thoughtsofjoy_dreamsoflove
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But now that Miri knows that people go away, forever, she can’t stop thinking about it. It’s like when she got that train set for Christmas and the track was a circle. When she and her father finished setting it up all the train did was go around and around and around, to nowhere, until you got bored and turned off the motor. Miri’s brain feels like that train set, only without the switch.
meditations on childhood mental illness.
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- Part 1 of the obvious child
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05 Feb 2026
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“No, I’m Jeremiah’s ex-wife.” She said, the words insane to her own ears. “I’m Jere’s ex-wife and I’m his brother’s girlfriend.”
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07 Dec 2025
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inneclipses only appear in the north sky by everythingeverything (yiqie)
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022)
19 Sep 2025
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He laughs, but it doesn’t explode out of him anymore. Ha ha ha ha! It used to fill the house, him and Steven the loudest of the four, crowing like beasts, Jeremiah cackling after them, Belly the eternal victim of their antics. Now it rumbles out of him, a low, surly chuckle.
And so Laurel knows, long, long before it ever happens, when it begins to end.
// Laurel, and what it’s like to watch the children you thought you’d raise alongside your best friend grow up.
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02 Dec 2025
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Conrad Fisher is not where he is supposed to be, and after months of watching his brother's spin out, Jeremiah assumes the worst. Can Belly and Jeremiah reach him in time? And can they recover from what comes after?
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Or, Conrad attempts to take his own life after losing Susannah. The aftermath changes everyone.
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- Part 1 of The Grief Universe
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24 Nov 2025
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When Conrad was young, his mother told him that someday, someone would make him feel fireworks.
“When you do, Connie,” she’d said, “You hold them close. And you don’t let them go, no matter who tells you to.”
“Is that what you did?” he’d asked.
She’d smiled and smoothed his hair back behind his ear. “Not close enough.” Her eyes were kind. “But I know you won’t make the same mistake. You’re much braver than I am.”
Just once, Conrad had seen his mother and Laurel dance around the kitchen in the summer house, long past the time when he was supposed to be asleep. He’d felt a flash of jealousy, watching them skip and swing and collapse into a puddle on the floor, laughing. Laurel had reached over and brushed a wayward strand of hair out of Susannah’s face. They breathed as though they were one, the set of each of their shoulders matching the other.
He had looked away, feeling heat rise to his cheeks, and had run back up the stairs as quietly as he could. Like he’d seen something he wasn’t supposed to. Like he’d seen something he would understand far too well one day.
(Or: Soulmates are a funny thing. Mirrors, too.)
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20 Nov 2025