#but i know it's just a phase and it will pass

[untossablefossil]

whereas even a trans man can do a good job of pretending to be stereotypically feminine

Absolutely the fuck not??? How is this somehow so much easier for trans men to do than it is for butch women? Holy double standard. Even back when I thought I was a cis woman there was something so distinctly off about me to others. I didn't do gender the right way no matter how hard I tried, and I literally went through a 50s dresses and vintage hair phase to try to be more femme. And all it got me was MORE scrutiny about how I'm not being a woman right.

It's not a coincidence that a massive chunk of trans men's and transmasc history is about us being institutionalised and lobotomised.

Also, neurodivergent people being able to hide our identity? Literally how. It's a difference I'm brain structure, it literally affects how we function. There's a reason parent take their kids to get diagnosed. It's because it's so obvious that something is different about their child, even if the diagnostic criteria leave much to be desired. I only got diagnosed as an adult because my mum also being neurodivergent meant she normalised a lot of my traits and difficulties, but after my diagnostic assessment the assessor said she could have given me a diagnosis from the way I walked into the room. I can spot a fellow neurodivergent person from a mile off. Neurotypical people have commented often enough on my quirks that I know for a fact I absolutely can't blend in. That's not even mentioning people who have higher support needs than I. I have no idea where this deeply incorrect idea of neurodivergence being easily hidden comes from.

Passing trans people cannot "easily go stealth"?? They still need healthcare. They still need to out themselves in medical contexts. Being "stealth" isn't actually as comprehensive as the concept suggests. It's highly conditional.

Also your last point is not reflective of reality for many communities and ignores that "women" wearing men's clothes are often punished for doing so, and you're suggesting that the wilful erasure of "women" (trans men and transmascs, I assume?) transgressing gender norms is somehow neutral and not the harmful erasure it actually is.

This is just kind of a mess.

the way people talk about prejudice against transmascs "not counting" despite even the things codified into law that disproportionately effect trans men, it just reminds me of how people talk about atheism. like oh it "doesn't count" as oppression that you literally can't run for office in some states as an atheist. like why do YOU get to decide what oppression is real and what is fake?

[breelandwalker]

Wolf Moon - January 13 2025

Shake off the cold and sing to the sky, witches - it’s time for the Wolf Moon!

Wolf Moon

The Wolf Moon is the name given to the full moon which occurs in the month of January. The name is said to be derived from the sound of wolves howling with hunger while prey is scarce in the midst of winter. Given that we now know that wolves howl mostly for communication, my personal opinion is that people huddled in their homes during a very dark and dangerous time of year probably noticed these sounds a lot more readily with little else to occupy their time as they waited out the winter, and thus were set to worrying about ravenous beasts invading their villages and farmsteads. (It’s worth noting that wolves preying on livestock was a very real concern for most people outside major cities for many centuries, so this isn’t entirely unfounded.)

The name also calls to mind the howling of the wind during winter storms, or whistling around the eaves during the long cold nights. And for those of us who might not have been careful with our spending over the holidays, I might cite a tongue-in-cheek reference to the wolves being at the door when those credit card bills come due.

[For those not familiar with the English phrase, to have “a wolf at the door” is a saying that refers to some imminent hardship or disaster. In modern parlance, this is usually applied to poor finances or looming bankruptcy.]

This month, the moon peaks at 5:27pm EST on Monday January 13th, so the moon may appear to be full on the nights of the 12th or 13th, depending on where you are in the world.

Some North American indigenous names for the month of January and its’ moon are Cold Moon (Cree), Center Moon (Assiniboine), Severe Moon (Dakota), Ice Moon (Catawba), and Spirit Moon (Ojibwe). Other names include Mantis Moon (South African origins), Quiet Moon (Celtic), and Moon After Yule (Anglo-Saxon).

What Does It Mean For Witches?

As a new year dawns, it’s time for rest and reflection before we set out on the next phase of our journey. While the cold weather lingers, take some time to sit by the fire, literally or metaphorically, and take stock of where you stand, what resources are available, and what you plan to do with them.

Check in with your near-and-dear following the mad rush of the holiday season as well. Make sure that friends, family, and community members around you are doing all right. Offer support and kindness where you can, but don’t overextend yourself. It’s your time to recuperate too, and it is good and healthy to set boundaries which allow time and space for yourself.

While it's a bit early to expect progress on our goals and resolutions, the beginning of a new calendar year is a good time to lay the foundation for what we intend to do with the year to come and to reflect on the year that has just ended. It's also the perfect time for self-assessment in your craft. Take a moment to acknowledge where you are, how you've grown, and what you might like to do next. Perhaps do some journaling on the subject, if you're so inclined. You can outline your craft knowledge and beliefs, mark the lessons you've learned, or record your progress. (This is a great way to measure future milestones and personal growth!)

What Witchy Things Can We Do?

Winter is a prime time for storytelling. Back in the days before internet or television or radio, people would often read to each other or tell tales to pass the time. Consider re-reading a favorite book that inspires you or exploring some region of folklore or mythology you’ve been meaning to look into. If you have children who are of an age to enjoy stories, read them some of your favorites or introduce them to something new. Share stories and discussions with your witchy circle too!

While you’re at it, take a moment to examine the role that folklore and stories play in your practice. If you subscribe to a particular mythos, be it through deities or just general belief, consider which parts of it resonate the most with you and why.

Consider also the lessons of the winter season - the necessity of rest between periods of growth and activity, and the role of death, cold, and darkness in the natural cycles of life. What do these things mean to you and your practice? Are they a source of fear or fascination? Do you come alive in the winter or bundle up and wait for spring? How can you best remind yourself to pause for breath as the year goes on?

And of course, the beginning of a new year is an excellent time for goal-setting and divination. You’re making resolutions for your mundane life, so make a few for your craft while you’re at it, and pull out your cards or runes or pendulum for a New Year forecast on how things might go. If you need some ideas or inspiration, you can check out this article on Casting The Bones or try this craft-building exercise to Create Your Own Personal Runes.

Happy Wolf Moon, witches! 🐺🌕

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

Bree’s Lunar Calendar Series

Bree’s Secular Celebrations Series

Wolf Moon: Full Moon in January, The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

Why The 2025 January Wolf Moon Is So Insanely Powerful, The Peculiar Brunette.

Casting The Bones: How to Read and Throw Bones, The Peculiar Brunette.

Witchcraft Exercise - Creating Your Own Runes, Bree NicGarran. (Masterlist here)

Moon Info - Full Moon Dates for 2025

Calendar-12 - 2025 Moon Phases

Everyday Moon Magic: Spells & Rituals for Abundant Living, Dorothy Morrison, Llewellyn Publications, 2004.

Image Source: What Is A Wolf Moon?, The Fact Site.

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[inlovewithl3vi]

I love the idea of a Teen MC especially when thinking about when the brothers were in the human realm with MC

Because it’s not too uncommon for a teenager to go off with their friends, especially during summer break… but is it normal when all of their friends look like they’re over 20 years old? I mean one of them looks like he could pass for 40.

Your parents were already skeptical when you suddenly got invited to some private academy in a whole different country… especially since you just go to a regular public high school. They didn’t even know about it till the day you left, and thought it was weird you couldn’t come visit on any breaks in the school year.

But now you’re hanging out with a guy who you call your tutor, who also happens to look quite a few years older than you. At first they shrug it off, some Highschool students look way older then they actually are.

Then they end up meeting a few more of your friends. They think nothing of it when they meet Belphie, after all he does look like a Teenager going through some kind of phase. But when Beel walks in they get more skeptical. But when Lucifer meets your parents they begin to question you. He looks like he could be one of the teachers, and is his hair turning grey?

Eventually you have to come up with some sort of explanation for why they all look so… old… when you met at a Highschool.

By the time you ask to go stay at a house with them they just give in. You say it’s through the school, and you have survived this long.

Obviously your parents knew having a teenager was hard… but they definitely weren’t expecting all this…

[yuurivoice]

Will the wiki feature character references? Even just screenshots of them from their respective series/the halfbodys from older audios?

There's a gallery feature that will have their current full body artworks, and headshots from said artworks.

After the editing phase, I'll be doing a pass where I plug in specific artwork from relevant series into the body of the post, and those would also be in said gallery.

I don't know exactly how much there will be, or who all gets what (or has enough artwork to even pull from) but there'll be some amount.

As much as I'd love to one day have some sort of convenient reference template that has specific color call outs, close ups of certain things, etc, it's just not a viable thing to put on the list right now. But I think having a handy way to at least go grab the character art is a solid start.

There's also a limited amount of file size to use for the wiki, so I'm trying to be selective about how it gets filled up.

[haedia]

It's such a delightful dynamic. I would love a short story or something about their student days.

Emmrich brings a bit of temperance to their friendship and Johanna quietly lives for the times when she can goad him into (politely) saying something unkind about a visiting noble or someone equally grating. He never does it within earshot, of course, though that doesn't stop her from trying.

She is a catalyst for their studies, pushing Emmrich to go further, make deeper connections. Just by being her friend, she builds his confidence in himself. She wouldn't put up with him if she didn't respect his intellect and skill. Her wit may be razor sharp but he's learned to hear the compliments layered in among her quips.

And, though she is loath to admit it, he is a respite. Emmrich makes sure she's fed and hydrated when she's caught up in a flurry of experimentation and research. It's only later that she realizes how much the care he's shown her has helped her progress. Had he not been there, she would have passed out from exhaustion far more frequently than she did.

It still rankles her when he suggests she sleep.

"It's only been twelve hours!" She shouts, not looking up at him from her hunched position over the apparatus on which she's been working.

"Only twelve." He replies, his tone even yet still accusatory in a way only he can leverage. "You're going to make yourself sick and what good will that do us? Let me finish the calibrations while you rest."

It's an old refrain between them but a comfortable one. They bicker some more before he can convince her to at least lie down on the couch in their office adjoining the research lab. She, of course, claims she's only going to rest her eyes for a moment, how she just knows that if left to his own devices, he'll muddle up their notes, but she's out cold in under a minute.

He continues where she left off. He organizes their data and makes new connections, setting up the next phase of their research with those in mind, and if Johanna realizes it was something she missed in her frazzled state, she doesn't bring it up. But she also doesn't claim it was all her own work. Because, above all else —their differences, their passions, their skills — they're a team.

Emmrich Volkarin and Johanna Hezenkoss really demonstrate the underutilized relationship dynamic of unabashed hater/kindest person alive.

[zeldalizzy]

Hey everyone!!

I am suffering through severe art block right now lol, but I am pushing through to complete the Disney Princess x LU crossover series (only one left!!). With the busyness of New Years, it might take me a bit longer than usual to finish, but I am determined to complete it!!

That being said, since I have absolutely no idea what to draw, I thought I'd ask you all!! Any ideas for Linked Universe fanart? It can be anything, and you can request it through my ask box! Just make sure it's family friendly 😊 You can find my request policy on my blog!

Thanks so much! Hope you all are doing well!! 🩵

[my-name-is-apollo]

I know Ares being Zeus' least favorite child is a popular interpretation, but I think it's interesting that Callimachus' hymn says otherwise:

And thou didst not tremble before the anger of Hera, who murmured terribly against all child-bearing women that bare children to Zeus, but especially against Leto, for that she only was to bear to Zeus a son dearer even than Ares.

– Callimachus, Hymn to Delos (trans. A.W Mair)

Only Leto would bear a son who would be dearer to Zeus than Ares is. Which means that the sons that other women bore were not as dear to Zeus as Ares is, if I'm interpreting this correctly. It's honestly kinda fascinating.

[pkmn-smashorpass]

Okay I have to say something about my absence. I’m sorry I’ve been so inactive. I’m glad the polls have been posting but honestly I have 2 queued polls left. I’m gonna tell a personal story but the moral is that the blog will continue. Just in a different way.

So when I started this blog I was unemployed and depressed. My dad had just died and that was on top of a bunch of other terrible things happening in my life. I was taking a break from working and I was able to live off of the small inheritance I got. And honestly the time was great for me. I started this blog on a high whim and I had no idea it would go anywhere. I know I’m not famous or anything but I’m in love with the community we have here and I want to keep it going for yall.

I just don’t have the time or energy anymore now that I have a job and I’m focusing on my life. I want to keep this going because I love it. And I love yall. I’m just gonna have to limit my interaction. I can post polls and post asks without any comment which is my plan. I just can’t be as involved as I’ve been. I apologize and I hope yall understand. I love the community we’ve built I just don’t have the time anymore. Love yall ❤️

[july-19th-club]

giggling and kicking my feet and prancing into my armchair to watch this annoying guy do embarrassing things on my tv show with his hot friend . and also Tim is there

[valleyofdeaddandelions7]

[tennessoui]

FULLY agree with the daddy/clown thing. Every time I see an author put Anakin in the Top Only box because of "Vader energy" and BoTtoM aNaKIn is BoRInG I want to scream. The man is DESPERATE for a gentle Dom and yet people keep forcing him to fuck nasty when all he wants is a cuddle

(Fully on board with top anakin BTW but I believe in switch supremacy with a 60/40 in favor of bottom anakin)

i think my takeaway opinion of that post is really just what I put in the last tag I made aka something like “maybe neither of them is daddy dom maybe they’re just clowns helping put each other’s make up on”

i definitely go through phases of interest and preferences when it comes to this ship and I think if I didn’t I genuinely wouldn’t still be here after almost three years because of how my brain works with things I’m interested in and right now I’m just in a phase where I’m just. so tired. of the focus on d/s as a core and universal element of obikin. I think obi-wan in canon would be a shit gentle dom. dom in general. I think anakin would be too, and they’d both be shit subs. It’s gotten to the point where something with my brain right now is just going ❌❌ whenever I even see those words.

they can just fuck. they can fuck nasty and fuck up their relationship and even fuck up the galaxy and not have anyone be a gentle dom. or anyone be experiencing subdrop or be a needy sub or whatever. he can cuddle without it being a part of aftercare. people who are not in relationships that have a d/s dynamic cuddle too and i know that’s something we do understand but it’s not something I’ve seen a lot of lately and I genuinely miss it

[age-of-moonknight]

“The Past is Present,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #3.

Writer: Justina Ireland; Penciler and Inker: Daniel Bayliss; Colorist: Dee Cunniffe; Letterer: Cory Petit

[guhroovi]

Who'd think I'd randomly come back 'round with an Xmas angelbutter sketch on Christmas at nearly 3 am?

Anyways, Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and happy holidays!

[angelstrawbabie420]

grief will have you saying shit like goddamn and fuck maybe the abuse was worth it

[collectorcookie]

I know literally nobody cares about physics in a fantasy setting but i do. Let's talk about murr's notes from one of his cards.

Ok let's go

Constellations on the left, i wonder what he named them? And I'll assume planets orbiting on the right? Very interesting. What other astronomical objects are there besides earth and moon in mhyk world? I wanna know tell me

ATOMS! oh my gooood, i wonder how far atoms as a concept have already been explored. There's so much to them. This model (called the bohr model fyi) shows the very stererotypical way most people know an atom, with a nucleus in the middle and electrons orbiting it. It's not true! It's outdated. That's not what electrons do. What we know about electrons is that we don't know what they even exactly do. This isn't because science is lazy but because it is physically impossible to do so (see heisenberg uncertainty principle). Instead we have orbitals, which are 3d spaces and basically a guess at where the electrons are most probably likely to be at. Mr Hart do you know what an orbital is??? This is what orbitals look like btw

you gotta imagine like. All these shapes overlaying eachother btw. That's what an atom looks like. Kinda.

Now onto the next:

The way stuff is written down is convincing me differential equations potentially exist there. I feel the "!?" next to the cube there on a spiritual level, Muru. It's okay you'll survive it i'm sure.

Hmmm....a damped oscillation, i guess? Not much to say. It sure is a damped oscillation.

IS THAT A FUCKING POTENTIAL WELL (physics exam nightmare flashbacks)

Jokes aside, this is a potential well! (Or so is my guess). Again, this is not what irl looks like tho, outdated. This is what irl looks like:

Lennard jones potential!

And now. My question to Mr Hart is. Why is there a dashed line mirroring the diagramm??? What's that brother??? Anti mass??? Idk

[britneyshakespeare]

I have to be so honest and vulnerable with you for a second. I keep thinking of getting another complete works of Shakespeare