Diotima

Iteration Four - Discordance

We are not the people this world has made us. We are so much more, but the truth of us is buried in illusions, in lies that we have been told so many times that our belief has made them akin to truth. We are deceived, right down to the core of our beings. We are false. And in the dark of night, on the edge of sleep and wake, where we sometimes sense the vastness of the truth underlying everything…

…we feel it. And we despair.

(Cont below)

https://tiefling.bardicperspiration.com/index.php/2026/05/12/iteration-four-discordance/

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Iteration Four - Discordance - Diotima Writes

Diotima Writes

Diotima Writes
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Show threadHeals 5h ago

@tiefling

[...] Those brief seconds when the veil parts and we feel true, we feel whole, and something inside us screams in inarticulate joy. And when it fades we are left empty, less for the loss of that glimpse.[...]

Mhm, me last Sunday and it really hurt.

Show threadRiver Crow5h ago

@heals I too know those moments. They're unfortunately fleeting, but they're a sign of possibility.

@tiefling

Show threadDiotima1h ago
@heals I def feel it. I hate the after, when I'm back and trapped and wonrdering if I'm delu.
Show threadRiver Crow5h ago

@tiefling first, this is beautifully written. Second, it is hard, and you're doing amazing. There's the thing the world tells us we are, wants us to be, forces us to conform to...and then there's the truth.

"I’ve tried walking the line between the worlds, balancing the person I know I am with the person I was."

This hit HARD. In a different, more trans way for me, but it hit hard all the same.

But there is, can be, joy in the discordant song too. We can craft something more.

And I believe too.

Show threadDiotima1h ago

@therivercrow I don't thimk I can be happy until I am whole. And if I can't be whole, I don't rly care abt anything BC that is the start of everything.

Prob selfish but tbh, I don't get to be selfish much.

Show threadRiver Crow55m ago
@tiefling I understand. And its not selfish to want to be your whole real self. I still hope you can find joy in the becoming though. 💜