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i dont want 22 episode seasons back. i dont want 8 episode seasons. i dont actually want a prescriptive number of episodes per season

its the era of streaming. we dont need to fil x number of timeslots.

i want tv shows to be able to determine for themselves what their optimal number of episodes per season to tell the story they want at the pace they want. maybe thats a 3 episode season. maybe thats a 50 episode season. i dont care, i just want the decision to be made for practical and artistic reasons rather than corporate ones

love this transgender plant individual

I like flowers yellow turns to gold pink to a soft quartz they dance in the wind I used to cut them from the garden I like flowers when they sit quietly in a vase like a butterfly momentarily in my palms I like flowers when they wilt the petals turning flaccid as if they were in the middle of a deep sigh and every weight is let go colors turn dull and brown and suddenly it's Thursday again I like flowers when they die shrinking and bowing out the show must go on, but they always end that's when the applause blooms and even then, silence, eventually

I believed once, too fiercely, too long,

but love has tired me, proved me wrong.

No more chasing whispers in the dark,

no more tending a fading spark.

Perhaps it never wanted me,

or I was too much, or too empty.

I give up softly, without fight —

love is gone, and so is light.

i think of all the ways the earth could hold me. grave, garden, ocean bed. and how every form of rest begins with giving in.

if i am to bloom again, let it be here. half root, half ache. quietly growing from my own ruin.

— jv orongan ps. read more of my pieces here.

From Gina Twardosz's chapbook, See Appendix B, available from Bottlecap Press!

About Hekate

Hekate is a extremely understanding Goddess and she doesn’t force you to do anything you don’t want to. I watched a video about her and the creator kept on saying you must worship Deipnon every month at the crossroads and X, Y, and Z. No you don’t lol? She was stressing that you have to do it unless she will be mad or something.

Sorry to burst people’s bubbles but Deipnon with Hekate historically wise there wasn’t much evidence to suggest Hekate being worship on the new moon only one written record was found. BUT can you worship her in the new moon? Yes you most definitely can New Moon are liminal but do you have to do it every month no and certainly not at the crossroads outside.

The same creator didn’t even talk about her historical associations like ferrets, horses, fish, etc. They may have brought up dogs but they brought up birds associated with her which she never was ancient wise that’s more recent associations in modern paganism and folklore. Can you associate Corvus birds with her, yes, but if you’re talking all about Hekate for beginners do it in a way that is honest and having the full understanding between ancient and recent.

For beginners of Hekate or Hellenic polytheists who are just starting to worship Hekate, she understands that you can’t work with her every month, give offerings outside, you can’t have the means to travel to a forest with a crossroads, etc. She knows you better than anyone who claims that you are wrong. I mean communication can be good but you don’t have to explain to everyone why you can’t do something. You are following what’s right in your heart in your own practice don’t let anyone dictate on that

Please for the love of the gods write down what they’re saying and fact-check it and compare sources even other people’s experiences. Many of Hekatean followers understand that Hekate is not a dictator but a mother and mentor, tough at sometimes but mostly loving.

“I have a longing for a place that I have no memories of.”

— Sanity Sipper, from my diary, September 7th

From rain m.j. eden's chapbook, ephemeral heart, available from Bottlecap Press!

THE WIND

with the wind, i am complete

meant to be one with the sky

to see it all with my own eyes

not through altered lenses

fogged and fragmented 

from one who has not dealt with

the troubles of my times