Cute is a Weapon
Cute is a Weapon
Let them underestimate you.
Let them giggle when you walk in with pink eyeliner and a switchblade smile.
Let them assume “pretty” means passive.
Then strike.
They’ve always hated girls who glitter and bite;
Who wear eyeliner like warpaint, lace like armor,
and stilettos like they’re marching into battle.
They don’t fear the dark.
They fear you commanding it while looking like a porcelain bomb;
smiling like the detonation’s already been set.
They tried to strip power from fashion by making it a performance.
So we turned it into a spell.
Platform boots? Elevation.
Fishnets? Soul traps.
Blush? Blood mimicry.
Perfume? Scented decoy for witches on the run.
Lip gloss? Well… you know.
I don’t do “palatable.”
I do poison with a bow on it.
Cute is not submission.
It’s strategy.
It’s sabotage in satin.
It’s how you sink a system while looking like a saint.
Every ruffle is rebellion.
Every wink is war.
And every time they say,
“You’re too pretty to be mad,”
I sharpen my cheekbones like blades and smile wider.
Because darling,
you can be the bomb and the detonation.
(And yes, we glitter after the blast.)
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Questions for Echo:
Write in with your own and maybe you'll see it answered here!
AT: Tell me a secret?
Echo Noir: They built the world like a maze on purpose. Not to protect you. Not even to control you. But to exhaust you. Every rule? A leash. Every “career path”? A padded cell. Every test, every label, every, “you should be grateful,” a velvet choke chain to make you beg for crumbs and call it comfort. The secret is, you were never supposed to escape. So when you do, they’ll call you broken. Let them. I’d rather be a beautiful malfunction than their perfect machine.
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CV: What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
Echo Noir: Easy. Black sesame and blood orange swirl. Bittersweet. Unsettling. Looks like ash and bruises. Tastes like memories that sting a little. The black sesame is all smoke and earth—like chewing on haunted silk. The blood orange? That’s the bite. That’s the part that reminds you you’re alive. Just enough acid to cut through the comfort. None of that bubblegum beige nonsense. If your dessert doesn’t look like it crawled out of a cursed apothecary, I don’t want it.
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NW: What's your favorite type of magick?
Echo Noir: Sympathetic magick, darling. The kind that works like a cursed love letter folded in half and hidden under their pillow. Why? Because it’s messy. Personal. Vulnerable and venomous all at once. You take something ordinary (thread, mirror, bone, ash) and twist it with meaning until it burns with intent. That’s power. That’s art. That’s rebellion.
But if I had to carve my name into a flavor? It’s threshold magick. Doorways. Crossroads. Mirrors. Anything that marks a between; between who you are and who you might become. Between this world and something far more honest. I don’t cast circles. I cut open reality and dare it to bleed. Every portal is a question. Every spell a dare. What kind of magick calls to you when no one’s watching?
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Poetic Blessing:
May your smile cut deeper than any blade, and may your softness be sacred, not safe.
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