I keep thinking I’ll grow past birthday woes…
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"From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed.
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made."
- W.B. Yeats
The Heart of a Girl
Sometimes I burst out laughing for seemingly no reason, and my family looks at me like I’m crazy. Sometimes tears come just as abruptly.
And Spring Herself, When She Woke at Dawn
World Without End, Whatever, Amen
Did you know that despair used to be one of the seven deadly sins? Yes, because it was seen as an opposite of faith. Faith in God, faith that things, however dark, would get better. When I was a child, I once asked my father if God punished people for being unhappy. I don’t remember the answer. The question, though, has never stopped gnawing at me.
Ace Off Base: What It’s Like to Be Asexual in an Overly-Sexual World
An essay I wrote about my asexuality.
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The Meaning of Christmas
Anger is power, perhaps. What the body wants is to hate.
The Haunting of Holly House
The house I grew up in was old when I first knew it.
“Things Fall Apart; the Centre Cannot Hold”
If you’re anti-vaxx, you’re not going to like this rant, but you should hear it anyway.
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Bibou no Detail
Gods are present in small things, I’ve learned.
In Dreams Before Anything Was Ever Evil
I feel so…I’m not going to use the word “triggered.” I’m not a fucking snowflake and I don’t need a safe space.
