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  • UGLY SOCIETY: ISSUE #2 — STILL HERE

    Issue #1 was the beginning. Issue #2 is about what happens when you keep going.

    There are times when everything feels like it’s moving, and there are times when it feels like nobody is watching. Either way, I’m still here.

    Ugly Society was never supposed to be about looking perfect. It’s about the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of becoming who you’re meant to be. The mistakes. The memories. The music. The faith. The losses. The moments where you don’t know what comes next, but you keep moving anyway.

    STILL HERE

    I’ve been learning that progress doesn’t always make noise.

    Sometimes it’s another song finished. Sometimes it’s writing something down before the feeling disappears. Sometimes it’s getting through a day that felt heavier than it should have.

    Slow and steady still counts.

    You don’t have to have everything figured out to keep going.

    THE MUSIC

    Music has become one of the ways I make sense of everything I can’t always explain out loud.

    Every song carries a different piece of the story. Love. Distance. Anger. Faith. Regret. Hope. Being misunderstood. Trying to become better without pretending the past never happened.

    Luvlyboy is still growing. Still experimenting. Still underground. Still creating.

    And that’s part of Ugly Society too.

    THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

    The good reminds us why we keep going.

    The bad teaches us something.

    And the ugly?

    That’s usually the part people hide. I’d rather turn it into something.

    A song. A thought. A photograph. A memory. A reason to keep moving forward.

    WHAT COMES NEXT

    I want Ugly Society to become a place where the music and the real story behind it can live together.

    More music. More thoughts. More stories. More moments that usually get left behind.

    No pretending everything is perfect.

    Just documenting the journey while it’s happening.


    We’re still here.
    We’re still becoming.
    This is Ugly Society.

    — Luvlyboy
    Ugly Society Club
    Issue #2

  • Keep Going


    Join the Club


    “The world’s in rotation for you.”

  • Red Cross Glows


    Join the Club


    “The red cross glows.”

  • Moon and Back



    “Heartbreak is the struggle that I’ve known.”

  • Sunsets



    “Sitting by the window watching daylight fade.”

  • 4:32 AM


    I’ve been chewed up,
    spit out,
    and stretched across zip codes.

    None of it left me
    worried about dying.

    I’ve spent so much time surviving

    that death stopped feeling
    like the scary part.


    “I’ve spent so much time surviving that death stopped feeling like the scary part.”

  • Ghost


    Like fumes,
    you burned through me.

    Like a fire,
    you burned me down.

    Now all that’s left
    is a ghost of what we were,

    still deep inside your heart.

    Like laying on a bed of pin needles,
    fire in my chest,

    like thorns upon his head.

    You let me go,

    but some scars stay alive,

    and some ghosts never leave.


    “My love for you is what you call a ghost inside your head.”

  • 2:17 AM

    Sometimes I wonder, and sometimes I just don’t know.


    If this world is all make-believe, if we’re dreaming while we’re awake, and if we wake up when we die.

    Does time keep moving in another world? Will I still be able to feel, think, and do the things I do while I’m alive?

    It’s hard to imagine these things when all we know is what we’ve discovered, and there’s still so much left unknown.


    “Sometimes I wonder if we’re dreaming while we’re awake, and if we wake up when we die.”

    Maybe some questions aren’t meant to be answered.