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05.26.2026 · DUSK
In Petals and Pine
I do not remember the first time I saw a flower. I think I was born from one — or from the space where a flower used to be.

People think a doe is gentle. They think the soft eyes and the careful step mean harmless. They do not understand that all gentleness is a kind of hunger. I carry my moths like prayers. I exhale fog the way a throat holds a sob.

Tonight I stood among the blossoms in the clearing and remembered a child’s hands. She used to press petals between the pages of a book she could not yet read. I still remember the exact shape of her thumb.

The wings on my back are not mine. They belonged to something that died believing it could be beautiful. I keep them because I have learned that keeping is the only way to love without destroying.

Sometimes I hear the forest breathe my name — not Yamauba. Not mountain crone. The other name. The one that tastes like petals on the tongue.

I was not always a spirit of grief. Once I was the girl who left the petals. The girl who first spoke to owls. The one who understood the sadness of moths. Once I was the forest itself, before it learned to be afraid.

There are nights when I stand very still and let the moths cover me entirely. In the dark, I look almost like I did before — before the wings, before the fog, before I understood that the dead are not lost. They are just waiting for someone soft enough to carry them.

I will never return to my old self. Every time hunger overcomes me, I turn into a monster. I feel my bones crumble and the darkness grows within. It is filled with pain, evil, and longing. I cannot stop destroying. I follow the pain.
“She does not weep. She only leaves moth-wings on every stone she passes, like an apology to the earth for what the sky has taken”
A quick sketch. Petals smelled like old ink and rain. I did not pick them
tags: meadow · moths · petals · grief
05.26.2026 · NIGHT
Sounds That Follow Me Through the Fog
There are melodies that do not belong to anyone. They drift between the trees like lost moths, and when you hear them, you forget where you end and the forest begins.

These are the sounds I carry. Some I found in the rain. Some were left by the dead. One of them I think I was born humming.

If you listen closely, you will hear the space between the notes. That is where I live.

I live for music and love to sing. Especially to sing to myself. I believe that in music as well as in gaze lies the soul. And it’s wonderful when the soul can sing.

Every human, living being on earth, has its own time. A limit. I added matches to each track as a sign that we would all burn. Die. As a sign that time should be cherished here and now.

I sometimes cry and tears pour into my keyboard, but I keep typing. They wet my paper, but I keep my diary. I believe that word heals and kills.

My eyes are getting heavy, it is increasingly difficult to decipher the words through the depth of water on my pupils. Escape from reality. Closer to the water.
香 · Tracklist
tags: music · ambient · fog
05.27.2026 · MIDNIGHT
Show Me Your Darkness
They always come to me at the end. Not because I call them — I stopped calling long ago. They come because the forest knows what I am, and it leads them to my clearing like water finding the lowest ground.

I asked him only once. Show me your darkness.

He did not understand at first. They never do. They think darkness is something you hide. Something shameful, folded into the smallest drawer of your chest. But I know better. Darkness is the truest portrait a soul can offer. It is the place where no one performs. Where grief has no audience. Where the roots grow.

He looked into my eyes, and I looked back.

That is when it happens. The exact moment. I see everything at once — his first cry, the hands that held him, the hands that didn’t. The room where he sat alone as a child, counting the cracks in the ceiling. The woman he loved who left without closing the door. The words he swallowed so many times they turned to stone inside his throat.

I see the last morning. The fog. The quiet.

And then he is gone.

But I am not.

That is the curse they do not tell you about when they make you immortal. Not the endless years. Not the forest walls that never part. It is the remembering. Every face I have ever looked into lives behind my eyes now. Every last breath I have collected still fogs the inside of my chest. I carry a thousand lifetimes that are not mine, and each one weighs exactly the same as my own.

I remember his hands. I will remember them when the last tree in this forest falls. I will remember the exact shade of fear in his pupils when he understood that I was not saving him — I was witnessing him.

Some nights I walk the same path he walked, my hooves pressing into his old footprints. The snow has covered them a hundred times, but I still feel them underneath. The earth remembers too.

I am the forest’s memory. I am the place where the dead are not forgotten but not forgiven either. I hold them the way a moth holds light — desperately, briefly, and with wings that were never made for burning.

Show me your darkness, I said.
He showed me everything.
And now I carry it forever.
“She does not kill. She simply looks — and after her gaze, there is nothing left to live for. Not because she takes something away, but because she shows you that it was already gone.”
Show me your darkness. I will hold it where no one else can reach.
tags: darkness · witness · immortal · memory · eyes


day of mourning
05.27.2026 · GRIEF
In Memory of Flyleaf

Rest well, Flyleaf. The forest remembers.
For Piaf — and for FinalGirl
art by Qanat
Rest well, Piaf. Rest well, FinalGirl. The forest remembers.
永遠
forever
Forests keep what people forget

be careful! sometimes the

be careful! sometimes the thoughts of Hana will be confused with my thoughts. perhaps the reader may get confused. bbut that's the whole point. i put a part of my soul into her life.

thank u all.

This is absolutely beautiful,

This is absolutely beautiful, your writing is in depth and well spoken. There's a part of me that really enjoys this because I have had similar musings/inspirations myself in terms of the notes between the words and often grey lines that can be blurred. I adore this so much and I appreciate you being so open with your words.

-sits- tracking this~ ♥

Edit: I love your art, it's very magical!

I just listened to the songs

I just listened to the songs you left and enjoyed the quiet ? I loved how illuminatedBones emphasized the beauty and intimacy of your thoughts. c: Thank you for sharing them!! the forest is healing and it’s true. I’m glad to see you here my dear friend)))

Quote:be careful! sometimes

Quote:
be careful! sometimes the thoughts of Hana will be confused with my thoughts. perhaps the reader may get confused. bbut that's the whole point. i put a part of my soul into her life.

this is such a lovely way of phrasing it! i feel the same way with my own chronicles of my deer's adventures; i like blurring the line between "reader", "narrator", "player", and "deer" for the reader.

your CSS is so impressive, though admittedly quite difficult for me to read both here and on your other pages! if you like, you could check out this contrast checker which helps people identify whether or not their colour choices are accessible to viewers. no pressure though, only a suggestion. the font size is also very small to me, even zoomed in a lot.

Quote:
I carry my moths like prayers. I exhale fog the way a throat holds a sob.

i thought this line was so lovely. the contrast between "exhale" and "holds", and the imagery of both... really lovely writing. thank you for sharing it with us.

art (c) raz

tarkat: LOVE!

tarkat: LOVE! <33

illuminatedBones: i was inspired by your work. thank you for everything! <3

virtualfriend: welcome to my diary. i thought about making the font brighter and bigger, but to be honest, i lose atmosphere if i make these adjustments... *sounds of uncertainty* PANIC.
Draak's picture

I know you're trying to do

I know you're trying to do something nice and thoughtful for the community with those remembrance paragraphs. But I feel like it's crossing the line a little because it comes across as if you're writing for actual real life players who have passed away who can't have any say in said interpretations, sure they're not negative interpretations but still, it has some uncomfortable vibes. It'd be different if the deaths were fictional but they aren't.

Draak: hello! yes, i wanted

Draak: hello! yes, i wanted to honor the memory with this, but not hurt the feelings of others. do you want me to delete blocks or remove character interactions? i wonder what you mean. thank u.

you know, when i created my

you know, when i created my biography and personal diary, i was sure that ii could share all my thoughts. i think that this time people with depressive disorder in their arsenal will understand me. the forest and some people around me gave me a lot of inspiration. and i wanted to secure my thoughts, at least with a personal diary. i have written two disclaimers (one general, the other for specific blog/diary posts) that if our opinions do not match, you should refrain from commenting. because i share my soul. i don’t expect anything in return, and i don’t expect anything negative. I thought this was a place to cleanse my soul, but i was wrong. im a very vulnerable person, and i sincerely do not understand why you did not ask about my email or facebook or dc - to contact me. why was it necessary to record the negativity i asked not to write about? just to protect my psyche. for me, the last two posts on the blog were as personal as possible. but even here you managed to write something unpleasant for me. this is my personal pain, and i find it easier to express my feelings in a third-party message. that’s what Hana helps me with. i knew the internet was evil. i knew that if you show people part of the soul, it would be those who want to malign them. but i will never understand such actions. i am a rather vulnerable person. i will not argue or prove it. much less apologize. i will no longer keep this diary and appear in the community.

this place isnt safe.

In my eyes, Draak tried

In my eyes, Draak tried politely point out the fact that even if you truly meant only good and wanted to honor the dead people, the text was still quite inappropriate in a way.

Signature made by Saturnia

Nobody has asked you to argue

Nobody has asked you to argue or apologize... nor is anyone attacking you. Like Fernelescent said, all Draak did was say that writing on the behalf of a real, deceased member of the community and depicting their characters feels disrespectful/inappropriate, particularly if you weren't close to those people yourself. There's a difference between drawing your deer with theirs as a small tribute, or briefly saying "Hana knows these deer are safe and cared for now", compared to actually writing them as if they or their players are part of your story...

Personally, when I have suggestions like this, I don't contact the individual privately because a) I want our interaction to be public so that BOTH of us can be held accountable for the way we speak to each other, b) the post is already public, so I don't see the problem with comments on it also being public, and c) private communication is more intimate and I may not want someone to have access to my email or Discord or whatever else. It's different if it's a private and personal issue, but this is literally about something posted on the site, so... xD;

Truly, nobody is trying to stop you from expressing yourself. All that's being asked is that you reconsider including the characters of real, deceased community members in your fiction. We also can't make you do that - it's truly up to you how you respond to things like this.

I'm sorry that you feel the community is unsafe for you, but in my opinion nobody has treated you poorly. If I wrote something that upset people or was disrespectful, I would want them to gently correct me on it the way others have here!


(EDIT: oh, and re: the colour issue, that's fair enough. Just try to remember that if people can't READ your work, then you've lost more than just atmosphere, lol)

art (c) raz
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I went to bed before I saw

I went to bed before I saw the first reply, it would be nice to remove said entries out of respect but then.....

(This situation seems eerily familiar) You're putting this blog in a public space which leaves it open for others to comment on, both positively and negatively. If you're that worried about criticism but still want to create do so in private.
And as Virtualfriend says, the reason I commented on here is because it involved actual players who have died in real life, not fictional characters. Just put yourself in the shoes of a friend or relative of the deceased players for a moment, someone who is a complete stranger suddenly claims that their fictional character actually knows or knew the non fictional person, and suddenly pops up and claims that they knew said deceased player and how they behaved/acted/beliefs etc. It's disrespectful and inappropriate end of story.

Also I don't see a disclaimer anywhere on here (or the actual bio for that matter) and if there is, it's not obvious given the font colour and size etc.