Don’t Worry, Cringe Is Hot

free use is kind of a funny kink bc it relies on the idea that everybody wants to touch you and have sex with you but what if they don't. what if you tell everybody at the party you're free use but they all ignore you and mind their own business

we are never going to be free until it literally doesnt matter whether a person is ugly or not

i’ve also been thinking about the homeric narrative voice’s counterfactuals and how they give us glimpses of possible alternative narrative futures– like in book 21, “and even now telemachus would have strung the bow, if forcefully a fourth time, except odysseus shook his head and restrained him, though he wanted otherwise,” and how the narrative voice gives us this feint at a potential story where he does string the bow and proves worthy of his father and begins the slaughter of the suitors himself, only to pull back at the last minute and refuse to let the story fulfill that potential and do the things it’s strong enough to do but cannot act out because the bard will not let it– and then the way the narrative voice also gives these counterfactual statements about what would happen if it let odysseus take over the story? if the bard turned it over to him entirely he stay months among the phaeacians, a year with eumaeus, his storytelling would eat away at his story. this justification for seizing control back from the characters and silencing them– that’s why book 4 is twice the length of some of the other books, it’s because the bard turns it over to menelaus and helen and the two of them bat it back and forth between each other and prevent the bard from intercepting it again.