#I don’t want to be in an afterlife

[lokislittlesigyn]

// personal, vent

Life has felt very, very lonely lately. I’m grateful to my friends, but the deep and chronic stress I’m experiencing is taking a serious toll on my physical and mental health.

I wish I knew how best to get relief.

[bxriles]

I’m sure that this is not a hot take and that a lot of people feel the same way but like…

The question “does it have spice?!🌶️🔥” makes me want to jump off a cliff. I’m out here looking for gothic book recommendations on Reddit, tumblr, and goodreads and WHY is this the first question so many people ask 😭

Look, I love erotica as much as the next person but come on. There have got to be other things that matter when recommending books or choosing to pick one up, my GOD.

[lexalovesbooks]

I’ll never get over how funny it is that the reason Teraeth reincarnated as one of the hellwarriors was because Atrin saw the man he was in love with (has literally never spoken to him ever in 500 years) and the woman he was in love with (he’s convinced she hates his guts) (knows they have some kind of affection for each other but is unclear on the details) volunteer one after the other and went ‘oh I cannot let them reincarnate together without me’ like yes he was emperor for five hundred years and undeniably changed the world yes he was an incredible warrior and strategist in his own right. Yes he volunteered to save the world because his crushes did it first and he didn’t want to be left out. Funniest guy ever.

[hauntingyourself]

The dream? To die and become a chaotic trickster spirit that people can summon to do their vigilante work

[mangk0]

Friendly reminder that Kratos BROKE THE AFTERLIFE for Mimir

[corellianhounds]

no im sorry but now that i know one of the redacted wips is one of the bad batch as a dad I MUST know at least which one it is 😭

Hahaha no I get it, I know it’s kind of a tease to put it on the list if I’m going to be cagey about it. Mostly it’s because idk how it’ll be received and I don’t want people being snide in my inbox about the choice of character/topic

Anyway it’s Tech lol

[hearts4pearlescentmoon]

Unfortunately just a doodle today. Lots of stuff to do and am very tired lol.

[hauntedkeys]

I want to make Riot listen to Welly Boots by The Amazing Devil just to see what it would to her.

[solace-seekers]

screaming into the void <3

[impossibledial]

how can i get both twelveclara afterlife endgame and clara never returning to trap street…

[plumberrypudding]

i wish i believed in an afterlife. i wish i believed i’ll see my first dog again. i could take so much comfort in that.

[tapeworm-loser]

Not in a Reddit atheist way because that’s reactionary but sometimes I really do hate religion

[borom1r]

🔮👻✨️💀 for the practice asks

🔮 What's your favorite form of divination? What's your least favorite?

UMMMMM i reeeeeeeally like cards but runes are probably my favorite? just bc they have so much significance to my practice; they’re how I communicate w/ the Allfather (hence why I don’t offer rune readings to anyone— too personal)

👻 Do you believe in ghosts/spirits? Have you ever had an experience? Describe it, if comfortable.

ye in the sense of like. i believe part of the soul stays on earth + that’s why it’s important to venerate ancestral spirits. (if they were good to you, ofc. if they were abusive, fuck em)

I don’t actually do a lot of direct ancestor veneration tho, bc the ppl I would venerate were Christian? and idk that’s one of those things that feels a little weird ig— I don’t want to disrespect their beliefs (I venerate what I’ve seen referred to as “ancestors of spirit/soul,” so those who at one point walked the same path as me; other ulfheðnar)

✨️ In relation to your practice, is there anything that you're excited about? (Such as an upcoming event, new field of study, a project, etc.)

AGH I signed up for a scholarly article service and I have SO many papers to catch up on snfjjdjf this is a good reminder— but honestly any new archaeological finds are so exciting, bc soooooooo much of this faith was lost or obscured/erased by Christians :/

💀 What are your thoughts on the concept of the afterlife?

YAYYYYY we have so many afterlives and none of them are bad dndjsjjf

I mainly venerate Þorr and Óðinn, so the parts of my soul that move on will go to Valhǫll or Bilskirnir

most folk would go to Hel, which is just a neutral place of rest; Nástrǫnd is bullshit (thanks, Snorri)— I know some Norse pagans/heathens believe in Nástrǫnd but it’s just so.. counterintuitive to my understanding/interpretation of the faith and its faaaaaaaaar too close to the Christian hell for it to make any sense to me. like, it’s just too.. idk it feels too convenient to have a place where bad souls are punished forever bc it implies that “badness” is inherent and unchangeable and also like. the whole point is our gods are fallible and mess up and are NOT omnipotent/all powerful, so we very much do need to take matters into our own hands and make things right in the living world instead of waiting for the Evil Punishment Afterlife to deal with sinners. :/

Valhǫll is most famous for taking the Allfather’s warriors, but he’s also the god of knowledge and skalds, so as a scholar and writer (I hesitate to call myself a poet, but I do dabble) I hold his chosen skalds would go to Valhǫll as well. The other half of the battle-slain go to Freyja’s hall, Fólkvangr (fun fact, Grímnismál implies Freyja gets first pick)

Rán gets those who drown at sea, but I’m not able to find a specific name for her and Ægir’s halls

There are some surviving sources that attest to rebirth, but I think it’s less of a literal “this same soul has come back” but “we carry forward everyone who came before us,” bc we have things like the hamingja which are parts of the soul passed down along a family line + what attestations we DO have for “rebirth” are more like. someone was named after an ancestor or have a birthmark that matches a wound their ancestor received

[gothsuguru]

5 chapters left hmm…

[isdalinarhot]

I don’t plan on dying in the immediate future due to kowt in 5 months reasons BUT when I do die I hope that people make sadalinar 69ing art about it in tribute. It’s what I would have wanted. Better yet, draw sadalinar 69ing while I am alive so I don’t have to rely on heavens piss poor broadband to see it

[foxmulderautism]

pondering about the lover boy wip reintro....planning my web weave....this poem makes me so crazy if bobby could have an afterlife pov in lover boy it would sound like this....ask me the altitude of heaven and i will answer "how tall are you?" do you get it