𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑛

✨ VIOLENT DELIGHTS, QUIET GRATITUDE
               ❤︎ 10k reads. 600+ votes.
          
          
          i don't even have the words — just this sharp, shining gratitude in my chest. i'm not even a third of the way through, and already this story has grown larger, heavier, more alive than i ever thought it could.
          
          thank you for every read, every quiet moment you've spent here, every vote and comment and breath of encouragement. you've kept me writing when i thought i'd falter, kept me bleeding the words onto the page, letting the story carve its wound.
          
          i love this work. i love this space. and i'm so thankful you're here with me in it.
          
          — with ink & ache,
          lori ♡

✨ A QUIET THANK YOU
          
          
          sometimes i sit in front of my screen, staring at these stories i've built from splinters of myself, and it still doesn't feel real —
          that you're reading them.
          that you're loving them.
          that you're coming back.
          
          quiet fascination, clueless, iridescent, violent delights — they're all still unfolding, still blooming at their own pace. updates are coming, gently, slowly, with all the care they deserve. thank you for being patient with them. with me.
          
          but i couldn't let another day pass without thanking you for all the love you've already poured into them.
          ✦ 1.5k reads & 103 votes on iridescent
          ✦ 2.5k reads & 143 votes on clueless
          ✦ 2.7k reads & 141 votes on violent delights
          
          i see every comment. every whisper of resonance. every moment where something in the story finds something in you. please keep sharing those with me — they mean more than i could ever say.
          
          thank you, deeply and truly, for making space in your world for my words. i don't take that light.
          
          — all light,
          lori ♡

✨ TENDER RUIN, REBUILT
               ❤︎ a new look, the same heart.
          
          
          i've pulled my bones back into place.
          swept glitter over the wreckage.
          rewritten the stars above my stories.
          
          if you're new here — welcome.
          if you've stayed — thank you.
          this page is stitched with lipstick, grief, and warpaint.
          it's made for soft girls with sharp edges. for broken boys and the souls who keep loving them.
          for anyone who's ever felt too much and made art out of it anyway.
          
          
               ❤︎ what's live now:
          ✦ quiet fascination — girlhood, glitter, grief
          ✦ clueless — trauma that lingers, love that stays
          ✦ iridescent — broken boys and the light that finds them
          ✦ violent delights — loyalty, love spells, survival's cost
          
          
               ❤︎ what's changed:
          ✦ new banner, new structure
          ✦ story tags + content warnings
          ✦ announcements, but only when it matters
          ✦ the same soul, written a little softer
          
          
          i'm still lori.
          still -wildflowrs.
          still stitched together by tenderness and ruin.
          still writing like a bruise.
          
          
          and if you're here —
          you belong.

✨ TENDER THINGS WORTH REPEATING:
          
          
          ✦ i write for the broken, the burning, and the brave
          ✦ updates come slow — but they come with soul
          ✦ love is war, and i write it like bruises and lullabies
          ✦ you belong here: messy, mourning, or made of magic
          ✦ grief makes poets of us all
          ✦ some stories ache before they heal
          ✦ softness is a kind of rebellion
          ✦ i romanticise survival. because we did
          ✦ come as you are — glitter-streaked, heart-split, still trying
          
          
          
          
          
          ✨ CONTENT WARNINGS — FOR THIS HEART & THIS PAGE
          
          
          ✦ grief as gravity
          ✦ emotional violence, tenderly held
          ✦ glitter over scars
          ✦ trauma made poetic
          ✦ found family, fractured identity, and fierce love
          ✦ broken boys — and the souls who love them anyway
          ✦ girlhood as warpaint. softness as steel
          ✦ slow burns that bite
          ✦ healing that isn't always linear

✨ HOW TO READ IRIDESCENT (AND STILL GLOW)
          some boys break loud. enzo breaks quietly.
          
          
          ✦ 01. this one is jokes and jagged edges.
          copaganda-free. badge-wearing guilt.
          trauma hidden under charm — and still, he tries.
          
          
          ✦ 02. jake is soft, even when he doesn't know how to be.
          and he is trying. always, endlessly trying.
          
          
          ✦ 03. healing doesn't always look heroic.
          sometimes it just looks like getting through another day.
          
          
          
          content warnings: mental health, inner conflict, broken systems, friendship recovery, tender masculinity, self-forgiveness.

✨ HOW TO READ CLUELESS (AND NOT SHATTER)
          what happens when the genius breaks first?
          
          
          ✦ 01. spencer reid is not just statistics.
          he's grief in a cardigan. a soft boy on fire.
          you will ache for him. it's inevitable.
          
          
          ✦ 02. this one is slow-burn and soul-deep.
          love written in silences. devotion buried in data.
          you'll blink and realise you're wrecked.
          
          
          ✦ 03. there's no rescue arc. only survival.
          and even that hurts.
          
          
          
          content warnings: ptsd, criminal violence, emotional vulnerability, slow healing, aching intimacy.

✨ HOW TO READ QUIET FASCINATION (AND NOT DROWN)
          girlhood is a haunted fairytale.
          
          
          ✦ 01. this one glitters and grieves.
          pink polish on bloodied knuckles. heartbreak in pastel.
          you know the type — soft voice, sharp heart.
          
          
          ✦ 02. it's not just magic. it's survival.
          beauty and brutality. spells and sorrow.
          these girls aren't fragile. they're just tired.
          
          
          ✦ 03. no one is coming to save them.
          but they save each other, in small, fierce ways.
          
          
          
          content warnings: grief, self-discovery, trauma recovery, friendship as lifeline, fractured love.

✨ HOW TO READ VIOLENT DELIGHTS (AND NOT COMBUST)
          read like ruin. love like war.
          
          
          ✦ 01. this one is bloodstained.
          power. betrayal. survival.
          every chapter carves deeper — every sentence bruises.
          
          
          ✦ 02. benjamin is not your saviour.
          he is kindness with a knife, loyalty with a trigger.
          you will love him. it will hurt.
          
          
          ✦ 03. the world bites back.
          tyranny has teeth. the crown is cursed.
          if you're waiting for softness, look harder — it's there. buried.
          
          
          ✦ 04. you will want them to win.
          (and you'll fear what it costs.)
          
          
          
          content warnings: violence, emotional trauma, found family, queer longing, soft boys forced into hard choices.

✨ HOW TO READ MY STORIES (AND SURVIVE)
          they're not safe. they're sacred.
          read them like rituals. like rebellion. like someone's heart stitched between chapters.
          
          
          ✦ 01. come wounded.
          i write for the ones still bleeding — heartbreak tucked under their sleeves.
          you don't have to be whole here. you just have to feel.
          
          
          ✦ 02. characters will ache. and break.
          they are not always good. they are not always kind.
          but they are soft, sacred, searingly real — and stitched together with soul.
                    (you will want to save them. that's the trap.)
          
          
          ✦ 03. style > structure.
          i write with lyricism. repetition. sharp edges and soft landings.
          dialogue that stings. narration like poetry.
          not always linear. always intentional.
          
          
          ✦ 04. updates are slow, but sacred.
          i write in bruises, not deadlines.
          new chapters arrive when the ache gets loud enough.
          
          
          ✦ 05. content warnings live at the start of each story.
          i honour soft hearts and raw nerves.
          if you need to look away, i'll still be here when you're ready.
          
          
          ✦ 06. everything leads somewhere.
          yes, the glitter matters. yes, the grief does too.
          yes, the war is coming.
          and yes, they still find each other through it.
          
          
          ✦ 07. don't just read — feel.
          cry. rage. fall in love.
          leave comments like spells. votes like battle cries.
          these stories aren't just mine — they're yours, too.
          
          
          
           for the broken boys. for the sharp girls. for you.
          ❝read with your heart in your teeth.❞