#silent grief

[whisper-in-the-dark]

it's hard to be happy

it's easy to be sad

with the comfort of my tears

and my quickening breaths

this silence i can speak to

walls i built as a nest

happiness feels empty

part of it is always left

if i feel I'm getting better

i wish to retreat

if I'm ever fixed,

then what is left for me?

if I'm fixed,

what hope do i have in this life?

what will keep me going

what war will i fight?

what hearts will be turned towards a seemingly happy smile

if I'm okay who will ask me if I'm doing fine?

am i happy? am i fixed? am i doing alright?

this thought troubles me and occupies my mind

my grief isn't away, isn't sleeping, isn't gone

it's sitting there in silent, watching, alone

what does it have to say?

what words does it hold?

i wanna hold onto it

i don't wanna let it go

it's too soon, it's too wrong

why can't it come back?

and when it does I'm too fragile to manage to even stand

sigh i guess that's life

confusing, perplexing

my mind is a maze

a weird friend, a blessing

my feelings all gave up

on trying to get their turn

i don't even know what to feel?

i guess we're all just hurt

it's nice in my brain

despite the awful mess

despite the wars, and the grays

at least it's mine to have

you see, my brain is too complex for anyone to comprehend

i get it, it gets me, things no one can understand

it's an old childhood friend I've been fighting with for years

swords on floor, open doors, embrace filled with tears

welcome home, you've always been here, what's new is the first word

i love you, I'm sorry, we're both just very hurt

I'm you, you're me, i guess i finally like myself

my mind is so confusing, but at least it's mine to have

claire k - stars

[batbabydamian]

wondered when exactly Damian started casually chatting with his hallucinations of Alfred in Robin (2021)

figured isolating himself in a dark tower carrying pictures of Alfred and the weight of his death would do the trick! (Detective Comics (2016) #1032)

[drizzledrawings]

Lonesome cowboy

[daeyumi]

Broken oaths and forgotten dreams 💧

[darkpoetrynprose]

“There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”

― Ranata Suzuki

[scatterbrainedbot]

(okay so i wanted to play with this a lot more but its been like a month and @somerandomdudelmao has posted like twenty updates since so im gonna just slap some textures on it and call this donezo for now)

cass has given us so many amazing moments, and plenty are far more intense and emotional than this but like

theres just. something about casey saying this,

and having to then quietly go back down into the sewers, alone

bonus:

[bebs-art-gallery]

Christmas Eve at the Grave (1896)

— by Johan Otto Hesselbom

[ascesabo]

sometimes i want to reach through the screen and shake sabo by the shoulders because. god. there's just so much going on with him.

he's first introduced through the veil of luffy's memories- here he's just another feral jungle kid, sticking it out with ace and luffy, the 'nicer' brother in young luffy's eyes. and then boom. you find out he's a runaway noble trying to escape his abusive, neglectful family- and this changes nothing, they still get to become sworn brothers, but just as quickly as this is resolved, his asshole of a dad takes the three of them hostage. and what does sabo do? he gives up the little sliver of freedom he'd fought for, is willing to become miserable and lonely again if it means ace and luffy are spared. and then he comes home to find that in his absence, his parents have already found a replacement! great!

and he doesn't even get to address how fucked up that is, because stelly runs his mouth and now sabo's too busy trying to figure out how to stop his brothers and their home from getting burnt to the ground. he never gets to give them a proper goodbye- he exhausts himself trying to reach them, but he can't because. you know. he's ten. so where does this leave sabo? ten years old, with nowhere to go- he sets out to sea to try and start over, and for the crime of wanting to escape a terrible life, he's punished with an explosion to the face. he loses his memories, his brothers lose him- and so the cycle continues.

then the army saves him, takes him in; he's essentially a child soldier, with how prodigious of a fighter he is from the get-go. but hey, he thinks he's finally found his footing, even if his past's a blur to him- then it all comes flooding back. in the worst way possible. he sees his brother's corpse and he remembers, but it doesn't matter, does it? he's too late, ace is gone, and sabo's lost ten years of a life he could have shared with his brothers. we don't even know how (if, even) he recovers from this- except for a single passing statement from koala, asking him if he's 'had that dream again' because he'd been crying in his sleep. this is never brought up or addressed again. great!plus, we never do find out if getting blown up at the ripe old age of ten could have left any lasting fire-related trauma; and if it does, what does that mean for sabo, who's pretty much made of it, now?

both of these questions are answered at once- sabo treats the fire as if it's ace. it's ace's legacy he's carrying on, and it's ace he seeks freedom for. he copes by making sure ace lives on in his flames, and how can he ever hate the fire living in him if that fire is all he has left of the brother he never got to see again?

i just have to wonder about him, because he's got so many Issues that just. don't ever get addressed? every time we see him deal with his grief (episode of sabo, his own retelling of events in dressrosa) we never really discover anything about him. i wonder how it felt to finally remember the childhood that eluded him, just to find out he was an unwanted, replacable child. how he feels, living with the knowledge that he could have done something to save ace, that he'd failed to remember the two people he loved the most? i wonder just how terribly that guilt must weigh down on him- because where luffy's already begun to heal, sabo still sees ace in everything he does. his title of flame emperor is a direct callback to ace's final attack in his fight against blackbeard. he talks to his goddamn fire like his brother is still in front of him, which is sweet and heartbreaking and, considering his backlog of unaddressed trauma... incredibly unhealthy. i know these will probably be left unresolved for the sake of moving the story forward- but god, sabo, are you okay?

[dandelion-roots]

[Image description: a digital drawing of sklonda and pok gukgak from fantasy high, two goblins with shoulder length straight hair and short curly hair, respectively. they're touching foreheads and embracing, both of sklonda's hands in pok's hair, while one of pok's hands is moving sklonda's bangs off her foreheads and the other is clutching at her waist. we only see sklonda's face and the look of silent grief on it. in the background on pok's half is a stylized dragon's mouth with teeth digging into his shoulder, and on sklonda's side are sheets of paper. over the background on the left is text that reads, it's okay, and then on the right side in brackets it says, (it'll be ok). End image description]

[thinkershipman]

SHAUNA SHIPMAN: AN ORESTEIA

[piecanl]

Do you think Tubbo would recognize the path Bad is going down, because it's one he's already walked down on?

This self-destructive behavior coming from a broken heart?

He hasn't seen Bad at his best, before the eggs got kidnapped. He's seen him a victim to grief more than a father. It's why the blue staining Bad's being isn't out of the ordinary.

But suddenly he starts carrying flowers to remind him of the love he lost, suddenly the void calls out his name even louder and suddenly Tubbo sees himself in the older demon.

And it's scary, because suddenly he sees what he has become, how it affects others.

And for the first time of many, he sees Bad walk down a road he's paved. For the first time of many, Bad is the one repeating Tubbo's mistakes.

[atopvisenyashill]

Pink and blue roses lining the path The flagstone path that leads to nowhere To nowhere Decided for now

[whumpypepsigal]

Silent Night (2023): “Help me.”

[entirelysein-e]

Due to personal reasons I've decided to spend this weekend with my family and completely away from social media. See you guys on Monday 🫶

[curapicas]

Hadn't noticed that bigger design chair on the side before, but makes sense each has their own space in the table, and this spot must be Lu Guang's-

... Right? Hold on, let me look at other references from season 1:

Well, apparently. No.

he was, quite literally, in Cheng Xiaoshi's place.

[watermel0ns-dumb-cringe]

[ June Doe — Day 12 ( @june-doe-2024 )]

Everyone lives / Nobody dies !!

YIPPEE!11! Decided to keep it simple for today,, so have a lil doodle I made while watching a Silent Hill video analysis