adeline vale 🕷️ gothic romantasy author

In case you didn't know, I grew up in a millenarian, apocalyptic sect that left me with a f*cked view of pleasure and s*x (among other things!) so the recent discourse has me quite pissed, to say it politely.

Since it apparently needs to be said, here are a few reminders:
🖤 Don't like, don't read. Putting a book down is free.

❤️ The word "clean" implies that books containing s*x scenes are "dirty", employing the negative connotation of the word. "Closed-door" is right there, thanks!

🖤 There is nothing wrong with desire, passion and pleasure; they are elements of human life. To deny them or brand them as wrong is more harmful than accidental exposure before one is ready.

❤️ Imposing your own views (regardless of their origin / perceived rightness) on ALL literature / readers is a direct pathway to censorship, and you cannot guarantee that censorship won't eventually swing against what you consider good, too.

I also feel like if you do not wish to write or read explicit scenes, or wish to remove them from your work, that's fine. The problem begins with the performance of moral superiority, and the portrayal of er*tic lit. as corrupting, impure, or wrong in some way.

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Topically, TLTWW's story revolves around a twenty-year old Convent girl Zora, discovering that the laws of purity she was raised with were put in place to control her (and her budding magic) - the very first brick in a pyramid of lies, control and manipulation spanning centuries.

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