#and my practice

[gorjee-art]

a comic about cuddles

[clonerightsagenda]

I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

[kaereth]

Dragon harpy chimera birdy FALIN!! I love her

[unsung-idiot]

Stan was not prepared

[georgeharris0n]

PRACTICAL EFFECTS AND WILLEM DEFOE?? Letterboxd is going to devour this

[withloveastrid]

🤍 My Gods 🤍

💌 🎀 🦢 💌 🎀 🦢 💌 🎀 🦢 💌 🎀 🦢

❤︎ 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝐼 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 ❤︎

𝐴𝑝ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝐻𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑎 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑎

❤︎ 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝐼 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ ❤︎

𝑍𝑒𝑢𝑠 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝐴𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝐴𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑎 𝐸𝑟𝑖𝑠

💌 🎀 🦢 💌 🎀 🦢 💌 🎀 🦢 💌 🎀 🦢

✨ term explanations below the cut ✨

I don’t use the term Devotee in my practice because I don’t feel comfortable making life long commitments to Deities or a Religion because… well, I love change. I like to grow and what works for me right now might not suit me in 20 years. I think my Deities deserve true everlasting commitment when someone devotes themselves to Them and my characteristics just don’t allow that from me. Instead I use the terms: “Worship” and “Work with”

To me these terms mean:

Worship: To adore. To appease when others offend them. To respect. To honor with my actions, thoughts, emotions and lifestyle. To give offerings when I am able. To talk to on a regular basis. To petition for safety, guidance, compassion, and help. To learn more about them. To compliment them. To enjoy their company and energy. To evoke them often into my space.

Work with: To seek advice. To seek guidance. To enlist their energy in spells and other workings. To admire from a distance.

Worshiping my Gods is like being best friends, while Working with my Gods is like choosing to eat lunch with my favorite Teachers. I respect them and I have conversations with them but I don’t have a deep connection like I do with those I worship.

[nebulaeyedfish]

Cleo isn't messing around....

Tags: @swanofstorie @imflyingfish @raise-me-up-take-me-up

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[tagasaing]

the laios effect

[soldrawss]

I miss them I miss them so much I just wanna give them silly clothing and a fun childhood

[eydilily]

red flags!

[thatskindarough]

I don’t know the context but the vibes are impeccable

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[nicktoonsunite]

2 DECADES

also alt version for no reason whatsoever

[cawecho]

Astarion always ends up being a stealth archer in my runs, I like justifying it w the thought he got dragged out on royal hunts as a kid

[violet-catsarelife]

Dick: Dami. Damian no. Do not add a garrote to your costume—

[sabertoothwalrus]

I don't know why it took me a couple re-readings of this scene to realize they're in Laios & Falin's room at the inn. I wanted to use background details to piece together where each of them are standing.

The first time I read it, I assumed everyone was crowding around outside like the ending of how to train your dragon, but since they're on the second floor, they're actually all crowded in the hallway! somehow that detail is a lot cuter to me :D