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[lullabyexile]

"i'm the same as i was when i was six years old," everything seems to be modest mouse lyrics for me lately. that is something you march confidently to, down the streets with big orange leaves all around your feet and chain link fences like walls and skies that swallow, fingerless gloves and clenched fists and fur lined jackets. i can't believe it

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[chailin]

I agree, having your own little library would be wonderful. I keep giving my books away since I seem to move every year, it's heartbreaking. The corn maze adventure sounds amazing!

[lullabyexile]

oh gosh, i move all the time too, but i just take giant heavy boxes of books with me, haha. and it was. :]

[lyris_avedis]

That last sentence is poignantly beautiful.

I would love to see such a corn maze. I'm a little too afraid of things like that but I find them alluring all the same. Maybe one day. There is a haunted corn maze somewhere near where I am, I think. I could never do that.

I would sit at a concert with you. Though the last concert I went to was magnificent because the weather was glorious and there were girls running around in their fairy wings. I wanted to frolic and dance and hula hoop with them, but, alas, I relate to your timid feelings, so I, too, sat...or stood, rather.

[lullabyexile]

oh a haunted corn maze sounds really fun. scary though, definitely. i would go to one with you in return for sitting at a concert with me. :]

that sounds like a magical concert! what was it, out of curiosity?

[lyris_avedis]

It was at Voodoo Festival in New Orleans.

Thievery Corporation was playing at 4:00 that afternoon when the weather was splendid. It's an outdoors event, obviously, and all the pretty hippies were running around. If I had been there in my attire and with my dance troupe, I'd have probably danced too, but without them, I'm too shy.

[lullabyexile]

oh wow, that sounds really wonderful. i've always wanted to go to new orleans.

p.s. your icon = spectacular.

[gloriousgloves]

"should accept the fact that everything material i own will fall apart in my hands, everything plastic will crack, everything glass will shatter, everything cloth will tear to shreds. i am one of those girls whose shoes are held together by safety pins, whose shirt buttons snap open, whose stockings are always torn, whose hat will always fall off, whose skirt is always pulled up too high. my skin will always be scarred and there will always be dirt underneath my fingernails, my hair will never fall right on my shoulders and i'll never look you in the eye. my voice will always shudder and my hands will always shake, i am in a perpetual state of unraveling and i should stop destroying myself because of it."

understand ABLE!

[lullabyexile]

haha gosh i know. everything i own/everything about me is always falling apart.

[gloriousgloves]

dont let it fall to far.

[somethingablaze]

Sitting at concerts is PREFERABLE and I am tall-ish. Unless it's ska or something you dance to.

Sometimes, and I don't know if this will help because everyone's writing process is immensely different, it helps me to write about what I'm feeling/thinking about but to give myself permission to lie. I exaggerate whatever I want, fudge the details, just keep going, and soon you have a character. Go long enough and it's not even an autobiographical character anymore and you just think "now where are you going?" and get an answer aaaaaand go. No one is ever able to Write A Story, we all have to find a way to loosen up and work around it.

[lullabyexile]

hey that's a really cool idea. i will probably have to try that sometime!

[tangled_kisses]

the part about the corn maze made me cry.
mostly because i stay in my house or i go to work & i'm boring & i get angry and sad, and i'm too scared to have adventures.

[lullabyexile]

:[
it's okay. i am scared to have them on my own, a lot. i'm really afraid of people. all the time i wish i could, like.. annex off one of the states and clear everybody out and then invite only wonderful people in and we could just have this huge world to go on adventures in. it'd be really great.

[tangled_kisses]

me too! i'm so scared of all the things people are capable of doing to each other (instead of for each other). i can't even walk to the store by myself.

that would be amazing, a whole state all to ourselves.

[lullabyexile]

:/// ahh yeah, my people-fear isn't as bad as it used to be. i didn't speak at all until i was twelve, even.. there definitely needs to be a universe for people who are afraid of people, where everyone's required to be super nice and wonderful all the time, ha.