#zenith.yeah

[zenith-foxes]

Holy Hatsune I have to get this.

Just read The Strange Case of Harley and Harleen and my god I needed a little bit of positive plurality in my life this week.

The way Pam and Harl's relationship adapts to accept the Harley/Harleen split makes my heart swell.

The way Pam sees the difference between her girlfriends.

And assures her that she accepts and loves all sides of her.

And does what she can to accommodate Harleen's memory holes.

The core relationship of this book is just so sweet and positive in accepting things as they are without judgment or pushing. Just acceptance and love.

And after finding that in our own life, I know what a powerfully positive thing it can be.

But the Harley/Harleen relationship is well handled too. There's friction and denial at the start but the two develop and trust one another by the end and Harley takes a seat as my favorite kind of character, the morally ambiguous protector.

I love the way Harley's protectiveness of Harleen is depicted and how she tries so hard to keep her from interacting with the criminal underworld of Gotham.

It's just saccharine and kind.

Highly recommend the book to anyone who just wants soft and kind plurality vibes. Heaven knows the majority of the fiction involving split personalities are flooded with angst and darkness and though this book contains a few dark plot beats like DV it never feels painful or sorrow inducing.

I'm so happy I read it.

[zenith-foxes]

Yeah like, there's nothing stated about any of the four quadrants that aren't thinks humans also already do-- it's just in 'modern western society' they are not typically thought of as 'romantic'. Like, the aspects of a Moirail can be involved in what 'we' class as romantic, but they also just sound like "What good friends do" (See: the constant annoying comments about queerplatonic relationships).

Romantic and sexual tension with people you 'hate' is also like, very common, we just tend to be taught, via media and society, that they are only 'real' or 'healthy' if they progress to a 'normal' romance.

And Ashen romance is just, like, 'normal human social group behaviours', someone stepping up and in to make sure friend groups don't fall apart or whatever. The fact that we don't call it romantic in general doesn't mean it can't be (polyam relationships exist in humans too, people. Seriously)

[Insert something about institutional societal fuckery indicating i agree with the rest of your statement here] (brain hard sowwy)

quadrants exist as a fun alien way to tell stories about inherently human concepts. its not that the romance system itself is bad — they’re just silly bullshit that’s fun to speculate about — it’s that the institution that created and enforced them in the first place should be inspected and ultimately discarded.

[zenith-siblings]

Oral fixations, huh :P

Giving oral is like getting to obsessively show love for someone by concentrating it on one area for a long time. It starts out like a soft and gentle love, and by the end you're desperately clinging to them and they're yours forever until they explode! I mean cum