darling,
everything's blooming now
spring just a wind gust away
& already the world is more green than I've ever seen
& I know why your cheeks blossom rosen -
you have bathed in this light your whole life;
you carry magic like the trees carry moss.
(sometimes I feel I know your whole soul.
sometimes I wonder what secrets sleep inside you.)
you, not quite icarus, never too much sun
only the dapple in the boughs of a redwood where you lived for a year
before they came & plowed them down.
you were young & wild before we met,
I know this for certain when we talk on gardens that grew ghosts,
we share histories we'll hold perpetually.
I thi
mama always said "you can't fix every bird with a broken wing
but you can try"
well, I've been watching birds die my whole life,
palms stretched wide to cradle hearts
titterin' out of heaving chests
and mama believes in heaven
and the book
me? I believe in molecules and dirt
* star-dust
lighting all of us like little lanterns dancing round a rock
and mama's wise
nurses her babies to full glow, blankets her plants when it frosts
carries her ghosts like they're crowns
sagely, she passes her stalwartness down
Don't Go || SessKag Drabble by WanderingMiko, literature
Literature
Don't Go || SessKag Drabble
They were silent. Whether that was due to a lack of something to say or to having so much to say they didn’t know where to start, Kagome didn’t know. What she did know, was that when she’d first come back, when the well had first sealed itself, she hadn’t thought she would ever feel the sorrow she felt right now looking down into the blue light that had become a constant friend in her travels between worlds. When she’d first come back, she would have given anything to return to her friends in the past but now…
Her lips pressed together, knowing that he was standing behind her and not daring to turn and lo
How to Design complex characters using core belief by mayshing, literature
Literature
How to Design complex characters using core belief
A character is basically formed by three things: Personality, Beliefs, History
After designing the character's story and personality, what will help them stay in character is designing the layers of their core beliefs.
The key thing is, these core beliefs are never, ever spoken by the character themselves. They just behave in this belief like it's normal and not even think it's there.
Of course you can still choose to have them say it, they will just be a simpler open book type character. Or say it partially hiding its true statement, you can also use a character's core belief statement to make it a story statement if you see fit.
A core
she sells 9mm shells by the seashore,
says she can hear the ocean.
but if you listen close to these shells
you can hear ghosts.
something borrowed, something blue,
something broken, something bruised.
she traces her fingers across the autopsy scars
while she counts her bones like currency.
she'll leave your skin screaming,
and sink into the whites of your eyes like a shipwreck.
can you hear the ocean?