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Still here.
Still writing.50001pins:
Quiet words for the aftermath.
📌Pinned Fragment No. 01
Burnt Edges, Quiet Survival
You kept going. Not because you believed — but because nothing else answered back.
📌Pinned Fragment No. 02
The things you never got to say.
There’s a version of you that only exists in silence. This is that version’s voice.
📌Pinned Fragment No. 03
The Frame Left Behind
You remember what was there. That’s enough. Or maybe it isn’t. The absence is louder now.
The Ones That Didn’t Pin
Some pieces refused to stay put. They drifted. They still do.
Thanks for reading. You made it this far — maybe that’s enough.
Not portals. Just redirects.
One of them leads to the newest fragment.
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🪶A lo-fi project stitched from quiet aftermaths.
Burnt Edges, Quiet Survival
You didn’t survive out of faith.
You survived out of silence.There’s a difference.We romanticize endurance. Package it in motivational quotes. Stick it on mugs. Call it resilience and assume it must have been lit by belief — in a future, in a cause, in yourself.But you know better.There were nights belief never even showed up. Days when your chest was full of wet static, and the mirror gave nothing back but proof of time passing.You didn’t push forward with hope. You dragged yourself forward because stopping didn’t lead to relief. It just led to stillness — the kind that buzzes behind the eyes. The kind that waits for you in parked cars, in checkout lines, in those blinking cursor moments when the weight gets too quiet to ignore.That’s the thing no one says.Sometimes, survival isn’t brave.
It’s default.
It’s your body’s refusal to short-circuit.
It’s not a phoenix. It’s a half-burnt fuse sparking just enough to keep the lights on.You learned to live with the scorch marks.
Not even with pride. Just with... acceptance.
Like the smell of something left too long in the oven: you open the window, you fan the smoke.
You pretend it didn’t happen, but the air remembers.Burnt edges don’t disappear.
They curl. They darken. They remind.And yet — you’re still here. Reading this. Scanning for signs that someone else saw what you saw: the absence of light, the thinning thread, the quiet pull of inertia. That awful half-moment where you wondered if the silence would win.But it didn’t.Not because you rallied.
Not because you healed.
Not because you had a breakthrough or downloaded some PDF with "10 Ways to Beat the Darkness."
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Only 50001 copies were released. Some are still out there No.You kept going because there was nothing else to do.
No clear exit. No thunderous insight.
Just... one breath. Then another. Then maybe a piece of toast.
Then another orbit around the sun.That’s survival, too.And sometimes, it’s the truest kind.
Because it doesn’t ask for applause.
Because it isn’t performative.
Because it doesn’t need a witness to be real.
🩸 LAST LIGHT
Some nights, you thought about making it stop.
Not as a plan. Just as a release sketch.A kind of what if with no punctuation.
A momentary thought shaped like an exit wound.But even that faded.
Because there was laundry.
Because your friend texted a meme.
Because the cat blinked at you like you mattered.And that was enough.
Not forever — but for now.
And now was all you needed to burn through another day.You are not unbroken.
You are not fully healed.
You are not the hero of some comeback story.You are something harder to kill.
Something quiet and scorched and steady.And that counts.
The Things You Never Got to Say
There’s a version of you still paused mid-sentence.They never finished the call.
Never hit send.
Never turned back in the doorway to say the one thing that might’ve changed the script.That version isn’t broken.
They’re just full.
Filled with all the things that didn’t make it out.We pretend silence is neutral.
But you know better.
Silence is shaped.
Silence is carved by every word you swallowed. Every story you edited for someone else’s comfort. Every time you chose peace over truth — or survival over clarity.Somewhere inside you is an archive of unsaid things.Not just anger. Not just grief.
But entire universes of “almost.”The joke you held back because the room didn’t feel safe.
The warning you nearly gave before someone self-destructed.
The “I’m not okay” that sat behind your teeth like a stone.
You held those things. Still do.And maybe they’ll never be spoken.
Maybe they were never meant to be.
But that doesn’t mean they didn’t matter.
☁️ PHANTOM VOICE
There are timelines where you said it all.
You got to be sharp.
You got to be messy.
You got to let the blood hit the page without editing it into poetry.But you woke up here.In this one.Where silence became your translator.
Where your body learned to communicate in microexpressions and timed exits.
Where you told the truth by not showing up.You’ve made a life out of communicating around the truth.
And you did what you had to do.
But this fragment?
This page?This is where that version of you — the one who never spoke — finally gets a moment of signal.No stage.
No inbox.
Just this:
a few words, finally unburied —
tucked into the dark like a note no one was meant to find.It’s not a confession.
It’s a receipt.
The Frame Left Behind
Some things don’t vanish.
They vacate.And what’s worse —
the space they leave behind keeps talking.You don’t always remember the face, or the sound, or the date.
But you remember the shape.
The indentation.
The way the air moved differently around them.
🕳 NEGATIVE SPACE
Grief isn’t always crying.
Sometimes it’s trying to rearrange the furniture around something that isn’t there anymore.
And realizing — months later — you’re still avoiding that one chair.You tell yourself you’ve moved on.
But the absence keeps humming.
Like a leftover frequency.
Like your nervous system’s still buffering, hoping the picture reloads.And sometimes…
you wonder if the missing thing is better than what was actually there.
📸 GHOST EXPOSURE
There was a time it was all crystal clear.
Now it’s fractured.
Like staring at a memory through a broken lens.Some details sharpen.
Others go soft.
You’re not sure what’s real anymore — just what’s yours.And that’s the wild thing about loss:
You don’t just lose the person, or the place, or the version of yourself.
You lose the context.
The frame.The thing that made it all make sense.Now you’re holding a picture with no border.
And you don’t know where to put it down.
🩸 BLEED MARGIN
You tried to fill it.
With noise.
With new people.
With projects, with scrolling, with sleep.But there’s always bleed.
Emotional ink doesn’t stay in the lines.
And the parts of you that were once touched — even lightly —
they don’t stop echoing just because the source cut out.
🪞 WHAT’S LEFT
You’re not broken.
You’re framed differently now.Still holding space for something that doesn’t show up anymore.
Still keeping the outline intact, just in case.And yeah — maybe that’s not enough.
Maybe it never was.But it’s yours.
And you remembered.And that counts.
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