#GRIFFIN FALSE

[haggishlyhagging]

Our silence. The silence and the silencing of women. The creation of authority in the image of the male. Of god in the image of the male. Rape. The burning of witches. Wife-beating. Laws against women speaking in public places. Against women preaching. The imprisonment of suffragists. Force-feeding. Harassment on the public streets. Scorn for the woman who dares to act like a man. A woman's love for another woman, unspoken, hidden. Our invisibility in history. The manuscripts of Sappho burned, the writing of women never published, lives of genius spent obscurely, or in domestic labor and child-rearing; the life of the mother, of the housekeeper, unimagined and unrecognized. Woman's word pronounced full of guile. A woman's testimony held suspect in court.

These several centuries of the silencing of women are a palpable presence in our lives—the silence we have inherited has become part of us. It covers the space in which we live; it is a blank screen, and onto this screen a fantasy which does not belong to women is projected: the silence of women the very surface on which pornography is played. We become other than ourselves.

And the story does not end with this forced silencing. Just as silence leaves off, the lie begins. This lie is not only the lie the pornographer tells, but the lie a woman begins to believe about herself, or even if she does not believe it, the lie a woman tries to mimic. For since all the structures of power in her life, and all the voices of authority—the church, the state, society, most likely even her own mother and father—reflect pornography's fantasy, if she feels in herself a being who contradicts this fantasy, she begins to believe she herself is wrong. Wordlessly, even as a small girl, she begins to try to mold herself to fit society's image of what a woman ought to be. And that part of her which contradicts this pornographic image of womanhood is cast back into silence.

Over and over, pornography depicts acts of terrible violence to women's bodies. Yet even as part of these images of women beaten and dying and always as a ghost image behind these sufferings, a more silent and invisible death takes place. For pornography is violent to a woman's soul. In the wake of pornographic images, a woman ceases to know herself. Her experience is destroyed. As R. D. Laing writes, if "our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves." This is the cost of deception.

When we speak of deception, we must speak of a self destroyed. For the deceiver has two selves. One is a false self, manufactured for appearance' sake and set before an audience. This self is allowed to speak, to act, to express, to live. But the other self, who is the real self, is consigned to silence. She is hidden, denied, eventually forgotten, and even, in some cases, unnamed. Thus the deceiver is in danger of never remembering that she has a real self. The real self continues to experience, to feel, to move through life. But in our minds, we destroy her experience, and thus we lose ourselves.

-Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture’s Revenge Against Nature

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

help ceci all your posts are taking me OUT this evening you’re so funny

thank you thank you I'll be here all week

[dianeramic]

A series of fantasy-themed ink illustrations I did for my TTRPG stock art venture! There's a lot of these coming up, so stay tuned for more!

My DriveThruRPG store, where I upload these for game developers to buy and use, is here!

[zenosanalytic]

it's Corny as Hell, but the REAL Internet really is, and always was, the Friends we Made along the Way u_u u_u u_u

[laufire]

I'm practically choking at the irony of this. clarke joking about how it would not suck to be worshipped. clarke trying to get the flame into her head in season 4. clarke clearly being envious of octavia in season 5. josephine possessing clarke's body so she can continue to be worshipped. CHOKING, I said.

[yhebrew]

The Living Torah: GO FORTH - A Journey Through Faith and History

Themes play out on the earth. What would you think if God told you, “You will not die. You will see me before you die.”? A young girl about 7 years old heard this from God orally speaking to her. She went to her mother to see what she thought about it. Her mother said that it was a good thing and to hold it in her heart. Her mother continued to guide her in the Bible. Now, on November 11, 2024,…

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

Like a month or so ago I had a dream where Griffin McElroy died and so they stopped doing MBMBAM but they started a new series of The Adventure Zone where Travis was the dm and Justin and Clint were the players. The dream consisted almost entirely of listening to this new series where Justin and Clint were clearly very sad, uncomfortable, and not really into it but Travis kept trying really hard to make it work by being obnoxiously positive. Each week it got worse and worse, they kept bringing on guest stars for a single episode but they never had any chemistry and it made it even more awkward somehow. Travis was still just as bad of a dm as he was for Graduation. Then, a few months into the podcast, doing the only thing that could possibly make it more awkward, Travis introduced a new player character that was clearly just an ai voice trained to sound like Griffin that he was controlling. The next like four episodes of the podcast were about Justin, Clint, and False-Grifin’s characters trying to steal a wall mounted tv stand from a target while Travis changed the rules to make whatever they tried fail over and over.

I think the dream ended there, but I didn’t really think about it at all until today when I remembered something funny from Monster Factory and thought “man, Griffin McElroy made a lot of funny stuff when he was alive, shame he died” before realizing that that only happened in my dream

[starry-bi-sky]

DPXDC Idea: Mother of Monsters Dan(yal)

Specifically Fem!Dan because I made this in mind with my Fem Danyal Au bUT. The best part about Dan is that I get to play dress up with her, and Fem Dark Dany is gonna go by Layal (pronounced lae-el) because it means "the nights" and it sounds similar to Danyal, and I think she'd choose that name to mock Dany. ANYWAYS

Mother of Monsters Danyal. She may be evil but she's an Al Ghul at her core (even with vlad's soul merged with hers - however, considering that Layal looks and sounds like Dany, she considers that soul to be the more dominant one.) and loves animals. And she might be heartless, but she adores the monsters of the infinite realms.

Mother of Monsters Layal who hates everyone but utterly dotes and adores on every manner of beast she comes across. Stealing the eggs and infant young beasts of the Infinite Realms to raise as her own because she wanted them. Her own island full of monsters, a monstrous menagerie of her own. She steals most often from poachers or exotic pet keepers and other menageries -- the full grown beasties can keep their young.

And with every monster she raises, she can shapeshift their features onto herself, allowing her to change her shape from humanish to any matter of monster or hybrid creature. She calls herself their mother, and them her children. Her precious little babies, capable of incredible mass destruction and mayhem.

From little griffins the size of kittens, to stymphalian vulture chicks, and leviathan young hatching from eggs the size of her pinkie, to creatures native of the ghost zone that didn't even have names in the living realm. There really wasn't a limit to what or who she would take in and she didn't limit herself to any form of mythology. If they were beasts and they were unwanted, she wanted them. And as such, amassed her own mini army of "children" willing to listen to her any command.

Earth doesn't know what hit it when she attacks them.

There are many monstrous forms she could take on, the first one I've thought of is a combination of various serpentine/reptilian features. The body of a naga -- her lower half long and serpentine, her upper still human -- with spiked fins connecting from the bottom of her arms to her sides, ever seen Sinbad where Eris goes "you might have seen my likeness on the temple walls" and her arms do that fin thingy? Same concept. Her hands are webbed and taloned, perfect for slicing through the skin of the living, and her teeth are needle-sharp and shark like. Her hair can either be spiny and feathery-like like the spines of a lionfish, or frilled like a frilled-neck lizard. It's perfect for dealing and doting on her reptilian and amphibian-inclined darlings.

I'm more of a fan of aus where Dan is a sibling of Danny's rather than their kid, so Layal's redemption(..?? probation?) proceeds with her legally becoming Danyal's "twin" sister, who had been lost to the foster system before the Fentons adopted Dany, and was only recently reunited with her. The two of them look so alike that the lie is easy to take root and spread.

Layal is very indignant to the fact that she's now ten years in the past and has to restart her menagerie all over again. Do you know how much blood and sweat went into raising those children? How dare you separate them from their mummy. Although she'll admit she does miss their juvenile years, so she won't mind (too much) needing to raising them again. Dany is helping her retrieve all of them though, dammit.

long story short: epic the musical's "Scylla" has a CHOKEHOLD on me and this is the result of it

Unlike her Dan counterpart, Layal's voice is dancing and sirenic. It's purposely alluring and motherly, in order to lure people into a false sense of security until she feeds them to her "children." Echidna doesn't have shit on her. She almost seems friendly and reasonable, until you get too close and realize it was all an act and she drops it to metaphorically swallow you whole. She's like an anglerfish that way. She and Dany both sound like Scylla from Epic.

[supertrainstationh]

CHARITY CASE CHAMPION

by A. Griffin / Super Train Station H ---------------------------------

I round up with pride at the checkout for Autism Speaks, but insult adults who like "Thomas the Tank Engine", and call them freaks.

I want to help the disabled, my bumper sticker proves it, truly, but when they get older, they better not enjoy "Bluey".

I support the autistic, and buy charity merch gladly, but I harass them online over things that make them happy.

There's no way those people could be autistic in any case, because I'm normal, so how could them, and me, be in a common space?

Leading brand charities told me what to look for: kids, often pitiable, easy to be adored, typically male - if they don't look like that, they're surely faking it, without fail!

I trust groups claiming to speak for disabled folks, without a doubt, but when they speak for themselves, it proves they're acting for web clout.

I "light it up blue," so those with hardships won't be silenced, but if I meet them online, I pelt them with written violence.

If they were really autistic they wouldn't and shouldn't have mentioned it! Speaking to me is for equals, I know I'm better than them!

How dare adults speak of benefiting from therapy courses? They should feel terrible for stealing disabled children's resources!

My heart goes out for those with sensory issues, in their younger days, but when they grow up, seeing them happy makes me outraged.

God forbid an adult enjoy things rated for all ages, or draw themselves as creatures from the comic strip pages.

I sympathize with web videos of disabled kid's meltdowns, but I see an adult happily flapping online, I'll run them out of town!

Why should it be on me to stow my righteous hostility?

Those phonies are mocking the plight of children with special needs!

"Autistic adult" is clearly an oxymoron. I browsed a charity website, so I know what's really going on!

Autistic people aren't legit unless they're kids that don't talk, that means adults that use vocal speech are committing fraud.

And as for those with different brains who happen to be silent, why consider their feelings, when they belong in asylum?

Stories put forth by autistic adults, are clearly embellishments, since for disabled people, they sure seem oddly intelligent.

I'm a well-balanced person, doing what little good I can manage, so I lurk online seeking targets to hate and disparage.

Exposing the lies of those that falsely claim to be special, makes me such a good person, that I deserve a gold medal!

So pitch in this April, every penny will be spent well - the cute kids on the posters, need every bit of help.

Their lives have been stolen, only your cash can restore their dreams!

But know, they shouldn't be cared about, after they hit eighteen!

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[Twitch] [VOD Channel] [Writing FA] [Ko-fi]

[offender42085]

Post 1328

Kory George, Vermont inmate 80243, born 1988, incarceration intake May 2019 at age 32, scheduled for release October 2037

Conspiracy to commit Murder, with prior convictions for Escape from Custody, Providing False Information, Possession of a Regulated Drug, Driving with a Suspended License, Possession of a Depressant/Stimulant/Narcotic, Burglary, Grand Larceny, Assault and Robbery with a Weapon, Petty Larceny, and Violation of a Release Agreement

In April 2019, a former Bristol Vermont man was sentenced to at least 18 years in prison for conspiring with his mother to kill her husband, who was also his stepfather.

Both the judge and the victim’s sister chastised George during the sentencing in Chittenden County Superior criminal court in Burlington, with Judge Kevin Griffin calling the circumstances of the crime “horrific.” 

Judge Griffin said he was willing to accept the plea agreement reached by the prosecution and the defense. The judge then sentenced George under the terms of that deal to 35 years to life in prison, all suspended except 18 years to serve in prison. 

Prosecutors have alleged Angela Auclair (Vermont inmate 159925), George’s mother who was married to David Auclair, pulled the trigger in the fatal shooting. The 51-year-old pleaded guilty to the same charge as George as part of a plea agreement. 

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[darlenicy]

So you remember the Gala for the new students event in Alfea in season 1, don't you? The one in episode 3. In the show Red Fountain and Alfea hold a party in Alfea to welcome the new students. I always wondered why it were only two of the magical schools and Cloudtower was missing.

So in my headcanon it always had been an event for all the three schools. They all worked together and held several events together to strengthen the bond between specialists, fairies and witches. However this bond broke:

In the last semester, the school year before Bloom attends Alfea, there had been an accident involving three witches and a fairy. The accident was mentioned in canon: Stella blew up the whole potion laboratory. In the show it's a funny accident, that shows how Stella has a hot temper. In my headcanon Stella didn't only blew up the potions laboratory, she also killed a witch by accident. It happened, that one night three witches entered Alfea to get Stella's ring. Stella however, was all alone, since she didn't have formed a friend group that year and the witches chased her through the nightly corridors of Alfea in order to catch her and her ring. She fled in the potions laboratory, where the witches faced her. The three witches were Icy and Darcy under the command of Lilith, a witch in her third year of Cloud Tower. Lilth has a special connection to the dragon flame and views it as her personal right to possess it. Since the royal family of Solaria inherited from the royal family in Domino (also my hc) Lilith suspected the dragon flame to be kept in Stella's ring. (False assumption as we all know.) I'll make a post on Lilith once I made her backstory up in my fanfiction. She however didn't fear any consequences. She wanted the ring and she would get it even if she had to kill for it. So she faced Stella, hurt her, tortured her (Stella has a big, fkn witch trauma) demanded the ring. Stella however all alone and scared af tried to defend herself, her powers went out of control and she blew up the whole laboratory with Lilith in it, whose body was burned to death. Icy and Darcy managed to escape and were only slightly hurt (and under shock, especially Icy who saw her friend, her leader dying. She has also a big fkn trauma and it's the reason for her hatred towards Stella. There will be only one fairy soon, whom ahe hates more). That all however wasn't made public. In fact no one really knew what happened: Faragonda and Griffin came to the conclusion that it was a usual fight between fairies and witches which went out of control. As a result Faragonda reduced the contact with Cloud Tower to a minimum and excluded it from the gala and all other events. Griffin is deeply hurt and pissed af. She always valued Faragonda as a close friend, an important friend. That friend who was once an enemy but helped her escaping Valtor. This close friend now turned her back on her and, as she sees it, betrays her. Not only did she lose her best student (Lilith), she also lost her best friend. That's why she doesn't prevent the Trix messing with the fairies. She deeply believes Lilith's death had been an accident and doesn't see the banter between Winx and Trix as something dangerous. How few she knew...

[alwaysobsessed777]

MASTERLIST

I write for WBB only, mainly Nika Mühl but open for others.

Some of the others I'd write for:

-Paige Bueckers

-Kate Martin

-Georgia Amoore

-Liz Kitley (cause no one writes for her)

-Aubrey Griffin

-Caitlin Clark

Also you can always ask to see if I'd write for them. Only reason I'd say no is if they're controversial. Also, if there's a song you might want me to write based on, feel free to tell me.

NIKA MUHL

Sailor Song series

part 1

part 2

part 3 coming soon

I was enchanted to meet you

First Game

NOTRE DAMN

I MISSED YOU

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LIZ KITLEY

False God

Part 1

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CAITLIN CLARK

Fade into you

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PAIGE BUECKERS

we fell in love in October

[dailyhermitdoodles]

[429] Pegasus False!

I struggled so much with the colors lol I have 5 other versions

Also, I think that False wouldn't be a pony, but a griffin or hippogriff maybe? But since this is my first time drawing mlp (except for that one zed that one time), I wanted to keep it simple

[tye-wig-music]

to be honest I think fascism’s waxing influence as an intellectual and cultural current in recent years makes perfect sense when one considers the wider context that the history of the far right over the last 30 years has fairly precisely mirrored developments on the left over the same period. it is generally accepted, I think, that between the dissolution of the soviet union and the 2008 financial crash it was more or less impractical if not impossible to form a political constituency drawing for its aims and inspiration on the legacies of actually-existing socialist states; during this time ideologies of both the left and far-right were broadly swept aside in favour of the neo-colonialist centre which arose as the dominant global politics in the vacuum created by the ussr’s fall (after which neither left- nor right-wing parties in the west had anything any longer against which to define themselves: left parties therefore dropped their commitment to public ownership of the means of production while right parties were no longer obliged by political necessity to champion individual liberty as a bulwark against collectivism; this period was thus marked by the tightening of state control over the individual alongside the acceleration of capital accumulation). fascism, like socialism, was (falsely) understood as a spent political force of the twentieth century; its proponents similarly could not allude approvingly to actually-existing fascist projects without eliciting mainstream ridicule. thus the emergence of respectable, euphemistic “fascisms-with-a-human-face” in forms such as Nick Griffin’s British National Party, to take an example from my own country, which sought to empty the ideology of any overt ideological content and were laughed into irrelevance.

the 2008 recession, I think, reawakened the general public in the imperial nations to the fact that the contradictions of capitalism were still actually operational. there are basically two responses to this fact: fascist and communist agitation, the first seeking to artificially prolong the capitalist historical stage and the second seeking to end it. and there you have the explanation for the reemergence of a nakedly fascist current in culture: the ideological far-right is re-appropriating and deploying the signs, symbols and rhetoric of actually-existing fascism, as the left has been engaged in likewise doing those of actually-existing socialism; both are finding purchase with a public widely disillusioned with the post-Cold War status quo.

(as a footnote, anarchist tendencies, constituting a basically impotent political force & never having achieved a lasting actually-existing model on a scale grander than a housing co-op, continued to operate more or less uninterrupted through the said period)

(as a further footnote, the centre is, naturaliter, incapable of resisting the rise of fascism in its own country, partly because it sustains itself by implementing a deeply unpopular political programme and is therefore inherently vulnerable to populist movements, but especially because its aims cohere substantially with the aims of fascism and it can therefore only mount the weakest of defences against it. the criticisms commonly made of trump from the centre-left, for instance (“he’s offensive and tacky”; “he’s slightly more vocally racist or sexist than is acceptable for a politician”), are ineffectual and superficial, because any substantive critique of trump from the centre is impossible without rank hypocrisy. in any case, although certainly the tip of the contemporary fascist spear [surely fasces?], trump seemingly does not believe in any political project bar the narrow service of his own interest, and accordingly, when president, failed to actually implement fascism qua fascism; for my part I fear worst of all what comes after him; whatever naked horror’s mere shadow and prefiguration he comprises)

[morhath]

Oh I’m very very interested in your nonfiction book recs 👀

EDIT: ykw I'm gonna make this a little more organized

I listed a bunch in this post (the last question) but lemme see if I have any additions because I know I was kinda trying to keep it short when I wrote that. (But that being said, that post is the Top Faves Of All Time, so go for those first.)

Freaky medical shit I also liked:

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase (I just read this a few weeks ago and OOUUUGGHHHHHH IT'S LITERALLY JUST. LIKE THE RESPONSE TO COVID.)

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

Political shit I also liked:

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change by Janelle S. Wong

History I also liked:

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle

The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives by Bryant Simon (between those two you can tell I was on a bit of a "workplace tragedies caused by lax regulations and bad management" kick)

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (I think everyone knows about this book, including it for completeness)

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story Of The First Women In The Space Race by Stephanie Nolen

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke (this is nowhere near as fun and cute as you'd assume from the title)

Memoirs I also liked:

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton (I read this before I really got into nonfiction and it was WILD, I tell people about it all the time)

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (this one is a graphic not-novel-I-guess-memoir)

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Other:

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller

Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

AND here are a few on my TBR that I'm really excited for! I decided not to categorize them because they're almost all history:

Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy by Adam Roberts

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer (I am actually partway through this right now but in a bit of a dry/confusing section)

The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist by Carol A. Stabile

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell (have just barely started this)

Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 by John Waller

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by Lady Hyegyeong

Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste by William M. Alley, Rosemarie Alley (I'm in the middle of this but it's surprisingly, um. not exciting.)

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames

Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It by Joslyn Brenton, Sinikka Elliott, Sarah Bowen

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages by Ffiona Swabey

Hitler's First Victims: The Beginning of the Holocaust and One Man's Fight to End It by Timothy W. Ryback

I am soso normal and have very normal interests that are not at all grim :)

[friend-crow]

hello! ive always been kind of an armchair practitioner, and ive recently had a not very good conjuring experience, and i dont know what to do?? I just wanted some advice in the sense of, a lot of people when they tell stories of conjurations and encountering spirits they speak of feeling a lot, and since i am a little bit more sensible towards energies i was thinking that i too would feel. i think?? it went alright bc in the end the candle wax formed a lion which was cute (the spirit is associated w griffins), i could feel a small energy shift and im having a headache now. but like. i cant explain?? i feel like this isnt enough to say that im not just making up a bunch of stuff, and what i felt was real and the candle wasnt just doing candle stuff 😭....i also asked something to the spirit, which for as far as i could tell they agreed to help me, but i have no idea if this was just in my mind, so if i knew if it didnt work i would try again, but i have no clue if everything went alright or not???? i think im overreacting but i wanted to ask someone who actually has experience....

First of all I just want to say that verifying spirits (or that you've even had a real interaction that wasn't just confirmation bias) is hard. So don't feel bad.

I'm not sure quite what you mean about it being a not very good experience. I'm guessing you're referring to the uncertainty involved, but if you think it might have been somehow unsafe, I'd suggest looking into banishing techniques (which honestly is just a good thing to know before you start trying to deal with spirits).

As for verification, it can be a slow process. One thing you can try is requesting information that you don't currently have, but which you can verify as factually true or false. This unfortunately isn't helpful if communication isn't really happening in a clear way (or at all).

I must inform you that I'm not the most experienced either. I've only gotten more into spirit work in the last couple years, and as previously mentioned, it's a slow process getting into it. I don't know that it's for everyone, but if you're interested in pursuing it, try not to be discouraged! It takes a lot of patience and practice.

I'm going to tag in @windvexer and @stagkingswife who are much more experienced in this area than I am, and might have more solid advice for you.