i’ve got all this rage in me and i don’t know where to put it
@rbhvleo // paul miller “utopia” // “the book of promothea” hélène cixous tr. betsy wing // gillian flynn “dark places” // ginger snaps // @heavensghost // @vawium // @traumathoughts // lucille clifton “leukemia as white rabbits” // ahamkara lustre print @artofmaquenda // audre lorde
[ID: a collection of text excerpts:
“TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER / TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER / TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER”
a drawing with a deep red background with unidentifiable black text scribbled on the top and bottom right corners. on top, a white face is drawn - the mouth is open as if in a scream with teeth baring, the right eye is slightly bigger.
“i exist, i am, don’t come near, i have teeth, i have claws”
“I was not a lovable child, and i’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.”
“Ginger: I get this ache... and I thought it was for sex but it’s to tear everything to fucking pieces.”
“I AM AN ANGEL FULL OF RAGE / I CAN’T TOLERATE THIS PAIN”
“never again will i be gentle / I will be bloodied knuckles and scuffed elbows / I will remain rough”
“i am i am i am furious”
an ahamkara lustre print of black dogs baring teeth
“I feel it’s my anger that has / helped keep me alive,” /end ID]
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00:00:00 / sux to sux candie corn
she remembers about a week after the crash, the feeling of sorrow stuck at the bottom of her stomach like sticky taffy that you couldn’t quite swallow. she remembers the dark timer on her father’s wrist, the one that used to be a blindingly red 00:00:00. she remembers the hard sob caught in his throat when she had pointed it out, innocent eyes peering up at his. ( daddy why is your timer dark? daddy where is mama? daddy is mama coming home? daddy is mama with the angels? ) she remembers the toothy grin she had given him when he shook his head, pressing their wrists together. ( look, now we’re matching! ) she remembers feeling the timer on her wrist, which has always been cold and dark. but unlike her father’s, carrie’s was still ticking a long ass number she never remembered.
it was a strange feeling, walking into school for the next couple of years. she met julie, bright and happy as the sun, just pure light. she remembers wanting her so bad. wanting her safe, wanting her loved, wanting her happy. but julie had four timers, three of those were dark ( still ticking, just like carrie’s ) one that was a blinding red, whose numbers seemed to be rapidly declining too fast for her to keep up. none of those numbers were carrie’s, none of them matched. and if julie molina wasn’t her soulmate, she’s not sure she wanted anybody to be.
she remembers the feeling of her heart dropping in her chest when she found flynn and julie, smiling about something she couldn’t understand. until she saw it, their wrists were now matching. carrie felt sick to her stomach, the blinding red 00:00:00 blinking on both of their wrists. she doesn’t think she’s ever called home in tears so fast before.
she remembers meeting kayla, pretty and purple and quiet. carrie took her hand with a smile, pretending like the wrist so close to hers wasn’t cold and dark like hers, like it wasn’t still whirring with numbers that hadn’t stopped. she became so good at pretending, she forgot that kayla wasn’t hers. when they were dancing together in dirty candy rehearsals, when she carefully applied purple tinted lip gloss to the other, and their faces were so close. she forgot everything was ever wrong, they were in their own candy flavored world where it was only them and things that could never hurt them.
she remembers the squeal of joy the other girl had let out when she yanked her hand from carrie’s pulling down the sleeve of her jacket to reveal a dark 00:00:00. and carrie looked up, heart in tatters, to find the boy on stage with dark hair winking at her best friend, who wasn’t hers, kayla was his. god she felt sick, why couldn’t she just be happy? why couldn’t the universe give her one thing? just this once?
she doesn’t like to think about any of this, of course. carrie wilson had become a master of leaving the room whenever the forbidden topic had come up, keeping her feelings and words locked up tight inside of her. she walks home from school today, knowing her dad won’t send a car unless she asks, because even though he’s trying, he never remembers anything. the wind is quiet today, normally she’d find the quiet nice, calming, even. but today it makes her snarl, the quiet of the world around her making everything else in her head too loud. she crosses her arms, tightening them around herself. wishing she had called for a car instead of walking through suburban los angeles.
honestly, it’s pure luck that she hears the sniffle, because otherwise she would’ve walked right through him. ( he’s too faint to be a real person, he’s dead and sad, he just has to be. ) and carrie almost walked right past him, but something stopped her. the way he’s looking at her wrist is a telltale sign she’s seen all her life that somebody’s just met their world. except there’s nobody else here, nobody to rush into his arms with a grin and a ‘i finally found you!’. it’s just her and him and- wait. god, she almost screams, her wrist has stopped ticking, finally. it’s cold and dark but it stopped at 00:00:00. carrie knows that she should be happy, but he’s dead. of course her soulmate is fucking dead. that doesn’t stop her from snatching up his wrist, ( why can she touch him? why can she fucking touch him? ) turning it so she can see, and he has four 00:00:00s, two dark, and two bright, blinding red. all of them are stopped, but all she’s thinking about is how lucky he is, to have four. she only has one and it’s him, a dumb ghost boy that’s crying on the side of the road.
carrie pulls him up so he’s standing, changing her grip from his wrist to his hand, and that’s when she finally meets his eyes. this boy is julie’s, and he has two other soulmates besides her former friend. but he’s also carrie’s, so she has to take care of him. she tugs him in the direction opposite of where she was headed, features neutral. “ c’mon, i know a good crying spot. ”
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Q. WHY DO YOU HUNT MONSTERS?
A. BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
FOR: APPLE WHITE.
you are a friend-shaped ball of light and you glow and you absorb your friends' wounds because OF COURSE YOU WOULD! OF COURSE YOU WOULD! IF YOU CAN HELP, THEN YOU SHOULD! it couldn't be simpler! and, sure, maybe it's starting to look like literally every aspect of everything you've ever known is corrupt -- maybe it's rotten all the way down -- but you refuse to become jaded. unceasing, blinding optimism is the strongest weapon you have. you believe that much. because, really, the monsters only win when you succumb to darkness, despair, anger, fear. they feed off those things. off of panic. IF YOU ARE THERE FOR YOUR FRIENDS, IF YOU ARE THERE FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS YOU, YOU KNOW THAT EVERYTHING WILL WORK OUT IN THE END, BECAUSE IT'S GOT TO, IT'S SIMPLY GOT TO and so that's what's going to happen. you fight monsters because it's the right thing to do. you believe that anyone would do the same thing, in your position -- it's just, you don't seem to realize that not everyone is like you.
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