You're right that I don't wish to talk again about this place preying on me in particular. This past jump presented more of a security risk than anything else and wasn't my intended topic. I am wondering about progress, yes. I am also wondering if you were being polite and neglected to mention that part of what disturbs you of your encounter with William is that you are not interested in men. On second thoughts I don't know why I would assume you are concerned with politeness.
There is a stigma in our community but it's not like it is on the outside. We're all pagans, you know. We celebrate Christmas for food and fairy lights but Halloween's the important one. Still, I've had some lurid things said about me and specific other men, meant as insults. I never thought much about it then, either.
I've never had to think about it very much at all. Even all this feels exceptional.
Or maybe that's just what I want it to be. I've been privy to a lot of hypocrisy since I was a child, the rationalisations and the secret keeping, what men and women tell themselves when they do what they shouldn't. I'm not above learning bad habits. But I do not think of it as morally reprehensible. Scandalous, at worst.
If it's any comfort about the difference of people based on their identity or reproductive organs, everyone looks exactly the same when their insides are spilled out on the floor for forbidden ritual magic, and there's no real way to tell anything apart.
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Are you wondering after any progress, or the fact that William is not a woman's name?
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And then; ]
Yes.
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I am wondering about progress, yes.
I am also wondering if you were being polite and neglected to mention that part of what disturbs you of your encounter with William is that you are not interested in men. On second thoughts I don't know why I would assume you are concerned with politeness.
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I feel like I should have some kind of opinion on it, seeing as I've never considered other men before. But I don't really care to be honest with you.
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Or maybe that's just what I want it to be. I've been privy to a lot of hypocrisy since I was a child, the rationalisations and the secret keeping, what men and women tell themselves when they do what they shouldn't. I'm not above learning bad habits.
But I do not think of it as morally reprehensible. Scandalous, at worst.
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[ Possibly this was rewritten from 'Are you freaking out about Erik?'
Severus isn't entirely sure what's happening in this conversation. To the surprise of no one. ]
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But that has become par for the course.
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[ ~Anything else.~ ]
A friendship that has been rather fraught.
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