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trans-rite · 1 year ago
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How to join the Transgender Ancestor Rite: an FAQ on our updated format
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What is it?
an annual, non-denominational ritual honoring transgender individuals who have passed on
an act of solidarity with the lineage of transgender ancestors who have come before us and paved the way, as well as with the descendants who will come after us when we are gone
a chance to share tenderness and kindness with the restless spirits of transgender people who lost their lives to violence
an opportunity for living transgender folks, including those who have lost trans loved ones, to grieve, mourn, and pray
a labor of love from a multiracial group of trans spirit workers, each at various stages of study in ancestor veneration practices, who have been putting on this ritual since 2014
When is it?
the ritual should take place on or around the Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20th, preferably within a week
most of us do it at night but any time of day is fine
if you need to do it a little before or after the 20th, don't sweat it
Where is it?
wherever you are!
groups are welcome to host local events and inform us about them, but the ritual itself takes place in a location of your own choosing, usually at home
if you have access to a local TDOR event that could incorporate some or all of this ritual, you are welcome to bring it there
most of the organizers have historically been located in the northeastern US but you don’t have to be
Who is it for?
it honors everyone from this year’s Trans Day of Remembrance official list, as well as any other deaths of trans individuals from the year that participants wish to include
illness losses, violent deaths, suicides, and natural deaths are all eligible for inclusion
it includes, cumulatively, all transgender deaths from previous years as well, named on the TDOR lists and unnamed, throughout history
it honors and praises the trans ancestors, people who were alive both recently and longer ago, who feel themselves in connection with us, who have received the care and honor we offered through previous years’ rituals, who are bright and well and who can tend the line from the other side
participants can be trans or cisgender, of any or no denomination or faith
Does it cost money?
nope! this is an anticapitalist affair
you can buy incense and offerings if you like, but you don’t need to spend money to participate
Why are y’all doing this?
honestly this could take pages and pages about the importance of this work and of soothing the troubled dead and tending our ancestral line et cetera et cetera ad infinitum but the short version is
we gotta
our ancestors require it and we’re making sure they get it
Okay, how does it work?
during the ritual, you sit or stand at an altar, light a candle, put out a glass of fresh water, and read a prayer
you may also make any other offerings you feel called to do
if so moved, you read the names of the dead from this year's TDOR list and call on our bright and well ancestors to tend to these newly passed souls
all the people participating in all the different places in the world help create a rising raft of energy that is greater than the sum of its parts, delivering the restless dead among our line into the care of our bright and well ancestors, who, in turn, also care for us, the living
Prayers? I thought you said this was non-denominational.
prayers can involve divinity, or they can be kind and soothing words to say to the dead
you can look through our prayers tag to get ideas and inspiration, but feel free to find poems on your own and/or write something yourself as well 
you are welcome to include deity or not, as you prefer
the organizers of this ritual incorporate gods and spirits in our practices but you by no means need to
on the flip side, if you want your gods involved, feel free to do so in whatever respectful manner works for you
What do I need on my altar?
the basics are an altar cloth (white is traditional; a bandana works), a cup to be filled with water, and a new or dedicated candle (white is traditional here also but follow your instincts)
other great offerings include cut flowers, portions of your food and drink (though alcohol is not advised with restless spirits), tobacco, honey, pictures and/or names of the deceased, art, music, dancing, and any gender paraphernalia you think the ancestors might like
do not put pictures of living people on the altar
it can be as simple or ornate as you choose: the important parts are the candle, the cup, and the cloth
Isn’t it sketchy to be working with dead people?
a little bit
it is much less sketchy since our format change in 2022, at which point this ritual shifted from working directly with restless spirits (dicey) to interfacing with them only through our cadre of elevated bright and well ancestors who have already benefited from previous years' rituals
we advise that you cleanse or purify in whatever way you prefer, ideally before and after the working
if you’re in a Western (especially American Christian) culture that views death as The End and discussion of death as taboo, consider reading up on cultures where ancestor veneration is a normal part of everyday life (hint: it’s most of them)
Other questions? Send them in and we’ll answer them, and maybe add them to the list! If you post about the ritual, tag #troe2023 and we will check it out!
Thank you for joining us!
- Mod Alder and team
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ask-buvos · 3 months ago
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【Cover】 || 【Next】
[Askbox is open.]
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willfullwanderer · 1 year ago
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"your brilliance, please remain still."
"...apologies."
(bonus 'fit under the cut)
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colors subject to change but i need to work within the red with bronze accent range
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tattooed-alchemist · 1 year ago
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There will be ritual later today, but for now, the Transgender Day Of Remembrance candle has been lit. I got a beeswax Yahrzeit, so this will burn for 24 hours. The altar will slowly be added to and dressed throughout the day, a process that allows me to make a series of different offerings, something I think works well when dealing with mixed ancestors.
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garthnadermemestash · 2 years ago
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The competition is weak.
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ultraestonianblog · 1 year ago
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faunandfloraas · 11 months ago
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This is so funny to me
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lowcallyfruity · 8 months ago
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MY KNEES HIRT SO BAD
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bronx-aro · 4 months ago
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One thing i think is really interesting with both the Undertale and Deltarune fandom is that even though the characters are quite developped, everyone i see seems to have the felt the same way when they experienced the story. (Alphys and Berdly seems to be the exeption to that for each game, but i will get into that later).
And while it's really cool to see everyone share their feelings and how much they love these stories, i never actually see discuss the way it made them feels outside of in the moment let's play, and maybe a joke about photoshop flowey, the genocide run/snowgrave and killing toriel.
So, and bear with me here, because i'm going to rant a bit about how my experience with both IT and deltarune chapter 2 seem to differ from most people's.
I DID NOT LIKE PAPYRUS AND QUEEN WHEN FIRST PLAYING.
Queen especially, Papyrus i like better now but he's still probably at the bottom of the list of my favorite "main" characters for UT now.
Okay, before you bring out the pitchforks for the Papyrus slander, i want to explain a few things.
When i first played UT, the only thing i knew about it was the "wanna have a bad time" meme, Sans apparence and the fact their was multiple routes deoending on your actions.
So i played a bit, killed toriel, felt really bad and reset because there was no way this was part of whatever "good" route i knew existed. Flowey gave me an existantial crisis so bad it made me reconsider my entire life choices and made me aware to my core that everything here actually mattered, that what i did mattered, if not to them, then to me.
Needless to say that was ingrained in me whenever i played UT and afterward DR.
So here i was, freaked out, and then immediatly introduced to the squelbros. I knew there was more to Sans that met the eye but his demeanor was so chill i knew he was a companion i would enjoy to have along.
Do any of you remember meeting Papyrus for the first time? Because it was with him having been described as a human hunting fanatic.
Not a good start to my already nervous ass. To say i was apprehensive was an understatment. Because even if he seemed aloof, you dont need to be smart and collected to hurt someone. Even if it became obvious quite quickly he wabted to capture me and not kill me, it took me until i fought with him to realise that he actually wouldnt hurt me even by accident.
I DID enjoy all the puzzles and interractions before snowdin, but i probably wouldnt have been as relaxed playing it if Sans wasnt out there keeping an eyesocket out for me.
So! First impression of Papyrus? A bit nerve wacking, but it was still funny so it can only go up from there? Right?
Right?
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Okay, let's go about the date.
I didnt want to be there. At all. I purposfully didnt flirt with him the whole fight because the entire idea made me uncomfortable to my core. I was SO relieved at the end it. The actual date was alright, i guess, but it made me feel bad more than it made me have a fun time.
Okay, a rough patch. What's next?
Him introducing us to Undyne!
And that was when i realised why didnt like him all that much. Yeah, he's good hearted and all, but... He just pulls me everywhere assuming that this fine. He kept projecting his own wants onto me, and everyone around him, and never took the rejection well. Sans being a sentry? Hil and Undyne's whole thing? Clear exemple of that.
And yeah, they might have went along with it because they cared, but the game didnt give me that choice, either. And even outside of that, he clearly had trouble considering other peoples points of view and accepting them.
All of that, combined with the mask of the great papyrus he puts on making it hard to know what is true, exageration, or something he might have deluded himself into thinking was true, made it pretty hard to connect with him.
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So! That's it with Papyrus! It's a perspective i have wanted to share for a while but seeing how the fandom could fall into the whole "if anyone says anything bad about this character ever i would murder them" thing i wasnt really comfortable doing it unless in longpost format.
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So now, let's talk about Queen!
Unlike with Papyrus, i was actually really freaking surprised to see that seemingly nobody felt the same way about her than i did. Like, i was downright gobsmacked. So, unlike with UT, i will begin this by the end of the stories: me interracting, ith the fandom after i played.
I started with the classic route of watching let's plays. After switching between a few different people's first episode, i thought the reason why thay didnt seem to take her seriously in any kind of way was because they were, well, youtubers. It is their job to both play games and entertain. Of course they would focus on the jokes if the hundred game they played this year, it made sense.
So i switched to analysis/commentary videos and hanging around on tumblr. And realised that, no, actually i was the outlier here. It felt like getting punched in the gut.
So! Here i was, watching the while fandom proclaim how much they loved queen, how funny she was, ect. As if her entire personnality was just to make bad computer jokes and race tracks.
Because that was NOT what i saw.
I saw an unstable person (who kept drinking so i also assumed drunk/alcoholic) that had kidnapped and was stalking a kid. I saw someone out of touch with reality that could go from being happy and playing a game to trying to kill you. I saw an obsessive, looming figure that was always around the corner.
I saw someone who saw proceeded to, depending on the character, try and entice them by promising them all they wanted, ignore them completly even when they wanted nothing more than a shred of attention, and just generally took advantage of what she perceived to be other peoples emotionnal weakness to try and have them do what she wanted to. Wether that was creating a dark fountain, being her minion or stopping their attempts at stopping her.
She was one of the most menacing villain i ever met. Manipulative, Obsessive, Unpredictable and otherwise seemingly Unstable. Each of her apparenced filled me with dread.
The only time i saw someone acknowledging any of this was a video essay about how she could represent a different kind of mother to each of the charaters (absent, overbearing, negligent, love bombing...). It made me feel SO much better about my experience with it.
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So yeah, i really wanted to share my perspective on these characters since most of the UT/DR dont seem to have shared that particular kind of analysis before.
Also, since i mentionned in the intro: I feel like Alphys and Berdly suffered from the fact that geekt people are seem as annoying. Like, i saw SO many people get angry/annoyed at seeing Berdly when they only saw less than 10 pieces of dialogue before. He's such a fun character but get immediatly cast asside because he can be a bit prickly. He's ridiculous and over the top, but so are so many characters. He's just a kid who is bad at social interractions and thinks being better than everyone means he will get more love/attention. I wish more people would actually give him a chance instead of writing him off right away.
As for Alphys, a lot of the people who feel negatively about her do so after playing the pacifist ending and being angry at her actions. But i feel like even before people got to that point, the whole "texting everywhere" in hot land made some people annoyed enough that they disliked her for it. I wasnt in that case and actually quite liked the whole thing but i get where people are coming from. It's honesly the only section i can think off where i saw the fandom being really split in how they felt about the her when first encountering her.
If anyone wants to share their own experiences and how it affected them while playing, PLEASE do so! Especially if you feel like it's not a commun one!
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grabowskibeepboop · 8 months ago
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A: I baked you a pie
B: Oh boy, what flavour?
A: The flavour of love
B: Awwww-...
...
B: Is.. is that a human heart?..
A: Yes, but don't worry, it's not mine! That's already yours.
B:
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scn-thedog · 10 months ago
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i am the hashtag one objectfurries theorist (as in first). have this as an apology
airy killed stella in the town that is haunted as fuck so obviously the most logical conclusion is that stella is a ghost and is haunting the town and she gets to see her brother in the town or somethinggghh (give me a medal with the mental gymnastics i'm making i'm making i might as well be an athlete). headcanon that she tries to talk to bryce and all he hears is the terrifying cries of someone he probably can't even recognize.
MAANNNN DONT FUCK ME UP LIKE THIS :( and honestly you're like really close to the mark there...bryce has his suspicions that stella is dead because he refuses to believe she would just abandon him with their mother. but obviously he has no way to prove it because a certain someone did a good job of covering up their tracks...
when bryce comes back to town he starts hearing voices. he doesn't know that its stella trying to communicate with him so he just assumes it's psychosis or something. his struggle with her death has led to a lot of issues for him and he chalks that up to just being one of them.
something about the town traps things within it. dark thoughts, unfulfilled wishes, spirits with unfinished business... stella's untimely death means she doesn't get to say goodbye, or watch her brother grow up. of course no one is aware of this at all (except maybe airy)
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ants-personal · 7 months ago
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thinking about maybe when edwin is just so upset and nearing a break down. Panic swelling hells memories suffocating him he troes to hides it. But its too much and rather than make a scene having a breakdown he lets his corporal form disapate leaving behind a blue orb where ever he ended up the office. It flickers and glows dimly essences slowly swirling inside. The first time it happens charles was so scared someone or something bad had happened he tearfully asked edwin to please come back hands hovering unsure what to do. Edwin did course bewildered, apologetic, but also distance.
Now it rarely happens, but when it does charles finds edwins orb dimly glowing in the fee places edwin had tired to hide away. The closet, the side of the couch, under the desk. He sadly smiles as he scoops him up gently letting him know hes got him. As he moves edwin ontop a pillow he leaves by his side on the floor infront of the desk. Red jacket drapped around edwin reassuring hell be right here when hes ready. Sometimes he talks nothing just filling the silence and hopefully comforting edwin other times he tells edwin he wished he just talked to him instead of going all spherey on him hes here for him.
Other times he doesnt speak at all. Half mindlessly messing with a random item, or playing music. He thinks it helps its not his favorite exactly its too slow on the verge of melancholy for him, but edwin had called it soothing. Said it brought back softer memories of being a child reading in the living room while his mother smiles warmly embroidering a blue bird.
Course when edwin comes back eyes red rimmed, a little to stiff, and short with his answers. They dont talk about it. Charles has tried and it never got him far. It usually ended with edwin cutting him off saying this conversation is done and theres nothing else to discuss. Before burying himself in any case he could find. Letting it distract him till he slowly returned to himself, and charles cant explain how much it hurts him not to be able to save edwin from his own tramas.
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willfullwanderer · 1 year ago
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kathax!!
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snobgoblin · 2 months ago
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im goign to troe up
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marshallporter-cogs-inc · 5 months ago
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*he pulls the chair out from under him using his tail*
*he stands over him looking down*
*he hisses with venom in his voice* *he tries his best to keep his joyful demeanor*
i think i deserve a bit more….respect
*he bares his sharp fangs in a smile*
*the twins (in devil’s advocate disguises) clean and sweep while Cornelius begins to put books away*
*its only a matter of days before the place is up and running*
*Cornelius sits at the front desk and reads*
@creator-indy
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garthnadermemestash · 2 years ago
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camo cult
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