#gravedigging

Catherine was forced to marry Linton Heathcliff as her father dies across the moors. She was able to escape with Linton's rare bout of usefulness and attend the funeral. Mrs. Dean, on the other hand, was allowed to return to Thrushcross Grange, away from Catherine.

I have some consoling news. The girl did get to see her father before he passed. She lied and said she would be happy in her marriage so he could pass peacefully, and that he did.

The next day Heathcliff appeared to collect Catherine and Mrs. Dean begged him to let her come with them to Wuthering Heights. Well, instead of obliging her request, THE MAN ADMITS TO DIGGING UP CATHERINE EARNSHAW'S GRAVE JUST TO SEE HER! Even further, he asked the sexton to BURY. HIM. NEXT. TO. HER. IN. HER. COFFIN.

In the brackish light, pale mushrooms crowning from the dirt like molars in a row:

I whisper a rabbit’s prayer and draw the black fur of my shadow closer to my neck. When my lips part, they crack as tree bark, and from them, an inky sap trickles down, marks my skin.

God of stains, abandon me now.

The unmarked cot hollowed out amid these roots: mine or yours, or am I only a living ghost of you?

Bloodless hands, bruise-mottled and blue; a tremor in my voice betrays me. The god listens, does not speak. Omnivorous beast, the earth, too, has its teeth to swallow with.

Oakmoss, heart-rot, blackthorn smoke and bitter ash— I know it all too well, how the hosts of the dead bloom as inkcaps fed on petrichor after a dry spell.

Thank you!

A shortened summary!

1. I was a dick to her in DMs cause she accused a friend of copying her oc lore. Got blocked (rightfully so).

2. 2+ weeks later she publicly posted my DMs, with username attached with a guilt trip of sorts (can't really remember the details tbh)

3. All hell breaks loose because suddenly i had dozens of people in my DMs and hundreds of anon messages saying "thanks! / She did X to me/ here's same thing from another fandom/ here's this other thing/ she's been bullying me too" (most of which are somewhere in the tag).

4. Instead of running away, which i suspected was what the hope was by posting my username, i started publishing and commenting on the various things (guilt tripping, exposing irl minors to nsfw, taking advantage of people for free art/money/etc, copyright, putting nsfw on main etc etc etc).

5. I did a bunch of research and posted a bunch of essays about why TOPIC (pick one) was fucked up.

6. It took like 3 months and by the end of it she disappeared and I'm still here being salty about bad fish takes and posting Naruto memes

7. She's back now, but at least instead of being weird and creepy with minors has "minors dni" in her bio, which i guess counts as a step forward.

Eight people in Gresik regency, East Java, were ordered by local authorities to dig graves for those who have died of COVID-19 as punishment for not wearing face masks in public. Cerme district head, Suyono, said that he punished residents who did not wear face masks by making them dig graves at a public cemetery in Ngabetan village.