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2026-10-08 · reflection

No. I’m not going to beat the character into submission to hold onto the assumption, I let her give up. And this is why…

Feeling: 🥹 Tender

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It’s like the denseness of his situation eroded my ability to imagine well for him. No matter how much I wanted to. I was both seduced and consumed by the circumstance. I hated that I was so taken by it that, even though we’d become so close, I couldn’t imagine him free.

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