letting myself get stolen by the fae

Anyway I'm in the middle of yammering about this when I realize the woman at the checkout counter, who I believe also owns the place, is glaring daggers at me. I am autistic. I am not good at noticing or correctly identifying death glares. This was obvious enough for me to pick up. I falter to an awkward stop, midsentence, and there is a moment of dead silence.

Then she snaps, "well the copper is natural. It has the natural properties of copper."

(Again, it was blue, so it actually had "the natural properties" of cobalt, whatever that means. Mostly it is glass, and has the properties of glass.)

I wasn't insulting the aventurine! I was being very enthusiastic about it! If anything I was doing an impromptu sales pitch, pointing out how the irregularly distributed glittering crystals in the blue-black glass created a sense of depth that made it look like stars in a low-light night sky, talking about how difficult it is to make and what an interesting history it has! But she was so mad.

Pentheus, the King of Thebes, was torn apart limb-from-limb (sparagmos) by his own mother, Agave, and her sisters in a Dionysian frenzy for defying the god Dionysus.

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

(Kandinsky)

You cannot "well but I'M not referring to that kind of art, I only mean Dirty Pictures" your way out of this. You are being harmful and need to stop, not rationalise why it's okay for YOU to be doing it. You need to understand

censorship violates the universal human right of free expression and freedom of speech.

fiction is not reality. Fictional characters are not real people.

if someone SAYS a work of fiction inspired them to do bad things, that is not the work of fiction's fault. The person who did bad things is STILL at fault, because they have free will and must be assumed to understand the consequences of their actions.

discomfort is not harm. If a piece of art makes you uncomfortable, that's actually fine. That's the POINT of certain pieces of art. You need to learn to tolerate discomfort.

It is not in fact the government's job to enforce a set of morals on people. That violates people's universal human right to freedom of religion and creed.