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[wildkardstudios]

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[today-in-the-bunker]

Today, Jack and Cas hear Sam and Dean mention something about Groundhog Day, and they are both quite confused. Cas had been aware of the film Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murry, due to Dean's refrances and Metatron's popculture info dump, but he is just now realizing that it is an actual event celebrated by humans. Jack, having heard nothing about the tradition, asks them to explain. After Dean gives a brief explanation, unknowingly mixing up the meanings of the shadow, Sam pulls up the official website of The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, showing the non-humans the oodles of lore and legends constructed around the famed Punxsutawney Phil.

[luminemagica]

Hii!! This'll be a masterlist of sorts with magical girl info here on tumblr!

(btw If your post is in this list and you don't want it here dm me and I'll take it down :3)

(also if you have an open original concept and would like me to include info on it here also dm me!!)

For Cardcaptors 🌟:

Spell to protect something precious @/popculture-hag-shit

Clow card hierarchy @/ironbloodaika

Clow card divination @/feuillemor

prayer for divination @/popculturealtar

For Puella Magi 🌟:

Puella Magi & PreCure rundown @witchygirlyume

Puella Magi Basics @homulilythemagicalgirl

Incubators 101 @meguca-meduka

How to enter labyrinths @doppelmagi

The 100 meter rule @doppelmagi

Safety tips for Puella magi @meguca-meduka

Soul gems @homulilythemagicalgirl

Contracts from the perspective of an incubator @kyubeycorner

Coordinators @/puellamagi101

Soul Gems & grief seeds @themagidiaries

Grief seeds @homulilythemagicalgirl

Kyubey @homulilythemagicalgirl

Contracts and wishes @themagidiaries

Kyubey @/puellamagi101

Coordination @/majokkid

For Pretty Cures 🌟:

Puella Magi & PreCure rundown @witchygirlyume

For Sailor Senshi 🌟:

Transformation pen pcw glamour spell

Sailor moon pc spell masterpost

Original concepts 🌟:

Star kids (me!!)

Magical girls in general! 🌟:

Reminders @meguca-meduka

Concept advice @pureresplendence

Dream work & magical heroes @pureresplendence

Magical things to do when bored @/mahouplanetofficial

Witchcraft stuff🌟:

Astral realm @homulilythemagicalgirl

Developing Clairsenses @/bitter-bats-cult-of-the-moon

Pop culture spirit work @/popculturealtar

Pop culture spirit worship/work @pureresplendence

Manifestation stuff 🌟:

Affirmation tips @melarune

[anna-neko]

This is so exciting!

Discworld book club continues! (anyone else is welcome to join in, just post and tag us as we go)

so... our next book is Guards! Guards!

@sol-draws-sometimes this is just some info for you

This book is the first in City Watch sub-series, and is 8th in Discworld overall The important thing is to slightly shift the world perception.

The Disc world-building was never static: time moved forward between books & the world changed/grew/developed with it

while Monstrous Regiment took place in the muddy "boondocks" as it were..... it is also 15 years later! The world by then had more or less hit The Industrial Revolution: telegraph, printing press, photography much more commonplace etc etc (the movies give it a Victorian era look)

but in 1989 our first meeting with Sam Vimes the setting is much more typical medieval~ish fantasy city. We got mud, chainmail & the like

Its a pleasure watching this man develop frm the ground up

....and absolutely terrible "old tymey" spelling on some notes

but heeeeey, at least some of the popculture references can still be understood (my 80s radar catches a few blips). Not as difficult as earlier books, and the pun game remains on point

[whatiwillsay]

i’ve been a taylor fan since 2013 ish,

i know she’s a grudge holder but if she was willing to make up with kanye for a brief period she’s not gonna be wishing ill upon a 20 year old, or purposely managing her business tactics like having paramore or sabrina open for her.

hayleys been around taylor forever, and sabrina may have about as many followers as liv but sabrina isn’t about to start selling out arenas just yet.

and maybe, she did ask olivia, and she said no. she was clearly working on guts, besides we have no way of knowing. and i feel like taylor the queen of being slut shamed probably resonated with sabrina for that.

it also would be extremely dumb of taylor to have stepped back from attempting to claim the music that she did of olivia’s considering her whole schtick as of recently is artists owning their work. if she didn’t when the comparisons were made it would read as though it’s okay for artists to “steal” (i use that loosely because i think olivia didn’t intentionally steal anything, just sampled without listing that credit) when it’s someone taylor likes.

i just feel like they’re all smaller artists than olivia, even haim. like gracie opened for olivia, olivia didn’t need a taylor boost

dkm, i’m just saying it’s tiring seeing people talk about a 33 year old beefing with a 20 year old.

i’ll eat ass if i’m wrong and she says fuck taylor or something in that article but wholeheartedly think it’s not as deep and people make it out to be.

honey taylor and olivia had a huge private fight and taylor bullied her into giving her writing credits on deja vous and i know for a FACT, that for olivia, it was a huge fucking deal. in photoshoots everyone would be advised- no taylor music on the photoshoot playlist or olivia will have a meltdown. it DEVASTATED her. i've gotten loads of info on this and done all sorts of research into this. now it may not be that deep to taylor anymore, but it was enough for taylor to write a song about how she felt threatened by olivia and yes i do think it's part of why sab got asked to open for eras. taylor absolutely DID NOT ask olivia to open for eras, where are you even getting this?

olivia DID NOT SAMPLE deja vous. she mentioned that the way taylor screamed in the song helped inspire the bridge. it gave taylor a TINY in where she was able to threaten to sue for royalties and olivia's team gave up fast because they didn't want a legal battle with taylor. god i'm sorry but if you're gonna hang around these parts and send in long asks i am gonna need you to get with the evidence-based gossip vibe. you are ill informed on this situation and don't need to be rattling off fanfic about how there is no beef when we all know there is one and i have published all the evidence in succint tiktoks and pod episodes.

[theloverscardtarot]

1. https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/jonathan-bailey-matt-bomer-fellow-travelers-interview-rcna166876

2. The awardist podcast article and then podcast of Matt Jonny. THEIR LAST PRESS OF FT FOREVER. Matt having tears

article you can read before listening to the podcast 🔗:https://ew.com/fellow-travelers-matt-bomer-jonathan-bailey-push-sex-scenes-awardist-podcast-8697735

podcast link(starts 10min-11:54 and then from 31:15 mins onwards) 🔗 : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fellow-travelers-stars-matt-bomer-and-jonathan-bailey/id1375036030?i=1000665987791

Sent with time stamps .

3. https://youtu.be/YoiME7521FA?si=5y7azfO1flEGZ4VD

4. https://youtu.be/xLWQ2nWKl4Q?si=DVbHegCeplQgVCcl

(Again Matt getting emotional and trying to look away when Jonny sees him (after Matt talks about Jonathan’s final performance)

5. https://youtu.be/9bvFw9qALV4?si=s1vBMOkKIh7jPOhm

(The emotions. I’ll let you to see for urself and the speech first thing he does is look into matts eyes and say he shares it with Matt and then Matt getting emotional)

6. https://youtu.be/m9r6etBGeW4?si=ZwvA9lUt4G8c1DO8

(🤷🏼‍♀️🥲)

7. https://youtu.be/mbKbxv7SNvQ?si=xTvvbQYs2II1-2H_

8. https://youtube.com/shorts/TY1c6WolKvo?si=BglmW8U9aJUCYV30

9. https://youtu.be/LRJnp3gZ1xI?si=d0yO53mmLKmPUraA

(From 5:55 )( and knowing he said alot of profound stuff and knowing it can make ppl think otherwise that pause and then “as brother” it felt like a cover up)

I will definitely check all of this out and everyone else can to. Thanks for all this info! I really feel like the feelings run deeper for Matt. But, he's trying to keep those necessary boundaries.

[lechusza]

Film Talk Tonight!

Don't forget about the Free Zoom Film Talk tonight, 6pm (PST)! Natives in Modern Film. Here's the link and info, https://medium.com/@alanlechusza/dont-forget-about-the-film-talk-today-24fb9ae104ae #native #nativeamerican #culture #film #filmcriticism #popculture

[spankystokes]

CodeX Studio announces the pre-order for their BadBear art toy! ( @codeten.studio ) More info over on SpankyStokes.com - (Link in our bio) —> SWIPE for more pics!!! ••• Don’t miss anything I post... turn on your push notifications for @SpankyStokes. Go to our main page, scroll up to the top, and hit that BELL icon in the top right corner, then click on all that apply. Thanks so much ••• #vinyltoys #softvinyl #spankystokes #toyblog #toyblogger #designertoys #artistsoninstagram #artist #hype #hypebeast #limitededition #vinyltoy — #codexstudio #sculpture #designerstoy #graphic #artwork #sculpture #toyfigure #instagood #streetculture #popculture #interiordesign #characterdesign #設計師玩具 #taiwantoy #zbrushsculpt #sculpture #아트토이 http://dlvr.it/SsP8gL

[otakunoculture]

Fan Expo Vancouver's First Wave of Guest Announcements Are Here!

@FanExpoVan is ready to get fans excited! They've announced two celebrity guests for their Feb 18-20 show! #yvr #yvrevents #popculture #convention info and thoughts at:

Feb 18-23, 2023 at the Vancouver Convention Center Fan Expo Vancouver may well be gearing up for a big 2023 year. They’ve begun their wave of guest announcements so that holiday gift givers can show their love for the pop culture enthusiast in the family by buying them a pass. In November, they reported Stephen Amell of Arrow fame and Matthew Lewis from the Harry Potter movies will appear. For…

[tarekartwork]

#goodnews

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[yourprayer]

Pop Culture owns my entire heart!! Idk if you’ve answered this before but do you have explanations as to why you chose the powers you did for the losers? :)

i haven’t and you have no idea how excited i am to answer this (:

this post contains spoilers about the direction of pop culture so if u don’t wanna know don’t read this!!!!! 

+im tagging everyone on the pop culture tagslist just in case they do wanna see this and get this good info! 

okay so basically the theme i have running is that all of their powers are based in their fears, basically my weird take on the pennywise/fear based concepts of the story. there’s no pennywise in the pop culture universe, but i did really want to play around with the loser’s fears and insecurities because they’re very interesting story plots and i love studying these characters! some of them are more straightforward than others but yeah here’s the rundown;

richie - richie develops the power to turn himself invisible at will, at first with excruciating pain but over time that goes away as he gains control. i chose this power for richie because in my opinion of his characterization his greatest fear is becoming invisible, having everyone forget or not see him. he struggles endlessly with feeling ignored or unnoticed; now he can become exactly that. his secondary power is going to be astral projection. this stems from, in my characterization of him, a constant fear of being unable to be where he’s needed. i think for someone like richie it’s hard to not be there for his friends, hard to be kept away from helping someone. his projections help him be there to witness, but not to act, which to him is a little worse.

mike - mike has pyrokinesis. it’s an easy conclusion to say it stems from his fear of fire, as his family died in a fire, but in the pop culture universe it was not his parents that died, but instead it was his grandfather, and it was from a fire that mike accidentally set. he blames himself for what happened, and fears the lack of control he has over fire and over other things. coming to terms with his power is very hard for him because he sees it as a curse he deserves. 

stan - stan develops telekinesis, which is a direct manifestation of his mind power. stan is definitively the loser with the most intuition out of the group and an incredibly sharp person, but because of this he is also more acutely aware than he wants to be of the world around him and some of the shittier things it contains. it’s also an homage to the theory that stephen king wrote the losers as possibly possessing the powers of the shining.(i know matpat’s kind of annoying but tbh this video changed my life and i firmly adhere to it’s logic.) i chose telekinesis over telepathy because i wanted to lmao.

ben - ben becomes a weather manipulator, in a way that’s directly tied to his emotions. the biggest things i got out of reading ben’s sections in the book were that he was pretty devastated by his relationship with his father as a child, and that he had issues expressing his feelings in front of others. to me ben is a wonderful, kindhearted man who is always what others need him to be, but struggles immensely with being honest about what’s going on in his own heart. the idea that the weather changes as he feels makes him terrified because when people see the sky cloud over, they know exactly how he’s feeling, and he’s scared to be that open. the rapidly changing weather is also a reference to the fact that his childhood was so turbulent and things changed constantly.

bev - beverly is both clairvoyant and has psychic visions. she occasionally gets visions that are symbolic of experiences and powers the other kids are dealing with. they’re mostly for story purposes (foreshadowing and hints and whatnot) but are, as mentioned in a previous chapter, something she used to experience as a small child. i for one kind of believe these things can happen (i have a friend who’s family believed she was prophetic as a child and from what they’ve told me i think it’s true) so i included it. her clairvoyance is of a specific kind, basically she can touch people and see their thoughts/memories/intentions if she wants to. the first few times its on accident of course but once she learns control she can use it at free will. these were chosen because i believe bev approaches a lot of her trauma by burying it, and that being confronted with things prevalent from her childhood would deeply frighten her, like the sudden return of her visions. her clairvoyance upsets her because she frankly does not want to know what other people are thinking, since she spent so long in her childhood being told things like the line in the 2017 film “i know exactly what’s in those boys’ minds…” you all know what i’m gettin at.

eddie - eddie is able to manipulate plants/plant life and has extra sensory perception (esp). both are manifested mostly in plant life responding to his anger or distress, again tied to his emotions, and the esp is represented by a heightened sense of panic when danger is present. he can basically sense danger just before it’s supposed to happen, and his body gets a huge rush of adrenaline because of the sensation. this combined with his already heightened sense of general fear appears to most as an extreme panic disorder, which it basically is. there’s also a concept to do with bev’s vision in the newer chapter and the colors. when eddie has a sense that something is about to happen, it comes with a color that is tied to a person, so he knows who is in danger. all i’ll give away so far is that the bowers gang is red. this power upsets him because his biggest fear is his own fear, and the idea that it could get in the way of him being able to do anything when danger comes. the plant manipulation power is a representation of his need to grow, and his ingrained belief he’ll never be able to because of the stifling hands of his mother. he also kind of doesn’t want to grow, or face what comes with that.

bill - bill is a shapeshifter here, which is probably the power i’ll have the hardest time defending. it was largely chosen cause i thought it was cool lmao. but for bill its rooted in his desire to be the person everyone wants him to be, and the fact that that ideal person is constantly shifting and changing. georgie is alive in this au, and bill’s family life is a lot more whole. but bill feels an intense need to be strong for them, and the losers, and be the kind of man and leader they want. he is also struggling immensely with the transition from childhood to adulthood and what that means for his identity in the world. he feels himself so constantly shifting and changing out of distress and desire to be ‘the right thing’. 

the powers of the bowers gang are based on mutual fears of the group as a whole towards the bullies, and are as follows;

henry - the power to absorb energy (think kevin bacon in xmfc) because the losers all fear that any effort to overcome their suffering at his hands is futile

patrick - shadow manipulation because the losers all fear the shadowy places in life, knowing the bullies could be waiting anywhere

victor - teleportation, for a similar reason, that idea that the bullies can be anywhere and everywhere

belch - creating copies of himself (think multiple man) because to the losers it always seems like there’s just too fucking many of them 

(big thanks to hannah @reddiesetrichie  for being a great sounding board for the bullies powers, i rlly needed help picking those

anyways yeah thats the lowdown on who has what and why!!! thank u for letting me ramble about this and i hope it gets yall jazzed up for whats to come

tagslist: @s-s-stutteringbill @gazeboseddie @misssiriusblack @mythgirl96 @crackhousetozier @reddieaddict @wincestklaine @beepbeep-losers @ayyyymichele  @megelizabethvh @tapetayloe @flickerflies @ghostbustermike @i-is-gazebo @reddiesetrichie  @wyttolff @gayzier  @kaspbrak-is-our-king @mikedenbrough @28shoes @nicoperryy @kinghanscom @eddiecare @shadysandi @fyeahreddie

[yamayuandadu]

It’s very funny when people refer to Ugaritic deities as “Canaanite” because, when you look at even just the most basic info, none of it lines up:

Putting everything else aside, the inhabitants of Ugarit did not refer to themselves as “Canaanites” and “Canaan” as a geographic unit was very obviously a foreign land in their eyes (source)

Yarikh was one of the most popular gods in Ugarit, the sum of Phoenician attestations is a single theophoric name from Carthage. Nikkal outright isn’t attested outside Ugarit unless the source is Hurrian.

Shapash is firmly female and one of the principial deities in Ugarit, the importance of solar deities further south was minor, their gender is not consistent, and the name is typically spelled with a m, not a p

Dagan is not attested on the coast outside Ugarit in any time period, and even in Ugarit he is largely present because of the immense influence of Tuttul in upper Mesopotamia as a religious center

Hurrian deities whose number in the Ugaritic pantheon is literally in the dozens (including virtually all of the big shots other than, I think, Nabarbi) are not attested further south than Amurru which is, also, not Canaan (nothing outside the area roughly from Byblos to Gaza is); their presence is, however, a hallmark of the bronze age religion of northern Syria and part of northern Iraq, roughly from Aleppo to Kirkuk

Pidray is attested ONCE outside Ugarit and the source is Aramaic, late, and otherwise largely focused on Mesopotamian deities

Kotharat are not attested further south than Ugarit on the coast but were commonly worshiped in inland Syria and also originate there

None of the Phoenician “big names” - Baalat Gebal, Melqart, Eshmun, Tanit - are attested in Ugarit despite as many as 240 individual deities appearing in known Ugaritic texts

outside Ugarit Yam is only attested in Emar and in an Egyptian literary text and the only similar sea god in the Ancient Near East was, wait for it...... Hurrian

Ugaritic Ashtart is associated with Mari in the Ugaritic texts which is close the Syria-Iraq border, not to the coast; the only reason why she’s often lumped together with later Phoenician Astarte, whose character isn’t really similar, is because all goddesses with cognate names are interchangeable to some. Imagine if the same thing was done with male European deities. Zeus and Tyr MUST be discussed together because their names are cognate!

Multiple Ugaritic deities seem to go back to the late third/early second mil BCE tradition of inland Syria - Kubaba, Adamma, Ishara, Ashtabi, Saggar; save for Saggar who has some disputed theophoric name presence none appear further south on the coast

Ugarit did not exist in a vacuum - indeed, considering most of the above it very obviously part of a greater whole - but that greater whole was the continnum of religions of northern Syria, not the largely imaginary “Canaanite” religion which exists in scholarship largely for Bible scholars to deride as inferior. There are many sites with large text corpora which can be compared to Ugarit - from Alalkh, through Ebla, Emar, Tuttul, Terqa all the way to Mari - but none of them have much to do with “Canaan” and especially Canaan as popculture and the Bible understand it. Coincidentally, what the actual Canaan in geographical sense did have a plenty of was Egyptian influence, but that doesn’t fit neatly into the weird language = religion = ethnicity dogma many history hobbyists and even some professionals seem to love, which I presume is also why Hurrian gods at Ugarit are an obscure bit of trivia even though Teshub is in the top 5 of most common gods in theophoric names and multiple rituals mix local and Hurrian deities (some outright seem to belong to two pantheons - Nikkal, Anat, Dadmish, Milku, Resheph, Takitu, Ishara and Ashtabi all show up in texts in both languages...)

[cassyapper]

okay back to our regularly scheduled programming. i know jotaro has the dolphin pins in part 4 but i do not think he likes dolphins at all like he wrote his thesis on fucking starfish that’s the farthest you can get from dolphin without going to deep sea creatures. like i dont think he hates them necessarily but they are smart enough to be evil and he knows this and treats them accordingly. bro best likes the abomination creatures that do fucked up things like throwing up digestive enzymes/the lining of their stomachs so they can eat from the outside those mfs are what sparked his passion. “but then why does he have the dolphin pins?” i hear you say. to that i say holly gave at least one to him when he declared his major. she wanted to give him a gift and she knew he liked pins as evident by his hat in part 3 so she was like oh i know a marine life pin. and since dolphins are the mainline sea creature in popculture, it ended up being a dolphin pin. jotaro wears it bc he loves his mom not dolphins. also the other pin was either a gift from polnareff (same reaosn but polnareff genuinely thinks jotaro must like dolphins bc polnareff doesnt know what marine biology actually is and when he googled it (90s google) all that came up was dolphin info so he was like oh okay study of dolphins) or baby jolyne gave it to him as a father’s day gift (she saw it while out with her mom like while her mom was running errands or smth and was like “daddy (:” and when she gave it to him jotaro was like i dont even like dolphins and jolyne’s mom smacks him upside the head). okay?

[jessicarabbitworld]

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[plutoswrath]

what’s your opinion on the recent “confirmed” rising signs of certain idols? i swear they’re just putting in birthdays with no regard for the birth time and calling it a day. shit makes no sense! but i’m the bitch that questions everything unless it adds up. i hate being this way. i need strength in these dark times. what sucks about it tho is that when they give the rising sign out, people don’t question it so they won’t ask for a birth time anymore. also, i doubt idols have the time to get down and dirty with astrology so more often than not i don’t think they’ll care enough to specify or find proper birth time info. the biggest problem here is that i care too much. but i hate when the chart doesn’t add up to the person, ya know? and i feel as though there’s a lot of that.

another big issue is that you can’t always trust the fans that say their time is a certain one. i swear that there’s an idol from the boyz that gave out two different birth times, changing him from either cancer/leo to sag/cap. and with hongjoon from ateez we have a vague post somewhere that claims to know he’s a 29th degree leo rising. this vague ass shit unsettles my 6th house placements and my uranus in 8th. are there any risings you question, even after they’ve been given out? i’d dare to say it’s a taboo thing to do in the astro community. it’s like an unspoken no-no.

I figured I would receive a message like this, as I've seen this topic floating around in the k-astro community for a while. Longer post ahead.

Disclaimer: this is solely my opinion and not directed at anyone specifically.

Am I sceptical about the birth times celebrities (not only idols) give out: Yes, definitely. I generally don't trust people who just casually and randomly give out their birth time to begin with, because most people really don't know their birth time out of their head (which is fine btw, I didn't either before I got into astrology), and especially since the birth times are suspiciously enough always rounded, it should be clear that mostly they are just vaguely guessed if they are real to begin with. Here comes another big factor to consider, which I think some people possibly haven't considered yet, but idols specifically - which are already bothered by people being too nosy about their life (yes i'm talking about stalkers specifically here) - have to act for their fans a certain way and be likable, they are used to simply giving fans what they want to hear at this point. And I'm not saying every idol/celebrity is fake and a liar but secifically idols are probably so fed up with people being obnoxiously in their life to begin with, that even when people ask for their birth time I can see them just giving out any time to please the fan. I mean, they aren't stupid, some probably know that there is a k-astro community and in general the birth time is a personal and intimate information for some and asking for it can creep people out (fellow astrology enthusiasts will know lol). This is something people have to consider at a point, because yes, as you said yourself, I've heard some stories about idols 'confirming' their birth time as well, only to give out another, very different time later.

So yes, always be suspicious about the birth times they give out. Just because they themselves said it, doesn't mean it's safe information.

But now, onto another big point: I think it's totally fine for people, especially newbies of astrology, to take these birth times and theorize and kind of 'play around' with it. As long as you state that the information isn't safe and you're just theorizing - which for me is already enough with people using 'could' and 'might be' more often when they are analysing someone's rising sign - it's okay. People learn astrology by having the opportunities to make a chart fit, just as you said yourself and using birth charts to test and proof astrological knowledge is very common and normal (to a certain extent). Also, another huge factor: for a lot of people astrology is fun, just as kpop is fun for most people. As much as I use astrology as an educational tool and try to post educational posts so people can start applying the rules of astrology themselves, not everyone has this approach to astrology (yet) and that is okay. Nowdays in our current zeitgeist and the way popculture is build and grows we have to accept that not everyone is using astrology as an educational, serious tool and they just want to have fun with it, no matter how one defines this fun eventually. To give a personal example, I'm very focused on the educational, more serious part of astrology and for me, theorizing about celebrities Ascendants is one of the funnier, light-hearded parts in astrology I allow myself next to my 'serious' work I do (doing readings, studying astrology, educational posts/answers, etc) because I myself need that balance too or else I'd burn out quickly. You not only need the seriousness and dedication for the astrological study (or any study in general asdfgh), but it should evoke some sort of passion/truth in you as well that keeps you going, and that definitely includes the more 'fun parts' as well.

Another point I want to touch on: idols play (to a certain extent, some more, some less) a role. They keep their life for the most part very private. To say we can make the chart fit by the knowledge we have about their life and self is already very dangerous. That includes life events, their character, as well as their connections, etc. We don't know them personally, we don't know their life story and events, and will never have a clear picture over their character. Celebrities are constantly performing for an audience, this will ultimately alter the way their birth chart plays out, so I think we also have to contextualize the way we read and theorize about their birth charts/Ascendant to begin with. Because of that, keep your interpretations as neutral as possible, and especially with idols; don't project too much and let your wishful thinking or possible sensationalism over possible 'juicy facts' influence your theory, especially if you try to understand the structural part of astrology. Remind yourself that you are reading possibilities, because the birth chart owner will never be able to embody each and every single potential the birth chart offers (that's just not how life works lol).

So to conclude: as long as you make sure that the information about the birth times given is not taken as a fact and just a theory/possibility it is fine to take those birth times and theorize! But always fact check your source and remember that not everyone who says their birth time actually knows it. Astrology already has a big problem with the credibility of sources and thus making a lot of research vague/hard to use, so if you really want to get more serious about it after a while you have to remember that.

To your last question: the rising signs for the bts members, I couldn't find any source for them, so I don't take them serious. Same with Haechan 'confirming' his rising sign - I've read he once said it was around 12/12:30 pm before, so I don't take the 6pm too seriously too. And I am also stll skeptical about Johnny's and Kun's birth times asdfghjkl and I guess for now I can' think of any other birth time for an idol 🤠

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Hi Finn! I'm not sure if you have any info on this, but I was once told by someone that Greece is in economical debt. So much so apparently that arranged marriages are still commonplace. But that person heard it secondhand themselves, so I didn't take it at face value. Do you know anything about this?

greece very much is in huge economical debt and there is a lot of terrible poverty and financial struggles but.. arranged marriages just arent a thing anymore. granted they used to be, way back when, and i dont doubt that they can still happen here and there but thats pretty much how it is everywhere. i even asked my mom to get a second opinion from someone who lived there longer and she said they were never a "thing" in her lifetime, but maybe in my grandmas, and even if they were more common back then that doesnt necessarily mean they were the norm. maybe in super secluded islands it could be different though. i feel like the person who shared this fact may sort of be thinking of greece as like, more reminiscent of ancient version in popculture with the gods and togas and shit lol