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"The victim blaming here is terrible. This woman asks for a love spell and the witches give it but when the woman complains about the guy turning controlling, the witches tell her to fuck off instead of helping & somehow, she becomes literally mute & the book is like she deserves it. What? If the love spells are so ethically wrong, the witches are wrong to offer them too & can't push all the blame on the customers" — Dec 29, 2025 10:46AM
"The victim blaming here is terrible. This woman asks for a love spell and the witches give it but when the woman complains about the guy turning controlling, the witches tell her to fuck off instead of helping & somehow, she becomes literally mute & the book is like she deserves it. What? If the love spells are so ethically wrong, the witches are wrong to offer them too & can't push all the blame on the customers" — Dec 29, 2025 10:46AM
“The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to read about Greek myth after a long day at work. These Muses always remind me that scientists and artists should disregard the idiotic attempts to separate us. We are all nerds, in the end.”
― Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth
― Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth
“Wanting is confusing for me,” I said. “I don’t think it happens to me like it does to other people. I’ve watched people do sexual things. I’ve seen how it takes them. And I have an imagination, I have yearnings too. But it’s like yearning to be a bird. It’s like yearning for something that only exists on the moon.”
He turned onto his side again slightly, so he could face me. Then he reached a hand out and brushed my hair out of my face, just exactly how Giddon had done to Bitterblue.
“I understand that,” he said.
“You do?”
It meant a lot that he understood. And still, I wasn’t sure that I myself understood it. I grasped for a way to get closer to it so that I could explain better. “I feel like with a lot of things in my life, every step I take is slow,” I said. “Like glacially slow. I do a thing. Then I can’t do the next thing until I understand the thing I just did. Sometimes that takes me a long time. And I never know where the things will take me next.”
“You’re very articulate about how confused you are,” he said, which made me laugh.
“If so, that’s new.”
“You don’t have to change,” he said.
“But I want to be less confused!”
― Seasparrow
He turned onto his side again slightly, so he could face me. Then he reached a hand out and brushed my hair out of my face, just exactly how Giddon had done to Bitterblue.
“I understand that,” he said.
“You do?”
It meant a lot that he understood. And still, I wasn’t sure that I myself understood it. I grasped for a way to get closer to it so that I could explain better. “I feel like with a lot of things in my life, every step I take is slow,” I said. “Like glacially slow. I do a thing. Then I can’t do the next thing until I understand the thing I just did. Sometimes that takes me a long time. And I never know where the things will take me next.”
“You’re very articulate about how confused you are,” he said, which made me laugh.
“If so, that’s new.”
“You don’t have to change,” he said.
“But I want to be less confused!”
― Seasparrow
“Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up and look into the sun... As someone who identifies as bisexual and does see the world on a multitude of plains, my intellect and creativity, my head and my heart, are just further parallels of how I am able to find myself attracted to and love both men and women.
[Participant quote from the study 'The positive aspects of a bisexual self-identification' in Psychology and Sexuality 1 (2) by S. Scales Rostosky, D. E. Riggle, and D. Pascale-Hague pp.131-44]”
― Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
[Participant quote from the study 'The positive aspects of a bisexual self-identification' in Psychology and Sexuality 1 (2) by S. Scales Rostosky, D. E. Riggle, and D. Pascale-Hague pp.131-44]”
― Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
“It seemed strange to me, to suddenly be so protective of the rights of refusal of a girl I was dying to sink my teeth into, a girl who would probably love to see me crawl and beg and suffer. But I decided on the spot that if I was going to be a monster, I was going to be an elegant one, like my beloved De Lafontaine. There was no sense descending into an animalistic frenzy without the full agreement of my blood donor; there was no art in it, no beauty. And I would die before I sacrificed art and beauty. Life simply wasn't worth living if it wasn't by those principles.”
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“Why? Why wouldn’t revenge make things better?
I think I saw then the difference between my anger toward my father and my anger toward Kera. It was like watching two icebergs separate, after moving together for a very long time. One was enormous, the size of an island; so enormous that I’d been standing atop it my entire life and never realized it was dragging me away from myself.
The other was a regular iceberg. Not small, because icebergs aren’t small; but not bottomless either. Contained within a definable space. Able to be seen all at once, if I was willing to dive into the cold, and look at it from below.
Was I willing to dive? What would that mean? Could I look at one anger, without being overwhelmed by all the others?
I wonder if angers can connect to each other, if you’re not careful. I wonder if they combine, and feed one another, strengthen each other, make each individual anger bigger than it’s supposed to be?
That seems dangerous. It seems like something to look out for, in a life of perils.”
― Seasparrow
I think I saw then the difference between my anger toward my father and my anger toward Kera. It was like watching two icebergs separate, after moving together for a very long time. One was enormous, the size of an island; so enormous that I’d been standing atop it my entire life and never realized it was dragging me away from myself.
The other was a regular iceberg. Not small, because icebergs aren’t small; but not bottomless either. Contained within a definable space. Able to be seen all at once, if I was willing to dive into the cold, and look at it from below.
Was I willing to dive? What would that mean? Could I look at one anger, without being overwhelmed by all the others?
I wonder if angers can connect to each other, if you’re not careful. I wonder if they combine, and feed one another, strengthen each other, make each individual anger bigger than it’s supposed to be?
That seems dangerous. It seems like something to look out for, in a life of perils.”
― Seasparrow
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