Category: Junior Literary

If fear was an entrée, would anger be the appetizer?
Would the sides be distrust, disillusionment, disgust?

Would I still be dancing dead
At the intersection
Where my dreams and smiles fled?

I may very well be
A grievance to all who have lost nothing
Of personal significance.

I may very well be enchanted
By your creeping, tantalizing promises

Promises that amount to nothing more
Than breaking themselves into pieces
And making sure they all look the same.

So that even if I wished
To put them back together,
To make sense of their emptiness
Or my foolishness,

We would all end up together
Blank
Lost
Dispersed
With no one left to blame.

A finger glides down
One more glass window,
Stained with our blood, tears, and spit.

Dream of melancholy,
Why is it that we put ourselves
In thorny, rotten carcasses
Of seeds that have no desire to grow?

Erase me now
Submerge everything else in the constant noise,
Then create your own noise
Just to say you left
And created your own.

Such a fruitless quest for contentment.
Why is it still considered
An option in my mind?

Trying to understand but
You don’t let yourself process it.

Why does your skin rise so,
Like a tide at sea?

The many carcasses
Of your old, discarded selves
Washing up
All in front of you

Such a pretty row.

Oh, how they taunt,
Silently staring
Up at your own
Lifeless form.

Come join us,
They whisper, smiling so grimly.

Such a cordial invite.

And they’re stretching themselves out.
Really, they mustn’t go out of their way.
They pay no heed
Of course.

Oh, their hospitality
Is sickening.

And you’re pulled under,
So disoriented.

Remember!! You scream.

Scream and screech
And let out every shrill cry
Buried inside your being.

You are a primordial force

If they don’t end it now,
It may all stop.
Fully, utterly cease to be.

Dizzy

Nightwalker, skincrawler,
Stuck on you.

Goatskin smooth as
All your lies.
White as
Your eyes
Blind to my pleas

Cries silent as
The lamb that wanted nothing more
Than to fly

And the hawk
Fulfilled its wish.

And somewhere somehow
Some being mistook surrender for freedom.

How gracious,
To be given what you wanted
Only after it no longer mattered.

How kind,
To be released from the earth
By the very thing
That watched you struggle to enter it.

I’ve done it laddies and…well…me. I’ve finally beaten Hollow Knight to 112%. No, I will not be trying to beat pantheon five for the next six weeks. No, I will not try to beat the game in under five hours. And finally no i will not be going back to find all the secret rooms that are not important to the completion. But now that I have completed such an accomplishment in my eyes, I need something new to waste time on. And no, I will not be going back to try to workout blender. I mustn’t remind you of the amount of stress and terror one cube in a grey void can cause someone. But now that I’m done, I need something new to play. I got fifty dollars so I might as well spend it. 

Now the normal thing to do would be to buy the sequel and play through that whole game. The only problem with that is I have just recently beaten the whole thing -not to 100%- and that playthrough alone is like 90 hours of gameplay. What also turns me down from buying it, is that there are way more controls that one must hit in quick succession, and i dont think i can do it with a keyboard and mouse. Perhaps if i ever get a controller i will buy it and play through the whole game to 100%. Or maybe I won’t. Who knows, 50/50

Now i have also been old to download Cuphead and play through that whole game. I probably will, but I don’t really know anything about cuphead whatsoever. It also looks incredibly hard, which is something I’d expect given its reputation, but I don’t know if I’m ready to hurl this laptop through a window yet so maybe i will play it later.

Speaking of laptops, that brings us to another problem with getting a new game, which is the problem of owning a Mac. Now don’t get me wrong, I love Mac and Apple as much as the next guy; Windows just doesn’t do it for me. However, most of the games on Steam, a hub where you can buy and play games from, require windows. This ultimately limits my options substantially. So that’s where you guys, my trusted friends, come in. I task you with finding me something interesting and fun to play.

Hey guys! Today we are going to continue to talk about what was discussed in the Congress of Vienna and the dynamics of the group.

If you were here last week then you know we ended the blog talking about wanting to remove the monarchy from France to continue the French Revolution. He returned and took power declaring himself to be emperor. The members of the Congress of Vienna pledged to stop Napoleon and refused to allow him to regain power.

Some areas in Europe were left not controlling their own nations, because they had massive foreign control of their area too. This led to nationalistic desires of autonomy for people groups like the Greeks, Poles, and others. To further protect themselves from nationalistic uprisings, Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia formed the Quadruple Alliance. They agreed to put down any nationalistic uprisings, never allow Napoleon to regain power, and uphold the declarations of the Congress of Vienna. This group met periodically to discuss the security of Europe and determine if the plans of the Congress of Vienna were being carried out. This group became official in November of 1815, partially as a reaction to Napoleon’s last attempt for power. The leaders believed that cooperation between powerful nations would prevent another major war and keep the balance of power in Europe. They also wanted to stop revolutionary ideas from spreading because they feared these movements could weaken monarchies and threaten their authority. Although their decisions helped maintain order, many people believed that their policies ignored the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. As a result, tensions continued to grow among people who wanted more political freedom and independence. 

The Congress of Vienna, for the most part, did achieve the security it desired. Yet, this did not stop future rebellions that championed independence and the implementation of Enlightenment ideals. For instance, the Greeks tried to rebel against the Ottoman Empire control of their nation. Outside of Europe, many of the Spanish Colonies in the Western Hemisphere rebelled against Spain. These areas did eventually win their independence. However, generally, stability was achieved between the most powerful nations of Europe lasting all the way until the mid-1800s, when the Crimean War started in 1853 against Russia. The Greek struggle for independence gained support from other European countries, and Greece eventually became an independent nation in 1830. Similarly, leaders such as Simón Bolívar helped Spanish colonies in South America fight for freedom from Spanish rule. These independence movements showed that nationalism remained a powerful force even after the Congress of Vienna. Although European leaders tried to preserve the old political system, people continued demanding the right to govern themselves. The revolutions and independence movements that followed demonstrated that peace between powerful nations did not necessarily mean that all people were satisfied with their governments. 

 

That’s it for today guys,see you next time!!!

I want to preface this by saying that I’m not trying to overstate my anxiety and how badly it affects me. I mean, I’d freak out every single day at the drop of a hat before I was medicated, and even now if I go around 3 days without medication, I become a sniveling mess who constantly thinks someone is gonna pop up and slit her wrists or that I have a chronic illness I wasn’t aware of that’s gonna cause me to drop dead in 5 business days. I’m still nowhere close to the poster child for severe anxiety and paranoia. However, I do know enough about myself to talk about how it has impacted my development and everyday life. 

I believe my earliest anxiety attack/derealization episode, that I can remember, happened when I was 8. So, yeah. I’ve had this for over half of my life. It’s all hereditary so there was never something I could do about it, and that affected the way I went about making friends and keeping them when I was little. I’d find someone I thought would “protect” me from my irrational fears and then I’d hang onto them as hard as I could. As you can imagine, this got me into some bad friendships. 

I remember my anxiety hitting its peak in 8th grade, where, if I was sat near someone who tended to make noise, I would break down sobbing from them just tapping the desk or talking to themselves. This continued throughout that entire year, and it really impacted my relationships with my peers. They thought something was wrong with me. 

And I’ll be so honest, I get why. 

I’d lash out and cry at certain stimuli. (I know this sounds like other mental disorders, but I swear anxiety is the real cause for all of this). I’d even sit in class with my wrists constantly tucked into me so that no one could run up and slit my wrists. 

Then, I started high school.

This was a new environment. 

I cried often from the sheer amount of people, and chose to sit alone whenever possible so I wouldn’t get on someone’s nerves. 

I isolated myself on purpose, and that continued till the second semester of my freshman year, where I would finally become medicated. 

And I have to say… meds were DEFINITELY the answer in my case. 

I can finally have normal relationships.

I can finally have a fairly normal day to day life. 

And while it is true that meds didn’t help all of my symptoms and are nowhere close to an end all be all, (I still can’t leave the house without the thought that someone will run up and shoot me out of nowhere) they have significantly improved my quality of life.

Obviously, meds are not the answer for the majority of people, and, as I said before, I am in no way representative of all people with anxiety and paranoia. This is just my personal story of my struggles. I’m not proud of it, but if it’ll help at least one person realize that these are real symptoms that real people feel, then it’d be all worth it.

Guess who has nothing to talk about again!!! This guy!!!! Were gonna talk about aard wolves and brown hyenas

Aardwolves, also known as termite hyenas, are the smallest of the hyena family. Its also the most physiologically the closest to extinct Hyaenidae species. Unlike spotted hyenas they live in mostly solitude much like stripped hyenas, though they don’t form long term bonds with mates, only coming together during the mating season. They’re much less aggressive than the other hyenas, when predators approach their territory they usually chase them out rather than attacking. Unlike the carnivorous cousins, Aardwolves are insectivores, which is where they get the name termite hyenas.  

 

For a long time there was a debate if Aardwolves could be considered hyenas because of their differences to the other for surviving species, so much so that it was its own species for a while. Scientist felt they could be mimicking stripped hyenas due to convergent evolution, much like spotted hyenas and African wild dogs. Originally, they were categorized as Protelidae, which at the time did not include hyenas, but after some type they were classified as the Protelidae subfamily, being the only surviving species.

Physiologically, they bare much resemblance to striped hyenas. They have a spinal mane with similar stripes, but they are much smaller with thinner fur. Another thing to note is the fact they have brown markings rather than the stripped hyenas black and gray markings.

Fun little guys more people need to talk about them

 

Brown hyenas

These are the rarest hyenas in the family, being the only species in the Parahyaena family. They’re almost a threatened species with there being anywhere between 5k and 10k brown hyenas alive as of now. Similar to spotted hyenas, they do maintain a social hierarchy in clans, though it doesn’t seem to be as complicated as spotted hyenas, and it isn’t matriarchically. They’re scavengers that each just about anything, and will steal prey from other animals. If they hunt themselves, its usually small prey or insects.

They’re legally protected under the near threatened conservation status, so its illegal to kill them. Farmers have made wrongful assumptions that they will kill livestock though the prey is to large for them, and this has severely impacted their numbers.

Physiologically, they bare almost no resemblance to the other family members. They have a long, dark brown coat that is shaggy with no distinct spinal mane. Their ears are pointed but not shaped like striped hyenas, and they have a short tail.

I heart info dumping when I forget to write something meaningful for a blog. have a good day guys!!! 

Don’t you ever play ranked as a character so much you end up being 13th player of that character in the entire server? I have 

(UPDATE: As of Monday, I’ve moved up 5 spots)

Should I be doing my work instead of grinding on this forsaken game? Of course. I’ve found myself with zero to no motivation to do anything, but I can deal with it, I’m sure. Slowly but surely, I will climb back to the peakness I was when I first came here heart emoji 🙂 The burnout will wear out over time.

Speaking of my babygirl Dentist… (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) ‹𝟹

I’ve been delving into his information and lore and got some fun facts!

• He may be well over 70 years old
• Before his drowning, he carried candies for the children under his care
• He referred his pediatric patients as ‘Little miss’ and ‘Little sir’
• He had more victims he experimented on, all of them died except for one. Finsen would end up attached to that sole survivor. Evident in some medical reports he filed
• There was an incident he had where glass shards injured his right eye, this may’ve led to a slight vision alter. The pale eye he has in his design is a nod towards the incident.

 To correct my initial blog, he did in fact experiment on people and disposed of them in the swamp. It is also theorized he kidnapped children, but he didn’t harm them.

His character day (basically a day dedicated to him and you get more background and lore about characters) is to be announced maybe sometime next year since he was released in April of this year.

I love Finsen. Finsen is love. Finsen is life.

He’s been occupying my mind ever since I got my grubby hands on him, and I don’t know exactly how to feel. Maybe I can try and divert this distraction to something productive. Poetry inspired by him, drabbles too, maybe some artwork also, could I do written reports adjacent to his career as a Dentist? I don’t exactly know.

Recently my blogs have been getting decreasingly shorter and shorter, I apologize. I’ll get some better content planned out and hopefully more interactive. What do you think? You can give your two cents on what I should blog about next. 

On Monday, October 19th, 2026, my boyfriend, Tre, and I celebrated our six months together. Before six months of dating, we had been each other’s best friends for years on end. Thanks to a mutual friend of ours who got us together back in April, Tre and I have been living in romantic bliss. Although we still act like best friends and sometimes each other’s enemies.

I love my boyfriend for many reasons (obviously). Aside from his attractiveness, I absolutely adore his personality, mannerisms, and hobbies. Naturally, he is very introverted and keeps to himself.

When he’s around his homeboys, his entire persona does a 180. He’s loud, trolling, and roughhousing with them. But when he’s with me, he becomes soft-spoken and kind and always compliments me. This is the boyfriend part of him. His hobbies, such as playing video games or going to the gym, are expected, but one of his hobbies that surprised me is how much he loves puzzles. I didn’t expect that from someone like him, but now that I’ve been with him for half a year, it makes a lot more sense. One of his mannerisms that has grown on me is how he gestures with his hands as he speaks. I didn’t realize that until a month ago, which is quite funny to me.

The other part of Tre would be him still acting like a close friend. The way he brags about making sacks during his football games, as if I understand the terminology and positions. Our conversations would be me interrupting him every few minutes, asking about a certain phrase. 

“I was able to make a sack during the first three minutes.”

“A sack?”

“I tackled the quarterback.”

“Oh yeah, I saw that!”

He also replays the footage for me to watch every Saturday afternoon, in case I couldn’t go to his game. We also joke around with each other with childish insults, all while knowing we’re down bad for each other.

That ties into the “opp” or enemy part of him when he decides to ragebait me. Very similar to the best friend part of him but taken a step further—saying things that he knows will piss me off in half a second. For example, I used to be in the band but quit my tenth-grade year. Even then, I’m still passionate enough to want to play in college. Tre, however, plays football and has been playing for years. Every now and then, he’ll make comments about band all while being loud and wrong. It always unlocks a deep rage within me, so I have to take a step back to breathe.

That’s all I got for my blog… I love dat boy, and he loves me!! I’m not sharing any pictures of him because he wants to stay anonymous (somewhat). Bye bye!!

Yep, that’s the concept of this blog. We’re going to look at art. No, it’s not my art, and I’d like to credit u/wiseduck12 on reddit for posting this beautiful work. Now, I could go straight into depth and explain all of the cool little references that are buried in it, but first I think we should view it at its face value. I mean, look how cute it is. And they’re all taking a nap together and the Bees are so fluffy. To be honest, I’m writing this because the next video game element I’m going to write about is music and I need to go re-listen to a bunch of stuff. But that’s for later. Let’s now appreciate this art. So cute. Anyway, let’s dive into it. To start its image from the game Hollow knight from within an area of the game known as the hive. The image is cool because normally the bees would attack the player. However, there is a perk that allows you to be friends with the bees, and they won’t attack you. There are also many different references to other chambers in the image as well. On the wing of the big bee sits a little figure which is the grimm child; spawned in by the player when equipping the grimm child charm. On the horns of the knight we can see a little version of himself which is from the broodmother charm, and to the left of the knight lies a little spider from the weeversong charm. What makes it better is that it depicts the main three bee enemies: Hivelings, Hive Soldiers, & Hive Guardians. I like it. Its nice

So anyway the government. What are we doing anymore? Public executions. Really. This is who we are. A country who supports the tactics of terrorist groups. The same groups we constantly condemn and say are terrible people. It’s funny because the only reason they aren’t going to stream it is because the guys are in a wheel chair. Man, isn’t it funny that this government has said that they were going to do something and then turned around and said “yeah we’re not going to do that.” Gas, groceries, no more war, a certain file that should have gone public years ago. We got to get rid of him, man. It’s getting really bad. Also who are they hiring anymore? A man who gets drunk on an aircraft carrier who rants about shooting some guy and filming it so he can show his kids, and a woman who looks like a robot. I know you know who I’m talking about. There is no way that that woman is real. Either there was some freak accident that turned her into something straight out of a death note, or she died in the freak accident and they replaced her with a robot. Honestly, I think it’s time to jump ship.