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Sophia | Eccentric Attachments
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Writer. 32. Psyche spelunker. Titaniac. Neurodivergent. Bi. Music, art, Zelda, psychology (depth, clinical, social), stories big&small, ocean liners, human geography, weather events, dress, nature, aircrafts, cartoons, 90s/00s pop culture. She/they. ♎︎. ✝.
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Part five of A Few of My Favourite Things. I want my beloved twinkling lights to frame the window•—oh my twinkling lights—•They might just keep me sane•We have history, those lights and I•They serve as a reminder, though a painful one at times,•That —some years ago, when everyone was home—•I was in an okay place; it was working for me•I was high on music, infatuated with a woman and the idea of a man••Space••For the first time, I began to behold parts of myself I hadn't realised existed•I got to know tenderness and what felt like the farthest depths of the ocean•It should've been my "not now, time" or at least the ultimate from-now-on. Part six of A Few of My Favourite Things. It wasn't though. A year later, football was on•Which would have been a welcome distraction had I not been succumbed by•The most agonising kind of fear I had ever known, mercilessly snowballing into•The worst time of my life, no competition•It got bad, SO bad•I ended up in A&E a couple of weeks later•And with new meds•(Which I got because I had reached the end of the road with my old ones and chosen to wean myself off from them some months earlier. At a snail's pace, as you do.•Meds. That old chestnut. Ditching the parcelled peace of mind was not what had caused me to spiral though, not exclusively. There was entrapment. Lack of autonomy too. Disempowerment. I've become self-aware enough to accept the full picture and snuff out the gaslight)•This all-encompassing inner terror changed me. Broke me.•I was never the same after. Part seven of A Few of My Favourite Things. Another year would pass then (see how I made it through) and•When getting out the Christmas decorations•Dust from the year before crept up my nostrils•I had to pause because the smell stopped me in my tracks•Flashing back to dysregulated holy days•—I never want to feel like this again!—•I went on with it and, braving the lump in my throat, I said•"Ode to Shepherd Winter and the Big Sleep" and•Made it Christmas. Part eight of A Few of My Favourite Things. One day, maybe, I will be able to not cling so tightly to•My ritualised ways•But, for the time being, I shall cherish and honour them•They will precisely be one of the things that•My future spouse and I•So very deeply•Will love about me••—Sophia Anna Maria.
December 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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NEW PIECE. It's called "A Few of My Favourite Things". More below.
(TW: mentions of psych meds, co-dependency, hospital, flashbacks/ trauma, alludes to obsessive-compulsiveness) 1/3
Poem called A Few of My Favourite Things. It reads as follows. From Advent season's first day onwards•Each and every year•Trust that I'll be on a tight, tied, tide schedule•With a couple of loose ends•(That, at the moment, I'm still learning to be okay with.•It hasn't been all that easy thus far.)•The threadbare days, hours•When they come around and stifle me•I become despondent, angry and depressed•The truth is I'm being so held back by the dimwits that be•Coarseness undermining my cardinal sensibilities•And feeling disempowered is a state I'm all too used to•While, at the same time, it's never felt in any way natural to me. Part two of A Few of My Favourite Things. Because it isn't•I'm a mouse-holed powerhouse running on tiny pleasures•So for the past couple of years I've been trying•To take back some control•By resisting the jostle, the hustle and the bustle•The "buy sixteen, get one free"••From Advent season's first day onwards•When I say "this goes here" or•"Ode to Shepherd Winter and the Big Sleep"•I f—king mean it•This is because, despite all unpredictabilities and the things that on occasion rile and•Pain me so•I just would like, I really would like with a passion and I insist on having•A few of my favourite things, such as. Part three of A Few of My Favourite Things. Playing the music I have handpicked•—Underneath The Tree, Winter Paradise, One More Sleep, Not Even the King, White Christmas, It's December (and I'll Be Missing You), Wonderful Christmastime, Do You Hear What I Hear?, It's Christmas and I'm Crying and then some—•I will watch films to bring me comfort•—Vanessa Hudgens Christmas movies (i.e. the princess trilogy and the one with the hot, socially inept knight); those where the most likeable character is, quite predictably, the Latin grandmother; Christmas Every Day, my favourite since childhood because the main character gets trapped in a timeloop and is forced to relive Christmas Day over and over which he hates (and I love); the Doctor Who Christmas Special called The Snowmen because Jenna Coleman is a literal goddess in it, she's very funny and cool; the sitcom where Ashley Tisdale's character comes out as queer at the end; the big three i.e. The Lord of The Rings—. Part four of A Few of My Favourite Things. I want my decorations that calm me, little by little•Timely put them in place and leave them there for as long as I see fit•Always my candles, one scented too, or an oil burner perhaps•Don't touch and don't move anything for it will mess with my system•Greatly, I'll get nervous and might snap•I'll plan and cook nice little meals, I'll even go to the shops while everyone's in heat•(I'll be quick about it, of course. I've got to be.)•On Christmas Eve, I'll go to church on my own; a little anxiously still, but•I'll try and sing and pray my heart out and then afterwards walk home•Through the cold night air, candle in hand•Inside the house once more, red-lipped still and looking the part, I'll open up•A bottle of beer or wine or both•And —so it begins— put on my favourite Christmas film•Have Howard Shore's bombastic compositions take it from there and•Call it Christmas.
December 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Ideas, whirlwind thoughts. Lots to process. Slowing down. Cherishing the calm, the familiar.
The words ‘‘Olivia Kept Glowing’’ handwritten on lined paper
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Tenderfoot.
Poem that reads "I say words quite at odds and form habits peculiar (line break) Like sprinting across minefields but (line break) I would much rather stay put (line break) At the far end of the tundra (line break) You're precious-stoned, I'm your wisacre tenderfoot (space) Shell-encrusted lungs (line break) We pass for recidivists among the debris (line break) Panting, we swing up and down the rungs (line break) Hands weak as a bitterling's fins can be (line break) Deepbody lovers are the faintest to see. The poem is signed by Eccentric Attachments.
June 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM