bro i literally just realized the whole food stealing thing on basic straining was alcohol. like bridgette warns courtney she’s had “one too many” before she pukes and then duncan’s like “the princess has a dark side” which is smth pretty weird to say when someone’s nauseous just from eating a little too much. its so fucking obvious and it just never crossed my mind
Highway backgrounds were provided by @xgatheringdust, who is as wildly talented as she is generous.
Poem written in plain text beneath the cut:
I don’t have the poem you wrote anymore that you gave me in two thousand ten I think that I burned it outside my house It makes more sense to me now than then.
A few days after I turned you away you approached me looking anguished. And I thought that you’d come to scream at me, but you gave me the poem and vanished.
Inside it you brought up some technical terms, just to rub it in more that you’re smart. You wrote of solutions and mixtures, and how only some can be taken apart.
You likened us to colored sand poured together in a jar. And you likened me to a hammer that smashed the thing to shards.
A frantic girl, panicked, crouched, she separates the grains. She tries to keep the colors pure, but the mixture still remains.
She hates to feel contaminated. She spends weeks and months extracting. Her opponent is relentless; cruel. Her sight is honed, exacting.
But even when she’s older, and she’s forgotten, and she’s free, sometimes she’ll squint at her reflection and she’ll see a glint of me.
