evile: How 	are you? I'm at work today, oh joy!
SkyeDS: had a landmark dream 	last night, in a series of dreams
SkyeDS: writing it down now 	before I forget it
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: do you know what 	faeries and elves are purported to eat?
SkyeDS: any mythos will 	do
evile: milk, whiskey, honeyed cakes
SkyeDS: but not flesh 	(meat)
evile: nope
SkyeDS: ok, it's posted
SkyeDS: was so 	rich in detail and long, was easier to write it than
explain it 	over and over
SkyeDS: goddammit I forgot to lj cut it
evile: I 	do that sometimes, too. No big, just edit and throw in 	teh
cut
evile: So what are y'all up to for the 	weekend?
SkyeDS: much better
SkyeDS: more repairs.
evile: 	fun.
SkyeDS: whachu doin
evile: I dont' feel like doing 	anythng, but there's lots going on.
yoga class, brigid fest, 	rennies in SA, etc.
SkyeDS: well, you know my mantra, do what you 	want, when you want,
because you want to (unless it's something 	you HAVE to do)
evile: *nod*
evile: I think the trip to SA 	will depend on whether or not Sweetie wants
to go.
SkyeDS: nods, 	don't much like traveling distances alone
SkyeDS: lately I get so 	lonely coming home from work I end up on the
cell phone to 	sineater or sonar0m
evile: I don't mind most of the time, but I'm 	going to the same place
next weekend for Gothfest w/Rio, so I 	don't really want to make the
same drive 2 weekends in a 	row.
SkyeDS: I don't even want to think about the drive to 	Mississippi
evile: that's gonna be a long haul
SkyeDS: have 	already agreed to loan sineater or sonar0m to one of the
other 	vehicles, so that we all have two people per vehicle and no one
is 	driving by themselves
SkyeDS: sineater's stints will have to 	involve Arthur too, Arthur won't
have it otherwise.
evile: the 	good news is it's a lot of straight and flat, so it won't
be that 	hard to navigate.
SkyeDS: and I"m not going by myself
evile: 	*nod*
SkyeDS: the gauntlets will be the atchafalaya and the 	mississippi
SkyeDS: as long as we aren't in rush hour stand still 	that's fine
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: but when you're pulling a 	horse trailer and you get stuck on
a big bridge in rush hour 	standstill
SkyeDS: you start to notice things like the entire 	bridge moving int
he wind
SkyeDS: and these big nuts and bolts 	that are lying on the side of
the road
SkyeDS: and you wonder, 	did those come out of the bridge? and, is
that not a bad 	thing?
evile: (I was thinking more of the strain on engine/trans. 	to be
stopped at an angle & then have to start going again, 	but OK)
SkyeDS: that too
SkyeDS: although the transmission 	just got a new torque converter so
better not nothing bad 	happen.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: my reading about my dream is very 	reaffirming. this is happy
making.
evile: good :)
SkyeDS: 	You are being asked to defend your actions or beliefs. Do not
fear 	the attack. Use the questions raised to clarify your
understanding. 	If your beliefs are sound, a closer examination of
them will hurt 	nothing and will add to your wisdom.
SkyeDS: sums it all 	up
evile: exactly
SkyeDS: other good things: the queen of 	wands, the lovers
SkyeDS: ace of wands and 7 of pentacles 	too
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: just interesting, that particular 	interpretation and position
of the 7 wands.
SkyeDS: because I 	have been wondering why on earth someone would say
things that 	were so obviously not true
SkyeDS: I mean, literally go down the 	list of everything he ever said
at length he enjoyed about our 	relationship, completely pervert it,
say I never had those 	qualities, etc.
evile: well, as you say, there's always 3 sides: 	your side, my side,
and the truth...people get very bizarre ideas 	about what happened in
any given situation.
SkyeDS: kind of 	like, Skye is tall, lithe, blonde and greeneyed.
SkyeDS: wha huh? 	since when?
SkyeDS: we're talking about things here that WERE his 	perceptions
SkyeDS: according to him
SkyeDS: everything he's 	saying now are exact opposites of opinions he
expressed when we 	were together
SkyeDS: nevermind Truth (I'm not going 	there)
evile: I guess it's a coping strategy...he can't believe 	that there
was anything worthwhile there, because that would mean 	he was 'wrong'
to 'leave' you
SkyeDS: rofl he didn't leave me, 	I left him
evile: well, wahtever, I'm trying to get inside 	someone elses head
here.
SkyeDS: although I wonder if it isn't 	meaningful that the faeries and
elves were constantly unhappy 	with the way I handled him
SkyeDS: they didn't want me to be 	compassionate and let him in, in
the first place
SkyeDS: and 	when I turned him out and said I wish you well and hope
you 	choose your path wisely, they were mad at me for even wishing 	him
well.
evile: maybe they represnet the more 	atavistic/bloodthirsty parts of
you?
SkyeDS: well, t he whole 	sense was, what do you think you're doing?
how fucking stupid are 	you not to see through this? and t hen, we
tried to tell 	you.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: bloodthirsty may also be 	right
SkyeDS: I don't see myself doing the damage that was done 	witha horse
whip, because it couldn't have been done that 	way
SkyeDS: and they were preparing to eat meat for the first 	time
evile: yup
SkyeDS: it isn't that faeries and elves 	haven't been inimical to
humankind in mythos
SkyeDS: but I 	don't remember a mythos in which they were bloodthirsty
or 	inflicted direct physical harm.
evile: *nod* That was one thing I 	really didn't like in Laurell K
Hamiltons "Merrie Gentry" 	books.
SkyeDS: I do know if you get caught by fae and you eat 	*their* food
you become one of them and can never return
SkyeDS: 	like Persephone's pomegranite seeds
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: do 	you like her Anita books?
evile: not really. the first 2 maybe, 	then it becomes ridiculous and
soap-opera ish
SkyeDS: I did 	see some complaints about her use of tarot in one of
her last 	books
SkyeDS: I feel that way about Anne Rice
evile: I guess I 	missed that.
SkyeDS: Interview was good
SkyeDS: Lestat was 	better
SkyeDS: Queen was ok until she decided she was tired of 	writing, or
whatever, and then the last part was just 	padding
SkyeDS: I'm like, when you're done writing, end the 	book.
SkyeDS: Body Thief was a complete waste of trees.
SkyeDS: 	Memnoch was good. I didn't want to read it, but it was good
when 	I did.
evile: I gave up after Body Thief.
SkyeDS: I didn't 	read Memnoch until I was persuaded by MANY other
people
SkyeDS: 	I did like the way she explained evolution as a tool 	of
creation.
evile: If I ever see it at the library, I might 	check it out. But
that' sa pretty big maybe.
SkyeDS: I did see 	it said that her last Anita book was almost all sex
and nothing 	else
SkyeDS: I don't see anything wrong with that 	personally
evile: *shrug* I like a plot.
SkyeDS: but I would 	if I were an afficionado and I wanted storyline
evile: I just got 	done with a book that read as nothing more or less
than a 	transcript of a role playing game.
evile: It was well done for 	role play, but it was not literature
SkyeDS: a lot of roleplayers 	consider themselves to be literary
geniuses
SkyeDS: they don't 	like it when you tell them that
SkyeDS: they don't like it when 	you tell them that in literature, at
the very basic level
SkyeDS: 	you don't have sentence fragments
SkyeDS: nouns and verbs agree 	in number
SkyeDS: for example
SkyeDS: then you get accused of 	superimposing your ego and trying to
destroy that writer's 	signature style
evile: Well, I am sure it was very entertaining 	for teh players to
see their characters in print, but there were 	too many in jokes, and
too many "OOC" moments for it to 	be believable as fiction.
evile: Decent dialogue, but too many 	characters, not enough
descriptions of them to allow you to keep 	them straight, and very
little place description, so that I had 	no idea if we were talking
different planes of reality, different 	countries, continents, states,
or what.
SkyeDS: wasn't a white 	wolf novelization was it?
evile: no, I know bette rthan to pick 	up a white wolf book and
expect decent fiction.
SkyeDS: 	hehe
SkyeDS: that's an interesting thought: fairies are known 	for
deceiving humankind, and they were irate and calling a human 	a
deceiver. hm. takes one to know one.
evile: *grinz*
SkyeDS: 	I have been doing a little lite research on fairies
SkyeDS: since 	they figured into my dream, must mean 	something
evile: http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dream
Seeing 	a treasure chest in your dream, represents your hidden
talents. 	It also represents a sense of security and belonging. You
are 	content with where you are in a situation or relationship.
Dreaming 	that you are looking though the treasure chest, suggests
that you 	are trying to recapture something valuable from your past.
SkyeDS: 	I still think the treasure represents my real treasure in 	life
evile: Seeing a fairy in your dream means joy and happiness 	in your
surroundings. It may also represent a feminine qualities 	and aspects
of yourself. Seeing a sad fairy in your dream, 	symbolizes loss of
love or money, or both.
SkyeDS: but my real 	treasures do make me content
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: and actually 	you could say that's exactly what he was after
and why I had to 	leave
SkyeDS: when he complains that he was a "secondary"
SkyeDS: 	we don't have secondaries in our Family
SkyeDS: sineater isn't 	secondary, sonar0m isn't either
SkyeDS: they're both 	primary
SkyeDS: for the longest time sineater WAS secondary to 	Kaleon
SkyeDS: and then when I said, ok, we're a family, 	EVERYBODY is primary
SkyeDS: he interpreted "you don't get 	to be primary before sineater or
sonar0m either one" as 	being relegated to "secondary"
SkyeDS: ergo, trying to 	take my treasures away from me
SkyeDS: (treasures = 	relationships)
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: he didn't like it one bit 	when sineater and I started healing
SkyeDS: matter of fact, the 	first time we started healing is what
brought on Sharon (so he 	says)
evile: everybody has to make their own choices in 	life...unfair of
him to blame you for his choice.
SkyeDS: he 	was never respectful of sineater
SkyeDS: granted, sineater at 	that time was not behaving in ways to earn
respect
SkyeDS: but 	sineater did and is still trying to be a better person
SkyeDS: 	and Kaleon views that as a personal threat
SkyeDS: as if my 	relationship with him is completely dependent on
sineater 	continuing to be bad
evile: that's too bad.
SkyeDS: he didn't 	want to be "a" primary, he wanted to be "the"
primary, 	because that is the way it once was
SkyeDS: and one of the 	reasons it ceased to be that way, is because
sineater and I were 	trying to repair ourselves and actually getting
somewhere, he 	felt threatened, and cheated (according to our agreed
upon 	definition, w hich as you know is different than most)
SkyeDS: 	when sineater earns respect, it should be given to him
evile: He 	has a lot of himself wrapped up in the 'white
knight/rescuer' 	fantasy, and once you didn't need that anymore, he
must have felt 	like you didn't need HIM anymore.
SkyeDS: and he is my husband 	regardless, that isn't going to change,
and he knew that
SkyeDS: 	Will wouldn't have happened if Kaleon hadn't pushed us both
into 	it.
SkyeDS: and sonar0m was simply the last straw.
evile: 	well, it's sad that he has to paint everything in such a
negative 	way. I mean, really, what does it say about you that you
were 	with this person who was absolutely horrible to you, and just
awful, 	and you stayed anyway, for 7 years?
SkyeDS: had it been all bad 	all the time the last four years I would
have left
evile: 	exactly
SkyeDS: what finally occasioned my leaving is when I 	finally put it
on the scales dispassionately
SkyeDS: and siad, 	ok, t he bad outweighs the good
SkyeDS: and truthfully has for a 	long time
SkyeDS: and by the tenets of my faith, I have to walk 	away from
what's bad
evile: It's just too bad that he can't 	look back, feel the
bittersweetness of it, and move on with 	regret and perhaps some self-
awarness so that the next woman 	will get a better person out of it.
SkyeDS: don't cry because 	it's over, smile because it happened (?)
SkyeDS: for the life of 	me I don't understand how we even got to this
point
evile: 	yeah.
SkyeDS: we didn't speak at all for a long time last year 	because he
got nasty every time we did
SkyeDS: then he seemed 	to be on an even keel, and I thought cool we
can be friendly 	now
SkyeDS: then he gets into a fight with I still don't know 	who
SkyeDS: nobody will fess up and it isn't important enough 	to
bloodhound it
SkyeDS: and then I'm a target and have 	remained so since
evile: I once went out on a date with a guy who 	spent the entire date
ragging on his ex, telling me terrible 	things about her, and then
saying over and over "but that's 	done now, I'm over her"....I did not
go out with him again, 	needless to say.
SkyeDS: amen
SkyeDS: because you're thinkin, 	I might someday be on the end of that
SkyeDS: no?
evile: 	Mostly thinking that he's NOT over her, and I don't want her
baggage 	in my life.
SkyeDS: been watching a bunch of things lately with 	different women
that I truly don't get.
SkyeDS: some of 	sineater's friends are passing this one guy around
SkyeDS: I'm 	like ok, that's like sharing a vibrator
SkyeDS: that may or may 	not have been sanitized in between
SkyeDS: what's with 	that
SkyeDS: and then bitching about your ex to your NR
SkyeDS: 	it's like women who take known abusers
SkyeDS: oh but I'm s 	pecial
SkyeDS: he did it to her but he won't to me
SkyeDS: 	honey, you ain't special.
SkyeDS: neither sonar0m or sineater 	have ever badmouthed an ex to me
SkyeDS: not even the ones that 	did nasty things to t hem
evile: I think the circles we move in 	are small enough that people
are going to end up dating one 	another's exes, and we might as well
be mature about it.
SkyeDS: 	whatever a man did to/now says about his ex he will do
to/eventually 	say about you.
evile: probably.
evile: I parted on pretty 	decent terms with most of the exes I can
think of right off the 	top of my head...
SkyeDS: I see that all around me, and want it 	very much for myself
SkyeDS: only on good terms with 3 out of 	like 30 exes
SkyeDS: (not counting extended one night 	stands)
SkyeDS: and I was stupid enough to really think that 	Kaleon and I
would be friends when it was over
evile: for some 	people, that all or nothing mentality just makes
things like that 	impossible.
SkyeDS: I still rake myself trying to figure out what 	i could have
seen from the get go that would have manifested this 	way
SkyeDS: most people can't keep up such a deep and complicated 	act for
that long
evile: it's always possible that he wasn't 	like that at first, but
changed over time, into someone that was 	no longer compatible with
you.
SkyeDS: I know I'm very 	mutable, maybe it was me
evile: or possibly both.
SkyeDS: if 	you insist on assigning fault or blame, I'm the one who
let him 	be primary and sineater secondary first and then changed
evile: 	you may have just grown apart
SkyeDS: regardless, at least I'm 	completely open and honest, I don't
try to hide change or deny 	it, and I don't blame drugs or
fears/insecurities/phobias or 	anything else for what I do
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: (and I"m 	s orry, but taking psychotropic drugs that were
prescribed to 	someone else without ever being seen by a doctor
yourself is 	just....well, it just is.)
SkyeDS: sineater thought my dream was 	a good thing because I finally took
control and put an end to the 	shit.
SkyeDS: I am still a little taken back by what was done, 	whether I
did it or caused it to be done.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: 	a blood sucking spirit I haven't heard of before: Baobhan
Sith - 	(Highland. D. Mackenzie, Scottish Folk Lore and Folk 	Life.)
Malignant, blood-sucking spirits, who sometimes appeared 	as hoodie
crows or ravens, but generally as beautiful girls, with 	long.
trailing, green dresses hiding their deer's hooves.
evile: 	hm.
SkyeDS: had heard of Black Annis or Black Aine before, she 	eats
children
SkyeDS: and lambs
evile: cool!
SkyeDS: 	these are all Celtic fae
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: I can't find 	much on the fatae (Italian fae) other than what
Raven wrote and 	I've already read
SkyeDS: at any rate, t hese fae obviously 	hadn't had meat before and
it was a special occasion, so it 	wasn't an everyday normal food source
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: 	Fairies don't like lies or deceptions by humans. Even evil
faeries 	do not lie, although they may seriously mislead or deceive.
evile: 	*nod*
SkyeDS: "I didn't break the truth, I just bent it...a 	little..."
SkyeDS: interesting post in polyfi2 on 	yahoo
SkyeDS: This is an interesting statement. Over the years, 	one of
the "truths" that
we've come to is that poly 	is no place for drama. Drama simply means
that
someone is 	either not communicating properly, or is not being 	honest
with
themselves about what they want, need, desire or 	somesuch. Usually
drama
is about fears, anger, jealousy, or 	envy... all things that can be
dissipated with communication and 	honesty to a point where they can
be
handled without drama. 	Drama makes people do silly/stupid things.
Our goal is a 	"zero drama" relationship. We want to be able to 	live
fully
and love fully without drama and crises.
evile: 	sounds good to me.
SkyeDS: got a dark moon coming up that will be 	just barely crossing
my menses
SkyeDS: I might be able to get 	in some banishing work if I do it on
Friday
evile: Mardi 	Gras!!! :P
SkyeDS: I thougth Mardi Gras was this weekend. I was 	thinking next
weekend.
evile: Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before 	Ash Wednesday.
SkyeDS: rofl, yes, but I don't keep up with when 	that is on the
calendar. I just know Austin seems to be 	celebrating it this weekend
SkyeDS: anyway, I would have to do it 	Friday the 11th
SkyeDS: only night wherein I will have blood 	while the moon is still
dark
evile: no, they're doing Carneval 	on the 5th. Not quite the same.
SkyeDS: I feel a little guilty. I 	don't keep the Ways unless I want
something I can't get any other 	way, it seems like sometimes
evile: the diff between Yule and 	Xmas, not really much more than
trappings and academia, but 	improtant to the various celebrants on
each side of the 	fence.
SkyeDS: let me amend that. In terms of religiously keeping 	up the
rituals.
SkyeDS: I live my tenets and covenants all the 	time as best I can
evile: *shrug* you know how I feel about 	ritual...if it doesn't do
anything for ya, chuck it. us 	Discordians can do that :)
SkyeDS: I have decided imina do what 	imina do, and if I get into
trouble later on, I will own my own 	shit and suffer whatever
consequences there be
evile: 	*nod*
evile: My last banishing didn't get rid of the person, but 	it
certainly removed my attachment to that person & their 	behavior.
SkyeDS: I'm not sure if my last banishing had anything 	to do with the
dire things that happened to teh person or 	not
SkyeDS: it might have, but I think it was their own 	karma
SkyeDS: I told him to leave me alone, and he didn't
SkyeDS: 	so I did a banishing and told him again, leave me alone
SkyeDS: 	24 hours after telling him leave me alone, I don't remember
how 	long after the banishing
SkyeDS: he called me begging me to let 	up
SkyeDS: I"m like what.
SkyeDS: I haven't done 	anything, *yet*
SkyeDS: his fiancee found out about me and kicked 	him out of the house
SkyeDS: the security guard quit and he had 	to do her job, losing his
company paid vacation
SkyeDS: and he 	was questioned as a murder suspect.
evile: poor thing.
SkyeDS: 	he didn't get it completely and finally until sineater 	confronted
him
SkyeDS: I don't know nor do I care HOW 	banishing works, so long as it
does
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: 	I'm going to take elements of three different Z Budapest
spells 	I've never used but am partial to, along with some other
things 	that appeal to me personally
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: I'm going to 	send Rabbit the Fear Caller out to reap the
rewards of calling 	one's fears, send all the negative energy back to
its source, and 	that, will be that.
evile: there ya go.
evile: sent off my 	registration for this year's big fun campout.
Hopefully I'll have 	fun this time.
SkyeDS: :)
evile: I didn't go last year because 	the previous/first time was just
so awful.
SkyeDS: 	hopefully the cabin thing will all work out
evile: I didn't even 	stay for the night when I went, so I just heard
about it after 	the fact.
evile: Chrisloy backed down pretty quick when people 	called her on
her shit over that. That was kind of funny to 	watch.
SkyeDS: I bet.
evile: I loved the "whoever's 	organizing the cabins must not have
kids" and then the very 	gentle "I have 2, actually" from Kulilinei :P
SkyeDS: I 	think if I hung with you and your friends I might enjoy
poly 	dinner more
evile: we are the kind of snarky bitches that 	threaten you at SCA and
HFS, so probably not.
evile: Not 	trying to shut you out, just recognizing that our behavior
would 	probably push your buttons and ignite your issues with women
like 	that.
SkyeDS: depends on whether it was aimeda t me or 	not
SkyeDS: although I have to say I was so turned off by what 	happened
last time I have no real desire to go back
evile: 	*shrug* You tend to assume it is, in a lot of situations 	where
others can't or dont' see it.
SkyeDS: if the snarkiness 	in HFS happened to my face I wouldn't have
problems
SkyeDS: it 	happens behind my back and then gets back to me
SkyeDS: and that 	yes bothers me
evile: but then Kili snarked to your face, and you 	had a problem with
that, too...
SkyeDS: that wasn't snarking 	that was open attack
evile: which wasn't immediately visible as 	such to anyone at the
table but you.
SkyeDS: sineater caught 	the tail end of it, so it was obvious to him, w
hen he came 	back
evile: So I'd really hate to introduce you around to the 	snarky bitch
contingent, and then hear from you afterwards that 	you had a terrible
time because they were attacking you the whole 	time.
SkyeDS: and, Kil's open attacks ARE obvious to EVERYONE 	around her,
according to what you've related in past.
evile: 	*nod* Yes, they are.
evile: But I missed whatever happened 	between her and rainking1,
too. They are like quickie sniper 	attacks, and then poof, gone.
SkyeDS: cowards are like 	that
SkyeDS: say what you will, people don't miss attacks with 	my
signature on them
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: time for go 	home
evile: yup, I was just about to say that :)
SkyeDS: wind 	to your wings :)
evile: Have a good weekend.
SkyeDS: ty u2