#SYMB POSTS

[sillysymbol]

[colorspoem]

♡᭄𓈒 𖧧 📩 ᭥ ★ ᩃᩚ𝗲𝕨 ᰍ̯෧𝘀ᩧ𝘁 ] 𓍊𓋼 👖👔 顳 ლ ░⃟ꕥ ꒒᭣᭫𝗸єິ 𖣠𝖱 ꢯ𝗲𝗯𝗹𝗈𝕘 !¡ 🍓 𓆩 ✜ 𓆪 ツ ⊰ 웃 ⩩ 👣 zZz ♥︎.∆ ✿🔧🧼 勒 ℂ𝚁ᦸᩚ𝗱𝗍᥍ᩨ Ⓜ️𝗘

💢 # Ᏺᦕᩚ𝗹𝗹𝗈 : 𓈃 𝗡ᩧ͘𝗲𝗐ᩖ 𝙿𝗈᪶ᩚ𝘀𝘁̯ ! 埃 𔒌 </3 ∩_∩ 📳❔𖠰 巛 ᥬꨄ 𝗅𝗶𝗸̯𝗲 𝑜ິ𝚁 𝕣᩿͘e𝗯ᩧ𝗹𝗼𝗀ᩚ 𖨆 🍇⚓▒ ... & ⟬⪻ꕤ 𖡤 ⊹ ∿

▓⃞⃝🥨⌒✿ 𝗜𝗰ᩧ𝕠ᩃ᩿᩼s 📧 ✶ ઇઉ 🐑 ✢ // 🧶🦕 (..) 🍊 (◕‿◕) 𝕷𝕚𝕜᩿͘ᦕᩨ 𝓞𝗋 𝗿𝖾᪶ᩚ𝖻𝕝𝕺𝗴ᩧ 𓇢 ᨒ ୨ ⚽ 𒀭 .★ ᦃ🥛°◇• 𑄚̯𝘆 Ꮘ✺᥍ᩚ𝕥 ∞ 𓏲◠‿◠ 𖠺 🥍𖥱

᭥ ★ 𓍊𓋼 ᦃ ░⃞⃝🔜 Me dê os créditos usando a #️⃣ colorspoem ou me marque no post!

᭥ ★ 𓍊𓋼 ᦃ ░⃞⃝🔜 Os emojis podem ser alterados!

᭥ ★ 𓍊𓋼 ᦃ ░⃞⃝🔜 Curte e 🔘 reblog 🔃 se pegar.

[qissfilm]

ꕤ . ꒪ ꔛ

symbols

‎꒧ ꇺ ꇹ ꎁ ꎂ ·͜·♡ ꊞ

‎ᙏ̤̫ ᙏ̤̫͚ ꪔ̤̥ ꪔ̤̮ ꪔ̤̱ ꔚ ꕁ ꕀ

‎𐂴 ( ꙭ ) ( Ꙭ ) ꒰ ꗭ ꒱ ( •̛̣̣꒶̯•̛̣̣ )

‎◡̈ ⌣̈⃝ •͈౿•͈ εїз ( ŏ̥̥̥̥םŏ̥̥̥̥ ) ‎･ ͜ʖ ･ ✿ ◡̈

‎ ༘♡ ♡⃛. ʚ♡⃛ɞ. ෆ. ෆ⃛ ‎☺︎. യ. ꕤ. ˘͈ᵕ˘͈. ꒰ ꒱

‎˗ˏˋ ´ˎ˗. ♡̷. ♡̶. ˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ ‎♡̷̷̷. ᙏ̤̫͚. ✿. ( *´ސު｀*)

‎(✿˘˘✿) ♡̆̈. ·͜·♡ ◡̎ =͟͟͞͞♡ ᯤ ʬʬʬ

‎ॱଳ͘ • ·̭ •̥ ･ᴗ･̥̥̥ ･ ͜ʖ ･ ✿ ´ސު｀

‎♡ ·͜·♡ യ ♡⃛ ʚ♡⃛ɞ ˙ỏ˙ ꔛ 𓈒 *

‎𖤣𖤥𖠿𖤣𖤥 𓇥 ☄︎ 𓎩 𓅿 𓌈 ⍤ 𓌉◯𓇋

‎⸝⸝⸝ 𓆸 𖠋 εїз ꔚ ꕁ 𐂴 ੯‧̀͡u\

‎﹆ ᐧ༚̮ᐧ ✦ ✱ ꊞ ↺ °•*⁀➷=͟͟͞♡*.❅·

[sillysymbol]

it is them. or should i say they

it's not them, yet it is.

[mayuris-basement-dweller]

When you end the chapter you were stuck in.

[mantra-repeated]

Dissoprosopaglcus

Pt: Dissoprosopaglcus :End Pt

Dissoprosopaglcus, is a Dissobody subterm connected to one being/feeling disconnected from one's face due to prosopagnosia (Also known as face blindness). As such this term is exclusive to those that (Bodily) have this condition in any form or severity. This is not a "for fun" term, and merely exists to put a word to the disconnect one experiences. This term is not a radqueer term, or transid friendly and not comparable to transgender in any fashion. Any "Transfaceblind" users seen interacting with this post will be smited.

symbols

mentions: @dissodic-archive

Thank you so much to @rwuffles for help with the Id! Also something something, face blind buddies!

banner transcript: This term was made by an Endogenic. Anyone can use it however. :End transcript

[Main Dissoprosopaglcus flag Id: An 11-striped flag. From the 1st to the 5th stripe, the flag is colored slightly dark gray, very desaturated dark pink, extremely dark gray, very dark desaturated brown, and off-slightly light gray. The 7th to the 11th stripe are the same colors, but in reverse order. The center stripe from left to right is colored slightly desaturated orange, slightly desaturated yellow, slightly dark red-brown, and black, and the colors blur together where they touch. The 1st and 11th stripe are scalloped with extra detailing/bumps facing inwards, while the 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th stripes are all normally scalloped facing inwards. The 3rd and 9th stripes are frilled, with lots of detailing in the shape of hearts. In the center of the flag is a multicolored brain, there are slightly light gray diagonal lines going across it that get thinner the higher and further left they get. Underneath it, is the same colors and pattern if the flag, just darkened. The left side of the brain has half of a black mask, the eye curved as if it were smiling. :End Id]

[No symbols Dissoprosopaglcus flag Id: An 11-striped flag. From the 1st to the 5th stripe, the flag is colored slightly dark gray, very desaturated dark pink, extremely dark gray, very dark desaturated brown, and off-slightly light gray. The 7th to the 11th stripe are the same colors, but in reverse order. The center stripe from left to right is colored slightly desaturated orange, slightly desaturated yellow, slightly dark red-brown, and black, and the colors blur together where they touch. The 1st and 11th stripe are scalloped with extra detailing/bumps facing inwards, while the 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th stripes are all normally scalloped facing inwards. The 3rd and 9th stripes are frilled, with lots of detailing in the shape of hearts. :End id]

[Alt Dissoprosopaglcus flag Id: An 11-striped flag. From the 1st to the 5th stripe, the flag is colored slightly dark gray, very desaturated dark pink, extremely dark gray, very dark desaturated brown, and off-slightly light gray. The 7th to the 11th stripe are the same colors, but in reverse order. The center stripe from left to right is colored slightly desaturated orange, slightly desaturated yellow, slightly dark red-brown, and black, and the colors blur together where they touch. The 1st and 11th stripe are scalloped with extra detailing/bumps facing inwards, while the 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th stripes are all normally scalloped facing inwards. The 3rd and 9th stripes are frilled, with lots of detailing in the shape of hearts. In the center of the flag is a multicolored brain, there are slightly light gray diagonal lines going across it that get thinner the higher and further left they get. Underneath it, is the same colors and pattern if the flag, just darkened. :End Id]

[Carmel lizard divider id: A divider made of two bronze lines with a Carmel lizard from Rain World in the gap between them. Each line has a diamond on the outer edge and a crescent moon on the inner edge, framing the lizard. :End Id]

[Dissoprosopaglcus symbol: A light grey dissomei symbol, which appears as a stylized brain, with black lines on the symbol. The symbol has think stripes through the symbol of the same color, but somewhat transparent. The left side of the brain has half of a black mask, the eye curved as if it were smiling. :End Id]

[Alt Dissoprosopaglcus symbol: A light grey dissomei symbol, which appears as a stylized brain, with black lines on the symbol. The symbol has think stripes through the symbol of the same color, but somewhat transparent. :End Id]

[Red lizard divider: A divider made of two red lines with a red lizard from Rain World in the gap between them. Each line has a diamond on the outer edge and a crescent moon on the inner edge, framing the lizard :End Id]

[Banner Id: a rectangular banner with rounded corners on a transparent background. in the background of the banner is the endogenic flag by greyskies, and it has a transparent inset border. in the center is black text that reads "This term was made by an endogenic. Anyone can use it however.". In the bottom right corner is a blue lizard from the game rain world. :End id]

[Pink lizard divider: A divider made of two pink lines with rain world graffiti of a pink lizard head in the gap between them. Each line has a outline of diamond on the outer edge and a crescent moon on the inner edge, framing the lizard head. :End Id]

[thewitchfarhan]

Why are you reblogging from evilios? Do you know that they’re a zeus apologist, right? 💀💀💀

I'm going to preface this by saying this is going to be a *MONSTER* of a post, so be warned - it's gonna be long.

TLDR: “But when it comes to the spiritual people I follow and reblog from on Tumblr - I have the following rule for myself:

If I like it, I interact with it, if I don’t - I won’t. If the blog isn’t upsetting to me or triggering me then I’ll follow, if it is - I won’t. If someone isn’t harming anyone by their spirituality then I’ll respect it, but if they are - fuck 'em.”

Hi anon - thank you for your inquiry. This is actually something I have been pondering for a bit and I feel ready to express my feelings around this issue.

To start - I am *very* new to the Hellenic Pagan community. While I have been a practicing Witch and Pagan for about 10 years - Hellenic Paganism is not a practice I have worked with/within prior to 2023.

Additionally - I make a point to not pass judgment on a spiritual belief or path before researching it from a third-party point of view, and examining the historical documentation available (as opposed to just taking into account UPG).

With that being said - my feelings toward Zeus as a deity/spiritual entity are negative (as you can see below from a previous post I made).

A good portion of the myths about Zeus that I am familiar with have heavy themes that center around male entitlement, assault, r*pe, and misogyny. All of which are not only morally reprehensible - but also somewhat triggering for me as someone who grew up Catholic.

I have seen individuals say that you have to take into account the “historical context” in which myth and religious texts are written. I have seen individuals say things along the line of “These myths were written by misogynistic men so they projected their own values and beliefs onto Zeus, that���s now who Zeus really is!”

[I'm going to use the anon above as an example because their thoughts and sentiments are ones I see often from Zeus Devotees / Zeus Worshipers]

I’m not in the business of trying to tell others what to believe - not because I think all beliefs are valid - but because I know it’s pointless.

However, if you are going to use Greek Myths as the source material for your religious practice - then it would be more logical to compare these myths - not to Paradise Lost - but to the Bible.

So, if Greek Myths (the basis of Hellenic Paganism) are symbolic and not to be taken literally - then prey tell where are you getting your canonical information from? Which religious texts *are* to be taken literally?

The bottom line, and answer to this quandary, is this:

All religion is invented. All religion is made up. All religion was created by humanity.

Cows and Crows don’t have religion. They do not build altars or shrines. They do follow religious codes. They do not worship or name divinity.

We can trace a before and after period for every religion's existence. There is not one religion that has existed from the dawn of time (and if anyone claims such they’re lying because humanity evolved from other species who definitely did not have any concept of ‘religion’).

So, with that being said, if you aren’t part of an organized religion/coven/cult - then you have two options.

1. Interpret all holy and traditional texts as literal and abide by their ever moral, rule, and decision within your personal practice.

Or

2. Acknowledge that you are picking and choosing what you believe to fit your own moral and personal narrative. Admit that you are making up your own personal gnosis and acknowledge that any judgment of your personal practice is also a judgment of your person. Admit that if you aren’t taking source material literally (which is a totally fine thing to do) you are inventing your own religious gnosis.

Want to worship Zeus and ignore all myths that portray him as a r*pist? Go ahead! I have no issue with you. Just don't try to somehow make those myths "valid" or "just symbolic" - just admit what you're doing and move on.

Because if you’re going to go around saying “Oh this historical information is valid but the other one isn’t and shouldn’t be judged from a modern lens!” then congratulations! I’m going to view your practice through the same lens as those who praise the Christian God as an all-loving entity and ignore the fact that (according to the story of Noah’s Ark in the Bible) he murdered every single adult and child on planet Earth, aside from a chosen few.

At the end of the day - do what you want. I don’t have any authority to stop you and I’m not gonna fight with you. But if you want my personal opinion on Zeus worship it is this:

Zeus, for me, is categorically defined by his actions. While there are many stories of SA and Abuse in Greek Mythology, Zeus as King of the Gods takes the cake. Not only because of the sheer number of stories that center around him committing acts of SA - but also because as the King of the Gods, he should be held to a higher standard.

Since I am not part of an organized religion/coven/cult - I get to choose how I interact with spirituality, and for me, that includes judging it through a modern lens.

I chose to not ignore the myths that portray Zeus in a negative light because I think the sheer number of those myths defines Zeus' character and what he represented in ancient times.

But when it comes to the spiritual people I follow and reblog from on Tumblr - I have the following rule for myself:

If I like it, I interact with it, if I don’t - I won’t. If the blog isn’t upsetting to me or triggering me then I’ll follow, if it is - I won’t. If someone isn’t harming anyone by their spirituality then I’ll respect it, but if they are - fuck 'em.

Feel free to send any follow-up questions, I could talk about this shit for days.

[shirzan140102]

Death of Pirouz

Not-So-Fun Fact, given the context of this story: Pirouz (پیروز) is Persian for "victor" (or "victorious," depending on how it's used in a sentence).

Pirouz (the sweet little baby pictured above) was the last surviving Asiatic cheetah cub born in captivity in Iran, and he passed away on Tuesday due to kidney failure. Besides the fact that he [obviously] was a precious baby, everyone is angry and heartbroken by his passing, because he had become a symbol for the revolution. Shervin Hajipour had even alluded to him and the delicate nature of his existence in his GRAMMY-winning song "Baraye."

This reflects another dimension of the pain and suffering caused by the regime. With their blatant disregard for environmental issues and tendency to suppress environmental activists, it is not much of a surprise that this tragedy also took place. (And this isn't even taking into account the suspicions that they had a hand in his death.) While there is still a great deal that remains unknown, considering that one of his siblings also had died due to health complications, it's probable that he and his siblings were not bred in the best conditions. Furthermore, it's highly likely that limitations in resources prevented them from receiving the care that they needed, despite their caretakers' best efforts.

As for Pirouz himself, I'm absolutely heartbroken, and I cannot stop crying right now. Sadly, he is another victim of the regime. I just hope that his last moments weren't painful. From the perspective of the revolution, I hope that his death does not signify the death of potential victory for the revolution, considering the meaning of his name and his status as a symbol.

Now, let's fight for Pirouz in both senses of the word as used in this post: The poor baby himself and the pirouzi (پیروزی) (i.e., 'victory') of the revolution.

SOURCE:

[sillysymbol]

does anyone else experience this

[collapsedsquid]

As for the second part of your question—how a Biden presidency would have gone—speculation is a little more difficult, but I’ll try my best. First things first, Democrats would have been near-certain to win the Senate with him leading the ticket, so he’d start his term by finally assembling a moderate-to-liberal Supreme Court majority. Past this point, the real x-factor is how the House went in 2016. If Democrats failed to take the chamber, which could have very well happened even with a large Biden victory, it’s unlikely that Biden’s first term would have been all that different from Obama’s presidency after the 2010 midterms. Republicans would be able to obstruct his domestic agenda at will, so most of his attention would have ended up going to court appointments and foreign policy. Perhaps a third consecutive Democratic victory may have led them to consider being more productive to look better to voters, but make no mistake: they still would have held the keys to the car. If Democrats won the House, though, things could have actually gotten real. The filibuster rules would have meant that, just like in his first term in real life, Biden’s ambitions would be limited to fiscal policies, with big social reforms being off the table. But we also know from Biden’s first term in real life that there’s quite a lot you can do with just fiscal policies. With no COVID (yet) and no Trump victory causing Democrats to re-evaluate their priorities, it’s certain that any proto-BBB plan for 2017 would have certainly been smaller than the bills Biden passed in our timeline. Something the size of the original BBB bill, or even the IRA, would not have been in the cards. Still, a big spending bill of any kind would have been excellent policy. The conditions of the economy in the 2010s—low interest rates coupled with low aggregate demand—were absolutely perfect for something like an infrastructure bill. That something like that was never passed was a big reason why it was such a lost decade economically. Biden-style spending could have rectified that, boosting the economy right as it was about to enter the famous goldilocks period it did under Trump. The post-recession recovery, although horrifically delayed, would have been finally completed during Biden’s first term. As for electoral politics under Biden, there’s a big difference in forecasting a 2018 under him and a 2020 under him. The former race is hard to map out. Given the state of the economy at the time, it’s pretty likely that Biden would have been popular by election day. Whether that would give his party a boost is a bit hard to tell. Biden has never been the kind of figure to absolutely dominate politics, so it’s likely that a 2018 under him would revolve more around a general sense of party fatigue and the need for checks and balances than his performance. How far the GOP would have gone with that is anyone’s guess. Maybe a Trump loss would have led the party’s establishment to reassert itself and clean up their brand to be more competitive than the party we’ve known since 2016. Maybe the party would have fallen into an outright civil war that guaranteed Democratic dominance. In any case, I doubt that 2018 would have been a truly massive wave for them even in the best-case scenario for the party. The public discontent that fueled their waves in 2010 and 2014 just wouldn’t have been there. They’d probably pick up some seats, but it wouldn’t be any kind of epochal sea change.

This excerpt from an ettingermentum piece about a counterfactual 2016 Biden presidential win I think really reflects how young he is, the Zoomers don't really remember Obama and how things were back then.

With Trump not being elected, there is no "populist wave" and the democrats would not have gone for a spending bill, there would be a good chunk of the democratic party continuing to strike some sort of inane "Grand Bargain." Now Biden is a different president than Obama, he was always less into the grand symbolic gesture West Wing shit than Obama, but the recent spending stuff is IMO a recent conversion as a result of Trump's election and covid. Without Trump there is no big Biden spending bill, even if Biden wanted something congressional democrats would not have gone for it.

I also think that if Biden is elected there is an economic downturn during his presidency. The end of the Trump presidency while strong was already weirdly fragile economically, there is a decent chance covid pre-empted a recession we were entering. With whatever stupid austerity shit the democrats get roped into and without the Trump tax cuts, Steve Mnuchin, and the euphoria of the small business owner over having a president who sticks it to the libs holding up the economy then I think the economy crashes sometime between 2016 and 2020. and that hurts him in elections.

(There is a point where I also do think that covid is not guaranteed to happen in 2020, not so much due to specific policies or prevention but due to just general changes, but I think that's not really a relevant/useful comparison)

[sparklingsjewel]

How to Wear and Use

In this phase, I'll cover the powerful methods to put on an evil eye bracelet and combine it into your way of life. Illuminate your look and ward off negativity with the enchanting allure of a evil eye diamond bracelet.

Proper placement and normal cleaning can keep its symbolic energy.

Placement on Body

The evil eye bracelet is historically worn on the left wrist, as it's far believed that the left facet represents the subconscious and emotions.

Wearing it on my left wrist, I sense it serves as a protect to take in bad intentions directed toward me.

Integration in Daily Life

I seamlessly integrate the evil eye bracelet into my daily use.

Whether I'm at domestic, at work, or out socially, the bracelet complements my apparel whilst serving its shielding cause.

It feels like a part of my regular fashion, constantly accompanying me.

at home,

Cleansing and Recharging

To cleanse my bracelet, I use a easy procedure:

Rinse under clean water.

Lay it on a cloth to dry.

For recharging, I place the bracelet in morning sunlight or throughout a complete moon overnight.

I believe those herbal energies restore its protective talents. Regular cleaning guarantees it remains a effective talisman.

Psychological Effects

In discussing the mental results of evil eye bracelets, it's vital for me to renowned both the notion systems that fortify their that means and how they are able to ultimately influence a person's mind-set and behavior. Combine elegance and protection with the captivating sparkle of a Diamond Evil Eye Bracelet.

Belief and Perception

I've observed that those who adhere to the concept of the evil eye frequently region a excessive price on the protecting power of evil eye bracelets.

The perception in their ability to ward off terrible energies is not only a cultural artifact—it has a right away effect at the wearer's psychological nation.

By proudly owning and wearing these bracelets, many humans sense a sense of protection and protection that may not in any other case be gift.

Impact on Mindset and Behavior

The psychological advantages of wearing an evil eye bracelet can be pretty good sized.

From a self belief raise derived from what many accept as true with to be a protect against misfortune, to a lower in tension precipitated by way of superstitious reassurance—these bracelets can positively affect one’s mindset.

Furthermore, there’s a aspect of happiness that comes from feeling included. This can, in flip, foster a advantageous attitude which may influence behaviors definitely in one's each day lifestyles.

Modern Popularity and Celebrity Influence

In my commentary of favor tendencies, the evil eye bracelet has seen a resurgence, in particular influenced by means of high-profile personalities and their presence on diverse digital platforms.

Celebrities and Public Figures

I've noticed that celebrities have an giant impact on fashion accessories and their meanings.

Meghan Markle, as an example, has been seen carrying an evil eye bracelet, main many lovers to embrace this symbolic piece of jewelry.

The connection among public figures and the evil eye bracelet is significant; their choices often suggest the object's shielding symbolism even as showcasing it as a modern fashion assertion.

Trends in Social Media

Without a doubt, social media catalyzes the unfold of style developments.

Posts and stocks can make a particular layout of an evil eye bracelet pass viral, as I actually have visible with countless earrings portions.

When such items are featured with the aid of influencers or on popular money owed, their meaning can every now and then shift from conventional to fashionable.

Italicized hashtags like #evileye and #protectionbracelet regularly accompany pics, reinforcing the association among the evil eye and modern fashion.

Choosing Your Evil Eye Bracelet

When I select my evil eye bracelet, I consciousness on materials that resonate with my power and options.

It’s not pretty much fashion; the bracelet is a symbol of protection and high quality power, aiming to carry energy, top luck, and prosperity into my lifestyles.

Material and Quality

I constantly take into account the material and best of an evil eye bracelet. Common substances include:

Gold: It’s durable and signifies prosperity.

Silver: A mirrored image of calm strength and emotional stability.

Glass: Often used for the evil eye amulet itself, representing clarity.

A fantastic bracelet manner better durability and a sustained experience of safety.

Personal Preferences

My non-public options play a crucial role in choosing the proper bracelet:

Colors: I look for blue because it traditionally wards off poor electricity, however other shades characterize exceptional factors, such as purple for courage.

Design: A simple bead or an difficult attraction impacts how the bracelet harmonizes with my electricity.

Size & Fit: Comfort is important for something I wear daily to draw success and precise electricity.

By aligning the bracelet with my unique personality and goals, I extend its electricity in my life.

In discussing the evil eye, one encounters a myriad of legends and fake beliefs. It's essential to split reality from fiction to completely apprehend this cultural phenomenon.

Debunking Common Fallacies

Superstition: The most pervasive myth about the evil eye is that it is simply a superstition without a concrete foundation. However, in my research, I have located that it's miles a culturally sizable image with deep roots in diverse societies.

It represents worries over envy and malicious intentions, which might be very actual human feelings.

The notion inside the power of the evil eye spans many cultures and is often considered a precautionary degree in opposition to damage.

Bad Luck: Another common misconception is that wearing an evil eye bracelet brings awful luck.

This is a fallacy; those bracelets are virtually amulets created to shield the wearer from misfortune, no longer to draw it.

The concept of the evil eye bracelet is to deflect negative electricity or intentions that can be directed towards an man or woman.

Lies: It's from time to time wrongly claimed that the idea of the evil eye is a lie fabricated to promote earrings or charms.

While it's miles authentic that the image has been commercialized, the evil eye's importance is deeply entrenched in cultural narratives and has been part of human records for centuries.

To disregard the evil eye as mere fiction ignores sizeable anthropological proof to the contrary, along with the one discussed in the account of "The evil eye: An account of this historic and large superstition".

Practical Tips for Buyers

When purchasing evil eye rings, consisting of bracelets and necklaces, it's critical to make sure authenticity and apprehend a way to maintain the object to preserve its strength and protective traits.

Authenticity Checks

When I search for evil eye bracelets, my first step is to verify their authenticity.

Genuine evil eye bracelets are often crafted from first-rate substances like glass, gold, or silver.

Verify the material— actual glass evil eye beads have a clean, glossy floor freed from imperfections.

I also test for maker's marks or certificate of authenticity when buying precious steel designs.

For additional assurance, you would possibly recall shopping for from authentic sellers or jewelers who specialise in protecting amulets.

Care and Maintenance

Maintaining the situation of your evil eye bracelet not only keeps it searching satisfactory but can also be crucial for retaining its protective electricity.

For my earrings, I follow a simple rule: keep it easy and dry.

Regularly wiping the floor with a gentle cloth facilitates save you tarnish, specifically for bracelets made from silver or gold.

Avoiding chemicals and extended sun publicity facilitates to save you harm to the materials.

If the bracelet includes a fabric detail like a cord or beading, wash it gently by means of hand if it will become grimy.

Store your bracelet in a fab, dry region, separated from other rings to avoid scratches.

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[rsfaa]

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When Bill and Hillary Clinton travelled to the Caribbean nation of Haiti as newlyweds in 1975, they were enchanted. Bill had recently lost a race for Congress back home in Arkansas, but by the time they returned to the US, he had set his mind to running for Arkansas state attorney general, a decision which would put him on the path to the White House. “We have had a deep connection to and with Haiti ever since,” Hillary later said.

Over the next four decades, the Clintons became increasingly involved in Haiti, working to reshape the country in profound ways. As US president in the 1990s, Bill lobbied for sweeping changes to Haiti’s agricultural sector that significantly increased the country’s dependence on American food crops. In 1994, three years after a military coup in Haiti, Bill ordered a US invasion that overthrew the junta and restored the country’s democratically elected president to power. Fifteen years later, Bill was appointed United Nations’ special envoy to Haiti, tasked with helping the country to develop its private sector and invigorate its economy. By 2010, the Clintons were two of Haiti’s largest benefactors. Their personal philanthropic fund, The Clinton Foundation, had 34 projects in the country, focused on things such as creating jobs.

Over their many decades of involvement there, the Clintons became two of the leading proponents of a particular approach to improving Haiti’s fortunes, one that relies on making the country an attractive place for multinational companies to do business. They have done this by combining foreign aid with diplomacy, attracting foreign financing to build factories, roads and other infrastructure that, in many cases, Haitian taxpayers must repay. Hillary has called this “economic statecraft”; others have called it a “neoliberal” approach to aid.

The most significant test of this approach in Haiti began on 12 January 2010, when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. In a nation of 10 million people, 1.6 million were displaced by the disaster, and as many as 316,000 are estimated to have died. The earthquake also dealt a huge blow to Haiti’s economic development, levelling homes and businesses in the most populous area of the country and destroying crucial infrastructure, including the nation’s biggest port.

Within days of the earthquake, the Clintons stepped up to lead the global response. Bill was selected to co-chair the commission tasked with directing relief spending. As US secretary of state, Hillary helped to oversee $4.4bn that Congress had earmarked for recovery efforts by the US Agency for International Development, or USAid. “At every stage of Haiti’s reconstruction – fundraising, oversight and allocation – a Clinton was now involved,” Jonathan Katz, a journalist who has covered Haiti for more than a decade, wrote in 2015.

There was no greater embodiment of the neoliberal approach to aid in Haiti than the US’s largest post-earthquake project – a $300m, 600-acre industrial park called Caracol, on the country’s northern coast. To make the park more attractive, the US also agreed to finance a power plant, and a new port through which firms operating at Caracol could ship in materials such as cotton, and ship out finished products including T-shirts and jeans.

The Clintons and their allies believed the Caracol project would attract international manufacturers, which they saw as the primary fix to Haiti’s faltering economy. “Haiti has failed, failed and failed again,” wrote the British economist Paul Collier and his colleague Jean-Louis Warnholz, who have both advised the Clintons, in the Financial Times two weeks after the earthquake. By building “critical assets such as ports”, they argued, the US and its allies could help Haiti attract private, foreign investment and create the stable jobs it needed to prosper.

Ten years later, the industrial park is widely considered to have failed to deliver the economic transformation the Clintons promised. But less attention has been paid to the fate of the port. Last year, after sinking tens of millions of dollars into the port project, the US quietly abandoned it. The port is now one of the final failures in an American post-earthquake plan for Haiti that has been characterised by disappointment throughout. It is also the latest in a long line of supposed solutions to Haiti’s woes that have done little – or worse – to serve the country’s interests. “The neoliberal, exploitative economic model currently being imposed” on Haiti “has failed many times before,” Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe, has written. The result, he adds, is that many Haitians are living “in a state of despair and daily desperation”.

Haiti makes up the western third of the island of Hispaniola – the other two-thirds are the Dominican Republic – situated between the Atlantic and the Caribbean along several major international shipping lanes. “It’s a strategic location,” says Claude Lamothe, the former director of a small port in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien. “All the big boats from the US pass right by here.”

For decades, the vast majority of goods coming to or leaving Haiti travelled through the ageing port at Port-au-Prince in the south. In the 70s, that port handled 90% of Haiti’s imports and 60% of its exports (including thousands of baseballs destined for the US, some for the Major League). But by the late 2000s, the fees it charged companies to dock, load and offload their goods were higher than any other port in the region. So companies turned to ports in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, the Bahamas or Trinidad and Tobago instead. When the earthquake hit, a large section of the port at Port-au-Prince collapsed into the sea. “The damage was unbelievable,” said Russell Green, a civil engineer at Virginia Tech University, who arrived to survey the port a few weeks after the disaster.

The new port was a key part of this vision. There were several obvious locations for it in and around the earthquake-devastated capital, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people would have provided a ready workforce. Ultimately, however, USAid decided to build the park and port near Cap-Haïtien, on the country’s northern coast, 650 miles south-east of Miami, Florida.

A 2011 US government report declared: “With its proximity to Miami, a new container port in this region could become a hub for the north,” which had “untapped potential” in light manufacturing, such as garments, and in certain kinds of high-value agriculture. Companies such as the major Korean textile manufacturer Sae-A, which became one of Caracol’s first tenants, would be able to ship in cotton and ship out apparel. “A port – that was the carrot for these companies,” Jake Johnston, a Haiti expert at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), a liberal thinktank, told me.

But the location was attractive for other reasons, too. “Land was readily available in the north,” and the “hundreds of small farmers who had to be moved” to make way for the park and port “were far less resistant than the wealthy landowners in the capital,” Johnston wrote in 2014. Members of Haiti’s northern elite were also lobbying Bill Clinton to invest in the region, says Leslie Voltaire, who served alongside Bill as Haiti’s special envoy to the UN from 2009 to 2010.

Haitians themselves had remarkably little control over these plans. Between April 2010 and October 2011, decisions about how to rebuild Haiti were made not by Haiti’s parliament, but by the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, which Bill co-chaired. This was supposed to be a Haitian-led body, but in December 2010, the 12 Haitian members of the committee wrote a letter declaring: “In reality, Haitian members of the board have one role: to endorse the decisions made by the director and executive committee,” which included donors and other Clinton allies.

Haiti’s then-president, a musician-turned politician named Michel Martelly, seemed reluctant to push back against the US’s redevelopment ideas, according to Voltaire. “At that time, Clinton was very close to Martelly,” he told me. “Martelly is an amateur and he respects Clinton’s ideas. They would follow whatever USAid and Clinton would say.” (Martelly did not respond to a request for an interview.)

“You have to put it in context,” Voltaire continued. “Almost all the countries in the world would want someone like Bill Clinton to be a lobbyist for his country.” A former US president with ties to major investors across the globe was expending political capital to help Haiti rebuild. For Haiti, “it was a double asset,” Voltaire went on, “because his wife was secretary of state,” and had influence over USAid, which controlled most of the US’s post-earthquake spending.

In the months after the earthquake, Bill worked tirelessly to attract manufacturing companies to the Caracol industrial park. When construction on the park broke ground in 2011, Bill laid the first foundation stone. A year later, at the park’s opening ceremony, Bill looked on as Hillary delivered a speech promising that the park would lead Haiti toward economic independence.

International trade has dictated Haiti’s economy almost since Christopher Columbus landed on Hispaniola by mistake, in 1492. After Spain and later France colonised the island, they imported African slaves to produce one of the most lucrative commodities in history – sugar – and exported it around the globe. By the eve of Haiti’s independence, which Haitians won in 1804, global trade had made the country one of the most profitable pieces of land in the world.

But all this international commerce has rarely benefited the vast majority of Haitians. Little of the wealth generated in the country has ever stayed there. For almost its entire history, Haiti has owed a trade debt to other nations – most notably, a $21bn (in today’s money) burden levied by France after independence. During the two centuries that followed, the effect of these debts has been to severely impoverish the country, and to make it beholden to the rich nations who have acted as its creditors. In the past 100 years, the US and the international financial institutions it partners with have been the most important of these creditors, indebting Haiti by extending foreign development loans and creating a trade imbalance – an early form of the neoliberal model.

But what worked for the US’s interests worked less well for Haiti. By the 1950s, neither Haiti’s agricultural economy, nor the dollars spent by thousands of American tourists every year, was enough to pay back those debts. By 1961, the US was sending $13m in aid to Haiti – half Haiti’s national budget – in part to help the nation bolster industry. Much of this early US aid to Haiti was looted or wasted by Haiti’s autocratic leaders, especially François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, and his son, Jean-Claude, who spent it on personal militias that terrorised Haiti’s citizenry. “Since 1946, the United States has poured about $100m in economic aid … into Haiti without much to show for the money,” the New York Times reported in 1963.

Aid from the US and loans from international financial institutions failed to lift Haiti out of poverty. And yet, American aid kept pouring in. When the Clintons and their allies sought to mould Haiti’s economic future around manufacturing and trade, it was essentially the same neoliberal programme that the US had been pushing for decades.

The most pernicious part of this programme was the agricultural policies that the US imposed on Haiti beginning in the 70s. The US pressured Haiti to reduce its tariffs on imported crops, then shipped surplus American crops into Haiti’s ports under the guise of “food aid”. Haitian farmers could not compete with all the artificially cheap rice and other food crops from abroad, which was part of the point. The strategy was to create another market for American farmers while pushing Haiti’s labour force away from the fields and into factories. As president, Bill Clinton furthered this programme, creating massive surpluses of crops such as rice by extending hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to US farmers. In Haiti, the result was that thousands upon thousands of farmers lost their land, but industrialisation never moved fast enough to replace their livelihoods.

Only years later would Bill Clinton acknowledge how this policy had failed Haitians.“The United States has followed a policy … that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era,” he told Congress in 2010. “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked … I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people.” By the time the earthquake struck, in 2010, a nation that in the 70s grew enough rice to feed itself was now importing 80% of it from abroad.

“Artibonite used to be rich, but now it’s poor,” Denis Jesu-car, a rice farmer in one of Haiti’s most agriculturally rich regions, once explained to me. “We produce rice, but it doesn’t sell.”

Despite his acknowledgement that the US’s prior attempt to liberalise Haiti’s economy had decimated its agricultural sector, in 2010, after the earthquake struck, Bill Clinton and his allies prescribed the same, familiar medicine – this time in the form of construction projects and clothing, instead of rice.

One year later, Bill presided over a conference at which building firms from across the globe presented their designs for permanent housing for the displaced, most of which never came to fruition, in part because many were financially or practically infeasible, and in part for lack of land on which to build them. The largest piece of real estate of Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction was not built for poor Haitians at all, but for wealthy ones and foreigners: a new Marriott hotel in Port-au-Prince, financed by a multinational telecoms corporation whose chairman was a friend of Clinton’s. The Clinton Foundation brokered the deal, and Bill inaugurated the hotel in 2015.

The audit offered a damning account of USAid’s efforts to build the port. Construction was delayed from the start. The time needed to build the port was revised from an initial estimate of two-and-a-half years to 10 years – and then indefinitely. USAid had “no current projection for when construction of the port may begin or how long it will take”. This was “due in part to a lack of USAid expertise in port planning in Haiti”.

To make matters worse, in June 2015, a USAid feasibility study found that “a new port was not viable for a variety of technical, environmental and economic reasons”. What’s more, the US did not have enough money to finish the job: “USAid funding will be insufficient to cover a majority of projected costs,” with an “estimated gap” of $117m to $189m. Not only was the port not viable, it was not even wanted: the private companies USAid had hoped to attract to Haiti’s north “had no interest in supporting the construction of a new port in northern Haiti”, the feasibility study determined.

While the port stalled, the industrial park underdelivered. When Bill and Hillary Clinton flew to northern Haiti to inaugurate the $300m Caracol park in 2012, the overall project had created just 1,500 of the 65,000 jobs that were promised. In fact, many Haitians may have lost their livelihoods because of Caracol: in the end, 366 families were evicted from their land to make way for the project, according to a report by the NGO ActionAid. By June 2017, Caracol still employed only 13,000 people. (In an email, the Clinton Foundation wrote that “The Clinton Foundation did not have a role in building the Caracol Industrial Park and has never invested any funds into the park,” but acknowledged that as part of its wider goal of facilitating investment in Haiti, “the Foundation helped identify potential tenants, including Haitian companies, for the park”.)

As the US’s failure to deliver on its promises for the industrial park made international headlines, the faltering plans for the new port went overlooked. In 2013, USAid reallocated almost all of the $72m that was supposed to be used to build a new port to instead expand and modernise the small, dilapidated port in nearby Cap-Haïtien. US officials knew they were throwing good money after bad: two years prior, a study by the State Department concluded it would be a bad idea to attempt to expand that port because there simply was not enough land on which to do so.

The Cap-Haïtien port “is locked into the city”, Voltaire said. “There is no way you can expand the hangers, the customs, the container areas. There’s not enough space.” But USAid officials went ahead with it anyway. “To scrap it or to stop allocating money is to admit failure,” Johnston, the Haiti researcher said. “And that’s not something that USAid is good at.”

Finally, more than seven years after the port was conceived, USAid confronted reality. In May 2018, almost three years after a new port was originally supposed to be completed, USAid entirely abandoned its plans to build a new port or expand the old one. In August, a spokesperson explained the decision to me: “Based on proposals received and the current marketplace, it appeared that the cost of the project would significantly exceed the business forecast, cost estimate and available funding.” In short, a port was simply not economically viable. Which was precisely the conclusion that US audits and reports had come to dating back to 2011 – reports that USAid had ignored.

After the project was abandoned, US officials did not even bother to tell Haiti the news. When I visited Cap-Haïtien in December, Haitian port authorities were unaware that USAid had scrapped the project. “Last conversation we had, they told us the money is there,” Anaclé Gervè, the director of the Cap-Haïtien port, said. I told him what a USAid official told me: it had decided to cancel the port project six months earlier. Gervè leaned back in his chair. “Wow,” he said. “They didn’t tell us that.”

When I asked Gervè what the US’s $70m had achieved, he pointed to two concrete electricity poles, erected as part of a plan to connect the port to the public grid. USAid had paid for the poles, but had not strung the cables needed to electrify them.

By January 2019, nine years after the earthquake, USAid had spent $2.3bn in Haiti. Most of it was given to American companies and hardly any passed through Haitian hands. Less than 3% of that spending went directly to Haitian organisations or firms, according to research by CEPR. In contrast, 55% of the money went to American companies located in and around Washington DC. Most likely, according to the research, the majority of what USAid allegedly spent on Haiti’s recovery ended right back in the US.

It is not clear what happened to the money allocated for a port in Haiti, because USAid would not tell me. In August, it released a factsheet claiming that it still planned to invest in “infrastructure upgrades” at the port, such as “improving the electricity system”. Some of these were things the agency had committed to doing previously, but that had yet to be achieved by the time I visited last December. The factsheet gave no indication of how much money was being directed to these projects, or when they would be completed. In other words, even after abandoning the idea of building a new port in favour of expanding the old one, then abandoning plans to expand the old one, too, USAid is still making new promises, still claiming it will at least do something, despite its failure to make good on earlier promises dating back almost a decade. The only physical improvements the agency claims to have made at the port are “electrical lines, security wall upgrades, a pilot boat and a security card machine”. It also claims to have trained 575 Haitian customs officers, but did not say how many of them are employed at the Cap-Haïtien port.

Over the past 12 months, I have repeatedly asked USAid spokespeople for a breakdown as to how the $70m allocated to the Cap-Haïtien port was ultimately spent. In July 2018, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for documents relating to the port expenditures, and last October I resubmitted the request in further detail after discussing it on the phone with a USAid official. The agency acknowledged my request, but has yet to send me a single document in response to it.

“Seventy million dollars? It’s a lot of money” for a project that never materialised, said Voltaire. For that amount, “we could have a nice port in Saint-Marc”, just a few miles north-west of Haiti’s capital. In Canaan, a new city on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince that was formed after the earthquake, he added, “they could do 72km of nice road, or 72 primary schools,” with all that money. At the end of last year, Canaan – which is now Haiti’s third-largest city – had fewer than 5km of paved roads and just one public school, for a population of 300,000.

“Here you have an industrial park an eight-hour drive north from where the quake was,” said Johnston, referring to Caracol. “And then you have this city that’s just 8km north, that was created from the earthquake – and it’s gotten nothing.”

In post-earthquake Haiti, there were all manner of things the US could have spent its money on. It could have spent that money to revitalise Haiti’s agricultural sector. In a country where only one in four people have access to basic sanitation facilities, the US could have invested in building things such as flush toilets, sewers and sewage treatment plants. In a country where 59% of the population lives on less than $2.41 per day, the US could have simply given Haitians the money. Studies have shown that such “unconditional cash transfers” can be a more effective way to increase income and access to education and housing than many types of traditional “project-based” aid. But policies like cash transfers would have undermined the approach to aid in which rich countries simply prescribe “solutions” for poor ones, rather than allowing people to take their futures into their own hands.

Little about the US’s foreign policy toward Haiti has changed since the 2010 earthquake. The US continues to send the country surplus crops through the Food for Peace programme to this day. Hillary Clinton stepped down as US secretary of state in 2013, but her successors have championed the same sort of private-sector-focused development. USAid continues to spend money to boost Haiti’s textile industry, and the US government continues to advertise Haiti as a business opportunity for US investors.

In spite of its failures to ring in a new era of prosperity for Haiti by building an industrial park and a port, the US is undeterred in its belief that industry and manufacturing are the key to Haiti’s future. “Despite the challenges, there are opportunities in the Haitian market for small-to-medium-sized US businesses,” wrote the US Department of Commerce in August. “The apparel sector is the most promising opportunity in the manufacturing sector in Haiti.”

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30+ Japanese Names Meaning Water: Discover the Aquatic Beauty – Impeccable Nest

The Japanese culture is known for its rich symbolism and deep appreciation for nature. This is evident in the names they choose for their children, with many names being inspired by natural elements such as water. In this post, we will explore some of the beautiful Japanese names that mean water.

🌊 Mizu - This is perhaps the most simple and straightforward name on our list, as it directly translates to "water" in Japanese. It can be used for both boys and girls and is often associated with strength and purity.

🌊 Kai - Another unisex name, Kai means "ocean" or "sea." It can also represent the gentle flow of a river or the vastness of the ocean. This name is often given to children who are seen as calm and steady.

🌊 Mizuki - This poetic name combines the characters for "water" and "moon," creating a name that means "water and moon." It is often associated with elegance and tranquility and is a popular name for girls.

🌊 Haruka - This name has multiple

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Oh good point! I do think 773 is a clue but I didn't even think of 7th episodes, that could definitely be a layer of meaning behind it. One thing can have multiple different layers of meaning in this show which is the beauty of it. I even have another theory about the meaning behind this tattoo which I'll post another time but this is more relevant and I've been meaning to edit and post this meta so I'll just include the part about the numbers here since you mentioned it:

Carmy's 773 tattoo represents the Chicago area code but I think there's way more to it than that. It looks like 2 upside down 2's and a 3. To me that looks deliberate because the style choices of the 7's and the 3 don't even really match imo. Why have the 7's got curly motifs/glyphs on the ends and the 3 doesn't? And it just looks kinda odd, like it's meant to stand out and make people wonder about it... Like a lot of things in this show that end up being significant sydcarmy symbolism

You could even say metaphorically Syd and Carmy as individuals are "upside-down" in the way that they approach emotions, relationships, connection with others etc. That maybe a stretch tbh but there could be something in the fact they look like they're upside down. Or it could just be a deliberate style choice to confuse/mislead us.

I read a meta awhile ago on here that established that Carmy and Sydney are both the number 2. (If anyone has a link to that meta pls let me know so I can add it here.) The number 2 represents balance and putting 2 of them side by side can represent balance of each other like Yin and Yang. Also, this is just a random cute detail but if you mirror the number 2 and make them face each other it makes a love heart

I'm pretty sure love is what we're gonna get when SydCarmy finally face each other and focus on their similarities and how they balance each other out.

There's more to this numerology in the show with at least 3 of the songs used for sydcarmy mentioning the number 4 specifically, counting to the number 4, doing something 4 times, kisses in 4 places etc. 2+2=4. The deliberate visual mirroring of the table scene in 2x09 represents the centre point of their story, 2 seasons past and 2 seasons to go. Not entirely sure the significance of that yet but I think maybe we'll see 2 seasons focusing on Carmy's feelings and 2 seasons focusing on Sydney's (or at least more of a focus on Syd's for the next two seasons). In the first 2 seasons we didn't get that much of Sydney's POV, especially in regards to her feelings for Carmy, we're seeing their story develop mostly through Carmy's POV but I think that's about to change for the next 2 seasons. I don't think it'll be an obvious shift and the show will suddenly be all about Sydney but I do think we're going to get more of her POV for the next 2 seasons.

Also Richie's dialogue when they were moving the lockers in 2x01, he kept talking about doing 2 things twice over. (2 seasons for Carmy, 2 seasons for Syd and they're gonna go through a similar journey so it's like we're doing it twice over maybe..? Idk) It was so insignificant in the overall season/story and this show has no time limit on episodes so they don't have to add filler scenes but a lot of time was spent on those scenes and that dialogue so it has to mean something.

So back to the tattoo. We see these numbers (223) in this scene below with Syd and Richie when Carmy (2) asked Richie (3) to essentially be the go-between and ask Sydney (2) if the "I love you dude, let it rip" note is "too intense". This block of scenes is so significant but that's another meta. (Idk if this sequence of numbers shows up anywhere else, I'm guessing possibly in Claire's scenes maybe..? I just haven't had the time to rewatch and check but I'm leaning towards it symbolizing Richie as he is the 3rd main character and he's more significant to the story and to Carmy than Claire is. Sorry Claire. Plus I'm biased and I just don't love the idea of Carmy having a tattoo symbolising Claire 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Richie (3) is in between the two 2's which is reflected in the clock behind them: 2:32. Richie has been the thing in-between sydcarmy pretty much since the beginning. He tried to come between them numerous times in season 1, more on a professional level though and making Carmy choose between them. In season 2 he was instrumental in pushing Carmy to date Claire even though he knows there's something between sydcarmy. And in this scene in 2x08 Carmy (2) has literally asked Richie (3) to be the "go-between" between himself and Syd (2) and deliver this note to her.

Also important; this Syd and Richie scene is sandwiched in-between Carmy telling Fak "I just love her a lot"

And then directly after this we see Richie telling Syd that Carmy asked if a note saying I love you is "too intense".

Syd adjusts the note on the counter top and looks at it kinda sadly when Richie leaves, (Notice the song lyrics in the pic of the note just after Syd adjusted it, receiving that note was a "bitter sting". Also Syd calls Carmy dude and she called him that in one of their most intimate moments; the table scene 👀 ijs) then the shot goes back to Fak asking Carmy "how long until they can come back" Carmy says "3 weeks". I don't really have a theory to explain this dialogue yet, but I'm pretty sure it's important. I'm guessing 3 weeks means 3 seasons (but really 2 seasons and the rest of season 2) because I don't think we're getting sydcarmy on the same page and properly together until the very end of the show.

The next line of the song we hear clearly is after Fak and Carmy's convo above where it plays over this shot of Carmy staring into space deep in thought

(I just wanna make it clear this theory in no way cancels out what that note means to Carmy and the connection he has with Mikey. I think this is just another layer of meaning to it that doesn't necessarily contradict any other meaning it has. This show seems to love to do that to make things extra confusing!)

When I first noticed this connection of 223 I thought the 3 represented Claire and/or Marcus but it makes sense it's Richie because he's the one that's been actively and intentionally keeping sydcarmy apart, standing between them so to speak. Another interesting point is the parallels between Mikey & Carmy and Sydney & Carmy, Richie was the 3rd that kind of got in between both dynamics. I don't think it was intentional with Mikey (I hope not at least) but it was intentional with Sydney. I think Richie has his reasons, he's a significant part of the show so I don't think he's just there to be the villain but time will tell.

I know we're told these stories about the meanings behind Carmy's tattoos but I'm sorry I just don't believe them, they just don't make sense based on what we know imo. The actors and show runners have lied about multiple things to do with the story in this show so I don't think it's a stretch to say they weren't completely honest about these tattoos. The black and white figures reaching for the star...how does that represent Mikey and Nat? Who is the black one? Or who did Carmy see as dark and light? Because he didn't even know about Mikey's addiction and based on the way he speaks about their relationship and what we've seen of them interact, I don't think he saw him as being dark or troubled. I think he saw Mikey's life as perfect and everything Carmy wished he had. He implied as much in his 1x08 monologue. We as the viewer may see the symbolism of dark and light in Nat and Mikey in the show but Carmy didn't see that so how does that tattoo represent them? Carmy had no idea Mikey was on drugs or even in the mental space to end his life. Why/how Carmy didn't know about Mikey's addiction was a pretty significant question posed in season 1, that was suddenly forgotten about. In fact I think all the significant questions that have been posed, that made us wonder and were then just dropped tell us where this show is going and how it will possibly end.

The significant questions off the top of my head:

1. Why did Mikey shut Carmy out? (Carmy, at least, still doesn't understand why.)

2. Why didn't Carmy know about Mikey's addiction?/How could he NOT know?

3. Why did Carmy give Claire a fake number?

Number 3 is my personal fav and I can't wait to see how Claire figures it out...because she is going to. You don't introduce a character to the audience as "curious", have them ask a specific question multiple times across multiple episodes and not have them find the answer eventually. She's going to notice how he acts with Syd vs how he acts with her.

I really think Carmy and Claire will end the show as just friends. The highschool friend that Carmy always wanted but never had. They keep telling us sydcarmy is platonic but we know it's romantic at it's core and platonic on the surface. It's Carmy/Claire's relationship that is platonic at it's core but romantic on the surface imo. Chasing down someone who gave you the wrong number and that entire vibe and approach in their first phonecall is something you'd do to a childhood family friend but not to someone you wanna date. It's so unlikely to me that a woman would do that and then try to date the guy. All the sidequests they go on are things you'd do with friends, they didn't go on any romantic dates. Their whole dynamic is like friends who just happen to kiss and have sex imo, the same way sydcarmy is like a married couple who just happen to not do any of that...yet.

And I think by the end of the show Richie will get out of Syd and Carmy's way and be standing beside them, supporting them instead of in-between them and keeping them apart. And Carmy's tattoo could be a very subtle nod to how this show will end and how our 3 main characters will end up. Syd and Carmy together with Richie (and everyone else) by their side.

Wait up! Is 773 a clue?

If what @outmakingmoonshine decoded here is true we need to be very mindful of eps #7 in every season.

Season 1 >>> Review

Season 2 >>> Forks (love story soundtrack, Romeo… bla bla bla🎶🎶🎶)

Season 3 >>> I’m sooo nerveous I can’t… is it gonna be 03x07? Foreshadowed as usually Storer does by ep 5 and reaching the “climax”/cliffhanger by ep 10? Is ep 7 gonna be the Sydcarmy breakthrough?

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