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• ༺ Call me Valerie or Brandy
• ༺ Adult
• ༺ She/He/Peony/Shark/Ae
• ༺ Aroace Abro
• ༺ Absgender woman
• ༺ Slavic, Indigenous and East Asian WOC
• ༺ Jewish, Vattisen Yaly, Slavic pantheon
• ༺ Death witch and tarot reader
• ༺ Taurus sun, Gemini moon, Sagittarius rising
• ༺ INFP-T
• ༺ 8w9
• ༺ 4/23

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When the plane went down in San Francisco, I thought of my friend M. He's obsessed with plane crashes.

He memorizes the wrecked details, The clear blue skies cut by black smoke.

Once, while driving, he told me about all the crashes: the one in blue Kentucky, in yellow Iowa.

How people go on, how people don't.

It was almost a year before I learned that his brother was a pilot.

I can't help it, I love the way men love.

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" See the tree shadows lie in black the pools in the lawns,

You're the breeze in my Austin nights "

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• ༺ Pronouns.page
• ༺ Spotify

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"For millennia, nearly all indigenous people who tattooed practiced shamanism, the oldest human spiritual religion. Death was the first teacher, the boundary beyond which life ended and wonder began. Shamanistic religion was nurtured by mystery and magic, but it was also born of the hunt and of the harvest and from the need on the part of humans to rationalize the fact that they had to kill that which they most revered: plants, animals, and sometimes other men who competed for resources or whose souls provided magical benefits."

- Lars Krutak, Shamanic Skin: The Art Of Magical Tattoos

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• ༺ Not treating myself as I deserve to be
• ༺ Allowing people to hurt me so I wouldn't lose them
• ༺ Trusting someone who I knew I shouldn't
• ༺ Not being around for my grandmother more
• ༺ Not telling my "mother" what I really think of her

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French vanilla i think i should sit this one out

(No, no, no)

Maybe a cup of self control

Would be the route

But it's the flavour

It's the flavour you want

Maybe so,

But it feels better to check than to reflect.

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• ༺ Re-Animator, Evil Dead 1, The Host (2006), Okja, The Needle, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Labyrinth
• ༺ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fairy Tail, Violet Evergarden, OK KO, Over The Garden Wall, Pose, Nu, Pogodi!, Moomin, Invader Zim, Soviet Cartoons

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• ༺ Folkpunk, Siberian Folk, Slavic Electrofolk, Gothic Rock, Post Punk, New Wave, Japanese Indie Rock, Glam Rock, Punk, Queercore, Witch House
• ༺ Joy Division, Kino, Molchat Doma, Ploho, Bauhaus, Otyken, AJJ, Pat The Bunny, Depeche Mode, Alyans, New Order, Wingnut Dishwashers Union, Against Me!, This Cold...

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Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

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Your eyes used to reflect the flames,

now only the light from a table lamp emanates from them...

Now when something goes past you, you feel uncomfortable,

It was a new day, and you weren't in it.

Your eyes used to reflect the night,

But now when it's night outside - your eyes are sleeping.

And now when the sunrises you haven't noticed the new day has begun

You are still in the past - and there are no obstacles for you.

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• ༺ Anadyr, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
• ༺ Kamchatka, Russia
• ༺ Hokkaido, Japan
• ༺ Gujo-Hachiman, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
• ༺ Hong Kong
• ༺ Crimea
• ༺ Valencia, Spain
• ༺ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• ༺ Hanging Coffins, China
• ༺ Tibet
• ༺ Not a specific destination, but any Torajan village
• ༺ Torres Strait

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