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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? The gods are fucking immortal! They can wait a hot fucking second for Psyche to process her three trials after being so brutally DUMPED by Eros?

..."Where is she now?"

"I don't know. She forsook me and left."

"Why?"

"I broke her rules."

"Only she gets to break rules, is that it?"

THANK YOU

Again, I really like how this ends.

Ah yes. Violets symbolism.

"She wanted me dead...

"Aphrodite had sent me here to die, or to fail.

"But if she'd thought that would make me surrender, she'd miscalculated.

"For I was already supposed to be dead."

Okay... Now we're bringing in Gaia...

...Praying to Demeter...is not clever...

Demeter?? NOW??? Really?????

Aphrodite's divine rage is really horrifying...

? Felt like it would have been more devastating to violate how the chapters alternated between Psyche and Eros' perspective so that we DIDN'T get Eros' perspective, making Eros' departure feel all the more abrupt and, when Psyche next sees Eros, can be horrified by the festering wound she inflicted on Eros' shoulder.

Weirdly relatable how such a small action, however large a breach of trust it represented, is so triggering. Eros is absolutely SPIRALING.

Philosophically interesting paragraph because Psyche doesn't question how, if against Divine Law, would allow for the existence of her and Eros' marriage. Just accepts it's against Divine Law.

I really do like the ambiguous symbolism of darkness, of how it's obscurity could be for good or bad...

Also, Iantha sure does talk a lot...

Just realizing: why do the sisters have to come to Psyche's palace instead of the mother? The mother coming to see Psyche instead would be better for everyone involved.

Actually kind of sweet and anti-agist. I like this characterization of Eros, of Eros trying to be better than the rest of the gods

Okay. Yeah. That's pretty gross. Fuck Zeus.

Okay. Wow. Do we care so little about the sister Iantha/Does Iantha matter so little that we learn about her life in one long run-on sentence of a paragraph that's not even in her voice/in quotation marks like traditional dialogue?

Eros could always just, y'know, communicate with Psyche in a healthy way like healthy couples do. Just saying.

"I thought of what my family had always said, how they'd called me a too-wild girl and tried to tame it out of me, how my sisters had thrown up their hands and called me difficult..."

Really? I thought she was rather tame, placidly accepting the staring, her dad's punishment and abuse, and the Oracle's fate...

Oh okay. So she regularly humps the tree.

Once again there are themes of seeing as violence/violating, which I find interesting for a Greek retelling

Another strange instance of the author just inserting the OG myth at face value in the text rather than remixing it for her own world-building.

Ah yes. An ever-relevant reminder that "be gay, do crimes" is redundant in certain times and worlds.

"Sweetbitter"? Instead of "bittersweet"? Really?

Also assfgjkkl; I should not be reading this raunchy thing in the bookstore...

Relatable!

Did you...just jump the trunk of a tree?

😂😂😂 WTF is this book...

"... Exploring had its dangers. Endless stories warned against it. Don't enter labyrinths unless you're ready to face the Minotaur, the monster in the maze..."

I'm sorry, what??? Is the Minotaur in your pussy???