#bread winner cycles

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Skira

~ 12-14 Skiraphorion ~

The last Grain Festival of the year, Skira/Skiraphoria had two main focuses in celebration. These two focuses go hand-in-hand. One being Athena's triumph over Poseidon as the patron of Athens, and the second being Demeter's mystics regarding the harvest.

Skiron held major signficance as not only a precinct, but a place for Athena Skiras, Poseidon Pater, Demeter and Kore. Women were known during this festival to parade the streets, the only time of the year they were allowed to gather together in public. They ate garlic to ward of men (and husbands) as this day was one withheld from intimacy.

Because of this, Skira is regarded mainly as a festival for women. Women also were the ones to gather what was cast into chasms at Thesmophoria, which had since decayed. This cycle can be tied to the Grain part of the festival. Even as the year was coming to a close, the women were the ones to ensure the cycle begun properly once again in the next year to come.

Priests and priestesses engaged in mystics at the previously mentioned precinct. Plutarch mentions this as a "sacred plowing". This could be read placing significance on thanksgivings over a feast or a blessing of the last harvest of the year. Many read it as both.

With this ritual one to Athena as the patroness of Athens was said. Her victory over Poseidon for the city was acknowledged. A priest of Helios also attended, suggesting a blessing for good weather for the crops was also said at the sacred site.

Young men also participated in the festival in celebration. It is said races occurred to a shrine of Dionysus. The winner would partake in a wine-like mixture of wine, honey, olive oil, cheese and grain. Athena Skira was asked to bless this mixture.

It is during this time that we Modern Hellenes might take place a feast of grain, meat and dairy. Acknowledgement of Lady Athena's victory should be celebrated, bringing in the good harvest for her patron city with a prayer to Lord Helios, Lady Demeter and Lady Kore.

Traditional Offerings:

Hymns to Athena

Hymns to Demeter

Hymns to Kore

Hymns to Helios

Wine

Bread/Grain product

Cheese

Mixture from Thesmophoria

Garlic

Traditional Acts:

Prayers to Athena, Demeter, Kore and Helios

Blessings of crops/meal

Races of young men

Gathering of Women

Disregard of intimacy

Khaire Athena! Khaire Demeter! Khaire Helios! 🦉🌾☀️

[lavendel081]

seeing that family tree, i just need to know ALL about Eris' side of the family!

tell us as much as you can about her parents, her step-dad, her half-sister and her grandparents, please! \o/

literally kissing you for letting me talk about them!! I'm so grateful !! finna cry!! Thank you rahh!! I wanted to draw them all again, but I'm too tired with the webtoon (the next episode has 47 panels so that's a lot), so I'll just use the portraits I did of them!

Let's start with the OG!!! Grandpa!!

For fun I made a grandpa design before, and then got the idea to eventually do a prequel story for him! I don't know if I'll ever do it, so I guess I can talk about it here!

Grandpa doesn't have a canon name, but he lived in Pelican Town since he was born. He was the son of a doctor, and his childhood friend is Evelyn. After George moved to the valley, they become besties!! The old farmer in town is somewhat secluded, and has no family, but Evelyn happened to sometimes bring him food and take care of him, so one day Grandpa joins her. He decides he doesn't want to take on his fathers' legacy, and instead buy the farm from the old man. So int his story, the farm has only been in Eris family since grandpa, and well then kinda died with him until Eris comes to the valley. He has a younger sister, who may or may not take over the clinic instead (even if their father was against it at first, since they are v old-fashioned,,)

You can find some designs of other younger versions of npc here!!

Grandpa has one son! I don't think I'll give him any siblings, but yippie Elias! He looks a lot like Eris, and it's on purpose for Eris to strongly take after him instead of her mother.

He used to be a troubled youth, who, like his own father, didn't want to take on his fathers' legacy. So it's kind of a repeating cycle? He moved to the city v early on, didn't like living out in the valley. Maybe he's a bit like Sebastian in that sense? He mellows out a lot though and is a very gentle man. He and Ingrid/Eris Mom are both very laid back when it comes to raising their kids too. Mostly too busy with work, but it gives both girls an easy lifestyle!

With Ingrid, I happened to somehow mirror Robins story in a way, even though a lot less dark (at least in my version of Robins story)

Ingrid also had her first child very early on in life, somewhere in her early 20's. I'm still not sure if she necessarily got married to Marissa's/her first daughter's father, but they separated pretty quickly and their custody battle went fine? Marissa isn't very close to her father, but they aren't necessarily on bad terms. Ingrid is very independent, and is the main bread winner. She's also 4 years older than Elias and taller than him. (She still wears heels around him, though.)

Marissa is 8 years older than Eris, but they are semi-close! She's not very good at showing her feelings, but she cares a lot for her sister in her own way. When they were younger, and their parents often weren't home, Marissa took Eris to restaurants, so they could have dinner together. So she also helped raise Eris a lot.

She also often did Eris hair and picks her clothes! She might be so famous at this point, that she might appear in my webtoon soon, he-he! Marissa is like her mother, very independent and focused on her goals. She also has a very sharp tongue, in the sense that she says what she thinks.

And that's everyone, I think!! Thank you again for letting me talk about them that means so much to me rahh!!!

[irondad-creator-awards]

Final Thanks

With the Winners and Runners Up announced, we can wind down the 2023 cycle of the Irondad Creator Awards with some final thanks to the amazing people involved.

@asyouleft once again joined the team and this time took on the mammoth task of tracking nominations and votes and created the spreadsheet that was our bread and butter for running things. She worked her butt off to keep things on track.

New to the team this year was @ctrsara​ who was our AO3 Wrangler. She was the one that organized all the Bookmarks and Collections tags. This is not a small feat at all, and we’re incredibly grateful to her.

Our artist this year was the fabulously talented @superherotiger​ who created all our post art and also the wonderful prizes our winners and runners up won. She also jumped in last minute with corrections for us.

No person was limited by their main role and all jumped in to help out when and where needed. Our Discord was a place of energy and support thanks to them.

And finally... You. Thank you all for the reblogs, likes, nominations and votes. Thank you for allowing your works to be part of it. There would be no point running these Awards if you didn’t all get behind them and make them what they are.

From the bottom of my Irondad loving heart, THANK YOU ALL!!!

@jadeys-world​ xxx

[inventors-fair]

Divide and Conquer: Split Precedent Winners

Congratulations to @bread-into-toast, @helloijustreadyourpost, and @nine-effing-hells for winning this week's contest!

@bread-into-toast — High & Mighty

The impulsivity of High is such an excellent take on hybrid impulse draw, and that should be commended first and foremost. There's this natural synergy between what constitutes appropriate "card draw" for green, and while impulse is an odd way to go about it, what's so different between that and things that mill or look at the top X for a permanent of sorts? My only question with color-pie stuff is with Mighty, and whether or not a white deck can control combat that way. But then again, there's the question of whether or not the original Odric (mono-white combat control stuff) Usually it's in RW hybrid, but does that really mean anything?

Hybrid is such a strange space to play with and this card's raised a few questions for me; all those questions have precedent to resolve them, though, and I'm thoroughly impressed with the execution of your hybrid knowledge. Early/mid "draw" will get you your extra advantage, but big mana plays for Mighty ensure that the board is clear. What's really curious is that the shamanic Gruul meditation is contrasted with the predation of Selesnya creatures, and that's a stark topsy-turvy difference. It really does go to show the spectrum. Through Green, Red can hone its desires into connections; through Green, White can find its constitution to act on dogma.

@helloijustreadyourpost — Hopes & Dreams

I'm a little in love with this card, honestly. In an ideal world, you're playing this in a UW enchantment shell and you're tutoring for good cards and/or playing your finishers. For five mana, you're getting an absolute beating down turn six, probably. I feel that there's this theme so far that the cards I've really been liking feel like strange inverses of each other—as in, White is the one doing the searching, and Blue is the one making tokens. Bizzaro world! But no, it's the dream world. Fantastic choice to make them Illusions and not, like, Spirits or whatever, too.

I assume that there wouldn't be enchantment creatures in this theoretical limited, but that would certainly make for an interesting style... No, there was a reason that I was entranced with this card when I first read it, but what was it? Perhaps it was the timing questions, of whether or not a player had a game-necessary enchantment that they were desperate to get out early, or if they knew they needed to be patient, if they had the faith to draw into something by cracking Dreams a turn early, and letting Hopes come on their own accord. There is so much complexity here in how this card asks players to think about their turns, their deckbuilding for limited, and the future in a timed scenario for colors that are often susceptible to these plans getting demolished by aggression. But one can always hope. It's strange to have a card manifest these demonstrations of emotional-gameplay connection so thoroughly.

@nine-effing-hells — Double or Nothing

Brilliant job. "What's this? It's a new cycle of monocolor split cards, but they use 'or' instead of 'and' for the names!" is something that I could see a bunch of people saying about a premier set in the future. There are a lot of awesome possibilities, some of which might show up in this contest, but this is a great one that's simply effective on all counts. Izzet spells can use this as either a controlly piece of countermagic, or they can beef up some of their spells for massive effect. What I really like is how Double also works as a piece of control if you know your opponent is running a similar build.

And on top of that, Nothing can't counter Double, and with Double, copying nothing usually won't do anything; these cards are almost inverse versions of their effects that care about wildly different things but could also fit into the same damn deck quite easily. It's the ultimate "or." Both of them costing double-pips is asking a bit much, but I like that difference, personally. It speaks to the future intent of what these cards would introduce in the context of the set and of themselves. I'm digging it!

Runners soon, commentary after. @abelzumi

[mpreg-nouveau]

Turn of the century omegaverse thoughts

Cause I'm a huge fucking history nerd and I was thinking about, what would omegaverse look like at different points in history/how would it effect history, and given the motif of this blog I thought I'd share some from 1900s-1910s.

Note, this is not me romanticising these concepts, just thinking about potential plotlines or ideas that COULD result from omegaverse being part of this point in the human time line, both good, bad, and just weird:

–omega sufferage movement along side women's sufferage

–the overlap between women’s rights movement and the issues of A/B/O hierarchies creating a lot of fuss and questions during the time, especially with news print and communication getting more and more wide spread.

–ex, it being considered ok for an alpha female to dress in men's clothing and do work as the primary breadwinner when her husband or wife is an omega, but what happens when she is with an alpha male who is socially EXPECTED to be the primary bread winner at the time? Is the woman supposed to quit her job and become a house wife upon marriage? She certainly doesn't think so and neither does her husband.

–i feel like the American hierarchy at the time is alpha male>alpha female=beta male>beta female=omega male=omega female.

–omegas using labor unions to fight for equal treatment and pay in new industrial settings.

--factories are hesitant to hire them because fearing their workers will go on heat regularly and slow down production. People having to hide that they are omegas to get work as a result. This was the time period where you could get fired for a work place injury after all.

–people coming to the States for the first time with different cultural expectations for the a/b/o dynamics and getting some culture shock from American life, whether american standards are stricter, less strict, or entirely flipped from their home perspectives.

–along with with the Gibson girl there's also the Gibson boy representing the dainty stereotype of omegas. 

–the new middle class and upper middle class suddenly being targeted by mass production industrial giants advertising new, useless creature comforts to build extravagant and gorgeous nests and dens

–patent medicines that are utterly worthless but advertise to act as heat suppressants, rut control, and to make your scent more appealing to others

–in order to pander to ideals of modernization and “civility” american upper crusts comparing their a/b/o status to various dog breeds instead of wolves. There's essentially a horoscope of sorts they've come up with to align themselves with specific dog breeds and the stereotypes there off.

– ex: “my father was an alpha bulldog type, and my mother a beta beagle designation, and because I was born on the 3rd Sunday in August as an omega, I am a jack Russell terrier designation.

–people keep harassing Arthur Conan Doyle for Watson and Sherlock’s canonic designation. This is what causes the poor man to lose it and start believing in fairies. 

–omega heat cars on trains for single individuals to hang out in and avoid perverts. Its meant as a kind gesture but instead just ends up playing into puritan culture surrounding omega bodies. 

–as electricity is being installed in more and more homes there's an irrational worry that the electrical circuits in the walls will mess with the cycles of heat and rut among some. 

–its completely unfounded but causes people to resist the switch anyways

–meanwhile there IS evidence that gas based light fixtures DO have negative effects on the body but everyone grew up with them “and I turned out ok so it must be fine”

–advent of widespread vaccines and better standards of sanitation means that entire litters of pups are surviving childhood now

–families that worried to name pups after they were born, as back in their home land it was rare for more than one per litter to survive, suddenly are having miracle litters. Every single pup is ending up getting spoiled by these families who expected the worst.

–new ridiculous electric inventions come out catering to beautification and a/b/o fertility care. One is a body massage device that supposedly increases the chances of having a healthy and fruitful pregnancy….it's essentially a hand held belly rub machine. 

– most of the US was still rural and isolated from the cities at this time. Few had ventured 20 miles from their home town. Rural parents worrying about their omega children marrying people from the city…because of a genuine yet misguided fear of their kids getting so overwhelmed by all the new scents  in the city that they will immediately have a seizure and die. 

–during the turn of the century it was already fairly common for kids to wear gender neutral, play safe clothing like gowns all the way up to 8 years old, so gender neutral clothing being common until a kid presents for the first time.

–classes getting divided into alphas, omegas, and betas in some puritanical schools in order to “protect the children” as the new US mandatory  public school system is getting hammered out

–packs becoming a looser term for more wide social circles rather than relatives or clans due to migration of people both into the nation and throughout. 

–Ex: woman forming packs based on sharing supplies in a new city with each other, or packs surrounding shared interest in activities like sewing or books

–the Boston Red Sox declare themselves a pack one day.

–I feel like a lot of politicians pretend to be alphas for status

–teddy Roosevelt secretly being an omega but nobody realizes this cause he's constantly covered in wood ash and various funk from his game hunting and overtly manly activities. Everyone just assumes he's an alpha between that and his personality.

(Edit: clarification on the last one, this is a joke about how the guy had horrible asthma and other chronic health issues especially while young, which for most people at the time would mean a very short life span, but no one knew because the dude compensated with so much exercise and other extreme health stuff you could do at the time you could not tell. Dude even took a bullet to the chest midway through a speech and then finished said speech. Dude basically made himself a stereotype of an "alpha male")

[sinceileftyoublog]

Ty Segall's Life Cycles

(Drag City)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Throughout his career, prolific fuzz rock wunderkind Ty Segall has consistently revealed new combinations of sounds, and tricks. 2024 was no different. In January, with Three Bells, Segall combined the melodic psych folk of Sleeper with the glam funk sprawl of Manipulator and Freedom's Goblin. The album is a 15-song, song cycle, produced with Cooper Crain of Bitchin Bajas, that reads like a treatise on overcoming existential panic. In August, Segall released Love Rudiments, a not just fully instrumental but all drum album, inspired by the cycles of life and love. Both of these records contain moments of insularity and blasts of outward expression.

Even when Segall involves his band members, he's the true driving force behind the songs and their ability to bewilder you. Three Bells features collaborations with Denée Segall and Emmett Kelly, and occasionally, the rest of the Freedom Band. Of course they shine on a song like the thrilling "Move", which sports Denée's deadpanned, spoken vocals atop Segall and Kelly's dueling guitars and Charles Moothart's monstrous fills. But the album's highlights are directly representative of Segall's anxious inner monologue. Take "Void", where Segall's vocals lurk atop nervy acoustic guitars, as if to foreshadow the song's halfway about-face into a mopey, strummed tune with distorted guitars that almost sound like horns. "In here, I realize it's all fake, what I've seen outside," Segall sings, doubting his own past perceptions as you try to parse what you're hearing. "Eggman" plays like a sonic experiment, sounding slowed down before actually slowing down, its elements subsumed with noise as if the song is being boiled. "Your mouth's agape and caked with eggs," Segall deliberately sings, the rhyme scheme the only thing less expected than the song's aural turn. And at first, while a song like "Denée" seems like a showcase for the album's instrumental palate, Segall simply repeating his wife's first name and allowing the instruments to take shape, Ben Boye's spacey keyboard licks criss-cross with Kelly's bass and hand-clap percussion to create an odd time signature, making you forget how the song started in the first place.

If some songs on Three Bells represent Segall's efforts to capture the absurdity of the world, the more traditional and introverted tunes seem like a necessary contrast. "Out there, I'm too dizzy," Segall declares on "My Room". In other words, when he's inside, he can fool around, flip through his record collection, and craft songs. Three Bells gives you your quintessential T. Rex-indebted strut with "I Hear", drippy Goodbye Bread-era ditty with "Watcher", and Neil Young stomp with "Repetition". Segall's great ability to propel a song with acoustic guitar shines on "To You"; even the sweetly whirring breakdown fails to prevent the main melody from wriggling its way into your ear. "Just keep singing so we can dance forever," Segall requests, to others and himself, as if it's his mantra.

Well, except for the fact that Love Rudiments, on the other hand, has no singing and much less than normal you can dance to. Three of its four tracks are longform wanderings that, even upon entering a groove, take a left turn. "Getting Ready / Arrival / The Dance / Walk Home Pt. II / First Touch", beginning with trilling xylophone and panning snares, eventually makes its way into a 4/4 beat, with a forward march that could stand up to his excellent cover of Hot Chocolate's "Every 1's a Winner". Soon, though, its layered mallet instrumentation melts into something that sounds like rustling around a pile of silverware, and the song rolls to its end. The clacking boom bap of "Honeymoon / Life / Confrontation / Argument / Separation / Realization" also gives way to skittering drum rolls. Its ambient whooshing recalls the feeling you get from hearing Segall's trap kit playing on opening track "First Look / First Conversation / Walk Home Pt. I": that the songs are crumpling in on themselves. The titles on Love Rudiments suggest a love that starts and ends over decades, but as with any cycle, it's not linear time that's important as much as repetitions on a theme. Three Bells and Love Rudiments are Segall's attempts to find patterns in a senseless world.

[dnvdk]

News The general term 'media' is often what we critique but I'm currently interested in understanding the most counterproductive and toxic of all: the hysterical, amygdala rubbing advertising monolith we collectively understand as news.

As a species we've developed offspring with ever faster calculating brains over the course of thousands of years. The reason for this is simple; the faster you are able to spot a danger, the less likely you become to the dangers that lurk in the corner of the cave. Fast forward to Ancient Rome where the Acta Diurna (daily journal) was instigated by Julius Caesar and presented daily in or near the forum. So this first type of industrial media was developed and controlled by (or at least with the blessing of) the ruling emperor about 40 years after the term 'bread and circuses' was established. Skip printing press, skip television, fast forward to today. This daily outing has become a realtime perpetual outing. In the last 25 years, the commercial necessity of capturing as many viewers as possible has also been supersized by the Peter Thielization of the world that fully embraced zero-sum mindset where there are only winners and losers. As a result the pluriform media landscape that existed by the end of the 90s has been acquired completely by a very small group. This directly results in newspapers with different titles that print the exact same thing ('Why not, it is objective!') and TV stations that regurgitate identical, teleprompter fed, monologues and factoids. And looking back at this quarter of a century, it is clear this will only accelerate into a news cycle that is fully built around cliffhangers. The ideal situation for this conglomerate is 24/7 OJ Simpson chases. 'This is just in!' 'Important developments!' all while seeing images of people you never met and places you have no intention of visiting. The London subway and Boston Marathon bombings, the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan, wildfires, flooding, murder, a celebrity dead in their bathtub. It is important that you stay up-to-date. People describe themselves unironically as 'political junkie' while the actual net result of politics being grossly overestimated. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the covid pandemic can be seen as the trifecta of hysteria and changed the landscape forever. The sheer outpour of daily news and the level in which political, military and commercial interests are intertwined with this barrage can now only be viewed as the politico-industrial complex. Or more accurately; the military-political-industrial-media complex. And yet - news is for the most part consumed without any suspicion. The complex has done an amazing job in providing co-workers world wide with one dimensional phrases parroted from the trustworthy men and women without characteristic personalities. The notion that gets proposed from time to time to introduce critical thinking to children in schools is simultaneous objectively a good idea and a total and utter impossibility as the 'thinking' part is turned off so effectively by the complex that the addition of 'critical' is just cruel. What to do about it? In the words of Marshall McLuhan given to Timothy Leary - Turn on, tune in, drop out.

[asmod3eus]

Random fanfic type stuff 💕💕

Kokushibo and Haruhime cute moment in 3..2..1!!! (No really this is rage haruhime hates his deadbeat dad self)

Quick explanation on their dynamic: it’s one sided, haruhime long threw away her feelings for Kokushibo/michikatsu in fact, she loathes his very existence.

Red- kokushibo speaking

Blue- haruhime speaking

Haruhime was always a prominent woman, she was beautiful and graceful. Her family had made her to be the perfect example of a wife, promised to something greater than I.. who left her and our children behind for mere power.

I had realized too late such a fool I’d been, by the time I did realize, my children and wife were dead. I found my wife’s body, wrinkled and withered from the stress of raising our kids alone, without me. I was devastated to say the least.

My wife was special to me… I’m not sure how or why I’ve began to feel this way about her. Ever since I noticed the moon cycle being weird, it feels as if I am human again. The emotions all came back to me.

I turned my wife into a demon out of desperation, of love. It was a very irresponsible decision on my part, I should have left her to rest in the garden we cultivated together. Something inside me didn’t allow it.

Once she was reborn as a demon… she was not the same. She scorned me for decades, the world was seemingly in a time loop.. no one was aging and it seemed every month we returned back to a week before.

My wife wreaked havoc upon the country once she became a demon, my master did not take kindly to it. I took the blunt of her actions, however that was all I could do. Haruhime became unrecognizable in my heart, my eyes. She won’t return to her old kind self, I know that much.

Swapping minds… -

I raised my children all alone after my husband left me. Until I was old a grey and had lost all of my beauty I worked like a dog to feed my family. I truly wished he never left.

Being a single mother was traumatizing, I love my children dearly. I tried my best to give them the world, the moon, the stars.. but I could only do so much. When the debt collectors came I took all of the pain and struggle that came with it.

I starved for months, barely surviving, to give my children the food and water they needed. My husband was indeed the bread winner of this family, it was hard to find a job that would allow women as employees.

I stepped so far down as to become an oiran, it paid well and it was the only thing I could do to pay off the debts to my family name so that my children could have a good future.

I did it all on my own, my husband was no help to me.

I hate him for leaving me alone, for making me give birth to our third child in a cold house with no fire wood.

I loathe him.

No thanks to him did I raise my children to be prominent and happy young men. No thanks to him did I survive through hell and back as a woman in the working class!

I survived because of me, and only me.

Just when I believed I could rest my eyes and finally be at peace, when I finally passed away, I was dragged back down to hell by that despicable man.

I was dragged to a fate far worse than being a single mother.. I became something… far far worse than a human being. The gods shall forever scorn me.

Thoughts merging… 1..2…3…

“kokushibo.. you ruined my life. I loathe you..!”

“I’m sorry, hime.. please forgive me.”

“No..!”

“Please…?”

“No.”

“I love you, hime..”

“Don’t start with me, kokushibo.”

[saint-tyago]

July 21, 2024 I am trying my best to be consistent with my entries here because I really find it helpful in terms of processing my thoughts and slowing down a bit. A lot of things are happening all at once again. Allow me to list it down here 1. Bacolod team feels like they are not being recognized enough unlike us here in Manila for the BPOlympics

2. Park and Joan joining the Advantage Club Recognition Day at Dusit Thani and getting am award being recognized together with the whole Ubiquity 3. Park getting an emotional outburst during the Uplift call 4. Joan is blaming me because of the screenshot that the C/B received in our GC 5. Park talking to me to address the my personal and what I am feeling at work because I talked to Mayo to verbalize what I feel - I feel so left out. I feel so unseen. I feel like we are so close yet so far. I also did mention that I do not know who I am anymore inside and outside of Ubiquity because I am becoming so emotionally numb. Like nothing excites me anymore. I am so lost I do not know where to go next I feel like I am in a cycle. I miss doing the things that used to excite me. It takes a lot of humility to admit na di ko na gusto yung trabaho ko altho I have no plans of leaving because as the bread winner, I need this job. I need money from this job and it is very dead tiring. Di ko na nagagawa yung mga bagay na gusto ko dahil masyado ng kinakain ni Ubiquity yung oras ko and what scares me is I am not getting any younger anymore and I don't want to be on my deathbead before I realize that I am missing a lot in life. I need to know who I am again. This is not the life that I wanted. I miss dreaming again. I miss climbing the mountains. I miss the outdoor. I miss the beach because 10 yrs ago I have dreamt of travelling but here I am lost in life, exhausted and no dreams

[gaypeoplemusic]

literally having the loveliest day ever. I woke up at 10, played a bit of disco elysium (they said the words disco elysium I was so gassed), went to play football, scored a goal and someone on the other side said “omg I can’t keep up with u”, had a lovely little cycle, came home, and I’m currently making banana bread and chicken dinner. Winner winner! I’m going to see the uni music society cover Radiohead’s seminal 1997 album “OK computer” later today.

[4dnow]

3 Horrible Things in Lotto That Are Excellent for You

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The Man who seeks Innerstanding

There have been countless times one has been possessed by the thought of the why and what is with the typical stipulation of a man’s role in society starting from the home to the wider reach of society. Understanding is, there are indeed varied outlooks on this subject and truly each within limit of the bigger picture and the grasp of time and space have all significant assignment of the mentality with which they carry as to what is the categorized ideal of masculinity. Understanding is that their female counter parts in almost all cases agree with their resonance or dissonance of thought process and as such a great deal of femininity is decided by this very mechanism of mental installation. Historically there is proof of existence that women were no different from their male counterparts and in fact in some cases, women held high regard in society and men followed their lead and heeded their directive of advice on how to progress in life and in society. For some other cultures as it were, men assumed this role of dominance over their female counterparts. It is believed or said that for more advanced and civilized societies, equality amongst its people was key in sustaining longevity of the species and society as a whole, where as if inequality existed as it was for some cultures, there was a continuation of violence and under development of society and its people. Many years on it is said that men totally and extensively assuming control of their female counterparts over the decades lead to mental reconfiguration of their understanding of reality and thus led to existential submission and dominance. They soon became but tools subject to men’s disposal and use. Hence the reason why men are regarded as heads and women as tails as a metaphor of installation. It is known that the most fierce and respected warriors of all time were women who held tremendous adherence and stature particularly in Ancient Africa. Not to say that there weren’t men of similar warrior accolade of such same representation but it is clear that only after a certain period in African existence, did men begin to totally undermine the essence and presence of a woman as a stronghold in society. Which brings one to postmodern Africa where one as the man has been categorized by way of societies construct and design. It is in this era that one clearly can understand that we as men became known as the sole hunter gatherer or for that matter the bread winners of everyday life as it were. Women soon became but symbols of object to please and indulge the desires of men’s needs strictly. One can’t obviously begin to pronounce nor denounce why this happened but as time and space will dictate, especially in the present, we all can see a surge of women being objectified merely as nothing but household materials of physical and mental placement by not only men but women too. One as a writer and analytical thinker can only point to facts that this may not necessarily be the case for all in existence but too understands that no matter what, how or where you turn, it is a man’s world and women who break this cycle are again but in display of a masculinity that projects their male counterparts construct of design. Perhaps not for all women who have maintained and sustained a sense of self-awareness but for the most part, they have too fallen victim of appointed mental and physical emblem of a man’s world.

[multiculturedsstuff]

Why is this the norm in our Latin culture

I remember when I was a little girl and My mother made me get up early to clean on the weekends while my brothers Got to stay in bed . The amount of times that I got scolded for voicing my disgust. The amount of times I heard “lava tu los Platos porque tu eres la mujer”

(clean the dishes you are the woman )

I always considered it unfair but because this is what I was used to I believed this was normal . I watched my mother serve my father as soon as he got home from a long day of work and it be expected not an ounce of gratitude ,not an ounce of respect from the person that supposedly loved her.

When I got in my first relationship I did what I thought was expected and by doing this I was conditioning the person I was with To expect this behavior from me , so on days that I did not fulfill my “wifely” duties

Then we would have fights and his Macho side would come to the surface ,the you will do as I say because I am the man side came out ,the why did you want a relationship if you where not ready BS came out ,it got so bad that I was afraid of fights and arguments I would make sure that I did what was expected . My duties included cooking ,cleaning,paying the bills and attending the kids .I was a maid without pay or at least that is what it felt like ,now I’m not bashing stay at home moms but this is not what it was for me I wanted to go out and work but I wasn’t allowed to , the man was the bread winner and my place was at home with the children ,it never crossed my mind , I am an adult I don’t need permission I can buy my own beer and smokes but I need permission to go work and socialize? The shit was ridiculous I was so ashamed for years that this happened to me I fell victim to this abuse and for a long time did not even realize it was abuse

Fast forward a few years now an adult and a very independent and successful woman , I don’t cook not because I don’t want to but because I have a very demanding Job ,who wants to come home from a long day of work to clean and cook ? As crazy as it seems , sometimes I feel like I am failing and I feel a sense of guilt , the funny thing is that because both my wife and I are working all the time neither of us expect anything from the other but coming from such a toxic environment its hard to break the chains and break the cycle .So I guess My question is are Latino women just as guilty of falling into the Machismo narrative ?

Are we part of this problem ?

[grayintogreen]

Critical Role Fanfic Masterpost December 1st- December 31st

aka THE SPECIAL CRITMAS EDITION. This was the stuff I started in November for Critmas and can finally reveal. I wrote a gift for every single participant because... I don’t know. I wanted to be nice since it was my first time participating??? I’ll never do it again because it was very difficult, but it was still fun.

from planting to harvest, from flower to frost. (G). 1618 words. Caduceus reflects at a winter solstice party.

it’s all swords and spades so cut me slowly. (T). 1071 words. Zahra/Kash. Zahra saves Kash, and the rest is history.

‘cause you’re the only one i wanna fool (T). 1608 words. Molly/Caleb. Four times Molly tried to get Caleb to notice him and one time he realized why it wasn’t working.

tested and tried in the spray and the thunder (T.) 1089 words. Kingsley is, above all things, a creature of midpoints.

ours is a song of cycles and seasons. (T) 1328 words. Dorian/Dariax. D&D share a moment before Dorian leaves for Zephrah.

born for the scythe and the thorn. (T) 840 words. When Jayne Merriweather was four years old, she witnessed her first sacrifice.

do not hunter, do not need (they grow strong on human greed). (T.) 1352 words. AU. Lucien as a Champion of Vecna.

there are heroes on both sides of a war. (T) 2231 words. AU. Expositor Beauregard seeks out a secret liaison within the Volstrucker.

you’re gonna need a lot of luck if you’re ever gonna catch the fox. (T) 2226 words. AU. Vax/Keyleth. Vaxleth Modern meet-cute at a farmer’s market.

give me a man ripe for a breakdown (and i’ll end the world for you). (T) 445 words. Jayne Merriweather and the Creation of the Angel of Irons.

you never get replacements for a broken heart. (G) 1643 words. Jester and Caduceus share an emotionally vulnerable moment in the Xhorhaus.

cups and hearts and we’re still holy (G) 1740 words. Caduceus and Calliope, some sibling bonding, and some wisdom.

i thought the wood and the world were connected. (G) 1104 words. Caduceus copes after the burning of the arboretum.

once you see the midway, you’ve already lost. (T) 1972 words. Jester/Artagan. Artagan, Jester, a Feywild carnival, and lots of feelings.

life is not a game that has a clear and present winner. (T) 2141 words. Molly realizes there are occasionally consequences to his actions.

cut my teeth on the bread of pure temptation. (T) 2017 words. The last temptation of Essek Thelyss in Eiselcross.

remember me as something bigger than i was. (T) 1882 words. Yasha tells Kingsley about Molly precisely how Molly would tell it.

we don’t need questions, so it’s better not to ask. (T) 812 words. Ashton and FCG discuss faith.

where the waves hold cool dominion, sand and stone can catch no claim. (T) 9037 words. AU. Molly meets Lucien’s twin brother when the Nein arrive on Darktow.

don’t be chosen- make the choice to choose. (T) 1954 words. Kingsley gets life advice from Orly.

these are the threads we weave on the way. (T) 1985 words. Ashton and Laudna pretend to date and cause chaos.

all actions and reactions. (T) 2879 words. Jester/Astrid. AU. Pre-law student Astrid Beck is having a bad time. A tale of school stress, loneliness, burn-out, meet-cutes, and scones.

maybe it’s madness, but what’s wrong with madness. (T) 2048 words. After the incident in the Ass Sailor, Jayne makes a decision.

we are what we are, and we will never mourn. (T) 4295 words. Evil AU. The Dark Nein gather together to stop one of their own.

give me black ravens to kindle the sun. (G) 1064 words. Kiri grows up.

all our debts have been paid and we’ve counted the cost. (T) 1745 words. Viliya sends Keyleth to the Savalirwood to help, and a friendship blossoms.

[inventors-fair]

Plane and Simple - Winners

Congradulations to our winners @misterstingyjack, @stareyedesper, and @bread-into-toast!

@misterstingyjack — Omenpath Guide This is interesting. It rewards you for having lots of misses on the planar die, then getting lucky. I think that this is a really cool design that asks players to interact with the mechanics of planechase, and really ramps up the tension when you get five blanks in a row. I also really like the "during your turn" clause, encouraging players to stop pulling shenanigans with the "Path of the" cycle and Quicken.

@stareyedesper — Scarlet Eclipse This is really cool. It's a callback to a popular Magic card, it uses already extant text in an exciting new way, and it goes away on its own. Obviously going to hurt those playing more colors, but it isn't that hard to play around. Just a nice solid wrench to throw into the Ur-Dragon player's machine.

@bread-into-toast — God-Pharoah's Citadel I love plane cards like this. For one, you've made sure to ensure that even if you're not in grixis, everyone participates. Even then though, plane cards that care about three colors are hardly exclusionary, since out of the 31 different color combinations, only four (White, Green, Selesnya, and Colorless) have you casting no spells of the colors listed. The proliferate is just icing on the cake, taking the mechanic from WAR.

Runners-up will be posted after I get back from doing errands, sorry about that!

[abookishdreamer]

Character Intro: Tyche (Kingdom of Ichor)

Nicknames- Despoinida Fortuna by the people of Olympius

Age- 17 (immortal)

Location- Skyline district, New Olympus

Personality- Tyche, for the most part, is well rounded, bubbly, and optimistic. She can be greedy & materialistic at times. She's very energetic. She's a lesbian & is currently single.

She has the standard abilities of a goddess. As the goddess of fortune, chance, & luck, she can bestow good luck or fortune onto anyone she chooses (later equalized by Nemesis). In combat, Tyche's known for her fast & seamless reflexes, dodging her opponents' moves. She can shapeshift into things and objects associated with luck such as a four leaf clover, a horseshoe, and a tortoiseshell cat.

A notable physical feature of Tyche is her short vibrant dark green hair.

Her relationships with the other gods are fairly good and she often hangs out with Agon (god of sports & contests), Phaenna (goddess of jewels), Hermes, Hemera (goddess of the day), Gelos (god of laughter), Nemesis (goddess of retribution), Methe (goddess of drunkenness), Nike (goddess of victory), Zelus (god of envy, jealousy, & zeal), Nerissa (goddess of jellyfish), Aether (god of the upper atmosphere, celestial bodies, & heavenly light), Eos (Titaness of dawn), Móda (goddess of fashion), Iris (goddess of the rainbow), Apollo (god of the sun, music, poetry, healing, medicine, archery, plague, light, & knowledge), Hera (goddess of women & marriage), Zeus (god of the sky, thunder, & lightning), Mania (goddess of insanity), Himeros (god of impetuous love), Hedylogos (god of sweet talk & flattery), Chrysos (god of gold & riches), Zephyrus (god of the west wind), Horme (god of energy), Pannychis (goddess of nightlife festivities), Eupraxia (goddess of well-being & success), and Aphrodite (goddess of love & beauty). Tyche also hangs out with Thalia (muse of comedy), Polyhymnia (muse of hymns), & Terpsichore (muse of dance).

As an induction ceremony gift, she received a yellow gold necklace with an emerald clover shaped pendant. Tyche wears it often.

Her official mentor was Orthosia (goddess of wealth).

Tyche lives in a penthouse in the Skyline district of New Olympus. The interior design matches the look of a casino with bright colors & neon light fixtures. There's lots of sleek leather furniture as well as Imperial Gold cabinets in the kitchen.

She has a little brother Caerus (god of opportunity & luck) who lives with their mother Evimería (goddess of prosperity). Tyche loves spoiling him with toys & video games.

She has a collection of Diamond Ave. clutches (her favorite being the one that’s in the shape of a money bag!)

As a gift for her induction ceremony, Tyche recieved a white gold necklace with a diamond studded dice charm from her mom. She wears it often.

In Olympius, she owns a chain of casinos (Clover Club Casino) as well as a chain of loan agencies. She's also responsible for the Olympic Lottery, hosting the winners of the Mega-Jackpot and other lotto & money prizes. Tyche and her company are also responsible for those "quick prizes contests and sweepstakes that are found on the back of cereal boxes and in fast food restaurants. She also released a successful makeup palette (Look of Luck) and is in talks of releasing her debut fragrance. There's a casino location in the Underworld too.

Her favorite colors are green, gold, purple, & red!

In her free time, Tyche enjoys hitting up the casinos, playing all sorts of card games, rollerblading, tennis, football (soccer), dancing, playing video games, shopping, cycling, and getting her nails done- often adding jewelry and charms to them.

Her favorite snacks are the kiwi-lime frozen yogurt (with extra popping candy toppings) from Matton's ice cream truck as well as a cucumber salad sandwich (with extra pickles and tzatziki mayo) from The Bread Box.

Her go-to drink is a lime drop martini. She also likes champagne, frozen lime margaritas, ginger ale, honeydew juice, cola, olympian sized confetti milkshakes from The Frozen Spoon, & lemon-lime soda. Her usuals from The Roasted Bean is the large apple lychee splash and the olympian sized caramel latte (with extra whipped cream).

A favorite jewelry accessory that Tyche always wears is her white gold & diamond horseshoe earrings.

Her favorite meal is an olympian salad with lots of ranch dressing.

She gets around in a lime green convertible (which has Imperial Gold spinners).

She has a pet griffin named Coin.

Tyche currently has a secret crush on Terpsichore & has had crushes on Dione, Philotes (goddess of sex, friendship, & affection), and Euphrosyne (grace of joy).

Her last real relationship was with Arachne, a mortal girl.

"Being lucky is the world's greatest high!"