Quiet

quiet

you’re quiet.

i’ve been told that my whole life.

but i’m not, not really.

i just learned young that no one was listening

be quiet.

don’t take up space, don’t be too much

no one actually cares what i have to say

no one’s listening when i speak, unless it’s what they want to hear

i don’t want to be quiet

i want someone to care about what i care about

to hear me and want to hear more

to listen to what i have to say

i spend my days quiet

i’m a watcher, a listener

i smile and nod and wish it were me instead

i want to be listened to, the way i listen

i want to be seen, the way i see

cared about the way i care

be quiet

listen to me.

i have things to say, things i care about

things i wish people cared enough to hear

things i wish people would listen to.

it’s quiet

with no one to talk to.

when it seems like the world is deaf

no one seems to care what i have to say

i wish desperately that they did, but i know they don’t

there’s nothing i can do about it.

i’ll be quiet

every time i speak someone ends up annoyed

it’s easier to just not bother

keep the words inside so no one gets fed up with me

won’t open my mouth to say things no one wants to hear

won’t rock the boat

won’t make a splash

won’t make a sound

i’ll stay quiet

why speak if no one is listening?

or when they are the words are wrong.

you said that already.

we already know.

you shouldn’t say that.

don’t speak.

no one’s listening anyway.

they don’t tell me to be quiet

it’s subtler than that

it’s no questions, no curiosity

it’s when i bring up a topic and no one’s heard of it

the blank looks while they wait for me to stop

no one tries to learn. wants to listen

it’s in the way they speak and expect me to listen.

when is it my turn to be loud?

when is it my turn to be heard?

when is it my turn to be listened to and have someone care what i say?

when can i stop being quiet?

LITERALLY HOW IS ANYONE SANE ABOUT THEM EVER. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

THEYRE BEST FRIENDS THEYRE IN LOVE THEY HAVE THE WISDOM OF 6000 YEARS ON EARTH AND THE STUPIDITY OF IMMORTALITY THEY’RE ENEMY AGENTS IN A FOREIGN LAND THEYRE THE ONLY FRIEND THE OTHER HAS THEY WOULDNT TAKE ANYONE ELSE EVEN IF THEY COULD CHOOSE AND THEY DONT GET TO CHOOSE BUT IF THEY COULD THEY WOULD CHOOSE EARTH AND EACH OTHER-

she's holding your hand!

Come to Hermitcraft Season 9! We have:

Sentient mossman obsessed with the sun

A man who's become so British that he's stealing whole buildings for his museum

Insanely powerful dictator cyborg who is scared of two (2) angry ladies

Your Grandparents' favourite minecraft Youtuber from when they were kids

A woman in a mountain mansion who may have a extra-dimensional doppelganger

An elf-deer-witch who keeps the skulls of her friends as decorations in her torture basements

Walt Disney but he's a genuinely lovely guy

A man with a rock collection who doesn't really know what this 'Geneva Convention' is but would love to go some day

A hypnotist who showed up slightly late but has a farm for just about everything

Living slime who maintains a cathedral while in a war with his neighbour

Stereotypical dwarf except he also owns an island-sized motherboard and the Empire State Building

A second cyborg with an irrational hatred of one (1) rock

JoeHills

Perpetually shocked man with a loveable face

The most self-depreciative engineering genius you've ever met

Crazy Australian lady who may or may not be God

A King who is both corrupted (by a curse) and corrupt (through capitalism)

Woman who drinks tea, lives in tea, gets given tea and believe it or not enjoys tea

A man possessed by a killer dungeon he spent an entire year renovating

A blood-stained card game maker

A man of honour, followed around by his evil clone, the man of dishonour

Either a normal man living in a very large train car, or a very small man living a normal train car

DoomGuy but he's very polite

Video game completionist who is so desperate for challenges he's making new ones for himself

An undead puppeteer who can bring statues to life with their magical book

BEAUTIFUL. I AM IN TEARS

EVERY Frame Matters

300 Artists, 300 Frames and a shared love for Good Omens and it's characters. We came together and created an animation of the kiss from S2. Here is the result:

@neil-gaiman

To get a better look at EVERY frame and artist, feel free to check out the project website here!

EVERY Frame Matters is a project organized by @dotswithbrainrot and @tsutsuya

not enough platonic cuddling in this world methinks