it is what it is

Absquatulate: to leave without saying goodbye

Cassandra Complex: a psychological penomenon in which someone's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed

Cicatrize: to find healing by the process of forming scars

Even a Worm will turn: the belief that even the most docile creature will retaliate if pushed too far

Fernweh: the ache for distant places; the urge to leave everything familiar behind

Hamartia: a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero

Hiraeth: homesickness for a home you can never return to

Ichor: a fluid that flows like blood in the veins of gods

Jester's Privilege: the ability and right of a jester to mock his king without fear of punishment, for nothing he says seems to matter

Lachesism: longing for the clarity that comes with living through a disaster

Lotus-Eater: a person who lives their life in a constant state of dream and fantasy

Novalunosis: the state of relaxation and wonder experienced while gazing up at the stars

Pyrrhic Victory: a victory with such devastating consequence and collateral that is becomes a 'hollow victory'

Swan Song: a final act or effort given just before death

Wanderlust: a strong desire to wander and explore the world free from any obligation

Weltschmerz: the pain that comes with the realisation that the material world will never satisfy the demands of the soul

Whistle in the Dark: to make a show of bravery despite one's fear

Yhprum's Law: 'everything that can go right will go right'

⟢ "We used to talk every day. I don't know when that stopped. I don't know which one of us let go first."

⟢ "I miss you and you're right there and that's somehow the loneliest thing I've ever felt."

⟢ "We grew in different directions and nobody did anything wrong and it still feels like losing something."

⟢ "I saw a photo of us from four years ago and I don't recognize either of those people anymore."

⟢ "You know me in a way nobody current does and someday that's just going to be a fact I carry."

⟢ "I keep meaning to call. I think you keep meaning to call. We're very good at meaning to."

⟢ "You were my person for a decade. I don't know what the word is for what you are now."

⟢ "I heard something funny the other day and I thought of you first and then remembered and put my phone back down."

⟢ "We just--stopped. Like a clock that nobody noticed had run down."

⟢ "I think we held on past the point where it was working because we both loved who we used to be to each other."

⟢ "You were at my worst and my best and now you're just, someone I used to know, and that doesn't feel like enough of a word."

⟢ "I don't know if I should reach out. I don't know if you want me to. I don't know when we became people who don't know that about each other."

⟢ "I think we made each other into who we are and then outgrew each other and I don't know if that's beautiful or devastating."

⟢ "The friendship I thought we'd have forever quietly became a friendship I have in past tense."

⟢ "I wish there had been a fight. Something to point at. Instead there was just--less and less, until nothing."

⟢ "I'm glad you're doing well. I mean that. I just wish I heard it from you."

⟢ "We were the kind of friends who didn't need to explain ourselves to each other. I miss being known like that."

⟢ "You're living a whole life I'm not part of and I had to find that out from someone else and I didn't know it would hit like that."

⟢ "I think about calling you when something big happens. And then I remember we're not that anymore. And I sit with that for a while."

⟢ "Nobody tells you that some friendships just quietly die. That there's no funeral. Just absence."

⟢ "We were so good together once. Maybe that's enough. Maybe that has to be enough."

⟢ "I don't want to be strangers. I just don't know how to be what we were. I don't know if that place still exists."

⟢ "I think losing you taught me more about grief than any actual loss I've had. That feels important somehow."

✭  “You're hit.”      “It's nothing.” “Stay close, liar.”

✭  “Where is [name]?”      “Saw them holding down the other side.” “Go check on them.”

✭  “Duck!”      *crouches just in time before their friend's weapon swishes over their head*

✭  “Behind you!”      “Whoa! That was close. Thanks.”

✭  “You think [name] needs any help?”      “Nah. Look at 'em. They're having the time of their life.”

✭  “We need backup!”      “They're on their way. We just need to hold down a little longer.”

✭  “You okay?”      “Peachy.”

✭  “Stay down, we got it from here.”      “No, I can- *gets dizzy and sits back down* Yeah, okay.”

✭  [after the fight] “Okay, headcount! Everyone find their buddy and check on them.”

A little place that rhymes with "NOT THERE."