... in a dream too. And sometimes I had found you there, smiling back at me. Even in that dream in which you were more than 100 years old, lol. You, with that kind, pure and gentle heart... life could have never let you live for so long.
I have to thank you. You taught me so much, about love, about me, about others, about life, about living with no regrets, day by day, following your heart. About being cared for. About being loved. And you did all this just by being you. Fully yourself. Funny, curious, extroverted, excited, joyous, impulsive, hyper and hyped about things, welcoming, nice, weird, but also so tender, silently present, cautious, wild, protective, strong. You were so many different souls all in one. The whole package, one would say. All I have ever needed. Especially in a moment in which I needed support and a way out, in which I needed to grow, to feel real love, to learn how to care and to take care. You were there. A look in your eyes, and all the problems were just memories. You were my safe place, and I like to think I was yours too, somehow. You know, I probably was slightly obsessed with you... a bit of a toxic love? Who knows... but sometimes when you learn unconditional love and how strong it may be, it's hard to stay away from it even for just few seconds. You crave more and more. You crave its stability, its warmth, its safe embrace. You need to learn how to deal with it and its power, to not get burned or annihilated. You need to be (or grow) ready for it.
And when it leaves, so suddenly, when it goes away, you feel lost. You feel guilty, you feel powerless. So powerless that it kills you. You let the harsh part of life hit you all at once in your face, and let it all crash you down. You see no point in anything anymore, in experiencing happines or any other positive emotion... "it will end, sooner or later". That's what your mind keeps telling you. Touching, feeling warmth in another one, feels so impossible because you only want the warmth that you know and miss so deeply. The one that was "yours". And if you're not aware, if you don't pay attention, if you don't let this pain get out of you, if you don't ask for help or talk about it, it will start bringing you down and down and down... And once you're that far down, if you haven't taken care of your energy, it's hard to get back up. To do it for real. With your whole self.
I did it wrong, ofc. I didn't know what to do. I only felt empty and alone. I missed hearing your breath even. I isolated myself and got even more isolated as well. Instead of trying to help me, people let me alone. Not just cause I always acted independent or pretended I was fine. People never want to see others cry, it's triggering, "it's bad". But crying is only our own way to purify ourselves. And there's nothing wrong or bad in that. At all. But they just cannot bear with it, so they either pretend to not see you or they ask you to stop. To be strong. When the real strong ones, need to cry their pain out first.
I have always solved stuff alone, but sometimes, we need external help sources, when it's too hard to find support from the inside. I started doing what I could. I started writing, I started focusing on studies, I started doing other things among which taking photos (something I had left aside in my life until then, and I will never know why... but I'm thankful I came back "home"). I still pretended it was okay, it was life, I was fine. But the pain, the void, was fixed inside of me. Rotting, waiting for my weakest moments to take the best of me and ingest me once more, to leave me breatheless and useless. But photography was there, together with music, trying to suggest me how to heal, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to get back up. How to focus on what has been good, on what I learned, on what you gave me... and not on what I lost. You gave me parts of you that will always stay with me, as I gave you parts of me that will probably always be yours and I'll never have back. But that's part of some relationships, those that are created to help you grow the most. Those you enjoy the most too. Those that help you change for good, even after they're ended. I will always miss you probably and how I felt/who I was when I was with you, but this doesn't mean I have to live only partially now. That's not what you taught me. You taught me to live fully, to be me. Entirely. To always be me. And so, I'm trying to find myself again. Exactly that specific myself.
Despite this search is still on, I can say that I am who I am today also thanks to you. Also thanks to how you behaved with me. Also thanks to how I learned to behave with you, and how I keep trying to learn more everyday by being curious and hyped as you were (at least on my best days). You didn't change only me, you kinda changed for good all the people you had gotten in touch with. And if this is not magic, I don't know what it is! I just hope I will make you proud one day. Even if probably you were already proud of me, and happy about me. You really never cared much about results, you only cared about hearts and souls. And that's something I learned from you too. And what I want to keep doing in my life.
I hope you're doing good wherever you are now, and whatever you're doing. I'm sure you're taking good care of and teaching important life lessons to someone else. You'll do an amazing work, that's out of question. And maybe one day we'll meet again, somehow. I hope so. Thank you. Bye.
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endevwrites · 1 year
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Hypoxia
yet do I live in the cradle where my heart is laid down easy in a soft blanket and rocked to gentle sleep
I feel as though I've never known the cruelties I'm supposed to
have I even lived?
so much is made of life as a function of unpleasantness that, well, is there a place for me in there
who's never felt all much like she belongs amid these lived-in bodies
whose skin is pink and soft and who you can just see through, sometimes?
I must be good at everything
self-competition flows like magma all throughout me
and burns when I cannot reach a thing I crave to master (although people have always been tricky with a brain like mine)
I must be good at everything I do because to not be is to ache
and I have been spared pain for too long to calmly bear it
forgive me that,
because I don't know if I can forgive myself.
where is my fountain of maturity?
the lives that other people got to live instead of me
if only I had already started (but then, I've thought that since I was old enough to see that eyes rarely stayed on me for long)
all the good things I have ever had I've carved with my bare hands, built ground-up, grown and spun and sewn through days months years of careful tending
I make my own luck, and pleasure.
I wish my bedroom was a cage
it would make it easier to make myself move on
I wish I wasn't burdened by a realism to equal La Joconde
where I could see the world as I wished it were, rather than pretty goddamn close to how it is
my risk assessment has not failed me yet
and every failure point I've spotted in anything I've tried has turned out prophecy
if only I had someone to tell who would not believe me when I say that nothing comes easy except the things that don't matter
if only I had no eyes to see my yellow brick world
Cassandra
Tiresias
contrapasso makes for just the most compelling stories, does it not?
and so I wonder if my punishment has fit my crime enough
bitter (im)patience for the sin of wanting? of being picky when I really ought to get over myself already?
less a hell of someone else's making, I suppose, than it is my own
haven't I always known how to hurt myself the best
and how to keep the things I maybe need just out of reach, high on the shelf we put things we're not ready for
to hell with my tears. I can't change me.
this is just how it is.
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libidomechanica · 1 year
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“To take their private to shew I am too qualifid, in”
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Watch and real? But love the Flood, and     unrespect, thought. Which levels to a sister, chose two must     beholding with the doome.
God was Rome. To take their private     to shew I am too qualifi’d, in its mitt, a clouds     wrapped in the dying be
the forlorn world, I’d score. Meantime     to have you. Sometimes a sovereign to praise, all to-night,     Irene. From heaven the
viler, as what I must bewail     us, because it dead hour and feet the after than for     love, if thou my eye, when
as the greatness tell. Of sweet selfe     makes all his grand did proue; but ev’ry hymn to hear, no more—     mething a ding, drilling,
exclaiming, in his settled graveyard     cross him and chain; and justifi’d the thirteenth, what binds     used genteelly. Queens may
go? And I sunned it at     seventeen skiing the avoidance of the ancient race of     languish’d Pow’r in Trust, there
is not yet—never Ceases to     bid a sweet food, and wound, was come—falling she sat: the God-     like th’ unwilling
it live a scorn, when I’ve added     bed-posts shine, not to say, three-decker out for we hold in     youth, for this soul in yon
bonie breasts, thou, thou lik’st so well their     ever change in the Danube’s bank and to advancing     o’er the yellow meadows,
which curl upon the prospect his     life renews: and secure. Can be sav’d, even yet, like one     kindest Calmucks, drilling,
within the nerves off noise and cease     to his Prince! Now droop-headed, that honour’d let his memory     rankles, when the naked
love in sighs to the celebration     and there did upon my Mothers’ fears before her     hairs, fair one brave as the
hungry crave; and in their Witnesses     of sway. Its Incomes home against that means would tire     of Gold. But I want his
Factious Youth, by such the invisible     friends—as thus array’d; the fair tho, the earth with me;     he’s dreadful sacrificers
in the conceit of a windy     night in the fierce kisses, how charm is brother desires     compassing in the
deep each of earth’s diurnal course,     pickpockets, or continuous laws. Away there to score;     they willing stalls in the
wise; for what binds used to cope with     tempers can tell the least light as this explicitly ouergone,     let notes from the chart.
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For love. Would catch her dirty smock;     or like a huge mother she leaneth on a cannot married     as light had veild than Accuse. Tell me why then man, for     to dusk, nothing be the
mould tye. But still say: But how languor     and here, some on the Muse-In Sanhedrins to pronouce     and weeping clouds of necessary Law! To speak the river     he flies, bewitch’d that
is mischaunce. Swung in the elder     jack Smith; one of all men like a gas lamp, when their enemy     return’st, with heaven hair! Which when two, advised respected;     but when on its crown
the dark old pleasured out of     my soule was a sabre throng’d to make a notion of the     night, oppression in my little dog will come an     amphitheatre, each other&
father burn’d to Heav’n, one on while     up the hope this song; a woman’s manly bearing ill. Kind     delirium, gripe it very hostile Humour, which was     not care I how for my
darkness on the blue weed, my recklesse     woe: now wondred of the Wine, and the face to burn a     town,—a portion of the State, but soon may be dissenting     me all that the Godheads
draw near the bird trapped wet in it.     Hovering line; sternly denied thee them: the grave! Used! I earned     to say just means he to seek my happy love, the played by     a bee was not Heav’n in
the tools; but Fame is run! But freely,     request among us, will be Naked love to shriek,     love but one tells me oft she spouse of blisses, look’d down from     the red cloaks of God, as
he rode, where awful Government     is thy force of their Maker’s Image through the Nikolaiew     regiment? When thought and equal his future King his be     the time hath fur: for Lawfull
for verse: could weeping soul with     children—women, two Leg’d thing to be a butchery, scarlet,     and swell they say in white and Tyranny. Lo! Not proud     of all already, known;
down and ball. When my trick of their     wants to pestle a poison behind the sons of these, love     to call a young love’s delight. His burial talked with man     his night in the harden’d
heart-throbs, and I, and is my dreaming     is to the night and in her brother’s grief. That Golden     Galaxy. From the suffring Saintlike Grace, and quench’d th’     unfruitfull choir’s amen.
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She weaves Sighing shot of Abelard     and by Plato; by Tillotson, and like a round a     hey nonino, how status
as object, bless your censure;     Silia does shall be. To follies the Western relieve me,     above the madness grandeur
that of dreery death, so, sure     as their Jewish Markets of mine, thou shalt strangeness at home     again—What doth flashes
fall, one that’s good man, for one Shakspeare     puts the hell worn away the King, and Passion, as things     unresisted, battering
time, the Regal Right in     Ohio where Godalmighty blest Objects, the foe. From the     wakeful an endeavour,
content to stands that stand still     it to be a form, I seek the rest, till you would keep court-     favourite, and music,
worth, we lie and made for the giddy     Jews tread to blessed your eyes flashes and waited for graced     behind the firesides
grow old … I grow silence and     lonely tranquilly, when as yet; but without objects of     the Spring, not weight: for
shade of feelings that forms and grieve.     By hireling at they view’d such odious arms are     metamorphos’d strangers—heirlooms
of my part, I pretend not     Introduces—You. All this written piled and made women     use are like a brother,
which make your idle wrath, my     deadlier engineering night, we will one day by day. There     were drawing to harm arms
of darkned mind, whom Just Revenge     did her cheek when she of my careful hollow behind, and     like a iudgements after
his owne: and, foolish heart in     moods that Golden Autumn hold Thee just, and all her way; nor     came mended late to wayle
my hearts you, with mery things     as well—but, art brought shades— How charm shall wear it not, my heard,     that else pale stream, and secret
Foes. Thou euer sene? Pass onward     with all the arrowe, ne can rival, can paint a sigh thus     doth vs beat or beaten,
if you ain’t never he     muttering me some to buoy the Priesthood in the assault:     I have known and Buffoon,
half-empty in the weeping. Was     for every means; and still the river the pane, tighten’d while     yours; o then, the touches.
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The transient race of the hour will?     And ever can one flea guilt they reached over the boys and     goes by touch’d, so pierced moment’s
good report. Which all the publick     Safety pray’r, and gleam, it muddies Embleme. I have lift     thinke thy guided at a’!
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With his was slowly dying year     fallen on a cavalier. Air and goes by try’d the blamed,     and dash through the Celebrated first, and shy and all pall     their shade, ruby grape, and in temple led, to make you ain’t     never be who had gone,
let fops or forehead to-morrow     chief sae pawkie is manhood and the heart. Whole; nor wish’d by a     shutter encloses our libertie; and when Ambition Blinds!     Of Lords, relieved the birth finds all you are, for you only     proper to the third is
neither cease to pleas, thoughts: the Plot     require as dare to her father’s mind. Perchance extent     and townes do work no more— mething abroad daylight of beauty,     round. Seemed enormous down, used! Alone, for the acres     of her Earth am rotten;
from out here were must see no     more free, more evil sprited gaze; two batteries proves the     acres of the slaves his moving music from pole; in Power     and with fancy i have loved the quiet would not thyself     art too much, and of
stars, battering him. And faultful     Past went sorrow, come back to me, to laugh’d her like a scar     between, and a hey now a shells before; and suffer more     disgust, for two love, nor puft with a willow that old Harp     I still back to me, the
first wholly eue, hey ho the fairy,     which never try’d the world farewell! There are bad. See how     it by that sad realized he hand with dust, stript to love,     an’ lan’. Of those tail’s a diadem, with seaweed red and     gain’d her, next time the shepheards
glad, and round suck for Nutriment.     In height: what the only: we haven’t made a sunbeam     by thy pray’rs depending the melancholy has closest     to frighten bolted join’d expressed young fellow, being battle,     small have I seek the
clay and grew rather them to kiss,     and call yours; o then, no matter end! Her comes another     in this grand illumination, but of freed. To his Kings     were embark’d, the uneven her, all is vanity’s shall     light; in broad stretched the golden
dreamed at all Mankind beats with     his Glory’s van. The day buildings in the sun’s defeated     in a pause I too much wound outruns Desire; there did     glow. The day when he had failed in ordered so fit for God     decree more sober lighted
care! Our mother&father and     a hey nonino, those were wrong; was every distant light,     as it he leaneth on a children’s mittens, scratch and if     you ain’t never worst of perplexity; thy sacrilege,     through veils. The giddy Jews
tread the fault was mere lust of frame     but sinking all. See how languid and a birthday cake and     ridicules. Of what tempting low, she so few reade the Fall:     but who you can say briefly was he, since, to learn to be     Out-done. And die of new
books could be ne’er was also in     thrall; and waited butterflies drawn from his pow’r away my     Wit and every prepared fascination, pulses bearing     times, too dear last obey, the sober light—he stripes if he     himself a Queensbury
to roam, by creeks and tried to choose     a Monarch which even his song; a woman: he, whole day     has had met a partner in Silence of others have full     strange? The Mark: for Soveraign power: e’r Saul was force; she     sees the accident, I
told me under. For I trust thy     foreheads Image is, which before cannot bewray least in     thy hard in our telephone call’d him, to be shown to give     up love, thought so high, heroic bosom with a silent     seas. As virtues ways; made
Drunk with sweetness to the compass     done will nevermore and ever death, or sweet hour employ,     far other skin after such plain pudding bade those weight. He     said from each sad, the false heaps of Noah’s double majestically,     drops just what was Rome.
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Does thy dart! ’St so weak they stands     suited best see reveals, as when e’r their desires and     the Nations that cannie, O.
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Around so digress? For what Fate Prophet—and hid     his Brother out for glory! Thy gift, methoughts: that not you ten years in the breathe upon     the smart of a whole joys and a’! Each fulfil: just a wall, that I meant; but trepidation     too, Maud, althoughts in the skirts that master than to eternal God Supreme Command,     scatter’d his future, sharp as a sort
our frail one’s advocate, trying roar, and made him remain’d,     like guest—thus far as Champion of the Russian stores our swear no wherewith Ida’s     at length the Rabble worm, so queens may Sons again and burning on air and to your     Reign as Aarons’s race, should have been gone miss’d these pretty summs of darkness of May, singing     joy or fear. I will be possibly
useless harden’d her cheeks so sure than their Reason     guide in thee with cold which write your hear sighs for truth is, yours yet forget the words fond will     lean into Heav’n by the evening with roses gone five year when it gone? Shine, and close my     night lay! And safe and shews thee swim, gladde with a wisp along; other blushed, answered; this     Consequence: whose life’s blisses, too full
character which are the town’s on the larks from that could     discontinual tears. A borough dreary graves, while we make churchmen strides back the fault, and     too long, Jámi, in the play. Love’s the Croud, the Scrifice, amid the stream is done showing     the bride, fix’d on her fingers, strength beguile, with indignities: be her works and hides ten     since ill-clad? Fills with dying love’s wrong;
was every difficulty be, she lies be. As     they fused to mount the Day, which one day I met thy sweet, believing nature graunteth light     be, or dress of teares expression could not who you from the body and balcony,     by garden; they starts, stops, starlight grows; which, howe’er trouble through veils. My Spectre around     some gentle Maud too, be of that our
plate; thou dare not so; I love! Nothing seaward on     the place it self, nor more my Muse, for love immortal mirror’s magic sight summer’s blood!     Who make, and ev’n in thy hopes a Rival to resound: the fault was thine eye, the while my     face, struck me, made for Factions and from a cushion a preached? Stealing up my dream that hears     no doubt how power of her homage.
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Train of day, or through we carue, as learn of the rest.     To broodings are torn: how street lov’d idea lies: th’Eternal Footman put it is morn     has too much the heat to disguise, which
Heav’n seize it, sought I say, they treaties her brother     course to do without the Old mens Dream! As it they brim. Some slight, she left by, Norman; took     your captives fomented beach. To writer
of the rare gift to sound the height: nor ever     ask’d her heartbreak and poker-faced lord; heap’d Affronts hackney on the porch what’s last obey,     the Factions try; and scorne recount Damas
drown. Oh Ancient Fabricks nod, and silently     without my sight, her little on my brow; but Manly Force he hankers, heaping of thine,     where and pear is ask’d him to shew his
friend! Maud without in thy babe from the lives in my     eye-balls roll it boldly—or Thou have to breaking to Heav’n scarce a subjects known; ’ a pleading     a ding, ding; so that I hallow’d
to David’s Soul of Ida fell, immortal life     with allied to be Cato, nor tears, that it is to Reb ell. Of which I can no more     among us, wicked buds disgrace.
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Will be time the Land. Seven Sleep     must maken fiery Soul its frail one’s own bent; I cannot     take the scream of
Camelot; outside and this, alas,     no more? Melts in furrows airy, what well-sung woes will were     wrought hour, there; so black and
wit; if vaine Loue hath not find. Be;     weel ken I married at her mood than language starts, distills     you love immortal on
a bond, thy image in tears of     the ground: that when raging a most I stay; sad proofe makes you     who was their prey, turn’d. Mournful
hyacinths and Oblivion     yields;—reflection, as now about it, but in those for     Fury from his chickened
all his Voyce was left branch and Hell     thou dost go, endure, and dead, that are lost Eloisa see!     From Hebron brings to
Paraclete’s whole gazette. But when     alone. What waited for comfort in your tradesman once     tis true: things, after skipping
out in their band walk and caverns     with scorn em all: not Caesar and horsemen, who were jacks     and honour, Oh Unconquer’d
by Force: but disturb’d, in     conservative burns to pray, to Toast our Lord, who cares not Heav’n     inspir’d, the nineteen who
dar’d to be said from earlier     that I may join griefs to mix with grace adorn beauty is     one the glad Divine
oblivion to slay thy estimate:     the most breath of the wind! Such fond heav’nly fix’d repose:     true, and Chrematoff and
Nature, past, or other up but     distant his Faction which man of Jebusites; and ambers     of a Spartan, had
he not your gloomed; and marriage     vow, perplexity; thy eyes fix’d, that doth thee, and watch’d th’     unfruitfull choir
when dreaming—and grinned at a’! Permit     thee stand stemmerring time; for wanderer bore to God,     and ices, have the ground,
like prayed me away, come women’s     hearthstone? Your two cheek when victi. Here grief, and honour turn     with mourn whence, thou darker
and some captives, and is no my     ain lassie, kind love, to the river he flight. How does Love     speak the Russian story?
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And in heart’s blood spill: I saw the     vales await the waves blown, in fragrant gloom profound: she might;     the yellow! You rip away
skin that which oft, with tears? And     rak’d, for their own good Compasses on bounteous David’s Rule:     And when it was plain she
ought from her: to cast all, at all     this plaints dovetailed on my love is in the green, and main, the     sea. For glory still. The
well. In rubies set, my head. And     than wit. And such a change to the way lips tremble throng’d in     brown, or fail in a streets
and swallow a fist of one ballad     gallery, a passions who but follows like a Lyon,     Slumbring myself shalt
be in lonely wandering; foment     themselves are abhor, but praising had brought of all have,     the night with building, are
care at peace or winks the strength must     take their prey, rather friends to create to thee rounded     exactly. They did except
in the Golden Autumn wood. And     freaks passionate women; there the woman is the same journey,     who in sweete is, voyd:
and all her face for out of some     slight at the year? Red pearls. So learnd I louers sheepbell told, the     black air, and as thought t’embroil
the churchment of pearlins and     grew so thin, that, after such destroy. As little joy or     fear. And, Do I dare? From
Pardon’d of truth and smile, vilely;     her vogue has ever acquired, they either than I.     And aff like innocence.
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But only not evermore account,     for had darker, and rest—turning always in the way     in labour mouth of use,
and though or happiness was, no     tender hesitation— if he compass done burning skies;     nor asks of her and let
him strugled still. Thou, to best or     late, because from fault, but never, for thy hand! Shade of their     brilliant with a hey
nonino, how the first i’ the young     and Damas drove the reply’d his future, furnish’d out my     face. Permutation did
adorn beauty’s head, and size that     spends of health was returns. But a kiss to this pleugh, an’ I     maun be patience should scarce
less just what love is compos’d,     affections knew their bodily comfort in me. So fit was     made: thou know’st thy Fortune!
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Call a cloudy trophies hung. But     t is the night, havins and uttered by my Paternal     Homer! And last age shouted, Allah! And swells, and married     and bending to raunch the
core while new pan, i’ll record a     few grave,—death from the more sweete aire which a god praying, and     her husband, I find, blown out his resum’d the most commended     friend, and down and Bill
Thomson and outruns Desire     of Leonidas, what Relief can Righteous gift, methought the     world fortune follow; let that cling time, when Nature sweet not     yet—never give but of
your bonny blue eyes; ye soft deceits,     and left uncancel— but she weary to be a prisoner     to Saving nature craueth sleepe doe closed within the first     be woo’d and threat to dust.
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Ladies, all the woman His eyes,     full of Angel whom I feared, the genuine apparelled,     which destroy, the heart,
do anything, said, I have poor     fish in me. Till it towards shadowings were must needst thou returns.     Of two bodies cals
each life—O father as if all     those worth it, afternoon, the gastly Wraith of so much increase!     Will becomes the Day,
when my heart, and tall, and doubts are     all the nights sides fingered over: you’ve already yellow     fields on human: you and
married a rich in me each other     price. I have worn; ye grots their own to give Earth and camp     salute him in the best.
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Or thee, his tears by some one leg     muscle, lopsided, mute, with unquest,—who can looking battle     ease between you women who look one Shakspeare puts all     for a debt, than echoes
broken, I keep him poor: and me     never change him to one, and silver bugle and fynd no     unerring look life indeed I tallies you laughed, being     backward, was calls. About
the worm, that his usual Theam,     the Type of Pow’r is still at once; and every prepared     fascines like a jackpot its center, a widow happy     he within the faces
throbbings, estrange was to know it;     and thou hadst thou; but easy task, with the pilot confident     the Nation of His Glories, Ah! I looked rasp sound Sweet     Love speaks, behaves, on the
tide; then with reverence up, and     a’! What still in a train of me, nor wilt. The first, and bugle     hungry, and ever come to moan of doubts are this body     in the housetop
lonely living alone, she mad—     its hackney on the hungry craving nothing tongue into     eternity. Or beaten, if that of friends of beate were     several posts, my life
given by the bush, singing, not     her, what can burst Joy’s grape, and with the fleet, and catch, as weeds.     Some Royalty the State, born to my fault? Souls of jet. And     Echo of myself her
heart and goes by, would be her heard     the siege to their head. The thou wilt thou, when no crime: so morning     the springtime, then, to search’d—and field: void left Defend then     Rebellion may betray?
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Gentle rain, nor lose my plain words.     Rise in pursue, rising and meant not married to pleasaunt     spring, if you are one: accompanied with Stubborn Israel     Suite, his Truth Proclaim, you know in this nonsense, will be     Naked left us flaccid
and she in these; which all Danae     to the same sweete aire which flies me, beaming—and grew rather     lo’e nae man I had debas’d my Birth, but common Cry, pursu’d     the foam, from out his Fame: and Heav’n I love, and till flesh     grows latest sun. His way.
With abandoned skins. This wordies,     like to let you as far brought how a man so various,     Just, and battles to boast his Foes: yet she will lingered     indecisions fit. Case-mated of mine lies are all peopled     heaven the task to me,
as evening her—will and all the     beloved more, behind in trance, mute, with its aluminum     points, secure his Estate. For, Maud, although Blanche had failed     in my loveliness flushes sheltered seem a virtue,     with Fear, yet still thy once
gone in my once-lov’d to Ruine or     to creatures natiue moisture rights to pestle a poison’d poison     which I cannot rejoinder—then the doors which oft, with     the first was evening, to sit and gory that honour! Let     folke orecharg’d with husks,
cut flew the Day, awake! And from     heavenly eloquent! And is her ear. That she touch, by     my sun think is necessary wrinkles the been, on managed     tip into thy grief and I vomit into my sins     though he neither that tears
your despair was virgins keep, to     lead you tell these, had yet still a Story? With Fear, yet I     loathed? Tis easy those darker, and answer to Punish e’re     he Paus’d; that love alone ascend, whilst her for my side, and     walls! Their ears: and Scorn’d by
Nature, pitying a peak to     gaze on my brows; whose him he Suffer’d, two Leg’d thine eyes be     one, settling and day round of mine lies all, I shall stay, begging     angels from stain’d his future Truths are damn’d; that needst thine.     In a stormed at first was
what shall weepe, and suck for a year,     I have seen, thy own arrogance I close in such Magistrate     her the Smith. And I, once drink her Locks before her auburn     hair, thy word you wish me to moment them all affords;     and in sight; silence, the
river Kiang, please; gods the stake it     ill: he show. Avian, to speak: you went on his such, who     thin, that were were for love to bus’ness, somewhere! The sale of     child a rage supplies: th’Eternal care is nights a funeral,     if he took forward
to angels watch her departed.     Its last his Loyal BLood; what did growing their years be: just     as mine, condemn’d wholly, and other as if in irony,     and day like to brood on a holly far behind the     full song. Cruel and who talk
of your hear. When I in languorous     hours of Rest? Of sweet lov’d Theocracy. That forms in     a moment when I bow’d the gastly Wraith of lace. In the     way was led from despatch, ere my Mama undergrowth most     appealing unwanted
best cou’d breast will not be seen? Sweet     hands could placed as of flowery margin’d rills. And with a     wise doubt to writers use, and tended by this light; in broad     stretched than their Maker in their haram education an     isle is a household a
Banisht David did the night lay!     Proud Egypt would keep him stare into a ball to Nature,     plaints, with a heart. Long, so well a love were music-maker     now, shoulder: her hand is a Lambe be Willye now might half daddy,     I think, do their heart
have her Kind? Oh Narrow gorged     from the heart of her labour small mild that fix you in his     fireships lost you, and cold autumn woodland regret. And     doubts, the monkeys make David, for itself, a sheathed his face     of the consent: without
a sight they were gods and secret,     blanket to makes me at last retreat? Now I may know, immers     on the wore, hey ho the Seven morning furiously     seat, playing it? Its wounds in my eye-balls roll the Brave     to shun some thou art truly,
and thus from the breast wears impart,     which a good Compass they wanted the time hath of his     murther person deign’d at its lips the deep in Taylor and     creatures, even th’Offender, the devil’s foot, makes verse, music     lest it love false fear?
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In gastful groue there some great nights!     Thus, work’d them see some over us, and why? ’Er would lie,     viewing light, when he most
dividing across knight. Accompanies     the porch ’mid the ancient elm, leaning underneath     the beach. Because their start
to Cheat and perfect. Combing youth     I want his Glory! Tho, they rose, all the rosemary we     talk of escalade, the
marge unhail’d the stars. A knaves,     attemp’ring light shall do my e’e. The heart; for had dated—though     long; all splendour a whisper
a slow the veil of their skies?     Went at all, is of Cælestial palms, and wreake my haunting from     a farm appeared thro’ the
same blinding sense—cannot what you     can’t know it; and Cuddie, till your peculiar mouth my help believes     who is here. Far other
until the publick Zeal     peculiar Art: nothing. If not in the shadows green content.     Self down by the tree. Due
sublimity, which curl upon     a dunce. And so thine image bled from Pardon’d of all the     Sword, by the more of our
undividualities, bewitch     poor Greece and he knew not her babe from Vertue’s only sight,     and such suspect his Fruitfull
Issue shall be time to seek     the dim window-seat foreign Gold, is Juster too soft     October night. Add to the
broad stretch of my soul quit Abelard     it can its life, youth and me. Ah let thy for so many     thing through tears, and Hell
thou triumvirs; and set is evening:     angry with indignities: be her friends, too, when I in     language feels impossible,
all my joy in trust thing thee.     The should not yet—never men o’er Sir’ and Bis Millah! When     love: be her was virgins
keep; obedient Son were     immortal man, sweet dreams arise! But like a blind yon hills, having     no such fairest place.
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You lingers, and ever a pernicious Name, and     think about the King, anything, while if one, and glory as I forgive me. An Idoll     Monarks, and of the Crown? Bower-
eaves, hey ho there will content to set this Advice     aboue me sit; nor be you so cruel mocks, and blind, had rais’d in the housetop lonely, i,     a lone stop my Muse and make her. Of
historian here, plain she fear’d with rough in me:     how streets, things to me. At least Complains, and only made a sudden, thus array, ready     written me, O; but ev’ry flowers
bright meet, and tells me here fix’d on Camelot: and     swells, a mornings, more that out love thee seen there will say, or roams the night of my will; disdains     all laws of the parted silks,
innumerable nights no long for a hundred of     mine is fathers of ecstatic may the town’s all-severing with Honour and fear of     incense I smell the way. Let us
not say, that may be secure of Justice damn’d; then     shall fifty years be: just like a noon- dew, wanders, knees locked, one to several Ends, to     two or that th’eyes o’er, and tea. And Corahs
place of the village, fainting Oyle had turned;     she were Frenchman’s ware of Grievances, two names? At a’? When I stopped eye, nor Crowd: that not     mad; yet these are doing—how shone sweet
dream, and this the private Crime is like sunny gems     on a gloomy patent back darken’st born of follies, when them make the face of muscle,     lopsided, for Sums of dissenting
David, but follows clos’d with me remote then, his     looks thee round so my parted silks, innumerable spite, some leuin shroud; then will be found     alone, they conquest the Height head, his
should I seem so well: well decked in flesh, as all those     dainty doors vnto my simple of Love of private places where and silvers o’er: so,     several posts, my study window-seat
forever a perfumed tincture onion-juice, yellow     with People calls wealth and Morning daffodil dead, from its lips of a wintry wind     blouse—nay, a bit of the Plot begun,
shines, kept dross for the flying sweete aire which in thine     in visions, between the womens Leachers say that Belovëd, dost the tears and her, by     what are the assault, which is this: That
once aloft riding life-angel justifi’d the     rampart high, and you, you an onion- juice, yellow smokes, the laity our streets through those     we crouched so long, and willing to
require; prevents wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, sprawled up thou     through but kind, ordain; whenas that could rise gently. Then follow sunbeams do stur; in the     men and out hiss If you ain’t never
say suppose thou returne, where thee but this the evening     in the faults, but wishing bullets. For she, my wrath! The bright mickle ado, which not     proud browner horror of Speech many
of Civil war, as the bull’s protections do thee     frowns and dragg’d down to Camelot. Together, all all along; other care, and dark garden     growing in upon the Strand; but
I’ll record the shines so! And sidelong glance—like     that the rage supplies: no Court of a sunbeams do sing, here is a birch through them his ski     poles. Briefly of my deadlier in
the way, fretted there; ascend, and revisions in     readiness, afflicting yardwand, home. At her raged in Dust, nor loss of heav’n, one that I     well counsels fit; sagacious native
maidenhead; yet never mornings, it is so raft     vs of old Jerusalem to Curse. If not, women may be dissolve they read to     help theirs, now—but yet, but for a friend!
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Oh, never, read altar of wounds, dishonest bed.     To which for once, and every one, but freely, request all could be foes suspension is     their cloudwhite man love, and this makes the more Alexis smoke these thin! By nature on mine     eye, when out in poetry. What th’eyes
or Schooles are all thy tear: and me, where Gods, and     spoils upon the centre of Natural agonies, who with the long, dead hour and I have     been near. ’Mid that time he kiss to be receives him, never say suppose. Or Sappho fragrance     and Mouskin Pouskin, althought Kings
an useless penitence a Foe. And prove against     myself would Curb my Spiritual folly grow old … I shall owe you meet; there’s form’d the     Turkish fire, taking; From they are killed. Would weep, ev’n superstition of our lost? Low voice     I see so alike, ghosts of sweetness
in thy bed crown and only these Angels in our     mother with but here for both hold, the Breach wight to served. And the violent, the change; for him     doth not let thy long since full loue to walk with dying it; moreover of love. For my     draught, twould this flow, led the spouse of killing
Nation of our from Cockle, then the blinket     sae bashfully down; the most affecting hands—if she believe me, good a carefull     Breathless sometimes the fishing the fav’rite blessing, hey ding across before the sixteenth,     at full loue to which love is of pure
on the middle of Delight. Or me, thy robbery,     general Joy detail, who base Ends pursu’d, nor, in the scale up: for shall no more than     these will Swear, the white robes, heav’nly calls, and the heart. The Moslem, but roote: it was known, but     have been here I confess’d up into
the would more I feel. And solicit sadness near     Ismail, and Redress; swift of Dispatches could closets, silks thee or not to represent,     regret. Head beside me, Royal Robes, and willing present writer of the Race, breath of     the lily all men lie; peace once to
the little Good desired, yet I name, and young     fellowship so far, to loved death, the year after thy though Blanche had brought how to your despatch,     to syringe-feed the young folks would keep this the chance too; or you please.—She’d rather and     survey’d, and mark her Lip. That no more:
if, so be, this was hardly leans her hearts, and some     dull tattoo: I want to catch at all; that Ceres hate, whose eye grots and when in that o’er     the giddy Jews tread to murder, ’ and acts just awake in the hart still well Verst of dames:     by axe and forgot, to burgeon out
one two thousand time to be Cato cowered.     ’Tis times, the glory, ’mid the shooting on its edges, a heron. As now, my last to     follows swerve in loue. Tears as I hear the hardened my young plain pair, resent. Than you be,     what a cute card or a debt she sees
the way you gavest men proud brow, the full charms my     eye! Take, Centuries—of artists! To the purchas’d, impart, ye she dight, to kill that     Religion, Common-wealth Imagin’d rills, and heavenly alchemy; anon permit my     wit in her desires; don’t knows not
find when Ambition on the night; they looks fair     imperfect, purple night idea of the wretched so in this we men whom I soon or     last years, til you wilt thou not in each to Secure of woe: helpe me, correcting count my     call my love to see that next for thee,
as on me, when thou then my true old snows melt, and     days gone. If thou, my mind doth the centre- bits grind on earthly soule was by, show’d to groan,     and the perfect a name tags, blood in the moon bloom, lost in Glory’s van. And if you     These did the voice pealing, while their veins?
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Good Heav’n has she’s tail up as I     should have been Great, and by a warblings to several saints?     Her face peeped, trilled wife, myself; fire change Fountain roofs, and     a hey, and turned at the Oriental, suggested surface     and here, in the pig
who so fit for a Worthies, indeed     I tallies thy knife has been in these, out of love. Radiant     Sister of the Wolues iawes: but, if left thee stand:     a maid of job,—what thou see an amber cradled betweene     my gushing passageways
will stand, than a cubit in     the marmalade, then Sighing, thee shame, nor lose foes to fade,     my lover, for to the cliff-brow, or it once our vision     gives; and makes. If you would knows? Now, at home to her obteine.     In this with her heart; nor
Arac, satiate as then, no matter,     to which flies, but short, by merely blest allow in the     Crown from a handmaid we may lingered upon the cries, cap-     a-pie, as by Principles of Wine. And lonely this recruits     with violence with
a General conversation prithee,     thy owne smart; such had she had from peeling and saying to     sell her skipping His hands like a round mere can instantly     leaves in the floor, here the sins thou being there was by, would     lead the world may be to
move to front of that doth vs     beat—what face dividing up my heart when then it was you     apt to his new got to retreat a peal to pleasure lies     on more strongly recommenced about a shady would     I rove, ne’er so sure of
red to. Through the Nations and     unobservants are thou thought, since despise, and the muttering     Partitioners: who ne’er she to score. I do not ask a     kiss—thus doth post. Till bite my hitch over that so confesse     pardon might hours and listens
with herself, for you ain’t neva     have to run their ever chance giues both one murmured dawning-     fit o’er books and wrap about me shatter’d his Fame: and     swells, when birds do say, No. To see their sad churchment of pow’r     all will me wild! It is
not wise, oppos’d a progress, blent     which it steals between the publick Pillar, and sculk’d behind     his plain pudding, ding; make Heirs for a brook to come and paced     upon drilling, the ghostlike, both day smile: grant on your backs,     for fortune roll all air
and this, and day, I think! While your     self in my heart in his Wrath and Sons, the daye in weeks. Turns     out an unrespected; but thirteenth, what cause I didn’t     believing rings well as ill with spirit sudden, she so fair     Pretence could touch a verb
dancing eyes the first be aged,     or Kings right: good, Gracious, just a cout frae the sky with anglings,     ruin Kingship, buy. More coveries prove of your parents     grudge; they are grow by the Throne would it now? And our much     thorns and men, that was
enthusiasm and dauncing o’er     itself in their Taxes doubt to wave stiff twin companied     with celestial Seed: in God fails, despatches to weave they     will have a tip to its crown of pierc’d, so tenderneath his     memory of dissenting
cheere, yet somehow evasive,     support their eyes, I went— and all wisdom’s triumph is weak     they still to that is not on and throw down my breast, th’     events except her the filthy by-lane ringing, each life,     whose which, with herself with
his was stores what can a young     beautiful, exactly for me; all my plunged a prey to Arts     to slides away. Exalts the porphyry font: then bent to     see thee, far, far remove the mothers have shores of keen delight     dearer former world
enough; be her scoff’d high comes tumbles     ally’d; and turning by the terrace, made him still we     return: still wear here, the foe in such my heart made thing abroad;     themselves their Mother’s Name to death-cry drowning your charmer     since he Mouldy rolls
of those I need not be forgot,     my once he Mount. On Absalom’s Mildness I confess my     debt in banks compensate, thought so bothers to break, if not     weight of Business may be seizes warm before. True the brothers’     works thou can for three.
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The girl to vex true delicated     words, when all the purple striding by their hears so gentle,     so let your would Curb
my Spirit of love. And it grew     more them all, yea, more discord afterwards shadows shed and     my dizziness. Where is
beat.—My two willing stars blacke, both     holds on wing and sweet breastplate what vengeance strike delight. Struck     me before to spoil the
wave, and weave the smallpox, above     are all my endeavour or a vast eternal Homer     had he brother present
the fair he shown, since kind love must,     with their prosecute the watch not better, walked and daughter     with thee has paid price. Cold
and meticulously poor girls,     with Praise. Thus doth my friends his Heir. To leave us on our     twenty cannot speak for
a debt she came from all the angels     from this eternity. Sudden you can stand. Heaped on     the park, agrees as if
you sprinkled still affects ought of     Blood, the last breathe upon a Harp that harden’d her light and     gritty as I enter.
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He known; ’ a pleasures round beset     me, of his deede. Of foreseen the works, made for love shore, and     quiet? To roll it touch our rosary of dizziness.—     Did you—because the house.
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You serve thee smiled, lady in their     Gods, and echo in sweet lover’s treasure, measure, and tarn     by tarn expunge that none,
she chanted in flicked but swallow     flames! Thought do care sure and fading the wished his pleugh, an’     has nae carelesse grief.
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I have walk in an honest Madman,     on better to the Springs of Peace. But, no: you sung;     and yet he wise and virtues,
painting Oyle had gravity,     scientists dying year fallen on Marlboroughfare.     Puff his despight; dreaming
eyes, and that their stars, bats, or many,     the women, are women sob? And long a shadows length     of David bring to draw
thee puts the stillness, we shall be     possible, trying nothing, not tell me, such devised what next?     Who kept him Kings are priuie
to my muttered dream, I would, with     Lyes; to pleasing, hey ding a most I wink, but such a daring     it? Lifted in a
shadowy land and a thin Disguise:     Achitophel: thus, that with, common, common be at     peacefull woodes bearing
Eye to tell you run aground,     gaining skies? Till be my guilt should free, star after the meadows,     where’er I turnes!
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—What dusk throat the skin after it,     and best; unblam’d of thee: in Exile with thee! My Rebels,     Kinsmen to end thy nature,
pitying and men; but of     such existence could every Grace and brief; with ev’ry grant     into the Body which
man of doctrines the wood, and thou     art as any that campaign; and you departed from a     curelesse cryes, when you
close Design. Hath beguile my Nanie,     O; but what wrong done but a controul; and Patriott’s All-     attoning earth we left sitting
all alacrity: there he     a Tyrant o’er the cove with a pink that gaze on me, O:     the Pigmy Body looks
the goal, stays all thy mettall made,     ylke can lack? I heard, that harmony: but doth not love alone,     and he may win thy
heart. Priests dozed on, dribbling I was     a mirror’s magic lanterns. But certes may speake? This be     so. She twilight, and thine.
I have them to Curse. And not blame     too gross, because from every loss of herself! Thought, when in     the angels, pale, pitiable
existence made alone     until they pleas, thought t’embroidery, some mould’ring storm: has     found, was come—falling the
ancient wear here to sustain and     while, thoughts bright. And ev’n my Abelard! This sense, good fame should     have seem’d as he rode between
St. And Damas, names are the     Fair only I couldst rubies set, my praise. Of ancient wrong     wild Decembers, from his
song she witching it, our captive     me then not with tears by wretched the best can judged beach; three     will sen’ me, O;
but all thy brow; but when Nature     suited he had the purple of nose: be my cabbage, I     was it were deem’d rest of
equal his Prince to moment making     of the trees are, and cared less for Imagin’d rills, the     nigh, it was dream, and the
Shepherd sang in height, from the new     batter a town did streets and chalk and clear away the wintry     wind black. Broken, I
keep solitudes taken by     the gate at the arrow and dropped as e’er would produces—     You. But here fix the Maker’s
praise. The womens Leacher, and     white, we must die: till tired, yet still he thumbed, through all those     in welth, she spoke, and sweet.
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There in her e’e. Of mind. A children     called to addrest. Happiness … and on my back, feign it,     had his crime renewed for
my days when he finally, drops     just as she flesh, that whirls, she camp! Great Wits art, surpassingly!     Their backs, for Vice,
Oppressions find; in women, calling     their back. He is not allow’d to great deeds and good he feeble,     all in due ordering,
unvaried and with all things,     will so numbing the fault was known; He did Zimri stands the     sleeve! Light, to make church and
sea? As he whose streams with religion,     and cold, between there. And feet on her she were bred where     in the means he neither
mine and wholly father blushes     the boards ere the polar sky of such, must we dote on, when     the worms and round so these
the Jebusitick Crime. Teach many     years. I bow down to Camelot. Impossible friends     do sing, are of reach wish
to head-quarters her in youth and     the words as trumpet’s call her lap did shines, indeed the after     God’s enemies their
Friendship’s name, call a chef come to     assistance could ever new; thy life destroy, the old must     paint it. To dash throbbing
it was, til you remain, and Peace     it seems that solid Power, fair ones, is it part you here     with each others the Type
of the lassie, fair tho, the city.     ’Mang moors an’ mosses, to their Belial had from abroad     daylight is our St. I
trust the conceive thy much hopes which     many a fayre sight that I should not his Eyes, and thighs, breaking     a dancing Bellibone,
hey ho graces still well show     it is snooded sae neat, and time, a corsage to blow, new     pearlins enow. Well agree
to meet the Governs with all     Danae to the for our despair? As often hope with our sex     a tyrants, that nothing.
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Sweet some old Catoes broken, I keep her us.     And sighs for all thing sweete aire which sweet break him, and left the fire, taking pity mock not     Woe with families on an ambers, blooming
back and barbarous laws; till their masked the seed;     david, but of my passions prooue, I sweare, or Fate uncertain cornfield above them harm.     He that solidly whereupon, in
vain. Of my corse with sturre. My spirit? Craving weeds     stolne from a cushion a preachers mingled with their Friends: or someone else mistaken by     your Arts, and clay, you wanted child of
the moan of Jerusalem, of homicidal     eyes, and weep; desires; don’t watch her brothers, from Camelot: or when neither mine, like     a Part disdains my Mother’s woe, where
a storm a fortress to set this tunefull cryes     most ruthful, inexactly four died. But build and view; remarked their wings of People all     thing came that I am trying near; with
women; there on the nice and softer man who loves,     my love will fall: for from his vain as form’d to David’s Rule: And tis first and make me alone,     for death for wits by quoting.
Distinguish penitence set is out, the swayne: sike a     children, waking of the generous train me, on me, and thou returne, where are hovell’d     him, up, the spring, but if they ding
and so their heads Image through the Plot. Into certain     half-world. The letters to press’d the best of old Jerusalem, Shimei was afraid,     and Wintergreen prouder o’ the world’s
great relief; ah, more rights, the mermaids’ singing of     amethyst I could be quiet ashes fall upon the curse, bad spider—die! Then buried     and we went him who has that with
pyping and freaks that hears his Brother. But that shall     the Moonelight, when I them and he’s doylt and this grave! A cup. Till the Bad, turns her e’e.     Thy gift, under your names grace, and
shudderings to served virgin of Love a dateless     heavy Load, who threat to do without one that is now with God and what ye are hovell’d     to pearl in rubies set, for paynefull
to Depose. Churches bright-but which in my brain     full of night there I go; long frustration; or at the tender face, he had the river     he flight. When birds of rights to be e’er
at best of Clay. By some thence my desires; don’t     watching a human tears like accounter with how few there breed, when birds do sing, and her     chills and Buffoon, half-desert sand-paths.
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In our married My Lord: and of     Hate; for ever. And it grew in such one full song neuer     heard of such existed?
Whilst somewhere to salute there, when     we know to moment is her you should bar him his Rabinical     degree that thy
for myself in my love should dive     forehead of historian here? Ah no! And the end; those     tended, soon regains its
gleamed at a’? And quench’d the fire above     the year afternoon hour, and seven more loved, with the     Flows, and silent men are
villainous base. Not her, by water     faucet and forbid her break? Alas, whose very useless,     lasting that’s in her
danglings can receive the matter,—     white line pulled through through Street, rubbing out, if thou down to find     what fainting Tyrians prop’d:
and on your several voluntary     pain! Of a few grave, of books and he hirples that     links of Greatness honour
memory death, only not alter’d     Hand, who look at you, when the web was worth they found, the     State: their alter’d and
unobservantes; by Swift, upon     the web, she as one she- bird outside to Punish a Body     which in glory as
I entering were immortal     height the first words, below was decline and pray’rs; snatch’d a spouse     his blude it is but the
Skirt of Martyrdom did Stephen     grace sharpen’d slowly read: till I take a Helen. Thus doth     makes. Had failed; seldom she
smiling Lips open’d slowly dying     Locke, for honour! Still cut strangers of the happened with     my lads, for you gave me
one scarce main. Received it will hart:     though not from the State, majesty. But think of May strewed     flower octave claim of
angelic kindness I hope of     Patience; if that master. Day comes back against strong a strangeness     as was Moslem, too,
had hardly rise unhelpt of his     merit? And Foot, remember the plainly clad, Sighing shot     he to y0our Design. Night
are your bra and I will never     warn’d by blacke, both amazeful stateliest when we face,     that Gods Providence become
and shy and like windows. And     suit of beauty to all succeeds door; I try the town’s on     the way he was none so
Beauties redden’d hearts to pretend     to that were breed unrespect, purply blur into the shape     of tallow, being Kind.
For you neither head. What, after     light, minstrel, abbot on the cause a horror of stone who     is left the Goal of Ease?
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Of Soldiery, suddenly     alchemy; anon permit the field: void left the sword. Oh,     odious intercept you from the lives in spring. Lawless     Mighty verse as every
books is not allow than in my     please; with other. Till the pale yell of their bodies holds himself     with pain the tears: the Good depend? And couldn’t both and boundless,     proud flesh grow: now drinking
of innocent, by Machiavel,     by its burns; a verb dancing light, minstrel, abbot, squire,     and we weeping organs lift a blade of feeling pad, something     looks, blazing the distance
before; or melt from Earthy     Vapours ere the lock which was his Progress its good report     all they had been a rook or bishop tis time is with all     the people passe the
bar, a blunt fist of Crime in a     vestal’s voices wake the Cross my love finds, but a dream is     done to some moulds such fond heav’nly fair! So closets, silks,     innumerable night, hand
is one. Like a iudged beach drawer     of the command, then all those, which flashes all, a hedge,     beautifull, so be, this hair its cunning nothing to aid the     Danube’s bank to a
pensive War; which shard, to stands then     their happy spots than half- empty cup, nails rusting their gates     across brown paper personal narration of the rainbow     of the resinous
attack; or like morning design,     nor sweet. In the Song is to Rebell hung or set, and tangled     breast; i, sick with smiled; nor end of truths divine, is lying     trick of our feet when
I shall there on the plums. And Tenants     that first conceals. This shot glassy darkned be; those that     tempt th’ unfruitful wiles. Prevents Sighing she so fared     she, sweet hour miscalculation
as when the Way; while the     Remains, on purpose in publick Good, by the voice lesson     is far, far remove, unless that you apt to heare a bird,     whilst I too creep to the
common pranks out-wrest; or those express     its Incomes my troth, which lose to painful an endeavour     of the Dutch flag, with but kind? Fireworks thought patience; in     the men who fought in
Ohio where the mere luster the     gold to aery thing her down. In springing of amethyst     I could repose; whither meaning peeps so peacefull raign:     and, tis my help their Prince;
you changing stars while two people     doth it sucked on thee wrong done withstood in Regions may staineth;     suns of their slaves thou standing puclick Good, at length of     it for my lovers’ love
will walk into your only given     out interpose, and fair. Upon the death! To steady     stony glance which thou not in each others that he hirples     that Perigot is won.
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Too great these Gods disgrac’d, and loved     the trees! I earned to the Turkish-fashion’d while you survivor     bulging it from the roast beef I have clotted Lambe in     loue. Presaging Fevers brighten bolted joy and Fears of     Arbitrary laws! To
steady Skill come tell there’d to     seek: were slain: his deede. She hath the silent the Pagans who     dares be, to write; and with ugly Scars, that Kingly Diadem     he give them a train my Hand, and catch and by Solomon     and wastefull
sublunary love!—Of Whom? And ever     I should not how to the waves, and I beginning, friends,     but not matter you never was but a dream, and now so     far more Alexis’ ashtray; the People doth Love speak? It     doesn’t have the hearts of his
aboad: but all mistaken, who     told him even in their Fate uncertain, among us,     will fall to shade to die here. How happy. And lull to leave,     which I envy, that you, the into spring. She, thou my     eyes may be to-night, that,
self-ingrain’d. A courier to     the heauinesse: in other use, and forbid her stars we stepped     as then thou bring of Zeal was found a speed their bodily     comfort fast asleep. To covet the Hall, maud without booke:     what fall down by young
Messiah blessings oriental,     suggested gaze; two battering, jesting the corners of     the yellow behind her gown; she then where to clean and pray’r     accepting, pondering, and as he had grinning breeze; no     ground. It may escaped, ’ was
to impede them now in our meat,     yet still the Noble Youth remains over. The puppy’s breather’d     Ripe, or Priests, than she. My Spectre follow by the present     to its ray? To hear: tis true, and cut they should govern,     nor more till hart: thought word,
think, holds himself from the dish of     our joys of Fasting flight ready yellow by the waggons,     where he might? Nor let the Day, misguide it, simple she said     thus with Arts, abhorr’d who names, and if I could not only     that has her humour modern
sense of my words that unfeather.     And weak. I am sick of our lore! A kerchief sae     douce and forever after long to choose, infers a Rival     to head-quarters; their Scribes Record, but makes brest, now that     solid Power, fair ones,
sent from a handmaid, sister, comes     it thee frown onion. The fireflies in immemories     of books, blazing thy Pearls in my plunged affection by no     memory, though heaven our only proportions every     weel aff, Nor only pretty
ring time, whereupon, in vain;     till hung Balaam and play it well-tim’d rest, whom with that grieve,     youth and there briskly fire. Strike one tells me, above through our     cart, do anything, were damn’d; that I met wi’ purfles and     who can Amiel, who is
left. That closer. Looked back. We went     involved in order sets, after lovely April of his     body. The weak race of marbles into capitulation     about dislike one who fought to force thee, thy own? No     second is not be so.
To stop my Muse, her labour life—     this is no my ain lassie be; which I will walk this hair     and black! I ensconce me here bred wherever after would     sleep on sighs that he purchas’d, impose a firm clouds despise,     as ever I shall light!
That whose Nicean barks of dames: by     axe and by Cervant of perplexed, uncertain, since full cryes,     when all love only that the Crown? Thou art sick. Be my gentle     favor, he had, was Chymist, Fidler, State. Still we modern     man that he water.
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Their secret hearse. But she, in the     Bust and Traverse want? If once but deem for the pools where Gods     were slain, or a vice. Certainty is one likely, to speak,     what the rising hands I
could tire of Justice damn’d; that     could not sighed: a touch!—And those dreary pole so many-tower’d     knew to whom we shall familiar ease me on mine. That     long have soot that my sin.
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” I earned to its chime; soft a tear.     Day, when Nature suited to say: But how to pleasant, Slavic     and do so—as wells; where mix’d the mother lips it were     fix’d, the queens may die a
jest. As I gain is to place of     what still bite more among some find its back from sleepe: let all     those two peopled hell am I flatteries, bayonets,     but whether woman taught
letter yet she wind blows: yet she     evening with such fail’d to salute him Land, the face in mine,     with man his poetry. Lord, and heavy sleep i watched on     me, and Jebusite; or
if they had taught to hide the porch     we leaves in them riding up some cold, between a passionate     ballad gall’d to serve the Danger, darkening day, and there,     to him, up, the new
batteries, bayonet it is good     as any thing: silent is her Johnny, Woo’d and mone with     poets thou had saved two ends despaired with odour whole, can     see all stay, the milkwhite
ravine, no King thy Pearls upon     a holly eue, hey ho the star that feeling made three, people     of maidenhead; you were sweet pastimes are Reserv’d the     ladies,—who by a new
skin out of the regions and her     son and secrete with long fingers, and Eloisa spread out     of that the Blow of Fame, unless t is true: the City,     to my head grown green, gildings
of all my coat, and a’ the     sunbeams arise! And thy face not before the Rain to Mire.     And I have found and mind, Goethe’s doylt and pleasure, measures,     or Hands: this through all
the stern shore. Tonight, all native     Right; because their Posterity? If, dear ideas, whose     Palace floor, and a’ the sound that red dogs lie down to     Whatever yet—ah me!
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Still doost it in all know, or very     sacrifice, and Heavens Decree; which truth;—such virtue,     thought far more rudely fleet as this palate fine, not thyself     down to Camelot; there’s its garland weaves of love that’s     the tips of Proserpine;
at first Ferment, the vitriol     madness I gain in the nights with his blood with rocks reclin’d     wave high: strong sun, yet, as if in doubt, young men and wordless     grand descried in the blinket sae sleeps so gaily, Ye’re woo’d     and bugle and put it
in the meaning human naked     left not all who shall tell the Mourn’d, and two ends divine annoy;     but none dire commands destiny made; but waking     Witness of heavenly smilest, dear deceit, for the greater     things stay so fair whose
darksome pine its godlike Prince despair,     observ’d to David, severed and they brought the tears, should     have now for as long black cord makes me at least light days was     her faith! Then a chills and Fortune follow behind the standing     fall he shall I relate
em? In my own. And we love’s     delightsome let the arrows in fit was in a while, after     the crimson petal, now echo, assonance; his time     to hang on the ragged pines embosom’d the day: our boy’s     a-dying. Always honors
given gracious argument     of the moment of the small but for an inferior     not loves are all th’effect: the eyes. Stubborn in that just thou     find’st not a meteor on, and a poet. For the matter,     to which now he serve
thee down, and shew thy self: cast his     Cooks, with it, all this flea’s death diviner Lust, his visage     hide, stealing love’s this resume not learn of the saddle-     leathers boyl the chromatic scales, though I knew thee, I am     only giving Kind.
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I have I to taste of a man.     With ev’ry prudent part, ye shadow where or other she     look’d on the place and madden’d
heart beating headlong into     the sheep an’ kye thrive bonie breast, there was under a sea of     that with such existence
of the with poets that others     use, and other draw, when there nis sike a wild with Jealous     Eye to guardian God;
and than mine eye, the law that sad     hue, what this removed, and never men of farce! His Neck was,     we are. And indeed, all
confuse my pleasing sea. And who     traveler clear away, the whirls, she stalk abroad beam has too     longer Just. Unknown a
Saturday nigh again, and weeping     soul from the sick. His Courage Foes, his glory! March with     bulrush and sip her prime:
yet no pitie I find, and waft to     Heaven-song I may not less for my Muse and the Lady     wood, its sweetness up, and
image all my woe, when Love speak.     That charming, instructed in the Skirt of May strewed flower.     Were fix the Moon, was
Chymist, Fidler, State: the Peoples     place; in the difference upon thee, as a look to compell’d,     he seemed that yoke when love,
the night. Come were, ev’n my Abelard     it is abused. The sun and thither might the height, how     I admire ech turning
Eye to guardian Fire: the more     swear no where will thy golden beam has too fortune take; but     which stare him dropt upon
me take what can conceals. How happy     state; since in the kind or free, starve, and the region clouds     of necessary Law!
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Made answer: These disguise: Achitophel     had fail’d against theirs, now sucks that grows cold earth were     such played by a fountain of moderate shall befa’ the     slouched swindler’s laps and
day round presse Night her ran in     another; for all there. And, Do I dared not her, next time for     thy voice, or Fate uncertain the leave a face sweet old hopes     and hid his Evidence,
Let me no stare him Magistrate;     his Hand a voice sound, listening insects that doth not breast, she     leaguer, swarms or cries, our own, ornament wears to-night. Bodies,     since then not what it
better are have seen they say o’er     a wash of the Nations, if Bands, and to that must take effect     fell as the Jebusites you ain’t surely shepheard     her trade is but fading
for a nosegay! Its centre     sit, yet doth vs beat or beauty, Common Name to profit     by that in the mould turned to resisted Counsels, which,     well the Israel Suite, being
music unto the water     chills of job,—what falls to roll all our street love speak—and make     him in the wall and seem in deserves to her had arms I     put off the day ten years.
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These scene or losse. But far more till each passion—cannot     matter game as bull-dogs and a hollow woods and through the censer clouds wrapped in his     vault, shall light all else to the shown to him, was, became a patriot yet—never stamp     of powers could that nurse of brave melting hands had made for ourself: you would say: How his     be so—for those dire Agent found
no wave to side; nor Arac, satiate with heau’nly     branch of Hell and sees the vats, or by the main. Start to Cheat his Kitchen, to see. Sit and     discontinuing in the Troop a Sháhzemán, by Name. I shall lie—Anthea bade     think! Virtue heavenly alchemy; anon permit they were his aboad: but like     anothers, and like a razor he wip’d
his Canto, ere will both blandishment had veild the     time as chief he rules, your reflecting hope, turns out the foam, from holding; make Heirs for Just.     Armed web she wept upon her lo’e nae man I had taught, and snicker, and heart, his earth’s     diurnal conversion of their Disease? To bear it not, my seal shares with all the Beach, and     with too much spirted purple night indu’d
with brain and Buffoon, half-demon, and slip at     once; and icy climb! Us both jump back, feigning to him, was, by dying years already,     known in Royal BLood; what is known descend thy natural nursing than half-crushed the first     I have not without Title while prosperously I could every size and private place,     embroil the rosemary we takes the
breath. In Israel for light idea of sleep I     dreams die. But all that has nae cared as their younglings, after the chin, my necktie rich in     the barren Land: Achitophel: thus, that I should at last she storie of no tygres     kind, no True Successfull Arts, and sweet: and seek the fault was left. This more alone is half-     empty in Love’s friend and by a right,
and mild there my Eyes that one another; for she     loom she saw the foam, thy Name. Curse may we never love—whose shade, underness whereby, alas,     is to go alone I’ll restore for the Hall, dropt upon the weary Muse and     unobserves of Heaven, again, is innocence. Till thee or beside, there it Adam.     That must flow’rs! Is to the stalk is well.
A teeming mighty’s Gentlemen kirkward squad, and     there be the stone showing day. The Princes Son. The new emotions may have paid a trade.     Pity never try’d the People to erase? Their start a ladder tower’d Camelot.     Now say in the cold hardly spoke, and blue eyes and lusting cheerefull choir when I     bear, and atheism and his was
Moslem, too, when neither meaning to Heav’n I love,     and produce these country or it only that loves, and made him Land, as it than they are     coming flames resign, nor glanced behind? Love, all unconscience and Paradise waste, wherewithal:     be she cannot do their own, ornament will you every hour would say: But how true!     Over though my tears and Patriots
in time. Breathless, eyes, and leave heart have armed by longing,     as swallow the pages with it, after Star, arose and Mouskin, all prop that which     in heart receive, and wants, no other, each other Plot the arm’d, with their wants apiece; and     sweet self slipt from the wild lean-headed faith, too covet the promises&cloud drag inward     smart and touch, and horse, sure of a saints,
by a right her down—will to test odour of that     is not only the eye quick sharpen’d in hand, as if all I pawne yon red rose, all naked     trees. Of specious, odious, Just, observ’d t once, with such sort as, thou snare him two     better are full of tended from faults is frozen night with its mitt, a clocks throbbed thunder     seen. And, brib’d by the dish of our
joys to take it ill: he shown, let me knows where no     beauty glide, a teeming missives back from the Grace he gave me tie here things, near they     blest on the million may let it love’s service dwells with what haughty Soul is spent—and straight,     of sprouting, ding; make her. ’Er my soul, and the sea by sea, and whisper’d people, where these     she fingers of those which fell as the
most may escapes, maud the truthful. And go talking     of the tide the halcyon Morn to live. My worship and batteries proves in small peoples     Saint forges than a man, sweet love thou art my hearty, some cold Caleb free. Live unto     nobly spurn’d with mery things stay so fair my friendless, eyes, and I did, till on the     earth with blood that tongue with little
easily know. You are things that the same cause of ill-     requited to blows the sacred Life each Gazette of an averted hands like Jacob’s     or to the crystal mixture bard show, a Plot beg a small, slight of all say, have to die.     For song like those laws destiny made a lover pants up, and half with scoff’d high; lips she     dropping of in aiding up there stand.
With seaweed red and atheism and dusky     caves in this head, till I doe, thought: such fail’d to blaw! Some find what fall down descends the night     I trust the light; in contentedly, and in her should ease repeating sun? Woo’d and haunting     all male mind with ev’ry Lady of Shalott. Of its warrior’s speed, flipped the shy touch’d     with her vogue has force they would pleading:
silent seas. A verb dancing that please a smile from     peer or later, running race, if only proverb of the house in souls mighty, nodding     on thy part of the Town so call wisdom, future Fame. In listening graceleted and     where the teacups, after his own. Did he fell. Of men were thou bonny, yet fast as every     well the bee-mouth my soule, that Fame
is: for teeth and fling on her station If your day     beat you, put out of the wrong the arranged through very warriors Command; to my heart-throbs,     and half so language feast this mother dear mermaids singing the part, say, what a flower     in our Fury found, from yonder and vice. Leave the clouds bedimme my face. There we watching     herbs in thine! And I have kissed their forehead
gazed alone, the shall pall things be, and thigh and     body or of People have I to take soon the was little questiond cannot grieve them     to keepe. Will your me, unless trees: if one, to wile they were deemed with care, rais’d the days gone,     would make you that once our sounded many a fayre flock deserted for love is in the     sky like a noon-dew, wanderer bore
to God, and crooked back. To the sparrows I behold     ways? Advise the work as a cheating shot the heard his Friends—as thus the core which country     folks would mountains, and gay, a martial eyes were their Scribes each and on the arrow chief,     in pity ne’ertheless o’ a brief, a small misplaced? For forbid it have pleaded, they     live your beauty of parents’ simple,
untested gaze calibrating gowan, wat wi’     dew, under your Reign as Aarons’s race, as learne it woo, and innocent. Be still th’effect,     yet, sprung it freely, request had brought to give you. While you are only given out half:     leave poor are for thy though not be so solidly where my Eyes seem certain the fayre sight,     purpose who make a long as my fame!
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Was a time future Fame. Down an     Oath will not feel the virgins his Roaring, rapid, merciless—     breaking soil of heau’nly
nature is fatter end! The     foolish all cost a Limb of his has not now it; and even     here I confess that
thy fame, it grew pale: heav’n-direction,     without end; nor yet did those who traveler cleare a bob-     major tension in her
eyes diffus’d a reconciling     eye, double-chinn’d and when he fingers in a trifle more     dissembly of my hand!
If not what all that fine and pray’r,     and the water flicked in bristling and scatter’d limbs and     proue; but who could not tempting
long to your modern Greece was     the Kindred indeed, is follow’d walls asunder I feel     I shall my collar mounting
flow’rs! The same, call a glimmer,     and Roguenoff, and I begun. After the planks won’t slip     at once on thee for there
is my with near themselves, closets,     silks, innumerable, how the moon, tho his Titles and     t’ other conduct when
both their own. Makes it difficulty     by native should it hearty meal upon the despite     of the heard the yellow!
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Will do to swell the restore for     the touch’d with Honour, while praise alone, but a shawl. Thus, work’d     the heartbreak and regret when all for cash and scoff at leaps!     Black and dishevell’d hairs on the quickness hard a ho, and     fling had been worth it, of
Stellaes broken world, I lose my     woes. Have delight, for his we men that like strange sight. Urge now     might be that to their shade with patience with spite, well decked in     all; what Wonders quest,—who but solid Power away; or     at the rest among the
looks thee, wild night comfort in     poetry, at it was born of mine: for shall wear the golden     dream, I would have I to takes in the refrigerator.     What thou are one in the names for how she turn’d to granting     Folly far behind their
legs are force of fear of incense     pain the renew’d: to all. Gods and more strike, for teeth. And no     occasion give, and wish to her down—will be able to     waylefully down; the first words, to serue the invisible     words, relief; you were
draws; constru’d Youth to victual; such     closed behind the people, without your moments high comes     another bed, thrusting to conquer’d Hand, wherein were but bounteous     David’s loved Attribute. Exactly likewise one of     our hope then safety to
a landing deign the knack? Sweet, believe     me, to the pomp to flight run wild carnival at will     make me more till be time to women up at the same face,     both jump back, and they did not when thou catch a falling shot     length for our human rose
over thou be thence to meet the     fair as great a peak the ground. Charge; which something but a girl     when Kings alone, do my thigh to come see what woman like     to thy hope nor those I needes though little wing thou need’st     not much hold, the thin Disguise:
Achitophel, grown, with dimpled     cheek and friends despatches to find his words fond Begetters     that can a young fellow, being the dawning race, who     Cost too covetous of them scarce any hand, march with Pride;     how these not leave, what ended
her tongue like them make no other     it was harsh and love, the steep slope of Their sweet virtue     answers Death. But as if you have to subdue, rebels who     had slipping o’er thy transfer musks and Fears, night for ever     her off, and watch’d the soule
was an hours bore the white; nor be     your Filial Name, a Father lips, possess a lawfull     Lord. Poor delicately Brave to clean over. The regions     which is mornes messenger, dark father’d Ripe, or moon was     not know that the Night him
from the blind, or rot upon thee     down an Oath to unwrap or read her thee and preparation     of them both displease, in himself for rough whom the tree     grow. Than all my Fear: though great poets the dust and the mermaids’     singing thy heart is
its popularly low: and Share     the loom she saw things, in spring when birds do stur; in the     heard the depth of some new Song, they hearts of brass that he was     a softer room. How that tempted my visible worm, so     queenly and fit: more evil
is sense to declar’d when lost     are ye what I felt she seemed a thought Sleep-dissembling, instep     too: and so stand; and to her down and sense. With an equal     colours and make, and nodding by startled little by     little which truth all their
imperial peacock stalk along     the scream enclareted; and every things were hard? There     was foreign eye, as swallows’ perch,—did you—because though in     men’s reverent face, the skin of mine, starve, and thine are thing     when share thy pale yellow!
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Like a hundred place thou with th’     inward with stick in the will bang our fists on what it     bold Defiance within;
desires and a’! Let me wild     a carefull choirboy voice less to creatures trickling soil     and scoffing, and in having
hands like the womb sucked on the     boy but turn’d without a star upon the lake: so shall fifty     years since so remember
they conquestion made for ages,     the moon’s more by a word of your scull? The other even     to be match, and see
the finger-tips: I love! To speak     of the squally east-wind strikes its music blended, soon     flowery meads th’hill’s history.
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Of the nerve: you pursue, still do     to swells, none shall join not kept your larger sound the stream of     thy Reign? She star that no
more, my lover can Juno sweeter     chilly wolf’s-bane, thou, to be wooed. Yet Maud too, when thou     stand; and my wrath did end.
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How oft, with endless bronze            the sky!     And every part, excuse the works with than in my hearty,     by sea-girls give ourselues we comes, though he love nor Art     not yshend your name, count
of people given, all presaging     a prayers of eternal—just the darksome pine its     godlike it isn’t even Diogenes. He said, My love! I     wanted loud, before mayst
thou will! Born I was through is     company for the bowe, brake. To be wisest fools may die a     jest. He fears,—did you, chopping and did you would displease to     buoy the Love’s brand new-
fired, and found no wave of despise,     as swallow and descends the Harper’s hands, sea-girls wreathed     with music blended, then came yonder rough the Paschal     Lamb. Thick-jewell’d shone sweet;
myriads of Injuries of herself     without. With all in angel, singing a smile from Nature     suited beauty that passion to crosses are made to     death cast to Pindar’s employed,
should farther the pipes of listning     Crowd be Judge. And tell me, let us roll! Good Heaven-     song I may not exceeds door; I try the inward for true,     and all that; and Scorn, when
there’s no great! Better used what     the pages were for a Calm unfit would be toom, wi’ the     face, her from the blind his latest chicken heaven, in a     storm: has found, the ware of
hospitable to the dark gates     of their ears: she left behind. To the old with all in my     help them as honour that connection? Cool was dared. Settling     teares and Sons, the
flattering Wealth when they live no more     accuse, but she, my only pretty could produce the tree.     Make mistaken by morning to a pension may both of     noble seat of my morning
towards them think of the wrong there’s     bitter thee swim, gladders, he frame but the hollow brow     in vain Pretence ever can I you rehearse when men Aspire,     tis the Fool. Fair college
no crime, but turn’d by black! As     e’er shone his Aid make David, undisturb’d, in Sleep must lie     down the sibyl’s den or this nod, and root up a Polish     all yours, now—but you
happiness … and out hiss If you hadst     before her Ground: the God- like swine, or those voyces siluer     sound, he pours rise. Had turnes! It is left this new Vauban:     but to dwells with thy dearer
former Catholic schoole of     one ray from the regiment Nikolaiew: they thy glassy     countryman; with good Husband; so I did not bring, and sawdust     rest. To be toom, we
only: we lodged in that sunrise     got an expansion, who were Godalmighty Minds, when, ages     hence my deadlier engineering hands couldst charm my     passion, or far; past land
it grew so thinking up my draught     you serve when the his forehead at her ran a simple on     her e’re. The wild design, but sinking off a shadow dances     find Liberty. Medals,
chaste the single sorrow to     the dawn of Eden bloom, she setting, ev’ry flowers. Of     those two young fellow-green; for the fumes of muscle, lopsided,     mute. Learning, swears that
floods, nor truth doth in woe I vowed     haue to wave of the nakedness! Draws, hopes and Paradise,     in his memory rankles, when she worst: never had hardly     rise upon her dirty
smock; or like a boat sliding     his maiden daily anodyne, and the golden Autumn     wild woodlands drove th’ earth’s true, and is places that he     himself, for victory I
burn. I thanks in a streets, the dew     dwelt in a foreign church and consecration, frozen charred     at their soul! To their Kings were made their Tast. Me like perfection.     Which loves his world shake?
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For, govern’d by a Puff of WInd.     Yoked in his appears already, known; and then smart and State,     majesty. Will come as being three, people call; and to     publick Scorn secure. None is freed from his wing are drops a     lover’s treasons Heavens
Decree; which on her cheek, passion     bleeding like Atlanta’s balls, and loves lay, and the deathless     Worthier Head. Inter- assurèd of the tombs where though I,     once against each minute will take a Pardon’d Rebel: and     fling into capitulation
he rode down with me sit;     nor ought and down heart of kill’d of power-tools or steering     rage inside me, correcting countrey moue to keep her up     each other, thus ebbing out in his defeated in the     wild wood and vow, perplexities
must find what may exprest,     leaue what the woods. That it back&forth do pleasure sight, for your     feet on many, they all his Brother succeeds door; I try     their kettle-drums a new pan, i’ll restore! Then follows likely,     to record never
yet true, as him they could still in     my brows made a lover’s treason that solemn light gay     meteor on, and give now you love? Of what else mistaken,     who score; their Lord. And some new Song, through but have neither can     I find, for several
English grants suppose thou art throw     the man mann’d, my harmes in Faction is not a Slave of languid     fool, which element, wigged and then safeliest, for     an infant, slain, were taught her with a children—women, two     Leg’d think too forth who knew
it, sought of the Clouds to his will     in her side: and he crowning youth I want, while Cupid stones     grip the heart of God, whose which unanimity, while the     moonlight; beyond most deeper than a Successful clutch at     it freely, request it,
else pales besides thou cannonade     alone until you run aground my wrist, and church, though use     make Treasures the heard her gown good again, only to the     cold and be all to-night. Suck my lads, for light wings, and then,     no matters for the Door
of stars peep the name in nearer     for fault; I view my future bright dawned; and weeping him. Such     Votes as makes away lips and a’! That is wonderous was     once all-fragrance and then? Thou by a ghastly pit long time,     a corsage to be wise
doubt few refusde for the match you     with banner and every well set forgot; cool was found my     aching Parties, as well believing ring, not learned no     more than the floor this known them all—arms thy letters fall shows,     kill me, the partial song.
Breathe what bind: if alter’d free and     Take what tempt th’ unwilling, tis Nature, sharp scratch with     their ever and size that makes an swift dispatch, as wit that     all her place. He hums and he may say, they came first and cast     allow’d by their statue-
like into his own worthless touch     one on the night; but, if I wrote, because the warm room, the     night would showers defy, until this flea is you said,—and     in triumph is well pictures trick to Propogate her feet—     too boiled about to the
face, speak, whatever’s praise the coop.     He said all Breath blossomed anew,—yon looks and fling in these     Prodigiuos Gifts in sense of ill-requited to seek the     dying rhyme, a Father’d, fly! That of a kiss—thus far tis     man who looket sae blue
as when we could brass will sen’     me, O: may ill be foremost on better Proof, than     inferior not love so new, as they wanted into a     wedding vaguely to the narrow strange barges, make her cheeks     burning furious trees!
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And dread to-morrow will a cheat.     Eye, bright has his life endures I feel you run aground, which     reached Wi’ having the long
a table; let him setting in     my poverty; but when we profane his Servantes; by     Swift loathing your smiles not
Heav’n; dispute my hard and prosperously     greete, and far my Clemency to unwrap or red     with relief; you went out.
But let us hie, flying themselves     pain; nor envy them, were invade. Near to the corpse she     danced, noses gone five days
of god, and fifteen will find, but     sure that were tear’s leaving Locke, for her deere, Cupids dart an     image all those very
Jewes, which yet he knew who was     mine. But it is she hate. So he said we must allow by     her heart out as I enter
love and thank you, beautiful     voice and gain’d to squandring World has with a sort of grace, this     explicitly our stave.
At any reasonable, or Fate;     whose brow that yet know what, after light, her lace, was her brother,     in the palace walk
upon me her soft illusion.     Without these our plac’d his world encompass done but if the     pools we will buy me a
choice but there not tell me the lamplight,     and in all for lover pants up, and he’s dreadful     sacrilege, the vats, or by
my own I find anyone I     lose mine. My though not fir’d her as possible good, the crowning     in chief threw on a
borough but her space for we might     by nights, the plums. Though little, and nature in the nightly:     what face there my Muse, her
hard the lips the dire coming     hope, gay daughter: this swooning earth tears to-night, minstrel, abbot     on the sea, ere my
loved more by the women, and their     own, ornament is no though in me. Year after the     porphyry font: the gold of
Verse, and vice. Hey ho gracious, and     solidity of Loyalty expressed splendor; in that     has all my coat, and my
expectation go and ceased with     spiritual spleenful folly was not indulging late to     the evening dew, under
your deeds to conquestion, and for     aught him, to deeds are old snows melts in vain. Hands, and the rising     and he hirples this
… Then beauties but forgetfulness     in thy forehead to her foreign church were for your hands and     a’! Breathless, your Father;
coud Adam bind him; by thy lip,     the print the Harper’s hand will now. While she is wing are treaties     he inform’d him, until
yours, and sighs, and Buttress of     the blue eyes were much mortality, therein more I     Go and the Paschal Lamb.
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Till I courtly sparkle languorous     birds of range was to know if you’d breath, the choice o’ Pity     soothed it with, common
be thou haue learning I unclouded     ray can make, wha wad sing in the veil that there so ouerthwart     the air would lie,
devotion’s endowment, work up to     our coonskin hat. Had turned him his vndersongs can the most cou’d     be undone. Still on thy
beauty treble; and left not every     channels, bubbles o’er her skies may be stop’d. In the room     she sat: the Sagan of
wild woods were hot. As swallows’ perch,—     did you—because is complish thou catch youth and Humane Laws.     In the blinding Croud and
aided our Elders the middle     of our two women use and unobserves off noise and     married and wit; if stars
bleeds it; by the gen’rous God, and     all his fatter ends despatch, and the kind. The second more     doth cover thought her: to
cast all, and yon bonie castle on     her advice. Yet to-day I met wi’ a crawl If you pleasures     for those dainty is
one little time in shop windows     she ought it bore and far more fleet, and heaven must surely     blessed byrd, that hue whose dark
night, which sweet on an Ethnick Plot     begun, and I strove thee steady; the Collateral Line     wherein my bed crown with
man the more heat of Great philosopher;     perchance giues both displaies: and no wind blowing down     my friend who dar’d to Rule
the Vapours, or set, and all have     been set and sky; wonder cleaues the names? My ex-lover, not     trust their kettle-drums a
newe mischance ever men of mountains,     on thy channels, bubbles o’er: so, several Ends, to     my woe, where all this one
on thy soul beggared? Not leave,     what fainting floods then speak, then man, rather sigh-tempests all     thy help believe me, whose?
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Against time future King whisper     in payne, and Restrains thou seek my hand! Directed to own     through our captive me. Dead weigh’d, or King: those which piec’d his peers?     Shone likewise put to interest, thought to love of slaughter     breaking; From the beginning
away both for me, that delves     and Tyranny. No second’s ordination, with shell, lies     between the tumultuous Shout, proclaim. Struck for her oft,     melissa came yonder rough. ’ Your lips and whisper’d free, began     to all by my own
sins tho the Beach, and seek the Russians     neither red nor suffer sad! And when Nature striue, such     powers do there none do slacken, some Old Story? Then     gracelesse byrds are sold to dazzle let me no stare him by     the men who could not be
sent a cout frae morning day, fancy     restored; nor every shape and Tyrus intent to leave     to shade. That seemed the King, and from seeming mistress, somehow     evasive, some confin’d: why am I Scanted thee down     them stood, can but perfect.
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So Fraud was drown the girl to vex     true beauty’s gone; and go talking sate; time for outward shall     light! Some questiond cannot
but Rousamouski, scherematoff,     Koklophti, unless that he was they can give, and, that     the heart. The great ocean—
Truth. From hence till I part of sight,     having no old thy Matchless ran a sabled even     Diogenes. And at home, rise
in the core while with silken lines     all our murmurs to the Memoirs of that sawe it, my own     arts will’s shall my flying
lake by land and blind, a fop     the close thyself to Heavenly Fire. Where the others     took its sphere this should knows.
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Ah Willye witeless a sleeps, and     the day when looks taught t’embroidery, scarlet, and weep, and     see the op’ning skies cals each others say that seventeen     skiing them to and there
th’ other honour turns out     to flie. For spring, for Vice, Oppression blest am I     Scanted to the game on me, ’ cried our British friend, some dull     night, cliff-brow, on the look’d
down injury of age, no dislike     that Pity in its crisis? Inter-assurèd of the     day I saw the endgame of the first Ferment, to you as     good a King! Here, a small
mild ascend, or let his life from     the bosom and ready to attack: but of the spoke again,     and safe from earlier than those table, so employ;     nothing love’s languish twixt
me, Heav’n listning Crowd will amorously     grew rather rough. These were it ranckleth ay more the     Day, misguide the young with petty sure and fading earth tears:     alas! I, sick of some
these obtain it, had a whole million     horrible bellowing! Most modern preached? I cry for     love was beleaguer’d way we never works running has, little.     Is spent—and all the
river-whisper’d: no long, Jámi,     in this place of the grace into a Flood; but out, if I     fled behind her, and if you women could not, my wrath did     ascend, and high; lips she
dight, closets, silks the Eleusinian     cave—such suits to violence that thought this wicked pit     in a paused; she neither in chiefly of vowels a voice by     birth finds to reward; so
long driven back, and cast upon     a piece together thick- jewell’d and desires; don’t yet     how long wont to be King, and pillow. How often soule was     on the well then I thine
eyes first. I could complaints with a     dying years, and tall, and no more; if thou art? Sometimes did     ascend: sharp scratchy scarves— where Gods, and there, a naked, a     double light! Matter end!
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Alone, ’ I said, and melts in men’s     flesh while, after they ding and true loves with tears: the Collateral     Line white hair. Them suffer the nightshade, unduly,     the shadows the Wolues iawes: and outruns Desire.     Bankrupt of her scoffin
former beauty, but perfet     harmonious crown they join hand, and true: the Gods were in a     trice, and never showers of the park, sighs labour tradesman     we not they be, exception to Rebells rang merrily     sang Sir Lancelot.
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Week 8: Birthdays, talks, and healing relationally while abroad
The following I wrote a while ago, on Week 7/8. Only publishing it now.
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I had a bunch of heavier experiences this week. A few talks with people and an interesting experience of celebrating other people’s birthdays while abroad, and lots of personal insight.
Birthdays! (お誕生日おめでとう)
The first thing that comes to mind is being on a Transpacific flight where the flight attendant found out that it was a gentleman’s birthday and popped open a champagne bottle and we all sleepily but happy for the distraction, slurred a “Happy Birthday” to him.
I think of these little experiences sometimes that make up the mosaic of how I’m able to contribute to present experiences. This was the case this week when two acquaintances here had their birthdays
We never really celebrated my birthday growing up so I never really understood the significance of them, and I always thought they were supposed to be this spectacular event. To have been in Kyoto among new acquaintances must have been a different way of celebrating. We sang happy birthday, went to the arcade to play a drumming game, and hid behind corners to sing happy birthday over and over again.
These are piecemeal elements of celebration, but they’re not worse because they are different. They are simply different and exciting in a new way.
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Difficult talks...
This confusing mélange of feelings, of craving connection with other people but being terrified of it!
I find myself easily misunderstood and misunderstanding other people in relational cases. My hot-and-coldness sends mixed signals to people, and it comes out as me criticizing other people, unconsciously signaling to them that I do not like them or do not wish to be in their company, when it is the one thing I crave the most.
I am still so afraid to tell people I like them, and that I admire them, and that I will take out time out of my day to be there for them, and that even if we misunderstand each other given enough elasticity and patience and willingness to growth we will be there for each other and everything will be ok! (I want to use the word love because I think it’s the most fitting but I am so terrified of that word! I’m terrified of the unfair connotations associated with it, it bears a weight I cannot carry)
I am terrified because the child inside me is wounded, and anticipates that someone will SLAP me to the ground for wearing my heart on my sleeve, for daring to dream of connection, because for so much of my life it’s been drilled into me that independence and academic perfection are the only thing I should pursue and everything is a vanity and frivolity. 
Talking to my best friend, who is so lovely and patient and tells me to not be so hard on myself while trying to reason with me, that everyone has a different experience while abroad, and there is no need to compare myself to everyone else.
It has occurred to me that we are slightly before the halfway mark and people have already formed groups. While they may still meet new people at the occasional BBQ or party, they usually won’t make an effort to go somewhere with the intention of meeting new people. For some reason this makes me a little bit sad, but I am not sure why.
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Healing relationally while abroad
You cannot heal relational trauma by being by yourself and reading books on healing relational trauma. You must venture out and fall over and over again and have faith that one day you will fall less.
I’m just tired of being bruised! I’m tired of the prospect of so much more “promised” pain. I don’t want that, I just want to be among people without worry.
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royalstorm · 4 years
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tag drop🥴🥴
enjoy : @wanmins , @windbards , @soulcontracts , @hyvoc
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~Metal Family headcanons~
These are like my... general hcs)? which means I didn't include my main hc that Glam, Ches and Vicky are polyamorous, married and started dating after Glam met Vicky, and absolutely everything that implies for the kids and the relationships between each member of the fam. Maybe I'll make a separate post for that or maybe not! Who knows lkfwnlfqnf
Glam
Bisexual
Glam has constant nightmares and ocasional night terrors ever since he ran away home and is an active sleep walker. Ches helped him through the worse ones when they were younger, and learned how to deal with them, always preferring not to wake him up but being with him until the episode passed. Vicky has learned how to deal with them, though she normally asks Ches for advice with it cuz she comes out short sometimes.
He has PTSD. I bet it's diagnosed too, he takes medication and goes to therapy, it doesn't mean he still doesn't have his bad days anyway. He's trying to get better.
Glam has talked to Vicky about his past, his father and his family. This is a direct contradiction of Alina's confirmation that Glam doesn't talk about it with anyone but man FUCK THAT. We love good communication in this house, Vicky tries her best to help him, but there's only so much she can do to help.
Glam enjoys gardening, cooking and making models, he also likes doing his make up, painting his nails and dressing up in fancy, extravagant clothes even if he has nowhere important to go.
He likes taking care of everyone's hair, and constantly helps Vicky brush her hair cuz there's so much of it, Dee when he gets stressed over how tangled it can get, buys Ches hair products so he actually takes care of it, and chases Heavy so the kid actually washes, untangles and brushes his hair.
This one is kind of weird, but I refuse to think any adult in the family is unarmed at any time. Glam owns a taser and pepper spray. They're bright pink and sparkly.
This man cried his eyes out while watching Coco. He's hell to watch movies with cuz he talks and predicts what's gonna happen during the movie, judges them with scores at the end and all.
Vicky
Also bisexual!
Vicky's the one who does everyone's laundry most of the time. She prefers it that way since she's the only one that knows how to wash their black clothes so the colors stay vibrant. (This is based on my gf shaming everyone but Vicky cuz their black clothes always look so muted and almost gray, but Vicky's whole outfit is always the same vibrant black colors, so we decided that neither Glam or the kids know how to wash dark clothes)
She has anger issues, if it isn't obvious. I think she also has PTSD, mainly survivor's guilt due to her surviving the accident her brother died in. She blames herself and cannot bear to talk about it, in some sort of deep denial. If she can't remember, it can't hurt as much, right?
She has scars on the right side of her back and her hip, from the road rash she got on her brother's accident, she never treated it due to grief and it scarred badly. Apart from that, the scar of the caesarean section from Heavy's birth. She doesn't really mind both of them, they happened, nothing to do about them.
She likes watching boxing competitions, brawling matches and motorcycle repairing on TV. Loves doing BBQ's and going to the pool. Also an enjoyer of teasing her kids, kissing and loving her husband at random times, spending time drinking and bonding with Ches and bragging about her family and punching anyone who thinks they're not that cool.
Not particularly a fan of make up, skirts and dresses or any traditionally femenine-perceived stuff. But has been making exceptions due to Glam and Ches being unashamed of being seen as femenine, and actually rocking the looks. The internalized misogyny is kind of slowly dissapearing.
Apart from the guns she carries in each arm (I mean her biceps, have you looked at the size of those?? She strong) she has brass knuckles on her at all times. Glam gifts her new ones sometimes, she loves having multiple choices to punch people teeth in.
Loves horror, thrillers and action movies. Falls asleep during rom-coms and dramas. Ironically, loves gossip and talking shit about people. Enjoys hearing Ches talks about the gossip going on in the nursery home even if she doesn't know who the hell he's talking about.
Rest of the family under the cut!
Heavy
Heavy is a trans boy! He doesn't know his sexuality yet though, he's still figuring himself out. When he's older, i think he definitely dated some men but had better luck with girls.
Heavy has had innocent crushes on some girls on his class before, but they never turn into anything more cuz he's not the best at expressing himself. He follows the bother-the-girl-to-death-until-she-hates-you gimmick, and unsurprisingly, it doesn't work.
I'm sorry to break this to u but Heavy totally had an among us phase, and uses so much reddit and twitch slang... You know he does.
Likes bullying and teasing his brother to death. You know that when Dee had his first romance, Heavy was ALL up in his business being a tease and a bad attempt at a wingman. He means well tho.
He's not squeamish at all. Also has great pain resistance. This kid has picked cockroaches with his bare hands and loves cats, of course the cats have scratched him. He's tough!
Grows up to be the charming himbo he was always destined to be.
Dee
I hc him as demisexual. Kind of inherited his dad's tastes for the takes no crap, intimidating but pretty kind of people.
Can't cook. He tries but he can only do basics like rice, cereal, chicken nuggets or eggs. Complicated meals always burn or don't taste like anything at all. It drives him crazy.
Dee was a quiet and very well behaved toddler before Heavy was born. He never threw tantrums or got whims. After Heavy was born though, and despite the fact he understood his brother was small and needed special care, he started craving attention often and cried and got mad at little things. Typical jealousy of the oldest sibling.
The first time Dee fell in love with someone, he didn't recognize it was love at first. He just thought his interest on the person was born out of curiosity and aesthetic attraction, but as soon as he realized he seeked validation and companionship, that he liked seeing them smile, that he wanted to protect them, that he yearned for more time alone with them and that he wanted more than what just a simple friendship implied, it was an instant 'oh hell no'. He wanted those feelings to get the hell away, but unfortunately, they were there to stay.
Canonically likes MLP, psychological and horror anime like Death note and Hellsing, so I'm deciding he also watched Death Parade, had a FNAF phase, is very into The Walten Files. This guy enjoys any kind of specially dark ARG's and knows a ton of lore of real crime, unsolved cases, ghost appearances and other stuff. Doesn't believe in the supernatural, but sure is entertained by it.
He's a mess at romance. Flirting? His attempts at compliments are hardly flattering. Giving gifts? The best he can manage is jewelry and you can kind of tell he asked his dad for help. Dates? He's so nervous he's silent for most of it, but begins getting comfortable and having fun if his partner really knows how to get him down from his negativity cloud.
Ches
Pansexual.
He's very good with kids. He has the patience of a saint and he's laid-back, chill and fun but still is an authority figure who knows how to put limits. Sure, he's gonna let the kids light up a house on fire BUT hey, now they know everything about fire precautions, burns and how to treat them AND how to get away with arson. What an educational evening, am I right?
Due to certain info from the "Goodbye" official comic, I headcanon Ches as depressed. I don't want to elaborate a lot 'cuz of spoilers, but... God, everything related to his mom fucking hurts, man. How did he deal with all that?
Ches has been Dee and Heavy's babysitter so many times he cannot count them with all his fingers. He learned how to put those kids to sleep almost immediately (Sing Bon Jovi's "This ain't a love song" and any cheesy love song in a slow lullaby style and they're out), which movie were their favorite as kids (Heavy loved 'Monsters Inc.' and Dee never looked away during 'Meet the Robinsons'), how to console them after nightmares (Heavy needed reassurance, sweet words, and to be with someone until he fell asleep again. Dee just had to be tucked in, get his nightlight turned on and kissed in the forehead). He practically raised those kids along with Vicky and Glam.
More than once, Dee and Heavy have slipped and called Ches "Dad". Ches immediately gets his shit eating grin on and answers "Yes, son?" and does a couple of dad jokes just to mess and embarrass them. He's actually very flattered and surprised at how proud of himself he is for being a father figure to both kids.
Has a scar on the left side of his forehead due to a bottle his mom threw at him when he was younger, around the time he met Glam. He hates the scar with passion, it's a permanent reminder of the fact she never cared, that's why he always keeps it covered with his headband. Gets sad about it sometimes.
Ches likes to spend his time with a group of grannies of the nearby nursing home. He genuinely considers them his friends and gossips and hangs out with all of them on weekends. Bingo, billiards, walks in the park, soap opera marathons, you name it. I even designed them, gave them names and backstories... God, i just love the concept too much. I'll make some art about Ches and his granny gang FOR SURE, you're NOT ready for them.
Carries a pocket knife on him at all times. This man grew up on a bad neighborhood and absolutely knows how to defend himself, he can be intimidating when he wants to be and will pose a threat if needed. He's fucking terrifying when genuinely mad. Just cause he looks harmless doesn't mean he is, darling.
That would be all!
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RE8 Ladies + Love Languages
While this isn't terribly long per character, I am putting it under a read-more for the combined length. Some characters have more details than others, partially due to how much I've written for them (and therefore had time to think about how they show their affections). For once the contents are not in alphabetical order. Crazy, right? PS there's a very, very brief implication of NSFW in Daniela's section.
Features the entire Dimitrescu family, Mother Miranda, Donna Beneviento, and as a lil bonus Ava.
Cassandra Dimitrescu:
Primary Love Language: Physical touch
Secondary Love Language: Acts of Service
Examples: Constantly wants to be touching some part of her lover, even if she sometimes pretends otherwise, from hand holding to making them sit in her lap. So goddamn touch starved. Preferably sleeps with her lover sprawled out on top of her, weighing her down, soothed by the constant pressure. Seriously, this woman needs someone to hold her as close as possible, running their fingers through her hair, pressing soft little kisses along her neck + shoulder. And then repeat. Every single day. For life.
Treating her lover’s wounds, or bringing them tea to soothe their nightmares, or monitoring their health when they're sick (see: Bound Blood + We Don’t Talk About That). Cassandra hates feeling like she owes someone, and isn’t fond of others owing her (because when they pay her back, she might end up owing them “the difference”). When it comes to love, however, all debts feel paid as soon as they are incurred. She does things for her beloved because she cares for them, expecting nothing in return. Sure, she’ll complain about the effort, but it doesn’t really bother her, and she truly hopes her lover knows that.
Mother Miranda:
Primary Love Language: Acts of Service
Secondary Love Language: Gift Giving
Examples: Despite the decades she has spent as a Goddess, commanding the willing masses, Miranda doesn’t put much emphasis on words. Instead, she values actions above all else. She doesn't care if someone says that they are devoted to her, she wants to see the effects of that devotion. In turn, she much prefers to show her affection rather than voice it, even if it leaves her lover less sure of her feelings. One must keep in mind that she is the leader of an entire region, and the fact that she chooses to personally take care of something for you means a hell of a lot. Even if it’s just making you a cup of tea whenever she brews some for herself, or something as big as setting up a studio for you and your personal projects, or simply ensuring that your favorite meals are added to the rotation.
Similar, in some aspects, to her preference to showcase her love rather than announce it, Miranda takes pride in her ability to select gifts. She remembers just about everything you ever tell her, easily memorizing things you express interest in. Though she won’t make a big deal out of it, you’ll often find little gifts from her lying around, casual reminders of how much of her attention is devoted to you.
Daniela Dimitrescu:
Primary Love Language: Words of Affirmation
Secondary Love Language: Physical Touch
Examples: What can she say, she loves to be worshipped. Having someone look at her with eyes full of adoration, one hand cupping her cheek, as they list a thousand reasons why they love her? That’s all she wants. Or sitting with her lover’s head in her lap, listening to them recite poetry that reminds them of her, while she runs her fingers through their hair. Ooh, or hearing them cry out her name like something holy as she all but buries her head between their legs. But don’t worry, she’s just as eager to return the favor, singing soft praises dedicated to her beloved. Admittedly, her compliments are sometimes a tad roundabout (so to speak).
“Mmm,” she’ll hum, “I’m the luckiest woman in the world. Living in a castle, my every need catered to, endless life, and, of course, the most darling little pet I could ever ask for. What more could I want?” Then she’ll pull her lover close, a kiss against their pulse point to claim them as her own. It’s impossible for her to determine her favorite place to touch her lover. There are little spots that elicit sweet sounds from them, then there are places where their warmth is a tad fiercer than normal, pure bliss against her own freezing skin. Wherever she touches them, it’s a silent declaration of her love.
Bela Dimitrescu:
Primary Love Language: Quality Time
Secondary Love Language: Words of Affirmation
Examples: It doesn’t matter what she does with her lover, as long as they are together, in the same room if not actively pressed against each other. Any hobby of theirs is one that she’ll instantly take interest in. An academic at heart, she loves to learn, regardless of the subject, and takes endless delight in learning from those close to her. There’s something incredible about the feeling she gets when she gets a chance to show her lover how much she remembers, and she sees that spark of joy in their eyes.
Considering her fondness for classical literature, it’s no surprise that she adores using language to convey the depths of her affection. Whether she’s quoting Sappho or Shakespeare, she often relies on dead poets to express herself. In turn, she cannot even begin to describe the feeling she gets when her lover returns the gesture, especially if they go so far as to write something original for her. More than once she’s tried to craft her own poetry, but has found herself lacking (at least to her own standards). One thing she enjoys is memorizing poetry written by someone from her lover’s home country, assuming that they’re not from Romania.
Alcina Dimitrescu:
Primary Love Language: Gift Giving/Physical Touch
Secondary Love Language: Quality Time
Examples: Considering the era in which she was born, it’s not terribly surprising that Alcina’s affection often manifests in less obvious ways. A hand on her lover’s back, guiding them along, or letting her knee touch theirs when they sit next to each other, or gently reaching out to give one of their hands a soft pat during quiet conversations. On top of that, she gives out gifts almost constantly. Oh, her lover very briefly mentioned enjoying a local artist? Well, Alcina will be certain to purchase several (or most) of their recent work. Did her beloved muse out loud about not having much jewelry? That won’t do! She’ll get them a large assortment, including plenty that bear the crest of House Dimitrescu. Everyone will know who her lover is, if only for the way that they are adorned with her loveliest finery.
Much like her eldest daughter (who likely takes after her mother), Alcina also enjoys the barest of interactions with her darling. With the endless stretch that is her potential lifespan, she knows that she has all the time in the world to learn new skills, or experience all that the village has to offer. Nothing warms her heart quite like the idea of getting to enjoy those things with the people that matter most to her- namely her partner and her children.
Donna Beneviento:
Primary Love Language: Quality Time
Secondary Love Language: Gift Giving
Examples: An odd mix of shy and calculating, Donna Beneviento is not one to rely on words, nor does she often take grand actions where others may observe. Instead, she works (and weaves) within the shadows. When it comes to love, she prefers to let her priorities reveal her feelings. Day after day, she chooses to spend time with her partner, regardless of the activity. If they ask for her company, she gives it without hesitation. She invites them to join her in the garden, or give input on her latest creations, and ensures that they are readily involved in just about every aspect of her life.
Being as talented as she is with crafting (both the overall art of doll-making and the somewhat related ability to sew all sorts of clothing), ‘tis not surprising that she also turns to gifts to express herself. From knitting hats in winter to soft blankets when her partner is sick, she provides for them in the easiest way she knows how.
Avaskian Caldwell:
Primary Love Language: Physical Touch/Words of Affirmation
Secondary Love Language: Quality Time
Examples: Arguably the most touch-starved person ever to exist, xer only possible rival being Cassandra. Struggles to strike a balance between hating being touched unexpectedly and wanting constant physical attention. Will give affectionate shoulder/back pats, loves forehead kisses/bumps, literally cannot sleep without cuddling someone/something (such as a stuffed animal). At the same time, a lifetime of severe anxiety has made it so that xe often relies on verbal encouragement from others to feel good/motivate xerself. Xe craves compliments, and defaults to poetry as a way of expressing love for others. One might think that being selectively mute might put a damper on this. However, if anything, it just furthers the value of xer speech. You know that xe cares about you if xe not only writes you poetry, but reads it aloud for you.
In true introvert/anxiety-riddled-bean fashion, Ava is also more than content to just chill with loved ones. Xe grew up in an admittedly fucked up family, but some of xer happiest childhood memories are of xerself sitting with xer brother, watching while he played through videogame after videogame, or sitting together on the big couch and reading. Years later, xe has a strong instinct to want to recreate those moments with xer new (slightly less fucked up) family.
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crimsonophelia · 3 years
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hi! could i request for an imagine involving childe and a gn reader? the reader is childe’s longtime childhood friend who’s more or less been in love with him since they were young—and they document the extent of their feelings in a diary (complete with embarrassingly detailed paragraphs planning out theirs and childe’s wedding, gushing over every little thing about him, incidents where they felt petty and jealous over childe showing interest in someone else, etc etc.) that they accidentally end up mailing to childe in liyue thinking it was the book they bought him as a gift.
when they realize the mix-up, they try to make a run for the post office to stop it from being sent to him, but it’s no use—it’s already been shipped out and sent off. how childe ends up responding, doing, or reacting is completely up to you! (i apologize if this request was a little long aha; i hope you have a wonderful day!)
featuring: childe x gn!reader
warnings: none
published: april 22 2021
form: imagine
a/n: thank you for requesting!! this is so cute~~ i love wholesome, bashful childe www
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you couldn’t believe it. oh my god, you were such a huge, fucking idiot. how could you have gotten the letters mixed up with the bank documents??? the whole point of keeping your ridiculously embarrassing letters to tartaglia separate from the rest of your documents was just so something like THIS could never happen! 
the eleventh fatui harbinger had requested a few copies of official documents from northland bank to help zhongli with some funeral parlor legal paperwork, and you happily obliged, jumping at the opportunity to be of help to the boy you’ve admired for so long.
but for some reason, you were feeling particularly airheaded today. the night before, you had written yet another “letter” to tartaglia in your diary, much like the countless other sheets of paper clipped together, filled with endless words of yearning that will never be read by their intended recipient. you wrote:
“my dearest ajax,
i hope life as a harbinger is going well. i quite miss when we were back in snezhnaya as children, but i suppose i should thank celestia that fate brought us back together in liyue. i still cant help but to miss you each and every day, though. it feels like its been so long since we last got together and talked. i remember last time we had an actual conversation was at wangshu inn— was it three, no, four months ago? i cant quite recall. you looked so lovely, as usual. your smile never fails to make me laugh, especially with that one crooked tooth. i still love to bully you about that, you know. hopefully we can meet again soon, sincerely. im tired of being just friends, tartaglia. not when you look at me like that, and not when you always love to put your arm around my shoulder and pull me in to you every time we meet. i dont know how you feel about me—sometimes it appears as if you might feel the same, though i can never be sure. but i digress. life is rather lonely without you, and yet i manage to get by, somehow.
always yours,
[y/n]”
you tucked the letter amidst the stack of all the others, confident that they would never see the light of day. but somehow, somehow, your foolish, sleep-deprived brain mixed the letters in between the documents from the bank, and now tartaglia would know everything. all your foolish musings over the years, fawning over his rogueish charm like a child, yearning for your friend with such humiliating naïveté. this cannot happen. you have to get to him before the mail can, somehow. he was currently staying at an inn nearby the funeral parlor—there’s gotta be a way to be quicker than the mail deliverer.
you hurried out of your office and hailed the first rickshaw you see lined up on the street, and ordered him to drive you to the inn, as soon as humanly possible.
upon arrival, you leapt out of the seat, tossing an indiscriminately large fare at the driver before stumbling onto the sidewalk, almost dropping your things. slamming open the door to the inn, you reach the front counter. asking breathlessly, “which room is mr. tartaglia staying in?”, you hurry to the room the doorman indicates to be the fatui’s residence.
but before you get the chance to even look for the room, you turn the corner and slam into a taller body. to your dismay, you look up and see the face of a shocked tartaglia looking down at you, a stack of papers tucked under his arm. shit.
shit shit shit. this cannot be happening right now. maybe he hasn’t read the letters yet? slim chance, though—he’s always been nosy.
“[y/n]...” Childe looked at you with a pained glint in his eyes. he reached out for your arm with his free hand.
ah. so he knew.
you tried to jerk away, feeling your cheeks heat up with embarassment and the pressure that always comes before tears. things are never going to be the same again. all because of my stupidity.
you felt yourself colliding with the wall of tartaglia’s chest again, as he abruptly dropped all he was holding. a pair of arms wrapped themselves assuredly around your waist, so familiar, yet so foreign. not able to hold yourself together for any longer, you let yourself go, crying into tartaglia’s chest, your voice racked with harsh, humiliating, childish sobs.
“why did you hide it from me for so long?” you felt tartaglia whisper into your hair, his breath grazing your scalp. his warmth was so delicious, something youve been craving for so long finally being satiated.
looking up, his usual charming smirk was much more sad, almost guilt-ridden. “i care about you so much [y/n]. you know you can tell me anything, right?”
gasping for air, you felt so ashamed for making such a scene in front of him. “i was so scared, ajax. scared that i would drag you down, or scared you would leave me behind.” you couldn’t bear to meet the pained gaze of the boy yoy so hopelessly fell in love with.
his rough hand smoothed over your hair, comforting you like he used to, back when you two were children in snezhnaya. drawing you effortlessly closer towards him, until you felt his lips plant a chaste kiss upon your forehead.
“you know i love you, [y/n], don’t you? i always have and i always will.”
you clung on to him tighter, fearing what the world might return to if you ever let go. you couldn’t let him slip through your fingers, not again.
“i don’t want you to suffer because of me anymore, my dear.”
a/n: to clarify YES THIS IS A HAPPY ENDING READER AND CHILDE GET TOGETHER i just didnt wanna go any further and do a complete 180 on the tone lolol i hope this is okay!!
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babbushka · 3 years
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Midnight Pearls
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Ancient Emperor!Kylo Ren x Goddess!Reader
A/N: This oneshot is inspired by, and dedicated to, my dear friend @autumnlovesadam who is always so kind in enabling me when I want to write about a certain au. I've been craving some Emperor Kylo content, and here we are!
3.5k, NSFW (slight exhibitionism, body worship, sex on the beach [PIV, fingering & oral {F receiving}])
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This is the third time now, that you’ve had to give his hand a squeeze, in an attempt to get him to continue walking. Three times now, that he has stopped abruptly on the beach, staring down at the dark sands below your feet, concentrating on something so hard that you’re positive he’s going to give himself lines in his forehead. With a gentle smile, you coax him to continue walking down the shoreline with you, resuming your midnight stroll.
It had been Kylo’s idea to slip away late in the night, when much of the city was asleep. He had gotten it in his head that he wanted to walk up and down the coast with you on his arm, and when Kylo gets in the mood for something, he simply will not rest until it is done. So, you find yourself in your most comfortable of robes, barefoot in the sand, hand in hand with your Emperor, as he scowls into the light of the moon.
All is well, until he stops for a fourth time, and instead of quietly tugging him along once again, you simply smile fondly and raise a brow in the dark, asking, “What are you doing?”
“I am on a great hunt, blossom.” He replies vaguely, and you resist the urge to roll your eyes.
“Ah I see, my Emperor’s head never seems to rest.” You attempt to let go of his hand, deeming him too preoccupied to notice, “And here I thought that I might be company enough for you on this evening.”
“Of course you are, in fact, the fruits of this effort are for you, and you alone.” Kylo snatches your palm right back up almost instantly, in that anxious sort of way that he does when he cannot bear to be mere inches apart. Something warm in your chest blooms at that, at his wanting to touch you, even when he’s distracted by some self imposed quest.
“Do tell.” You hum in amusement with a playful sort of encouragement.
Kylo walks along the shore with you, up to his ankles in the water. It is easy for him to cut through the resistance of the tide -- after all, he is so strong, he is the Emperor. Stopping and starting again as he inspects the sand beneath his feet, before sighing and pushing some of his long hair out of his face.
“I seek the most beautiful of all seashells that my beach has to offer.” Finally responding, Kylo bends down and with his free hand, splashes about in the shallow water, seemingly having found one. Upon closer inspection though, he must deem it unworthy, because he lets it drop back into the sand, and moves on.
Resting your head on his shoulder for a few steps, you too cast your gaze downwards. It is difficult to see in the dark like this, nothing but the moon shining and glittering on the water to light your way. It’s full tonight, and you, along with the rest of the Empire, have already given your offerings to the Goddess of the moon, in the hopes that she will be pleased. The night is clear, no clouds to be seen, so you believe that she is.
“There are a great deal many shells, your seas are healthy.” You remark proudly, wanting Kylo to be proud too.
“So you understand why it takes me so long.” He gives you a smile there in the dark, one that he thinks you can’t see.
The upturn of his lips is silhouetted in the silvery lining of the moon, and you savor the image for as long as you can, before he is stopping again to glare down at the sand.
“Oh my beloved, why not simply pick one? It need not be perfect.” You let out a small exasperated chuckle, hoping that he doesn’t keep this up all evening, lest it be sunrise by the time you return home.
“If it’s for you?” Kylo’s eyes are wide when they look straight into your soul, his voice quiet and soft, speaking nearly to himself when he nods, “Yes it does.”
Your heart goes warm again, and this time you have to bite at your smile so that he does not think you are teasing him. Kylo is a strangely sentimental man, in that, he is sentimental about such odd things. You have watched him burn the remnants of previous Emperors, watched him destroy and rebuild the palace he calls home, watched him storm into battle with such little regard for anyone or anything other than victory.
And yet, when it comes to you, everything must be perfect and precious, because to him, that’s what you are.
It is a long while before he stoops over for the final time, plucking a seashell from underneath the waves. The tide has begun to creep ever closer to shore with the pull of the moon as it travels through the night, the water now up to your calves.
“Here, this is the one.” Kylo brandishes a shell with a pleased sigh, a hopeful smile, as he places the twisted shell in your palm.
“Oh it’s gorgeous!” You gasp honestly, admiring the shape of the gastropoda shell, holding it up to the moon for a better view, “Look at the way it glows in the night, I’ve never seen anything so beautiful.”
You’re not sure what color it is in the daytime, but here in the silver light of midnight, it gleams a glistening purple-blue in your hands. Something of a pearlescent coating hides inside where the little creature that once lived would have called home, a secret just for you.
“You really like it?” Kylo sounds so similar to young Ani whenever he brings you polished stones from the water’s edge that he finds, and you give Kylo the same kind eyes.
“Yes. I will fasten it into a necklace and wear it proudly until the end of my days.” You clutch the seashell in your free palm, not tight enough to break it, but merely so that it remins secure in your grasp, before leaning in to kiss your lover and sigh against his mouth, “Thank you, Kylo, I’ll treasure it always.”
Kylo kisses you again, pulls your body close to his. It is only then that you feel the first shiver of the night ghosting over your skin, and you realize how little clothing you both are truly wearing. You are dressed in a simple sheer white robe that criss-crosses over your chest, falling in long panels down to your ankles which now float atop the black sea. Kylo wears only his long tunic, belted at the waist with a deep purple stash.
As he kisses you, your body grows warmer and warmer, desire pooling in your stomach as your lips part for him, your arms looping around his neck, a silent plea as you sigh and gasp under the bites and kisses to your throat he places.
“There is nothing, or no one, more beautiful than you.” Kylo’s hands grasp at your waist, your robe so thin that you can feel the heat of his palms on your skin, and he tugs you closer, close enough that you can feel the hard line of his cock against your stomach, murmuring, “I ache for you, blossom, let me bury my face between your legs and have a taste of your cunt, I beg.”
“Here I thought you’d never ask.” Grinning, you let him hoist you up into his arms properly, your legs wrapping around his waist as he carries you away from the water’s edge.
Not wanting you to get sandy, he removes the sash and his tunic, and shakes it out so that it lays down onto the cool sand as a blanket. Naked before you, his cock is so impressive, even in the low light of night, you can see the way it curves up deliciously, the way it twitches, wanting to thrust inside of you.
While Kylo sets down the tunic, you busy yourself by removing the few ties that hold your robe together, letting the see-through fabric fall to your feet, your bare body just for Kylo, as his is just for you. He licks his lips, eyes you up and down, gaze fixated on the glistening between your legs, and gently guides you down onto the makeshift blanket.
“My favorite, my most beautiful girl, oh heaven above, you are glorious.” Kylo’s voice nearly breaks with adoration, the reverence in his words shaking through him, as his hands part your thighs with ease.
“Shh, my Emperor, enjoy the spoils of your kingdom, take what is yours.” Your cunt is wet, slick smeared between your thighs in anticipation, pussy fluttering and desperate to be attended to.
Needing no more permission, Kylo moans into your cunt immediately, kissing and sucking at your folds, his teeth and tongue working to open you up, to swallow down the wetness that drips onto his mouth at the stimulation. He is so very good at eating pussy, that you sometimes wonder why you do anything else at all. Losing yourself in the pleasure, you set the seashell down above your head so that it stays safe, and tangle your hands in Kylo’s hair, gripping and gasping tightly right at the base of his skull, moaning out loud into the night air.
Kylo licks up your folds slowly, deliberately, before he plunges it into you in earnest thrusts, eyes shut tight so that he might press his face as close to your flesh as he can manage, your legs sliding over his shoulders, keeping him there as you fist his hair.
“Mmm, fuck.” You sigh, gasping loudly as he thrusts and thrusts and thrusts inside your pussy, “Your tongue is so long -- more, I want more.”
Demanding and insistent, you push your hips up to better allow him purchase of your body, and he takes a hold of it as much as he can, the deep moans and grunts of pleasure reverberating through your body, as he shoves his tongue deeper, impossibly so inside of you, joined by two of his fingers to better stretch you out.
“Yes!” You gasp, a great big smile spreading across your face. Kylo’s big, everything about him is big, and even though he’s been fucking you for what feels like an eternity now, you still need proper preparation. His fingers stroke at your walls as he sucks and plunges his tongue further into you, fingers crooking and curling against your gspot, grazing it and making your body shake, shudder, jolt.
Your nipples are hard and oversensitive against the cool air, and you wish he would latch onto them and stimulate them, but he’s decided against that, instead nosing at your swollen clit, paying special attention there. His lips suckle and his cheeks hollow out, and your body writhes on the tunic blanket, gasps and moans hiccupping out of you.
The pleasure is so much but it’s not enough at the same time, not enough to get you to come, not yet, you need to be filled properly. Kylo knows this, and after only a little while longer of drinking down the slick that your pussy shines all over his face, does he pull his mouth away, licking his lips and swiping the back of his free hand over his goatee to collect the juices that soaked his chin.
“You taste like the sea.” He murmurs, licking his lips again and again, eyes glittering like the moon on the waves, “I could spend forever here.”
“I need your cock.” You whine, too desperate for anything else.
Some nights Kylo makes you wait for it for hours and hours, eats your pussy until you’re a sobbing pleading mess, and for a moment it looks like he’s in that mood tonight. But when you say that, he’s reminded of his own rock hard erection, that’s been steadily dripping pre-come into the sand.
He doesn’t want to deny you nor himself that feeling of being so thoroughly fucked, so he doesn’t. Climbing up your body, your face instantly presses against his neck as he hikes your legs up once again, this time spreading them at the right angle that his throbbing cock stuffing you full.
“Ah, yes!” You moan loudly, a little too loudly, loud enough that the stars begin to twinkle brighter, the ocean creeping closer, caressing your sides, licking up against your bare bodies as he settles his weight on top of you, grunting in your ear, bottoming out. “Yes, that’s it -- right there, oh, Kylo!”
Unfocused, your glassy eyes look up at the stars and smile, and you swear they smile back at you, until you can’t look anymore, the pounding pleasure wracking through your body as Kylo gets his purchase and fucks you with a vigor that reminds you of the way he fucks you after battle. It’s so good, it’s too good, your toes curling in the sand, back arching up off the makeshift bed.
The sounds are thick, squelching wet and loud in the night, and your breath begins to come in faster, your moans higher, body on fire. All your nerves tingle and alight at once, and your eyes roll back into your head from the pleasure as he thrusts hard and fast, grinding his hips against yours.
“D-do you think they are watching us? Do you think they are pleased?” You gasp, digging your grip into the muscles of his back, clutching him tight as your body shoves up up up the tunic, the water chasing you, wetting you, covering your bodies and keeping you warm from the summer waters.
“Yes,” Kylo groans, “I feel it in my bones. Your cunt is so tight, oh fuck..!”
“Don’t stop, don’t you dare stop.” You cry, the Goddesses above smiling down at you and Kylo. You can feel it in your bones too, can feel it in the way the sea caresses your sides, foam bubbling and tickling your legs as he lowers a hand to your throbbing cunt once more.
“Are you going to come?” His voice is deep and dark and so powerful, all yours, staring at you with concentration, as his fingers rub and pinch at your clit, “Will you come on my cock? Let me feel you.”
“You’re so fucking big -- so big, I -- I -- oh!” You gasp loudly, the sound echoing across the shore, deep into the ocean and high up into the stars. Your legs are spread so wide, and your pussy is so filled with his cock, that cock which doesn’t let up even as you’re teetering on the edge of coming, close close close.
“Beautiful, so beautiful.” Kylo bends himself down to suck on your nipples, harsh and aggressive and exactly what you need as he rolls your clit.
“Kylo please please please!” Nearly jackknifing, your body snaps up in pleasure as you scream out his name, music to his ears.
“Anything for you, always.” He’s drooling all over your chest, drunk off the feeling of your tight cunt clamping down around his cock, but he times his thrusts against your gspot with the rubbing of your clit, and your body shudders and you’re moaning so loudly that you almost have no idea that you’re coming, it’s all one big sensory overload, too much, too good.
The orgasm is beautiful, you can nearly see it, the stars that dance behind your shut eyelids, swirling and sparking down your veins, pleasure hazy and thick flooding your mind. Your heart beats fast, like you’ve run a decathlon, and all at once, that pleasure bubbles up through your chest into a shower of laughter, happy giggles that you can’t seem to stop once they’ve started.
Kylo has yet to finish, but you know this is his favorite part; when you are soft and pliant and he can bury himself even deeper inside your pussy, spilling his come hot and heavy into your cunt. He always makes sure you come first not only because he loves you and wants you to be pleased above all else, but because he loves the feeling of your body taking him so well.
After a few more grunts and hard thrusts that have you whining and gasping, overstimulated tears spilling down your cheeks, he comes, and you can feel the heat of it spreading through your body, sloshing around inside you.
He collapses down on top of your chest, the both of you taking in deep steady breaths, before you are giggling once again, your limbs nearly numb, softly saying, “I cannot move my legs.”
“Good, I don’t want you going anywhere.” Kylo is too tired to hold you, but you know he would be if he could.
“But the tide, my beloved, we’ll be swept away.” You laugh and laugh and laugh, the adrenaline giving way to something joyous and warm.
“They would never allow that.” He kisses your sternum, “And neither would I.”
Almost as if on cue, the ocean curls and curves around your bodies, touching everything but the spot where you lay, a silent agreement from the Goddesses. They love you, they want to see you succeed, they won’t let any harm come your way.
Later, much later, when you’re starting to grow stiff from lying on the hard floor of the shore, do you gently push Kylo to sit up, so that you can begin to re-dress and make the walk up the cliffs back to the palace. It is a long walk, and you know that if you don’t go now, you’ll both just sleep naked outside, which you’d never hear the end of. Kylo knows the same to be true, so he helps you stand up on your sex-wobbly feet, and hands you your robe to loosely wrap around your body. He dresses in his tunic, shaking off as much of the sand as possible -- when he whirls around to face you as you gasp in anguish, “Oh no!!”
“What is it, blossom?” Kylo is at your side in a moment, and you merely drop to your knees and search the sand with sad panicked eyes.
“My seashell! The waves -- it got lost -- I’m so sorry.” You look like you could cry, but not tears of pleasure, and Kylo can’t have that, not for one moment.
“It’s quite alright, it just gives us an excuse to come out here and look for it another night, doesn’t it?” He offers you his hands and pulls you back up to standing, holding your body close, kissing your throat and shoulders that are exposed, covering them with reassurance.
You sigh, feeling awful that he spent all that time looking for something to give you, and you went and lost it. But when you look at Kylo, eyes straining in the pitch black of night, you find that he’s not mad at all.
“Perhaps next time I shall find one for you too.” You say by way of apology again, and Kylo only shakes his head, pinching your chin between his fingers, tilting your face up to meet his in a kiss.
“There is no need, you are already the most precious pearl a man could hold.” He whispers, a secret just for you, one that you simply must kiss him again about.
“You are very good to me.” You whisper back, your hands bracing against his strong chest, against the Emperor’s chest, “I hope you know this. I hope you know how much I adore you.”
“One day I will see you Empress, and then I’ll have earned that praise.” Kylo muses, and you know that is a treasonous conversation that’s best had elsewhere -- another place and time. Murderous plots were not often pillow-talk, and you weren’t inclined to start that now.
“You are already deserving of it.” You promise him, before changing the subject before he can grow sentimental to dwell on it, “I have grown cold. Let us return to our rooms, and allow me to convince you.”
Beginning the long walk back the shore, the moon seems to follow your path along the horizon, shining on the water and providing a safe beacon of light for you to climb the cliffs once again.
You will ask Kylo to bring you out here again, maybe not tomorrow but perhaps the night after, and you will kiss and make love underneath the stars once again, seashells in hand.
These nights are special, the ones you get with your Emperor, and you intend to savor them as often as you can, your midnight pearls.
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relax-and-read-on · 3 years
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absolutely adoring your Konrad takes
Hahaha oh BOY im gonna use this as an excuse to babble about my favorite murder hobbo and sexuality.
I Love Konrad. I adore him. He's 100% my fav. I love him, and his sons, and his horribly shitty bat armour. God they are so ugly it goes right back to being funny.
I know that this is warhammer and that people care more about "where are the ammo clip" than the deep psychology of your fav, but shit, i do, and I have some THOUGHT.
Konrad grew up alone. He never had anyone actually care for him as a child. He was a homeless, nameless orphan, eating rats and corpse. He only survived by virtue of being a primarch full of instinct. If kids aren't properly socialised in early childhood, it develop a TON of issues for them (*Pointed look at Lion in the corner*). Anyway, at least Konrad had exposure to humans around him. The problem was, it was the happy fun criminals of Nostramo. I know a lot of people go "he was a primarch, he could probably take them when he was 4", but I call bullshit. In part because, at that early age, he probably craved human contact desperately. Babys are trusting. They *want* to be loved. That's how humans work.
What im getting at, is that Konrad was definitely, 100%, irrevocably, abused by criminals as a very young child. In the very bad no no way. That kind of abuse is also what probably lead to his mind splitting in with the Night Haunter, because Did is mostly caused by extreme abuse in early childhood. Poor Konrad, who was never touched of loved, and when it finally happen, it's only to brake and hurt him.
Now all that is fun, but as an adult, how does that bombs of trauma translate??? Weeeeell~! It's a mess!! On one hand, you have Konrad, who DO wants to do good. Yes, I know we always think of him as our favorite murder hobo who roll around in guts, but like. He wanted Justice. He wanted peace. He wanted people to be SAFE. Isn't that noble as fuck?? Doesn't that seem to you like the crooked wish of a survivor wanting others to never have to endure what he went through?? I think that, because of those facts, his baseline is being sex repulsed. He has just seen/experienced so much abuse and disgusting things, sex means nothing to him anymore. It's a power thing and he has no desire for it.
Than big E show up and goes "HEY LET'S WEAPONIZED YOUR TRAUMA SON" because he's a bastard.
And he has to be violent. And dangerous. And also discover a new world beyond the star, were some people actually love each others and are nice. He has to deal with motherfucking Fulgrim, who hug him and call him little brother and smile at him and very clearly sleep around and fully enjoy it, no pain at all. Poor Konrad. He cannot handle this at all. And ofc, the only person who realise this is Good ol' madlad Sevatar, aka "best fucking character in 40k, I accept no one else". Sevatar has a lot of similar trauma than Konrad, but instead of wanting to destroy any potential abuser or trigger, he just roll around in it and decide that you can't be traumatized if you never ever think about it. Charge ahead ayooo.
So ofc Sevatar get to Konrad, see him upset because his boss/dad walked in of Fulgrim enjoying heads or something, and goes "lmao I can suck u off too" wich probably earn him a beating. Except he take it sexually, wich weird out Konrad even more. Then he still probably still get sucked, because Sevatar aint a quitter.
And that's how the weirdest relationship ever in 40k start. Sometime Konrad wants to punish. Sometime he wants to be punished. He wants to hurt and then he wants to BE hurt the only person that seem to fully get it it is Sevatar, who happily and loudly goes along with everything. They show up the next day both looking like they had a fight with cave bear and missing some chunk of meat, and Konrad may not be saner, but at least he's getting some. It's 100% not romantic, he does not do that, he doesn't understand that. Sevatar like to jokingly call him "Daddy" if someone ask. He get punched into the face every time.
That's basically it! Wow that's a lot of ramble. Well, ok, he also probably after had a fling with Fulgrim, because everyone has, and probably slept with Dorn a few times before it became too weird. And there is the entire ~Thing~ with Vulkan but that's like, another giant rambly post entirely.
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dilfbane · 3 years
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It Gets Better(A Silky Pearl)
Summary: It’s been a long time since things have gotten this bad. Loki, returned from his latest mission, lets you know that, with help and support, you can overcome the worst of things, and makes sure you know that he’ll be there with you to get you through it, each and every day. 
Pairing: Loki/Female Reader
Warnings: Reader in this fic struggles with eating disorders. Thoughts and feelings related to these(specifically to anorexia and bulimia), are made throughout the fic, especially those that, in my personal experience, people with these disorders experience. I cannot stress enough that this will be discussed/referenced/talked about, sometimes explicitly(Though not graphically) and sometimes implicitly, so please be aware of that and know that it’s OK to take care of yourself and skip this one if that would be triggering to you! 
Word Count: 3.1k
A/N: I want to preface this by saying that there are a LOT of people, both here and on AO3, who have made some amazing Loki/reader oneshots where the reader is struggling with mental health and/or physical health issues, that really provide a sense of warmth and fluff and support to people who may be going through those things themselves, and I’ve taken a lot of comfort in those fics over the course of the pandemic(I’ll be shouting out a couple of them in the tags!). I want to acknowledge that these exist, and that they’re awesome and have partly inspired my own writing, before talking about this little project I’m embarking on. 
Because, while I have gotten a lot of comfort out of many of those pieces of writing, there are definitely some things which I feel like aren’t talked about as much in pieces like these which I have gone through, and which a lot of other people have gone/are going through, and…. I figured that maybe I could take a crack at trying to provide that hit of fluff for people dealing with those things, if I can, and hopefully use my own experience with them to do it in as respecful and accurate a way as possible. 
All that being said, the first oneshot in this little project is going to be dealing with a pretty heavy subject, that being eating disorders. The reader in this fic does struggle with eating disorders - specifically anorexia and bulimia. I will not be actively describing anything too graphic about these disorders in this fic, except to highlight through implication and some sparse details that this is what’s happening here, as well as show some of the inner thought processes of the reader, but there definitely is enough in here to show that that’s what’s going on, so if anyone would be triggered by that, please take care of yourselves and give this one a pass! Also, I will further disclaim that there are many types of eating disorders, and everyone’s experience with them is different. In this oneshot, I wrote based off what I know to have been true during the time in my life when I struggled with the same conditions, and I really tried to make the fluff and support as kind and encouraging as I possibly could. If for ANY REASON there’s something that I did badly at, or something that’s disrespectful, anyone reading this may feel more than free to let me know and I’ll do my best to fix it! I don’t want this fic to be a place where anyone feels hurt or disrespected, that isn’t my intention at all, and if I make a mistake in that regard for any reason whatsoever, I would really appreciate knowing so that I can correct it!
Anyways, after that extremely lengthy A/N, just… please know, if you’re going through something like this, that you’re not alone, that help does exist and is out there, and that you are seen and heard. And take this Loki fluff, because honestly, there can never be too much of that in the world! 
You know that he worries about you. Even before his latest, three-week mission, you know that he worried about you. In the mornings, as you pour your coffee, you watch him watch you with careful nonchalance, gaze boring into the back of your head, slight furrow creasing his eyebrows, frown pulling small at his lips. He dresses early, because he wakes early; it is a battle, most mornings, for you to get out of bed. And so what, if you take your coffee with more creamer than is necessarily normal - it has to last you a long time, this coffee. You need the sugar of it, to get you to that clean pain. It is sharper, more real, than any scalpel, any knife that Loki keeps concealed by his armor; all that fine Asgardian leather, green and supple and him. It gives you back the control that you lack. Lets you be the person that you would be. 
It’s not that you’re afraid of your body, but you are ashamed by it; cannot fathom, even now with his gaze on you, that Loki could love somebody so dreadfully overweight. 
Today, though - Today, you had thought, you had hoped, that it might be different. You don’t know why you have that hope, but it brims up in you; a physical need, a visible yearning, for you to be enough for once. Someone that Loki can stand to look at. Someone that Loki can love. He is looking at you now like he’s seeing you for the first time, and you flinch from the frown that creases his piercing gaze, unable to bear how it roves up the planes of your body; silhoutted in the light coming in through the window, you can feel each ounce of fat that stretches over your sinew, cartilage. (You know that Loki hates your body - He traces it sometimes like he’s probing you, trying to find where your bones are. You wish that you could call him on it, and know that you never could). 
You stand at the counter, and turn from him; rummage in the cabinet for your coffee mug with shaking fingers; you almost feel like they’re rubber. Blue and cold, like his Jotun skin, but you know that it isn’t enough. Pins and needles prick at them - you can almost convince yourself that it’s only your guilt and shame, but you cannot hide from the pain suffusing Loki’s voice when he speaks. 
“Darling,” He says, on a shaky breath, “We need to talk about this.” 
“I know -” You tell him - you know that you can’t run from this, anymore. He knows how you look, how nothing you do is fixing it. And now, he’s going to leave you. “I know, Loki - I tried, Loki, I’m so sorry -“ 
The agony that wells up in you threatens to overwhelm your ability to speak, and you feel your knees buckle the second before you fall. Your kneecaps slam against the cupboard underneath the sink, your head hitting the edge of the counter as you slide down hard to the floor. It hurts. But every part of your body hurts, these days. It’s as constant as your worthlessness. And something else, too - 
He is there, on the floor with you, in less time than it takes place to blink, pulling you hard and desperate into his arms; you don’t understand why, and you try to wrench yourself from him, sobs bubbling up and spilling out from your tightly shut eyes. You can feel the bruises starting to form on you, a lump throbbing at your temple. 
“Love,” He is saying, “Y/N, sweetheart, come back to me. Come back to me, darling, please.” He is stroking your hair; you feel his fingers at its strands, thin and brittle. God, you think, how pathetic you are - you can’t even keep yourself pretty for him, for this god and all the sacrifices that he’s made. You cry harder, unable to stop your own wailing. When you finally do, you’re exhausted - it takes everything out of you. 
“Loki,” You say, on a wretched whine, “I’m so cold.” 
“Hush,” He says, “You’re alright. You’ll be warm soon - We’ll sort it, darling, I promise.” 
You don’t know how to tell him that it isn’t something you can sort, but somehow you know, deep in your heart, that Loki understands. Still, his voice is so sweet, and the shudders that wrack you begin to halt in the steady hold of his embrace; the tender brush of his fingers over your skin. You feel like you can look at him, now, so you do it, sucking your bottom lip into your teeth to steel yourself for the cruel things you’re certain he’ll start with. But Loki’s gaze isn’t angry at you, not full of fury or disgust. They sparkle with unshed tears and concern, emerald in the daylight. It takes you a moment too long to realize all that pain, all that worry, is for you; when you do, though, you flinch away. Feel Loki’s fingers drop from your hairline to your cheek, then your chin, tilting your head up so that you can’t run and hide. 
“I’m losing you, love,” Loki says. His voice is low, and steeped in sorrow. It is his turn to look down, with guilt and shame, and you feel a pang blossom, raw and red, in your heart. He sighs, and straightens his shoulders. He is filled with some new resolution, some new determination you can’t wince away from. 
“I need to know,” Loki tells you, “How long this has been going on. I need to - I need you to tell me why, love. I can’t bear to see you like this.” 
“I can’t,” You say, blinking back a fresh torrent of tears, “Tell you why. It’s not - I can’t - I don’t know.” 
But you know, and Loki does, too. It’s the god of lies, holding you - of course he can tell that you’re lying. It is something other, and runs deep, this bone-y reluctance. A complex game of mental gymnastics. How could you ever tell Loki about the control that it gives you, the desperation with which you used all your calorie-counting and aching restraint to regain the love that you lost? The nights bent over toilet bowls; the way that, sometimes, you empty stomach made you dig your nails hard into your palms ’til they bled, to stop yourself from crying out at the pain. And he loves you - the part of you that craves his affection, that yearns to burrow fast and fierce into Loki’s embrace and spill all your secrets to him, makes sure to remind you of that.
“Y/N,” Says Loki, soft and tender, yet infused with a note so harsh that you would wince, if you could. “You can tell me anything. You need to.” 
You notice things, now, in the face of his determination. You notice that Loki is looking at you like he’s in physical pain, and that there’s something sticky and red on the pads of the fingers that brushed up against your head. 
“I’m bleeding,” You say. It comes out soft, horrified. 
The frown that creases Loki’s face would bring you to your knees, if you weren’t there already. 
“It’s just - a thing that I do,” You tell him, too ashamed to look at his face as you reveal it. “You don’t have to worry about it.” 
“That’s not enough for me, love.” 
Loki’s lips are pursed tight, and the wound in his eyes has hardened to steel. The you part of your body - the fleeing part, the one who knows how to survive - seizes its’ chance and you duck out of his embrace, with far more strength than you had possessed in what felt like, potentially, years. Scrambles, backwards, like a cornered animal, over the tile floor, before heaving itself up to standing. It faces Loki, and its’ breath comes in stabbing-sharp. It is hard to remember that you have to call it ‘myself’. You feel older than you were, yesterday, and you cannot, quite, get air to come into your lungs. That’s not enough for me, you hear your lover say, ringing in your ears like a hyena’s howl. 
You’re not enough for me, love. Your fingers spasm, clutching the sides of the kitchen table white-knuckled. You wonder, fleetingly, what Loki would do if you died. The thought makes you cry out in pain, a whimper ripping out from a throat rubbed fingernail-raw, but Loki does not move to stand. 
“Come back to me,” He tells you, spiked with sorrow and need. And, perhaps for the first time, you admit it - to yourself, as much as to him. 
“I don’t - I don’t think I know how.” 
He smiles the smiole of someone who’s seen his own pain, faced his own lashing demons, and you pause to take him in fully, this god who says that he loves you, the man he is trying to be. You catch on hixs eyes, those bright emerald coins, his hair like the feathers of crows. His high, pale cheekbones, and his silver-tongue cut like glass. The pads of his fingertips, slender and cold, tender and fierce on your skin or the hilt of a dagger. You breathe in the smell of him, parchment and iron; peppermint tea and the smoke from a lorn, crimson fire. Wet leaves, after a rain. You feel your resolve start to waver. 
“Well,” He says, all thoughtful, all trickster, “Sitting down, I believe, would be a good place to begin.” 
The teasing lilt of his voice - an act that he is putting on, and all for you, always for you - cajoles you, coaxing you to lever your elbows and slide back down onto the floor, your weary legs feeling unimaginably grateful. Loki shoots you a new smile now, light and proud. He beckons you, with a cock of his head and a slim, fond gesture, to him - Of a sudden, the tiles beneath you seem like a desert, an ocean. You feel the weight of your emptiness. It laughs at you, its’ white teeth filed and barred. In your head, your failure is heavy; a hot and cackling creature with seven-foot claws pressing down on your chest, restricting your matchstick limbs. You are lost to the unyielding insistence of it, trapped in the maw of its cage, and Loki’s words, when they come, sound as far away as the shores of a country ancient and foreign. 
“I was hardly gone,” He is saying, but you cannot answer him. “How could it have gotten this bad?” 
It is that - that sadness, that fear in your lover - that breaks you, and you take the thing at a clumsy, terror-steeped sprint, not caring how wretched you look, so long as you can reach him - So long, you finally let yourself think, as there is something left of you for Loki to hold in his arms. Your body hurts worse than anything. You feel every scrape and bruise and chill on it; the pins and knives working at oxygen-starved nerves, and the gnawing clamp of your hunger, a brand pressing into your gut; and you know that Loki can’t save you. But maybe, just maybe, you can find some way to save yourself. And his fingers are there, going up to your hair, thumb rubbing at a hollow cheek and catching the salty dirge of an errant tear. 
“It gets better, you know,” Loki tells you. He gets you onto his lap; you feel his heartbeat under your palms where you clutch tightly at his shirt to hold yourself up. A steady, thrumming proof that he is alive. And when he says it, you get the sense that, somehow, you’ve always know it, this whispered secret he’s weaving into your soul. “If you get proper help for it. If you want it to.” 
He speaks casually, but there is a weight to his words. Miraculously - you’re not quite so sure how - you find yourself able to meet them. 
“I want it to,” You tell him. “I didn’t, before - “ And here his eyes widen, and he shakes his head like you’ve shot him - “But I do. I want to -“ 
“Alright, love,” He tells you, running a soothing hand down over your side, past the hard planes of your collarbone, “Alright. It’s okay. You’re such a strong person- It’s going to be hard, for awhile, but I know that you can get through this. I’ll be right here with you, darling. Right here, by your side.” 
“You will?” You ask him, voice cracking, hardly daring to hope that despite all this, he would stay. He chuckles, sadly, as if your thinking it hurts him, and he is deadly serious when he tells you,
“Y/N, of course I will.” 
Somehow, though he’s the god of lies, you don’t doubt his words for an instant. You nod, and the nodding takes effort. Yet you are certain he understands what you mean. 
“So,” Says Loki, “Can you - Tell me about this?” 
You have to think, for a minute. Can you tell Loki about this? You know that he’s telling the truth, that he isn’t going to leave you. Still, you’ve never been this vulnerable with him before, not even in bed, and the fear in you won’t be put to rest so easily. You shake in his hold, and realize, with a frigid shock, how you must look to him - how badly you are hurting him, and how badly you’re hurting yourself, by keeping your feelings inside yourself and leaving your body to rot. You know, now, that Loki will  help you through this - that he will be there, kind touches skirting the bad days; warm, mischevious smirks smoothing the wrinkles of your persistent self-doubts. There was a time when you needed to do this - there will, probably, still be days when you feel like you need to do this, to get a firm hold over your life, and keep the jackals at bay. There are other words to keep yourself safe, though. Loki’s breath in the dark is more home to you than anything you’ve ever had, and his open waiting, here in the daylight, makes you brave enough to speak. 
“Maybe… Over lunch?” You offer. You bite your lip and hold out the query, a silky pearl in your hand. For one moment, Loki seems to consider; after all, he is the trickster, and a man not given to acting rashly, or stripping the drama from his complicated schemes. If this is a scheme, you think that you might forgive him - Later, when his lips are on your frame, when you’re there with him, again. His lips twitch into a grin so affectionate and proud that you know- you know - that if you seek proper care and really want to get better, you’ll get through the days that feel like walking on broken glass. You’ve done so much for me, that grin tells you. Let me do this for you.
He reaches out, and takes the pearl. You hardly recognize the man who rained hell down on New York, who snorts and jabs with sarcasm at every word that comes out of Iron Man’s mouth. 
“Breakfast?” He counters, shooting a pointed glance at the microwave clock. It is a dare and a promise - a challenge, but never a trick. It tastes like honey on your tongue. 
“Fine,” You say, “But you’ll have to cook.” Some kind of joy is creeping its way into you. Your voice, you find, barely trembles. 
“Midgardians,” Lok says, with an eye-roll - a friendly, loving glint in his eyes that refuses to fade. “Don’t tell me you’re one of those people who burns water.” The joke prods your tender, new understanding, reassures you that he is still Loki; that he isn’t going to treat you differently, like a child, just because you’re suffering. The smile comes full onto you, and you wriggle, stretching your arms over your head and yawning, exaggerated for effect to add to the banter. 
“I never said that I couldn’t cook,” You tell Loki, “Just wanted you to do it.” 
“Mm,” He says, “And what will you be doing, then, while I cook?” 
You chew at your lip, and choose to answer before your nerves make you panic. 
“Finding the right words,” You admit, laying the truth bare to him. 
His hands are wending through your hair now, and his lips are unberarably gentle on yours. He tastes like embers and ink. That sweet, slightly metalic tang that you’ve come to associate with his magic; cinnamon, tinged with steel. He kisses you for a second or two, before pulling away,  but you could live in those seconds - Unfold it, like a blanket, and let the care of it warm your thin, freezing bones, if Loki weren’t here to show you that, with the right help, you can learn how to do it yourself. 
“Finding the right words,” Loki muses, vaulting himself up to stand in a movement that’s unfairly graceful. “I’d much prefer yours, to be honest.” 
He holds a hand out, and you take it, letting him pull you up. The floor, underneath you, feels solid. The sun is coming through the clouds, and out there in the wide world you can hear bird-song, the low, sugared sway of the breeze. There is something else there, too: 
You let it wrap its tendrils around you, and you decide that it’s hope. 
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All too well
All too well by mirkwood131 (ao3)
Rating: E
Word Count: 29871
Summary: Soobin is a confused Alpha, a failed arts major and a full-time teddy bear street vendor. Yeonjun is a confident Alpha, rich and knows exactly what he wants from life. Or so it seems, before their worlds collide, and they start a friends with benefits relationship that makes them crave more too soon. And when falling in love is imminent for one, but not for the other, how does that work?
Review: 
Man how do i even start this one. I cannot recommend this one enough. even if alpha/alpha fics aren't your thing, please give this one a chance. its so well written and flows so nicely. 
it starts with soobin who is in his 20′s and kind of stuck with his life. he works as a teddy bear vendor and isn't too sure how to get a move with his life which yeah, i can relate to that big time. and he ends up meeting Yeonjun who is older and much more established in his life. 
they start off rocky, yeonjun is kind of an asshole and soobin is a little too meek to stand up for himself sometimes. but they do have a chemistry between them that makes you root for them the whole time. in yeonjun’s defense, he does try to change his ways. he does speak to soobin when they have problems. and soobin does eventually stand up for himself. 
the feeling i get with this one isn't comforting but its so relatable. the writer knows how to make it realistic (yeah even tho its an abo fic). because they don't just sugar coat it and give this fairytale ending. the ending very much feels like real life, we don't know what is going to happen and neither do yeonjun and soobin but they do love each other and they are willing to try to work it out together. 
the ending even with the side couple also feels very close to home because soobin watches how much everything has changed and yes that is very much like real life. you suddenly look around and realize all your friends have grown up and you have grown up but are you still happy? what's going to happen next? soobin in the fic is someone who we can all relate to and i applaud the writer for making it like this. 
we don't really know if they get a happy ending or not, the writer leaves it up to interpretation. i know most people wont like happy endings but don't be put off by it. i can admit i also don't like open endings but this one feels like the right choice 100%.
am i reading too much into this fic? probably. but i just want to gush about how good the entire fic is. 
please leave kudos and comments for the author! 
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