#the sky doesn't wanna eat you and im blanking on law and order metaphors if anyone else has one hmu (not wolf-based plz)

[happyk44]

Cannibalism as a metaphor for devotion and possession and ownership, and cannibalism, consumption, devouring is so clear in Nico and Hazel and Bianca, the earth eats you, the decay feeds the ground, you bury a body and now it belongs to the underground, to the underworld, and it's clear in Percy, the ocean being clingy, needy, hanging onto to you in little beads and droplets, even as you surface, exhausting your muscles and pulling you down down down, swallowing you whole