Trista Mateer, From "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," Originally Published In 2024

“this fic was written by AI”

one thing i love about the poppy war trilogy is there’s absolutely no “i can fix her/him” trope throughout the books when clearly there are more than one unhinged characters. they all just agree to enable each other and i respect that

One direction, your turn now

whoever invented beds was a fucking genius im just all cozied up in here like u don't even know how cozy i am

"to endure!"

vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth") robert lowell [How will the heart endure?] vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.] rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.] joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.] elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.] elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.] han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.] victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]

Existe un tipo de dolor que es cotidiano

Uno en el que no te das cuenta que estás sufriendo

Hasta que un día, algún viejo amigo dice "No es normal que todo el tiempo vivas en el pasado"

Incluso ese dolor cotidiano puede ser una rutina

Ese tipo de sufrimiento en el que se crea una falsa ilusión de que solo es cansancio o nostalgia

La nostalgia solo les sirve a los poetas

El cansancio es un síntoma de tantos de esa tristeza cotidiana

Hay un tipo de sufrimiento del que estamos enamorados

Un tipo de dolor que no podemos dejar ir

¿Por qué?

Probablemente por la misma razón por la cual nos aferramos al pasado

Existe un tipo de tristeza que es difícil dejar ir

Porque, a diferencia de la felicidad y del futuro; el pasado y la nostalgia es un camino que ya vivimos

A lo mejor es solo la incertidumbre del futuro

Probablemente deseamos siempre lo que no tenemos

Puede que, esta tristeza radica en lo que más deseas y no logras tener

Pero cada vez que noto el dolor cotidiano; pienso en las posibilidades de aquello

En mis posibilidades

Y me pregunto sí alguna vez el dolor pueda desaparecer de mi rutina

I'm obsessed with the RF KUANG write sooooo here's another one

hey poppy war fandom,,,,,,, I’m here to serve you some pain

reblog if you’re a writer who feels guilt whenever they’re not writing and being productive, so I know I’m not the only one lol