Pff, Hopoe...

 Hopoe has blocked me on FB.

Wanna know why?

I commented on a post where she had commented. 

Yes. 

I mean if she's this indifferent why even. This just proves me that if anyone's closer to being indifferent it's probably me. 

...Even as I'm not, either, and I'm secretly afraid I will never be able to see what she's up to again. That said I think it probably goes both ways.

The post was literally a video showing four octopi. It was from the association I did my first dance workshop in. The caption was, guess what the mystery behind those four is, and tell us in a comment. 

"They’re beautiful, radiant and passionate...

Can you guess the mystery hidden behind each of these octopi?

Feel free to let us know in the comments,

We can’t wait to hear from you"

Hopoe and I both commented, her first. 

"1 head and 4 tentacles. I see this as transmission. Starts with one person, and gradually four others join them to pass on the culture. Just like Hawai’i. Raiatea, the fenua, where it all began."

I wanted to comment as well, but they had published it in a story also, so I hesitated between doing so in DM or in a comment under Hopoe's. I knew that any move I would make, even if it were JUST fucking breathing in the same space, would trigger the Ms.. Just, remember what happened at the snack bar. She literally came to attack me when I had not spoken to her. 

At the same time, I figured that I had the right to exist in the same space. If every time she posts somewhere I have to hide, then what the fuck am I doing?

So I posted my own comment.

"The four classes: beginner, intermediate, upper-intermediate, advanced.

(Half-)jokes aside, I see them as the journey of the great octopus herself. How she became Te Fe'e Nui, the one who passes on her artistry.

At first, she was Fe'e Iti. She was a little octopus still, she didn’t know anything yet, but she was driven by an irrepressible urge to start dancing and to learn more. So, little by little, she made her tentacles dance. Awkwardly, but she did.

Then one day, she became Fe'e Tupu. She began to grow into herself and to increase her power. She wasn't quite there yet, of course, but she was starting to gain confidence. Her movements were gaining precision, and she had already grown so much… but not at the end of her journey yet.

And then came Fe'e Pāpū. At this stage, she began to take on a different colour and grow ever larger than she had been. She was no longer content with simply practicing and repeating her movements. She was internalising them. She was turning them into something even better. In a nutshell, she was developing her creativity in a way she could never have imagined as a baby octopus.

Her final form, Fe'e Toa, represents her mastery. She acquired such power that she boldly took it to the stage, electrified the atmosphere with some seismic fa'arapu in a tamure marathon, commanding everyone's attention with her brilliance. She was no longer just an octopus: she had become an octopus that had evolved.

And then one day, she decided to pass on her art. So she took her brilliance, and she passes it on to others... as Fe'e Nui. The great octopus".

I go then take a shower, but I can already sense in my body that Hopoe is reacting. I even argue with her in my mind in the shower.

Lo and behold, I come back, refresh the page... and her comment is gone. So is her profile. It still appears in my recs, but if I click onto it, it shows a 404.

Yep.

...I don't understand why she's still so invested in this circus. Why don't you just ignore my goddamn comment? I pretty much did. Or rather I commented regardless if you would or not. I HAPPENED TO BE HERE.

I DID NOT CONTACT HER.

For goodness's sake, I'm so pissed at how absurdly she's acting. God forbid I exist in the same space right?

Also I commented recently on another of their publications, and she was conspicuously absent from the space... when it was the first anniversary of the association. Which is her close friend's. You would've expected her to just ignore me and comment anyway.

Nah. I'm radioactive apparently.

Ridiculous.