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You, Darkness

by Rainer Maria Rilke

You, darkness, that I come from I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything- shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people- and it is possible a great presence is moving near me. I have faith in nights.                        

There can be no perfection or rising above all that is natural, only endless cycles of accumulation and erosion, disappearances and emergences played out on every conceivable scale. It is not our job to transcend our troubles and vulnerabilities, but to let the waters run through and over, and do their work. When something falls apart, another thing opens. We cannot know what will be better or worse, only that it will be different.

Weathering

Ruth Allen

'woman bearing watermelon rind lanterns + firewood,' 2005 in sigalit landau - gabriele horn + ruth ronen (2008)

Just got to Skeleton Island in Black Sails, and the transition from 'gritty, realistic prestige drama' to 'prequel to Treasure Island' is stark.

Skeleton Island doesn't look like other Black Sails settings. It looks like the location of Treasure Island.

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Because with alarming accuracy    she’d been identifying patterns    I was unaware of— this tic, that    tendency, like the way I’ve mastered    the language of intimacy    in order to conceal how I felt—    I knew I was in danger    of being terribly understood. Connubial by STEPHEN DUNN
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wip excerpt (from the next upcoming chapter) ft. elisif the limitlessly magnanimous

i was tagged several wip wednesdays ago methinks by @ehlnofay @lemon-embalmer and @redmountain 💖 tagging you all back if you have something you want to share + @everybodyknows-everybodydies @ghoulsbeard @wispstalk @aphoticfairy and—if you like to do this sort of thing— @niemalsetwas!

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