I've gotten good at leaning on metaphors
I've gotten good at living on someone else's page
I cut my teeth on secondhand sentiments
You can't trust a single thing I say
The crows in the garden are laughing at my expense
Drowning out all the lies that I might have told instead
I keep my closet free of skeletons
'Cause I'm much better at digging graves
But I always dig up bones in your sympathy
I can't trust a single thing you say
I light torches in my sleep
I have gasoline in my veins
I am always burning, burning, burning
And I know that you mean so well
But I am not a vessel for your good intent
I've grown a mouth so sharp and cruel
It's all that I can give to you, my dear
Don't look too hard, 'cause you won't like the scars he left in me
I'm afraid
Is this a bunker or a shallow grave?
Send me anywhere, take me out
I'm the well they're gonna drag you down
I am a falling axe
I am a sharpened knife
I am a poison asp
I am a risk to your life
I am a swinging bat
Tumbling dynamite
I am the beast at your back
You better run for your life
I will only break your pretty things
I will only wring you dry of everything
You gotta know that this won't last
Desperation will erase the fact I'm keeping all
Of the answers in my cigarette box
I've gotten good at making up metaphors
I've gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape
And all these words are sweet and meaningless
My darling, the devil knows my name
But if you're fine with that
You can be mine like that
"Metaphor", “Tongues and Teeth", “The Garden”, “The Wolf", “Hollow Moon” and “The Well” by The Crane Wives
Sometimes I wonder if The Crane Wives have watched Deep Space Nine...
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Redrawing/remaking my HLVRAI flowercrown au!! Benrey and Gordon are up first!! (If anyone's curious you can go looking for my old flowercrown au stuff, just be noted its was made four years ago LOL and all the old info is completely irrelevant) click for better quality, tumblr killed it 💀
Up next, Tommy and Gman Coolatta!
In the old version of the plot for this au, it had a lot to do with it being a game and such. However over the years it's changed! No longer a game, instead the Rescas explosion seemed to have had a .. strange affect on Gordon, due to him being right next to it. At least, that's what they all believe at first.
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But she was caught in the nightmare of the body […]
Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and The Bible of Dreams; from ‘Tongues of Stone’
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Spent a very pleasureable hour imagining Roy's sister's face when Phoebe tells her that she wants to invite Jamie to Uncle's Day because unlike Phoebe the good doctor knows that their relationship is hella lot more complicated than just 'best friends' and she is already lowkey giddy with excitement over how Roy is going to react to this because any day that annoys Roy is holiday to her, but at the same time she does adore her brother and wants him to be happy and it's not like Phoebe is wrong, is it, and it's just good to have Roy make a friend and be invested in something/someone again... Grumpy old twat needs it.
Just something about her knowing that this whole thing will both genuinely annoy and genuinly be nice for Roy. It's like a little sister's jackpot, isn't it?
Fucking brilliant. I adore Dr. O'Sullivan and is very happy this happened to her.
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i know chase obviously wins the religious trauma competition but can we please talk about how foreman was not only raised by a deeply religious father, but was most likely raised BAPTIST. no wonder he’s so repressed. the baptist experience is like. you’re in church every sunday listening to a man scream about how love is something that should hurt. you believe in a good, loving god - but to believe, you have to accept that true love is painful. that to be a good person, you must suffer. to love is to endure it, to work mercilessly. you’re not worthy of the love of The Almighty, and you never will be, and that sense of unworthiness is fundamental to having faith. when you sin, you don’t just hurt Him, you hurt everyone around you. you make the world worse because you have dared commit the sin of existence — to be human is to be sinful. to be loved is to feel unworthy and pathetic and hopeless. like YEAH no wonder foreman self isolates and is emotionally closed off. he was taught from BIRTH that he is fundamentally unworthy of love, and that in accepting love, he is also accepting that he truly is worthless.
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“The spot has a venom like ton-“ BORINGGG YAWNNINNGGG LAAZYYY‼️‼️‼️ seeing as he is a literal energy being/dark matter amalgamation (and he doesn’t even,, have tendrils) it’s those solar flare-like flicks of dark matter that probably have the most similarity. At most, if you’re up close they probably feel like a vaguely staticky breeze, and if you really need to get romantical about it, similar to a butterfly kiss.
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my friend invited to do some whiteboard stuff
so yknow i had to eh take my opprtunity :3
mfw i realized dr fox looks the most stylized 😨
idk i kinda js drew her like this one day and stuck w it
anywayhs
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