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writer of the dark sides we try to hide. she/her, no ai rainrainynights.substack.com

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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 26m
if you know when you've found the one, perhaps i resign myself that love chose to leave me lonely for this life #sad #love #poetry #writing #original #sadpoetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 23h
"...all living creatures are inherently selfish in their journey for survival." #substack #writing #journaling #reaper #darkacademia #melancholy #existential
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i forever carry exhaustion
the reaper journals entry #3
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
in the pursuit of whimsy everyone has fallen for its spell, the shadows don't disappear yet blind eyes remain turned #darkacademia #melancholy #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #whimsy #sad #dark #darkpoetry #writing
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what would you do if you found all i could #bequest laid between the lines of my poetry? #vss365 #poetry #writing #original #melancholy #sad #shortpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
and in the quietest moment of the night when all the walls you held up are crumbled down are you satisfied with the person in the body you inhabit? #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #darkacademia #melancholy #poetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
your words of affirmation that i belong and matter just as much as you do is the only #reprieve that has helped me save myself #vss365 #shortpoetry #darkacademia #sad #melancholy #love #originalpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the darkness sinks its teeth into your heart, its venom courses through your veins and bleeds out ink and it would kill your soul if it was any other way #darkacademia #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #darkpoetry #dark #sad #melancholia
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if you have to be tortured to write poetry, then are my words of affirmation merely sweet nothings to the eye of the beholder? #micropoem #melancholy #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #darkacademia #poetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the only way to #purify your body rid the demons that took refuge is to exorcise them through your hand and bleed it all out through the ink #vss365 #shortpoetry #original #darkpoetry #darkacademia #originalpoetry #writing
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
in spite of the futility of hoping in the badlands this landscape has become, i found that it is impossible to #renounce the idea we have permanently lost our way to a brighter future #shortpoetry #vss365 #poetry #original #hope #melancholy
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
they say you must be tortured to be a poet whose words mean something. if so, then what is worth on my prose about our golden love? #lovepoetry #original #poetry #melancholy #shortpoetry #micropoem
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you are a beautiful thing. don't let the weeds tell you otherwise #micropoem #shortpoetry #positivity #original #lovepoetry #poetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i believed solitude was the cure for the hollow space in my chest, when in truth it was your #nuture that gave me the hope the light to save myself #vss365 #poetry #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #love #warmth #lovepoem
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𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑎 ⋆˙⟡ @darkacademiah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming" —The Secret History, Donna Tartt.
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
and in the peak of this rapture i devote my body and soul to you #lovepoetry #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #love #poetry #original
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i've been stuck in the motions of life for a while. i realized this recently and wrote out this piece about the seeds of moving forward again. i hope that you enjoy this as well and find solace if you are in a similar situation #substack #creativenonfiction #revival #startingover #originalwriting
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the beginning of reviving yourself again
even with all your love, you taught me i am not as healed as i thought i was.
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i am stuck in this life an endless monochrome metronome and i'd give anything to shatter this ticking and tocking and learn how to start liv- ing again #darkacademia #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #poetry #melancholy
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i have found it is lighter to live in home of ghosts than to be in an empty house #micropoem #poetry #sad #shortpoetry #original #sadpoetry #darkacademia
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i #reckon, my love, that if you get too close i will unravel just as you will in the threads that weave us together and in the havoc we create chaos #vss365 #shortpoetry #lovepoetry #poetry #original #darkacademia
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
can a ghost learn to love themselves if they never believed their soul should have ever existed #darkpoetry #sadpoetry #poetry #darkacademia #ghost #sad #dark #originalpoetry #shortpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i had to bleed out the toxins covertly in my bloodstream to find out that, all along, your love is an antidote #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #lovepoetry #sad #dark #darkacademia
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"...i know every life i had taken, whether deemed fair or unfair, had an entire story with chapters and footnotes with complexity i could barely fathom." #substack #creativewriting #darkacademia #journaling #originalwriting #reaper #melancholy
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memories are ghosts i can never escape
the reaper journals entry #2
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you reignite the firelight when i believe the wick should remain unlit #micropoem #shortpoetry #darkacademia #lovepoetry #originalpoetry #poetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
do you exist if nobody ever sees you? #micropoem #poetry #melancholy #darkpoetry #sadpoetry #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #sad #dark
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when the darkest nights swallow you up and the stars barely glimmer in your eyes just remember that the love we have means as much to you as it means to me #sad #originalpoetry #love #dark #sadpoetry #lovepoetry #darkacademia #shortpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i get lost in the galaxies that paint your irises #micropoem #love #romantic #originalpoetry #shortpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it turns out that your love was enough to teach me how to love myself #lovepoetry #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #love #happy #poetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the darkness sinks its teeth into your heart, its venom courses through your veins and bleeds out ink and it would kill your soul if it was any other way #darkacademia #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #darkpoetry #dark #sad #melancholia
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
every piece of poetry every drop of prose from the ink is evidence of the journey i embark to see all sides of my kaleidoscope #embark #shortpoetry #vss365 #originalpoetry #darkacademia #melancholia
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i just need to see your face to know that my sacred haven is still the only place i can unravel #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #love #haven #lovepoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the claws are trying to strike me down, cause they know that when you say "i love you" they become desperate to stay alive #dark #love #originalpoetry #darkacademia #sad #lovepoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
if i were to be free of the stormy days that forever haunt me, what is left of the soul i inhabit? #stormy #sadpoetry #poetry #micropoem #vss365 #darkacademia #dark #sad
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
would it be enough to find happiness if i remain to be cursed by my melancholia? #sad #poetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia #dark #melancholy #originalpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
love is a sanctuary where you can let down your walls and know you’ll be held all the same #micropoem #poetry #love #lovepoetry #shortpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
try as you might, you cannot change the will of the stars #shortpoetry #originalpoetry #micropoem #darkacademia #poetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
my newest poem on love that persists and the power it has. it is a personal poem that i dearly love and am happy to share it with you all today #substack #originalpoetry #lovepoetry #originalwriting #poetry #love
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the golden antidote
savor the taste while you can
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
how much do I have to bleed to know that my suffering matters? #sadpoetry #darkpoetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia #micropoem
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𓄼 soul 𓄹 @su0l.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
𝔰𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔱𝔶
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the all-encompassing essence of the hollow is a cutthroat beast #darkpoetry #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia #melancholy #sadpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
it turns out the agony meant that whenever i'd find true love i would just know that my place would be next to you #poetry #originalpoetry #darkacademia #lovepoetry #shortpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
even if our arms did not cross our bodies your warmth enveloped my chest and brought the colors back in a landscape of black-and-white #lovepoetry #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #lovepoem
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𓄼 soul 𓄹 @su0l.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
𝓐 𝓠𝓾𝓲𝓮𝓽 𝓐𝓾𝓽𝓾𝓶𝓷 𝓓𝓪𝔂…🍂🪾🍄‍🟫🧺
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
crack my porcelain skin i am merely your doll designed for your pleasure #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia #darkpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
when the stars collide and when the sky collapses i wish that you will go know that the love we shared meant as much to you as it did to me #poetry #darkacademia #lovepoetry #shortpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i wrote an impromptu letter last night, but even though it's stream-of-consciousness it is a very personal letter to a love that has persisted but is needed more than ever. i'd love it if you checked it out! #substack #letterwriting #creativenonfiction #originalwriting #loveletter
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bring the light back
we are still here somehow
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i never knew that the life of solitude could be this biting when i believe it to be the cure #shortpoetry #darkacademia #sadpoetry #originalpoetry
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𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑎 ⋆˙⟡ @darkacademiah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i’m an autumnaholic 🍂🪾
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𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑎 ⋆˙⟡ @darkacademiah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Château de Versailles
marie antoinette’s chamber
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
the darkness sinks its teeth into your heart, its venom courses through your veins and bleeds out ink and it would kill your soul if it was any other way #darkacademia #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #darkpoetry
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rain @rain-rainynights.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
check out my latest substack post! it's one that came from a place of quiet anger and feeling stuck around others. i'd love it if you'd give it a read! #substack #darkacademia #creativenonfiction #originalwriting
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glimpse under the masquerade mask
i walk this road alone
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