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I don't know how to talk about this

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The Black Stag

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i was at a restaurant last week, watching the political ads on the TV between sports games. one from the trump campaign ended with the slogan “kamala is for they/them. trump is for you”. it was vilely clever - and it made a clear statement about who was the enemy, the other, the unwelcome, in trump’s great america. i thought about how the right had gone all-in on transphobia this election season, and i hoped it was a gamble that would cost them.

this week has been a gut punch, and i’ve been feeling a lot of things - rage, fear, grief, and subspecies of those emotions. what i kept coming back to, though, as i digested these feelings, were the people i love. my queer friends. the trans kids in my community. the people who, already, are losing their rights to bodily autonomy, state-by-state. the way that i’ve had to start looking at our country as a fucked up patchwork of safe and not-safe. the way that access to medical care, increasingly, changes depending on which side of an arbitrary border you’re on. i’m also realizing the ignorance and privilege it is to only think of our country this way, now. america has always been about picking and choosing who deserves rights, who we consider a person. but, despite the deep-seated flaws of this country, i live in it. so do so many people i love. and that’s what I keep coming back to: the people i love, and my desire to protect them. at the very center of all the rage and hurt and anxiety and sorrow i’m feeling, is a deep, perilous love. i am holding onto that love. i hope you are, too.

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Poseidon didn't assault Medusa she was born a gorgon.

Poseidon didn't assault Medusa she was born a gorgon.

Poseidon didn't assault Medusa she was born a gorgon.

Poseidon didn't assault Medusa she was born a gorgon.

Read the Hymns. Read the texts. Read the epics. But PLEASE do not believe the continued spread of misinformation from tiktok and people who only get their information from other people.

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If you're going to slander Zeus you're absolutely NEVER welcome on my blog. Simply don't interact. Worship who you want but I have absolutely no reason to sit and listen to you call Him a terrible father or husband or king.

You have no place here and I immediately block any and all blogs that slander His name, even if we share other devotions.

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hera’s son

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'80 degrees in november we're cooked' and yet you still use chatgpt as a search engine

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the sidekicks

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An Olympian Family Tree. I wanted to make a color and style guide for myself that I could reference whenever I drew an Olympian, and in true me fashion it got completely out of hand. Greek Gods take all sorts of shapes and sizes and there is no “right” way to depict them, but for this I used what little descriptions were provided by writers in classical sources, as well as referencing colors from ancient frescoes.

For style reasons, Zeus isn't connected to his children from outside his marriage to Hera. However, you'll notice there is an eagle (or what passes for an eagle in Ancient Greek pottery) on the lowest branch, which is meant to signify his paternal status.

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the usual demographic of the book community is being ignorant again so here's a reminder

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PUNK PSA:

Please don’t put anything too political on your back patches— especially about your own marginalized experiences.

This has been a long standing rule in punk communities, passed down for generations. People do get jumped and experience violence as a result of this. You can’t see who is behind you, you can’t tell if they’re far right, and you can’t prepare yourself for sudden violence from behind.

So many people are new to the scene, introduced via social media, and don’t know the weight of walking with something on your back (literally and metaphorically) that immediately outs you as marginalized. If you’re able to defend yourself, or out with friends who can watch your back, by all means go for it and wear whatever you want on your back patches but if you walk alone at all ever, please be safe.

Also this is why punks wear spikes and studs on our shoulders especially. Makes it harder for someone to grab you and works as self defense (but also never wear spikes at a small show or if you plan to mosh— people can get hurt!).

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Project 2025 ain't gonna roll out all at once. So what we're gonna wanna do is make passing each individual part of it as difficult as possible, so there's less to undo once we finally get this country back on the rails.

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don't give up