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CW: Blood, Implied Self-Harm

I need to stress about this piece that it comes from a good place.

This feels like a spiritual successor to Smoke, upping the ante, but in a way that's fit for purpose as I've been striving to do better and live up to my potential.

I worked on this after an intense day, when I had a moment of clarity about how I make a living off of pursuing a good life, then relaying those feelings and emotions that come about from it through my art, for others to see and learn from.

This is an exhausting cycle of consistent vulnerability that I'm proud to have maintained, but the reality of it hit me hard. For years I've been desperately seeking out how to make this a sustainable endeavor, since at it's core, it's been:

To cut myself open and show everyone as much as I can of what's inside.
It may come at a very heavy price, but to me, it's worth it,
because it feels so damn good for me to be seen, understood, and appreciated that way.

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