I testify.

“Listen. If anyone hears ya’ saw me crying just now, I’ll make sure you won’t be able to say nothing ever again. Got it? I don’t have a problem making anyone look like swiss cheese if i have to.”

You mean all of them, right?

💘- A memory that gets their heart pounding

It’s one Akira isn’t sure is even his, and it’s unclear at best.

He’s in a cold and frozen landscape, though he doesn’t feel cold at all. It’s as though he’s become used to it. 

A memory about one of their loved ones, happy or sad

It’s a day like just about any other, of course. Any day– take your pick. It was nothing special, just the family room after an uneventful dinner. Miki invites him over to the couch to watch a movie with the rest of her family. Akira politely declines, of course; though he isn’t too far away anyway, tapping the computer screen as he browses a forum and ignores the homework he has hidden away on another tab. She insists the second time, and given that he’s being dragged onto the couch beside her, it’s difficult to say no. 

“I thought I recognized you from somewhere.” the was quick to approach the relative stranger. Akira was sure he knew that face. When you live somewhere long enough, you began to recognize the same passers by.

There’s a lot to this city-- a lot of nothing, a lot of destruction. It was difficult to tell from what exactly, had put this place into ruin. It could have been natural, it could have been war, but again it felt too much like home, and there wasn’t any place he wanted to see put to ruin like this.

It was easier to stay near the shores to the north of the city, where things were more quiet, where he could look out on the ocean and forget what ruins were just behind him. Burying his feet into ashy sand, he notices a stranger doing more or less the same.

Just as a reminder, I’ll be moving to Isola! Some notes on that:

i will be dropping all current citta threads and clearing out my inbox.

all memories and relationships will stay intact with any characters that move over.

i will be keeping this blog.

i will only be unfollowing blogs that i see are being archived, or are staying in citta. it looks like pretty much everyone is moving over or dropping completely, so i’m not going to pay much mind to that!

all my original posts will be staying on my blog.

“somehow I feel like saying goodbye to a whole world is even harder the second time. i’ve seen more love in this city than in any other place on earth. knowing it could be gone tomorrow...” he didn’t finish his sentence, but it was clear what he felt. 

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SHYNESS

Part of you is gripped by the fear that you’ll launch into something and completely mess it up. The upside of this is wise caution: people are indeed often too rash, whereas you know, by instinct, that holding back can save you. Probably, you feel shame and self-disgust a bit too much. But when you do feel in your element, you act with a wisdom and sensitivity never found in people with thicker skins.

AGGRESSION

One part of your character is anger in all its forms: frustration, outrage – and when anger is suppressed – bitterness, grumpiness, and bodily aches. Fundamentally, frustration comes from hope: you get upset because you expect your life will be more than a valley of tears. One way to deny aggression is to direct it inwards, as self-criticism. But you’re at your best when you acknowledge anger, and act it out clearly and in a focussed way, with honour.

PLAYFULNESS

You are good at seeing what’s funny, at relaxing and finding the pleasure of the moment. Play is random, whimsical, fantasy-driven behaviour which releases internal tension. Because it is detached from some pressures it allows you to act on weirder, perhaps neglected, parts of yourself. The downside is that it is no help in sticking with things that are not much fun but which need to be addressed. So it is well complemented by its opposite, Stoicism.

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