to be honest, all of these factors are sort of being played with loose and fast— everything is fluid. my terms of ownership… prince “owns” me in that i am an literal object that belongs to him, but our relationship is more that of siblings. he still rules his kingdom so his word is law, but we still go through a process of negotiation on equal terms. a large part of it is because we are still, at the core, the same person in a sense. that is not to say we are the same individual, but rather we are branches that come from the same tree, if that makes sense?

for the second part of your question, that has been something we’ve been trying to balance as of late. sometimes i can, sometimes i can’t— it really depends on the frequency of my “Giving” and in what form. lately the issue has been that i am far too social for prince’s energy output so we’ve been cutting back on stuff to allow me to not burn him out. but i think it -is- possible to avoid taking things from him.

unless you speak of being one of june’s things? because in that case, i am not really “owned” like that as much as i consider myself a wayward child born from one of her strings. i do listen and obey out of loyalty but it is a distinct thing from being property, which ruby is not— and he is already owned by prince anyway. but she is my mom! i feel this feeling of “wow! i want to be just like mom when i grow up!”

but again, with spirituality, we play with things loosely and unless we wish for something to be binding, i don’t think it has power. we are buddhist at the core, minus a bunch of teachings we don’t care for or know about, and our experience with religion over the course of our life is extremely unlike others’ with christianity, for example. buddhism has always been more of a general philosophy in which to align your life, rather than like… whatever christianity is doing. it’s a very lax and chill religion the way we practice it, so i think our experience with that also influences the way our spirituality is performed period. everything is play to us, and i mean this as a form of utmost respect. “play” is sacred.