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@mosstwigs.bsky.social
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 28m
we're undeveloped, we're ignorant, we're stupid, but we're happy
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 1h
of course i think you’re mental. that’s why we’re so good together.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 2h
you saved me before. i will not let you drown.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 3h
here’s the truest thing i’ve ever known: the heart is just a muscle, with a rhythm all its own it doesn’t stop when you decide not to move on the heart knows nothing of your love or of your loss
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 4h
they tell me, “grief is just love letting go” they say it like milk has been spilled on the floor
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 5h
when did i start to lose the parts of me that weren’t just anger?
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 6h
“i should have taken care of you.” “i never asked you to.” “you shouldn't have to ask.”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 7h
i grabbed a hold of her wrist and my hand closed from tip to tip, and said “you've taken the diet too far, you've got to let it slip.”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 8h
so i will wait for the next time you want me like a dog with a bird at your door
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 9h
take a body to water, take a body to tundra, just take me with you as well
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 10h
and all you can hear is the sound of your own heart, and you can feel is your lungs flood, and the blood course
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 11h
splitting necks and calling it dichotomy
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 12h
over the palisade, morning will break rise up to meet it, o sleeper, awake
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 13h
yes, i'm young and living dreams, in love with being noticed and afraid of being seen
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 14h
i thought that god was supposed to protect me, whatever happened to that?
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 15h
tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! fuckin' real good life! had us a place of our own. but you didn't want it, ennis! so what we got now is brokeback mountain!
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 16h
you've been in his fist ever since you were a kid, but you don't owe him shit, even if he said you did
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 17h
and in a hazy daydream, our bodies married the stream and we broke down into pebbles and silt
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 18h
i just don't understand. do you want... do you want to not make it out? is that it?
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 19h
“i need you.” “where are we going?” “into darkness.”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 20h
“you'll be doomed along with me.” “exactly. we either escape together or we die together.”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 21h
stop asking why i'm sad just know, it's enough to know i'm sad
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 22h
“i think i lo-” “you do, dumbass. you love him more than anything in the world”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 23h
you came in here the other day and you said you thought it would have been better if it had been you who was shot. you act like you're expendable. but you're wrong.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i wish i had been born at sea then you wouldn’t care and you wouldn’t know me
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“what if i don't want to get my shit together?” “then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
maybe that’s what it’s all about we keep fixing what we know is only bound to break
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
call me if you need a friend, or never talk to me again, but please stay
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
no matter where you end up, you're still from your hometown
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i need an anchor, god, i wanna be satisfied cause i'm tired of feeling like a shadow in my life
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this thing hurts like hell. but what did you expect?
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i don't know what's scarier. the fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart. or that sometimes, i just wanna let 'em.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
we had a pact. me and him. every star in the universe, we were going to see them all. but he was too busy burning them. i don't think she ever saw anything.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
you'll never see the reasons i had for keeping my claws away when they were close enough to hurt you
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
thought i was raised better, tried to fake better, tried to blame weather and escape better, hope the skin heals where the pain enters
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
love run, love run for all the things we wished we'd donerun from all you know that's coming run to show that love's worth running to
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
and when the anger had paused, i turned and answered their calls, with “you're just audience, i'm the applause”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it could be like this, just like this, always
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“why do you persist? after everything i've done?” “because i promised you.”
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i hope you can be happy after this, darling. i need you to be happy after this. i don’t think i could live with myself if you weren’t.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it felt like time had stopped, just for a moment, and it was just us two alone in the universe.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
and i believe that yeah, dad, maybe no one is perfect, but i believe that you were pushing your luck
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the sea is a good place to think of (to think about) the future
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lancaster- orion, listen to me, please don’t do this-
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
on some level i think i always understood that a ship could never really love an anchor
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i hope you can be happy after this, darling. i need you to be happy after this. i don’t think i could live with myself if you weren’t.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
immortality isn't living forever, that's not what it feels like. immortality is everybody else dying.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
if you think because she is dead, i am weak, then you understand very little. if you were any part of killing her, and you're not afraid, then you understand nothing at all.
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it was the raging storm of a foreign war and a face i'd seen before
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lichen @mosstwigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
yes, i'm young and living dreams, in love with being noticed and afraid of being seen
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