FIND THE WORD TAG #3
tagged by @x-writes @andiwriteunderthemoon @wannabeauthorzofija and @mp-golfin!!
i’ve chosen one word from each of y’alls tags because i don't think having 20 excerpts in one post would have helped anyone 🥴
CHOKE [from x]
I missed winter already. Spring birthed colour everywhere and I should have loved it. My garden must be choked with growth and perfume and chlorophyll. I must be growing a mini forest there. But I missed the chill in my bones after every exit-and-enter from the front door, the plumes of vapour dewdropping from my mouth, the steady palm-rubbing as if I was trying to ignite fire. Somehow the insidious fermenting of the snow had burrowed into me. I didn’t want to change seasons. Stay rooted two feet under, bend and fold but don’t break away.
DREAM [from chandra]
Green paint gossamered in the half-fluorescence. You lay on the bed and dreamed peacefully, an angel with your hair fluttering by your ears, your eyelids cycling through sleep— shut now, slowly opening, shut again.
HEALTH [from zofija]
Our house was a slump of cement when the rains came around: the plumbing would crackle and fizz as if thunder had built camp there, the soft paint would be mossed and smothered with mud, and the ivy that curled on the rooftops, like barbed wire, would wither in stagnant water and die in clumps. You could stand under the rooftops and catch a few of the rotting vines if you were unlucky enough— the chlorophyll already sucked out, and the residue a corpse of dark green— and the decay would ruin your porch as much as it ruined your day. Every house was plagued with unhealth and the air was dirty and sediment in your lungs. Laceflies stuck to windows and shed their wings. Everyone was sick from the cold or sick of the weather and wished to sleep forever.
RAINFALL [from pía]
i didn't find rainfall so used rain instead
You, you, you. For thirty years I’d let you live with me. When I turned, you were there, grinning. When I unsaddled rain at the door, you were there, saving the towel for yourself. When I’d cut my fingers on my documents, you were there, hoarding the antiseptics. It was all in spirit, they’d say— the dead never leave you, after all. Always taking up residence in your heart. Always haunting you.
my words for you are: skin, delicate, porcelain, glisten. tagging @athenapollo @shaelinwrites @pamsdrabbles @chayscribbles @dallonswords @jennawritesstories @kraljevna @nangua @oasis-of-you @rossafabula @zmlorenz + anyone else who wants to participate !
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Here’s an updated list of my fav puroresu photographers on Instagram because:
1.) I often see their work getting reposted, mostly without credit, despite pretty much all of them not being fond of that (always check what their bios say pls)
2.) they are doing gods work with giving us such great shots of our faves and deserve appreciation.
3.) the old post (here) is outdated, features inactive accounts or my description of them doesn't fit anymore, I still recommend checking them out tho!!
yutaka10.26 – post about NJPW regularly and a lot
taigaphoto_pw – same as above, but also attend other promotions: DDT, FREEDOMS and AJPW for example (just a funfact but Jay White often uses their work)
pluma_blanca930 – not the most active account but has some impressive shots, mainly posting NJPW and STARDOM
m.mitubachi – in regards of aesthetics my fav, their editing gives their shots a film photography vibe - post exclusively NJPW as far as im concerned
naozen_pwp – also exclusively post about NJPW, definitely check out their IG story highlights where they share most of their work
bc1975forlife – has a big catalog, mostly STARDOM and NJPW but he also posts stuff about FREEDOMS
octopus.stretch_pw – rather new account, uploads since Nov 2020, attends NJPW, STARDOM, DDT and NOAH shows, posts less than the ones mentioned so far but has some really awesome shots
dragon000stop – attend a wide variety of Japanese promotions, heavy focus on color editing their pics
tomosankak109 – mainly NJPW, got a real good eye for dramatic shots!
napp0nx_x_x – have with over 13k posts on their feed quite an impressive collection, mostly NJPW, DDT, NOAH, BJW and FREEDOMS
honourable mentions: akn__pw, daichi8244, yumiiii125, nakabatakeda, mari__photo2020, mihonin and kanaa1028
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Burning Bridges
The bridges around us are burnt—
charred remnants of ash and fire
and all I feel now is how badly I wish
I could turn time backwards
and never make those promises to you.
Your curls, your brown eyes, your laugh—
like someone had a gun to your head
and forced you to take a joke—
all replay in my mind like a record on repeat
that I just can’t stop playing.
It sits on the record table, spinning.
Ephemeralities, you’d call it,
something to indicate the way we felt like
everything around us was fleeting,
but our friendship was the north star—
constant. You’re gone now, too,
but you were right.
I’ll never shake the sight of you.
I don’t know when I fell in love with you.
It could never be pinned to just a moment in time.
I see your hair, pinned up at prom,
your eyes, glassy with tears when we’d sit
behind the buildings during break
holding hands like time could never
catch up to us if we were together.
You were never in love with me as far
as I know but it always felt like more
than just two friends huddled together
to make warmth out of a day as cold
as you’d become.
The bridges around us are crumbling.
I cannot get back to you across the water
dividing us, cannot swim for I know I would
sink back into the depths like the Titanic,
like Atlantis—gradual, and then all at once.
If I went back to find you, I’d never find myself
again.
I don’t know when I started to hate you.
It could never be pinned to just a moment in time.
I see your eyes, stony and cold, at prom,
your voice bitter with resentment at me,
or resentment projected at me, maybe.
We were quite a pair: me, who apologized
too much and you, who could never
find it in yourself to say sorry for all the lies you built,
the house of cards you stacked
just to knock it all down with a flick of your wrist
and a violent, malicious grin.
You never knew I loved you,
but you knew I broke every promise
I made to you and I think that’s enough
to show how much I grew to hate us.
It replays in my mind:
The fights, the laughs, the way you
kissed my forehead before class that day,
the way you begged me to break down
my walls for you, the way you lied
and then told me lies weren’t the worst
crime a person could commit.
It replays in my mind:
The warmth of your hand, the winter blizzard
in your stare, those days when every word
out of your mouth was acid onto my skin,
the way you told me we had an “always”
like Hazel and Gus and then flinched from my touch.
The bridges around us are burnt.
I drop the match, drop the gasoline.
I watch the river surrounded with flames.
You’re somewhere on the other side,
your figure shrouded in smoke
so that way I cannot see what I leave behind
as I make my way back home.
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