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I was crying before I finished the first paragraph.
Dogs. We don’t deserve them.
Protect the Aries who don’t know how to express their emotions verbally so they become physical.
Protect the Taurus who struggle with their body image and are constantly triggered by the lazy and eating stereotype.
Protect the Geminis who are shunned for being flexible and accused of being fake.
Protect the Cancers who are made fun of for their sensitive interior and maternal instinct.
Protect the Leos who are insecure and feel less of a person than the rest of us.
Protect the Virgos who are bullied for their hobbies and passions.
Protect the Libras who don’t want to make anyone upset so they refuse to make any decisions.
Protect the Scorpios who desperately want to let go of their toughness but can’t.
Protect the Sagittarius who is a wanderer and cannot seem to find their true home.
Protect the Capricorns who crave success so they don’t disappoint others.
Protect the Aquarius who feels like they don’t belong among us.
Protect the Pisces who are too sensitive for this world and cannot handle its harsh ways.
How the accuracy hurts.
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they hand out death so easily. yesterday i wrapped my hands around the handle of a casket and helped carry it with seven other people. it was heavy. i wonder: do they know that it takes eight souls to support the weight of one body, emptied?
there are many paths to god. i am a catholic and not asked to apologize for the crusades. they look at me and say: no, she is innocent, she just belongs to a faith. i will never ask another to apologize for the sins extremists painted on their fingertips. i know what it feels like to be ashamed. every time i see someone hate in the name of my Lord, i flinch. i am constantly saying, “this is not my way.” i know it is not theirs either. i know i am not in trouble in America because i believe in god. i know that they are.
my friend mary does not go by her native birth name. in the wake of someone killing her friend overseas, she asked me to pray with her. i said “yes, absolutely, but forgive me, for i do not know the words that you would say.” she told me, “say what you would. are we not trying to reach the same phone but dialing different numbers? i know you are calling, and that is what matters.” it is true. faith has no language - i of all people and five tongues should have known this.
mary wears jeans and a sweatshirt and has stopped covering her hair. i wear a crucifix during Lent and ashes on my forehead. she takes back roads when going to religious events. i can walk to the church closest to my heart. she and i go out to eat and see a car crash. i cross myself behind the wheel. she watches it and then watches the window.
someone says to us: “doesn’t your religion ever make you fight about things?” but they say it mostly to me. they try not to look her in the eyes. they say, “isis is killing your people,” and i say, “they are. she is not.” i say, “we are killing her people,” and she says, “they are. you are not.”
they hand out death so easily. they stack it on my faith: but they take the bodies out from her family. i think her shoulders are tired. i think we both are.
she called me last night. she said, “have you laid him to rest?” and i said, “yes.” she said, “Let us say the Our Father.” i said, “no. use your words. we are trying to reach the same phone.”
i called her this morning. i said, “i have only just heard of the events in Chapel Hill.” she said, “you are still in mourning, you do not need to tend to me.” i said, “as are you” and she began crying. she said to me, “my dear sister. i am so scared of dying.”
”— i am praying for my brothers and sisters. our faith makes us family. it is the weight of your coffins i pledge to carry. // r.i.d (via inkskinned)
“And worst of all, Lavellan, it wasn’t even decaf like I’d asked!“
No Fade dreams for you.
“But I’d be with my Dread Wolf now if only I could catch his scent.”
Just finished Solas as Capricorn in my Dragon Age Inquisition Zodiac series!
That was a lot of fun to make! Now, off to update a neglected comic, ahaaahahaa…
I thought the connection I felt to this elf baby was too strong.
One dog band. (watch with sound)
TREES
(Source: sithcampeador)