Unstableflames

Amy Lowell, from A dome of many-coloured glass; “Before the Altar”

[Text ID: “I pour my heart and watch it burn,”]

EP 130 promo sketch (animation team - Mariko Aoyama)

Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Power”

[Text ID: “I have not been able to touch the destruction within me.”]

I don't know if I'll ever be able to fix this

kaveh akbar, 'calling a wolf a wolf' // doc luben, 'love letters or suicide notes' // @/nutnoce, tumblr // 'my body's made of crushed little stars', mitski // @/ojibwa, tumblr // 'spring', mary oliver

Mahmoud Darwish, With the Fog so Dense on the Bridge in Almond Blossoms and Beyond (tr. Mohammad Shaheen)

never needed anyone, never will

“I’m not too gone to be healed, am I? / I’m not too gone am I?”

— Alice Notley, from In the Pines

Internal Persecutor

An Internal Persecutor is an alter who's persecutory behaviors target the system itself, whether it be other alters or otherwise internally. [An Internal Persecutor typically doesn't target those outside the body.]

coined by @destructionsys !! flag by @littlest-bugz [aka us!]

BASIC COLOR MEANINGS

Dark Red ; The negative feelings associated with being a persecutor

Medium Red ; The pain caused to the system by the persecutory behaviors

Bright Red ; The persecutory behaviors the persecutor participates in

Black ; The targeting of the system

White ; The safety those on the outside have

Light Grey ; Representing the system as a whole, all alters in the system

Dark Grey ; Representing the pain inflicted on other alters of the system

Darkest Grey ; Representing the negative feelings towards the system.