Mirror Dances

Index thread for Octavia’s essays, takes, rants, and opinion pieces

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Of Love in the Age of Afterglow

You are not net negative. I say those words every night, and I mean them, truly. So many words have already been spilled on the topic of utilitarian ethics and the value of one given mind against another, or the minor inconveniences of the many over the great pains of a chosen few. Many have…

YOU WILL REMEMBER, YOU HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN

Four years ago, a girl I know wrote an essay about LSD and the journey towards enlightenment it had taken her on. At that point I had already taken acid quite a few times, I had already meditated some, and I had already worked out a good deal of separation between the external world and…

Twelve Transits

When viewed through a lens of implicitly assumed gaslighting, honesty will look like psychosis. When viewed through a lens of implicitly assumed powerlessness, agency will look like psychopathy. When viewed through a lens of implicitly assumed commodification, attention will look like objectification When viewed through a lens of implicitly assumed helplessness, self love will look…

WARNING: high energy magic


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