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    In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that’s constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences: in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.

    Lin; twenty-four. Master’s in Translation studies. | Libra sun; Pisces moon; Pisces rising. Soul of an Aquarius. | Certified Squatting Slav & your esteemed Eastern European Witch. | Coffee-flavoured. Sharp-tongued. Fluent in sarcasm. Aspiring wine aunt. | Keen on linguistics, magic realism, feminism, human tragedies, medieval gender studies, religious symbolism, Islamic poetry, iconography, Slavic folklore, astrology. | Writes about female suffering, world’s injustices, Eastern European people and their traumas, inner worlds, medieval warlords, intrigues of the powerful, rebels and outcasts, poetic lust.

    CURRENT WORKS:

    • VOIEVOD — posted on @voievod
    • CRIMES OF PASSION (works on AO3)
    • THE WAYHAVEN CHRONICLES (to be published)
  • the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

    1. we were just as smart then as we are now
    2. we are just as stupid now as we were then
  • a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t

  • story: they're in love :)

    me: why?

    story: what do you mean? they're in love :)

    me: what do they bring to each other's lives? what do they admire about one another? what draws them to each other?

    story: love :) :)

    me: ok... so what is that going to look like now?

    story: like love :) :) :)

    me: are their personalities going to clash at all? are they going to have arguments? learn to compromise for each other? will they need to adapt to sharing their life with another person? is it going to be smooth perfect harmony from day one? are they going to be always together? see each other sometimes as their occupations allow? how does this relationship affect their lifes.

    story: they're in love :) :) :)

  • i love the feeling of getting “clearer” as you get older, like with each year there’s less room for messing around or pretending or playing a game with something you know deep in your heart is not right for you. it’s like your brain just gets better and better at cutting you off as you consider something and tells you “no that is not for me” before you can jump in. and it’s not as if things get more serious, but the opposite. you have freedom in giving yourself more and more permission to purposefully live life and go after whatever you want and to love freely knowing that things are secure in your heart and mind.. at least when i am struggling i know that the “clearing” is really what’s happening

  • You can really tell when someone is in their body. The way they walk, like they feel every part of their body move. When they listen to music, they close their eyes. When they eat, they can barely talk because the tastes are stealing their focus. The connection to the senses is the greatest liberator, but I think so many things in every day life steal that from us. A lot of mental stress accumulates from a lack of this connection. Not that it’s the sole reason, but to find that connection at least gives you a fighting chance.

  • I bet it feels good as fuuuuck to slightly draw your sword with all the other knights in anger when a treacherous knave shows their face in the court

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