Does it matter if they’re striking each other or themselves? It matters to Daphne!
Ever felt so stupid and useless that you (mentally) beat yourself up? That’s Daphne’s life right now. Only being a demigoddess (by blood, not officially recognized status, damn the Council!), the experience is a bit . . . ah . . . surrealistic for her. Read about what I’m trying to dance around and hint at in “Practical nihilism,” chapter 10 of To Ride the Lightning Bolt, my weekly serial about a woman whose dating problems are getting way out of hand.
Sillyverse 
Might you have been a monk or a priest in a previous existence? I only ask because you do have a tendency to mention self-flagellation, almost as often as I mention fungi pornography. 🙂
We’ll have to co-author a story involving people who have sado-masochistic sex with fungi. Although there’s something coming up in this story that might yet raise your eyebrows, ’round about chapter 18.
I await with poised breath.