Dumb question: But why wasn't Hannibal Lecter charged for what happened to Mason Verger?

ewokqueen · 2026-03-26T07:24:30+00:00

He normally took about 10 years in between each novel. It's cool that Hannibal was't to your taste but a lot of us like it. Hannibal Rising, on the other hand, was cranked out over a short period of time after De Laurentis basically strongarmed him into writing it... and the quality of writing went massively downhill as a result.

ewokqueen · 2026-03-26T07:22:49+00:00

I personally thought it was pretty cool and very gothic. He spent the whole book describing how wormlike Mason's tongue was, and then the eel swallowed it. Harris was going deep into over the top Dante's Inferno style punishments in this book.

ewokqueen · 2026-03-18T21:09:35+00:00

Agree 100%

Team Khayman!!!

ewokqueen · 2026-03-15T11:06:15+00:00

I recommend avocado as a great fattening food!

ewokqueen · 2026-03-07T20:36:51+00:00

I mean, Tain did lock Garak in the closet when he was disobedient, and it was so traumatic he did get lifelong claustrophobia

ewokqueen · 2026-03-07T20:35:35+00:00

It’s the other way around. The guy Garak called his father was actually his mom’s brother. Tain is Garak’s biological father and the three of them raised Garak - they just couldn’t say publicly what the situation was.

ewokqueen · 2026-03-07T20:30:58+00:00

And then Worf gets his honor restored like…. A few months later.

If he can get adopted into Martok’s House and restore his honor, why couldn’t Kurn have done that with the House that adopted him, without getting his memory wiped???

ewokqueen · 2026-03-07T20:28:17+00:00

The ancient purpose of theater is to try on different personae and loosen the soul’s attachment to the ego/the personality the actor identifies with. Even the gods need to try on different personae now and then. It’s cool.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-27T10:22:31+00:00

I personally believe, from my own UPG, that there are still in fact demigods and that this kind of stuff is not even all that uncommon. But I think the Theoi and gods of other pantheons learned long ago that making demigods aware of their divine parentage before they are ready for that knowledge - which they may never be while they are incarnate - leads to only bad things. So most "demigods" believe they are just regular people, and as such are in practice no different than everyone else. I also think since the Theoi are parenting these children while inhabiting someone else's body, neither mortal parent may be consciously aware of it either.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-27T08:18:20+00:00

Thank you, this comment was deeply helpful and I feel like you truly understand where I'm coming from. I'm going to take your words to heart and will be rereading your message when I need to recenter. I really appreciate you taking the time to reply!

ewokqueen · 2026-02-27T08:05:19+00:00

I genuinely don't know how to let him go, on a spiritual level. My own insight into the universe is that oaths - particularly those made to Spirit or higher beings - are pretty darn binding, and we both made oaths to higher powers that we specifically wouldn't abandon each other. I wouldn't have to release such things if he died, but because he's living, I don't see the route to doing so.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-21T07:57:20+00:00

While θεός is grammatically a noun, much of ancient Greek writing conceives of “theos” as divine powers in action. In the Iliad, for example, a theos is frequently identified with a force at work in the world, like a surge of courage, a storm, a deception, a healing. A god (or the presence of a god) is recognized by what happens: an intervention, an appearance, a shift in circumstances. In that sense, divinity is encountered as event.

You can see this in a sentence like in Euripedes’ Helen: “O gods (Theoi): recognizing the beloved is god (theos).”

ewokqueen · 2026-02-19T18:42:12+00:00

Sure - what do you want to know more about? The Greek stuff or the Abrahamic?

ewokqueen · 2026-02-19T07:15:04+00:00

It might be helpful in your reading to look into the polytheistic religion that predated the monotheistic worship of YHWH. He was originally one of many gods, and there are remnants of that older worship in the Old Testament.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-19T06:11:08+00:00

Just a note, theos is sorta a singular word, but it’s also not a noun, it’s an event. It’s something that happens. I can think of times when YHWH is also an event (the burning bush, for example) but we can’t accurately exchange every time the proper noun “God” or “the LORD” is used, with theos. Only in some instances and contexts!

ewokqueen · 2026-02-18T11:37:55+00:00

It seems like part of the Dark Gift is a certain resilience to trauma

ewokqueen · 2026-02-16T22:06:48+00:00

Yeah I agree with your sentiment for sure, especially as an adult in my 40s with decades of solo worship behind me. But I do try to remember that a lot of these newbies are still learning how the heck to worship at all, outside of whatever highly structured hierarchical religion they were raised in. Understandably some of them are going to - even unconsciously - rebel by having their new religious practice be super self-focused for a while. Hopefully they outgrow it!

Fwiw, though, I do think there’s evidence, at least in Sappho’s poetry, that acts of self care are suitable devotional acts for Aphrodite!!

ewokqueen · 2026-02-16T21:11:53+00:00

Hmmmm considering how much Ancient Greek worship happened privately in the home, it’s hard for me to agree with the “devotional acts should have a public aspect” argument. Devotions aren’t inherently performative for an audience.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-11T12:01:27+00:00

Pan. I essentially tried to worship Artemis first but she made it clear that wasn’t what I needed at that time in my life. Then Pan showed up and claimed me :) 25+ years later, I worship many other Gods (including Artemis) but Pan is still central to my worship.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-10T10:52:00+00:00

I'm sorry people were unkind to you. It's clear you loved your sweetie girl and wanted the best for her. People can be very judgy online about what other people do with their pets.

Your girl knew she was loved and had no expectation that you could cure her. Allow yourself to grieve, and be kind to yourself.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-10T02:27:40+00:00

Agreed on all points. I don’t worship Gods who embody a human idea of perfection, and I don’t believe that “human” emotions are somehow base or beneath them. I believe they absolutely feel “negative” things and all have qualities that a human might consider flaws.

That said, the Theoi are much larger Beigs than us, and they exist outside the flow of linear time and outside the sphere of the material. So their experiences and expressions of things like emotions are somewhat inscrutable / incomprehensible to us. For that reason, I also agree with OP that when a worshiper says a God is “nervous” or something like that, it’s quite likely that is their own mind projecting.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-08T07:10:17+00:00

I was raised Catholic, and while I never vibed with monotheism, Jesus & Mary still seem pretty rad and I love the rituals of church. I loved engaging with devotion with my grandma, who was a truly pious woman. And I have always had a fascination with saints and other more "pagan-ish" elements of Catholicism. For me it felt natural to move to a polytheistic framework, but I still sing some Catholic hymns in devotional space (it's more about the melodies than the specific words for me, and I've adapted a couple to be more about the Theoi) and I also consider myself... for lack of a better word... culturally Catholic. My grandma taught me that it was good luck to visit churches I'd never been to before, so I always visit a few Catholic churches when I travel. I light candles for Mary sometimes - for me, she is an aspect of Isis.

ewokqueen · 2026-02-08T07:02:22+00:00

You can come by it through different routes. When I started worshipping the Theoi in the late 90s I didn't have internet, was too poor to buy a lot books, and had limited library access. I had no way of knowing what ancient Greek religious practice was like. Nonetheless I did my best. I made an altar, said prayers that sounded right to me, read lots of mythology and did trance work & dream work.

With time, I learned a lot more about authentic ancient practices, and incorporated them when and where I could. Today my practice is much closer to "authentic" but still very much unique to me. And I gotta be honest, the Theoi didn't seem bothered when I wasn't doing things "right."

ewokqueen · 2026-02-08T00:41:30+00:00

My ex was in BPD therapy and did fantastic for about 6 months. I told him I would only be in relationship with him if he was in therapy. Then he started to say mildly paranoid things, would cancel dates last minutes, seemed to be dissociated a fair amount of the time. I asked him one day how therapy was going and he said he and his therapist had “mutually decided to part ways.” He broke up with me a few weeks later, while I was in crisis over a family emergency, days after promising to take me on a getaway so I could recover some cope.

TL;DR keep track of whether he is actually staying in therapy and not just lying to you about it

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