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I just thought you should know that today, Jan 21st, the day after Trump's 2nd Inauguration, Turner Classic Movies did a whole 12-hour daytime bloc on anti-Nazi/anti-fascist films.

The Black Legion (1937)

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

The Mortal Storm (1939)

The Great Dictator (1941)

The Seventh Cross (1944)

The Edge of Darkness (1943)

Background to Danger (1943)

And I'd just like someone else to notice because I think these little acts of demonstrating memory and value are important. TCM didn't choose wars films in which Americans are heroically fighting and winning; they chose films ABOUT fascism & autocracy--its destructiveness, its immorality, its stupidity & conformity--and the difficulty and danger individuals face when trying to resist or confront it.

I noticed TCM was posting The Great Dictator clips on their instagram, but didn't realize their whole schedule was like this. Good on them. It's brave to call a spade a spade when the spade is absolutely desperate to be labeled a sword.

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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I'm saying it again: do not let MAGA rewrite the narrative.

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Look at what America First Post is tweeting. If you don't know, they're a disgusting MAGA news site.

So I looked it up, and this is what I could find from a better source:

Look, there will be deportations. This administration will hurt people. Don't think they won't. And yet, if instant reporting and backlash sparked them to at least reconsider their immediate plans to arrest people as part of a big, showy PR raid, then that says they're not actually as invulnerable to public opinion as they pretend to be. Fighting back isn't completely pointless and reporting on their bullshit is still important

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Holy shit, y'all.

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“cis women with xy chromosomes” STOPPPPP YOU MEAN INTERSEX PEOPLE YOU MEAN INTERSEX PEOPLE. CAIS IS AN INTERSEX VARIATION WOMEN WITH XY ARE INTERSEX. ITS NOT HARD TO UNDERSTAND

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Anyway, more verified reporting on Neil Gaiman is out and it's real bad, folks, it just is. I'm not going to link it here, but there are plenty of free links floating around.

I cannot stress this enough, if the topic of sexual assault and graphic details are going to be severely distressing for you, please do not read it. That is not something you have to do to yourself. You do not have to do penance for finding his work meaningful, previously praised it, or enjoyed interacting with him on Tumblr. This is not on you. No one needs that from you, no matter how it may feel.

If this is personally devastating, you can (and should!) take some time to process it. You don't owe the internet a hot take or force yourself to feel the right emotion. Just take a break until you find the right headspace to be in. Please take care of yourselves.

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@linnybeenaughty for reasons!!

Evening cape by Emile Pingat, 1890s.

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New dress for Charmed 2025!

It'll look amazing when we press it and get ourselves prettied up ~<3

Best Outfit poll 2025 competition is gonna be intense!

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Cantor Ruth Berman Harris searched for her husband through the thick smoke that engulfed the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. Laurence Harris had been beside her just moments before, but now, as flames closed in and the air grew heavier, he was nowhere in sight. “Do you have the Torahs?” she shouted, her voice slicing through the chaos, trying to find him amid the suffocating darkness. And then, there he was. Emerging through the smoke, almost surreal in his calm, carrying one of the synagogue’s 13 Torahs — a Sephardic scroll, heavier than the rest, encased in silver etched with the patterns of a long-lost homeland. It had been donated by a congregant who fled Iran, a piece of history held in trembling hands. Then the power went out. The fire, a beast consuming Los Angeles, roared closer. Joined by the synagogue president, Jack Singer, and custodian Robert Brown Jr., the couple dashed outside. “Ashes were falling in the parking lot,” she recalled Wednesday morning. They worked quickly, loading the Torahs into two cars — a white Subaru Outback and a gray Volkswagen Tiguan. By 8 p.m., they were gone, leaving behind their synagogue, their history, their sanctuary. By night’s end, the flames would claim it all.

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I talk to many people who say things like "oh I have trauma but I don't have PTSD", but then when I talk to them a little more I realize that they most likely do, they just can't recognize it as such due to how lacking PTSD awareness is, even beyond the whole "it's not just a veteran's disorder" thing.

The main reason they think they don't have PTSD usually has to do with flashbacks and nightmares, either they have one but not the other or have neither. But here's the thing, those are only two symptoms out of the 23-odd recognized symptoms. Flashbacks and nightmares are two of the five symptoms under Criterion B (Intrusion), which you only need one of for a diagnosis. The other three symptoms are unwanted upsetting memories, emotional distress after being reminded of trauma and physical reactivity after being reminded of trauma (i.e. shaking, sweating, heart racing, feeling sick, nauseous or faint, etc). Therefore you can have both flashbacks and nightmares, one but not the other, or neither and still have PTSD.

In fact, a lot of the reasons people give me for why they don't think they have PTSD are literally a part of the diagnostic criteria.

"Oh, I can barely remember most parts of my trauma anyway." Criterion D (Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood) includes inability to recall key features of the trauma.

"Oh but I don't get upset about my trauma that often because I avoid thinking of it or being around things that remind me of it most of the time." Criterion C (Avoidance) includes avoiding trauma-related thoughts or feelings and avoiding trauma-related external reminders, and you literally cannot get diagnosed if you don't have at least one of those two symptoms.

"Oh I just have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, but I don't have nightmares." Criterion E (Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity) includes difficulting sleeping outside of nightmares.

"But I didn't have many/any trauma symptoms until a long time after the trauma happened." There's literally an entire specification for that.

Really it just shows how despite being one of the most well-known mental illnesses, people really don't know much about PTSD. If you have trauma, I ask you to at least look at the criteria before you decide you don't have PTSD. Hell, even if you don't have trauma, look at the criteria anyway because there are so many symptoms in there that just are not talked about.

PTSD awareness is not just about flashbacks and nightmares.

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The Shadow Of Mount Rainier Causing A Gap In The Sunset.

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@misscammiedawn <3

Good morning! I- *bites you* *bites you* *bites you* *bites you*

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Spyro from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! / Gateway to Glimmer 

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As the Charmed hypnosis convention nears I have been attempting to practice my hypno-theory. Being with regular partners and working on their minds for elongated periods of time makes it so a tone of voice or a sharp look are enough to skip a structured induction.

But if I am to continue being an educator in the space (The panel we are on, Hypnokink and Plurality, is scheduled for the afternoon of Thursday January 23rd and is available at the event and streamed online) then I should be stretching myself a little more to have things to discuss when I go back to doing classes on inductions (Hypnotic Presence returns for Beguiled).

Hypnosis is a level of focus and dissociation. An altered state where the mind is no longer actively processing things and allows for a breakdown in critical thinking as well as a heightened sense of suggestibility. It's not mind control, it's just putting a person into a state where they are more open, biddable and agreeable which, when added to disconnection from active processing, allows a suggestible person to experience some things or to create some associations which can be used for fun.

One of the more popular starter inductions is the Ericksonian "my hand/that hand" method in which the hypnotee stares at their hand and focuses on it and as their attention becomes more guided towards their hand the hypnotist describes it as that hand. Heightening the disconnect between the person and their own body. It's an effective induction because it focuses more on the physical sensation which is a convincer. The experiences that the hypnotee experiences help convince them that it's working because they can experience the sensations and agree that the disconnect is happening.

We decided to try that on one of our partners this weekend with a twist. She is a kinesthetic type. Which means that she processes things via touch primarily. When hypnotizing a person of this modality you typically wish to describe things in terms of feeling, rather than what other senses perceive.

I wanted to try a visual fixation induction.

So I hand her go into trance and started with a kinesthetic version. Following the Ericksonian method but instead of looking at that hand, I had her stroke her blanket and focus on the sensation until it become a meaningless sensation and she could no longer feel as her finger continued stroking the blanket over and over. I convinced her it was soft and fuzzy like her thoughts and that her wrist was so heavy and could fall when she was too exhausted to keep it up. She mentioned later that she was too focused on the sensation to process the things I said, but she remembers the soft and fuzzy feeling of the blanket spreading into her mind.

After her wrist fell and her hand felt completely detatched I took control of it and allowed her to feel me maneuver the hand above her and extend the finger, focus on the visual and then began to run a relaxation induction as she focused on the finger and let everything else fade away until it was only the sight of her finger; even my words were not something she needed to fully process and as I guided her finger closer she kept staring and kept sinking until I asked her to press that finger to her forehead and then magnetized her finger to pull any remaining thoughts from her head until she dropped.

Honestly. I could have achieved everything I did with that trance so much quicker and with less ceremony... but it's good to practice. It's good to ensure that skills don't go rusty. That you're training all available modalities and so that you, as a hypnotist, can remember that this doesn't just work because the hypnotee agrees to do the things you say.

I forgot how much I enjoyed doing the slow and methodical method. She told me that she enjoyed it just as much and that she was "less coherent than a puddle" by the end of it.

I should do it more often.