#trauma is not sacred

[kennymoonshoes]

trauma is not sacred

Written by Kai Cheng Thom

[skepwith]

trauma is not sacred

violence is not special pain is not holy suffering does not make angels abuse defines no one you are more than the things that hurt you you are more than the people you have hurt do not make an altar to your woundedness do not make a fetish out of mine a body belongs to no one a memory is not made to be eaten does it titillate you to hear about assault if i told you my story, would you swallow it whole if i confessed my sins would you feed me to the beasts to purge your own i will show you mine if you show me yours we have all seen the darkness now give us the dawn tell me about the joy you keep in the hollow spaces between your bones tell me again how you laughed when you realized that you were not wholly unlovable i’ll tell you again how i cried when my best friend told me that I was not a bad person remember how we used to count the lines on our palms when we were little how we used to try to read the future for its gifts how we used to make lists of the things we would dream of when finally we were free i will make you a list of the things i’m grateful for i will sing you a litany of reasons to be alive i want to know the songs you wake up for in the morning i want to marvel at the unbelievable graciousness of your being i know that i am capable of pouring love like lavender oil into your cupped palms there is forgiveness like honey pooled in the chambers of our hearts you are the thing i am most grateful for all bodies know how to heal themselves given enough time all demons carry a map of heaven and their scars beneath the skin of every history of trauma                 there is a love poem waiting deep below

Kai Cheng Thom, “trauma is not sacred” from a place called No Homeland. © 2017 by Kai Cheng Thom.

[strawberrus0da]

Dream seeing someone try and eat an apple and resisting the primal urge to slap it out of their hand because it's just so ingrained in him to stop people from eating the apples that it just carries over to the regular fruit bc they look similar enough, even worse if the apple is a golden delicious or something.

It's just been imbedded into his subconscious, the panicky instinctual thought of don't let them eat that fruit despite knowing full well regular apples are a thing

Sometimes he actually does slap it out of their hand only to realize what he's done a moment later and profusely apologize

Imagine if Nightmare had the same buried instinct

[spro-o]

yeah I like to torture the traumatised twink,,, but in a fun and sexy way

comms open - info pinned

[serpentface]

Tigran: launching into a story about a time when he was 7 and watched a guy get eaten alive by dogs, completely unprompted and unnervingly blasé about the whole thing.

Etsushir: not listening, warming his hands over the nightly allotment of yams, smoking.

Palo: this is the tenth time he's heard this story, not listening, wondering whether Etsushir is smoking tobacco and where the hell he got it and can he have some?

[qoldenskies]

I notice you draw ccdonnie's eyebrows much thinner than you draw cdonnie's. Is that intentional or did it just happen

unintentional because ive been cross hatching to fill things in instead of bucket tooling things like that lately LOL

[banishedchildofeve]

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₊⋆·˚ a prayer to the Sacred Heart:

“O most holy heart of Jesus,

fountain of every blessing,

I adore you, I love you, and

with lively sorrow for my sins,

I offer you this poor heart of mine.

Make me humble, patient, pure

and wholly obedient to your will.

Grant, good Jesus,

that I may live in you and for you.

Protect me in the midst of danger.

Comfort me in my afflictions.

Give me health of body,

assistance in my temporal needs,

your blessing on all that I do,

and the grace of a holy death.

Amen.”

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[meimyr-dawn]

Marika shackling her two sons, Mohg and Morgott, is so much worse after this new DLC lore. It wasn’t a command from the two fingers, or a social norm that she was following, or even an emotionally detached rejection of children that weren’t “perfect”. It was a specific and personal hatred of what they were.

[zelda-the-sacred-realm]

"Oh boy, The Sacred Realm Updated!" That one panel with Twilight: 😃

This panel? 🥺

The new update has a bit of trauma, but I had to do it

I hope you enjoyed the new update! 💖

Thanks for your ask!

[dirafames]

[foxglove-and-foxfire-lover]

They’re brothers your honour

[stressfulsloth]

Disco Elysium// Two Fishermen on an Aspidochelone, Unknown// Our Wives Under the Sea, Armfield// Unknown// Disco Elysium// Gallathea, Lyly// Sharks Feeding, Crossley// From Bodily Fear to Cosmic Horror (and back again), Miller// Disco Elysium// Early Verse, Marx// The Road, McCarthy// A Sacred and Terrible Air, Kurvitz (team ibex translation)// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium Art Book// A Sacred and Terrible Air, Kurvitz// Nona the Ninth, Muir// Sunrise With Sea Monsters, Turner// Nona the Ninth, Muir// Disco Elysium// The World's One Hope, Brecht// The Old Gentleman of Raahe// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Disco Elysium// Engraved Shell. Unknown// Capitalism and the Sea// Disco Elysium// Capitalism and the Sea//

[garden-the-goblin]

Big fan of the reoccurring motif in fiction where god is just a little girl. Like I adore how writers came to the unanimous agreement that the most terrifying thing you could be is a little girl left to her own devices. That's good shit.

[weepsweetsorrow]

I tried to be good

am i no good?

am i no good?

am i no good?

with my memory restricted to a polaroid in evidence

i just want to be yours

can i be yours?

can i be yours?

just tell me i’m yours

if i’m turning in your stomach

am i making you feel sick?

-Strangers by ethel cain

[a-couple-of-notes]

There's something so special about how Agatha All Along positions Lorna's version of the ballad. We're introduced to it as "the most popular version of the ballad," and I think--as with any popular thing, especially pop music--the instinct is that it has somehow degraded over time, twisting away from its original roots. They've taken something sacred (the literal "sacred chant" version) and commercialized it, and the story will peel back that artificial popularity to reveal what the true meaning of the ballad is. You know, take us back to when they wrote real music.

But then the show reveals: no. That sacred chant version, for all its spooky harmonies and medieval-sounding traditionalism, that was the scam. And this popular song written centuries later, the one that connected with so many people, that this Gen Z teenager especially likes, that was the version closest to the original form of the ballad. It's not a degradation over time; it's an unknowing healing, a kind of quiet reconstruction--just like Agatha is being pushed into her own healing journey.

And I don't know, I just love that this is the version of the song the show chooses to embrace--it's Lorna's version that Japanese Breakfast sings over the closing credits. Maybe in a Doylist sense, that's because the Lopezes wrote Lorna's version first. But in the Watsonian sense, it's really cool. Not everything in the past is sacred. And as we move into the future, we can reach for better, truer, more earnest things.

[sacra-meretrix]