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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Ava Nguyen’s sketch blog of the strange and romantic.</description><title>paper ache</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @paperache)</generator><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>I love you so, so much.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8690e04177d1ea1292adc810b15b0b76/tumblr_mn0tolfvJw1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f2ccf54166820d97d693163cc1e86362/tumblr_mn0tolfvJw1qzhkdyo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love you so, &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; much.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50773554839</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50773554839</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:05:00 -0400</pubDate><category>sketches</category><category>original</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3739795845f7fdb54d7af5a3ce195edd/tumblr_mn0syagHCr1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50772542008</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50772542008</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 20:49:22 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Happy Birthday to the ever lovely and confident...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/77b106a3a872b7e79df7a62563df95a1/tumblr_mmyytyAMAt1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy Birthday to the ever lovely and confident &lt;a href="http://ktedwards.tumblr.com" target="_blank"&gt;@ktedwards &lt;/a&gt; ~☓O☓O&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50691349635</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50691349635</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 21:01:10 -0400</pubDate><category>cards</category><category>Illustration</category><category>original</category></item><item><title>Card that I made for my Ma Mi~ </title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/faff893f1b07fb945306fbe062dc8c56/tumblr_mmp8vrRzKn1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Card that I made for my Ma Mi~ &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50278291701</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50278291701</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 15:02:00 -0400</pubDate><category>cards</category><category>original</category><category>Illustration</category></item><item><title>Dream Entry #28</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I had a dream I wasn&amp;#8217;t allowed to be alone on Halloween.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- more --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this dream I was turning in something to my professor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her hands grabbed my wrists.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s Halloween tonight,&amp;#8221; she said. &amp;#8220;Be sure to lock your front and back doors.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Weird things happen on that night.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Believe me, I know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m with my friends now and they&amp;#8217;re talking about watching a scary movie at her house for Halloween.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why don&amp;#8217;t they come over to my house?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why don&amp;#8217;t you come over to my house?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;What?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m crying to them at this point. I tell them that I don&amp;#8217;t want to be home alone on Halloween. That I&amp;#8217;m &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; alone and that everyone avoids me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want to be wanted too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want to feel important.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please don&amp;#8217;t leave me alone.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Out of friendship (or pity?) they agree to come over.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is evening now, but it will be dark soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I lead them up wide porcelain steps that extend as long as a room but are only as high as a shoebox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My house is made out of red and ivory with frozen angels and demons staring down at us. Their faces are etched in worry and warning as we wander below them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before opening the door I turn to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have three rules before entering I told them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#8217;t look at anyone in the eye.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#8217;t act surprised.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#8217;t let them know &lt;strong&gt;they&amp;#8217;re not normal.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They nod at me but I&amp;#8217;m not sure they take me seriously; their fault.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We walk into the mansion where the headless man greets me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A few other mutilated visitors contribute their greetings, their bodies ranging from cuts and bruises or horrific spike piercings sticking out of places that aren&amp;#8217;t typical.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My friends are petrified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I glare before pushing one of them against the wall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hiss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#8217;t let them know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#8217;t let them know.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My friends nod and we walk further along into a large room.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#8217;s nothing but carpets. No furniture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I tell them to stand in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What is this room? They ask.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A room? This isn&amp;#8217;t a room.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A man follows us into a room and pulls a lever.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s an elevator I tell them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;to where?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He pulls the lever and the room descends at such a speed that our bodies begin to hit the ceiling. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If it weren&amp;#8217;t for the padding we would be squashed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We descend for maybe five floors before stopping. The carpets on the bottom are so thick and nice that they cushion our fall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Hungry, madame?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The man is talking to me. I tell him no and that we would be let out here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We leave the elevator into a smaller one. This one looks more standard.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Jesus, how many floors is this place?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More importantly,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Hey, why are we always going down?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I stare at them and then look ahead.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The elevator descends at an alarming speed but our bodies don&amp;#8217;t move&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we pass floors&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we pass bodies&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we pass dirt and flames&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and fire and circles&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we&amp;#8217;re passing the river styx and its passengers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;we&amp;#8217;re passing the damned&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the elevator hits floor -994,876&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We get out. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s a wide room with little walls and ivory and red walls and furniture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The red and white porcelain creep up the pillars like veins&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and the sheer, ceramic chandeliers pose like body tissue hung frozen over our heads.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;This floor is huge.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is my room.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I morph the room into my image and makeshift five more beds for my friends.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I turn to see one of them looking out the window.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The city outside is a midnight city scene complimented by dots of yellow-lit windows. If one was to look further among the buildings they would find the ocean lazily meeting the shore in a chaste, but sweet kiss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s beautiful, but&amp;#8230;. it isn&amp;#8217;t real, is it?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, I tell them. I glamoured the window so that one could never see what was really there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I sit by them to look outside the window.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I let my hands run through the curtain, it&amp;#8217;s sheets lightly tangle in my fingers for a sweet dance before being flirted away by the wind.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One time the glamor broke, I tell them, when I was younger. And it was then I realized where my parents sent me to live.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of them gasps and it captures our attention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;There&amp;#8217;s a sentence in the ocean.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ah, yes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the ocean there is a sentence that spells out &amp;#8220;We are the numbers&amp;#8230;&lt;br/&gt;&amp;#8221; followed by room or level numbers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The numbers always change I tell them. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;That&amp;#8217;s so odd, have you ever thought of seeing that face to face?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My flesh would be burned if I stepped outside this room, I tell them. I can only imagine what it would do to you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They have a plan to put their souls into the body of stuffed animals so that we can venture the outside world. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It makes sense, since the flames of hell only burn through flesh.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My doubts escape me. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wake up.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50269469007</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50269469007</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 13:04:00 -0400</pubDate><category>dreams</category><category>writing</category></item><item><title>@drawmeaharem</title><description>&lt;p&gt;he didn&amp;#8217;t &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50131510987</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50131510987</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 21:48:40 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Video</title><description>&lt;iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/paperache/50124868649/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_50124868649" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="267" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50124868649</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50124868649</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:11:14 -0400</pubDate><category>blog</category></item><item><title>hueeeehuehue! </title><description>&lt;iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/paperache/50069356307/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_50069356307" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="225" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;hueeeehuehue! &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50069356307</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/50069356307</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:34:00 -0400</pubDate><category>blog</category></item><item><title>Also comics!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5307dcad6e05735777cd1765d5c2632b/tumblr_mmim9uqjzk1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also comics!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49993913180</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49993913180</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 01:08:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Sorry I haven’t been updating! Finals, finals, finals blah...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/15b155fc1ccd69e4c8097868b2ed4004/tumblr_mmil55KlYC1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry I haven’t been updating! Finals, finals, finals blah blah blah here are some character designs&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49992652123</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49992652123</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:43:00 -0400</pubDate><category>sketches</category><category>original</category><category>heart</category></item><item><title>Studio Killers - Jenny</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egUQju95vT8"&gt;Studio Killers - Jenny&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote class="link_og_blockquote"&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Sweet summer wishes. Here’s Jenny!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What a wonderful way to wake up this morning ✧✧✧&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49522768829</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49522768829</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:34:00 -0400</pubDate><category>music</category><category>Studio Killers</category><category>blog</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/556911890de15e00ef7982f6068d7b0e/tumblr_mm7ougWSPN1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49499427448</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49499427448</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:30:16 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>OH MY GOD YOUR ART&lt;3</title><description>&lt;p&gt;oh gosh no ~your art!! *follows*&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49021183058</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49021183058</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:48:24 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>another hair cut c:</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/61780a18b7d43bee6a88e3ad9313e508/tumblr_mlxcznmQkO1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;another hair cut c:&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49020448446</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/49020448446</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:38:11 -0400</pubDate><category>blog</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/20b9e5e82346e2869ce1152fcf7f1ead/tumblr_mlwl7eRimG1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48992224229</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48992224229</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:38:02 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Working on “Crooks and Liars” hueheueheeheeu c: </title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/171f0ba614833f99dd56bd6b70ee6bba/tumblr_mlvzywdDXJ1qzhkdyo1_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Working on “Crooks and Liars” hueheueheeheeu c: &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48964697010</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48964697010</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:59:00 -0400</pubDate><category>comics</category><category>sketches</category><category>original</category></item><item><title>✦✦✦ STUDIO KILLERS ALBUM RELEASE IN...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/79b766f31059e04ad15ac78d6b856165/tumblr_mlvzxoolI11qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;✦✦✦ &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeZ1SXbFgpE" target="_blank"&gt;STUDIO KILLERS ALBUM RELEASE IN JUNE!!!!&lt;/a&gt; ✦✦✦&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;TEARSSSSRSSRSRSRSS&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48964647873</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48964647873</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:58:36 -0400</pubDate><category>Studio Killers</category><category>sketches</category><category>Fanart</category></item><item><title>avaaa rly bad thor feels coming back to haunt mE WAH</title><description>&lt;p&gt;THERE ARE REAL TEARS OMFG HDJSDHAJSGD&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48839980972</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48839980972</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:02:55 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/27f9a72ac2058db7225cadb66dc641e0/tumblr_mlssxpjx9P1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48839040050</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48839040050</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:34:37 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6a565aba119c937652dd45048164c752/tumblr_mlnbdksSeP1qzhkdyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48599522907</link><guid>http://paperache.tumblr.com/post/48599522907</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:27:20 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
