it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.
yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.
it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.
how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.
chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?
how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.
"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.
i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.
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Clara Headcanons
She’s got claws and fangs
Her claws are mostly passable. For the most part, they just look like overgrown nails
She’s got eye shine similar to a cat
Way Too Pale. Almost like bleached bone
Ears? Slightly pointy
She does BIG STRETCHES like a cat
Will unashamedly bear her teeth at people
Makes strange vocalizations, such as growling and hissing
Listen, she’s clearly not human, so let her have little freaky traits
Touch-starved? Touch-starved
She can’t swim
Throw her in the water, and she will sink
Will eat Anything
Literally ANYTHING
And not just because she’s starving most of the time
She will eat worms straight out of the mud
She would eat the rats in the street if they weren’t infected
Daniil once tried to clip her claws, and she started yowling like she was being gutted alive. Thrashing and writhing. Ended up kicking him right in the face. (y’all know this TikTok? yeah, that’s them)
Gets the zoomies
Murky and Sticky are her best friends (they’re her only friends)
Thank god it’s so gloomy in the Town because she would fry in the sun
Randomly gets the taste of dirt in her mouth
Smells like dirt
Randomly gets full-body chills out of nowhere and is like 🧍♀️ immediately after
She can’t fucking read
Her handwriting is worse than chicken scratch
Daniil saw it and was like 😟
She also can’t do basic math
Daniil is constantly having to shoo her away like she’s a raccoon eating out his trash cans
Did I mention she’s touch-starved? Cause she is
Curls up until a little ball when she sleeps
Unless she’s running a fever, she doesn’t give off a lot of body heat
Very sensory-sensitive, especially to loud sounds
She’s very secretive about how her powers directly harm her health. They’re all she has, and the last thing she needs is for people to know there’s even more bad shit about them.
Hand injuries scare the shit out of her because she’s afraid that if her hands are damaged in any way, then her miracles will stop
She once dislocated two of her fingers and was CONVINCED her powers were gone, that she’ll never heal again, that she’s completely useless now
She was literally more worked up about this than the fact that her fingers were popped out of their sockets
Daniil, who had to set the bones, was like “will you CHILL OUT” and she just blubbered at him through tears in response
Once she realized her miracles still worked, she IMMEDIATELY got over it and was like “I’m fine now 😁”
Pulls her beanie over her eyes when she’s embarrassed
Touch-starved again
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