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from-books-with-love · 2 years

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Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

Richard Siken, War of the Foxes.

#richard siken #war of the foxes #literature #quote #quotes #poetry #book quote #book quotes #death #death quote #about death #leaving #break up #grief #grieving #on grief #friends #friendship #from books with love

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marblearkz · 1 year

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misty would LOVE ride the cyclone

#misty quigley #yellowjackets #ride the cyclone #its a musical #about death #and teenagehood #its FOR HER!

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puzzlepop · 7 months

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hi good morning. this post is the cain (my oc) post ever

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[id: a tumblr post by user meershweinchen1993 posted on january first that says: “came back from death wrong trope? you can easily avoid this by just never dying at all (stays alive wrong stays alive wrong stays alive wrong stays alive wr)”. end id.]

and im gonna talk about them and im not even putting it under a read more this time

so cain is my first ever dnd pc who’s life i’ve expanded way beyond the campaign ve was in (and i also have a billion aus with ver — including, coincidentally, the world i originally created ver for which doesn’t really feel like vis canon anymore 😅). ve’s a half-elf druid and shepherd who got roped into this big journey after an attack from a hill giant kind of scattered vis family and flock that originally started with like that pre-written “storm king’s thunder” campaign and then sort of spiraled out from that as our party got more well known in the world and stuff. but from the very beginning, cain didn’t think ve should have been alive. ve thought ve should have been killed by that giant. so ve was kind of “alive wrong” from the beginning.

but as the campaign progressed the party got more and more involved with the undead and people seeking out immortality through undeath and at the detriment of the living around them — including cain’s father, who tried to get cain to join him — and cain really resented the concept of cheating death and achieving immortality in a way that was unnatural hurt other people

but the craziest thing about cain is that, you know, ve’s a half elf and a druid — specifically, by the end of the campaign, an arch druid. which gives them an insanely long natural lifespan anyway? but during the course of their story, cain ends up basically being adopted by a goddess and becomes her holy champion and through her essentially becomes, like, an angel, or a demi-god, or something along those lines, and pretty much becomes immortal through that. so basically they achieve immortality in a way that doesn’t interfere with the forces of nature and doesn’t harm other people.

and they still hate it! they don’t really want it! they accepted the gift from their goddess and she is basically their mom they love her to bits and they do… i feel weird saying “serve” her considering they have a really personal relationship you know but they’re whole thing is that they carry out her wishes in the material plane essentially (she’s a goddess of natural cycles + life & death so essentially cain’s job is to help lost souls pass on and stuff). but ve’s alive wrong now because ve still hardly feels like ve should be alive in the first place. ve feels like there have been many times ve should have died but havent, and ve feels hypocritical being immortal after rejecting vis father’s path to immortality despite vis father’s path involving essentially destroying the material plane and feeding off of the living and cain’s just. here. and also didnt ask to be immortal in the first place. and because ve’s lived for eons and eons, repeatedly ve’s witnessed practically the entire lifespans of vis loved ones, and spends years and decades and centuries alone because ve’s alive and shouldn’t be.

anyway i dont know how articulate that is but. yea. cain my beloved

#🌀.txt #in the ‘modern day’ world ve exists in now ve’s adopted celestine who is half-angel in the literal sense so ve’s not alone forever #and while celeste isnt IMMORTAL…. well. she’s got somethin special goin on regarding her lifespan(s). so #my ocs #oc: cain oliviera #long post #about death #death discussion

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plathbelljar · 1 year

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#Neil Millar #poetry #poems #death #about death #dead

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othervoice-s · 5 months

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A dead girl's epitaph

Everybody is nice to you, after.

When you're dead. Everybody loves you. Everybody is kind. Everybody cares.

When you're dead. But it's too late then.

A dead girl has lots of friends. Lots of people around. Lots of people who mourn and feel the loss.

It wasn't like this, before. And maybe, if it had been like this before, I wouldn't be dead now.

Everybody gives you presents, when you're dead. They bring flowers, little cuddly stuffed animals, pictures and pretty little candles.

Everybody spares a thought, when you're dead. Or at least, so they say. And they sound truthful.

But it doesn't last long, actually.

That is what happens at first. When everybody feels kind of guilty and sorry because they didn't see or notice what was going on

Because they didn't try to help.

It doesn't really matter what happened to me. After, it's all the same. It doesn't matter how I got here.

Did I slash my wrists? Did I starve myself to death?

Or was I killed by someone? Was it someone I once loved? Was it someone who had stalked me? Was it because I was too nice? Too pretty? Too wild? Too fragile? Too loud? Too compliant? Too shy? Too weird?

Was it because I was too afraid, or because I wasn't afraid enough? Because I went out alone at night or because I stayed in all the time?

Does it matter, after all?

A dead girl is always young. Always as in "forever". A dead girl won't grow old. She'll stay the same in pictures that fade with time.

Will the memory fade with time, too? Or will someone remember me?

A dead girl has no more dreams.

I miss those. They made life brighter.

A dead girl has no more fears.

I don't miss those. I'm glad they're gone.

Was my life happy, before I died?

Or was it a nightmare I only wanted to end?

It doesn't matter now.

A dead girl can't change the past.

What was, is now gone. And now nothing else will ever be.

A dead girl has no future. Only an epitaph on a tombstone.

#my words #about death

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booksellergothic · 1 year

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Halloween Day 30

Sorry my darlings, I thought I sent this out into the aether in time. Apparently the aether ate it.

@caffiend-queen @myoxisbroken @dangertoozmanykids101 @toozmanykids @punemy-spotted @joyfullymassivewhispers @imdeadtiredtm @sylviefromneptune

#31 days of halloween reading #halloween #about sex #about death

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your-werewolf-boyfriend · 2 years

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When i think abt my life I kinda lose my mind a little

Ive been in the middle of a disaster

Ive ran a kink group for several years successfully that went from 20 members to 100

I caused a bar to be able to afford just painting their walls when they were going belly up priorly - just by running our events there

Im an accountant

Im a taxidermist

Ive transitioned to the point of no longer being dysphoric

And im only in my early twenties. I have so much experience in so many things. And yet Ive only been able to legally buy alcohol for a few years.

#theres so much more #about death #about horror #about pain #but Im so here and alive right now

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mydanishdarling · 2 years

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There was a story here somewhere… about the land of the dead, something like that…

#my stuff #woc artist #poc artist #thick and curvy #my ocs #brown skin girl #original characters #original character #original art #about death #grim reapers #forgottencore

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maya-mayuran · 2 years

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Tw death

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Something about death,

About how cruel it is,

When it makes bodies rot,

And rips souls out of them,

About how it doesn't exactly take our people from us,

Nor does it erase them from our lives,

About how it makes their presence known to us,

Through pangs of pain and all encompassing love that wash over us,

And it reminds us yet again,

That we can't talk and be answered anymore,

We can't hear laughter and recognize it anymore,

We can't reach out for a hug and wrap our arms around their body,

Be flooded withtheir scent,

Anymore,

We can't scream out our anger and lash out our grief and confusion and get screamed back at,

We can't get as good as we give,

Not anymore.

Death,

Ever present in emptiness,

Filling it with sorrow and memories,

And phantom touches,

And 'oh, they're not here anymore's

Burrows under our skin,

Creeps into our limbs,

And controls us,

Bounds us,

In shackles of sadness and depression,

And something in us goes missing,

Quiets down,

Sticks itself to the background of our everyday lives,

To never go away,

Death,

Who reminds us,

That we are little pieces,

Of different people,

That we can live without those pieces,

But each shattered fragment sinks low into our flesh,

And burrows deep in our hearts,

And the pain dulls,

But it still hurts a little,

Less overtime,

Until we meet again.

The death of a dear one, is always like the first time, you can never have experience with death, because it's always a new way.

A grieving one, about losing someone

Mayuran

#death #poetry #poem #writing #mayuran #written #sad poetry #creative writing #dark poetry #grief #death of a loved one #about death

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captainjonnitkessler · 5 months

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Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

#thinking about the person i saw saying that if you're at a protest #and other protesters try to stop you from becoming violent you should just kill them bc 'peace police are still police'#even taken as hyperbole that's simply dumb as shit on every conceivable level #it's also pretty blatantly hypocritical coming from people who are usually self-avowed prison/death penalty abolitionists #like i'm sorry but you don't get to be a death penalty abolitionist and also call for the death of your political enemies online #this isn't a major issue or anything i'm just bored and annoyed

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from-books-with-love · 1 year

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It's hard to tell the difference between wanting to die and just wanting to sink for a while.

Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed.

#trista mateer #the dogs i have kissed #literature #quote #poetry #death #about death #death quote #depression #on depression #grief #on grief #from books with love

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 9 months

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being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind

#you go upstairs to hear the news talk about the death toll hitting 100k. you get some frozen waffles bc its all you've got stocked up #and you wont risk going to get groceries or takeout. you go back downstairs because you have a 3 page essay due.#you stare at your word doc with lofi playing and wonder why you can't just buckle down and work like normal.#or really. you pretend to wonder #because you know the reason you cant work like normal #you just refuse to allow yourself to believe its reason enough #mine #academia #covid mention

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feluka · 2 months

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oh god shut up. you didn't even know the damn kid.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe, and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." — James Baldwin

#i am honestly not even sure who you're referring to #the most recent child deaths i've reblogged are #nex benedict (the nonbinary kid murdered at school) and hind rajab #if you can't see why either of these should shatter your heart without personally knowing them #then you're entirely beyond any hope #asks #edit: this was about hind.

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cicadas · 1 month

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Pink Floyd no longer plays live haha they play Dead hahahahahanskdnzkmxjdnmskzk283

#personal #bad joke #see #inappropriate #about death #twrrible

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ghost-bxrd · 1 month

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Headcanon that when Jason so much as says “ow..” on the comms the rest of the batfam immediately assume he must be dying.