When life gives you lemons

"Tell him we have a beetle problem," Wafa called after me. "If you are to have reptile gentlemen callers, they might as well make themselves useful."

Hi! I hope you're having a good day. I read this essay on "if only" eroticism by author Rien Gray and thought of you and your critique of Someone You Can Build a Nest In. Since you read more romance than me, I wanted to ask: have you noticed this trend of authors promising kinky fun in marketing & early character dialogue but pulling back when the characters do have sex? Especially when the book is sapphic? You're very insightful and I'm interested in your opinion, but if you don't have time/energy/interest, it's totally okay to ignore this ask and carry on :D o7 https://www.riengray.com/blog/the-perpetual-disappointment-of-if-only-eroticism

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers