32 Sloths Sup Juniper Tea
June 12, 2026, 6:19 pm | # | Reply
Is it gonna be a resurrection or a yelling? Place your bets!
2 Soft Lips Kissy Kissy the Girls
June 12, 2026, 6:20 pm | # | Reply
Now Alison can show the angels that their expectations will not be met this cycle.
311,340 Returns from Death to Die Miserably
June 12, 2026, 6:36 pm | # | Reply
Gog, sister, I’m sorry, but after all that constant yapping about how strong you are, instantly giving up when things get slightly challenging is pretty PATHETIC. You’re the reason we’re IN THIS MESS (even if I still blame Mottom more(
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10,000 Arrows in Flight Build a Ladder to Heaven
June 13, 2026, 12:29 am | # | Reply
Gog doing her job of goading All-Yis-Un into her full immanence.
Gog is part of Allison now. She knows her mind. Her self-loathing. Her indomitable stubbornness. And above all her will to defy the gods and the path they have laid out for themselves and creating.
Gog also knows Ally occasionally needs a good kick up the arse to get moving in the right direction.
7 Rivers Rightly Flood the Sinful
June 12, 2026, 7:17 pm | # | Reply
I once asked the god of a small village “why do you let death claim your flock? Surely you have the power to defend such a meagre domain from her hungry talons.” To my surprise, he replied “because to be a god that welcomes death is far less…troublesome, than to be a god that brings life.” I think of his words often, as I somehow know deep in my being they are right; yet, that makes the mystery as to why so much more perplexing, and provides no further peace to the pain in the parting of ways.
SomethingSomethingSomething
June 12, 2026, 7:56 pm | # | Reply
It’s sad.
They were together when it all began, and after being torn away from each other, they each struggled as best they could to survive. Now she finds herself alone, separated from the only witness to her past life.
Even though he was almost entirely absent from the forefront of the story, he was probably the most important person to Allison after Cio, not necessarily because of emotional ties, but because of what he represented.
Now she’s lost them both.
1337 Creatively Cycles Critical Curiosity
June 12, 2026, 11:01 pm | # | Reply
H̄ạwcı S̄ảh̄rạb Xis̄rp̣hāph: “How does an immortal die?”
Kārkin S̄ạtw̒ Āngsābsụ̂ng: “It can’t.”
H̄: “All things can die. Not everything dies the same way.”
K: “But isn’t there only one way?”
H̄: “What clothes does Death wear?”
K: “?”
– Blue Meadows monks, of Orange house; upon their horses, waywardly begging for alms.
God's Fist Covering Itself
June 12, 2026, 11:24 pm | # | Reply
if the body is just a parable
about the body if breath
is a leash to hold the mind
then staying alive should be
easier than it is somehow
it happened wellness crept
into me like a roach nibbling
through an eardrum for
a time the half minutes
of fire in my brainstem
made me want to pull out
my spine but even those
have become bearable so
how shall I live now
in the unexpected present
I spent so long in a lover’s
quarrel with my flesh
the peace seems over-
cautious too-polite I say
stop being cold or make
that blue bluer and it does
we speak to each other
in this code where every word
means obey I sit under
a poplar tree with a thermos
of chamomile feeling
useless as an oath against
dying I put a sugar cube
on my tongue and
swallow it like a pill
-Kaveh Akbar
Gog-willing-fearing-to-be-Gog-no-longer
June 13, 2026, 12:20 am | # | Reply
Gog… across billions of cycles, countless more perhaps, as the main character in truth, to choose to be secondary at the most unexpected and pivotal of any opportunities before – I am astounded – aghast. Expression agape in surprise. But, for once, not agog.
3 Ponderous Indecision Protects From Harm
June 13, 2026, 12:52 am | # | Reply
Ya know, with all the angels hanging around watching the battle, all us commenters could be canonically hanging out sharing our “wise insights” (sic) about the nature of kingship.
We can be the Hidden Root knights, the fanclub secretly rooting for White Chain and Alison.
The New Shoot Knights who love the gun witch and the Fruit Knights who just want the girls to kiss and the Gogs who sit around and do the greek muse thing instead of helping out can come too.
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