#zo's literature

[dancingupontheclouds]

the goddess and the fly

or: a woman that is jealous of the liveliness of a fly.

a/n: please do not steal my work, republish and/or claim as yours. thank you. <3

Darkness surrounds me. It is silent as I breathe it in; let it consume me. My room is messy but it doesn't smell. There is only one thing rotting in my room. I can't bear to look at it. I've broken all the mirrors. There's nothing, yet everything is too much. That is when I notice her. She announces herself with a faint buzz in the background. My neck cracks and hurts as I peel my staring eyes from the ceiling.

Right at the bright gap below the blinds, she crashes stupidly into window again, again, and again. I see her trying. I watch her failing. I witness her sense for survival; the instinct to live and it makes me wonder if an unconscious, dumb, fought-for life is as valuable as my conscious, aching, unwanted one. My jaw tightens. She annoys me. How did she get in her in the first place? It's her fault. She doesn't need to bother me with her struggle.

But she tries again just to bump into glass once more. I could open the window, let her out, set her free, spare her life but she wouldn't know. She wouldn't make me her God. She wouldn't pray for-- to me. So I don't.

My gaze is stuck on her, rapid eyes following her movements and I'm livid. Why won't she just give up, fall to the floor, curl up and die? At what point does an instinct become a will? She becomes slower, her buzzing suddenly a low, soothing sound. My angry heart feels heavy as she lands on the window to rest, the buzzing gone. Good.

One of my fingers reaches out to touch her, slowly. I don't know why. Startled, she takes off with a panicked buzz, crashes into every wall, every corner, every crevice of my room in seconds and I cover my ears and squeeze my eyes shut because I cannot take it; cannot stand to hear her fighting for her life when it's so insignificant. I roll on my side to face the wall and when I open my eyes again, she is right there. We're eye to eye and the longer I look at her, the more I think I can see her breathing, gasping for life. My eyes shift a little to the left, her right, and the window is there, still closed. As we look at each other, I soften at the sight of the little creature depending on the mercy of the woman in front of her. “I'm sorry”, I whisper. It must have been hell for her. This time, she crawls down the wall, closer to me and I ponder whether it is trust or coincidental. How similar can we be? Maybe we are alike. The little fly stops and tiredly rubs her front legs together to get the dirt off her, free herself from my room, wash me off her. Even in her rough state she gets ready to taste life again, to expand her palette like the greedy, stupid animal she is. We are not the same.

She is a fly and I am a woman. She cannot think which is all I do. She wants to live and I hate her for it.

So naturally, she doesn't expect it when my flat palm hits her fragile body. A loud slap hisses through the room, echoes in my ears, when she bursts beneath my skin.

When I take my hand away, I expect her to fall, except she doesn't. She sticks to the wall in a bloody mush.

Her blood graces my palm, a reminder of life just millimetres above my own veins. Even in death she is more alive than me. The thought of lapping it up to indulge her spirit – make it mine – crosses my mind before my face pulls together in disgust and I wipe the rest of her next to her crushed, bleeding body. Now there's two things rotting in my room and for a second I think of getting up and wiping her away, to cease her existence forever, to flush her down the drain for she is the reminder of my ungodly, jealous soul and I think that maybe breathing it in, consuming all that darkness, I've sucked it out of this room completely and have become it as I turn away to face the ceiling again.

[perfectquote]

Let's stop playing games with people feelings, and also stop thinking that you are fooling him or her. They do know what you are doing. They just choose not to say anything, because they know they would deny and put there guard up. Then say how could you ask something like that. Don't lead people on or play games with people's heart. If you don't want them, let them go. Keep it real at all times.

Jazz Zo Marcellus

[perfectfeelings]

Let's stop playing games with people feelings, and also stop thinking that you are fooling him or her. They do know what you are doing. They just choose not to say anything, because they know they would deny and put there guard up. Then say how could you ask something like that. Don't lead people on or play games with people's heart. If you don't want them, let them go. Keep it real at all times.

Jazz Zo Marcellus

[quotefeeling]

Let's stop playing games with people feelings, and also stop thinking that you are fooling him or her. They do know what you are doing. They just choose not to say anything, because they know they would deny and put there guard up. Then say how could you ask something like that. Don't lead people on or play games with people's heart. If you don't want them, let them go. Keep it real at all times.

Jazz Zo Marcellus

[perfeqt]

Let's stop playing games with people feelings, and also stop thinking that you are fooling him or her. They do know what you are doing. They just choose not to say anything, because they know they would deny and put there guard up. Then say how could you ask something like that. Don't lead people on or play games with people's heart. If you don't want them, let them go. Keep it real at all times.

Jazz Zo Marcellus

[thoughtkick]

Let's stop playing games with people feelings, and also stop thinking that you are fooling him or her. They do know what you are doing. They just choose not to say anything, because they know they would deny and put there guard up. Then say how could you ask something like that. Don't lead people on or play games with people's heart. If you don't want them, let them go. Keep it real at all times.

Jazz Zo Marcellus

[thehopefulquotes]

Let's stop playing games with people feelings, and also stop thinking that you are fooling him or her. They do know what you are doing. They just choose not to say anything, because they know they would deny and put there guard up. Then say how could you ask something like that. Don't lead people on or play games with people's heart. If you don't want them, let them go. Keep it real at all times.

Jazz Zo Marcellus

[ezras--moon]

If you want all of the audio books Pedro Pascal narrated in mp3 format,

please DM me for the link.

[disease]

“Your desires shall become flesh, your dreams reality and no fear shall alter it one whit.”

—Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos, 1927

[surqrised]

Let's stop playing games with people feelings, and also stop thinking that you are fooling him or her. They do know what you are doing. They just choose not to say anything, because they know they would deny and put there guard up. Then say how could you ask something like that. Don't lead people on or play games with people's heart. If you don't want them, let them go. Keep it real at all times.

Jazz Zo Marcellus

[myblacknightworld]

Gonna reblog gifsets of my new favorite kdrama to take my mind off the economia hell exam

[scatteredraysofhope]

A post for my favorite mutuals<3

@kayrielwrites the first person to ever reach out to me on here and it genuinely one of the kindest people I've ever met. Idk what I did to deserve their kindness but I am forever blessed.

@mirokata Miro<3 literally my best friend that I met on here!!! I love talking to them so much. I love our ridiculously long messages. I never thought I'd find someone I have so much in common with.

@urlocalsadkid-l :3 no words. Venus. They are the coolest and kindest person ever. Talking with them makes me smile so hard. And they deserve all the love in the world!! :c

@a-wondering-thought I love them. they are soososo amazing and poetic and kind and sweet like they give the best compliments and introduce me to art and literature asdfghjkl you just can not say enough about Julian. ever.

@strawberryfaced Zo<3 they are sooo wonderful and sweet and full of love. I lovetalking to them and seeing the world through their eyes in their posts <33

@my-mind-is-frozen Willow<3 They are so incredibly kind and sweet. I remember you giving me moral support through my exams. I want to here more about you. I'd love to get to know you more!!

@s0lit4ir3 greyyyyy <33 one of my first friends on here. I feel like we actually have a lot in common and sadly haven't interacted with you much recently but you are a lovely and supper cool person and Id love to talk more!!

[favfics13]

Seventeen SMAU Recommendations

I Like You by @taeyegu

Summary — “i like you so much, i want to give you my everything, only for you…” (i like you, cho jung seok)

GAME DAY by @escapewriter

Summary: jeonghan was successful in getting you out of bed on a tuesday afternoon. what you thought was going to be a simple lunch that he would pay for, was actually a trick to make you finally go see him and the rest of your friends play their first game of the season. of course, the universe always messes with you so here you were at the nurses office with jeonghan’s teammate, treating your hurt ankle.

Iris Beauty ❀ by @wonunuu

Synopsis: you and mina have been best friends for as long as you remember. after your parents passed from a horrible car accident, mina's parents kindly took you in, tending and caring for you as their own. at such a young age, you have learned the meaning of debt as this is your constant feeling towards your best friend and her parents. to compensate, you have showed them undoubtable loyalty, respect, love and kindness, just as they have showed you; you do everything they tell you without question. so when your best friend asks you to pretend to be her in meeting a guy she has been talking to online, your loyalty and trust are tested when you unintentionally develop feelings for him.

AH! LOVE by @horangboosadan

Synopsis: by accident, you get added to a group chat where people are trying to find out whether jeonghan is in a relationship. five times they see you together and speculate, none the wiser you're in the group chat or whether you are dating or just really good friends.

Death By A Thousand Cuts by @ssssssssssssscoups

Synopsis: y/n loves books. she loves the way they make her feel any emotion, to get lost within the pages and words that suffocates her heart. jeonghan loves performing, loves the way his voice makes the public go wild. if they fall in love, will they fall out? 

Pillow Talk by @goingneo

Yoon Jeonghan || in which the evil twins are truly evil... by @lololololchips

Synopsis: in which the evil twins are truly evil, or in other words in which joshua is truly evil when he decides it's a good idea to follow jeonghan around to "expose" his relationship, but things go the wrong way real quick

You Were Beautiful by @viastro

Summary: A modernized cinderella au in which you and joshua meet through your love for boba popsicles, but end up living out your very own complicated, mess filled, cinderella story.

Tom And Jerry by @leewonkyeom

Starstruck! by @cupidhaos

Summary: a university student and a renowned popstar encounter each other by chance one night. she thought that would be the last time they see each other, but fate had other plans

Little Secret by @haosvteen

Summary: joshua’s life was as ordinary as can be expected for an idol. that is until a girl drops her hat and he texts her only to discover she’s a fan…and he’s her bias. he likes talking to someone who doesn’t know he’s an idol, but he needs to keep it that way. she can’t find out he is actually joshua hong from seventeen.

Love Hard by @wondernus

Synopsis: kwon soonyoung loves too hard and falls in love too quickly, accidentally building a (very false!!!) fuckboy image that he can’t seem to get rid of. when his friends talk him out of proposing to a girl he went on 2 dates with, he finally realizes he has a big problem with love. signing up to appear on his university’s most popular youtube talk show to unload his baggage and fix his image? what could possibly go wrong?

Domino by @horangboosadan

Synopsis:  A literature student with a procrastination problem and a dancing major who always says yes makes for an interesting combo of neither getting things done. It doesn’t help that there’s a best friend in the mix certain that the two will fall in love and makes sure they spend time together, only the two of them.  Somehow, every deadline is still met. Even the amount of time expected before the start of a developing crush.

The Roomie by @zo-byeol

Summary: kwon soonyoung and his friends need a roommate. (y/n) just got evicted. It sounds simple enough, but really, is anything ever simple?

Retrouvailles ❦ by @wonunuu

Summary: happiness? are reunions always happy though? when you are reunited with someone you want to see the least, does it make you happy?

Bittersweet by @networkluvs

Synopsis: in which y/n and wonwoo are forced to share an apartment in secret.

To My Youth by @viastro

Synopsis: in a world where everyone finds out who loves them within a 10 meter radius through the app love alarm, confessing your feelings without the use of the app is no longer considered normal. however, you refuse to download it in hopes that you’ll be able to fall in love without being dependent on love alarm.

Clueless by @hanniedream

GAM3 BO1 by @horangboosadan

Synopsis: wonwoo tries his best to talk his noisy neighbor into being a little quieter. it just doesn't go exactly how he expected it.

My Melody by @networkluvs

Synopsis: in which you become the muse of the overly cocky rising rockstar on campus, kim mingyu.

I Just See You by @svtskneecaps

Summary: When an artist begins to frequent the café you do murals for, you know your life is going to get interesting. What you don’t know is that he’s also your favorite online artist. Shenanigans ensue.

Lie Again by @escapewriter

Summary: a world in which various types of the soulmate system apply, you just so happen to have one that is completely stupid; being able to hear what your soulmate thinks of. however, when your soulmate hums a certain tune, you cant seem to get it out of your head.

Two Minus One by @twogyuu

Synopsis: What’s a better way to find love in the modern day than through dating apps? Eight months after his breakup with his long-time girlfriend, Vernon is finally ready for the dating scene once more - or so he thought. Finding the new game of love more challenging than he remembered, he reaches out to you, Chan’s best friend and legendary wing woman, for help.

PANG! by @kkumawrites

Summary: You'd consider yourself a simple college student, a freshman who just wants to survive their first year - but things get complicated when you're suddenly falling for someone you definitely shouldn't be, especially since he has a girlfriend already.

Play It Again by @svtskneecaps

Summary: Every day is Friday, again and again. Time resets with the sunrise, leaving you stranded in a single day, over, and over, and over. Good thing you’re not alone.

Shit Show by @gamerwoo

💬🗯️💭 THOUGHTS ??? by @itadorins

one shot smau’s about svt being horrifically down abysmal in chronological order

Seventeen College Au Masterlist by @seventeen-teen-teen-trash

SVT Hospital by @taeyegu

WANTED : NEW ROOMMATE by @suhnshinehaos

Synopsis : when yn’s exchange student roommates leave, they are left with the unfortunate task of finding a new place to stay. lucky for them, a room just opened up at apartment 5c, complete with the most interesting group of people they could ever hope to meet.

REDAMANCY by @escapewriter

Summary: your best friend was lucky enough to have two boys pining after her. you on the other hand were unlucky enough to be in love with one of them.

Radio Star by @got-svt

Summary:  when yn accepts a job at her campus’ radio station her first year in uni, she didn’t expect she’d be anonymously singing stressed out university students to sleep. now, a year and a half in, she didn’t expect that there’d be people trying to figure out her identity either.

Network Love + Without you by @cherrycheolliesc

summary: back from europe trip with a devastating heartbreak, yn tries to go through her junior year of uni with as little drama as possible, but still somehow ends up at the center of it every time.

Keep it Fruity by @cupidhaos

Summary: what other way to spend your summer but on an orange farm surrounded by cute boys?

Newsflash! + Move by @cupidhaos

Summary: university life can be hard when you get caught up with the SVT boys

[discar]

HZD Terraforming Base-001 Text Communications Network

Chapter 9 | Prev chapter | Next chapter Chapter Index

Zo: Beta? I made dinner, if you would like to eat with us.

β: im fine here

HIMBO: I'll bring it down for you.

Marshall Kotallo: I prefer to eat alone as well.

Marshall Kotallo: But the companionship is still welcome.

β: im fine

Marshall Kotallo: [LonelyPuppy.png]

ForgeLordAleMaster: THAT'S SCRAPPING ADORABLE. WHY DO I WANT TO BRING IT IN OUT OF THE RAIN?

β: that wont work ive seen literally thousands of those im immune

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Direct Message (@ β)

Marshall Kotallo: You misunderstand. Not every arrow needs to strike flesh to hit its target.

β: ?

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HIMBO: That's it, Beta, I'm bringing you up here. Eat with us at least for tonight.

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Direct Message (@ Marshall Kotallo)

β: ah i was the puppy not you

Marshall Kotallo: From the literature I have uncovered, I believe you are actually a kitten, but I could not find an image I was satisfied with.

β: im going to hack your focus and replace all your dog pics with tapeworms

Marshall Kotallo: I'll see you in a moment.

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Zo: Aloy? Any chance you'll be back tonight?

FlameHairSavior: I'm deep in Tenakth territory. There's a lost watchtower, or something, and I still haven't really checked in on the Lowland Clan.

Zo: [ForumWeaponSadHeadshake82.gif]

Zo: Just make sure you eat something besides meat.

Marshall Kotallo: I still do not understand your obsession with eating plants.

ForgeLordAleMaster: YEAH, ME NEITHER.

Zo: Erend, the Tenakth diet makes you look like an Utaru.

ForgeLordAleMaster: I DON'T THINK YOU GET HOW MUCH MEAT I EAT.

Zo: Less than the Tenakth.

β: why are you texting were all right here

ForgeLordAleMaster: WE WANT TO INCLUDE ALOY!

β: she said shes busy shes not even reading these

FlameHairSavior: I can multitask.

FlameHairSavior: Sorry Erend, but Zo's right. The Tenakth eat more meat than everyone.

FlameHairSavior: You should talk to this cook in

FlameHairSavior: oops

FlameHairSavior: You should talk to this cook in Salt Bite who was complaining about it.

Zo: I really don't think it's safe for you to text while you ride.

FlameHairSavior: Don't worry, I'm not riding.

HIMBO: ...are you fighting?

ADMIN [GAIA]: She is.

FlameHairSavior: Traitor.

HIMBO: STOP TEXTING AND JUST FIGHT

β: were all going to die

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[lune-yaks]

★𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕕𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥 !★

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𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 : Aimy, Silver, Lune

𝑨𝒈𝒆 : 19

𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 : French 🇨🇵

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𝙵𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚎 :

➪ 🏳️‍🌈♡

➪ Maybe neurodivergent

➪ I love nature, drawing, sports (especially karate, rollerskating, and swimming), cartoons, fictional universes, decorating, writing (mostly fanfictions), listening to music, learning new languages, philosphy and literature

➪ My left pinky finger is smaller than my right one lol

➪ I also have megalophobia, spectrophobia/catoptrophobia, nyctophobia, acrophobia, astraphobia and astrophobia

➪ Not a fan of strinkbugs and crickets

➪ I love the bands Queen, ABBA, Nirvana, Artic Monkeys, and the singers Mika, P!nk, and Jack Stauber

➪ My favorite colors are purple, dark red, and teal

➪ There are too many animals for me to just pick one as my favorite

➪ I am extremely sensitive so tone tags are appreciated !

𝙼𝚢 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜 :

➪ Horror movies

➪ Disturbing/disortired videos, sounds or images (including void memes, analog horror and stuff like that)

➪ Gore

➪ Anxiety inducing videos or posts

➪ Posts about death or severe accidents (freak accidents, car accidents, etc)

𝙼𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖𝚜 :

Main ones ➪ Goof Troop, A Goofy Movie, An Extremely Goofy Movie, Animaniacs original and reboot, House of Mouse, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, Mickey Mouse Shorts/Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse and any special related to the last two

Other ones ➪ Cuphead show and games, Harry Potter, Teen Titans, The Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Times

𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 :

➪ My art

➪ Headcannons

➪ Sometimes random thoughts or opinions

➪ Rarely vents

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⚠️WHAT I DON'T ACCEPT⚠️

NSFW, *ncest, p*dophelia, romanticizing abuse, mentions r*pe or SA, zo*phelia, Eph*bophilia, h*bephilia, bigotry, drama discourse and everything related to those.

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[onwesterlywinds]

20. Does your OC have a tendency to get jealous? If so, how does this manifest? aaaand 24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions? 👀

Gonna reply to both of these for Ashe, since IMO she's got the most interesting answers of all my characters!

20. Does your OC have a tendency to get jealous? If so, how does this manifest?

In the present day, Ashe doesn't have any inclinations toward jealousy: she's incredibly secure in all of her relationships, especially with her loved ones.

When she and Ludo Swiftwind were partnered during the 2.0-era timeframe, though, it was a totally different story. Ludo was the first person she'd ever truly learned to trust, but he often wasn't forthcoming about the nature of his personal dealings, especially those that led to him becoming indebted to the Syndicate. This sparked mutual frustration, which manifested for Ashe as needling him about where he had gone and whom he had met with, and she soon began to resent anyone and anything that she saw as occupying his time and attention over her.

The irony is that Ludo eventually spent most of his time afield trying to keep Ashe safe: he would get similarly obsessive about her comings and goings (in part because he suspected - correctly - that the Syndicate would try to keep tabs on her), even as he often criticized her when she did stay at the Sandsea because she wasn't making the most of her training and/or his hard-won financial investments. By the time he was tempered, he was essentially living a double life, spending time with other free companies and other potential romantic interests to divert the Syndicate's attention from the Riskbreakers.

It took Ashe a long while to feel any closure for the way she and Ludo treated each other, but she swore after they parted ways that she would never let anyone make her feel worthless enough for such jealousy to manifest ever again.

24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

SO. I alluded to it during a couple of my #FFXIVWrite pieces this year, but I've been very slowly working on an AU where Ashe is raised as a ward of Emperor Solus zos Galvus, with all the messy interpersonal and political conflicts that that entails! In this life path, she grows up learning rhetoric, history, and literature (all skills that she was denied in her canon upbringing as a refugee) and becomes an anthropologist of Dalmascan folklore... until she's married off to the legatus of the XIVth Legion as part of Emet-Selch's grand plans to bring about another Calamity.

Writing this AU has been an incredible experience so far, not least of all because it's helped me to answer open questions around some of my other longstanding works and concepts, especially the Ala Mhigan gothic horror that is Godhands! It's also prompted me to delve into some really uncomfortable themes that are undoubtedly making me a better writer. I'm still a ways off from being ready to share it, but I'll link to the two Vera pieces I wrote for #FFXIVWrite in the meantime!