#thorned

220: thorned

DEFINITION ⦂⠀Someone who has grown guarded after experiences, and may harm others in what feels like self-defence.

Please do not use this label as an excuse to abuse others. This coiner is pro-recovery, and wishes the best for you, yes you, reading this.

This may be used on its own, or alongside an orientation, gender, or other identity to state one is guarded in relationships, about the subject of attraction, gender, or otherwise guarded and an identity.

ADDITIONAL ⦂⠀Coined on the 10th of October, 2025.

TAGGING ⦂⠀@c1rcus-of-silliness⠀@near-nia-river⠀@radiomogai

Anyways here's a duck

I had a friend once say I was like a rose without thorns,

soft, open, untouched by the sharpness of the world.

A rarity, she said.

But I’ve changed since then.

The petals learned to armor.

To survive, I had to grow them.

Not out of bitterness,

but because I was bleeding from wounds I didn’t cause.

Because softness without protection becomes prey.

Because beauty without boundary invites ruin.

I’m still the rose.