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✩ softly reading: june 2022 ✩
welcome to softly reading, in which i list every single drarry fic i’ve read this month in hopes that you, dear reader, find a fic you like too!
✩ - a fave | 🔥 - hot | 🌼 - gentle read | purple - reread
longer reads
✩ To Vanish Into Something Better by @m0srael [E, 35k]
Harry Potter thought he could outrun the burden of infamy by isolating himself in the Muggle world. Draco Malfoy hasn’t been seen or heard from since his trial. Will a top-secret Ministry project, a beautiful garden, and a little heat carry them both home? [H/D Erised 2021]
Dirty Little Secret by @writcraft [E, 22k] 🔥
When someone threatens Harry’s life, Kingsley decides to send him to a safe house with only Draco Malfoy for company. As the two men are forced together, memories of the past resurface and secrets are discovered. [Harry/Draco Erised]
The Seventh Life by @corvuscrowned [E, 18k] 🔥🏳️‍⚧️
If Draco had looked the other way, he may never have seen him again. But Draco turned, because he always would have turned. He found him, because he always would have found him - in life, in death, or in Paris. OR: Draco is an immortal vampire. Harry is trapped in eternal cycles of life, death, and reincarnation. They meet again in Paris, and the seventh life isn't any less complicated than the first. [HD Fangfest 2022]
✩ Where I see things right by InnerLilith [E, 15k]
When Harry finds himself unexpectedly pregnant after a one-off with Draco Malfoy, he knows he isn’t keeping it. But when actually getting the abortion turns out to be more complicated than Harry expected, he finds himself turning to Malfoy for help through the process. And that’s actually much less complicated than Harry expected.
✩ embrace the deception by @swoontodeath [M, 13k]
Draco Malfoy shouldn’t feel like the stable one, not when he spends his days pretending to have clairvoyant powers and solving mysteries with Neville Longbottom. Harry Potter, however, seems to be on the edge of a breakdown, and he’s growing increasingly obsessed with his former rival. [Lights Camera Drarry 2022]
Harry Potter: DILF Hunter by @vukovich [E, 11k] 🔥
Auror Potter doesn't know what a DILF is, but if Malfoy's one, then Harry's gonna be the Ministry's best DILF Hunter ever! Or, five times Harry heard Draco was a DILF, and one time he found it to be pleasantly true.
the complete idiot’s guide to losing your entire mind by @oknowkiss [E, 10k] 🔥
A primer, by Harry James Potter, age 34. Qualifications: lived experience. OR: Draco Malfoy, Ministry of Magic Being Resources representative, accidentally invents No Nut November.
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✩ Glowing by @cavendishbutterfly [T, 9.7k] 🌼🏳️‍⚧️
Harry's lived alone and vampiric in his cottage for ages, until a long-lived Draco Malfoy suddenly shows up to answer an advertisement Harry had practically forgotten he'd put in the Prophet. Cue soft blood drinking, quiet nights of reading and crocheting, and Harry thinking that maybe--just maybe--he might not be so alone anymore. [HD Fangfest 2022]
Perfect for him by anxioussquirrel [T, 8.3k]
Draco Malfoy is getting married. In a turn of events he’d never have believed possible, he is getting married to a man who’s perfect for him. Absolutely perfect.
✩ First Week of Eternity by InnerLilith [E, 7.8k] 🔥
In which Draco tries desperately to hide that he’s recently become a vampire, and Harry tries desperately to feed him. [HD Fangfest 2022]
let me be your sun by @owl-of-fandom [M, 7.8k]
“Tell me you love me.” / “Oh, darling.” The endearment falls from Harry’s lips as if the affection was his own. As if it wasn’t planted in his mind, in his heart, by me. / “I love you." [HD Fangfest 2022]
Sweet Like Candy in my Veins by @shah-writes [M, 7.6k]
In which Harry is a magical theorist with a penchant for catching vampires for the Aurors and Draco is the vampire who’s in love with him. [HD Fangfest 2022]
The First Taste by @maraudersaffair [E, 7.1k] 🔥
After being ostracized by nearly everyone after the war, Draco says yes when Harry offers him a place to stay. Perhaps he should have looked the gift horse in the mouth, however, when he discovers Harry is not all he seems. [HD Fangfest 2022]
Conversation In Café Cygnus by @ladderofyears [M, 6k]
Draco falls pregnant unexpectedly and breaks off the secret love affair that he's been having with Harry Potter. When Draco decides to keep the baby, Harry and he spend the remaining months of the pregnancy getting to know one another.
light as the sky above by @candybarrnerd [E, 5.6k] 🔥
Harry notices Draco leave. Harry’s always had one eye watching Draco, and old habits die hard. [H/D Erised 2021]
Harry Potter and the Half-Guard Prince by @swoontodeath [M, 4.4k]
Banished to the Muggle world by the conditions of his parole, Draco Malfoy is forced to learn how to protect himself without magic. The Half-Guard Prince might never show his face in his videos, but that low, seductive voice is strangely familiar… [Quidditch Fest 2022]
✩ Catch Midnight by @tackytigerfic [E, 4k] 🔥
They're the Auror/ Unspeakable team of Robards' nightmares. They're madly in love with each other, but also blindly oblivious to the fact. They can feel each other's magic. They jump out of windows. And Malfoy does a lot of watching Harry wank.
✩ Take You Made by @tackytigerfic [E, 3.9k] 🔥
"Draco didn’t believe in soulmates, but Harry Potter was the closest thing he had to one, so he was just going to keep pushing those inconvenient loving thoughts aside until one day he could learn how to get rid of them for good."
✩ Let Me Count the Ways by @thebooktopus [E, 3.5k] 🌼
Intimacy comes in many forms. Draco wants to explore them all with Harry. [HP Pride Secret Santa 2022]
Di sotto in sù by @vivantesopales [E, 3.4k] 🔥
Draco thinks it's best they stop seeing each other. Harry disagrees. [HD Fangfest 2022]
Harry’s Flower by @potteresque-ire [M, 3.2k]
Draco had always received one flower—no more, no less—from Harry every day. He never thought the flowers would run out, until Harry was critically wounded… [Harry/Draco Owlpost 2016]
Face Me (And I’ll be There to Hold You) by bluemermaid54 [E, 2.2k] 🔥🌼
They only have sex facing away from each other. Tonight, Harry wants to change that.
✩ Willing Blood by @lqtraintracks & @the-starryknight [E, 2.1k] 🔥
Seven days together, years ago; seventy-four hours and thirty-eight minutes trapped in this house alone; and now one chance to stop himself from draining Potter dry. Will Draco take it? Will Harry let him? [HD Fangfest 2022]
✩ all the small things by @tryslora [E, 2k] 🔥
Harry is not hung and Draco loves giving him head because of that. If it happens to be a way to silently say I love you that’s just a coincidence.
Fanged Delight by DrWhoIsGinnyHolmes [E, 2k]
Recently turned vampire Draco just developed his special vampiric skill: mind reading. It was now time to discover everyone's dirty little secrets, starting with Harry Potter himself. It just wasn't what Draco expected and now he has to deal with the consequences. [HD Fangfest 2022]
Painted Me Golden by @purplehotmess [M, 1.4k]
Each time I was with you, though, the chasm of yearning widened like a maw of a predator ready to chomp on my bleeding heart.
✩ What You’ve Come For by @nv-md [E, 1.3k] 🔥
It doesn't matter that Draco's a bloodthirsty vampire, Harry can't stay away from him, and they come together night after night in the Astronomy Tower. [HD Fangfest 2022]
✩ Serenity by Rasborealis [E, 953 words] 🔥🌼
After the war, Draco is broken. Harry attempts to fix him any way he can.
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✩ The flames are part of us by @pato-roldnart [G, digital art]
Harry has never had any doubt to stop and extinguish the flames and their fire wielders. After his first encounter with their leader Draco Malfoy, Harry is starting to get suspicious of the Ministry and their intentions to catch every witch and wizard that can control fire. [LCDrarry 2022]
Hidden Away by @celilasart [T, art & poem]
Your sweet blood on my red lips, / your soft skin under my fingertips. [HD Fangfest 2022]
non-drarry
✩ Best in Blue by @cavendishbutterfly [Teddy/James Sirius, E, 11k] 🏳️‍⚧️🔥
James shouldn't have messed up his knee in a Quidditch game. And he shouldn't have come back to London before it healed. He also definitely shouldn't be wandering around Teddy's flat looking that fucking attractive and lovely, but that's a different problem entirely.
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slutforsilverfoxes · 6 months
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Imagine…
Starting to make dinner in Aaron’s apartment on a Thursday night. He’s just gone for a shower, washing away his last case and the worst parts of the world that he falls privy to day in and day out as Unit Chief of the BAU.
You’re humming along to your oldies but goodies playlist while sipping a glass of white wine that’s too sweet for Aaron’s liking. As the current song fades out and the familiar notes of a Bee Gees tune start, you realize with a smile just how many of these songs you've compiled make you think of your love.
And, speak of the furthest thing from the devil, suddenly he’s there, his arms wrapping around your waist from behind as his body perfectly molds to the dips and curves of your own. He guides you back and forth in a gentle sway, his chin coming to rest on your shoulder as he releases a deep sigh.
You allow your eyes to drift shut and your head to fall back against Aaron so you can bury your nose in the crook of his neck. "Sauce'll burn," you mumble, letting his familiar smell wash over you and sending warm tingles throughout your body.
"Let it," he responds just as softly. "We'll order something. Need to hold you."
You release a sound of contentment that's half-sigh, half-hum, nuzzling even deeper into him as if you can become one person if you try hard enough. In this moment, there's no yesterday or tomorrow. There's no anticipation of the next phone call that will take your love across the country again. There's no darkness, no fear, no evil lurking around the corner. There's just you and the man you love more than anything else in the world.
You dot gentle kisses along the expanse of his skin that you can reach without moving, and he squeezes you tighter in response. "Marry me," Aaron breathes out on a sigh. "I'll make it more romantic later, I promise. Just tell me you'll be mine forever."
"Oh, my baby," you murmur. "I already am."
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AH tags 🖤 @gothwifehotchner @iyv-ray24 @mrs-ssa-hotch @criminalskies @callm3c0nfus3d
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tired-and-swaggy · 8 months
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people complaining on Twitter about how hozier played mostly old songs last night instead of all the new ones… crazy to me. like you saw hozier. in front of you. he sang for you. crazy to be upset about anything after that
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cadaverkeys · 22 days
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You guys know any queer comics where characters are Fae/Interact with Fae? I'm writing an essay on the intersection between queer comic spaces and Celtic mythology and I'd like to know if people have thoughts/recommendations.
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arttrampbelle · 2 months
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For frollo enjoyers
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Made this for y'all.
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mintaclestentacles · 1 year
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One of my favorite JayDick tropes is when Bruce learns about their relationship and is completely fine, ranging to actually supportive about it but when they're alone he gives Dick a shovel talk which just leaves Dick gaping like, what?? WHAT?? Me? I get the shovel talk? And Bruce is like, well yeah, you're the older man dating my son who isn't as experienced, whom I love very much and who I worry about getting his heart broken, because he's just a bit fragile and tender. So be the responsible one, Dick, and treat Jason the way he deserves.
Dick stares mouth open at Bruce's back because he was not expecting that, but also he knows Bruce has a point. He just wasn't expecting Bruce to know that.
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uhbasicallyjustmilex · 10 months
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it does something incomprehensible to my little writer’s soul whenever alex articulates a phenomenon of the writing process i’ve always picked up on and then goes on to describe it in exactly the same way
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softlyopulent-if · 11 months
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Because my exams are over, I’ve gotten quite a bit done recently. Chapter 2 is really coming along! I finally have a chance to let the ROs shine as the MC gets to know them! I've finished about half of Calix/Calixta’s scene and started on Aleksandar/Aleksandra’s as well. And with the way that I’ve been writing lately, I’m sure everything will come together very soon! The update will likely come out early June.
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WARNING! THERE WILL BE HEAVY SPOILERS FOR THE GAME "OUTER WILDS"
can we talk about how "balanced" outer wilds is? Like, the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the black-white hole mechanic: the black hole attracts everything towards itself, a colorless pit where everything will fall into at the end of the loop. The white hole is instead the beginning of the cycle, a singularity that spits you out from the other side of death and depth, a dot with all colours in it.
Then there's the hourglass twins, on one you must be patient and on the other you must hurry. On one side you wait for the sand to reveal the secrets beneath, on the other you may not even have enough time before it covers everything and crushes you between itself and the ember twin crust.
Then there's the Nomai and Owlks thing going on. The Nomai met their end through years and centuries of researches, only for their end to be something completely unrelated. The Owlks found the eye and were disgusted and scared, not fascinated, and met their "end" as a direct consequence of their desperate run for blissful ignorance and estrangement to the outside world. Not to mention how each species communicates with the player: the Nomai utilize writing, something formal, something that is hard to misunderstand, a writing that forms around a spiral (something potentially infinite). The Owlks instead use art as a medium, slides that told the player of their civilization decadence. Slides of drawings framed in a circular shape (that couldn't be more limited)
Then there's obviously the "wow death is a real thing now" that happens after you get the core. Imagine being stuck in a situation where the end is meaningless and not really the end, you will always wake up beside a campfire regardless of how you died (unless you destroy the fabric of space-time). Now imagine for everything you learned about how meaningless death is to be virtually useless, you are left with the existential fear you thought you forgot that came back in full force.
Now, i find the parallel between the Prisoner and Solanum to be fascinating. Two different beings recluded in a giant jail, one by choice, the other sentenced to an eternal bodyless life. Both are more dead than alive, but while Solanum is the nearest anyone has ever got to the eye, the Prisoner is the farthest and furthest. Poor Owlk, inmate of a giant digital jail made by those who hated him and what he fought to free; haunted by the failure of his attempt to free the Eye, but the arrival of the player made him understand that there was still a chance for the universe. Poor Nomai, victim of her own success, surrounded by nothing but the haunting of loneliness, the hatchling's arrival made her understand that the ash twin project finally worked (and what was necessary to make that work *happened*).
Outer wilds wouldn't be as loved as it is without these elements, it needs them to be complete, to have a meaning, to show how cosmic perfection is only achievable by following the universe's rules, it needs the horror element to it's peaceful exploration one, it needs funky music to it's sealed screams, it needs light, it needs darkness, it needs explosions, it needs calmness, it needs water and deserts, it needs geysers and small wooden cottages, it needs blue, green, red, pink, beige, yellow and purple to it's black. It needs so so many things and it has them, it doesn't need anything else to be loved.
Outer wilds isn't just a game about how small we are, how our past will influence the future and the beautiful part of hopelessness. It's also a game about balance, how everything must have a counterpart, how we can't just live on one side of the coin. It's a game about cherishing the sad parts of life, the parts that want to make your legs give up and curl in on yourself. Even in real life nothing would exist if the balance between matter and anti-matter wasn't just right, it's a game about how an existence resting on one side of the plate isn't just impossible, but also empty.
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renabe4life · 11 months
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"Togethers and Tomorrows"
A quiet scene from chapter 35 of And the Reason Comes, by @whatacartouchebag as a wee birthday present for a precious friend. I have been wanting to draw this since the chapter was posted, just thought you should know ♡
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softlystarstruck · 2 years
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✩ softly reading april 11 - 30 ✩
backstreet’s back, baby. except only kind of, because im doing these monthly now! this one is just belatedly filling in the rest of april. welcome to softly reading, in which i list every single drarry fic i’ve read this month in hopes that you, dear reader, find a fic you like too!
✩ - a fave | 🔥 - hot | 🌼 - gentle read
longer reads
✩ Once More With Feeling by InnerLilith [E, 28k] 🔥
Draco is dosed with a consummation-compelling potion, with Harry Potter as his intended. It’s a cruel irony, because he’s wanted Potter for years. But not like this.
✩ Offer Up Our Hearts by @tackytigerfic [M, 23k]
Harry Potter has a very nice life, thank you very much. He's a top Curse-Breaker with a lucrative Ministry contract, and exciting prospects ahead. Sometimes he does wish that he had time to pursue something official with Draco Malfoy - they're half in love with each other, after all, and a great team (in and out of bed), though Draco is still one of the most infuriating people he knows. And when Draco asks Harry to accompany him on a diplomatic mission to the mysterious Sidhe fairies in Ireland, Harry agrees to lend his expertise. [HD Tropes Exchange Fest 2019] Recced to me by @the-starryknight
✩ The shape of my love by @orange-peony [E, 23k] 🏳️‍⚧️🔥🌼
Harry’s happy — happier than he’s ever been in his life, really. He loves living with Draco, studying with him and cooking together. Draco is still oddly mysterious about the potion he takes every day, even though Harry is a bloody Healer in training, and he still never changes in front of him, but that’s fine. Harry respects his boundaries, because he has his own too. And he is probably - or most likely - a little enamoured with the blond git, if he has to admit it to himself, but it’s fine. [HP Trans Fest 2022]
✩ all my love’s wrapped in shades of red by asininemind [T, 15k]
Ron and Hermione are moving out - so, naturally, Harry does the responsible adult-thing: Stalk Visit Draco Malfoy at his job at a costume store.
Strings Attached by daisymondays [E, 14k] 🔥
Draco Malfoy's never been interested in dating, and he'll be damned if that changes because of Harry Potter in joggers. [HP Joggers Fest]
✩ To Tame A Kitten (is to love) by @tsauergrass [G, 13k] 🌼
After the war, Harry finds solace in fostering orphaned kittens. One day, a kitten appears on his door step without explanation—and attacks him! Taking it in, he quickly finds that this kitten is nothing ordinary. [H/D Fan Fair 2019]
Kissed by @potteresque-ire [M, 12k]
Draco Malfoy was attacked by a rogue Dementor on the night of his Azkaban release. He self-exiled to Muggle London and opened a late-night chocolate shop called Kissed. [H/D Erised 2015]
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hear me (with your whole body) by @teacup-tai [E, 9k]
It was a sexy idea, exploring other bodies with Draco, engaging in sex with other people to spice things up. Something inside of him was excited about the prospect, but the nagging fear, the feeling of abandonment that follows each image that pops in his head is throwing him off. He would give it a go. See what it was like. He could always say no, right? [H/D Hurt Fest 2020]
✩ Worth It by @april-thelightfury115 [T, 8.7k] 🏳️‍⚧️
After a friendly quidditch match, Harry's sure he's the only one left in the changing room. But then Malfoy—a naked Malfoy—stands before him, and Harry instantly knows two things. 1. He's fucked. 2. Malfoy knows he's trans. The only thing that might save him? Draco Malfoy is trans too. [HP Trans Fest 2022]
✩ Everything About You by @nv-md [E, 2.5k] 🔥🏳️‍⚧️
Draco's in love with his best friend, and he's resigned himself to being roommates and nothing more. Until he rescues Harry from a drunk arsehole and in a moment of weakness, confesses everything. [HP Trans Fest 2022]
✩ All the Time in the World (to stay just like this) by @stargazing-enby [E, 2.3k] 🏳️‍⚧️🌼🔥
Draco and Harry spend a lazy afternoon in Harry's dorm, and Draco seizes the opportunity to steal some of Harry's clothes. What starts off as a cuddle session soon turns into something more. [HP Trans Fest 2022]
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✩ Kintsugi Kisses by @amaisart [E] 🔥🏳️‍⚧️
Harry worships Draco, scars and all. [HP Trans Fest 2022]
✩ Mirror of Ytilaer by OkaySky [M] 🏳️‍⚧️🌼
"You're so beautiful," Harry murmured in Draco's ear. Draco suppressed a shiver; he could feel Harry's heavy-lidded gaze across his body just as tangibly as he could feel the gentle touch of his fingertips across his scars. "Shut it, Potter," Draco grumbled back. [HP Trans Fest 2022]
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ladespeinada · 9 months
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do u think backdraft will come out faster if i keep making fuuta memes i think im onto smth
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sanzundertale · 9 months
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what do you mean guys nothing is wrong and nothing bad will happen ever
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lexosaurus · 1 year
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Went to edit my post and I realized I'd forgotten to make a post to begin with—oops!
Anyway, here is my final piece for @lexiepiper's fic The Void Yawns Softly, which is an AMAZING reveal fic where Danny works for NASA and must travel to space to rescue his crew!
All art was done by @k-beckerart (@quishaphantom), and you can listen to the first two pieces I made here: Liftoff / Vlad's Theme
The whole project was incredibly fun and I learned a LOT about orchestrating with midi and combining synths to traditional orchestra. This song in particular was a really great creative exercise in incorporating lots of little symbolism things and hidden elements from the fic!
I was so excited to have the opportunity to try my hand at making music to a fic, and I can't wait to do it again soon!
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patchworkspringlocks · 10 months
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The Mimic is genuinely such an interesting fnaf antagonist to me bc it’s a learning, thinking, autonomous being in a way that most of the other animatronic adversaries aren’t with it being entirely devoid of any remains of a human soul, its existence dictated by an algorithm and simple instructing program which it proceeds to carry out with horrifyingly deadly precision, nothing more than a rogue antique endo-turned-murderbot responsible for multiple bloody gore-fests in the tales from the pizzaplex stories and epilogues and yet, AND YET. it’s simultaneously the child it learned it’s mannerisms and ideas that originally shaped its view of the world from, given “life” not by another’s soul but simply the anguish of a father’s grief over the loss of that same child that it doesn’t understand, now learning and adapting as per its programming to the anger and pain and fear it sees in everyone that so much as looks at it, the same hands and arms that used to gently hold a homemade stuffed tiger it now uses to break and rend and maim, and in a way its (later) brutalizing murder-sprees can be seen as little more than an innocent, literal, almost childlike interpretation of its instructions. it is lifeless and robotic and emotionless and capable of learning and emulating and born from pain and loss and anger and adapted to fear and suffering and it is absolutely everything to me
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