#the gateways

[greyheadedjaco]

This fic is dedicated to all the peeps on the EKosystem (Erin Kellyman) Discord server. Thank y'all for being so awesome.

Happy Holidays, and

[batboyblog]

it's true and you should say it.

[gatewaygallery]

i spend my weeknights very wisely

[purplepomegranate08]

Annabeth cannonly told monument facts to all her friends can we include this in the fandom please

Annabeth gets caught off her guard by something someone says and just spouts

“construction on the gateway arch was completed on the 28th of October 1965”

She never lives it down

[lowpolyanimals]

Spyro from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! / Gateway to Glimmer 

[genderqueerdykes]

btw 'syscourse' and plural infighting isn't accomplishing anything. back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the only communities and resources for plurals that were widely available were for and by non-traumagenic systems. the only people who were advocating for normalizing and accepting plurality on a large scale were non-traumagenic systems. if you did research into plurality 10 - 15 years ago, most of the results that came up would have been experiences written by spiritual and natural plurals.

many people at the time were expressing their dislike of forcing every single plural to identify as if they had trauma- many found this insulting to themselves, and rightfully so! no one should be forced to identify in a way they don't agree with just to rightfully be a part of a community they already occupy. this obsession with "you can only be plural if you have trauma" has only come about extremely recently. i found out about plurality through the otherkin community. i was actually told about DID by someone in the spiritual plurality community. people don't seem to understand that most non-traumagenic systems have respect for traumagenic systems and don't gatekeep their spaces to prevent us from entering.

older plural spaces on the web like healthymultiplicity accepted all plurals. the goal of the community was to show that you can live as plural and not have it be a tragedy or something to "fix". if anything, folks with dissociative disorders owe a LOT to non-traumagenic systems for pushing to normalize plurality without implying that we HAVE to integrate our headmates and try to stop being plural. a huge part of the early online plural community was there to push that plurals can and do live happy lives and shouldn't view their plurality as a bad thing

it's not going to make singlet society see us in a better light. it's not going to get people to understand plurality better. it's not going to get us better mental health resources. it's not going to improve the quality of care for dissociative and traumagenic systems. all you're doing is bullying someone else that you don't understand simply because you don't agree with them.

you're not going to recover from your trauma or understand your own plurality better by denying the existence of other types of plurality. you're not "making the community safer" by gatekeeping. telling other people how their brains work is policing their identities. whether or not you want to accept it, if you forcefully kick endos out of plural spaces, you are the cop you claim to hate.

fighting with people on your own team will never net you a victory. to every other dissociative and traumagenic system: endos are on your side. you are wearing the same jersey. you are made of the same flesh and blood. enough. come together to share your similarities instead of fighting over differences. celebrate the diversity that plurality offers. don't take someone else's identity personally. someone can share the space with you without having to match exactly how you identify. diversity is what makes a community thrive.

[tunemyart]

lowkey feeling bad for the wizard's propaganda machine surely having to work overtime to drown out the entire student body of shiz university who witnessed not only the very public enemies to lovers speedrun, but also the constant canoodling, hand holding, joined at the hip elphaba-and-glinda that followed

act ii glinda's like 'oh no the wicked witch! wickedness bad!'

heckler in the audience: 'you're married!'

act ii glinda: 'shhhhhhh'

[xaoca]

[daily-mc-block]

End Gateway

[archiveofaffinities]

Pura, Lempuyang, Bali, Indonesia

[i-reblog-castiel]

"Angels have very colorful wings" factoid actually statistical error. Castiel Supernatural, whose wings glitter in every shade of the rainbow both visible and inconceivable, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[gatewaygallery]

they call it the beast that feasts

(for @syntaxaero)

[ioannemos]

"love your neighbor as yourself" is the second greatest commandment. "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind" is the first. i think some people get it reversed and that's why they get so offended when Christians put God first

[navylily]

A little mistake that rick riordan made in the book is that he thought the gateway arch overlooked the mississippi river. But in fact the arch and the river were separated by a highway, thus Percy would have fallen much farther away.

It was so cool how in the show poseidon saves percy by allowing a jet of water to guide him into the river. Just shows how this adaptation has thought everything though and is building on the original books to make the entire series a million times better.

[questionableadvice]

~ Cottage Economy, William Cobbett, 1833