#live**

this is it, isn’t it? Gideon calls herself out and lays bare something this entire series has been built on: love as consumption, as sacrifice, as a fucking forest fire and a nuke: "you have not yet seen the horrors of love"

Gideon dies for Harrow because she thinks it’s all she can do. Harrow sacrifices her selfhood and her mind and every memory of Gideon, because she cannot conceive of a universe without her. Camilla and Palamades die for each other because they cannot bear to be apart, the idea of the perfect love twisted into a mutual death. John loves the world so much that he ate it. destruction and revenge and cannibalism as the ultimate expressions of devotion.

the D in devotion stands for dead.

and obviously, that is all incredible and extremely thought provoking and sexy, but..... Kiriona names the one avenue of love that this series has not yet really explored: what if you lived for someone instead of dying for them.

i’m thinking of Abigail and Magnus, in the river bubble, telling Harrow to live for Gideon instead of dying for her. i’m thinking about how Ianthe loves Coronabeth so much and refuses to eat her, refuses to consume her, leaves her abandoned and sobbing but alive. i’m thinking about Blood of Eden’s founding protocol, the one that supersedes all others: the order to live.

It’s almost funny really, how he walk around sneering at everyone left and right, sometimes give you attitude when you hand him something over :/ like sir??? You still have my pussy on your breath????

Did he somehow forget that he was using your clit as a pacifier literally five minutes ago in his office? Would not let you wiggle away without whining and slurping even harder like it’ll give him a better latch on you? By the time he’s finally satiated, he looked up at you from between your legs with the most dazed pussy drunk expression known to man, eyes lidded, face flushed, his entire mouth area coated with your slick?