A Grove of Ashes and Aspens

  • Polyamory: Internal Struggles, Communication, and Long Distance

    Now Playing: The Voynich Manuscript by Elvenking A couple weeks ago, I talked about some of the internal struggles of polyamory and how it can be a struggle to navigate some of the legal and social pressures surrounding that. The part I didn’t talk about was how internal pressures can also make it weird. Now,…

  • Polyamory: Stigma and Other Social Judgements

    Now Playing: Herdchant by Elvenking Within the realm of what is considered socially standard, we are assigned a gender based on an observation of (and, in the case of some intersex children, surgery on) our external gonads, and from that, we are expected to fall in love and want to have sex with exactly one…

  • Early February: Anniversary and a High Day

    Now Playing: Live or Die by Apocalyptica feat Joakim Brodén The first week or so of February is always a bit of a hectic time for me. There’s a high day right off the bat, with my anniversary with one of my partners a couple days later. That’s a lot of things happening over a…