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[khaire-traveler]

🦈 Subtle Skylla Worship 🛞

Assert your boundaries; learn what they are (keep track if you need to)

Make it clear when your boundaries have been crossed; if it's happened multiple times and the other person is clearly not going to change, establish consequences for their actions

Be forgiving to an extent; make sure you're not needlessly sacrificing yourself to keep the waters calm

Find healthy vents for your anger (physical activity, art, writing, crafting, singing, drumming, etc.)

Get a candle that reminds you of her (no altar needed)

Wear jewelry that reminds you of her

Keep a picture of her in your wallet

Have a stuffed animal dog, predatory fish (shark, dolphin, eel, etc.), hermit crab, or sea monster

Have imagery of sea monsters, rocky cliffs, raging seas, shipwrecks, bared teeth/pointed teeth, crab pincers, spooky merfolk, tridents (yes, really), or fish around

Live your life the way you want to, not the way that someone else wants you to; steer your own ship, remind yourself of your ability to do so

Attend a protest or activist event; join a group that supports causes you believe in (be safe always)

Stand up for yourself; you have teeth, you have claws

Learn self-defense (includes use of weapons instead of physical fighting)

Do not go out of your way to harm others; know when to take accountability for harm that you may have caused

Forgive yourself for past mistakes; learn from them, and let them be carried away with the waves

Visit the ocean or a body of water nearby

Go swimming or diving (safely, please)

Learn about the deep sea; learn about the creatures of the sea

Stay informed about water safety in your area (floods, riptides, undertoe, river currents, etc.); practice water safety when out in or near the water

Donate to/support ocean-focused organizations or dog shelters

Volunteer for ocean-focused organizations or dog shelters

Pick up trash near local bodies of water; always throw away your own trash

Focus on building your self-confidence; find empowerment within yourself

Remind yourself of your inner strength; remember how far you've come, and think of how much farther you have yet to go

Take risks; if you're scared, do it scared (to a reasonable extent)

Collect ethically sourced shark teeth (or similar)

If you find a hermit crab without a shell or using trash as a shell, give it a proper shell (here is a video showing how you can do this)

Take a warm bath/shower when you're upset; envision the water washing away the stress, anger, difficulty, etc.

Make yourself a warm drink with some zest to it (spicy hot chocolate, strong herbal tea, bitter coffee, etc.)

Stay hydrated; drink lots of water throughout the day

Try to eat seafood or seaweed (BE AWARE THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO SHELLFISH!!!)

Learn about how to properly argue with someone; learn about different fallacies and debating techniques

Practice not taking insults too personally; remind yourself that the words of others do not define who you are

When you feel yourself wanting to react immediately and emotionally to something, try to take a step back and breathe for a moment; ground yourself before returning to the situation

Learn about healthy conflict resolution skills; practice implementing those skills, and go at your own pace

Walk your dogs, if you have any; play with your pets

Cook yourself a yummy meal; go the extra mile to make something delicious that you'll love

Eat three meals a day; make sure you're encouraging yourself to eat when you need to

Engage in physical exercise; stretch your body throughout the day

Try fishing or hunting (make sure you get the proper licensing required first, if needed; NEVER target an endangered or struggling species intentionally)

Get curious about the things that scare you; learning about the unknown takes away some element of fear

Learn what things trigger or upset you; rather than always avoiding them, practice grounding yourself if the topics happen to arise

Fall asleep/meditate to the sound of the ocean, ocean storms, waves crashing against rocks, or sea creatures

Listen/dance to music that empowers, encourages, or motivates you, or that makes you feel rebellious

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In the future, I may add to this list, but for now, this is my list of discreet ways to worship Skylla. She's not a figure I see worshipped often, but there's a lot of lessons I feel that she can teach. Skylla is an immensely powerful entity - one that has been said to be the doom of many sailors - and the amount of empowerment she can grant is untold. I hope someone finds this helpful. Remember your own strength. ❤️

Link to Subtle Worship Master list

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Making a new one so the initial text better reflects the current situation.

My youngest cat, Bojji, swallowed a few feet long ribbon on Nov 22. After ER extraction, he went septic due to a tear in his throat. Between the ICU, and a shorter period of tube-fed home care, he seemed to get better; then his tubes were removed, and he got worse. After so much desperate time in and trips back and forth to the ER, getting him every single possible potential solution regardless of the cost or inconvenience to myself, on December 22, I still had to put him down. You can find more detailed information in my pinned, my ko-fi, or by searching my blog for the name Bojji.

All in all, even with around 2/3 of all of this paid for with compassion funds from the vets themselves, I spent $9.5k trying to save my boy. Generous donors helped give me hope through this ordeal, allowing me to agree to further treatments with less dread. Now there is no more treatments. Only the remaining debt.

It's not as inspirational as the last post, because there's no more cat to try to save. But if you have some sympathy to spare, please donate and/or share to help a heartbroken catmom (with 2 other, much older babies to care for still,) get out from under the crushing weight of capitalism's awful effect on medical emergencies.

Thank you in advance.

And please, if you have a cat: put all string, ribbon, bows, tassels, ropes, or any other such items in sealed places it cannot get to, or just remove them from your home entirely. They're not worth it. They're just not worth it.

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[cdelphiki]

Hi i really enjoy Reclaiming Innocence 💜 you’re such a talented person and i like that you always take time to kindly reply to your followers 🥺 Which is super awesome of you to do that ❤️ I know you work at a museum. What did you study for in order to get a job like this? I have social anxiety so I don’t want to interact with people way too much I currently work in an office environment but I’m in college trying to figure out a career that I will enjoy while at the same time let me work alone half the time. Do you interact with a lot of people? Thank you so much you’re awesome, and you don’t have to answer back.

Hi! Thank you!!

Museum work can be either very solitary or very, very social, and unfortunately you can't pick just one path. Often the people down at the lower level will have more tour duties, and then once you get up higher you're back on tour duties, but now for more Important people.

A lot of collection managers end up doing tours and educational programs alongside their work at all levels, which is essential public speaking. I had very bad social anxiety in high school, to the point I'd get sick to my stomach when I had to go somewhere new with new people. I realize not everyone is the same, but for me personally it did get better (a LOT better) as I continued to push myself and step into new and scary things. I went to school for history for my undergrad, then public history for my master's. During grad school I volunteered at a local heritage society creating educational programs and helping catalog their collection(I worked with 2 others intimately), was the collection manager at my university museum(I worked alone in a room 19/20 hours a week), and volunteered (which eventually lead to a paid job my last year of school) at my local national park (I was never ever alone). As a volunteer I worked the visitor center desk, and my mom swears up and down that that specific experience was what helped me learn to conquer my anxiety. And it did, because I had to answer the phone and help the person on the other end, point people toward the bathrooms, and answer basic questions. My paid job for them was as a tour guide, which was 8 hours a day of social interaction. (And it was Exhausting, as an introvert. I'm so glad I did that, because it's helped me be more social as an adult, but I will NEVER do it again. LOL)

My current job, I generally only interact with my coworkers, and occasionally answer the question of a visitor who has caught me wandering the property, but sometimes I do interact more directly. There's always meetings, where I'm representing the museum and the collection to people within and from outside my organization, sometimes Important people (like the time a senator visited!), and sometimes our education department needs an extra body, so I'm following along on tours, and answering specific questions about the objects there.

So, I guess what I'm trying to say is even jobs that seem like they're very solitary aren't really, especially in the public history / museum field. And if you're in college now, I highly, highly encourage you to try to push yourself a little. Anxiety is real, and it's awful, and it's scary, but I've always seen it as an obstacle to get around, and I highly encourage trying to get around it now, rather than giving in and spending your whole life in solitude. As someone who suffered badly from social anxiety all growing up, I promise it can get better, and it's definitely not something to plan your entire life around. Yeah, maybe don't be a flight attendant or customer service specialist, but don't try to wall yourself off from people entirely.

As for if you'd enjoy museum work: Do you enjoy research? History? Lots and LOTS of policy and guidance to memorize? Database management? Inventory? Housekeeping and environmental monitoring? Those are the main aspects of my job.

Some of the not-so-lovely pieces: dealing with donors or potential donors who want you to take their grandma's beautiful precious tea cup that her great-great-grandfather definitely stole from the king of england and smuggled here in 1635, no they don't have proof but grandma SAID, irate visitors mad your institution doesn't have insertwhateveritishere and saw you walking down the corridor to the soda machine so they're gonna take it out on you, and dealing with potentially tricky situations with the collection itself- like theft, missing objects, and potential illegally gotten-objects.