#fugitivus

Women who are taught not to speak up too loudly or too forcefully or too adamantly or too demandingly are not going to shout “NO” at the top of their goddamn lungs just because some guy is getting uncomfortably close.

Women who are taught not to keep arguing are not going to keep saying “NO.”

Women who are taught that their needs and desires are not to be trusted, are fickle and wrong and are not to be interpreted by the woman herself, are not going to know how to argue with “but you liked kissing, I just thought…”

Women who are taught that physical confrontations make them look crazy will not start hitting, kicking, and screaming until it’s too late, if they do at all.

Women who are taught that a display of their emotional state will have them labeled hysterical and crazy (which is how their perception of events will be discounted) will not be willing to run from a room disheveled and screaming and crying.

Women who are taught that certain established boundaries are frowned upon as too rigid and unnecessary are going to find themselves in situations that move further faster before they realize that their first impression was right, and they are in a dangerous room with a dangerous person.

Women who are taught that refusing to flirt back results in an immediately hostile environment will continue to unwillingly and unhappily flirt with somebody who is invading their space and giving them creep alerts.

*whispers* all of the poe party things

fugitivis replied to your post:.

( I gave my OC a poe party verse (I run HG + Ernest) you can totally bring Lovecraft to the party )

Blink could’ve picked the locks with the paper clip they had swiped form the nurse that had checked on ziem the very first day that they had woken up. They had only just really finished healing, by zir reckoning zie was fully healed by now. Ready to go back to the first cohort. Except zie already knew that that would never happen, the first cohort wasn’t where they were going, no they were going to a cell to await the decision of zir punishment. What would it be? Imprisonment in the Order building? From what zie had heard the building didn’t really exist anymore. Death? Perhaps. To be honest the most likely option was exile. Something that Blink wasn’t interested in.

But what were the alternatives? They had no where to go, there was no one who could effectively hide them. If they were a member of the cult then sure they would’ve been fine to hide from the Order, but no they’d chosen Greek siblings and friends above that option. Biting zir lip, zie shook zir head and sighed, lying back in the bed and waiting for the Order members that would inevitably escort them from the building. It had been a good and very lucrative run, but now was time for them to retire.

GOD YES