“I resisted, Elspeth, because I was already imagining how I might press my finger against your wet lips again, like I had in my room.” He took in a breath, his mouth dropping to my ear. “And that was nothing to the wicked things I was imagining after we argued in the garden.”
“Could you ever escape the story of your own life? Sevas would battle the Dragon-Tsar and kiss the tsarevna, and I would walk the same path from my father’s chamber to the kitchen to my bedroom, like the gears turning behind the face of a grandfather clock, both of us following our fated rotations. And what was a story except a berry you ate over and over again, until your lips and tongue were red and every word you spoke was poison?”
— Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn (Harper Voyager, 2022)
“there was something sick in me, something wrong. even baby birds knew how to shriek, even kittens knew how to mewl, even puppies knew how to whine. papa had told me i hadn’t even cried when he’d pulled me from between my mother’s thighs… my eldest sister was right; i would smile blithely if someone tried to saw off my leg. but no one had ever told me that i was allowed to scream.”
When the clock struck midnight for the new year, Raven sat on the floor with take-out shrimp pad thai and a can of coke, listening to Blond by Frank Ocean and trying not to feel lonely.
when you run away to start a new life instead of facing your problems
Can people actually look it up? if your not getting paid for a job that a SAG or WGA member would be paid for, then it’s fine. the main thing is that you’re not taking any jobs that would otherwise be filled by a SAG or WGA member
when i was coming up with the damirae winter depression story, i also cried at the club about a boy and made this playlist about it. it’s not crucial to the plot,but it’s also why i’ve been away for a long time.
did u know having pink in ur aura means ur in love? that’s what the women in chinatown told me when they read my aura
i’ve decided i’m gonna wait until autumn to post the damirae winter depression fic just so the sad vibes will be there (also it’s a long ass fic and i wanna just share all as one and not break it up in two part, or even just publish it all as complete)
in the meantime, here’s a tik tok i found 2 years ago that has the vibes of the fic
Here’s the official playlist to the story i’m writing, idk i just wanted to share before i publish the fic
it gets all in your feels (for example, me and my friend being drunk in the nyc subway after partying and we’re crying about our love life and eating mcdonald’s fries)