#affirming this goes viral

[ramble-monty-june]

it should be common sense that a kid shouldn't have to do everything their parent says because “they’re the parent, and they're the child.”

i am telling you, they're both human beings with the same human rights.

there should be reason, and negotiation.

it should be common sense that parents being able to force their kids to go anywhere without their consent is problematic.

pressure CPS. pressure the incompetent.

@ list below

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[gothamundernightlight]

Random Shit the Waynes Do on Social Media

Dick:

- The white whale of D1 and Olympic gymnastics athletes; always stitches their stunts and challenges, executing them perfectly, but no one knows who he is or who trained him

- Shares pictures of random children, and the whole internet becomes a detective trying to figure out if Bruce Wayne adopted another kid or if his gymnastics students won another trophy

- Photo montages of Haley being the cutest, which slowly transitions into Haley in whatever cute hat the internet can send to Dick’s PO Box

- Random video of him skydiving while giving tips on what to do if your chute doesn’t deploy. He never deploys his chute doing the video and no one can tell if it’s a bit or not.

Jason:

- AI Voiceover text posts providing surprisingly insightful analysis into classic literature

- A full six part rant on the Broadway adaptation of “The Great Gatsy”

- Random selfies complete with wildly made up backstories of any and every new injury he has

- Prank war on Damian specifically (this was intended for Talia but his finger slipped and now the whole internet loves it)

Tim:

- Randomly goes live to do study/work/research with me sessions complete with an actually decent Lofi soundtrack that no one can find (He totally mixes it himself but won’t admit it)

- Did ONE social media vlog for WE’s marketing division and it went so viral he gets forced to do more. The dead eyed stare he gives the camera with every stupid dance the intern teaches him makes the video top-tier

- Cute couples videos with Bernard

- Skateboard tricks (and fails)

- Screenshots of text conversations between him and his siblings discussing the most random shit??

Cass:

- Dance routines/pre-show/GRWM videos

- Shakily filmed videos of her kicking Dick’s ass and everyone just calls her a baddie in the comments. She doesn’t know what that means but she appreciates the love.

- Her and Steph’s late night food runs with the two of them just belting out to a song in a dark parking lot

Steph:

- Posts riddles and puzzles and how to solve them. She’s really good at it. Riddler hates her.

- Apartment tour of all the purple shit she owns. She’ll never admit that the room she’s showing off is her Wayne Manor bedroom, so everyone believes she just has a moderately sized loft apartment somewhere and she just never shows the kitchenette

- Her and Cass’s late night food runs with the two of them just belting out to a song in a dark parking lot

- POV shots of her going up to the boys asking them random questions. Dick matches her energy. Jason tells her to fuck off. Tim is barely conscious. Damian always has an overly rational answer to take the fun out of it. Duke just stares blankly at her (he always comes back later with a proper answer now that he’s had time to think about it). Bruce just stares blankly at her

Damian:

- Art reveals that never get many views but he’s still proud of nonetheless. Dick always comments on them to hype him up

- Accidentally recreates a popular vine that went viral and it’s just him insulting fellow GA kids under his breath but one of them says hi to him and he’s instantly polite back. His most popular video

- The multi-part experiment of him trying to Pavlov Tim, and when it actually works, Tim just chases Damian around the manor. The video cuts to black frames after Tim takes a flying launch at him

- All the pet videos. There are so many. People try to cancel him for exploiting them, but Damian clearly demonstrates that he would never force his animals to participate for views and how they will just leave if they don’t want to do something. Batcow is in the background just two-stepping unprompted

Duke:

- Every morning without fail, he posts a daily sunrise pic of Gotham, with a positive affirmation caption. One day he’s sick and he wakes up to a thousand messages of people panicking because their favorite poster has disappeared. He never misses a sunrise again

- Passionate rants about local government. Will not shut up about it. He might be an anarchist, but he’s forever remain optimistic that one day the systems that define society will one day actually work for all people. Bruce has every single one saved so he can implement Duke’s ideas into reality

- Boxing videos of him training with Luke. It’s never meant to be a thirst trap…but sometimes it is

- Dumb selfies. Duke unironically loves taking them, no matter what face he pulls, what filter he uses, not even caring where he is. This gets him in trouble the one time he posts one of him leaning off the edge of a high rise roof

Babs:

- Constant lectures on cybersecurity and internet safety. She teaches this at the library as a volunteer but feels she can reach a lot of people by building a platform

- Computer build stuff. Brands reach out to her for her reviews and she thoroughly discusses each product in length

- Rarely posts about her disability, but absolutely tears people to shreds when they make ableist comments about her. The only time she brings it up first is when City Hall takes over a month to fix their elevator and she calls them out on it

Harper:

- Electronics repairs. She constantly takes things apart to teach people how to fix it, and this can range from toys to cars. On more than one occasion , her video has been interrupted by someone who planned to be using the vehicle she’s just taken apart

- 2 AM hair dye/maintenance sessions. She constantly gets comments from men being like “Therapy works too, y’know” or “No, you’re so beautiful? Why would you do that to yourself.” She responds to the comments with a video of a gun pointed at the camera with the sole caption being “Fuck Off.”

- Gym videos. She and Dick work out together and he’s the ultimate hype man

- Outfit montages of her getting ready for a random gala and she’s always pulling off the most masc-looking suits that look gorgeous on her

Helena:

- Target practice. She does all kinds of trick shots and crazy crossbow stunts in a wide variety of outfits. Her most popular video is of her in a corset and platform heels.

- Her and Steph bonding over all things purple

- Outfit of the Day posts. The girl has expensive tastes and she absolutely shows it off.

Bruce:

- Occasionally does promo stuff for WE (because Tim refuses to do all of it, and their social media intern won’t back down)

- Shares absolutely wild stories from his college years that somehow always get proven to be true even when the whole comments section is just like “this seems false???”

- Kid tour. He saw one mom do it and felt sad bc he’s never get the kids to agree, but somehow they all did (Alfred bribed them.)

- Shares everything from each one of the charities he’s involved with. Has reposted every single one of their posts on his own personal channel. It raises them hundreds of followers each time.

- One of the kids posted a video montage of Bruce being Brucie and it’s so utterly humiliating? But he won’t delete it because all of the comments say he’s their favorite billionaire and that’s more than his own kids will say.

- Random Pride Month post. Every year it catches people by surprise and every gossip magazine always wonders if Bruce is coming out. He’s just being an ally (and potentially is in denial).

Alfred:

- Prefers not to use social media, but one of the boys filmed him doing random things to teach the internet how to do things properly, like making the bed, doing laundry, etc. Is the internet’s favorite grandpa.

[okkalo]

idk if this is where u request stuff but here it goes….have u seen the tik tok trend where the girl would be fixing her lipstick and then the camera points to the guy who has lipstick stains all over him and looking at the girl with all the affection in the world…

can u plssss do something like this w blue lock boyss (mainly rin, barou, bachira, and sae) with a social media influencer s/o

it’s fine if u don’t!!

have a great day!! and drink lots of water!!🩵

hello!! thank u so much for the request and the kind words!! i hope u have a good day as well and remember to take care of urself!! 🫶

characters: rin, sae, barou, bachira,and karasu (yk i had to do him)

i’m a lover

rin

- he definitely put up a fight not to be in this one

- he’s not a social media fan whatsoever

- and he hated thinking about the freak out the media would have seeing THE rin itoshi simp over someone

- he was mostly scared of the blue lock boys finding out about the tiktok and teasing him for it

- but with enough convincing you got him to do it with you

- was so flustered when you started kissing him everywhere

- he would’ve given you a hard time but then you started kissing him all over his face and he just went speechless

- actually got the look down on the first try

- you thought it would’ve taken at least 10 for him to give you a soft look but he actually nails it

- the video definitely goes viral and definitely makes it’s way to the rest of the blue lock boys.

- he figured it was worth it though because he got to have you kissing him everywhere

you thought right from the moment rin’s mouth opened that he was going to nonstop talk about how dumb this whole thing is. but, he didn’t. he was sitting patient, his hand resting on your thigh as you reapplied your lipstick again. he secretly loved this, you could tell by the way he was blushing and avoiding your eye contact every time you went in for a kiss. and though he was being amazingly quiet, you had to give him some sort of a tease. you planted a hand on his cheek, waiting till his eyes met yours. once they did you gave a soft smile while going in for the last kiss. yeah, he was definitely flustered at that point. it was probably the only reason he got the look on the first go, however.

sae

- a lot easier to convince!!

- you only had to ask him twice!! we all know his i-don’t-care-what-the-media-thinks mindset.

- he acts so nonchalant about it but is so weak for you

- pretty much the opposite of rin

- his eyes never leave your face

- you probably get embarrassed because he is staring you down so far??

- and his hands are roaming up your waist at the same time??

- yeah he’s definitely doing this on purpose btw

- the only reason he agreed so easily was to make you embarrassed while doing so

- NAILS THE LOOK

- your breath caught in your throat seeing him looking at you like that

- flusters you even more by going in for a kiss

- he’s playing with you!!

- anyways it blows up, of course, with everyone freaking out in the comments about how weak they are for sae

- the final kiss part did make its way in the video too.

“okay sae, you ready?” you ask while fixing your hair and preparing the lipstick once again. once he hummed in affirmation, you pressed the button and waited for the music to start playing. sae was eager for his part of the video, his hand gently but firmly pushing your head to look his way. he definitely heard your breath hitch, a small smirk on his face as he went forward to give you a kiss. it was so breathtakingly good too, so much passion in the way your lips moved together. that didn’t stop sae from immediately pulling away as the sound stopped. “sae!” you whined, wanting more now.

“what? is there more to the video?” he innocently asked, getting up to leave. please just pull him back down.

barou

- no bc i KNOW u struggled to get him to do this

- the amount of scoffs and “tch”s you had to hear is insane

- he gives you such a hard time but i just know he feels so proud and cool doing it

- he gave you so much shit over everything though

- literally was complaining about how the lipstick felt on his skin at first

- he stuttered at first though because he was a little embarrassed over the thought of YOUR lipstick being all over him AND for show

- plays it off cool and acts like he’s not blushing

- tries to look in love with you but miserably fails 😭

- HE DOES LOVE YOU!! he’s just really awkward with trying to force the face

- it took you guys a good ten clips for him to finally make a somewhat good face

- he got so much shit from the blue lock boys but does not care whatsoever (he blushes a bit but that’s it)

- only cares once they start asking about you

- sendou and oliver are your new biggest simps!!

he knew it was a bad idea to do that video. now his teammates won’t shut up about you. “can we meet them?” what a dumb question. of course he won’t let them meet you. what’s his is his and he certainly doesn’t share, especially with his dumb teammates. you definitely had some making up to do once he got home from the annoying practice he had to put up with.

bachira

- literally jumped around in excitement when you brought the trend up

- he LOVES being on your social media!!

- is literally your biggest fan. he runs the fan club.

- every time you place a kiss on his face he will reciprocate the kiss on yours 🥹

- he is so adorable help me

- he also struggles with the face 😔

- it’s either too happy or too serious

- he gets it faster than barou though!!

- jumps on you and gives you a big smooch once you guys finish

- probably wants to do the same thing but swapped so he’s kissing you everywhere

- absolutely shows the video to everyone

- he’s literally spamming comments about how much he loves you too

- he’s so so happy he got to be in one of your videos <3

“okay, my turn now!” he exclaims while jumping off of you to find your lipstick again.

“your turn?” you ask, confused on what he was talking about. he only looks at you like you asked a dumb question before going back to uncapping your lipstick.

“to kiss you everywhere, duh.” you had to stifle a giggle as you watched his lips turn bright red.

“you already did that when it was my turn.”

“not enough!” you knew there was no arguing with him. it not like you could when he was already kissing you everywhere…again.

karasu

- smirked so hard when you asked him

- immediately agreed with some teasing of course

- makes you kiss him on the lips every time you kiss his face

- and it’s a deep kiss every time too

- one hand is rubbing up and down your waist while the other is on your nape to give you a push towards his lips

- he has the same objective as sae.

- however he also gets embarrassed once he peeks over to the mirror and sees your kiss outline everywhere

- that doesn’t stop him from teasing you though

- HE DID THE LOOK SO WELL TOO??

- GOD HELP ME I LOVE HIM

- he does the look so well that you’re the one smirking at the end because it reminds you he is SO down bad for you

- please kiss him afterwards

- he brushes all the comments of the blue lock boys aside

- probably shares the video to his social media because he’s so proud??

you just had to kiss him after the video. i mean seeing him like that? how couldn’t you? you did have to put up a fight to separate from him afterwards though, his lips not wanting to leave yours. he huffed out a sigh once you were successful with pulling away though, eyes fleeting to the mirror once again. “i look pretty good like this,” his statement makes you giggle. maybe you could indulge him for a longer kiss this time.

unedited thanks for reading!

[nerdygaymormon]

My 10 year Tumblr anniversary

June 2024 marks 10 years since I started this blog!

I originally began this blog as a way for me to follow discussions taking place on Tumblr about important topics in the LDS community, like racism or Ordain Women, which couldn't be discussed in mainstream LDS spaces. 

I soon found the LGBTQ+ LDS community which called themselves queerstake. I would message them and make comments on their posts, and they gently encouraged me to write my own blog posts to share my thoughts with others. I resisted, thinking I had nothing of value to add to the conversation and no one would be interested in what I had to say. I finally wrote my first blog post in June 2016 and it was about meeting the Sistas in Zion and sharing that I'm gay and the kindness of their reaction. That post got exactly zero likes or comments, reaffirming my belief that I didn't have anything of interest to share. I didn't write another post until August and it got a few likes and that was enough, I wrote several more posts that month and haven't stopped.

I used to go to blogging sites to find blogs by queer Latter-day Saints. Their stories resonated with me and felt important. Usually they began with someone coming home from their mission, which they hoped would be rewarded by God removing their gayness, and being disappointed or surprised this didn't happen. They expressed a commitment to staying in the church, but as the months went by they more and more wrote about the hurt they experienced, the pain of church policies aimed at them, insensitive encounters with church members and leaders, and anger at things said in General Conference. Typically there would be entries for a few months and then the blog goes silent, no more entries. 

I would think of not just how important these blogs were to me, but in some distant future they would be of interest to historians wanting to better understand what it was like to be a queer Mormon at a time of big changes in society and the LDS Church. 

Most of those blogs were written by folks in their 20's and lasted just a few months to maybe up to 2 years. I thought perhaps writing as someone in their 40's would add to these voices, and for it to matter I needed to be authentic in sharing my thoughts, feelings and experiences, showing the good, bad, and ugly. I honestly was surprised and thrilled if I had a post reach 40 or 50 likes, and was unprepared for having a post in 2017 get clicked on more than a half-million times.

Since my viral post a lot of younger queer people started following me. I still wanted to be honest and authentic and vulnerable, but I also wanted my blog to be a queer-positive space, which is why is have many posts with rainbows so visually it's clear this is a blog of a queer person. 

I started getting many messages with questions, often anonymously which meant the only way I could respond was by posting my answer to my blog. I soon felt like I was the Dear Ann Landers of Queerstake and have posted about 2000 responses since 2017, which averages to about 150 such responses per year. 

Because queer people usually don't grow up being taught about queer history and culture, I will occasionally make posts about such things, including about LDS queer history because as a queer Mormon, I can be proud of the LDS pioneer and pioqueer legacies. 

The person who started this blog 10 years ago could never have imagined I would be out to everyone in my life, and once I was out that I would still be a member of the LDS Church and get to meet General Authorities, that I would have my words published in books, be a guest on podcasts, or serve in the leadership of an organization (Affirmation) for queer people. It's been a wild ride.

[enddaysengine]

Alberta's Transphobic Government

I try really really hard to keep this blog about RPGs and writing. I really do. But when someone comes for my students, fists gets thrown.

We've seen the rise of transphobic legislation in various US states, as well as in Saskatchwan and New Brunswick. Now Alberta has joined the party. Despite the premier pointing out that there are trans youth in her extended family (I don't know how close the relation is, but somewhere in her close family) and swearing to not marginalize trans youth in the last election.

And ohhhh boy oh boy, my home province is once again aiming to hit the bottom of the barrel

Here's the tl;dr (quoted from the article):

Top and bottom surgeries will be banned for minors aged 17 and under. Doctors say bottom surgeries aren't performed on youth and top surgeries are rare.

Puberty blockers and hormone therapies for gender affirmation will not be permitted for children aged 15 and under.

Youths aged 16 and 17 will be permitted to start hormone therapies for gender affirmation "as long as they are deemed mature enough" and have parental, physician and psychologist approval.

Parental notification and consent will be required for a school to alter the name or pronouns of any child under age 15. Students who are 16 or 17 won't need permission but schools will need to let their parents know first.

Parents will have to "opt-in" their children every time a teacher plans to teach about gender identity, sexual orientation or sexuality. Alberta law currently requires parental notification and gives them the option to opt students out.

All third-party teaching materials on gender identity, sexual orientation or sexuality will need to be approved in advance by the education ministry.

Transgender women will be banned from competing in women's sports leagues. Smith said the government will work with leagues to set up coed or gender-neutral divisions for sports.

This goes well beyond what SK and NB have passed. It violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but Smith doesn't care and will likely use the Notwithstanding Clause to bypass it. Parents, medical professionals, and educators have all reacted with justified outrage. It is clear to those of us who care about youth that these policies will kill.

There is flattly no way in hell I will be deadnaming my students. For a government that says they want to remove red tape and bureaucracy, making parents opt-in to every single lesson involving anything other than heteronormativity sure seems like trying to use red tap to make teaching anything other than their ideology impossible.

What can you do to help?

If you are in Alberta, raise holy hell. Call your MLA, show up at the protests, add your voice to the chorus screaming that we don't want this.

If you are in Canada, there are also demonstrations in support of trans youth going on across the country. Let your MP know as well.

If you aren't from Canada, solidarity and visibility help! We've all seen how this shit has gone down in Florida and elsewhere. We need to stand together to stop this tide.

If you have business ties to Alberta and are able to divist them, please let the Alberta government know you are planning to do so if these proposals become law

Donate to 2SLGBTQ+ organizations in Alberta.

This is not the content I want to go viral from me... but if I have to choose one, make it this one. Please help us proect our kids.

[instantmanifestation]

I’m A Star 📸 Affirmations

Fame follows me everywhere I go.

Everything I do goes viral.

The Universe wants me to be seen & heard.

I am everybody’s favorite person.

I am amazing.

My life is a dream come true.

[insolentgod]

If you need motivation on your loa journey or are experiencing difficulties, this post is for you. warning: i still don't speak english fluently, so if I have grammatical errors it's for that reason.

hi guys, maybe I'm high! i was watching the trend on TikTok of Lana Del Rey's song "Margaret" (yes, maybe I cried watching some videos, but that's not the point!!!) and the song has nothing to do with manifestation lol. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

listening to a viral part of the song made me really want to come here and maybe motivate someone who needs it, so if this reached you, it's because you need it.

the part goes like this: "Because when you know, you know. When you're old, you're old."

and all I can think of is the law of assumption when I hear that. because WHEN YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW! your 3D only reflects when you KNOW THAT YOU HAVE IT. when I say I'm pretty, I'm pretty. when I say I'm rich, I'm rich. THE END, just THE END. there's no "but..." "I don't see..." "it doesn't seem like it's going to happen" baby, that really doesn't matter. just KNOW, know that you have it!!!! and WHEN YOU KNOW, you know. and when you know, you have it. it's simple, stop complicating things, it has to happen. and guess what? it will become reality because YOU SAID IT WILL, because you said it's THE TRUTH.

just leave the 3D alone, my life LITERALLY turned around when I left that damn 3D alone and believed in what >I< was saying. and I'm still a bit skeptical about some topics but I chose to give myself this opportunity to trust myself for the first time with my manifestations and take advantage of this chance to have my dream life, and I will never regret it. because when I TRUSTED MYSELF and said "I have this shit and I don't care if the world is falling apart around me, I still have it." that's when I finally had my desires.

gurl, I just want you to please, if you're struggling. leave the 3D alone! "but I'm manifesting my SP and he just married someone else" leave the 3D alone. "but I'm manifesting my dream body and the mirror is showing the opposite" leave the 3D alone. "but I'm manifesting making 10k a month and they want to evict me from my apartment because I'm behind on rent" leave the 3D alone (obviously do what you can to not be evicted from your home, don't be so crazy lmao). just focus on your affirmations, live in the state, visualize, WHATEVER FUCK IT. just trust yourself and work on your self-concept (because when you have a healthy self-concept, love, you have the world at your feet).

another part that I think is worth mentioning here is this: "So if you don't know, don't give up. 'Cause you never know what the new day might bring."

It's okay if you don't "know" and don't believe in yourself yet, you can definitely change that. just don't give up, if you know about the law of assumption it's for a reason. I believe in you and you should too, manifesting is so simple but so many people spend YEARS complicating it (I will never judge you for this, I have definitely been there several times) . if so many people have achieved their dream lives, give me a good reason why you can't achieve it too? the universe shouldn't hate you like that. just give yourself a vote of confidence and live in your damn imagination, i swear, I swear that if you live 100% in your little imagination, the 3D HAS NO OTHER OPTION but to reflect it. bro... this got longer than it was supposed to be. i'm sleepy and high, so that makes me talkative (unbelievable). but I really want this TESTAMENT to help someone, if it motivates one person, I'm already very happy. i'm thinking of making more posts, I don't know, I'm just sleepy. sleep well my loves and don't make me have written this for nothing.

[theshiftingwitch]

She's so popular ✨

Affirmations:

I am so popular

Everybody knows my name

I have an army of fans

Everywhere I go, people know me

Everybody wants to be me

I'm extremely popular

People only say good things about me

Everybody always praises me

Everyone wants to be with me

I'm always in demand

I get invited to the best events

Everyone always gives me free things

I am drowning in luxury gifts

Every one of my post goes viral instantly

I have millions of followers on social media

My confidence attracts people to me

My personality makes me very popular

Everyone around me loves spending time with me

I am the life of every party

My fashion sense sets the trends

I am the main character of the gorgeous movie that is my life

Men always fall at my feet

Everyone wants to be around me

Everyone wants to please me

Good things come to me on a daily basis

I'm always receiving great compliments

My beauty is the standard

My popularity is unbelievable

I have movie star status

Everyone always tries to copy me but no one comes close to the original

If life was a popularity contest I would always win

I create the beauty standards

My face card never declined

My body is the definition of fit

I am so popular

Happy manifesting ❤️

[copperbadge]

In Re: Carlo and Pride, I imagine Caleb's reaction to Galia's Big Shiny Parade will be something along the lines of "Good for them! Still not going!!!!!!!" ?

AHAHAHA yeah, I mean -- I think Caleb is softening a little towards Galia, because he's reached a point where he kind of knows who he is and who he wants to be, and he's comfortable with that, has a strong support network, a loving partner, social capital. But Fons-Askaz is his home, and if anything his conversation with Michaelis, where Michaelis is like "But you live, eat, teach, pay taxes here...you are Shivadh in any way that matters" affirmed that Galia is not somewhere he particularly wants or needs to return to.

There is a short story, not completed yet because I'm not sure where all it's going, where Caleb writes a song about Duke Tomas and drops it on Photogram, and it goes viral:

The app popped up the Photogram account of the Duchessa's younger brother, Lord Milo Ansevali, secretary to the duchy. His latest post was a video titled Reaction To 'Punching Down' by Caleb Canto. 

Ah, shit. 

Caleb sighed and clicked on it.

Ansevali had an earbud in one ear, and a mug of steaming tea in one hand, the teabag's tag dangling visibly. As the intro to Caleb's latest song came on over the video, he nodded his head in time, then set down the mug to start shoulder-dancing to it; when Caleb hit the first chorus, where the song got pretty intense pretty quickly, the camera began to shake wildly as Lord Milo enthusiastically rocked out. Caleb watched, fascinated, as one of the most powerful men in Galia began to headbang blurrily. 

The chorus came to an end and the camera went still; Ansevali, visibly breathing heavily, went still again as well, only nodding his head gently. As the song hit the line Even his kids don't want his job, he delicately lifted his mug to his mouth and sipped, and the screen went black. 

In the notes, he'd pinned a comment by the official Photogram of the Duchess of the Horse of the House of Galia, his older sister, Duchessa Ofelia. In Italian, it read How much would we need to pay Caleb Canto to move back to Galia?

Lord Milo had replied, Why pay him to move back? He's making our point for us from the Ask.

Caleb, who was not especially good at Photogram but was constantly around people who were, considered what Noah or Jerry would say if they were pretending to be him on his Photogram, as they sometimes had in the past. Then he opened the reply thread and tapped out, With affection for the Duchess from an Abdicaristo, I can't leave Askazer-Shivadlakia. My first love is the sea.

("Abdicaristo/a/e" is the term for a supporter of the political movement to democratize Galia and for Ofelia to abdicate the throne in favor of a parliamentary government. Ofelia is the head of the movement, which Caleb speculates makes life in the Palazzo Cavallo very exciting.)

[themagikmirror]

⬆️💰Popularity ≠ the Need for More📈

Earth signs have a beautiful way of teaching us lessons about value and how we should determine worth in things and people in life, including ourselves, our gifts and talents we offer. At the beginning of the year, I prepared a survival guide/write up about this transit explaining things to watch for, but of course I cannot predict every single lesson and experience that will come with a new transit. Especially one we haven't experienced in 12 years and for those of us a bit younger, ever in life. Jupiter was last in Taurus around the year 2012/2013.

Journal Prompt : find ways to revisit 2012-2013 in your life and connect its importance to where you are now in your journey. If you can successfully make connections between those time periods, you've assessed a Jupiter Return in your life without the help of an astrologer!

One of the biggest issues that Jupiter in Taurus points to is GREED.

If you have major sidereal placements such as Jupiter, Saturn or multiple planets in your birth chart in Taurus, this year may have caused you to face issues with over saturation (aka : putting out too much too soon : overdoing, over-giving, oversharing) or over consumption (taking in too much, too fast, too soon)

Notice this is an issue rooted in BALANCE (Venus ; the heart)

There is content surfacing the internet now called "de-hauling" where the creators demonstrate how much we don't need whatever trendy item has gone viral that influencers, celebs and smaller creators promote. De-hauling content is meant to remind us that most times we already have what we need. It's just not shiny, brand new & trending. It promotes the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" logic around household items, fashion & more. It's meant to help viewers feel comfortable/re-normalize not participating in trends or spending unnecessarily to fit whatever (current) aesthetic they're viewing or rather constantly being force fed by media. Although this type of content goes against the grain, it's necessary and affirming for the times we live in with price gauging, a slippery-slope economy & tough job market. I, personally, find it also inspires originality, authenticity and a well fitted life! When we're not constantly consuming, partaking and buying into whatever is the latest fad, ideology, aesthetic and mood is we can actually do something amazing called : BEING OURSELVES.

Seriously, look around and you'll notice that some people don't even really know what they like/don't like anymore. Everything becomes cookie cutter after a while as a result of programming and predetermined lifestyles to follow. People don't have much preference, personality, styles or ideas of their own due to being over saturated with (online) trends and the pressure to keep up, compare or even compete. There's no imagination in that. Just copy & paste. both Saturn in Aquarius and Taurus, especially in Jupiter, is actually the solution to this problem. Jupiter is all about becoming conscious/aware of something/someone that maybe you weren't before. So with Jupiter going through Taurus we are becoming more conscious/remembering that trends are just that, trends! We ultimately have a choice to follow or not. We can actually stop to think about the things we buy, use, eat, wear, follow, believe, participate in, etc. to ask questions like is this healthy, good for the environment, cost friendly and more, that challenge the true nature and value of what we consume. We also can reclaim our creativity. This year I've definitely gone shopping a bit. Back in 2022, Mars spent a lot of time in Taurus and we had a domination of all Earth signs occupying the late Summer/early fall sky. I then discovered this same concept of "de-hauling" on my own, before I came across it online. I discovered, for example : I actually had an abundance of (more than enough) lotions, hair products, make up, etc. in my cabinets. I had slowly become a collector of products. COLLECTOR is a key word here because I was not regularly using many of the items I had. So in 2022 I decided to change. I began really using products to completion before investing in new things I needed/wanted to try. This same logic carried over to my grocery shopping. Instead of making a grocery list based on recipes with a bunch of items I didn't have stocked, I started making grocery lists around recipes that used ingredients already in the fridge and pantry. Resourcefulness and conservation actually began inspiring my creativity, self care and beauty!

🗝️ TO ABUNDANCE : Acknowledge what you already have

Just because something is popular, viral, sought after, praised, etc. doesn't mean it's necessary. High Demand ≠ High Value / Necessity. Just because you are asked for more doesn't mean you necessarily have to/need to give, do,be more. Especially if these things rob you of an authentic presence. This year some of us may have experienced a new level or perspective of abundance, but likely all of us had to learn the lesson of CONTENTMENT and “ENOUGH”. Not always will MORE be presented, necessary or available to you or from you. Sometimes this is due to total misalignment, other times it is simply out of season. Full presence allows CLARITY and appreciation for what's around and in front of us.

2024 is the year of reclaiming/expanding/healing our 3rd eye. One of the best things that we can do to reclaim & heal both our literal and figurative vision (aka : imagination) is in learning how to clearly see both face value & beyond simultaneously. Seeing what's plain, but also intuitive allows us to get creative and see improvements, possibilities and the future that we wish to create for ourselves. It also helps us navigate life with discernment. But first, we must SEE with our own eyes/imagination instead of having a vision or expectation handed to us that we readily accept without examination. A funny example of this is me driving down the interstate, seeing a billboard ad for a restaurant's food. My third eye showed me a plate full of shit instead of a plate full of food, not because they were advertising that, but because my intuition showed me that's basically what WAS being advertised : a visit to the bathroom! LMAO

Not being present, living in the past or the future, distorts and depreciates the value of what/who we already have. A crucial part of being present, regulated, balanced & abundant exists in constant gratitude. We always will have enough, even to share with others with an adjusted mindset and POV of thankfulness. When Jupiter went retrograde around October 9th, 2024, I was led to do protection work to deal with energies (people) surrounding me. In the midst of the working, per usual, things were revealed. Often times when doing magik, my ancestors & guides reveal the root of what I'm facing so that it can be dealt with fully. It was brought to my attention that I was surrounded by individuals struggling with spirits of LACK & GREED , 2 sides of the same coin really. During this working, I was also taught the root of these issues were ultimately matters of the heart.

With bibliomancy, Spirit showed me Luke Ch. 12 : Parable of the Rich Fool , Do Not Worry & Watchfulness -- spells/scriptures I now recommend reading to banish spirits of lack and greed in your life, invite the spirit of abundance, shift your mindset toward gratitude, raise your vibration and offer heart healing-- in summary :

all riches are fundamentally manifestations of the heart & the heart is a space of servitude. In order to live in abundance, one must be willing to take action, serve & share with others . . .

not to a detriment, but to promote well being for self and all. This is how we know if we are moving from the heart.

GREED is perversions of what the heart truly desires. Greed turns any and every abundance into LACK. While the Spirit of Lack makes what you actually have disappear. The ways in which we are blessed become invisible to us when our heart isn't right. Abundance is not quantifiable, it’s an experience where we get to decide that we can, do and will have more than enough! Cleanse your heart space ending 2024 so that your third eye can be fully opened to your next level, your wealth, your abundance, your open road. Make sure you're ending 2024 with the right energies in your heart by watching this video for the Libra New Moon from November 1st (via sidereal astro)

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Republicans: WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDEN?!? DONT YOU CARE ABOUT THEIR LIFE AND WELL BEING?!?!?

Also Republicans: I'm gonna spend 3 years allowing my child's mental health to deteriorate and ignore the issue until it solves itself because i own their body mind and soul and i know what's best for them even when I literally don't care if they kill themselves, also, wow how selfish to make this situation about you not about me.

A recent comment by a Montana state lawmaker who sponsored legislation to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors has gone viral and drawn backlash online.

"One of the big issues that we have heard today and we've talked about lately is that without surgery the risk of suicide goes way up. Well, I am one of those parents who lived with a daughter who was suicidal for three years," Seekins-Crowe said in her remarks in March. "Someone once asked me, 'Wouldn't I just do anything to help save her?' And I really had to think and the answer was, 'No.'"

"I was not going to give in to her emotional manipulation because she was incapable of making those decisions and I had to make those decisions for her," Seekins-Crowe said. She continued, "I was not going to let her tear apart my family and I was not going to let her tear apart me because I had to be strong for her, I had to have a vision for her life when she had none, was incapable of having none." Seekins-Crowe said that she was scared and "spent hours on the floor in prayer because I didn't know that when I woke up, if my daughter was going to be alive or not. But I knew that I had to make those right decisions for her so that she would have a precious, successful adulthood at that time."

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., lambasted the GOP state lawmaker on Twitter on Thursday for her remarks

"I vehemently disagree with this speech by GOP state rep Kerri Seekins-Crowe. But you know what she didn’t say? That it should be the government’s role to make personal decisions for families. Why is she now shoving her private decision down other people’s throats?" he wrote.

This is peak authoritarian narcissistic parent behaviour: "it hurts me so much that you are living as an independent individual with your own identity! YOU ARE TEARING ME APART BY LIVING FREELY AND OUTSIDE MY INFLUENCE AND APPROVAL!"

And Ted Lieu made a great point: this woman knows not accepting her child could result in suicide, she's not even truly denying that like most conservatives atrempt to, she does not care if her child killed themselves, but she's such a cowardly cunt sociopath that she can't have blood on her hands by herself, no, she wants her cruelty and narcissism to be enforced by the state so even supportive parent may have to deal with their children suffering, she wants her cruelty to become the norm"

That's exactly what republicans are doing, forcing their ideological motivations and behaviours unto citizen's as a whole so they don't feel alienated for being judged for their inhumane behaviour, they don't want to be on the wrong did soft history, but they sure want to force everyone else to be there to pull focus away from them.

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A violent man leads other violent men to vandalize a place of cultural significance because he was told to leave the women's restroom. After the cinema apologized and the security guards were fired. This became just an excuse to vandalize and steal.

By Nuria Muíña García. September 22, 2023

A trans-identified male led a gang of activists to ransack the concession of a culturally significant cinematheque in Mexico last week in protest of his removal from the women’s washroom.

On September 12, a man calling himself “Laura Glover” took to social media to complain that he had been physically removed from the women’s washroom at the National Cinematheque in Mexico City, the nation’s most culturally significant film archive and theatre.

Following his removal, Glover went to lodge a complaint against the guards at one of the cinema’s offices, where an employee asked him to calm down and referred to him as “sir,” which, in his own words, “invalidated his gender identity.”

Glover was then recorded by his friend confronting security outside of the cinema, screaming at a male guard for the behavior of the female officer who had initially asked him to leave the women’s facilities.

“This is an act of discrimination by the National Cinematheque of Mexico,” Glover exclaimed in the video. “We women are tired. This bitch beat at my door and she hit it very hard and this happened at the National Cinematheque of Mexico.”

Towards the end of the short clip, initially uploaded to Instagram, Glover was seen verbally attacking the female guard, calling her sexist slurs and attempting to stalk her across the entrance path as she tried to keep her distance from him.

Within hours of the clip going viral on social media, the Cinematheque issued a statement apologizing to Glover and reaffirming its commitment to “non-discrimination.”

In the apology, uploaded to the Cinematheque’s official X account, the cultural site goes on to state it was committing to the re-education of its employees, and would be sending staff to “training, awareness and professionalization courses on human rights, the right to non-discrimination and the right to equality.”

But despite receiving an official apology and the termination of the security guards involved in the incident, Glover called for a protest at the Cinematheque on September 16, demanding the resignation of the cultural heritage site’s managing director, Alejandro Pelayo.

According to Excélsior, the protest was attended by approximately “500 members of the trans and non-binary community, as well as LGBT+ dissidents.” Glover used a loudspeaker to call the Cinematheque transphobic, and was later seen encouraging members of his gang to ransack and steal from the cinema’s concession stand.

During the protest, Glover presented a petition calling for both the resignation of Cinematheque manager Pelayo and a 30% employment quota for people who claim to be trans.

Outside the Cinematheque, trans activists vandalized screens and walls, spray painting slogans such as “Let us shit, Cineteca NaZional.”

Glover has threatened another protest at the Cinematheque this coming Saturday, complaining that his demands have not yet been met by Cinematheque administrators.

Trans activists in Mexico are known for being particularly violent and staging aggressive or hostile demonstrations against those they disagree with.

Earlier this year, trans activists violently attempted to siege Mexico City’s Congress after an initiative was introduced to ban minors from accessing “gender affirming” surgery. In disturbing footage circulated on X from both inside and outside of the House of Congress, a hoard of screaming trans activists were seen smashing their way into the historic building by beating and breaking the glass window panels open.

In July of 2022, a transgender politician violently disrupted a government conference aimed at tackling human trafficking after becoming offended at the implications abolitionist policies would have on trans “sex workers.”

Maria Clemente, a trans-identified male politician elected to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies last year, called the suggestion that the sex trade be abolished for the protection of women and children “hate speech.” To a critic, Clemente said: “I am a woman, and I am a whore!  It’s my job and and how my family eats! I love it!”

Clemente was later exposed for having allegedly lied about being in the sex trade after his ex-husband issued a scathing rebuttal of his public persona in a public letter he posted in an effort to demand Clemente finalize their divorce. 

Months later, trans activists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico staged a “coup” of one of the women’s washrooms on the campus in apparent retaliation for a lesbian pride mural having been painted nearby.

The activists claimed the mural made them feel “unsafe” and demanded another gender neutral washroom be established near the Samuel Ramos Library. Less than 24 hours later, the activists took over the largest women’s restroom in the building, littering the walls with threatening vandalism directed at women who are critical of gender ideology.

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“Social media therapy-speak perfectly reflects that dichotomy. It’s individualizing and self-soothing, yet it holds out the promise of affinity and community. Add to that the fact that specialized terms like “trauma,” “narcissist,” “gaslighter,” “abuser,” and “trigger”—weighty language in the mental health community—have been hijacked to describe ordinary stressors. This can provide comfort to people seeking validation, an excuse to avoid taking responsibility for their actions, and affirmation that anything that upsets them is not their fault. But it can also make it easy to pathologize normal human conflict and disagreement as something much more complicated: abuse, psychopathy, clinical narcissism. It’s all too convenient to use this language to flatter yourself and damn anyone who angers you. The risk is that, instead of working to resolve the conflict or improve yourself, you put up a wall and end up feeling more alone than ever.

If you’re always right, and your emotions can always be dressed up in the Sunday best of therapeutic language, what hope is there of being able to reconcile yourself with a more realistic community? We can’t all accommodate one another’s special feelings at all times. It’s easy to forget that when you fall into what psychologist John Suler calls solipsistic introjection: imposing yourself on social situations as if you’re the only person whose life matters, as if you’re a player character among a gaggle of NPCs. In fact, Suler identifies this as a key factor behind online harassment.

That’s no surprise: The intractable conflict that can be promoted by therapy-speak—“I’m always right, and those who disagree are narcissistic abusers”—is ripe for the kind of drama that goes viral. Two people cannot simply fail to get along; they must accuse each other of being, say, racist abusers who make others feel “unsafe.” Then we are off to the very familiar arms race of escalating allegations and insults, a despotism of irreconcilable individuals who prioritize their self-care above all else. Voilà, we become a mass of people who isolate ourselves from one another rather than come together in mutual reconciliation.

Reconciliation is simply compromise and the acceptance that one is not always right and that one’s feelings should not always prevail or be seen as objective truths. Compromise doesn’t invalidate your worth as an individual; in exchange for tolerating the eccentricities and foibles of others, you get to be in a real community that will sustain and support you.”

[pashterlengkap]

Gay flamingos surprise zookeepers by hatching a chick!

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I find myself again and again so heartbroken and infuriated by ableism from the very people who are supposed to be caregivers. On no level of our society anywhere in the world do we have proper accessibility education to address ableism and disability bias. It is a main part of what's been death marching me off a cliff is that precipitates bureaucracy and policies that can be deadly and at the very least create unnecessary suffering and deterioration

Heck I tried to do a self employment program for persons with disabilities when I was less physically impeded but because they've never had baseline supports for my disease, of course I could never fulfill my potential. It felt like they got to say, see, disabled people just won't follow through. Versus the reality, the cold hard visceral truth, that without the most minimal levels of adequate supports for any disability there is a host of things that are not physically possible.

And for those of us (because that's where I am due to these ongoing lack of supports)who are in a physical place where even small physical achievements aren't possible, or are often not possible (episodic illness or episodic worsening), this attitude still exists. If you just tried harder. If you were just more positive, if you just vision boarded, did positive affirmations or prayed or got rid of your bad karma or whatever nonsense that exists (mostly subconscious within the collective unconscious as the cause of disability versus the reality we are all vulnerable) and gets vomited on me and my fellow persons with disability, more often than not by the very caregivers who should know better. And breaching that bias and prejudice can be darn near impossible.

And that's because of the unconscious stream that goes on that says things like don't you know disabled people don't know what they're talking about, that if they did they wouldn't be in the situation that they are in, if they were stronger, smarter, more capable this would never have happened to them... Etc. that particular flavor of disability bias means that when we see things we're not taking seriously because how can we possibly know better than unable to person about our disabilities and how to manage them

So the long and the short is, in my book at least;

I and other people have value because we exist. What I do is not my value.

This lack of understanding in the larger society is the source of a lot of distress among abled and disabled people. In the early stages of my disability status, When I was teaching meditation and people going through retirement and came to my class their levels of stress were through the roof because what they did as a profession was their sole value and worth in their internal monologue. It would take a lot to get them to view that differently. But the minute they did they relaxed. To see them blossom when they set that vicious lie about where they're worth lay and instead move into exploring the next stage of their life and what that meant to them and what purpose and enjoyment they could find there; boy was that a cool thing. But until that happened, the measure of depression & despair I saw them experience was very dangerous.

The misinformation about where our value and worth as humans exists is pernicious and corrosive. And it can most overtly be seen in attitudes toward disabled people

I myself was not at all immune to it. in the early stages of my disability I walloped myself with that idea *that if I couldn't work in my profession then what value did I have* again and again, forced myself outside of my energy envelope in a vain attempt to regain physical ability(for my key long viral disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis, that is the very singularly worst thing you could possibly do usually precipitates permanent deterioration) and in so doing made myself dramatically sicker. So I know what it's like to aim that larger societal nonsense internally on myself.

Eventually I came to a place of pursuing purpose, which for my personality is incredibly important, in volunteer community building arenas that were willing to accommodate my physical limitations, especially as i worsened. But one of the biggest roadblocks to accommodation was actually me. In my head I could still do the same things so when people encouraged me to behave as I would as a healthy person, my natural inclination is to lean toward that. So when I read about this kind of ableism and disability bias it's not just horrible because it's horrible, it's horrible because this attitude can worsen people dramatically and unnecessarily as it did for me.

(note I have dyslexia and this was done with speech to text and I usually can't catch all the nonsense the speech to text app does so I hope it makes sense)

@compassionatereminders I really appreciate you bringing up these difficult and often overlooked and misunderstood topics💗

I hate how so many systems in place to "help" disabled and mentally ill people insist on only ever "helping people help themselves", because it means that a majority of people working in these systems prefer leaving genuinely struggling people to suffer neglect and not have their needs met to the risk of "accommodating someone's laziness" unnecessarily. Like I'm on disability benefits and in a group home and yet the response to me occasionally needing something to be done "for me" is usually "we will help you when you are motivated to do your part"

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I find it hilarious that religious people accuse the LGBTQ community of anything and everything when in reality it's just projection. via /r/atheism

I find it hilarious that religious people accuse the LGBTQ community of anything and everything, when in reality, it's just projection. The most common arguments/hate speech against homosexuality I hear from religious people is that LGBTQ people are unnatural, indoctrinate children, spew "propaganda", and are pedophiles. LOL. Homosexuality has been documented in animals for centuries. There are records of humans having same sex relationships before religion became mainstream. You know what's not natural? A fucking skyfriend that controls the entire universe and only adheres to your specific set of controlling beliefs. You're telling me that someone created an entire fucking solar system in a matter of days? When it takes hundreds of thousands of years for a star just to progress to the low mass stage that our current sun is in now? Please. I often hear stories about how primary schools are allegedly painting rainbows and shoving pride into children's' faces. Not only are the vast majority of these reports false, its the opposite. Children in religious families spend their entire developmental years having beliefs espoused from their parents mouths, the only people they trust during that early stage of their lives. In nation states such as Iran, Poland, Algeria, Israel, India, and Indonesia, (why are most of the i countries so shitty?) people are taught in state schools that only their religion is correct, and that punishment will follow anyone who deviates from their faith. I mean in the United fucking States, supposed "land of the free", the pledge of allegiance is recited every morning where kids are forced to affirm that their country is "under god" Lets not forget the amount of hateful religion indoctrination that happens outside of the home or classroom. Everytime I go on Instagram and see a viral post, I guarantee you there will be some xhristian spamming bible verses or an islamic propagandist spewing homophobic dross. Hell, everytime I see a social media post relating to LGBTQ issues in the slightest, I see violent homophobic accounts brigading the post, and guess what? Most of them have a shitty religious text verse or icon in their bio/profile picture. Everyday you see athletes, celebrities, politicians, wearing a cross necklace or a hijab and thanking god or allah or krishna or whatever, yet one person holds hands with another person of the same sex and everyone goes batshit crazy, telling them to keep it in private. Now, the funniest part; the accusations of pedophilia. Religious people love to say that homosexuals are hypersexualizing kids with woke material or whatever bs buzzword they can come up with. Yet Catholic priests rape kids while their parishners defend them and Republicans pass prochild marriage laws. Islam is based off the teachings of a man who had sexual relations with a 9 year old. Religious Jews literally suck the foreskin of babies. Pretty sure theres a couple dogmas in other religions that encourage child marriage as well. Religious people in general have a weird obsession with children, probably so they can outbreed and outnumber atheists and agnostics. I could stretch this tangent out further, but it pisses me off when thinking about it, so I'll leave the rest for another day. Submitted June 18, 2024 at 05:34PM by GrowthJust83 (From Reddit https://ift.tt/tRA63eo)