#grief -/

[trickster-archangel]

Never lost, never forgotten.

Sorry for making someone sad, but actually it brought *me* some weird kind of comfort, some relatable kind of feeling, and maybe someone needs it to ❤

Lyra, my beloved cat of 13 years, passed away this year on Father's Day. She's been by my side through very difficult times and was my little rock of steady and unrelenting love. I struggled a lot drawing this, and struggled a lot posting it, but I know I would've wanted to read a comic like this that validated my grief for her when I lost her.

Wherever you are, Lyra my little summer star, I love you always! Thank you for being the best thing in my life.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[fae-dreamer-99]

I was so scared I'd forget your voice that I turned it into one of the little voices in my head and honestly, it's the kindest one I got.

grief is so crazy like what if i forget what her laugh sounds like. does she know i loved her. i miss her so much. i catch myself doing things she used to do. i wish i could call her. i miss her so much. i do a crossword puzzle. i cry while washing the dishes. does she know i loved her? my heart feels like a hummingbird. i miss her so much. what if i forget what her laugh sounds like. what if i forget.

[ghostymarni]

how do you not feel left behind?

[starwarsgrl77]

[averyblackbooks]

You’ve been gone awhile now, and still I close my eyes to the sound of your dreams. I hope they come true for you. I hope I always remember the sound of your voice as you tell them to me.

[mosscaller]

I miss you.

[roennq]

[Black & Red 5/x] Awareness ◦ Recollection ◦ Sorrow "He killed him. Karen, he killed him."

[purplecatghostposts]

One of these days, I’ll write the rest of this fic, but I really like the beginning and I really wanted to share it so. Here.

[prettypancakes-art]

two stars reunited ♡

[anarchistabsol]

Why do i have astigmatism even in the fan art

some environment and color practice with N :]

[letmebethecure]

It shifts

Grief

I don’t know how or when

But at some point

The happy memories

Become more of a comfort

Than a pain

Not every day

And not all the time

But some days

Grief shifts

[wolfyoucanttame]

But when someone is gone and you're the primary keeper of his memory , letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn't it ? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn't change. It couldn't turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.

[redsediment]

I think Tolkien would be proud of Mark’s characterization, the way Mark is a reluctant hero in the battle against grief. It reminds me deeply of Frodo, the trudging along against all hope, the trying to bear it on one’s own strength and failing repeatedly, the hard-fought faith in friends that makes life worth living even when everything seems worthless and lost.….

Maybe heroes don’t really exist, even in fiction. A hero, in essence, is fated to triumph—they mind as well be some mythical force of nature. People who are heroic are only people who happen, often in spite of themselves, to rise to some awful occasion and manage to make something from it, even when, especially when, all hope is already lost

i'm not joking when i say severance upped my standards for how media portrays male characters in grief. i can simply no longer be convinced by one single manly tear running down an expressionless face

if you want me to believe bro's grieving you need to show him fucking bawling his eyes out. i need him puffy eyed and runny nosed, signing up for some fucked up corporate lobotomy as a roundabout way to self mutilate, leaving everyone around him deeply awkward and uncomfortable at whatever is going on with him. that's my standard now, everybody say thank you mark