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why settle for "ily" when you can have "I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction. [...]"
— Jun 17, 2023 10:30AM
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been 242 days since i last read time war and that's 241 too many
//no one talk 2 me, i'm on my annual sapphic breakdown.
— Aug 28, 2026 11:21PM
//no one talk 2 me, i'm on my annual sapphic breakdown.
Ash
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And we’ll run again, the two of us, upthread and down, firefighter and fire starter, two predators only sated by each other’s words.
— Dec 31, 2025 07:39AM
Ash
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i am emotionally incapable of staying away from this book for more than 5 months.
fourth reread and why yes I'm perfectly normal!!
— Jun 17, 2023 05:13AM
fourth reread and why yes I'm perfectly normal!!
Ash
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This: Let me also speak plain, before this tree runs out of years, before the fine fellows under your command make siege weapons of my words: What do you want from this, Red? What are you doing here? Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all. and this: “And then we’d be at each other’s throats even more.” Oh, petal. You say that like it’s a bad thing.
[softly screaming]
— Jan 03, 2023 09:45AM
[softly screaming]
Ash
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There should not be a sheet of cream-colored paper, clean save a single line in a long, trailing hand: Burn before reading.
Starting off the new year RIGHT
— Jan 03, 2023 08:52AM
Starting off the new year RIGHT
Ash
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You asked me to tell truths. I have. What do I want? Understanding. Exchange. Victory. A game—hiding and discovery. You’re a swift opponent, Blue. You play long odds. You run the table. If we’re to be at war, we might as well entertain one another. Why else did you taunt me at the start?
The prose is gorgeous 😍✨ and since this is a reread+reading slowly, am actually enjoying & understanding this
— Feb 13, 2022 09:38AM
The prose is gorgeous 😍✨ and since this is a reread+reading slowly, am actually enjoying & understanding this
Ash
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Wow, the places where the letters are hidden, are so creative!!
— Jan 12, 2022 03:31AM
Ash
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The writing is GORGEOUS but i have no idea of what's going on aaah.
— Jan 12, 2022 02:40AM
"I want to be a body for you.
I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction. I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together."