𑁍┊ 𝓪𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝. ˎˊ˗

people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

towards dawn, she pronounced for the first time the word 'death'.

and bless the daughter, but fuck the family.

for all your obedience, they'd given you a crown; woven of thorns & piercing roots, bleeding you dry with each slight movement. you'd thanked them for it as beads of scarlet rolled from your temple to your jaw.

my father tells me that i'm too loud but he hasn't yet figured out that i inherited it from him, that some traits were passed down to his daughters even though he wanted to see them in sons.