#beobread

supplement with some iron from a willing lover’s vein and you should be quite alright for a century or two.

okay so this story is basically all about the concept of existence and what makes humans, well, human! i can’t find a pdf of Delusion for a Dragon Slayer by Harlan Ellison (where the title “special dreams in which you exist” comes from), but essentially the story revolved around a man who was unworthy of his own idea of heaven because he failed to live up to his own standards of “goodness”. when i started writing this i had just finished the second season of altered carbon (L, i know) and was frustrated with how they failed to address many glaring issues of race while also glossing over what it means to exist in a world where death is almost inconsequential, or a footnote in someones history. really the whole message of special dreams is: is mercedes, worthy of her idea of heaven when she knows she was a killer? furthermore, is she responsible for her future self? would she have become the same person a second time? can her half-life be considered true existence?

that one i used for a bird who became a girl- it’s definitely a favourite ! some of these below, i have also used before, but definitely have at them if one grabs you. ^^

swallowtail, sweet-william, dreamwulf, snovit, plumeria (”plummy”), lamb-of-the-meadow (”low”), bleeding-heart, love-lies-bleeding, silversing, moon-pale, petals, heartsick, snowgoose, swanchild

you’re crawling all over her like weevils