godbitten/god-bitten is such a good word i owe the silt verses everything for that one. even out of context there’s something so satisfyingly right about it, like fitting two pieces of a puzzle together. the idea of calling something to you with your faith, or your fear, or your desires, or your torments, and allowing it to sink its teeth into you, or else being caught and clipped in the snap of its hungry jaws as you recoil from it. being partially devoured; tasted and marked by something that can only interact with you by burning itself into you and eating away a piece of you in the process.
i am extremely well-adjusted and mentally healthy as long as nothing goes wrong ever at all even a little bit
Hey can i rip your wings off? Haha sorry that was wierd. Can i tear your halo from your head? Haha omg that was so random. Can i tear the divinity from your wretched form, removing you from the guiding hand and will of that which made you? Can i supplant your divine spark with wires and cables? Can i replace your golden halo with a golden circuitboard? Hypothetically
Hey, don’t cry. A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shines, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design, ok?
I was noted for my endurance of pain. For my ability to hold my hand over the flame longer than anyone else, without grimacing, without crying.
Christa Wolf, from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
Taking someone’s cigarette out of their mouth: Multiple meanings - used a lot in media to convey control, power play, very masculine, I’m your boss and this is mine now, get over it. Mildly flirty, look at me, all in your space and shit, seductive. You’re not allowed to smoke, because I say so.
Putting the cigarette back in their mouth afterwards: Ground-breaking. Would be less erotic to just fuck honestly. Who does this?