cuddlingdragons

[cuddlingdragons]

God, goofiest thing from kuu/shinigamieater's stream of Cult of the Lamb stream VOD that kills me every time I think about it is a part where he imitates Helob's gobbledegook cadence (if that's the word???) to say "aaaaa smoke marijuana?"

Time stamped right before he goes into a Helob room for the first time, it happens right after he leaves it.

[cuddlingdragons]

Held. Deep diving, as I often do, I learned that the observations leading to this insight about mother/baby womb singing were observed in a specific context. Captivity. A mother dolphin who gave birth at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. From the pictures I would say a bottlenose dolphin, but even the website doesn’t name the species. It matters to me that this practice of singing, communal listening, was observed not in the open ocean but in the confines of captive dolphin birth. I think of Debbie Africa, who gave birth secretly in prison, how the other women prisoners used sounds to shield her birth process. They protected the two of them from guards so that she and the baby were able to share precious time together, undetected for days. I think of Assata Shakur too, impossibly conceiving and giving birth to her daughter while a political prisoner, mostly in solitary confinement. And how she listened to her angry daughter, and the dreams of her grandmother when they told her she could be free. They could be together. And a community of freedom fighters made the demand and the dream real. I think of captive birth, which is an everyday occurrence in the United States of America. In the US, the state shackles prisoners giving birth, and takes children away from prisoners almost immediately. What do they sing in the time of the womb? I think of the children of asylum seekers separated from their parents in cages at the border. How does a chorus of grief and loss evolve to share crucial information? How are the over five million US children with parents in prison, the uncounted children in cages at the border, held? Named?

And I think about you and what you remember. What you keep close for as long as you can. I think about repetition and code, and when we prioritize what communication and why. And how we ever learn our names in this mess. And the need that makes us generalize and identify. Become specific and vague. I think about the dolphin mother and what she needed to say. Her own name, in her own way. And what else under strict observation?

If it was me. If it was you. I would say this in the way I could say it, in the too short time, in the high-pitched emergence. Remember this feeling, there is something called love. I would say remember, there is something called freedom, even if you can’t see it. There is me calling you, in a world I don’t control. There is something called freedom, and you know how to call it. Even here in the holding pattern, here in the hold, remember remember. You are. You are held. Named.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals

[emphasis mine]

[cuddlingdragons]

They killed my uncle and my cousin now please help me save the rest of my family please donate even a small amount please save me I am crying now Please for those who see Share and write two words to help please any words to help me contribute even one euro

[cuddlingdragons]

the lamb and the goat

[cuddlingdragons]

i need ~$100 this week for a somehwat urgent eye exam because my insurance won't cover it and i cant rly take more comms right now. uhhh please help if u can. 🙏

[cuddlingdragons]

Olwen, the Unicorn 👑

[cuddlingdragons]

You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

[cuddlingdragons]

Kallamar (Unholy Bonds au ref)

Kallamar | God of Pestilence | Bishop of the Old Faith | "Hear no evil" | He of blight. Third blessed one.

[cuddlingdragons]

Feeling incredibly sick and angry about everything. I’ll go about my day and try to be normal and then it just ambushes me and honestly the only people keeping me sane rn are the Arabs who’ve voiced similar experiences and are staying the course and being vocal despite all the attempts to basically blame everything that’s wrong with this country on us

[cuddlingdragons]

Please help Monis' family!

Rabah has asked me to attach this message from him:

I will keep this short since I think more people will read it in full if I do. I am making this post on behalf of Rabah to highlight the fundraiser campaign raising money for medical treatment for his father Monis, who has cancer and needs medication, medical exams, and radiotherapy urgently (more info here on Rabah's blog). These funds will first and foremost go to Monis' treatment, and also to buying food, shelter, and supplies for the winter. If you are able to donate, please do. This fundraiser was reblogged by @90-ghost.

Please help them!

[cuddlingdragons]

Mam I THEE GAYWORM!! I like your art and request to s we your version of Helob

Especially for you ✍️

Helob

[cuddlingdragons]

The lamb cult journey continues

Short version: Spy in the ranks, Agares has issues, Saleos finishes reeducation and gives me a quest.

Last time I played I got everyone tripping on mushrooms because morale dipped so low that Saleos started dissenting. This worked to my advantage because after making a visit to Sozo I was immediately proposed to on my return to the cult by a worm follower, which I was able to decline without the penalty.

I got my second spy, both spies I've dealt with in this game have been cats and survived being fed a Deadly Dish! Someone is probably going to be involved in a sacrifice soon.

Witness Agares approaches me and I wonder if they, like my green worm, also wish to pop the question. They want me to feed them poop. I say yes, and immediately regret it.

Agares gets sick, acquires the germaphobe trait, and the only good thing to come of it was the quest completion response that ended up completely nonsensical.

????

To move on, Saleos completed his reeducation and rejoined the ranks of my followers!

And they have also given me a quest to find a friend who was lost in... Anura? Interesting.

And that concludes the session for today!

[cuddlingdragons]

if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters

[cuddlingdragons]

WE IMPOSE ORDER ON THE CHAOS OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION

[cuddlingdragons]

[cuddlingdragons]

[cuddlingdragons]

"OP why are you mad that your words are being misinterpreted you're on the piss on the poor website" actually i think it's very reasonable to demand people pay attention to the words they use, the choices they make, the things they believe, and their capacity for empathy and comprehension and that it's sort of weird that you're finding humor in making excuses to just believe that there simply is no possible way to improve your actions