#Tamsyn says I'll see your overlap between philia storge agape and eros

[clubconsent]

#the way Harrow talks about The Body is sexual but pretty distinctly the relationship of a devotee and her god#(many traditions are fine with that being a little sexual)#(including xian mysticism a lot of those guys are like... when I saw God's face I came so hard I puked but I'll phrase it politely)#Harrow can have a girlfriend and still be an obsessed little nun#like how you can have a girlfriend and a whole friend group besides

@benegesseritofficial you get it

So Harrow confesses to Gideon in the pool, right.

And she tells Gideon she loves The Body. And seeing The Body--being in the presence of The Body--made her want to live.

And Gideon takes this to mean that Harrow can never love her, because Harrow, romantically, sexually, is fully consumed by the desire for The Body.

But . . . The Body. Alecto. The fucking life force that animates Earth. Harrow, who lived in a dark hole full of bones her whole existence, saw LIFE for the first time. The glory of a whole-ass planet packed into one being.

Did she want to fuck it? Yeah, kinda. You'd fuck the ecological majesty of our world too, I bet.

But it's still a pretty different kind of relationship! David Attenborough is probably as obsessed with this world as anyone, he still got married.

I'm just saying, I think Gideon has misread the situation. The ice lolly bimbo isn't a girlfriend, she's more like a spiritual calling.