#on the nature of love

[hello-eeveev]

6. it might be because you drew this, but the bit in on the nature of attraction where the wizards are leaning their heads together as they talk about how they feel hits me in the heart every time i remember it

…yeah 🥺 they get to hold each other while they work through their Confusing Brain 💜🧡Thoughts. This is all I want for them 💜🧡

I have many many thoughts about grey ace Caleb, but I think so much of it is wrapped up in that line “it is all a bit muddled for me.” because yeah! yeah man! How could it not be, with everything you’ve got going on?

In my sg fic planning docs, I have a note that I really love: “an anxiety only recognized in its absence,” which Essek helps to relieve because of who he is (ace, uninterested in sex) and what he does (love Caleb without any expectation of or push towards sex). How lucky they are! In so many ways! To have found each other!!!

something something “essek didn’t put faith in the gods, and he wasn’t sure if he believed in fate, but whatever it was that bound lives together, he was grateful his was entwined with caleb’s” (from how to rest chapter 1) but make it both of them 🥺

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Some excerpts from the first speech Giovanni “gave” at a supper Bandini hosted in celebration of Plato’s death day where everyone read the Symposium then gave speeches on the nature of Love in response to each section of the Symposium.

Naturally, what the speeches actually were versus what Marsilio wrote down are likely vastly different. He very much was just using that gathering as a way to frame his commentary on Symposium in the classic Socratic style.

In any case, he gave Giovanni the most speeches (of course he did) with three of seven going to him. The others were given by Cristoforo Landino, Carlo Marsuppini, Tomasso Benci, Cristoforo Marsuppini.

Granted, technically all attendees were supposed to get one but a few people had to leave so the excess fell to Cavalcanti

Here’s Marsilio’s required plug about how hot his boyfriend is:

And a bit from the “official” preface and dedication (not the Secret/Personal one, as I call it, which was the true dedication to Giovanni):

The official dedication is to the citizens of Florence, Bernardo Del Nero, and Antonio di Tuccio Manetti and in this one he says Lorenzo de Medici inspired him to write the commentary on the Symposium. This is obviously just Ficino trying to please a patron because he says in many letters, and in the letter/secret preface of the first manuscript edition that it was Giovanni who persuaded him as a means to try and leverage him out of a deep depressive episode.

Anyway, your daily Ficino Blogging continues.

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[hello-eeveev]

FRIENDS!!! Today is the one year anniversary of “On the Nature of Attraction”!

This fic means so much to me, and I am so glad I wrote it. And I am so so grateful for the people who read it, left kudos, left comments, all of it. Thank you! Thank you for sharing in the experience of this story with me! I cannot express how meaningful it is that it has resonated with so many people, so just thank you all again 🖤🤍💜🧡

Here is the link if you would like to read it:

Rated T, No Archive Warnings

Essek is warm with a heat that starts in his sternum and radiates throughout his whole body. He wants to pull Caleb closer, closer, tuck him into his chest, and share that warmth with him.

There is a name for this, he thinks. Surely, it must have a name.

“It is all-encompassing,�� he says instead. “But it is not that.”

[ur-daily-inspiration]

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[strokeofserenity]

Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin.”

[secretofeva]

In love with my body❤️

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