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2004 8 October :: 1.40pm
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How long was I in love with Corwin? Can you even call it love? Is anything I do worthy of the moniker "love"? A year and a half getting over it, I don't know how long before, a week in between [hahahaHAHA. so. pathetic.]
I should stop giving out advice.
.come get your knife.
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2004 8 October :: 1.32pm
Yes, dear girl. It hurts. It hurts like a bitch. [I know you're not reading this. Maybe I'm writing it for me.] But you can't give up. [Hypocrite! You almost did.] You can't close yourself off, curl up into a little ball and hope that everything good will leave you alone. The temptation, it'll always be there. The hope, it'll always be there. The break in your heart which is now so vast, yes it'll close, yes it'll stop throbbing, yes it'll eventually dim until it no longer occupies so much of your perceptions. But that little crack will always be there. That yearning . . . despite logic, despite possibilities, despite even your own eventual feelings on the matter, will always be there.
I talk like I know anything. I'm a fucking infant. A larval mass.
But there is change within this chrysalis.
.come get your knife.
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2004 7 October :: 2.36pm
How many months?
And . . . jebuz. The parallels. Poor girl. I know, I knowIknowIknowIknow how badly it hurts . . . almost makes me wish I weren't coming at it from the other side.
Maybe.
Fucker says he wants to marry me . . . or rather, that such a thing is financially/spacially/realistically possible. When he gets his black belt. [Hold to that, in case it's all destroyed. Remember that emotion.]
He's changed me. So much.
So's Shillowe, but one plays off against the other. What Shi taught me to be [I love her all the same] must forever be beaten into submission by that which desires to hold on to him. Always.
And that stain, that mark of what I've done, who I was, who I could too easily be again . . . it'll always be there too. The pain that I caused him will always exist, I'm not sure if he realizes that. I'm not sure if it'll poison things.
I could easily spend what remains of my life with him. I could just as easily fuck it all up again. Or watch impotently as he finds and loves someone else.
I don't know. I'm . . . cautious. Perhaps overly so. I'd been prepared to accept being his friend and nothing more for however long we could stand to talk to each other. That bittersweetness of being love with your best [fuck, only] friend . . . I've been there. I could deal with it.
And I don't know if I want to get my hopes up again. In a week, in a month, by the summer, is he still going to care?
Although frankly it doesn't matter. He could kick me to the ground time and again, and as long as he still let me hang around, as long as I knew it wasn't somehow hurting him by doing so, I'd follow his ass around concievably forever. Just to see him smile.
Sappy little bastard.
.come get your knife.
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2004 29 July :: 4.29pm
Wow. Wherehave and whenhave, why? Running back to the old and the cold . . . so this is where all the rotten stuff went, all the mold along the walls all the delusions all the . . . neverland. Neverland neverland neverland. The red walls will never match up to the grey.
I've got to archive this shit. I read it and can barely remember writing it. Details washed away in weeks of being someone else.
Who is this Chesh? What does she mean to me? Does anything mean anything anymore? I can feel him squirming under the surface, but still. One day to crash and then I'm right as rain? Am I just waiting to explode, or . . . too many questions.
Tell you this. I don't believe in love. And if I did, it would scare the shit out of me.
Boy, you best stop with that shit. I'm trying to do for you what God did for me. Don't turn it into something special. I'm an enabler, maybe, just this once, but I will always walk alone. I will always walk with her.
You know who I mean.
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2004 5 May :: 4.46pm
RUN RUN RUN
you know, fuck it.
Oath pt. 1 DOESN"T WORK
never has never will i can't keep myself away from it.
Oath pt. 2, however . . . mmyes.
But on the other hand there's just, you know, the Source being the Source, it makes my brain all a-tingle. Thingthingthingwhatever. The worm gets all huffy because it wants neverland to be this cool too . . . but it's too vague, even effigy knows that. I can't tell a fucking story to save my life.
The worm screams. [behind its mask.]
the fool, it does not seek your advice. your advice is flaws unlimited.
i would call it a glitterchild but it would not know what that means! oh!the pity.
and effigy says: if you call it a fucking glitterchild.
what
do you call
YOURSELF.
[idiot.]
but i don't want to think that hard about it, ego is a killer of joy.
.come get your knife.
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2004 29 April :: 5.14pm
but the point is, is is is is is.
well.
the wonderworm?
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2004 28 April :: 5.39pm
the wierd part is i still don't care.
the mask, the mask, the mask, the mask.
&i shall call it a leech. parasite, parasite, suck your blood and make you sick.
then you kick it off and think no more of the stupid pathetic beast.
maggot.
.come get your knife.
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2004 27 April :: 6.28pm
'it's those that never admit it that don't learn."
i've admitted it. and apologized for it. again and again and i.
it.
noun verb.
it's those who can't stop that must be destroyed.
[but have you done it to her face? for the real thing? i know you've groveled at Alice's feet a million times for effigy, but i think you already knew she'd accept you nevertheless [anti] . . . but this is different. you know without a doubt that every word is sin. that even being here is sin. that every line you place on paper is sin.
and you still want more.
and you can't handle rejection.
and you still want more.
this is reality, if you do something bad you must pay for it.
and you are certainly becoming a very very bad little doggy.]
.come get your knife.
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2004 27 April :: 6.04pm
no. shut your fucking trap. you are hereby confined to a muzzle. now and forever.
plan if you must, but never-not in this name again.
.come get your knife.
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2004 27 April :: 5.59pm
fuckfuckfuckyoumotherfucker, you fucking snake and his fucking lies
CHESHIRECHESHIRECHESHIRE
...and it occurs to me that that really just about says it all. CHESHIRE. i am a cheshire i am the cheshire i
still
can't stop this fucking
whatever it is.
whatever my buzzword for it is.
shithead. shitheel. shit everywhere on everything. you are FILTH.
told you you'd cause trouble.
.come get your knife.
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2004 27 April :: 5.57pm
oh fucking hell!
rageragerageragerage.
.come get your knife.
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2004 27 April :: 5.09pm
it's really really bad to hold things in like that. but when you know it'll cause needless damage . . .
detergent and muzzles, i guess. i wish i'd never found the source.
.come get your knife.
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2004 26 April :: 5.50pm
So I broke my word five minutes after I made it.
That's fucking awesome, f-i-g.
.come get your knife.
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2004 25 April :: 12.42pm
There was so much that used to matter that seems utterly pointless now. Oroborus.
.come get your knife.
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2004 27 March :: 10.41am
Crawling like a film reel skips, howls thin and loud and pure [rain and a hero with broken fingers. shove a nail through your hand -- it's not time yet! it's not time yet!] grinning without moving her lips at all, she lashes her tail and waits for it to speak.
You are ugly, you are filthy
You are sinful, you are cowardice
You are meaningless, you are mindless
I'll tell everyone how wrong you are
so on and so on. And she just grins. And when it is done
snap! her hands around its jaw. Tongue flicking in and out through yellow pointed teeth. It shivers in sudden fear -- she can't touch it, why is she touching it? -- and tries pointlessly to pull away. She whispers as she leans in, a knee pressing against the poor fool's legs.
"I am the ugliest thing in the universe."
A hissing second and then
coppery pulling. No screams, her thumb against its windpipe.
Like a kiss. Like the good doctor's famous kiss.
She pulls away, spits tooth and bone.
"But she still loves me."
And isn't that all that really matters?
She lets the body drop.
Stupid, stupid little children.
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2004 26 March :: 9.01am
Well. So. Can I even explain? Try?
The long and short of it is
[+] effigy took off the mask [-->Sab]
[+] Sab is beautiful
[+] Euphoria
[+] a sunlit awakening in a white house with ivy painted on the walls. whispers and tender fucking. her name is perfect.
[-] and then
[-] november in the kitchen
[-] took over the house, storms outside. Sab stands on the rooftop howling in incohate rage at the way of things. trying to bleed out the sickness in herself with a knife.
[-] depp stabbed Sab in the shoulder. the mask goes back on. always effigy now. the screaming, the rage, the violence, the insults. all back like they'd never left.
[-] she tried to choke Euphoria. so Euphoria ran away. she's lost in the midst of the City. in the shadows. not even real anymore.
[-] and november was right. and november will always. be. right.
I hate it.
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2004 21 March :: 3.08pm
The red rock with the crosshair burns to hold. It burns it burns it burns but I can't put it down --
effigy throwing it at walls [ohgodthecave, i just remembered who owned it first -- symbols symbols symbols] throwing it at the floor and going back to pick it up, howling rage incohate at the pull it exerts
and how holding it, looking at it, fucking knowing it exists is causing it to crumble
[but it's as strong as ever]
[but it is flinching, screaming, running away as the masked freak draws closer. just wants to look just wants to look that's what the mask is for to hide the pain that these eyes can cause -- but it still will draw away, forever and ever. it cannot will not could not be -- it's like holy water. burns the flesh through no fault of its own.]
she throws the rock at the floor at Euphoria's feet. because she can't hit her. can't stab the heart on her chest because that would harm her. as much as I am frustrated I am still awed and calmed at effigy's will to protection. [willtopowerwilltopower how many times do you have to repeat it before it'll start to mean something interesting]
But I still want the rock. Want to hold it look at the glimpses of the life inside but I can't that'll burn it as much as it burns me. So I throw it against the wall and shriek in frustration when it calls itself back into my hand.
Put it away just for a day.
Take it out forever and ever.
Just for another day.
Another one gone.
.come get your knife.
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2004 20 March :: 3.31pm
[youandthatfuckingMASK.take.it.offfffffff.]
Describing. Because.
November lives in the corner of the little house, in the kitchen slash hallway area, where the chandelier made of plastic used tohang and the light would sometimes hit just so.
--/doyouknowwhonovemberis?--no.itisachild. it is the weeping child, the guilt, the fear. the sociophobe the one who does everything wrong the emotional cripple. it's a ghost now, Sab killed it a long time ago, locked the corpse in the white room -- everything is white with november, no color no soul no voice poor child. weep with me
gettingsidetracked:// in the week or so before it died i could hear it crying. had the voice of a little boy. just like my brothers. so scared. so so so. it. hurt to listen to. sent Sab into rages because of what it did to One, when she could hear it. it just stung. burned. froze. drowned. overwhelming and so very slow and so very fast. chemical.
--/all the crying in the world could never help november.
--/and I flinch every time I read the word. November. every mention of the cheshire. every time I see the [foxdragon?whatisheanyway?]. because it's like I've stolen something. even though it's just a name. it's like I've taken and and raped it and beat it to death for stupid, selfish reasons. but in the back of my mind I can't stop listening to the dead child cry.
backtotherails:// The house exists on a million levels at once. It's hard to describe. Neverland is dreams and in dreams nothing has to make sense. Weather becomes mood becomes dimensions. When november's around the clouds are an angry grey, pounding their vomit upon the windows while silent cars cross outside. The lighting is so beautiful, but it all looks underwater, you feel like you're drowning anyway the way your chest tenses up. A lot of emotion can kill.
November itself is almost never seen--it's a true ghost, glimpsed on the edge of vision and the tip of your tongue. You can hear it and turn and catch a momentary pattern across your retina--but it won't really be there. It lives in the walls, it lives in the spiderwebs, it lives everywhere and nowhere at all because it doesn't feel it belongs anywhere, has no right to exist in the first place. Sab can see it, clear as day. It's her goddamn house in her goddamn world, she can see everything if she wants to. But she never touches november. It's beyond help, and she has no use for it.
Rainy days, nights where you can't sleep for the sensations forming in your head. Cold and grey and wet. 11.
switchtracks:// The Queen, the Queen, the King's whore. She calls herself Euphoria, or maybe it's just what Sab calls her, and it fits to a ridiculous degree. You should see them together. You should see them, at all. I wish I could draw what they really look like to me, they're both so fucking beautiful. Sab is like the gamekeeper, the warden, the. I don't even know. How can you describe a personality in a sentance? How can you describe it in a thousand sentances?
She's just. So forceful. So direct. So enthusiastic. So colorful. [herhairchangesfromdaytoday] She's brutal but in a loving manner [canyouevenunderstand] she's loud and violent and swears like a sailor and hates mornings and wants to rip everybody's throat out and her laugh is like the Joker's and she jumps around like an anime character, gravity doesn't even fucking matter.
And and and. But but but. She's so amazing on the outside and so amazingly hideous on the inside. And I can see it and it only makes her more beautiful to me. The fears. The little ones she pretends aren't there, the big ones she can't let anybody know about, the reason for the mask/s. The the the. I wish I could describe her.
Euphoria is her polar opposite and in her way a lot like One. I think Sab refused to ever admit that she loved the girl, even after she killed her. But it was a kind of desperate, grasping sort of love. Hers and Euphoria's is pure. I don't know how. It doesn't make any sense at all that they should even get along, let alone that Sab's let her live this far. It's just. I can look inside them both and see how perfect they are when they come together. Soul meets soul when eyes meet eyes but neither of them have and they can see it anyway does that mean something?
She's pale. Some sort of insect. Quiet and shy and fragile and tall. She wears bondage pants and mistmatched shirts that should've died in the seventies and thinks she's the ugliest thing in the universe but she moves like a breath across sand, like silk caught on the breeze. She has candystriped lips and thinks this means she's nothingness, thinks the stripes on her legs and hands are like Filth given birthmark. Sab's tattooed her throat with a MEK flashing arrow pointing downt to the collar embedded in her skin, it's a choke chain--
and oh that I could define how good it is, though it seems cruel and wrong and like a cage, but Sab is her protector and acts only in her best interests, because Euphoria may be weak but she has to carry the strongest burden of all, on her chest is tattooed the heart and there is nothing she can ever do to take it off. Sab keeps her in line, keeps her from hurting herself, like what she tried to do with One but now it's like she's just so much more mature -- being effigy has been good to her . . .
. . . there's just so much to say about them and no way or reason to say it. Le sigh.
And half of me feels stupid even talking about it.
I wasgoing totalkabout goingtotalkabout
the house.
Little house. Tiny house. Built in the 1930's, if I recall correctly. There's ivy painted on the walls of the kitchen and the attic is carpeted and warm [walls alight with the paintings that never were, a child's dragons fighting knights against a dark blue sky]. It's all just memories but it's a fish tank, distorted and . . . I keep making references to being underwater but that's the only way I can think of for it, so slow and muffled and cool and good.
--/Outside, the garden is really where it becomes Neverland. There's a tree that was never there in reality and instead of leaves it has playing cards, trading cards, something that size, hanging by white string, and on one side of each is a motion picture. A memory. It scared Sab, when the house first came to be here, that tree was like something sacred and she knew she'd destroy it to touch it -- or the other way around. But now she's master of all things and knows it is what it is. Whenever you look at the tree it's early morning fog, sun not yet over the trees in the distance but rays of it poking up like spotlight and illuminating everything with a yellow-ish glow. Crows live all around but refuse to sit in the tree itself, only a pair of white doves lives in the tree and you can almost never see them, and they can only be heard when you're looking away. Only on the edge of your hearing, a tickle in the back of your throat.
--/The garden is magnificent -- but it also leads into the heart of Deadog, the remnants of Red Sam, the first garden that never-was where the dog died and from which Sab made everything she thought she wanted.
--/Places from Deadog still exist--the jungles, the swamp, the garden. But they've merged with Wunderland's white beauty and no longer are as rotten and wrong as they once were. From the melding of the two kingdoms comes something that seems strong enough to stand on its own for once.
And I hope it can. I'm sick to death of these neverending spirals of change and leaving all I loved behind. I'm still honestly very pissed off about Torpor's death, I still miss the Brother's like they're a hole in my brain, I still miss Freedom Fries' innocent childness . . . . I miss I miss I miss. I just want everything to stay where it should be, not fade away all the time.
Is it too much to ask? It's too much to ask.
And then one morning Euphoria woke up and an hour later Sab was throwing her against the wall [whatdidyoudowhatdidyoudo] and she bears new bruises and it's like everything. is just. the same.
Nothing ever CHANGES. it just dies. again and again and again and again.
And she told me. TOLD ME. That this would happen. And I KNEW it would. But. I couldn't stop it. Can't stop the heart. Can only lessen the damage. Try to recover faster. Try to pretend like nothing's fucking wrong.
[didyouSEEthat.didyouseeitdidyouseeit.
andthenshe'sall, OHHHHHwhathaveyoudone
shutitshutup.
but she's RIGHT.
and it HURTS.
or at least SUCKS.
damn it.]
hahaha[stripes=no]cunt
and Sab is back to screaming and hitting and swearing and
it's like the chain doesn't even matter
and Euphoria doesn't know what to do with herself or
if it was something she did or said
or didn't do or didn't say
and november's in the kitchen
and november's in the kitchen
Sab is throwing things around
Euphoria's trying not to vomit in the sink
november's in the kitchen
november's in the kitcen
[ishouldwritesongs]
butsomewheresomewhereshestops
and in that split second black voids meet each other
and a little twitch of a grin
a scared grin
a needy grin
a loving grin
and it's all okay
it's just the weather outside.
[storms]
.come get your knife.
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2004 20 March :: 3.39pm
47 fucking entries. A life history of a thing which no longer is.
I've lost it before. Don't want to again. But I've nowhere else to go?
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2004 11 March :: 11.24am
I've fucked up. I'm so pissed. A split-second of hesitation and now several hours to realize how stupid I was. To be controlled by fear&self-loathing.
Buuuuut anyway.
[Also: Readit. HAHAHAHAHA--noI'mnotkidding. It's so. Incredibly. . . . squirmywormy. I try to crawl out of the way. I don't like it, I don't like it, but I can't live without it.]
I can't really explain it for jinxing everything [you bring it into reality, you kill it, fish out of water] but she's. She's. So fucking beautiful. And more ugly than ever. But she feels cleaner/calmer than she used to. We CONVERSE. It's . . .
Yes, she yanks on the chain and my throat burn and my vision blurs. Yes, she growls and rasps and screams until I am left a shaking husk. Yes, she is rage and rage and rage some more. But she LISTENS now. Forhoweverlongitlasts. We are on equal terms. I know my place, she knows her purpose.
And. She knows that last pull. Was a mistake.
I'm sorry too, love.
[But in the long run. She's probably right.]
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