#idk if I should make a side blog for it???

[sisterkosho]

Does anyone like Tokyo Revengers anymore cuz… I may or may not be hyperfixating

[sainz100]

2024 Brazilian GP | x

[loemius]

here’s my hot take of the night:

the e-temples that have been cropping up lately are cool, and im glad to see people making specific spaces to come together to worship. that’s awesome! i’m very here for that as a concept. i love nothing more than to see the theoi get the praise they deserve.

that being said, i am very wary about the amount of people i have seen calling themselves priests/priestesses lately. not even just in the e-temples! ive seen multiple people in the tags who have in their bio “priest(ess) of [deity].” i realize most people probably don’t mean harm by it, but it gets under my skin. to call yourself clergy implies a specific level of knowledge and experience with a religion (which isn’t my business to get involved in your praxis like that, that’s personal unless you wanna share it), but more importantly, official recognition by an established institution. there are not that many of these (that i am aware of) for hellenic polytheism. calling yourself clergy is simply that — calling yourself that. there’s no backing for it, and it genuinely concerns me.

we as the polytheist community talk a lot about harmful practices in spirituality, things like spiritual psychosis or cultural appropriation, which are important topics to discuss. it’s been said before and i’ll say again — people claiming to be spiritual authorities of some kind without any kind of proof can be very dangerous. i don’t assume anyone has bad intentions. i give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that everyone is just trying to help other people worship. but it doesn’t change the fact that calling yourself a priest(ess) will make impressionable or unsure people look up to you, and that is a hell of a lot of responsibility. i am concerned that there are minors running these kinds of blogs. that’s a lot of pressure on someone’s shoulders, especially to put on someone who is still growing up and developing their research and critical thinking skills. i don’t want to gatekeep or anything like that. im very glad to see minors having really good experiences with their faith, that they’re excited to share it with others. but it just concerns me.

im certainly not as experienced as other practitioners on this site, having had about two years of experience at this point, but i am very wary of anyone who claims to be any kind of authority on anything unless you can back it up. regardless of if your blog says that you’re not an authority, calling yourself clergy of any kind implies that. people will take it that way. it inherently implies a level of authority, knowledge, and experience on a particular subject, which is usually backed up by having an official institution that recognizes you.

perhaps this is a little callous of me, but in the same way that when someone makes a claim about the theoi academically, i expect them to have sources to prove it, i expect clergy to have some kind of proof of their authority. otherwise, what are you doing that’s different than any other tumblr blog?

to be clear, i don’t have an issue with these devotional spaces. i simply take an issue with people referring to themselves as clergy when that is a particular term with a particular context and a particular implication. words have power. i earnestly think if people just called themselves something like ‘stewards’ of a particular temple, i wouldn’t be so bothered by it. or just call yourself a devotee of a particular god. ultimately, at the end of the day, the words we use have power and implications, and that has to be acknowledged and respected. send tweet

[glittergoats]

[trashfactorysstuff]

You guys knew I had to do something about @lillydrawsmizu ‘s au

[triglycercule]

killer being like "yeah i know every single little thing about horror and dust" (because he watches them as a part time hobby (freak) (find something better to do)) and then he acts surprised when they do something that he wouldnt expect them to do in his little predetermined absolutely perfect concept of them

like what do you MEAN horror licks spoons clean when he's using them so he doesn't have to get a completely different one for the main course and the dessert. what do you MEAN dust has a lisp even though he speaks fluently and uses even more complex words than killer himself. horror knows how to sew and he often patches up their things without either of them noticing?? dust always wears oversized and clothes that cover him up just because he finds it comfy?? what??? out ra geous???? these guys have small little quirks to them that killer doesn't already know about???? killer immediately wants to know more. so he can expand his internal profile of them of course. not for any other more endearing and sweet reason. not at all,,,,,,,, (:3)

[spaciebabie]

hey so im not white

[r0semultiverse]

You know what feature we need to bother staff for next? Other people’s posts getting flagged as counting towards “strikes” on our blogs.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Idk how universal this is maybe it’s because my mom was a teen mom and I grew up in an area where unplanned pregnancy / lack of access to reproductive healthcare was a big issue, but I feel like there has to be a way to talk to teenagers about safer sex and pregnancy that doesn’t make you feel guilty and bad when you do decide to have a family.

Like, in the mid 2000s there was also all this fear mongering about teens getting pregnant on purpose / making “pregnancy pacts” and I feel like my sex ed was like “even if you think you want to have kids right now you don’t actually” which… was probably true if any middle and high schoolers wanted that but 1) genuinely don’t believe that any actually did 2) I feel like reality checks can be given in a way that aren’t “I know you better than you know yourself” 3) if a teenager gets pregnant, no matter how accidental or on purpose it was, it’s still their body and their child and denying them agency in making such important decisions about that is extremely cruel and unjust.

Anyway now I’m 30 and I still feel like I’m going to be scolded for wanting to have kids. When I went to my doctor to talk about it, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d be told that I wasn’t mature enough and that I was being silly and would ruin my life. I’m still nervous about my family’s reaction. Because it’s not like the magic age of being 18 changes people’s thoughts on it, and there’s no defined point when someone is “grown up” enough to make these kind of decisions. And it is so cultural and context dependent - on the other side of my family where people have kids in their early and mid 20s I’m basically an old maid and people give me sad looks and say “don’t worry … someday it could still happen.” But even on that side of the family, pregnancy announcements are usually met with skepticism and negativity.

It seems like no matter what the norms around it are, there’s a message of undercutting the notion that people should make decisions for themselves, and it is multiplied as the person is marginalized.

[leagueofdccm]

THE HOMELANDER // the only man in the sky

[marcusagrippa]

from the wikipedia pages for lake avernus + lucrinus lacus

im going insane. me and that fucking lake(s). what the fuck. MARCUS.

[fiber-optic-alligator]

Hating my writing hours does NOT go very hard

[incognitobird]

HELLO AND WELCOME TO:

I spent several hours trying my best to map out the maze in the bard level!

This is apart of a larger project I am undertaking to map out all the levels with just the names of the rooms, then go back through and take screenshots to use to make an actual map of the tower. The maze however cannot really be coherently mapped by just naming the rooms which means my graphpaper had to start doing some heavy lifting. Nothing is to scale (yet) as this is intended as a rough draft. I killed the battery on my switch doing this (and completing the bard level) and plan to make a roughly to scale map when I get my screenshots through my computer for the other maps as well (yes I own the game twice, yes I love it that fucking much).

The First Picture:

• my first attempts, where I kept realizing I needed more space than I was giving myself

• the tracing paper I pulled out so I could shift a bit of the map into place and make space for more map.

• the circled stars are because there's the one room you can pass through 3 different ways and one piece of it ended up a fair distance away from the other 2 paths as a result of my completely fucked scaling

• the top right corner was me starting a new page thinking I was going to have to deal with more expansive sprawling only to discover those rooms DID, IN FACT, CONNECT BACK PRETTY QUICKLY, and that I did, in fact, have enough space, so those were quickly re sketched onto the main map

The Second Picture:

aka The Final Rough Draft, I did test a few different directions to make sure I could use it to navigate and it reads fine to me the person who made it. (which I know might not be saying much but I hope it isn't incomprehensible.)

I am doing this project for me myself and I because I have a deep love for this game already, but I still think it would be nice if others got to enjoy the fruits of my insane and obsessed autistic labor. I will continue doing this project either way, but if a single other person would like me to continue posting my efforts, or would like to see what I have so far I will be sure to continue sharing my efforts!

[o4o41]

[mmalugirl]

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[varjopeura]

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