Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
burnout is not a badge burnout is not a badge it's a fucking brand seared into my nervous system by capitalism, patriarchy, and that one ex who called me lazy while living off my spine. i am tired in a way that no nap fixes. tired like "what if I just lay down for a bit and let the void parent me?" i know how to work. oh gods, do i know how to work. i've hustled magic into grocery money, bled content into the algorithm while whispering spells under my breath because someone has to hold the line and apparently it's me. but some days the muse is just a sleep-deprived goblin eating cold noodles in the corner, and the only thing i can manifest is another tab I won't read. i want to want again. i want joy without guilt. i want to write fiction without turning it into a lesson plan or a passive income stream or a clever metaphor for healing. i want to burn like a candle, not like a house.
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Yolantis
@yolantis
sad and good at the same time. I hear you. Love that closing phrase - burn like a candle, not like a house. I used to see demolished old houses in the edges of the suburbs and felt like I could write a book about them, like that demolished structure is me, getting razed to the ground to build something better in its place.
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