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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH FROM THE SAPPHIC FAUNS IN SPYRO 2: RIPTO’S RAGE (1999)

No Blame to the Lover

“He saw the lightning in the east and longed for the east,

but if it had flashed in the west he would have longed for the west. My desire is for the lightning and its gleam, not for the places and the earth. The east wind related to me from them a tradition handed down successively, from distracted thoughts, from my passion, from anguish, from my tribulation, From rapture, from my reason, from yearning, from ardour, from tears, from my eyelid, from fire, from my heart, That ‘He whom you love is between your ribs; the breaths toss him from side to side.’ I said to the east wind, ‘Bring a message to him and say that he is the enkindler of the fire within my heart If it shall be quenched, then everlasting union, and if it shall burn, then no blame to the lover!’”

— Ibn ‘Arabi, Poem 14 of the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq

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S.A. Noory, Untitled

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i’d say the best thing i have learned this year is to just let people be who they naturally are. no psychoanalyzing them, no overthinking my actions, no asking what i could possibly do to keep their presence in my life. i just bring my best self to the table and always move from a place of love and respect. how that person responds is ultimately up to them. if that causes them to exit my life, i just let it happen. i will never be in the business of changing people. people are only ever ready to change when they’ve made the conscious decision to. all i can do is check myself and be kind always.