when i think of dirk i think about the guy who was so distraught about all of his friends dying he let the glitches take him. i think about the guy who called roxy the strongest person he knew . the fact ult dirk is the only thing some people think of makes me so sad
I don't know how to explain that Roxy wearing this outfit and still getting gendered right and supported both in the story and by fandom is making me really emotional without sounding actually insane cuz I'm not to this point yet but it's making me emotional I'm really happy
Imagine spending a decade making a TV show and then the fans hate your ending so much that they spend the next week picking apart every minor production mistake you’ve ever made to try to justify their conspiracy theory about a secret alternate ending
One minute before Leo died,
he scratched me.
A small scratch,
but it stayed on my hand
as if it were a farewell signature.
And today,
the kitten whose mother gave birth to him in my tent
after Leo died,
scratched me the same scratch,
in the exact same place.
They may call it a coincidence,
and I don’t argue.
But my heart knows
that some signs
do not come without meaning.
As if Leo,
when he left hungry and exhausted,
left a mark on my body
so his voice would not be lost to forgetting.
And as if life,
when it saw me bleeding with loss,
touched the same wound again
to tell me:
what you love does not disappear,
it only finds another way
to stay close.
Leo is no longer a body,
but he is still present,
still knows how to reach me
when I think I am alone.