Flashover

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Flashover

n.
the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.

In firefighting, a flashover is when all the flammable material in an area combusts all at once.

Eisce

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Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Punt Kick

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Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Anti-Aliasing

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