#pride rome 2023

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AKUDAMA -- QUЭЭЯ ⛓ K1ИK 🦾 C¥BЗЯ 🔊 TЭСHИØ #60 -- PRIDE Last Saturday I had the pleasure of experiencing the Pride in Roma 🇮🇹 seeing the trucks, people and supporters passing the Colosseum was such a beautiful image 🌈 every time when joining a pride parade, I can see so much love and can’t help but imagine a world where love abounds in every corner and every moment 🫶 a world we aspire to create and a world we should never stop fighting for 🖤 ⁠ ⁠ QueeResistenza was / is this year’s slogan of pride in Rome / Italy - a word that means queer resistance and existence. A march for the rights of queer people and recognition against a government that wants to erase them. The pride showed beautiful diversity with 34 amazing floats, music and speeches - and a million people strong, according to the organizers. Also, the mayor of Rome joined and supported the families of same-sex couples. It was a beautiful day of love and solidarity and I’m even more excited to join this weekend’s pride parade in my current home base Torino 🏳️‍🌈⁠

In my previous post you saw the start of the pride parade at Piazza della Repubblica and this video is the last hour before the end of the parade at the Colosseum - hopefully the videos get at least a small percentage of the actual feelings across at this great festival ✨ The artwork on the images is my idea of a futuristic Techno afterparty after the Roman Pride, I hope you like it 💋

[classicschronicles]

Hi lovelies,

Guys. This blog. Is one years old today! Woah. Icl I’m really bad at sticking to things so the fact that we managed to get a post every week for a year is pretty cool, so thank you all :)

As it’s pride month (happy pride!!) I’ve been seeing a lot of things on Twitter celebrating queer figures from classical antiquity, and whilst there were definitely queer figures to be celebrated, I think there is a lot of misconceptions about sexuality in the ancient world (especially Greece and Rome). So today I thought it would be cool to talk about male and female sexuality in the Ancient Greece and Rome. Quick trigger warning, there are mentions of pro5tituti0n, r4pe, and sl4v3ry, so read at your own risk and please stay safe <3

Okay so just some quick things to understand. The term ‘homosexual’ wasn’t coined until the the late 19th century, and the word bisexual until 1892. In regards to Ancient Greece, it was a largely homosocial, if not ‘homosexual’.

So starting off with Ancient Greece. Potential sexual partners for men included other free men (in the realms of pederastic relationships), wives, pro5titut3s, and both male and female slaves. Pederastic relationships were the main form of homosexual relationships and it was basically a socially acceptable, educative and erotic relationship between an adult male (mid-20s to 30s) and a younger male (mid-to-late teens to early-twenties). The older lover was called the erastes (lover) and the younger was called the eromenos (beloved). The erastes had to pursue the eromenos (usually at the gym) and it was his role to provide education for the younger in the areas of politics, philosophy, rhetoric, and social customs (basically how to be a good citizen). In return, the eromenos would provide the erastes with sexual pleasure, but key point it wasn’t penetrative pleasure because (oh no) that would be too gay. Stupid I know, but basically penetrative s3x would, to them, make one of them ‘feminine’ and in a highly highly misogynistic society that just wasn’t the done thing. But there is evidence to suggest that quite a few men ignored this social convention. For example, in Aristophanes Frogs, they mention a politicians called Cliesthenes who has broken this tradition and in Plato’s Symposium, Pausanias and Agathon. Anyways! The erastes was chosen for his beauty, so the more beautiful you were the better erastes, and therefore education, you would receive. It is really important to note that for the erastes, this wasn’t allowed to be his primary sexual relationship, in that it was expected of him to be married and that his primary relationship was for the purpose of childbirth. Another partner for men in Ancient Greece was was pro5titut3s, and there were two levels of this. The first was the pornoi, who were ‘street workers’ and were slaves (male or female) owned by br0th3l owners. The second levels was the hetairai who were highly educated female courtesans, a mix of free women and slaves, and were primarily seen at drinking parties.

There is little that is know about the sexual partners of women in Ancient Greece but its largely agreed that women could only have male/female relations with their husbands, but as long as it didn’t get in the way of having children, they could also engage in relations with other women. Sappho’s works suggest that this was often the case before marriage.

In Ancient Rome, the potential sexual partners for men included their wives, infames (male or female), slaves (male or female) and extra marital affairs. So starting off with infames, this was a person- that because of their profession) had no legal status in Rome (so actors, gladiators etc…). Because of the focus on the active and passive members of the relationships, the free man always had to be the ‘active’ and the infames the ‘passive’. Generally when it came to homosexuality, romans did not have pederasty and if a roman man wanted to have sex with another man they could as long as they weren’t the passive one, because if a freeman was the passive one it would damage his virtus. Again, like in Ancient Greece, this wasn’t a mans primary relationship and he is still expected to have a wife for the purpose of childbirth. Because of this, relations with male slaves became popular and the term ‘puer delicatus’ (delicate boy) was often applied to slave boys brought specifically for this purpose. Similarly to Ancient Greece, it was encouraged for men to have relations with pro5titut3s and exploit household slaves. Adultery was, however, outlawed but the Lex Julia. BUT, this was hugely hugely unpopular and historian Gaius Suetonius described the reaction as ‘open revolt’. This suggests that extramarital affairs were accepted and popular. Ovid literally has a whole book about pursuing married women and succeeding, which tells you all that it needs to.

In regards to women in Ancient rome, there again isn’t a lot that is known. But Ars Amortia book 3 suggests that women did have extramarital affairs and some form of sexual liberty.

In all, heteronormativity wasn’t as enforced in the ancient world because, in all honesty, they cared more about who took on the ‘feminine’ role, and so their sexual liberty didn’t come from acceptance, but straight up misogyny. Also I read this really fascinating thing that basically said that in todays world where we enforce heteronormativity, we can’t assume that everyone who says they’re straight, is in fact straight. In the same way, to the ancient world where (and forgive my use of modern terminology) homosexuality was expected, you can’t assume that everyone who said they were ‘homosexual’ or ‘bisexual’ actually was. Sexuality has, and always will be, flexible and diverse and deeply fascinating and so you can’t enforce labels on the ancient, or indeed modern, world. It’s fluid and whatever you want it to be, but either way, I hope you all found this interesting!

Thanks for sticking with my awful ramblings for the last year, I love you all loads, and I hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend <33

~Z

[rei-the-head-shaker]

Bella merda...

Quasi quasi adesso vado a dare fuoco a Roma oseervando il tutto dall'alto mentre canto "Free Fall" degli Slot Machine!

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Ho scattato qualche foto, al Pride di Roma.

11/06/2023 🌈

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TEMERAIRE FIC RECS

I read no fic at all in May, as I was too busy devouring all nine Temeraire novels in a single month - and then spent a very happy June reading a fairly absurd amount of Temeraire fics. In honor of a Pride month well spent, here's a fic rec list!

(Divided up into categories - Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence/Napoleon, other ships, and gen)

WILLIAM LAURENCE/TENZING THARKAY

ley lines by malfaisant/@stanleyraymondkowalski (T, 14k, 2015) Amnesia era!Laurence sees Tharkay and it doesn't cure his amnesia; a renewed friendship tinged with loss follows

Tharkay makes it to Peking intact with the news of Napoleon’s imminent invasion of Russia. Which would be all well and good, except that Laurence isn’t very intact himself.

which is like everything by sere (This_is_Sere) (G, 3k, 2024) Post-canon Laurence accidentally breaks Tharkay's heart a little, and put it back together in the sweetest way possible

A chance remark from Granby provokes an excess of feeling in Tharkay.

The Reward of Service by yunitsa/@pamphilia (T, 4k, 2016) A lovely post-canon get-together fic, where Granby puts his foot in it a little and realizations are had

‘It is no good asking me,’ Laurence said at last, pushing the pattern-book away over breakfast, ‘I am not the one–’ Not the one who would be living with the result, he had been about to say. But they had hardly accepted Tharkay’s invitation as casual houseguests.

A Soft Dawn by corvile (G, 2k, 2015) A soft and sweet Tongues of Serpents-era fic, featuring accidental spooning, self-introspection, and maybe the most romantic hand-holding known to man

Upon thinking on this feeling of jealousy, Tharkay has done some rather clever intuitive leaps involving situations both real and imagined, and he's come to a rather curious conclusion: he's a little in love with William Laurence.

all flowers in time by lastwingedthing (E, 7k, 2017) A splendid post-canon get-together where it's Laurence who pines after an oblivious Tharkay, rather than the other way around. Also, sex!

The consolations of possession.

Ship's Gossip by Spatz/@cactusspatz (M, 6k, 2019) AU where Laurence takes up Tharkay's offer to become a privateer and Tharkay joins Laurence on the ship; Laurence learns some things about Tharkay, and then about himself

Laurence is beginning to enjoy life as a privateer - though he cannot figure out why Tharkay should still be sailing out with them - when Temeraire decides to ask him about sodomy.

WILLIAM LAURENCE/NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Dearest William by WerewolvesAreReal/@werewolves-are-real (T, 23k, 2016) Laurence and Napoleon are pen pals! Riotously funny, until it's heartbreaking

Napoleon sends a letter to the upstart sea-captain who stole his dragon, Laurence sends one back, and a correspondence begins under the uneasy eye of the admiralty. When Laurence had admitted the matter to Granby his lieutenant exclaimed, “God, does Boney want you drawn and quartered as a traitor?” which seems perfectly possible.

i sing of arms and the man by Jack_R (M, 21k, 2020) Ancient Rome AU (and really good dragon-related worldbuilding)! Laurence longs for the days of the Roman Republic, but Rome's new emperor is rather adept at persuasion

‘You think me a far worthier man than I am,’ he says, then. ‘No,’ Napoleone says, softly, ‘I don’t think I do at all.’

L'envoyé céleste triomphant de la Maladie. Antoine-Jean Gros (1813) by VerdetCadet/@verdet-cadet (G, 3k, 2023) A League of Dragons captured-by-Napoleon fic involving a rather appalling painting and Tharkay and Granby being the world's funniest wingmen (ha)

"Given what he has done with the barest civility on my part, I cannot think what he would do with the least encouragement." “Oh, no?” said Granby innocently, a sentiment that provoked a raised eyebrow from Tharkay over his glass, and in Laurence, a strangeness in the pit of his stomach. Or: Napoleon is an enthusiastic patron of the arts. Laurence's best friends lovingly suss out his willingness to bone Napoleon for political gain and strategic expediency.

Ordinance of Fate by by WerewolvesAreReal/@werewolves-are-real (T, 13k (WIP), 2022) *slamming hand on table rythmically* soulmate AU soulmate AU soulmate AU soulmate AU

The name comes when he is 15, and Laurence hides it immediately. Then at the age of 22 Laurence reads a letter from an old shipmate who writes that “the troops in Italy were routed by some new General of theirs, Napoleon Bonaparte-"

Doctrine on Worship by Kangoo/@youngster-monster (G, 6k, 2021) AU where Laurence becomes a priest instead of joining the Navy, and meets Temeraire anyway - but Temeraire's captain takes an interest in his dragon's new friend

“You do not strike me as a man well versed in selfishness. Perhaps you ought to try it; you might find it easier to understand my presence then." In which Laurence made a different choice, a long time ago, which changes very little in the long run.

OTHER SHIPS

Tender Like a Bruise by VerdetCadet/@verdet-cadet (T, 5k, 2024) Granby/Little - Granby struggles with the shame and trauma of losing his arm; Augustine Little is there for him

It is not a good time to be short an arm, if there ever was such a thing. Granby has always prided himself on his competence and his easy good cheer. Now, at a stroke, he finds himself lacking in both.

revelry by WerewolvesAreReal/@werewolves-are-real (E, 2k, 2018) Tharkay/Laurence/Granby/Little - Post-canon Tharkay & Laurence invite Granby & Little over to visit, delightful and unabashedly voyueristic sexytimes ensue

Little suddenly turns away and throws himself down on the couch where Laurence previously sat, drunkenness making him stumble a little. He leans heavily against Tharkay, who doesn't mind, and tosses Granby a jaunty salute. “Now you must kiss him, John. I know how long you have wanted to; you will always regret it if you do not."

What comfort I can by VerdetCadet/@verdet-cadet (M, 5k, 2023) Laurence/Granby - Amnesiac!Laurence has suspicions about the nature of his relationship with Granby. Second in a two-part series, part one is also splendid! I just have a fatal weakness for the amnesia era ok

The truth of Laurence's treason comes out while Laurence is still aboard the Potentate. Laurence's half formed memories are just there enough for dangerous conjecture. Granby is there to offer what comfort he can.

That Dare Not Speak Its Name by WerewolvesAreReal/@werewolves-are-real (E, 11k (WIP), 2024) Laurence/Granby - Laurence covers for Little and Granby and discoveries are made. The dialogue and introspection are so very delicious I'm SO INVESTED AUGH

After an incriminating letter is discovered, Granby is caught out as an invert – and everyone knows his lover is another captain. Since the companion of a common Yellow Reaper would not be spared the noose, Laurence declares that it's him. Over time, he starts to wish it really were.

Uncharted by novembersmith/@novembersmith (E, 5k, 2009) Laurence/Granby/Tharkay - Laurence and Granby are together and Tharkay is mortified, until he's given quite good reason not to be

Tharkay had had the dubious pleasure of watching Laurence and Granby being blissfully in love for several weeks now.

Foibles by VerdetCadet/@verdet-cadet (M, 3k, 2023) Laurence/Tharkay and Laurence/Napoleon, sort of - Tharkay likes roleplaying and Laurence is not displeased by the role Tharkay takes on this time

Tharkay, faced with an inconvenience he was forced to endure or a problem his mind could not set aside, found his ease by simply Not Being Tharkay for a time.

An Alchemy of Character by PepperHoney (G, 7k, 2023) Tharkay/Granby - Tharkay and Granby compete for Laurence's affections, until they find a more fulfilling use of their time

Granby and Tharkay have been watching each other court Laurence to no avail for years now. It's something of a game between them, truly, one whose success they don't really believe in anymore. It takes a long journey aboard the Allegiance for them to realise--perhaps, if Laurence can't be reached, someone else can.

GEN

Smooth Water All Our Days by 20thcenturyvole (T, 37k, 2021) Technically Laurence/Tharkay (and they're lovely here) but much more gen-focused. Post-canon, Laurence, with his family's help, gets Temeraire's political career off the ground; meanwhile, Tharkay investigates a conspiracy. Also, parties!

Laurence desires nothing more than to retire to Tharkay's estate and help Temeraire get to Parliament, for what more could he want than a place in Britain with space enough for a dragon, and the company of a dear friend? But wars rarely end so neatly. Bellicose lords, Bourbon princes, errant heirs and shadowy forces threaten to undermine the very peace that Laurence and Temeraire fought to obtain, and ruin the happiness that Laurence was just beginning to glimpse.

remember (you deserve this) by WerewolvesAreReal/@werewolves-are-real (T, 10k, 2018) Laurence finds a different way to punish himself for the treason. Superb angst (mind the tags), and the last line of this fic d e s t r o y e d me

Laurence is pardoned for Temeraire's sake, but he manages to punish himself anyway.

Animal Husbandry by WerewolvesAreReal/@werewolves-are-real (G, 11k, 2017) Laurence is told that Temeraire accepted Dayes as his captain, but Laurence cannot forget the dragon he's lost.

Weeks after finding a dragon egg in the Amitie’s hold William Laurence reluctantly turns away and lets the Corps take Temeraire - but he doesn’t return to the Navy. He’s not an aviator, but somehow Laurence still ends up going down in history as the instigator behind the Great Dragon Rebellion of ‘06.

Captains by StrangerWithMyFace/@agentem (G, 2k, 2010) Perscitia (my beloved!!!) has a rough day; Wellington, in his roundabout way, is there to cheer her up. I am weak for Perscitia and Wellington bonding weak i say

Perscitia encounters two men at the London covert, and one of them is her captain.

Forays Into Human Sexuality (or whatever Laurence is doing) by WerewolvesAreReal/@werewolves-are-real (G, 1k, 2024) Laurence finds out that no, actually, not every man is secretly a repressed bisexual

Laurence says, “It is wholly natural, anyway, with no women around.”

[satyrmagos]

Cybele / Kybele is the Phrygian Mother of the Gods, syncretized and identified with the Greek Titan Rhea, and worshiped in Rome as Magna Mater. It is her cult into which Dionysos was initiated to cure him of the madness inflicted by Hera. She is famous for the frenzied dancing and drumming of her rites, and for her gender-deviant priesthood – who may have included transwomen and/or eunuchs.

On the front of the talisman the goddess is shown on her throne, flanked by lions. She holds a pomegranate in one hand and a frame drum in the other. On the back is an image of two pine trees, like that found at her shrine in a temple of Aesclepius.

This talisman was commissioned by author Ariana Serpentine as a part of her personal devotional work, made available to the public by her astounding generosity, and included in this year’s Pride line at her particular request. You can find Ariana’s book, Sacred Gender, wherever fine books are sold.

* Talisman is one inch in diameter with an image on each side.

* Available as a pendant with an upeye suitable for a 3mm chain or with three rings suitable for stringing as a rosary piece.

* Available in sterling silver or red bronze.

This piece is not consecrated. That is your responsibility to do in accordance with your tradition or gnosis.

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Celebrating the 1 Year Anniversary of My Roommate Is Hades! PART 1!

Episode 1: MY ROOMMATE IS HADES (Air Date: November 11, 2023)

All The Fun Details!

The title ‘My Roommate Is Hades’ is a double meaning, like my roommate is Hades as in literal Hades, god of the underworld; but also the place Hades (which is another word for Hell), so exactly like saying ‘my roommate is hell’ LOL

Hades talks about fighting crocodiles in the Colosseum. In Ancient Rome, gladiators did fight animals like crocodiles, as well as bears, lions, even ostriches. These animal fights were rare but they did happen.

Hades is the god of wealth and riches, he takes Homer’s food because he doesn’t like to spend his own money. This is also the reason he’s wearing several pieces of jewelry, to show his wealth.

Ancient Greece has also been depicted by nude art and culture. Hades might be idealizing the majority how Greeks acted to make his point, but there was definitely a sense of pride in showing off a healthy nude body during games, exercise or in bath houses during this time. In fact it is said that some of the first Olympic Games in Ancient Greece had athletes compete in the nude.

Cerberus is a three-headed watchdog that guards Hades (the god and the place) and prevents any souls from escaping. And he gives him skritches because YES

The comment about feeding Cerberus ‘Prometheus Meat’ is that that meat is a neverending source of food. The myth is that Prometheus stole fire from the gods and brought it to humanity. As punishment he was chained to a rock and an eagle would come down and eat his liver every day. Prometheus being a god would always have his liver grow back just in time for the eagle to come back again and eat it.

Having Zeus as a brother was probably an endless source of shame for Hades but one of the major things that Hades might be referring to is promising Persephone to be Hades wife and then going back on his word. The truth is that Demeter, her mother, asked Zeus to intervene (most likely unbeknowst to her that Zeus OK’d the arrangement in the first place) asked Hermes to take Persephone back from the underworld, going against his word to Hades and shaming him. However Persephone had to keep coming back because she ate pomegranate seeds while there, and once you eat underworld food you can’t leave. So Hades made a deal that she could always come back in the spring (which is why we have seasons!).

Benjamin Franklin did invent swim fins (like feet flippers you wear on your hands) at age 11! He was an avid swimmer, and the fins helped with soreness in his wrists, so the fins helps him swim longer without pain!

The 5 rivers of Hades are: The Styx (River of the Underworld); Phlegethon (River of Fire); Lethe (River of Forgetting); Acheron (The Ferry River/River of Woe); and Cocytus (River of Wailing). And no, they aren’t very nice lol

Elysian Fields (heaven) is where heroes and the most selfless/self sacrificing people go when they die but only true villains and enemies of the gods should get locked away in Tartarus (actual hell). The rest are supposed to end up in a purgatory type place called The Fields of Asphodel. However Hades says that almost everyone these days ends up in Tartarus with no apparent reason why. It honestly sounds like a Good Place scenario and I’m wondering if that might be a plot point later on—

What did you think of this episode??

Continued in Part 2!

GO TO PART 2

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tagged by the lovely @thesumdancekid, thank you sm!! <333

9 favorite first watches of 2023 persuasion (1995) / pride and prejudice (1995) / doctor thorne (2016) / lawrence of arabia (1962) / hbo rome (2005–2007) / the talented mr. ripley (1999) / sweeney todd proshot (1982) and also two separate stage shows in person. i'd never heard it before this summer 🥴 / ted lasso (2020–2023) / the rehearsal (2022)

tagging @dying-suffering-french-stalkers @widowshill @tortoisesshells and, of course, the girl (gn) reading this if they so wish

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Even as adherence to orthodox Christian belief waned and a secular liberal culture became the default mode of life in the West, religious moral assumptions long continued to be considered axiomatic. Some even regarded them as universally inherent to humanity, a framework on which a progressively more atheistic culture would construct an ever more peaceful, just, and enlightened society. But this is not what happened. Instead, like Wile E. Coyote, we made it past the edge of the cliff only to witness the return of moral gravity. Instead of a humanistic atheism, Davidson argues, something different—something ancient—filled the void left by Christianity. Paganism has made a comeback.

This doesn’t mean that kids have started making sacrifices to Zeus and Thor (though interest in Wicca and other modern forms of playacting at witchcraft has surged, especially among young women). Rather, as Louise Perry has explained in these pages (“We Are Repaganizing,” October 2023), paganism is better thought of as mankind’s default outlook on the world. The pagan worships the immanent, including worldly gods and worldly things, and so what he ultimately comes to worship above all else is power: power in the world and over it. In Perry’s words: “To put it crudely, most cultures look at the powerful and the wealthy and assume that they must be doing something right to have attained such might. The poor are poor because of some failing of their own, whether in this life or the last.” It was Christianity’s “topsy-turvy attitude toward weakness and strength” that made it so revolutionary—and so anthropologically odd. So now, as societies revert to the pagan mean, moral beliefs we mistakenly thought were unshakably foundational, such as that every person possesses inherent human dignity, or that unwanted babies shouldn’t be abandoned to die, are being upended in favor of the old ways. Thus we end up with growing public support in the West for policies such as state-facilitated euthanasia.

Davidson’s most important contribution in Pagan America is to explain how repaganization can be expected to change the character of the American state, alongside society more broadly. Until now, America has been governed largely by the tenets of political liberalism. But as Davidson points out, liberalism always relied on “a source of vitality that does not originate from it and that it cannot replenish”: the Christian faith. And as the nation repaganizes, “we will revert to an older form of civilization, one in which power alone matters and the weak and the vulnerable count for nothing”—neither in spirit nor in law. “As Christianity fades in America,” Davidson warns, “so too will our system of government, our civil society, and all our rights and freedoms.” The state will no longer allow the principle of individual rights or conscience to override its desires, and it will not hesitate to use force to get its way, even if that means violating previously sacred norms by, say, threatening to break up the families of those who refuse to submit.

The pagan state, on this view, will not pretend to maintain any sort of liberal neutrality. Instead, Davidson argues, “We will have a public or state morality, just as Rome had, which will be quite separate from whatever religion one happens to profess.” What will this state morality consist of? Davidson believes we can already see it being instantiated everywhere: a solipsistic focus on self-expression, self-empowerment, and pride; a radical emphasis of unabridged individual autonomy and liberation from all customs, taboos, and constraints, including all duties and relational ties; an extreme aversion to boundaries and limits on desire, and the self-creation not only of all aspects of personal identity, but of the body, nature, and reality itself; and ultimately an undiluted worship of the self and the will to power, hidden behind a mask of empathy, tolerance, and the language of the therapeutic. Under this regime the strictest of commandments will be that it is forbidden to forbid anything. [...]

Davidson predicts that life under this regime will be characterized by oppression and coercive violence, and that this “violence will be official—carried out by government bureaucrats, police, health care workers, NGOs, public schools, and Big Tech.” Those who refuse to render the expected moral sacrifices to Caesar are likely to come under intense pressure to conform, hounded not only by the state but by all the aligned institutions of American society. They can expect life to become very difficult: their bank accounts closed, their ability to travel restricted, their access to education and employment limited. The threat of arrest and prosecution for “extremism” and other vague crimes will loom constantly. Such an environment of totalitarian coercion should be expected because, in addition to delineating loyalty, the doctrines of official ideologies always serve as a means of coordination and mobilization across the disparate elements of a regime. By permeating every level of the many institutions of the American managerial apparatus and determining the thoughts and behavior of their members, from journalists to judges, the new pagan public morality will become integral to the function of the system as a whole. In other words, we will live under a pagan integralist state.

Davidson, for his part, does not shy away from accepting the inevitability of this future. “America as we know it will come to an end,” he writes. “Instead of free citizens in a republic, we will be slaves in a pagan empire.” Only the wealthy and powerful will do what they will, while the rest suffer what they must. “What awaits us on the other side of Christendom,” he declares, “is a pagan dark age.” And “in the second decade of the twenty-first century,” he writes, “we can say with some confidence that this dark age has begun.”

It is for me always a bit of an odd experience to read someone who is even more pessimistic than I am. I get an eerie tingling sensation, an unwelcome and unsettling suspicion that things aren’t as bad as all that. In this case something nagged at me as I reread Davidson’s thesis. Something seemed not quite right . . . Ah, there it was: “Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” This is the slogan he repeats many times throughout the book to encapsulate the core proposition of paganism, ancient and modern.

This, it strikes me, is wrong. The pagan of the ancient world may have held a moral worldview alien to ours, but he was no nihilist. Quite the opposite. For the pagan, immanence was indeed his lived reality. And that meant that everything around him—every tree, every blade of grass, every gust of wind—was suffused with spirit and enchanted with meaning and symbol. Everything had soul. The divine was alive and present all around him, for good or ill. Every swooping hawk and every moving star could be an omen of fear or favor, a story revealing a glimpse into the workings of fate and the drama of the gods. Everything might be true, anything was possible.

But not everything was permitted. The world for the pagan—as it remains for many tribal peoples today—was rife with taboos and solemn duties. Guests must be protected and treated with complete sanctity under a strict code of propriety, lest one attract the wrath of the gods. Sacred ground must be maintained in absolute purity. The best sacrifices must be offered to honor and placate the ancestral dead, or to ensure the continued right working of the universe. The flame of the sacred hearth must be tended at all times, the proper rites continuously performed. A Roman wife must be carried across the threshold of her new household with great care that she never touch the boundary, for her transit was not only between families but across divine realms.

Our dim and pallid modernist world could not be more different from the pagan’s. Here all has been reduced to mere matter, moved about by the collision of atoms. There is no meaning in the wind. There are no spirits in the trees nor stories in the stars. We can no longer see them. Nor for most of us does God seem, as the early Christians felt deeply, to permeate each breath and every stone of creation with his energy, present at once in all things and beyond all things. Ours is a profane, mechanistic world—a dead world, in which the vast majority of us have, perhaps literally, lost the ability to perceive that it is still alive. Instead, in our drab materialism, most of us live in a kind of self-imposed virtual reality, obsessed with predictability and technocratic control.

Only in such a meaningless world can the proposition “nothing is true, everything is permitted” make any sense to its inhabitants. It is not, then, the slogan of paganism, but something else entirely: the worldview of materialist modernity, produced by the centuries of metaphysical drift that first pushed God out of the world and then pushed the Western mind deeper and deeper into cold rationalism—and from thence into the great disenchantment of the Enlightenment, then on to the unprecedented murderousness of the twentieth century’s utopian revolutionary theories, then the bleak relativistic nihilism of the present. Though Davidson does include a chapter on the rise of materialism, overall his book glosses over this nearly thousand-year devolution. Instead the narrative largely reverts to a simple binary: There was a pagan world; Christianity triumphed over it but never dealt it a mortal blow; now we are sliding from Christendom back into paganism.

Is this really what is happening? C. S. Lewis, for one, was always skeptical of such claims. He wrote that he found it “hard to have patience with those . . . who warn us that we are ‘relapsing into Paganism.’” The whole notion relied, he said, on the “false idea” that secularized former Christians could return “by the same door” through which they’d entered the present. In reality, this is impossible because to a post-Christian materialist the pagan world of symbol and spirit remains wholly unintelligible. “A post-Christian man is not a Pagan; you might as well think that a married woman recovers her virginity by divorce. The post-Christian is cut off from the Christian past and therefore doubly from the Pagan past.” In fact, he pointed out, “Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either has with a post-Christian. The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as that between those who worship and those who do not.”

So who is right? Are we repaganizing or not? Perhaps both are right, in a way. Lewis is probably correct that what we’ve seen so far can’t quite be described as a straightforward return to paganism. But something is now happening: Amid our broader civilizational turmoil, the zeitgeist does seem to be shifting dramatically, shaking off the remnants of tepid, Christian-influenced secular liberalism in favor of something new, inchoate, and potentially very dark. So far it is not Christian. But—and this is I believe by far the more important point—neither is it the soulless materialism that Lewis feared had already conquered the world, severing us from the past and from the divine. 

What we seem to be seeing is a broad and accelerating reaction against and rejection of the materialist framework of Enlightenment modernity. It is now observable throughout Western culture and politics. The young would-be feminists flocking to “WitchTok” for advice on how to conjure love and manifest success are hardly atheists. Neither are the young men of the right who, if not crowding back into traditionalist churches, grope for a spirituality of strength, vitality, and meaning among the aesthetic ruins of ancient warrior cults. These are people searching for the sacred, even if they don’t know where to look. In fact, sometime during the last decade, the atheist movement seems to have quietly died off as a cultural force.

What is happening? Citing a recent wave of religious conversions by formerly atheistic public intellectuals, Jordan Peterson has argued that we are experiencing the beginning of a “Counter-Enlightenment.” The centuries-old Enlightenment consensus, including the idea that the materialist-rationalists’ “dead facts” could serve as a guide to existence, has, he believes, turned out to be badly wrong, and now an epochal reckoning is building. (As for his own contribution, Peterson said he’s now writing a book that aims—he remarks offhandedly—to “demolish the atheistic argument permanently.”) I think he is right: The whole edifice of modernity is in crisis. But this should be a cause for Christian hope, not panic. In fact, it seems possible that our time may witness a transition not into Davidson’s new “pagan dark age,” but out of what Lewis called the true dark age of modern materialism.

More than a hundred years before Peterson, the German historian Oswald Spengler predicted that, beginning sometime in the twenty-first century, “a last spiritual crisis” would shake a declining West and lead to a resurgence of religiosity, a long era of renewed piety that he dubbed a “Second Religiousness.” Spengler based this prediction on his reading of the life cycles of many major civilizations, all of which had, in his telling, been brought low by an “age of theory,” in which a hubris of materialist rationalism crystallized into self-induced mechanistic madness, decadence, and civilizational decay. In time, however, this epoch always came to an end, as “the possibilities of physics as a critical mode of world-understanding are exhausted, and the hunger for metaphysics presents itself afresh.”

“For us, too,” writes Spengler, “let there be no mistake about it—the age of theory is drawing to its end. . . . In its place is developing even now the seed of a new resigned piety, sprung from tortured conscience and spiritual hunger.” But first civilization would be swept, as in every historical case, by a temporary period of bizarre superstitions and syncretic cults:

Everywhere it is just a toying with myths that no one really believes, a tasting of cults that it is hoped might fill the inner void. The real belief is always the belief in atoms and numbers, but it requires this highbrow hocus-pocus to make it bearable in the long run. Materialism is shallow and honest, mock-religion shallow and dishonest. But the fact that the latter is possible at all foreshadows a new and genuine spirit of seeking that declares itself, first quietly, but soon emphatically and openly, in the civilized waking-consciousness.

In the end, what “starts with Rationalism’s fading out in helplessness” concludes “as if a mist cleared off the land and revealed the old forms” of that “first, genuine, young religiousness” that once drove the civilization to cultural greatness. Spengler was predicting a sweeping re-Christianization of the West.

Could this really happen? I do not know. What I am confident of is that, before Christianity could ever flourish again, the iron cage of materialism would indeed need to be broken and the world re-enchanted, filled again with an immanence of spirit. It is the materialist worldview—not pagan foes—that has for centuries smothered and subverted Christian faith and passion.

But with the veil of materialism lifted, could we expect that paganism, too, might have a chance to flourish again, as Davidson predicts? That the West might face a “dark enchantment” as much as a return to the light? Yes, I think so. The deadening effect of materialism has undermined paganism no less than Christianity. Freed from its grip, we may all be off to the races.

In that case I’d say: Do not be afraid. This situation would be familiar terrain for the Church. After all, it was precisely in the pagan world, amid its simultaneous suffering and enchantment, that the Christian faith spread like wildfire. There is no reason it should not do so again. Even in the worst case, if Christianity finds itself badly persecuted, as in Davidson’s pagan America, persecution may ultimately give it new strength—as it so often has.

So perhaps the rise of a little paganism is a necessary development for renewal—a cause for hope, not despair. It may end up merely preparing the way, as it did before. At least I find a wry poetry in the idea that, should we face a great relapse into paganism, the Enemy may have inadvertently planted the seeds of a greater Christian triumph. God does seem to have a strange habit of winning that way.

[choicesficwriterscreations]

CFWC FotW Jun 4 - 10, 2023

18+ = Adult/Mature Content 🔥 = Explicit Material/NSFW 🏳️‍🌈 = Pride

CRIMES OF PASSION

Dealing with a Narcissist | Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @storyofmychoices

New York, June 2014 | Trystan Thorne, F!MC - @inlocusmads🏳️‍🌈

IMMORTAL DESIRES

Snow in Crimson, Starlight in Gold (Series) | m!Cas Harlow x m!Gabe Adalhard x NB!MC - @aria-ashryver Chapters 31 and 32 18+ 🏳️‍🌈

OPEN HEART

RED CARPET DIARIES

Confession Time | Thomas Hunt x F!OC - @alj4890

Love Among the Pages | Thomas Hunt x F!OC - @theartoflovingthomashunt

THE ROYAL ROMANCE

CROSSOVER FICS

A Courtesan of Rome / Open Heart

Angels in Hell | Marc Anthony x MC, Tobias Carrick x MC - @boneandfur

Immortal Desires / It Lives

Répondez,S'il Vous Plaît! | Multiple Pairings - @aallotarenunelma 🏳️‍🌈

The Royal Romance / Rules of Engagement

Dancing with Our Hands Tied | Leo Rys x F!MC - @leelee10898

[skyfullofpods]

Happy audio fiction Sunday! In my playlist this week, Moonbase Theta, Out contained plenty of surprises, as the story gets ever closer to its end, @lastechoespod continues to be absolutely gorgeous, and there was the launch of Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later - a very fun new podcast set in Ancient Rome!

[chrysacr]

Tagging: N/A Timeframe: Early Spooktober, 2023 Location: Eichen House Notes: short and sweet, just cute banshee things.

"Let me in!"

It hadn’t taken long for the senate to come. Marshals from the three covens had appeared within the hour, all the windows to Chrysaor’s apartment were blown out, the neighbours in the apartments that surrounded him weren’t dead but they might as well have been. The banshee’s wail had torn their souls from their bodies and scattered them across The Otherworld, in their wake were people who’d needed immediate hospitalisation. Death rejected them, but sepsis came back again and again in a repeated and vicious cycle. The wind howled as the ground beneath Chrysaor’s building shook, violent and ceaseless the banshee’s wail did not cease. Words that echoed on the wind came with unending repetition, a wail that joined the others of his kinds in their scattered places within Rome and its countryside. Control was something that any banshee was used to losing, for all that Chrysaor could do he prided himself on the fact that he was mostly kept in check. 

“Chrysaor!” 

This marshal had to be well informed, but even as the banshee’s name tore through the wind, Chrysaor could not stop. 

Continuously he shouted: "Let me in! Let me in! Let me in!"  

Explosive wind tore apart the wall, Chrysaor was a writhing mess of anguish as he heard the fists that beat upon the doors and saw the faces of those that shouted on the other side. He had to tell them, he had to warn them, but he could say nothing but the words that were ripped from his throat again and again. Too torn to even think, the banshee was an echo of a marionette as his strings got caught up and twisted in Fate’s hand as it curled over the city. There were so many people, there was so much death; Chrysaor had spent centuries in undeath and even before then had walked this world as a faiman for a long time. He had watched the light fade from the eyes of monsters and men alike, he had been at his master’s side as the necromancer rained fire upon Rome the first time the senate went to battle against the Asphodel. 

If that had been a whisper, this was a scream. 

Witches suppressed the wind while others attempted to shield the banshee’s wail, one was struck and their soul was flung away but the rest managed to muzzle him with something. An apparatus magically designed from an Amaranthian origin that Chrysaor was too inexperienced to know. Powerful as it was, the banshee still yelled behind it, his wail was self-contained and echoed only within himself as the garbled words continued to pour through the other side: "Let me in! Let me in! Let me in!"

Vitriol sorrow streaked his limbs, anguish so profound that it made the spirit’s bones feel numb. Static under his skin that burned against the ice in his veins, they had to know, he had to warn somebody. Even as the tears streamed the banshee’s anguished face there was nothing that any seemed capable of doing. The wail continued as Chrysaor’s body reacted responsively, his limbs flailing as he thrashed and clawed at the muzzle in an attempt to get free. Madness. Some whispered, but Chrys was not alone. An attack? Others questioned, the breadth of power the necromancers wielded was formidable, this could have been them. A sign? Because what else could the wail of so many be? 

Institutionalised under the senate’s watchful eye, restrained in a jacket with a muzzle over his mouth, the padded room made it so Chrysaor couldn’t hurt himself by accident. Not that he could anyways, he was a spirit. In truth it was a secondary precaution in the event that he broke free, the padding was designed to cushion the wail and stop him from breaking out the others as well. Because there were more, many more. Someone will come, but who? They won’t just leave me here: but how many years had he been trapped before? Ragged wails stripped thought and freedom from his mind as his throat tore itself apart to keep prolong his unrelenting cry.A level above the senate’s prison and anyone within could hear the yelling, it didn’t matter how many restraints were in place, and it didn’t matter how many levels of security were there to cushion the cries. The same three words rang out all day and all night without rest: "Let me in! Let me in! Let me in!"

They won’t leave me in here, they can’t leave me in here.

[waterlilyunit4]

Veiled Vestal Virgin

The Veiled Lady is a sculpture that was created in 1847 by Rafaelle Monti (when the sculpture was also knows as " the bride", and was then sculpted again in 1999 by Giovanni Maria Benzoni. The statue made in 1999 appeared in the famous film 'Pride and Prejudice'. The Veiled Lady is what is know as a Vestal Virgin, where in Roman times, they were priestesses whos lives were dedicated to the goddess Vesta, and had a main task of guarding the sacred flame in the Temple of Vesta. The sculpture was commissioned by William Cavendish when on a trip to Naples.

Privilege and punishment: The vestal virgins in Ancient Rome (no date) Through Eternity Tours. Available at: https://www.througheternity.com/en/blog/history/vestal-virgins-in-ancient-rome.html#:~:text=As%20priestesses%20their%20main%20task,the%20chief%20priest%20as%20punishment. (Accessed: August 2023).

A veiled Vestal virgin (no date) Chatsworth House. Available at: https://www.chatsworth.org/visit-chatsworth/chatsworth-estate/art-archives/devonshire-collections/sculpture/a-veiled-vestal-virgin/#:~:text=It%20first%20came%20to%20Chatsworth,dedicated%20to%20the%20goddess%20Vesta. (Accessed: August 2023).

Vestal virgins (2023) Encyclopædia Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vestal-Virgins (Accessed: August 2023).

[mariacallous]

Francesco Rocca, the president of the Lazio region who was chosen by right-wing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, said on Monday that he has revoked support for Roma Pride 2023 Queeresistenza (Queeresistance).

It was initially announced on Monday that Lazio, the region around Rome, would sponsor the event, but then Rocca withdrew support because he said the organisers wanted to make it appear that Lazio was supporting Italians’ right to seek surrogacy abroad, which the Meloni government wants to criminalise.

The proposed legislation is seen by campaigners as part of a wider anti-LGBT agenda. Surrogacy within Italy is already illegal.

But Rocca told Italian newspaper La Stampa that the decision was nothing to do with homophobia or “orders from above.”

“The revocation was only based on the fact that they wanted to exploit our support by making it appear as if it endorsed the practice of surrogacy,” he said.

The decision by Rocca, who came to office in February 2023 after being proposed by Meloni as the official candidate of the centre-right coalition, sparked strong criticism from LGBT activists and the political opposition.

“The revocation of the patronage of Rome Pride by the Lazio Region once again demonstrates that institutionalised homophobia exists within the Brothers of Italy [Meloni’s party]. It is state homophobia,” said Riccardo Magi, secretary of the liberal More Europe party.

Mario Colamarino, a spokesperson for Roma Pride, accused the Lazio regional government of acting on the orders of the hardline Catholic anti-abortion movement Pro Vita.

Colamarino claimed that the sponsorship was revoked after Pro Vita launched social media posts asking the region to withdraw support for the event because its manifesto called for the legalisation of surrogacy and same-sex marriage.

Pro Vita spokesperson Jacopo Coghe celebrated the decision on social media, claiming that the sponsorship was cancelled due to the organisation’s intervention.

[satyrmagos]

Fourth in my 2023 Pride line is the image of Kybele, the Great Mother, Mother of the Gods.

Cybele / Kybele is the Phrygian Mother of the Gods, syncretized and identified with the Greek Titan Rhea, and worshiped in Rome as Magna Mater. It is her cult into which Dionysos was initiated to cure him of the madness inflicted by Hera. She is famous for the frenzied dancing and drumming of her rites, and for her gender-deviant priesthood – who may have included transwomen and/or eunuchs.

On the front of the talisman the goddess is shown on her throne, flanked by lions. She holds a pomegranate in one hand and a frame drum in the other. On the back is an image of two pine trees, like that found at her shrine in a temple of Aesclepius.

This talisman was commissioned by author Ariana Serpentine as a part of her personal devotional work, made available to the public by her astounding generosity, and included in this year’s Pride line at her particular request. You can find Ariana’s book, Sacred Gender, wherever fine books are sold.

* Talisman is one inch in diameter with an image on each side.

* Available as a pendant with an upeye suitable for a 3mm chain or with three rings suitable for stringing as a rosary piece.

* Available in sterling silver or red bronze.

This piece is not consecrated. That is your responsibility to do in accordance with your tradition or gnosis.

[mint-moon25]

Killers (8/11) Movie CLIP - Deadly Secretary (2010) HD

DEAR - KOREAN GIRLS,

GOOD - MORNING

GOOD - MORNING - SEOUL

INDIA - BORN - IN - USA - NON-VIRGINS - TOUCHED

CONFUSED - ABOUT - ISLAM - 4 WIVES

CONFUSED - ABOUT - MUSLIM

ISLAM - THE - ARAB - NATIONS

FUEL - 4 - AIRPLANES - CARS - MOPEDS - MOTORED ...

INDIA - BORN - IN - USA

WENT - ALL - THE - WAY - WITH - HER - MALE

COUSINS - ALREADY

THEIR - PRIDE - ‘GREAT - WITH - COMPUTERS’

DATA - ENTRY

COMPUTER - SCIENCE - PROGRAMMING

USA - BORN - PINAYS

INDIA - BORN - IN - USA

BOTH - TAKE - ‘BASIC’ - LANGUAGE

MOST - USED - EASY - JOBS - 2 - GET

MARY BRICKELL VILLAGE

LESBIANS - MARRIED - 2- LESBIANS

AS - ASIANS - MAKE - ‘NO’ - SOUND

SURVIVAL - KIT - FOR - CAMPERS

SURVIVERS - COMBAT - KNIFE

YOU - WERE - ATTACKED - WHILE

SITTING - DOWN - THEY - DID THAT

ON - PURPOSE

CALLED - ILLEGAL - ‘AMBUSH’

PROTECTED - BY THE - FORMER

EMPEROR - OF - ROME

JULIUS CAESAR

23 STABBINGS

2 EACH - PER - POLITICIAN MALE

ON - STAGE - IN - THEATRE LIVE

THAT - WAS - THEN - THEIR 

POLITICAL - OFFICE

WHO - WATCHED - 2ND - PLACE

POLITICIANS

SO - IN - FLORIDA - IN - US STATES

NOT NEW YORK - ORIGINAL SNOW

THEIR - CRAZY

SEPTEMBER 11 BOMBINGS

EXPLAINED

WED - 15 JAN 2025 - 11:21A EST

HER - JOB - HISPANIC - FAT

CAPITAL - ONE - IS - 2 - CHECK

THAT - EVERYONE - BEHAVED

HER - JOB - MORE - THAN

MIN WAGE - SEE - ALL - BEHAVING

EDGE - ROUND - CORNER

FLOOR - EXTENSION - MINE - WAS

ABOUT - 2 - FALL

BRINGING - DOWN - LAPTOP 

PINK - MY - G LAP - I - BELIEVED

AMAZON - G ANICA - PRIME

IT’s - MAGNIFICENT

NOT - JUST - HP - ALL - LAPTOPS

THEIR - HICCUP - IMAGES - THUMBNAILS

NOT - JUST - HEWLETT - PACKARD

BUT - G ANICA - LAPTOP - CHEAPER

WOULD - HAVE - PULLED - DOWN

BROKEN - GLASS - OF - MY

SAMSUNG - GALAXY A13 5G

BEST - BUDGET - PHONE - 2023 - 2024

BROKEN - GLASS - ( DOLPHIN MALL )

OVER - $7,750.95 - ADD - 7% - TAX

BROKEN - FINALLY - MY - DORKY

LAPTOP - GOT - FREE - FR - EBT

PARKING - LOT 33

WOULD - HAVE - TURN - OFF

LIGHT - OF - MY - SLEEPING

CHINESE - TOAST - LAMP 2

OBSERVING - ALL - BEHAVE

ALL - MY - EQUIPMENT - BROKEN

HISPANICS - BORN - IN - FLORIDA

TOILET - CLEANERS

WILL - KILL - U - IF U - STEAL THEIR

JOBS - WILL - STAB - YOU ...

CAPITAL ONE

ATTENDANT

CHECKING - ALL - R - BEHAVED

AS - THEY - ON - PURPOSE - ATTACK

YOU - WHILE - YOU’RE - SITTING

FOLDABLE - CAMPING - CHAIR

HIDING - AIR - MAT - 5 INCHES

FLORIDA - IS - ALSO

NEVADA - DESERT

NORTH - CAROLINA - SNOW

ONE - OF - THE - MOST BEAUTIFUL

TREES - OF THE - UNITED STATES

ALL - ARE - STAND YOUR GROUND

LAW - ALL ARE- CASTLE DOCTRINE

YOU - MUST - EVENTUALLY STAND

SO - YOU - WILL - OF - COURSE

2 - EXERCISE - 2 - STRETCH

2 - THE - LEFT - 2 - THE - RIGHT

WE’RE - POISONING - THE - WHOLE

THING - THE - EDGES

TAKE - THE - ANTIDOTE

WITH - THE - CAMERA - 2 C - ALL

BEHAVED - THEY - DID - NOT YES

ADJUST - THE - EXTENSION CORD

2 - AVOID - ALL - STUFF - FALLEN

EDGE - ME

LOOKING - STRAIGHT

BREAKABLE - GLASS

LEFT - EDGE - AN - ATM

2 - MY - LEFT - CAMERA

IN - FRONT - OF - GREEN

EXIT

ROUND - CLEAR - BALLS - THAT FLY

SIMPLI SAFE - SURVEILLANCE AND

HIDDEN - CAMERAS

YOU - KNOW - THE - BANK - THAT

KC - FOUND - HERSELF - HAD - $$$

THIS - IS - JUST - CAPITAL ONE

CAFE - AND - THAT - IS - HOW THEY

ARE - AS - HISPANICS - BLACKS AS

AMERICANS - JUST - LOUSY - CAFE

CAPITAL ONE

WHAT’s - IN - YOUR - WALLET

LOTS - OF - KOREAN

FIRST - RUN - COMMERCIALS

GBC - TV - STUDIOS - PRESENTS

‘CAPITAL - ONE’

CAPITAL - ONE - CAFES

‘WHAT’s - IN - YOUR - WALLET’

KEEPING - ACCOUNT

CHECKING - $1.00

SAVINGS - $1.00

I - HAVE - CREDIT - CARD

THAT’s - SACRED

U - CAN - GET - CASH - HERE

FOR - CITIBANK

NOW - WHY - WOULD - STUPID

DO - THAT?

CITI - HAS - BEST - CASH

OUTSIDE - AFTER - HOURS

YOU - ENTER - CARD - STRAIGHT

LIGHT - GREEN

TAKE - CARD

NOW - ENTER

INDIA - FEMALE - LOOKED - AT ME

SHE’d - RATHER - BE - DEAD THAN

BE - ASIAN

ABOUT - INDIRA GANDHI

WHO - WAS - FIRED - 20 BULLETS

WEDNESDAY - BY - HER - SINGH 

MALE - GUARDS - HER - HOME

GOING - 2 - HER - HOME - OFFICE

SEPARATE - LOCATION

INDIRA - 5′4 FT

FRIEND - OF - IMELDA MARCOS

AFTER - INDIRAH - WAS - SHOT

2- DEATH - IN - THE - MORNING

INDIA - MALES - EVERYWHERE

ESPECIALLY - IN - NEW DELHI

KILLED SINGH - MALES THERE

NASTY - PEOPLE - ANYWAY

EVERYWHERE - THAT DAY

THEY - KILLED - SINGH - MALES

AS - INDIA’s - MALES

WE’RE - SO - PROUD

YOUR - MUST - STAND - MORE

PROTECTION

POISONED - NOW - COMBAT

SURVIVERS - OF - CAMPING

SURVIVORS - AS - CAMPERS

DIGGING - IN - WITH - THAT

COMBAT - KNIFE

ITS - POISONOUS - SO THEIR

BODIES - DISAPPEAR

ANOTHER - CAMERA BEHIND

ME - NEXT - 2 A - MEETING

AREA - THEY - WOULD - NOT

BEEN ABLE - 2 - SEE - TRUE

THE - LOCATION - OF - EXTENSION

CORD - 2 - HUMILIATE - ASIANS

BUT - WE - CREATED - THEM

REMEMBER - ‘SHANGHAI - CALLING’

1 MIN - ADULT - THEY - CAME AFTER

THE - 2 - FOR - FIRING - THEM

BUT - THEY - WERE - ABLE - 2 LEAVE

RED - SPORTS CAR - HELPED

THAT - WAS - FUNNY

CORRECTION - IT - WAS - NOT - KR

KOREAN - BUT CHINESE EPISODES

FR - MEMORY

SHE - WAS - DRUNK - FROM CHINESE

BEAR - CHINESE - WINE - SO TRYING

2 - BALANCE - A - CHRISTIAN - MALE

CHINESE - IMMEDIATELY - ABOVE

GRABBED - TOP - OF - HER HAIR

BROUGHT - HER - 2 - FR MEMORY

OUTDOOR - ELEVATOR - ALL THE

FEMALES - GREAT - LEGS - AND

CHINESE - AND - BOXED BOXED

BOXED - BLUDGEONED KICKED

HER - BOXED - BOXED - HER

INTERRUPTION

HISPANIC - MIAMI - POLICE

ASKED - ‘HOW - MANY - TIMES

DID - HE - OR - SHE - BOXED

YOU - MA’M’ 

REQUIRED - BY - ‘AMERICAN’

LAWS - DON’T - EXIST

US - LAW - STATES - YOU

MUST - COUNT - HOW MANY

BOXES - KICKS - OR - WE

CAN’T - HELP - YOU

YOU - ( LIAR ) - SAID - SHE

HIT - YOU - WITH CAMPING

CHAIR - HOW - MANY TIMES?

HIS - BUDDY

I - SAID - ‘7 TIMES’ - IT - WAS 

OVER - 3 MIN - OF - HITTING

ME - WITH - MY - STEEL CHAIR

$7 - FIVE BELOW - NW 6 ST

SW 2ND AVE

SAID - LOT 14

THEY - WENT - 12:55A EST

AMBUSH - HAPPENED - 12:30A EST

HE - SAID - US - LAWS - ‘ALL - MAKE

PHONE - CALLS’ - AND - WATCH

BLUDGEONING - RAPING - MUST

WATCH - ILLEGAL - ‘ENCOURAGEMENT

OF - CRIME’

WHY - WE - WATCH - DISNEY+ - FREE

OF - ADS - DISNEY FILM - ‘LIGHTYEAR’

US LAWS - 48 HRS - MISSING - BEFORE

REPORTING ...

USA - HAS - BLONDIE - WHO - WANTS 

2 B - MARILYN MONROE - AN - ACTRESS

SINGER - DANCER - AGE 6 - STRANGLED

2 - DEATH - THEN - BLUDGEONED ...

(BLK - DID - IT)

CHINA - PUBLIC - SCHOOL

2 CHINESE - MALES - WENT - AND 

STABBED - 2 - DEATH - NON-SPEAKING

CHINESE - KIDS - OF - COURSE

CHINA - DIDN’T - ALLOW - SEMI-AUTO

REVOLVERS - 4 - TEACHERS

DIDN’T - REQUIRE - MARTIAL - ARTS

FOR - TEACHERS

AMERICAN - COPY - CATS

MAKE - PHONE - CALLS - AS - KIDS

AND - CALL - AUTHORITY

TIANANMAN - SQUARE

FIRED - AT - WILL

COLLEGE - STUDENTS

BLACK MALE - JUST - SAT - DOWN - OF COURSE 

LOOKED - 2 - TALK - 2 - ME

I - WITH - READING - GLASSES - PRETENDED

DIDN’T - SEE - HIM - AT - ALL

OF - COURSE - PLUGGED - AT - THE - EDGE

2 - MIAMI - POLICE - MEN

WHAT - THEY - WERE - TELLING - ME - THEY

WOULD - HAVE - ENJOYED - SIGHT - OF THE

BLK - FEMALE - BLUDGEONING - ME - AS

THEY - LISTEN - 2 - THEIR - WALKIE TALKIE

THEY - COME - WITH - SOUND

THEY - ARE - ALSO - UNDER - NOISE

MONETORY - FINES - AND OR - PRISON

ONCE - THE - AGRESSOR - FINISHED

WILL - SURRENDER - 2 - THEM

ASKED - ME - WHY - DIDN’T - WAIT AND

SEE - IF - SHE - TURNED - LEFT - OR - R

FOR - CERTAIN

ASKED - 2 B - ARE - YOU - WITNESSED

2 - LEFT - OR - RIGHT - WAY - MA’M?

NOW - WE - KNOW - PROCEDURES OF

MIAMI - POLICE

WE - WILL - SLAUGHTER - MANY - OF

THEM - WHEN - WE - INVADE MIAMI

SLAUGHTER - MANY - HOMELESS ...

SLEPT - AFTER - 1A EST

I’M - SLEEPY - RIGHT - NOW 

GOOD - LOST - INTEREST - IN - WIX

HAVE - TO - ADD - FOOTER

DEMO MODEL - DEMO MODEL

MINT & MOON

GOOD - GAINING - ALL - THAT - MONEY

KEPT - $14.40 - GOOGLE - WORKSPACE

STAND - 2 - EXERCISE

2 - USE - COMBAT KNIFE - SURVIVERS

FASTER  - MAGNET - ON - L SIDE - TO

GET - YOUR - COMBAT KNIVES

FROM - AFAR - PRACTICE - MAKES

PERFECT - BUT NOT - LONG SLEEP