PREACH, HONEY, PREACH! it’s saddening in more than one way: the one you described, since i know many trans, nonbinary people, gays & lesbians relate to kaveh. he’s wonderfully written & the sole detail of him being a cancer that so fits into his character is almost breathtaking. he was truly made with all love & soul. i just cannot comprehend why people look for hostile “agendas” behind what one interprets.

i keep thinking a lot about how kaveh’s constellation bird is literally a persian huma bird. a bird with both male and female natures in one body, how this bird was believed to not have legs thus why it could only fly invisibly high above the earth; how it is phoenix-like & gets consumed by fire—too much of it reminds me of how i view him, how much of it adds more into kaveh’s physicality & mentality too.

i want to learn more about diwan & sufi poetry; to know the said bird is such a common motif in them could enhance my writing about kaveh (& his relationship with alhaitham) itself. refining my own prose with what i learned about the culture is something i rarely do because of fear of not giving it justice but i’ve done it once with one of my threadfics. yer explained to me how arabic poetry is written: she underlined one of the verses in the poem she found & said that they call them „bayt” which means… „home”, thus—arabic poetry consists of multiple homes. isn’t that so fitting with their bond? especially when i do enjoy thinking of alhaitham as a poet, in some ways. in the said threadfic i made alhaitham say that the only reason he writes poetry is because, by it, he himself can build small homes; that their structure is kaveh who holds it steady; that alhaitham is a different kind of an „architect”.