Faded Community

Prologue: The Promise at the Gate

(prologue longer than this just limit on here) Helios woke before the sun, the room cloaked in darkness. He lingered in bed, listening. Usually, at this hour, he'd hear the familiar scrape of his father's whetstone, his boots crossing the floor to the water basin, and his mother's gentle humming… read more

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I am crxss faded to all hell! Why, I shall say my flabbers are, dare I say, GASTED! This feeling is funny~ hope you all have a good night/afternoon/morning~!

Men: What’s Your Clothing Aesthetic? (quiz).

1. Your ideal outfit is... A. Soft layers, relaxed clothes, and understated colors B. Denim, boots, flannel, and durable outdoor pieces C. Sneakers, graphic pieces, and expressive streetwear D. Tweed, sweaters, trousers, and scholarly layers E. Distressed denim, band tees, and alternative… read more

Surrender

I surrender... my strength is spent, my will faded away. It seems my destiny is to remain alone, invisible... I fight, yet victory eludes me. Hope is a cruel betrayal, life a living hell... and so, I accept it. There are too many walls closing in on me, it is no wonder. A mistake, a futile faith—a… read more

If I Disappeared Tomorrow

Sometimes I wonder if anyone would notice If my laughter faded into silence. Would they miss me, read our old conversations, Or forget me as if I never mattered? I never wanted to be everyone's favourite, Just someone worth remembering. Someone who makes another heart feel A little emptier when… (edited) read more

A moment of calmness 🪡 💘

Yesterday, I experienced something unexpected at a Mental Health Camp. A sense of calmness through needles, thread and a leather journal. 🪡 As I started sewing my journal, I found myself slowly settling into a rhythm. Stitch by stitch, my mind became quieter. The worries, work-related matters and… read more

Should I get this old tattoo redone?

I got this tattoo when I was 16, so about 17 years ago. I got it because I had watched Dragonball/z/gt daily for 12 years by this point. I LOVE it. It's one of 2 tattoos I have. I keep having tattoo artists offer to redo it, but part of me appreciates the faded denim look. However, it's beginning… read more

The Forgotten Present

I sometimes write small stories. Usually they start innocent and somehow end up emotionally devastating. Here's one I wrote a few years ego: The Forgotten Present. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A young orange cat lives in a house with a… read more

Faded Soul Decision

For day 268 of year 4's dancing, I decided to go with Dancer's Choice for song selections, and then I focused on choosing from 1999. I did all five dances in heels. It was a fun dance day!

My Demons & Me

A crimson sky, such beauty none could deny. In awe as it waned, until darkness sustained. The chill sank in, left void of emotion. The lights had gone, I still layed there on the lawn. The bottles were empty, I'd certainly had plenty. Still the hole would not fill, efforts amounting to nil. The… (edited) read more

Starting over again.

First I'm 40m live in nyc. single now, had a mutual breakup feelings faded long before we ended it. Now im ready to learn someone eventually love and build with someone. I work, I drink casually I don't smoke cigarettes. I'm a big going to the movies type of guy. I watch anime play games, hang out… read more

The once-brutal beast, as the sun dipped below the horizonand the rose faded away, watched the very last petal fall. In that fleeting, final breath, the hard-hearted beast finally understood the meaning of true love...only it was already too late. And I, myself, am that very beast. 🥀 (edited)

Faded Spark ✨

You’re not tired of people— you’re tired of inconsistency. Of sparks that flare, then vanish into silence. You don’t seek revenge, or explanations, or noise. You crave truth, presence, and the kind of connection that doesn’t flicker out when the moment fades. Your heart isn’t breaking— it’s… read more

Faded

You were the shadow to my light Did you feel us? Another Start You fade away Afraid our aim is out of sight Wanna see us Alive Where are you now? Where are you now? Where are you now? Was it all in my fantasy? Where are you now? Were you only imaginary? Where are you now? Atlantis Under the… read more

Chai Time means My Time.. ☕

Those ties, those longings, that sacred bond have faded away, That heart is no more the same, nor is that soul’s old way... ❤‍🩹

Just a handwritten poem for you all

Some of us v raised to worship borders, to fear the way colors dared to collide. We framed u dreams in neat little boxes, and ed every quiet compromise "pride." Then life arrived barefoot, smudging rules with hands full of sky, painting storms across our windows, teaching us how to unlearn and… read more

Have you ever felt like you wasted your life?

I'm 43 and I spend a lot of time lately second guessing my entire life and if I can't get myself to code soon I'm going to be a complete loser. I've tried Music Production and Fine Art they didn't work out and all the fun and newness of it has faded. Writing a book is a possiblity but that actually… read more

Have you ever been in a relationship where you planned a future together, only to slowly feel a disconnect where conversations faded, but the love never turned into hate?

✝️ something I've never said

There were years when I always thought about ending my own life, trying to sever my arteries, pushing my body into the street, eating something dangerous just because I was depressed and tired of this world. and at that moment I felt the presence of God in my life, every time I was about to take a… read more

Cucumber Water

I start with an iced water with a single cucumber slice. She writes down my order and smiles. Anxiety sweeps over me— my lips too dry, my cologne faded, the room suddenly hot. I try to breathe. Inhale the air, exhale the stress— but before the breath can settle, “Your water with cucumber slice,… read more

Courting

Do people still believe in courting. Ive noticed it's faded quite a lot, as I've watched other growing up as a kid.

Under the starlit sky

Title: "Under the Starlit Sky" Marina had always been drawn to the sea, its ebb and flow mirroring her own emotions. Tonight, as she stood on the deck of her grandfather's old boat, the moon casting silver pathways across the water, she felt an intense longing—though not for the sea. She heard… read more

Some wounds never really go away.

You, I, and everyone else have our own wounds. Some have faded, but others we carry with us to this day. Sometimes we wish we could let them go, but when we look back, these wounds have shaped who we are today🤧

When the love has faded slightly

But you're still together

As of 4am today in England

Out of nowhere I just felt wave after wave of intense fear with no real reason behind it. This happened while I watched a 'lets game it out' video on YouTube. I phoned an ambulance expecting to have a heart attack only I just barely held the fear under control with breathing control which the fear… read more

End-of-month shopping

Today I bought a large cup of ice cream, either cookie and cream or Oreo. I also grabbed a latte, a Coke, and a bag of ice. Surprisingly, or perhaps unsettlingly, why did this latte taste so bitter and lacking in milk? I actually love lattes. I should know that coffee and milk are supposed to go… read more

I'm Khadijah who grew up in Manila, Philippines

In the end, the lives I live between pages are as real as any I have ever known. They are filled with sun, rain, spice, and salt; with laughter and sorrow, wisdom and folly. They are alive in me, and through me, they may touch the lives of others. Writing is the art of living beyond limits, the act… read more

Delta Empire

My admiration for the drummer from Delta Empire (YouTube) still hasn’t faded — he has an insanely well‑matched list of drum covers that perfectly align with my musical taste.

Boop

"What took you so long?" She said to me. Tears rolling down her cheeks. There wasn't much I could say besides a small silent "sorry." "It's ok, I still love you." she said softly Battered and broken, I held her in my arms closely. In the last of her moments, she smiled with such grace. And all… read more

"The One I Seek"

“The One I Seek” I seek only her— why this longing continues is beyond me. It moves through my days like a quiet gravity, pulling my thoughts toward one name I can barely hold in my hands. I love her— and that love aches in strange ways, not only in the heart but in the bones, in the mind that… read more

Why can't we?

Why do we find ourselves loving someone we already know can never love us the same way? Why does it so often have to be one of our friends—the one we’re not supposed to fall for? It’s strange, isn’t it? You tell yourself you’ve moved on, that those feelings have long faded into something small and… (edited) read more

Frankensteins Creature

I just watched the stage show of Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and that was utterly fantastic I feel the fuel of creative energy Immediately getting ideas of writing interaction with Frankensteins monster at 3am twirling around and spinning fantastical ideas in my mind is exactly what… read more

I think the algorithm can smell sadness.

Not the fake kind—the performative “I’m broken lol” captions—but the real, quiet heaviness that leaks into everything. The kind that lives in your saved songs, your late-night reposts, the way you linger on videos that feel like they were made for you. I know because I live there too. Somewhere… read more

A fleeting beauty that faded with time

It was my lucky day when i can still saw it bloom in the morning, queen of the night flower. (edited)

You and I aren't different

Spirit wander at last, through endless halls of silver memory, I too wander beside the quiet rivers where every laugh we carried still echoes softly against the walls of eternity. There were days we held the world in our trembling hands, days we believed the stars belonged only to dreamers, and… read more

there is another sky, ever serene and fair, and there is another sunshine, though it be darkness there; never mind faded forests never mind silent fields — here is a little forest, whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, where not a frost has been; in its unfading flowers i hear (edited)

She lost herself in her dream. She crossed the layered mountains of time and finally reached the origin of that melody,

2017-12-08 only to see something vague and flickering—like a glow—beyond the mountain wall, accompanied by, what seemed to be, a faint echo. She set down the grains of gravel in her hand, and gazed intently in that direction for a long time. As if a sacred flame were burning in her chest. She had… read more

Film pictures

Among the faded remnants of the past, the present keeps moving. Dongmyo market, Seoul. 2026 📸 soyde.234 (edited)