I lost my best friend 3 years ago- not lost as in dead but lost as in we only text each other on our birthdays now. Movies and books don't tell you that a friendship dying is like the sinking of a ship, you try to get higher and higher and hold onto the rails and unanswered texts, the captain tries to steer it to safety and salvage pieces of two broken hearts until you're left with memories of what once was. We were friends for a decade and knew each other's diaries by heart, I still remember her phone number and the way she took her coffee. Seeing her in streets is like breathing in a scent you forgot you knew but it immediately takes you back to a summer in '07.
Movies and books also don't tell you that friendships don't just end after one fight or incident, it's like the rusting of a bridge, the slow decay of flesh and bones and secrets. It took weeks, months- until one day I woke up and I realized I hadn't thought of her in a while. And I wrote a poem that day and I titled it 'The dying of a best friend' and I put all my love for her in a tiny box with my half of the matching pendant of a dolphin we had and stored them in a corner of my heart under the heading Grief. Where else can one hide unspent love?
It's been 3 years since I lost my best friend, lost as in I still carry our secrets in a tiny box but we only text each other on our birthdays.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire
Edit: here's the visualizer for this piece
So I just read this Webtoon and it. is. amazing!!! (amajin for the ARMY’s out there ;) ...I highkey hope I’m not the only one. Honestly it’s so pure and great T_T I want to read more honestly wahhhhh I wasn’t sure what to think at first but this was super awesome to read!!!
(ignore the subtitles...) but other than that Mr Crocodile was legit me when I realised how good this webtoon was >.<
You sit inside a run down house, it’s leaking and smells of rotting wood. The world is submerged in blackness. it’s a time just before sunrise. The world is drowned in the darkness of the night, it feels almost heavy; the air is moist, it has been raining. No stars peek out on this night. As you feel the hopelessness weigh down on you; the urge to cry suddenly becomes very strong. That’s when you hear the soft fall of footsteps. A familiar face steps into the faint glow that lights up your world; your best friend Yoongi walks in. He doesn’t say anything but reaches out and gently takes your hands, you relish the feeling of his roughened hands against yours, the pads of his hands are ever so slightly roughened because of typing, playing piano and work. Though, no amount of work could make his touch ungentle.
You both walk out the front of the door, savouring the quiet and peace as you climb a little hill. You stand for a while, enjoying the breeze. Yoongi takes out his headphones and hands you a bud, the sun peeks over and gives the earth a rosy flush. You both stay there for a long while, savouring the music, enjoying each other’s companionship and leaning into each other as you feel the warmth radiating off each other’s bodies.
Maybe life hurts sometimes, maybe it brought you down. But here, in your little spot would be where a small part of you always belonged. Yes, you thought as you watched to sun turn gold in the sky, life can be rough but having a best frined really helps. On cue, Yoongi turns around and smiles, just a small soft and genuine smile you return the smile, your worries and stress fading away as you think. “Yes, there is no where else I’d rather be”.
in Finland, it is illegal to kill a bear when it’s hibernating. If you ask a hunter why that is, a number of them will tell you it’s wrong simply because it is the law, and they don’t make a distinction between what is right, and what is legal. Most people like that are perfectly normal, decent and respectable people, just like the rest of us.
But if you ask people who think about things, the answer is vague. Killing a hibernating bear would just feel… impolite? You can’t fucking shoot a man when he’s sleeping, that’s just fucking rude. It’s just not the right thing to do.
Long before hunting laws were established in Finland, you couldn’t kill a sleeping bear, and what commands you is something older than law: tradition. Even at a time when hunting was a matter of life and death, and a bear fighting for its life is mainly a matter of death, you just didn’t kill a hibernating bear, you have to wake it up first. Hunters risked their lives, the lives of their brothers and everyone in the hunting party, who were friends, family and men that they loved, to give the bear a fighting chance.
In the modern time, the hunting season of bears is in the summer, for the warmest summer months. There are many reasons for why they are allowed to tread safely in autumn and to sleep in peace through the cold months, almost all of which are rational and scientific, and do not touch the old traditions.
Old faith says a living thing has many souls - henki, luonto, itse. Plants only have one - the one that wills them to grow. Animals have two, both the spark of life and nature that enables them to act. A human being also has the third, one that makes them a person, personality, itse, literally “self”. But the soul that travels in your dreams is not the soul that defines a human - animals have that one as well. When your dog runs in her sleep, her soul is elsewhere, where a dog is needed.
One’s waking soul is elsewhere when they sleep and dream. A bear’s soul is somewhere else when they are hibernating - there are two words for “hibernation” in finnish, one of which is talviuni, “winter sleep”, and that is the one that bears have - and if you kill a sleeping bear, their soul is not in the body, it is still out there, and it can find you, and as a revenge for killing its body, Ghost Bear will kill your entire fucking family.
OMGGGGGG TOWER OF GOD IS AMAZINGGGG AHHHHHH I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WOULD SELL MY SOUL FOR KHUN AND BAM RIGHT!?!?!
I have so much to talk about and I need to let out my sadness and happiness but there is just no one who listens. No one who really cares. No one I can go to. It‘s a horrible feeling and really depressing. How does it feel to have someone on their side? To have someone who thinks about you? I forgot. I don‘t know anymore.
(-deepthoughtsvibes)
people with bad taste are always like “yurr hurr The Beach is about zuko and mai and how they’re a great couple” while intellectuals know that Actually The Beach is about mining any and all of the untapped friendship potential of this striking exchange
The world is wearying but // We can steal these moments
hedonism is good actually rich people just suck at it
Hoseok (Hobi)
Fourth member to be recruited into BTS coven
Raps with Yoongi
A literal ray of sunshine
Changes colour of EVERYTHING he can…
Has so much fun in Yoongi’s lab
Like.
Yoongi has a laboratory that he and Joonie built.
Everyone goes into it
Hobi loves the lab bit...there he experiments endlessly with the chemistry and science
If he’s not there
He’s probably watching romantic movies with the makanes
A sprite (asian)
When caught for 7 days. They bring good luck (going over limit causes permanent BAD luck)
The BTS coven just keep him in a super big cage
It’s not even a cage, it’s like a mini mansion located inside the BTS coven mansion.
The maknaes move the TV nearer to the cage just for that week so they can have movie nights
Super interested in mundane things
Loves Harry Potter
Likes his accessories
There’s usually an explosion per day coming out of his “Sunshine Lab”
In which Hobi usually emerges drenched in colour
Jin immediately dumps a bucket of water on him and tells him to “go dry” in the sun
Hobi is working on a “Sope” (his and Suga’s ship name) that the members can use…
Occasionally changes the water colour in the bathroom so that the members shower in green, red, purple or blue water..there are a plethora of colours of course
Sometimes he will just change the lighting in the house itself so members (especially Yoongi) wake up to rainbows dancing across the room
“JUNG HOSEOK WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY ROOM?!”
Yeah that’s probably Yoongi…
Hobi will also put some cute lil fairy lights in his lab...don’t ask me how they don’t get damaged
Also slips little chocolate bars under Yoongi’s door when he’s working late to show him someone cares
SPAMS hardcore
Fascinated with mundane technology
“Wait so only one type of phone can bend...even then it’s not able to bend except in the middle? Wicked!”
I mean, after being used to Tae’s super high tech that he installed in BTS coven, it’s no wonder they marvel at mundane tec
Sweet tooth and softie for Jin’s cakes, brownies etc
Smile is so beautiful like it legit a heart
HIP HOP DANCE