One Is Able To Understand You Only As Deeply As They Understand Themself.

One is able to understand you only as deeply as they understand themself.

Emily Yvonne

Gibson Girl Inktober by Anastasia Bubnova

... –it is wonderful what stagnation there fell upon the springs of my life–wonderful how total an inversion took place in the character of my commonest thought. The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn–not the material of my everyday existence–but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, Berenice

“Tell me, is it a blessing or a curse, this loneliness which is part of my nature and which, however carefully I seek out situations meant in every respect to pull me out, I am all the more irresistibly driven back into?”

— Friedrich Hölderlin in a letter to Christian Laundauer

The found family trope is for those who were never a first choice. Those that always carried the baggage but received no tips in exchange. It’s for those that needed a wall to lean on but learned to build one on their own . They looked at people as potential. As someone who could very well become an important part of their life. This is the trope for those who listened but were never heard, those that seeked an idea of a home in souls and not walls. It is for the ones that yearn for a love the weight of blood, but came with no obligation- no -they wanted to be chosen , they wanted a familial bond that escaped the scopes of biology . They wish for their presence to have meaning. For it to be significant. And for their absence to be nagging. Brutal. Loud.

Counselor of the White King by Jose Ochoa