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If Temporary Could Be the New Forever by velvet-sometimes, literature

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If Temporary Could Be the New Forever

Tonight I'm curled up in my bed, listening to melancholy love songs. I've not yet changed out of the days clothes into something warm and soft, so my legs are hidden under a comforter as familiar to my eyes as my own childhood, but I don't really mind. Not right now. Not when I'm sitting here trying to shape my words into something that expresses this feeling I have inside me. Besides, the chill always makes everything so much sharper. So much more real. Trying to explain it is difficult, but it's this throbbing in my chest that I have no name for. It hurts sometimes, if I drop my guard. Other times I just close my eyes and shut it out. Pret

Rabbit Heart by velvet-sometimes, literature

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Rabbit Heart

I always find beginnings troublesome. Trying to figure out how to word that first sentence that will catch the eye and beckon you to continue following it. I can spend the better part of a day just staring at a blank screen, waiting for it to come to me sometimes. And it's worse when trying to write something about myself for you. It feels very personal. Very revealing. Because when my words are about someone else, I can put so very much of myself in them that I'm baring my soul to you and you never even notice; masking the 'Me' behind the voice of another. But I don't have that silk screen when I'm talking to you so directly. And so really

A Tale of Last Chances by velvet-sometimes, literature

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A Tale of Last Chances

Sometimes I like to think that things happen because they are meant to. And other times I'm quite convinced the universe just wants to watch me burn. And maybe it does. Who am I to judge? You see, it gives me questions. Fitting my life around them to make me ask, making sure that I have the opportunity to in the first place, really, because they need to be asked. And on those rare occasions, It gives me a moment in which I must be the one who can answer them. Life has given me many, each unique, each just as powerful as the last. Each as able to grab you by the throat and pull you in. And I keep them all hidden away in a box under my bed.

The Dance of Predator and Prey by velvet-sometimes, literature

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The Dance of Predator and Prey

It was a regular day in which it happened. The sun was shining no brighter than the day before, and there was not a cloud in the sky. The wind did not howl through the trees, nor did crows caw an ominous warning as she set out, embarking on the journey of another day. There was no warning of the things to come, but then, that's how these things usually happen, as opposed to how they are told in fairy-tales. It did not rain on the day that they met on the train. She on her way to her classes. Him… She never did discover why he had come to be on her route that day. Sitting across from her normal seat as if he had done so a hundred times

I Want to be a Word by velvet-sometimes, literature

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I Want to be a Word

I was going to start this with 'I am ___', as usually writing out my thoughts helps me to clarify them; I find my answers though the creation of prose whether it be beautiful or grotesque. Sloppy or eloquent. Dramatic or understated. But as my fingers moved to touch down onto the keys, for the life of me I could not find a single word to place there. Quite a few raced though my head, but no single one that would really do justice to this thought. I am many words, with many meanings, and many forms. I can create and destroy with these words, but I also need them. They are a fundamental aspect of my very being. And where as I can spout them

Some Nights it Feels like there are Fireworks... by velvet-sometimes, literature

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Some Nights it Feels like there are Fireworks...

Some nights it feels like there are fireworks in my eyes. Exploding into sound and sensation and color. Making my head spin and my body sway, making my breath catch and my heart race. Making me gasp. I'm six feet from the ground and faintly realize I'm smiling. The feeling's just too good to resist. So they pour like tears into my fingertips and onto the page. Too quickly for me to process, but spiraling out of me into something that feels beautiful, and strange, and white hot against the keys. When I'm in that moment, it's all I can think about. All I can dream about. I'm living and breathing and drinking words from the very air around me

Tonight I Plucked Your Memory from a Star by velvet-sometimes, literature

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Tonight I Plucked Your Memory from a Star

Tonight I sat on the hood of my car and watched the sky come crashing down. The steal was cold even through all my clothing and the wind chilled me to the bone, licking against the bared flesh of my toes, but the stars twinkled against a velveteen background of a deep blue so dark it was nearly black. And that made it worth it. To watch the stars as they fell from the heavens, bright glimmers of red-gold flashes in the darkness. Shimmering across the sky for merely a moment before disappearing again on their voyage to some unknown place. It was indescribable; no pretty stringing together of words I can create would do justice to the feeli

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If Temporary Could Be the New Forever by velvet-sometimes, literature

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Rabbit Heart by velvet-sometimes, literature

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A Tale of Last Chances by velvet-sometimes, literature

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The Dance of Predator and Prey by velvet-sometimes, literature

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I Want to be a Word by velvet-sometimes, literature

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I Want to be a Word

Some Nights it Feels like there are Fireworks... by velvet-sometimes, literature

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Tonight I Plucked Your Memory from a Star by velvet-sometimes, literature

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Tonight I Plucked Your Memory from a Star

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Artist // Hobbyist // Varied

Aug 27
United States
Deviant for 15 years
www.fanfiction.net/~velvetsometimes
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Drinking cheap gas-station coffee out of a paper cup reminds me of kissing you. We're not exactly tired, but weary, and the harsh flavor becomes washed-out colors and beard stubble. Becomes long trips with hours left, and you haven't gotten a shower. Becomes rough scratchy kisses at a stop light, and my feet are on the dash. You become my Quik Stop Coffee.

Favourite Visual Artist

Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac

Favourite Movies

Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland, Labyrinth, Legend, Pan Labyrinth, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, The Last Unicorn, Caslte in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Princess Bride, Spirited Away, X-men, Riddick

Favourite TV Shows

NCIS, River Monsters, Ghost Hunters, Monster Quest, Anything on National Geographic or The History Channel

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

David Bowie, Michael Buble, Adele, Oren Lavie, Regina Spector, Pomplamoose, Parachute, The Pierces, The Beatles, Imogen Heap, Lights, Above & Beyond, Neverending White Lights, Placebo,

Favourite Books

Harry Potter, Outlander, Howls Moving castle, The Secret Garden, Percy Jackson, Pride and Prejudice, The Black Jewels Trilogy, East, Memiors of a Geisha

Favourite Writers

Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, Julie Garwood

Favourite Games

Prince of Persia I, Pokemon, Zelda

Tools of the Trade

Graphite Pencils, My fingers, Charcoals

Other Interests

Movies, Writing, Sketching, Playing with Watercolors, Daydreaming, Dancing

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velvet-sometimes

May 20, 2012

A Little bit of Sentience

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So, in all my infinite wisdom, I've decided to write for Camp NaNoWriMo this year. In Both June and August. Camp NaNoWriMo is basicly just a Summer-Camp themed NaNo, to which you can find information both here: http://campnanowrimo.org/ and here: http://www.nanowrimo.org It's still 50k words in 30 days, with the same stipulations as the main challenge, just.... Campy. You even get a 'Cabin' and 'Bunk-mates'. You can choose to allow the site to pick your group at random, or you can request campers. Sorry guys, but all my slots are filled. My Bunk-mates for June are to be: ~MeggieGal (https://www.deviantart.com/meggiegal) ; :iconLyrainthedark: ; :iconNaqaashi: ; :iconKcopela3:

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Feb 6, 2012

Hey look, Velvet updated this

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Surprise Surprise, I'm actually alive. I know, shocking. And I've actually been working! Another shocker! I've been sketching a lot more, as you can see from my gallery, (mostly OC's,But I'll be getting in some more fan arts soon), and once my new laptop and Wacom Tablet get here in a 1-2 (maybe 3, depending on when things can get shipped out, and ~SketchedExistence (https://www.deviantart.com/sketchedexistence) and :iconEcstacysPain: can both afford to send stuff up) Weeks, I'll be working on some digital art of my own, to replace the rough sketches, along with Coloring some more line-arts. Most notably by: :iconSpookyKabuki: :iconsugar0o: and :iconPetiteNeko: Just to start wit

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Jan 29, 2011

Commissions Are Open

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So I've been approached about possibly doing Commissions. Which I would love to do. So I was advised to Just tag what my prices would have to be here. I charge 10 dollars per hour I spend working on a piece. Mainly because It is traditional art and I do have to cover the cost of my supplies. Which are the papers, the various pencils, and charcoals I use. For an Animal Portrait like this: :thumb164646821: or :thumb152226584: I usually can finish between 2 to 4 hours. So the Max you would pay is $40. even if it takes me 6 hours to finish. Its regular 9x12in (22.9x30.5cm) sized Paper For a Portrait like this: :thumb193133335: or :thumb19