sunlight over me no matter what I do

TRAIL CAM - a midwest emo ep inspired by a trail cam i got recently...the creatures of the city

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Two major thoughts here:

Don't let anyone convince you that this type of conversation should only exist in therapy. Your friends and loved ones are there for you. Its called a support system for a reason. Getting advice and comfort is entirely different from talking shit.

redraw of yoriyuki ikegami's surskit for @poketcg-art event ‧₊˚ ⋅

nothing would have happened if it weren't for you

She intends the words to cut and they do; he stiffens, his jaw tightens. He sets the matchbox beside the candle, the striker worn and the cardboard box battered.

“Can’t control it well enough?” she asks. "Or is it only good for blowing things up?”

She knows the truth but she can’t help the bitterness, the anger that comes out. She has seen him light a candle with her father’s alchemy before, in the old house from her life before. She has seen him light a fire in a grate, crisp paper to cinders without singeing the wood of the table underneath. She knows he understands the small uses. She watched him unravel them from the secrets tattooed on her back.