#understand the splendor of being trans

[perillaleafs]

bringing a very hostile but unassuming “people can transition :)” energy to cis queers that they Really dont like.

[self-mythologist]

As an Icelandic Jew living in Denmark, my experience with goyische views on Jews and Judaism has always been quite opposite from what you're talking about. Denmark (as well as the rest of the Nordic countries) are generally very secular and irreligious. Most people are culturally Christian (albeit not in the same way as people in the US). And many adults I know can't remember the last time they set foot in a church. The general attitude towards religion and spirituality is one of disdain and outright fear and a gross willful ignorance about religion and especially about Judaism.

I've met people who until meeting me, didn't know there even were any Jews in Denmark - despite Denmark being home to 4 different Jewish communities. A lot of people think all Jews dress in Hasidic fashion or that "Jewish" and "Israeli" are synonymous. There exists an unbelievable amount of cognitive dissonance in gentile Danes when it comes to Jews, that they know about famous US Jews like Bernie Sanders, Adam Sandler, or Ben Shapiro, but without ever having put two and two together and realized that they're Jewish.

For context I am a very religious, practicing Liberal Jew who is a very active and dedicated member of my progressive synagogue and who despite my rabbi's worried advice insists on wearing a kippah in public and have my tzitzit hanging out when I go to service. This makes people very confused about me as it is, but on top of this I am the queerest genderweird dykefag who dresses like if Iris Apfel, Audrey Hepburn, and a circus clown had to share a body. And I'm a 27-year old who uses a flowery red cane. The only reason I haven't been beaten up in the street is because people are too busy trying to figure out what the hell they're even looking at. q

Telling people that I am Jewish and that I definitely believe in God (I'm a panentheist-ish but whatevs) takes people straight into a fight/flight/freeze/fawn response, because their only association with religious people, is the assortment of Christian cults we do have here, like the Pentecostal movement, American Mormons, or Jehovah's witnesses.

Trying to explain to the average gentile Danish Jens Jensen that it's not like that is... straining to say the least. Sometimes the only thing that works is to apply the kind of "fight God in the schoolyard/we are pro-trans rights and feminist, anti-racist and on the issue of the afterlife we just kinda shrug" kind of Judaism that you're talking about directly to the burn.

I too would love if I didn't have to resort to this tactic, but the internet is bigger than the US and we seem to have very different conundrums to deal with. Ideally, even goyim could come to understand the deep nuances and splendorous varieties of Jewish life that exist all over the world. One day, b'ezrat Hashem.

theres this specific brand of judaism thats """all-accepting""" (of women, lgbt ppl, mentaly ill/disabled ppl, etc) and 'fight with gd behind a dennys' and uwu cute and scrunkly and non-threatening that was bred in captivity by secular americans thats somehow treated as the "real", widespread version of judaism by people on social media and its so so funny and annoying at the same time. and often coexists in gentiles alongside antisemitic beliefs, talking points and ideas. anyways. it drives me insane.

[bestworstcase]

If this doesn’t spoil anything later on, did Cass being trans also impact the captain’s hesitance to hire her in the guard, aside from the concerns of her being Saporian? Was he worried about her being outed and subject to abuse after?

unfortunately. spoilers alksdfjk

there’s some big chunks of trans lore™ coming up in 13 and 14 that will shed more light on this so you will not have too long to wait

but! for now i will say:

1 - no, because he didn’t know

2 - if he had known, absolutely this would have been a gigantic worry for him that would’ve gone hand in hand with his other reasons for keeping cassandra off the guard. 

in... very general terms, like - i’ve mentioned before i think that i am loosely and partially modeling the coronan attitude towards gayness and transness on medieval europe in that both get lumped together as a form of gender nonconformity, such that cassandra being trans and cassandra being a lesbian would in corona be seen as pretty much the same thing, and the thing is ‘doing gender wrong.’ (and this cuts in both directions - in that she’s a gnc woman and that gets lumped in as ‘doing gender wrong’ as well. and sir peter def worried about the repercussions of that part of it, even as he offered her tacit support by letting her run around in trousers riding horses and swinging swords whenever she wasn’t working.)

but like anyway - saporians being wrongheaded about gender is like, a strong stereotype in corona so this distrust and disgust of transness is intertwined with the discriminatory attitudes towards saporians and i think as far as cassandra is concerned it’s all One Thing with many ugly facets; she wasn’t afraid of being outed per se because it was all snarled up with her fear of being perceived as saporian, because one would innately imply the other, it’s all a mess.

and - this is drifting further and further from the subject of your question jksdfjks rip - the reason that stereotype exists is gender transgression is a part of zhan tiri’s sphere. she isn’t the only god associated with gender in this way (p much any god who is associated with change in some way will have at least a handful of sects doing transition rituals with their magic kjsdfkj) but she’s one of the best known for it. which also means that in cultures where zhan tiri is hated or feared there tends to be a correlating amount of suspicion of gender transgression in whatever forms

tha-at all being said i think like - coronan gender roles in bitter snow are a little looser i think than they were at any point in medieval europe because i think of them as being largely constructed around somewhat garbled old understandings of the dynamic between huma and turul, which then set into Tradition as corona became more and more secular / the sunlit temple detached from huma herself and became more, like, philosophical heliolatry. but its basically: women as life-bringers / healers / steady and constant but also potentially dangerous and destructive (like huma) vs men as guides / explorers / clear-sighted and adaptable but also capricious and temperamental (like turul). men need women in order to shine; but like - in folklore in the bitter snow verse the sun is often associated with vengeance and wrath, and the moon is often associated with clear thinking, clear judgment, honesty - and corona’s specific brand of this is the moon as a balm and a guide, reminding the sun of her light in the darkness, that sort of thing. and this informs a bias towards men being in leadership rules because. decision makers should be able to think things through and discern truth from lies; women are seen as more impulsive, more reckless, more gullible.

whereas the cultural understanding of gender in saporia is a lot more nebulous and flexible because the thorn syconium was such a dominant force in the culture for so long and like, adding to that, cathay’s take on gender can be boiled down to ‘well bones are bones are bones, who cares, flesh is temporary and doesn’t matter’ and the splendorous temple’s entire approach to choimghē is about elevating the profane to the level of the sublime and the concept of gender being something one sculpts and shapes and perfects over the course of one’s life of course synergizes beautifully with that. all of this combined over the millennia of saporia’s cultural development has kind of produced this attitude toward gender that is just wildly different from corona’s.

and then bc of the xenophobia and like fear of the ternary that has been endemic to corona for so long there is this kind of feedback loop of - gender, talking about gender, exploring gender, these are seen of saporian things, so it isn’t talked about in polite company in corona, and the more it isn’t talked about the more strongly it’s perceived as a saporian thing, and that i think has made coronan ideas about the ways men and women should look and act congeal over time. like: trousers have been popular for men and women in saporia for centuries, because saporians have been traveling by air in balloons and magical airships for centuries, and it’s a lot more convenient to just wear trousers than deal with a skirt flapping around or having to tie it up and then oh no your legs are cold because you’re a thousand feet in the air and it’s windy - vs in corona trousers historically are just a thing men wear when they ride horses, and then coronans visit saporian cities and see women going around in trousers and go but why? they don’t even have horses! and that contributes over time to this cultural feeling in corona that it is Wrong, Somehow, for women to wear trousers. stuff like that. 

as a tangential sidebar here, saporians esp in rural regions tend to go barefoot a lot during the summer, because saporia is very boggy and wet and that makes wearing shoes on the regular an exercise in misery, so in corona there is this association of barefootedness with, specifically, Rural Saporian Poverty, and while of course no one would ever say anything to the lost princess’s face i do think rapunzel’s hatred of shoes got a lot of side-eyes from snobby upper class and aristocratic folks because of this

[luobinghelovebot]

gtmk mdzs edition!! :) General: 1 If you had to join a sect, which would you join? | Ships: 4 Thoughts on Wangxian? 🤔 | Characters: 3 Favorite character & why? | Story: 1 If you could make one major story change, what change would you make? Why? | Fic: 5 Recommend a fanfic!! Can be yours or someone else’s !! <3

Ahhh thank you!!! 💕💖

If you had to join a sect, which would you join? 

Qinghe Nie..... Yunmeng is too hot, Gusu has too many rules, I like mountains and the crushing fear of my impending demise ✌ 

OR Baling Ouyang because then you’re not involved in the main sects’ drama & I’m assuming because it’s close to Yunmeng you get those pretty lakes.... toss up.

Thoughts on Wangxian? 🤔 

Constantly oscillating between hngngngn head empty nothing but They’re Husbands 🥺 & a 2395864930 word essay about their growth and the tragedy of timing in their story & how they’re allowed to find each other frustrating but can still be in awe of each other & how well they WORK together in puzzling something over and how they both change AND stay the same together AND apart but still mirror & compliment each other and - 

They’re good. I have more thoughts on CQL wx than novel wx 

Favourite character & why? 

Lan Wangji... He probably would have been anyway but I watched CQL first and it’s such an experience to see Wei Wuxian grow to understand him and love him at the same time/pace as I was oh my god 😭

If you could make one major story change, what change would you make? Why? 

Jiang Yanli would cultivate bro oh my god. If not for the sheer gay boost I’d get watching her sword fight ??? She could’ve defended herself and not died???? I just imagined her and LWJ sparring and I have to stop here my heart can’t take it

Recommend a fanfic!! Can be yours or someone else’s !! <3

oh man this took me so long askfjdklgf i want to rec all of them (if you WANT that feel free to stalk my ao3 bookmarks) but the ones that I’ve been thinking about a lot/get emotional when they update at the moment are:

no new age by everythingispoetry (canon divergent - What if the past was not something you truly recover from?)

In Reflection, Truth by Shadaras (slight canon divergent - trans!! feelings!!!!!!!)

long way home by idrilka (post canon - idk what to say about it just hnngnngn soft & devastating)

I Swear By This Bell by Titans_R_Us (canon divergent, oneshot - What if Wei Wuxian wasn’t attacked on the way to see his foster sister’s baby? If he was able to give Jin Ling his month-old present? If he got to hold this small one in his arms?)

Lotus Roots and Open Doors by Midshipsman (canon divergent - the Wen Qing/Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji vee of my DREAMS)

Your slightest look easily will unclose me by RedWritingHood (post canon, oneshot - "The curse is meant to physically manifest the emotions of its victim." Jiang Cheng submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.)

and an echo answered by fensandmarshes (post canon, oneshot - nie huaisang visits lan xichen in his seclusion.)

Lan Yuan’s War by BurningTea (time travel AU - LWJ who’s in seclusion in those 3 years post WWX’s death ends up back in the sunshot campaign)

How to Care For Corpses by dragonofeternal (canon compliant, oneshot - Wei Wuxian comes to Wen Qing with an odd request, and Wen Qing comes to better understand the strange man she trusted to save her family.)

With Absolute Splendor by Lise (post canon - Jiang Cheng insists on organising wangxian’s wedding... god i love siblings.)

sometimes a family is some dumbass kids, a few lesbians, and hOW many GODDAMN UNCLES— by angstymochi, fensandmarshes, raydiant27 & space_enjolras (modern chatfic AU man i Love Lan Sizhui)

from get to know me mdzs edition | send me a q!

[transgeneth]

Name? private

Pronouns and gender? she/her, woman of the trans variety

Sexuality? lesbian although these femboy Fridays got me questioning that

Country? private

Top 5 fandoms? I don't really interact with fandoms themselves but digimon since I was a small child, kenshi, rimworld, zelda, deep rock

What is your Most forbidden snack? the crown jewels

Would you pet a bug? already have

Share a weird fact/story about yourself with the class. I have had a couple of dreams that don't make sense but not in the usual way, I do not remember their order. One was a red symbol unrememberable but I do remember being fully aware of my body, time going at the normal rate for hours and being too weak to go to school afterwards. The second was a day dream, I was in an endless expanse of mist and people all sat down on the floor, above was a massive cloaked figure taking up the sky, for whatever reason I stood up and showed it the middle finger in defiance, it then breathed out a thick mist that left me writhing in real life, afterwards I drank. And the third one is the one I have the most headache over, to sum up this longer(in term of how many things happen) a girl who is seeming abused by her parents tries to get help from me, now the actual shape of her parents is what gives me a headache because no matter how hard I think a clear picture never comes, I know for a fact I know what those abominations looked like those things that filled the sky but the closer I get to remembering their form the pain just gets worse and worse. Now I look at this it feels cringe.

What does the color blue taste like? like an orange but without the zest

What is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? tied between the moon in full splendor and the golden light when sun sun sets just right

What is the stupidest thing you've ever done? squeezed through a chained shut door in my old abandoned school

Stupidest thing you've seen/heard someone else do/say? a friend replied "👍" to an "I love you" text from their girlfriend, they weren't very pleased

Hyperfixation song? I mainly listen to other peoples music mixes, ones that mention trans and breakcore ones, also like sewerslvt

Is there any meaning behind your profile picture and/or username? the profile picture is the first one I found of my computer and the username is trans which is self explanatory and geneth is cymraeg and translates to girl

Dream career as a child? Didn't have one, as a child I didn't understand why anyone wouldn't just share with people since it's the nice thing to do

Dream career as an adult? Not a lot has changed, I hate the idea of currency, so many horrible things done because it makes money, so many wonderful things not done because you don't make money from feeding people you make it from them buying it, I wish I could help people and am overwhelmed by how many need help

Thoughts on cilantro? I'm pretty sure I like coriander or cilantro as you put it, didn't know this was one of those marmite type things

Have you ever been banned from a location and if so, why? to get banned you have to be caught doing something wrong, I have never been banned from a location

What is your cursed food combination? chocolate bourbon biscuits with blue berries after, while the taste of the biscuit is still in your mouth

Trans rights? Trans rights now

and now for the people who I am sorry if this has already been sent to you

@ferno-does-random-shit @viola-canadensis @elviras-fucked-up-gay-sex-lair @orangeshortstuff @vevader3 @ozi-uwu

“I just came from r/196” ask game

Saw another post. I think I should invite y'all to one of our longstanding traditions. Answer the questions then tag 10 (or more) people. I'll go first.

Name? Frankie

Pronouns and gender? he/they/it, transmasc

Sexuality? Lesbian

Country? USA

Top 5 fandoms? Bungou Stray Dogs, Cosmere, All for the Game, Fundiesnark (not a series but I'm too deep in it to not consider it a fandom), .....the tornado fandom? (they're my special interest)

What is your Most forbidden snack? The preserved bones at the Atlanta Bodies Exhibition. They looked so crunchy...

Would you pet a bug? If it's big enough, it is pettable.

Share a weird fact/story about yourself with the class. I like to drive around rural areas and photograph old, sometimes abandoned locations in the dead of night. I have been literally chased out of towns by foot and by car on two separate occasions. The second time this happened, "See You Again" by Miley Cyrus came up on shuffle and that's the soundtrack my friend and I tore out of town to. Also every "guy" I've dated except for my most recent ex (who has big egg energy) is a lesbian now.

What does the color blue taste like? Creme brulee

What is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? The appalachian mountains of Tennessee in the middle of summer. There's kudzu everywhere. On the backroads, there were several old, dilapidated Baptist churches barely hanging to the side of the mountain. I wonder how many of them were still in use.

What is the stupidest thing you've ever done? Short version: my friend's house almost got broken into by this dude who'd been stalking us for months while we were home alone. Instead of calling the cops, we decided to confront him with a bow and arrow (me), a hatchet, and a baseball bat (him). The plan was that if it went badly, we would simply throw his corpse into one of the many lakes in the neighborhood and let the alligators eat his remains (this was Florida). Why? Because we were afraid of having our home-alone privileges revoked. Luckily for us all, the guy fucked off and we never saw him again.

Stupidest thing you've seen/heard someone else do/say? My ex thought that Jackalopes were real. Also, a nurse I was doing rotations with apparently thought that "Witness Protection" was for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hyperfixation song? Young Enough + Bleach by Charly Bliss

Is there any meaning behind your profile picture and/or username? Profile pic; I'm transmasc and I'm currently obsessed with TriStamp. Username; It was my fake internet name when I was like 13. I won't change it because I want my mutuals to recognize me, and because I do have a viral post associated with this name.

Dream career as a child? Doctor (funnily enough I'm now in nursing school)

Dream career as an adult? Professional Jester. Not a comedian. I just want to be some weird little guy who dresses silly and you can hire me to roast your boss at work parties.

Thoughts on cilantro? Delicious

Have you ever been banned from a location and if so, why? I honestly can't remember? Probably... but in recent memory I've mainly banned people from places.

What is your cursed food combination? Pineapple on a hotdog with grilled onions. It Slaps.

Trans rights? TRANS RIGHTS

Tagging: @rocket-mankoi @mostlymarco @atleast8courics @jazzlike39 @gemsweater72 @limbobilbo @ameliaaltare @redcrane112 @theoneofwhomisblue @twinkenjoyer @theultimatecarp and anyone else who wants to jump on

[risalei-nur]

TAFSIR: Risale-i Nur: The Words Collection:The Thirty First Word .Part 9

Third principle: What is the Ascension’s wisdom?

 ANSWER: The wisdom here is so elevated that human minds cannot reach it, so profound that human minds cannot comprehend it, and so sub-tle and fine that the intellect cannot grasp it. However, even if we cannot know its wisdom or the exact Divine purposes for it, some indications allow us to show the existence of several purposes. They are as follows.

 To show the light of His Unity and the manifestation of His absolute Oneness in the levels of publicity, the Creator of this universe distinguished an eminent individual with an Ascension in the form of a link between the realm of multiplicity and corporeality’s furthest limit and the Dominion of Pure Unity and spirituality’s starting point. Addressing him on behalf of all creatures, He explained all Divine purposes to him in the name of conscious beings, and made them known through him. He also willed to observe through his sight His Art’s beauty and His Lordship’s perfection in the mir-rors of His creatures and to cause them to be observed by others.

 Furthermore, His works testify that the Maker of the world has infinite beauty and perfection, both of which are loved because of themselves. Thus the One with infinite beauty and perfection has a boundless love for His Beauty and Perfection, a love that manifests itself in the works of His Art, which He loves because He sees His Beauty and Perfection in them. The most lovable and elevated of His works of Art are animate beings. The most lovable and elevated animate beings are conscious beings. By virtue of their comprehensiveness, the most lovable conscious beings are found among humanity. The most loveable person is the one who has developed his or her potentiality most fully and manifested the samples of the perfections observed in all creatures. 

To see at one point and in one mirror all manifestations of His Love pervading all creatures, and to display all varieties of His Beauty focused on one individual, the Maker of beings chose one person, an illustrious, enlightened fruit of the tree of creation, one whose heart is like a seed con-taining all the essential truths contained in that trees. To demonstrate how He loves that individual in the name of the universe, He drew him to His Presence through an Ascension, which is like a thread linking the seed (the origin) with the fruit (the end), and honored him with the vision of His Essential Beauty. So that others could imitate his holiness and excellence, He favored him with His speech and entrusted Him with His decree. To understand this exalted wisdom, consider the comparisons below. First comparison: As explained in The Eleventh Word, imagine a glorious king with vast treasuries containing many varieties of jewels. He is well-versed in all industries, and had a vast knowledge of all artistic and sci-entific disciplines, and countless fine arts. As anyone with perfect beauty and perfection tend to see and show themselves, that glorious king wants to open up an exhibition and display his kingdom’s magnificence, his wealth’s splendor and extent, and the wonderful products of his artistry and skill. He so desires in order to behold his beauty and perfection with his own discerning eye and through the eyes of others. And so he begins to build a very large, magnificent palace. Dividing it into many apartments and rooms, he decorates it with his finest and most beautiful works of art, and embellishes it with his precious stones. Designing it according to his artistic and scientific principles and disciplines, he furnishes it with the miraculous products of his knowledge. Finally, he sets up therein tables containing most delicious specific foods and drinks, and specifies an appropriate table for each tribe of his subjects. He prepares a general banquet.

Then, to show his perfection, the king invites his subjects to eat and see the palace. He appoints a representative or supreme commander and gives him the highest rank with himself. He invites him to rise above the bottom floor in order to tour all mansions and floors one after or above the other. Showing him the successive machinery, all workshops of his wonder-ful art and storehouses for the produce coming from below, he brings him to his private apartment. There he honors him with his presence and the vision of his blessed person, who is the origin of all those perfections, and informs him of the palace’s true nature and of his own perfections.

 Appointing him to guide the rest of his subjects, he sends him back to describe the palace’s maker through its contents, inscriptions, and wonders. The guide also will explain the inscriptions’ meanings, what the works of art and well-proportioned and well-arranged furniture and decorations signify, and how they point to the perfections and skills of the palace’s owner. He will teach them the correct behavior and formalities when visiting the palace and beholding the exhibition, and describe the protocol and ceremonies that meet with the pleasure and desires of the learned and skillful king, who does not appear to them.

 Similarly, the All-Majestic Maker, the Lord of Eternity, willed to see and display His infinite Beauty and Perfections. So He made the palace of this world in such a fashion that each creature voices His Perfections in numerous tongues and points to His Beauty with many signs. Through all its inhabitants, this universe shows how numerous immaterial treasuries are hidden in each of His All-Beautiful Names and how many subtleties are concealed in each sacred Title. It shows this in such a way that although scientists, together with all of science’s laws and principles, have studied this book of the universe since the time of Adam, they still have not discovered one-hundredth of that book’s meanings and signs concerning the Divine Names and Perfections.

Thus the Wisdom of the All-Majestic One of Beauty, the Beautiful One of Majesty, the Maker having infinite Perfection, Who has made that palace of the universe like an exhibition to see and display His Perfections and tran-scendent Beauty, requires that He inform someone of the meanings of His signs contained therein so that they do not remain useless and without bene-fit for conscious beings on the earth; that He have someone travel through the exalted worlds, which are the sources of the palace’s wonders and the store-houses where the results of their lives accumulate; that He raise him above all others, honor him with nearness to Him in His Presence, have him tour the Hereafter’s worlds, and entrust him with such duties as teaching His servants, heralding His Lordship’s sovereignty, informing His servants of things pleas-ing to Himself, and expanding His signs in the universe’s creation and opera-tion; that He should show his pre-eminence through the decorations of mira-cles; and that He should proclaim through a decree like the Qur’an that that person is a truthful personal interpreter of the All-Majestic One. 

So far, we have demonstrated through this comparison a few instances of wisdom in the Ascension. You may infer others by analogy.

[oblessedkingoflonging]

in much the same way that people (rightly, correctly) read the griffith laying in the dark tower thinking about guts chapter as, uh, gay, it also reads to me as a mental civil war over gender. & ill try to go into that more broadly later but atm what really interests me is how it exposes the connection Berserk builds between lordship/ royalty/ ruling class politics and gender that i previously incoherently rambled about on here (that dreams and gender are both things inherently & inseparably influenced by the morals of class society, IE griffiths dream of royal rulership is obviously influenced by the feudal setting of Berserk, and when he works towards that dream by courting princesses and leading armies he is also performing the gendered expectations of that society, so i think that Griffith’s Dream, and his failures and struggles to achieve it, works as an excellent analogue to masculine gender experience and failure, which forms the core of my transfemminine/ gender reading of Berserk & of Griffith specifically)

(ill put the rest under read more to not post a nuclear take in full)

(when i do a reread from the start ill point out more of these connections but for now im just looking at this section)

the chapter starts with Griffith remembering his Dream as something spontaneously generated from the dramatic, overwhelming contrast between this squalor of his life and the magnificence of feudal power. Ill try to elaborate further in a later post but IMO the castle represents three gendered aspects of Griffith’s Dream that he clearly tries to emulate throughout the Golden Age Arc & beyond: pristine, noble splendor (”The Brightest Thing”), military capability (it’s lichrally a fort), and a lifeless separation from that it rules over (empty looking castle on a hill).

he goes on to think about his failure to emulate the last aspect, describing the whirlwind of emotions and attachment he feels for Guts. He failed to grasp and exercise this detached control Guts like he was able to easily do with so many others

& as he says, his only remaining attachment to sanity is Guts, who essentially reversed his attempt at a stoic commander/ soldier relationship, making griffith, in his own eyes, the sole dependent in their relationship. In one this is a failure to fulfill the class-aspirations of his dream and his self-imposed expectations of noble masculinity, both by being attached to, and essentially dependent on a male social subordinate

at this point where he is further than he’s ever been from feudal aspirations, he embodies the absolute gender failure that defines the social definition of trans womanhood, (the central thesis of this blog that i will go into much more detail on in further posts!!) stripped of the splendor, military power, and ‘control’ of relationships that defines how he and the narrative of Berserk in general looks at masculinity. And from this point his dream begins to seem as hollow as it really is as a shell woven solely from the fabric of feudal class interests, and in my understanding his relationship to manhood is temporarily severed (again, more on the :( physical manifestations :( of this later)  

and then the demons crawl from the bricks of his prison and shatter this resolution, calling Griffith the Prince of the Unforgiven and the Blessed King of Longing, making themselves his subordinates, his subjects.

at his absolute lowest point, where his dream seems the most false, and his physical and mental connection to gender is at its weakest, these things crawl out of the dark to tether Griffith to his dream, to a sense of lordship, to the pathetic masculine grandeur of being the King and Prince of horrible things. His connection to manhood is reaffirmed, and his dream is rekindled.

[chronopunk]

Short Fiction - The Face Of God

"Have you ever really thought about the face of God, Captain?"

Doctor Merrill leaned forward in his chair, cradling the steaming cup in his hands, looking at it for a long moment. His eyes seemed to lose their focus briefly, as though he were gazing at something far away, before squeezing shut, only to flash back open, fixed on Captain Hernandez' own eyes. Merrill held the stare for what seemed like an eternity, then relaxed, his shoulders slumping as he let the soft cushions of the chair enfold him. The cup, still held tightly in both hands, drifted up to his lips as he sipped at the coffee twice before resting its warmth upon his lap.

"Can't say that I have," Hernandez said softly. She'd been woken from her sleep by Merrill insisting on speaking to her. Three days on her ship without a word, and now here they were, alone in the narrow space that served as the ship's common mess, drinking coffee — real coffee, brought on board by Merrill when he'd transferred off of Midday Splendor for his trip back to Central on Earth — while he, finally, decided to open up about... whatever it was he needed to talk about.

"Your family's Catholic," he asked. "Yes?"

Hernandez nodded. "Essentially. I suppose depending on who you ask, God's an old man, a young man, an infant, or something in between."

"What do you think?" Merrill's question was pointed, something hiding just underneath the words.

"I..." Hernandez paused. "Honestly, the Church never spoke to me. I think that's why I'm out here. I think maybe God's too big to live on one planet, and only have one form. Kind of Spacelane Cliche, I know but..."

Merrill shook his head. "No, no, you're fine. Don't cheapen your lack of rigidity. You're closer than you know."

Hernandez sipped from her cup, letting the dark, rich flavors swirl around in her mouth before swallowing. "Oh? How's that?"

Merrill glanced back over his shoulder, checking yet again to make sure they were alone in the room.

"I've seen them."

"'Them'?"

"The Engineers."

Hernandez' eyes widened, then narrowed. "Are you sure?"

Merrill sat the coffee down on the table, then withdrew his hands. They shook, not in fear or shame, but in excitement, as he pulled them back against his body. He held them, one inside the other, tightly against his belly, lips moving quietly in a practiced countdown. Hernandez knew the drill, she'd seen it prescribed enough times by ship's psychiatrists to help crewmen with anxiety, especially after their first EVA or deep-space recon. Prescribed it herself, before she'd secured a captaincy and left room for someone else to fill the counselor's office.

Merrill's eyes never opened as he spoke, not so quietly as to be unheard, but still softly enough that Hernandez had to lean in. His words weren't the practiced meter of someone reciting a speech, with inflection and emphasis meant to draw a response from the listener; rather, they carried the sound of a man watching it all happen again, the moment he closed his eyes. She'd seen this in trauma cases, heard that tone before a thousand times.

"We were on a mineral survey," he said. "I'd tell you where, but they made it very clear that I'm not allowed to do that. Not yet. Fifth planet of a nine world system. Seventeen AI's, four biologicals. Myself, Doctors Plenem and Havarsk, and Professor Utumi. Utumi and I were the only Humans on board. Plenem, the Dosili, had this irascible grump at all times. Hated being in cold sleep, but with the ship using a Sling-Drive instead of gates to get where we needed to go, what were we supposed to do? Stay awake for the trip and age out to retirement before we got there? Havarsk is a Galbriki and you know how they do on long, boring voyages. We woke him up last."

"We were four days in to the mission," Merrill sighed. "Doing well, honestly. Ahead of schedule. I was on the night shift with Utumi, going over core analysis when it happened."

"'It'?" Hernandez asked.

"The light. The brightest light I have ever seen. The instruments said nothing was there. Some of the most advanced sensor equipment in the entire fleet, and nothing. The AI's didn't pick it up. They saw nothing. But I saw it. Utumi saw it. Plenem and Havarsk rushed up to the bridge because even dead asleep, THEY saw it."

"It was like space was opening up on itself. The void was gone, and it was... just light. Light, pouring out of a hole in reality. Then it just stopped. It wasn't like a zipper closing or a wound sealing, it just... stopped. The four of us vetoed the AI's, and moved the ship immediately. The light had come from the fourth world. Middle of the habitable zone, but... dead, really. No magnetosphere, no real atmosphere to speak of."

Hernandez drained her coffee, pouring more in to her cup as Merrill paused, holding his own cup up for more. "Any other habitables in the system?"

Merrill shook his head. "No. That's why we were there. You don't mine populated systems. Not if you want to stay out of jail."

Hernandez nodded, quietly, signalling to Merrill to continue.

"There were thousands of them. All shapes and sizes. Nothing that the eye could really settle on, you know? We knew they were there, but they weren't... THERE. The AI's, the instruments, they all continued to say there was nothing happening. But there was. They were moving, all over the planet. Encircling it. I tried to count them, but I couldn't tell you how many there were if I tried. I say 'thousands,' but it could have been millions. It could have been ten. They slipped in and out of my peripheral vision, into the little blind spaces in our retinas that our brains edit out. I knew they were there, but... If you ask me to describe them, I'll give you a different answer every time. Not because I'm lying, but because I honestly remember them differently, every time I try."

"That sounds frustrating," Hernandez said. Merrill laughed.

"It's liberating. But do you want to know what they did?"

He didn't wait for her answer, draining his cup and setting it down on the table before leaning in to whisper range.

"They. Took. The. Planet. Apart," he hissed. "Just... opened it up like it was an orange. Somehow, without any of us realizing, all the little ones had vanished. Or maybe they became the big one. I don't know. But suddenly there was a... ship... a... machine... something. Huge. Bigger than anything I've ever seen. Bigger than the planet. The instruments registered THAT. Gravity well. Massive. Enough to crush us. But it didn't. It just... sat there. And it took the planet apart. Layer by layer, peeling it off in smooth, even segments. Pulled it apart all the way down to the cold, hard core."

"And then... then... holes. In space. Cometary material, or... ice from some far-off cloud, maybe. Trans-uranics from who knows where. Meteors and rocks the size of India. They all just came pouring out of the holes. Some of them smashed into the core. Others drifted, lazily, down to their new homes in the planet's layers, like... well, like chocolate chips or berries in the frosting you put between the layers of a cake. And the instruments got all of this. But they still didn't SEE the SHIP."

"What... what did you do?" Hernandez gasped. Her heart had lodged itself in her throat, and she'd unconsciously begun her own slow countdown, getting her racing pulse under control.

"We watched them. What else could we do? We watched them, and they... made a planet. Remade a planet. I'm not sure. We took shifts, resting when our brains would let us, or taking sleeper shots when they wouldn't. It took them four days. And then they just... put the planet back together. I watched as they sealed off the planet's core. It had been dead. Cold, grey. A lump of metal. Now it was spinning. Violent. Hot. Alive. As they wrapped the layers back around it, it burst its cage, spreading carefully up through the once-dead rock. I watched the rock melt into the magma and begin to course and flow like any proper world's lifeblood should. A myriad of thin, barely-there beams washed over the planet, and suddenly it had tectonic plates. And then we registered a burgeoning magnetosphere. By the end of it all, when the ship just... winked out... it had an atmosphere. Nothing we could call livable, but... there were signs. Traces of organic compounds in the clouds, on the ground. The rains had begun by the time Central called us to inform us that our governments would be sending ships to pick us all up. They put Utumi on a ship to Delta Pavonis, to make sure no one could intercept both the Humans."

"What happened to the AI's?" Hernandez asked. "Are they still out there?"

"Maybe," Merrill shrugged. "They only caught the last half of the miracle. That's not what the folks at Central are after, I suppose."

"That's a hell of a thing to see," Hernandez sighed.

"It is. It makes you understand why there are cults, out there, dedicated to these... legends. To the people who say they've seen them. And why so many of them are Doomsday-types, as well. If The Engineers can create habitable worlds... if they're the real reason why there are so many more livable worlds than any equation can predict... why couldn't they also be the reason for the dead worlds, out there? Why couldn't they give... and take... as they see fit?"

"What do you think, Doctor?"

Merrill gazed on Hernandez briefly, then shook his head. "I'm a scientist. I don't think any other scientist would expend so much effort creating, only to engage in some twisted, Malthusian concept of retributive balance. If you can do the things they can do, there's no reason to be a dick about it by killing a whole world just because you made a new one."

Hernandez chuckled. "Fair enough. So... why talk to me now? Three days of nothing, and then... Now?"

Merrill's eyes shifted, moving erratically around the room, seeming to settle in one corner briefly before shooting to a space just above and behind Hernandez.

"Because I was asked to do so."

Without knowing why, Hernandez glanced over her shoulder, but saw nothing.

"By whom?"

"It's here," Merrill whispered. "It's very small, but if you know where to look, you'll see it. It wants you to listen to what it has to say."

[socialwicked]

Tech Resources That Help Kids Navigate Puberty

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 Normally, parents fret about what their young children will find.

 “There’s a gigantic fear, not unwarranted, that kids will wind up on porn websites when they get started executing lookups for details,” Natterson suggests. “Many do, so it’s not an unreasonable issue. So how do you navigate that?”

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 McNamara claimed some of her patients pull up YouTubers who demonstrate ideas definitely nicely, and some others whose articles is a little different or perhaps inaccurate. Even when correcting misinformation, McNamara usually will make sure to thank her patients for showing her the content and tells them she’s learned a thing that aids her comprehend them much better.

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 McNamara was a coauthor, alongside with six other healthcare and lawful specialists,  of a report  in May perhaps that criticized the scientific claims applied as justification to criminalize medical remedy for transgender youth in Texas and Alabama. She has also coauthored a amount of  op-eds on the make any difference .

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https://socialwicked.com/tech-resources-that-help-kids-navigate-puberty/

[godfirstgodalways]

Hey, I’m not trying to start anything- I just had a question I guess? So I was taught that God hates sin because sin hurts people, which makes sense to me- lying, stealing, cheating, and so on, have the potential to hurt people. But if being gay or bi or trans doesn’t hurt anyone, why would god hate it & why would it be a sin? Again, not trying to fight, just want to know if I’m not understanding something correctly & be the best follower of Christ I can me, sorry if it comes off the wrong way

Not at all. :) I would probably have the same question if I didn’t already understand. There are many sins that don’t seem like they hurt others, such as idolizing people like celebrities, giving in to temptation by eating foods you know you shouldn’t be eating especially when you prayed to God to make you healthier, secretly judging people, putting aside God’s convictions (ignoring that still voice that speaks His truth), smoking pot for recreational purposes even though you’re doing it in the privacy of your own home, habitually swearing even if it’s just around people who most likely have the same habit, procrastinating, masturbating, watching porn, the list goes on…

What all these sins have in common and more including the ones that hurt people is that there’s zero obedience. There’s a lack of discipline, there is no self-control. These sins are a result of giving in to the flesh, living in your own terms, pleasing your own nature, and basically choosing what you want and not what God wants for you. This world is sinful but God knew we needed grace, that’s why He sent His Son, Jesus. By accepting Christ as our Savior, we also accept discipline into our lives. But people forget that. They think it’s a one and done deal, that if you accept Christ or get baptized, you have a guaranteed spot in heaven, which is religious thinking. And they go on living as they please, basically wasting His grace. The awesome thing about growing in Christ is over the years you mature. Christian or not we will continue to sin until we die. In this case the difference between a mature Christian and a new Christian or someone who is not Christian at all is the mature Christian should sin relatively less, which means they’ll also receive more blessings from God. If they still sin as much as they did in the past before they gave their life to Christ, then either they are probably lukewarm Christians or they gave up altogether and are content with their old ways. They have become stagnant in their spiritual walk, the vision they once had and were passionate about serving the LORD is no longer as clear as before. Their purpose is blurred, so they go on to find happiness in the wrong things, from materialistic things, to drugs, to  relationships, to work….We forget that accepting Christ is everyday, which means we need discipline everyday. Discipline comes from the word disciple. A follower and believer of Christ must practice it everyday if they are truly disciples of His.  

I had a potential to be gay. I kid you not. If I didn’t discipline myself to stop certain thoughts and stop entertaining myself with the possibility then I would’ve continued pleasing the flesh, and would’ve eventually identified as bisexual or lesbian. But because of the positive influence I was around growing up, from church, youth group, summer camps and winter camps, the Christian club I had in my school, and just being around other Christians who didn’t necessarily have a one on one talk with me, but what I learned was ingrained in my head as wisdom. Even though I didn’t have a day to day relationship with God, I had enough positive reinforcement to listen carefully to my convictions and obey Him. Had I not, I would’ve continued to be mesmerized with the idea of same-sex relationships, I would’ve delved deeper into the possibilities by exploring my alter-ego. I wouldn’t know about the importance of humility and I would’ve continued to be proud. It is actually a sin to be proud (Proverbs 16:5).

If anyone calls themselves Christian but choose to believe they have this side that is uncontrollable, that is not of God. Recognize its desire to be independent and free, don’t continually feed it’s wants. Starve it. It is not of God. Once a person is sold to God, they become a bondservant of Christ; they have accepted that they are identified with Christ, and there is no such thing as a second self in you as a whole. There is the life of Christ in you, but when you identify with Him, you become one with God. I believe the acceptance of a second self, an alter-ego, is where developed personality disorders come from. The more a person is identified with things, ideas, persons, and not solely on God, the more anxiety welcomes itself into their life. If you are a Christian, it means you acknowledge and agree as being one with God. You must strive to have the characteristics of Christ, to love like Him and think like Him. Period. He was sent to serve as the greatest example for all humans. Daily, each person must put to death their old selves along with their sins through surrender and be resurrected and reborn with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God. 

Personality type tests, astrology/zodiac signs, opinions of others you have made become your reality….anything that you have ever believed in about who you are without truth from the Bible has the potential to divide your heart and soul. But identifying yourself with Christ alone and not the things of this world assures you that He will protect your integrity, where you remain whole and complete in God. The more a person entertains said truths about themselves apart from what God says about them in the Bible, is essentially a way of worship. Whatever has a higher importance than God to you (anything that doesn’t have Him as the purpose behind your intentions), by entertaining those thoughts, they become your god. Pay attention and make sure you are worshipping God and not other gods. In homosexuality’s case, it is the desires that come with it that are put before God, which makes them a slave to themselves and the rest of the world. There is no obedience there when it comes to honoring Him with the mind and body they were given. Christian homosexuality hurts families and loved ones, it hurts the life of Christ inside them when they allow their minds and bodies to be enticed in such a way. There’s gay porn and that hurts people, but we don’t hear about it. It may even tear heterosexual relationships apart. It hurts the soul of the one who identifies themselves as gay and proud. God has so much better for them if they just surrender and obey. Our lack of obedience leads to more sins, which bites us in the butt sooner or later. He wants our obedience no matter what, wether you’re gay or not because there is a lot of evil in this world, and He only wants what’s best for us. We don’t even know what’s best for us a lot of the times, but our Creator does. I believe that discipline leads to obedience, and obedience to trusting God more, and trust to more faith, and more faith to more peace and joy, to more wisdom/growth/maturity.

I remember listening to a guest speaker on Focus On The Family. I forgot her name, but her story was really interesting. She said since the day she could remember, she has always had an attraction towards the same sex and didn’t understand it, but knew it was wrong. I forget if she ever had relations with other women, but anyway, she started going to church after she was invited by a friend…she felt so welcomed and no one condemned or judged her. She made genuine friends who became her prayer partners, and eventually her relationship with God led her to have stronger convictions, and although it was a long process, one day it became clear to her that she no longer had these gay thoughts and feelings. She felt a joy and peace she had never encountered before. She started dating Christian men, and now she and her man are happily married. There are more true stories like this that we don’t hear about. Often we think it’s impossible to convert anyone from gay to straight. That’s true because it’s not our job. Only God has the power to do that. But imagine if the Christians she got to know judged her or easily gave up on her?…she would not have changed her sexual identity, but more importantly she would not have truly gotten to know Jesus Christ, her Savior, and she would not have completely identified her life to His. Check out these posts Homosexuality: Real Hope and Real Change. Thank you! I hope this helped. God bless! :)

James 4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

1 Timothy 1:8-11 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Proverbs 11:2 The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.

James 4:6 But He gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

Philippians 2:1-2 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Philippians Chapter 2 - Imitating Christ’s Humility

By His Grace, Sheela (Via godfirstgodalways)

[somehow-on]

Notes - 2019

Levi's 512 W 34 L 32. 1901 shoe.

Optional Female.

Bullets, boots, and bombs. On the ground.

Water, the nectar of the clouds.

A junkie’s promise.

I'm not oppressed, I've brought it all on myself.

I wanna be where everyone knows my order.

Some chase money, I desire thoughtfulness.

Unrequited indifference. Irreconcilable indifferences. Reconcilable indifferences.

Don't let them have you until they want you.

Lead-bangers.

Tops-down, bottoms-up.

The thing about heroin is that it is so much fun, but it will also dramatically reduce your lifespan, so it's a win-win.

The lush of the Irish. Irick.

Gotta stay hydrated in these streets, or else someone will catch you not slipping. Sipping.

Never take bad advice.

Mickey Newbury - nights when I am sane

The family you steal.

I'm pretty witiful. I inspire withos.

If you desire thoughtfulness and witty repartee then use your friggin meat-(counter, pointer) to smush my dang face(mug, kisser) to the right.

Depressingly relateable.

Month-drunk loathe.

Deep grey.

Baby bucket. #trivia

Congress: our opponent is the other party, but our enemy is the executive and judicial branches.

Humbiliated

What stale hell is this?

Metricocracy.

Keep your life to yourself.

Bland Rands. Blandos.

Seething Idolatry.

My bed is my best friend

Last name: failed, first name: ever.

Modern splendor makes it easier than ever for you to figure out you'll never be happy.

When they buy low, we sell high.

I'm just horny to be here.

We finish each other's off.

Read my lips, no new laws.

Their voices we're too hoarse to shout over god.

Going nowhere excruciatingly slowly.

Work hard, grey hard.

No shirt, no shoes, bottle service.

Looks like fun. Girls just wanna look like fun.

We're just acquaintances in a monogamous sexual agreement.

Everything is fucking, and everything is paying for it.

Biologize your economy, technolgize your boredom.

A tautology come true.

Words are the only thing I can always make. Take the least effort.

I'm not fat, I just have a big aura.

I have emotions, I just don't pathologize them.

Best-fiances forever.

I'm a bit of a movie-hunk.

Elanor rugby

Everyone dies in your arms.

Leg-pit

Sicko-mode, Michael Moore.

Coy Boy.

Moment on moment.

Meaning: values, purpose, status, control.

You can't trick me into doing something I want to do. In fact I tricked you.

Matthew Barney. Cremaster Cycle.

Crisis Actors.

Kings and Joshes.

I'm very weak, I can't speak of anything. I have to speak of nothing.

Grave personal inconvenience.

Sharespost 100, privx:us.

Loves interests more than i'm interested in love.

They made the mold when they broke me.

The good new days.

KT, L, M, S

I begrudge that pervert his capacity for happiness.

World's greatest stranger. #1 stranger.

Zodiac - Neal Stephenson

If you can't explain simply how a concept will get me laid then you don't actually understand it.

Whatever pain the market will bear.

I tickle the qwertys.

Keep your longing to yourself.

Life sucks, drugs are fun, it's simple meth.

God spewing mankind.

Gwendylin Brooks - we real cool

I unequivocally endorse every decision Woody Allen’s ever made, even Interiors.

I'm a power-just-lie-there.

Horny for manners.

Long days journey into night. #movie

If you pay a man to fish, you'll both eat for the rest of your business arrangement.

ATL houses: Cabbagetown, renoyldstown, green belt.

I will go down with this bit.

A coalition of villians.

Stupid fucking words and the idiots who take them seriously.

Hello fellow human being, would you like to ask me what time it is?

Craigford. Pre-op Trans-Centaur.

Chicken nuggets, a beer, and a bowl of my wife's rice to stay.

Passionate insincerity. Passion/sincerity, pick one.

Nihilist Jesus.

The world needs disagreeable people, we keep the other disagreeable people from reaching a unanimousity.

If anything free will is the only thing that isn't an illusion.

Nit-titted big-wit.

Subtitles are the new books.

Nothing true is ugly.

It takes a lot of work to be this useless.

Is an in-intimate object.

That's what the funny is for.

Glacial burn.

Fet-life.

Everything is faking.

My whole life is a bunch of misremembered bits.

The meek shall inherit the scorched earth.

The only race I hate is the human race.

Rick Ross Gellar.

Third thigh blind.

Flash mountain. Bar where cameras take candid photos of you throughout the night.

Multifaceted. I contain endless facets.

I've lost my gang-bang of thought.

In the land of the blind perverts, the one eyed eunuch is king.

I have a lot of skeletons in my foyer.

I can chalk and woo gum at the same time.

Cocaine toenails.

Chug a pitcher of dicks.

Fully Fanced

Get a hump

Swallow my joy.

Just waiting for when I can wait with you.

New Yorker? You mean that tote bag company?

Words are not the world.

Clemencide.

Abolish FDA. FCC. EPA.

There's plenty of schools in the sea.

Friends and lust ones.

The wind between the stars.

Is what makes life worthless living.

Get the fuck out of others way as you would have them get out of yours.

Age of shadows, 6 balloons

Thinking about getting my frontal lobe pierced.

Sacrificed my sense of purpose to heighten all my other ones.

Is between temples. (Points to forehead).

Five senses and a few suspicions.

Love to the logician.

Girl-on-top pride parade.

VGPMX

Fail ever.

At my disposal.

Gimme wealth and health and I'll opress the rest.

Property is theft from entropy.

Modern freer/individualized social capital is more volatile than previous institutional/enforced versions.

Liquid hubris.

I have enough friend.

Tying one off.

Puke-point HQ

Shine on.

I'd rather have fun than have friends. Funds.

Naked and invulnerable.

Fuck words, do drugs.

3rd Street. Thursday. Positive attitude.

Smishionary position.

Gleam in my eye.

Soylent Gent. Soylent Boy-gent.

Recipe for dis ass turd.

Wordwork.

I am the narrowing eye.

Ernst Lubitsch. Something Wild - demne.

With friendzones like these…

Secular virtue is its own punishment.

Shared annihilation.

In my lived experience I'm usually right about everything.

Laws are crimes against nature.

They're playing checkers, I'm playing poker.

Girl in Red.

NAC. N-aceytl-l-cystine. 600mg - 1200. Amini Acid.

Straddle to the grave.

I'm agnostic, so I believe Jesus died for nothing.

Wax quixotic.

Put all the bad words on me, I can carry their weight.

Here's why I win: an 80 year treatise.

The thoughtful man's burden.

[jillmckenzie1]

Gender Equality Mechanics–Bikes Together

I may not believe in God, per se… but I do believe in bikes.

I used to be an ardent believer in God until, through what I suspect are very common experiences, I came to understand that the attributes assigned to God by mainstream theologies could not, by any sound logic, coincide in the same entity. I suppose this is where that notorious “leap of faith” comes in, but instead of leaping, I chose to quit believing and then started having a lot more fun. I quit believing in the mainstream interpretation of God, that is. What I switched to is the understanding that what religions offers humans is the spirit of community and a network of caring and support. What G/gods there may be, they lie within and between us.

Bikes are a splendid example of a thing that unites a community and offers a network of caring and support. Cities that plan and build for bicycle transit have a higher quality of life. People that ride bikes are happier than those that don’t. Bikes are the closest thing we can get to human-powered flight. This last statement is subjective, but I stand by it. Bikes are not God per se, but they are goddamned fun!

This premise might come across as a bit hokey; clearly, bikes are not omniscient deities. But I really do believe in the power of bikes to do really important things in the world. For example, bikes are a major point in feminist history. They changed the world for women by:

Giving women a freedom of movement that they didn’t have before. Before bikes, if you wanted to go somewhere, you either walked or you hitched up your horse and buggy. Horses and buggies being very expensive to acquire and maintain and very physically demanding to handle, most women didn’t go places.

Giving women privacy in their movements. Bikes lent themselves to cheaply and quickly going long distances without a chaperone, so that women could do God-knows-what with God-knows-whom.

Spurring clothing reform and releasing women from the prisons of corsets and mandatory sartorial haystacks. It’s hard to bike in a corset. I’ve tried.

Normalizing women’s athletics. Bikes required women to physically exert themselves in public and to set their delicate lady parts down on a phallic-shaped bicycle seat. *insert matronly pearl-clutching*

In an interesting side note, because of all these points, bikes were very sexualized. There’s a long and lovely history of bicycle-themed pornography and advertisements for bikes featuring scantily clad women and women in scenarios of sexual implication, which was tremendously forward for its time. Bikes changed the world for women. I love them for that.

They still change the world. We modern folks contribute enormous amounts of our time to the quasi-religious devotions of commuting and computing. We lose track of being outside, even in the splendor of Colorado. Bikes return us to the outdoors. I love biking in “adverse weather” and feeling the rain, wind, and even snow on my body. It reminds me that I’m an animal on this planet and the protections of the built environment are only ephemeral privileges. When I’m old, I want to look back and say, “When I was young, I biked in the rain.”

Bikes also connect us with our communities. Cars isolate us in mechanical bubbles, unable to interact with others. Bikes keep us in immediate contact with other people moving through the environment. I can talk to my neighbor as I roll by on my bike. She thinks I’m crazy, but I wouldn’t know that if I never talked to her, would I?

I make an effort to contribute to my small, local bike shops rather than larger chains because I really do believe in this cycle-based community. Randy’s Recycled Cycles and Totem Cyclery, as well as Velowood Cyclery, are all great, independent shops. The one I really want to encourage you to connect with though is Bikes Together. Bikes Together (formerly the Park Hill Bike Depot) is a non-profit devoted to promoting a better Denver through bicycles. Which is a pretty sweet mission statement, eh?

Bikes Together has two locations. I stumbled across the Park Hill location a few years ago and immediately loved them. They’ve got a big, open shop with a friendly storefront and a full-service mechanic area. The other location is in Mariposa, with a similar set-up and some rockin’ bike parking spaces out front. What makes them different from other bike shops in town is their focus on getting bikes to people who need them. Getting kids onto bikes is a particular delight for them. They’ve got a program called the Bike Rodeo which connects low-income kids to a bicycle education and safety class and a free bike. They’ve also got two week-long bicycle summer camps for youths. If you’re not a youth anymore, they also have programs to buy or earn an affordable bike. These people really do act out their conviction that bikes are important! If you don’t know how to fix or maintain your bike, they have classes and open shop time for you to learn from experts and practice on your own bike, tools and bike stands provided. You can come in cold turkey, having never turned a wrench in your life and only being vaguely sure of how many wheels a bike should have, and they’ll teach you how to fix whatever problem your bike’s got.

Here’s the bit that really sold me on Bikes Together: They offer bike mechanic education programs specifically for women and marginalized folks. Bicycles changed the world for women and Bikes Together is continuing that powerful tradition. They’re called GEM nights, “Gender Equality Mechanics,” and they’re specially for women, trans folks of all kinds, girls, gender non-conforming folks, and “femmes of all stripes.” I’ve walked into many bike shops around the country and I can count on one hand the number of female mechanics I’ve seen. Let’s teach women/femmes to take charge of our own bikes! Cycling is hard for women. We’re held to a different standard of appearance and behavior, which is hard to maintain on a bike. Sweating while female is frowned upon. Women’s clothing can be tricky to manage on a bike. Carrying large packs with changes of clothes and a helmet adds another layer of difficulty to manage in the workplace or even a recreational gathering. We get catcalled and harassed. (I’ve anecdotally noted that I get at least twice as many harassing comments when I bicycle commute in a skirt or dress than when I cycle in pants (that whole a-woman-on-a-bike-is-sexualized thing from the early advertisements hasn’t gone away). Let’s all of us GEM-worthy people get together and support each other and our right to cycle!

One last thing: you can support this amazing program by patronizing their shops, volunteering your time, or financially donating to them. One quick and easy way I’ve found is to set them up as my Amazon Smile beneficiary. Amazon Smile is a Jeff Bezos’ program that donates a portion of your Amazon purchase amounts to the charity of your choice. “Park Hill Bike Depot” (Bikes Together’s former name) is an option. Check it out and support your local cycling community! You may even find that the endorphin high from supporting your community and/or cycling to the top of Lookout Mountain feels an awful lot like a religious experience.

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Tucked In Biggest Reshuffle, Yogi Adityanath's Solution

Sporting out his biggest bureaucratic reshuffle over the past five weeks, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday ordered transfers of nearly one hundred forty officers bringing in new faces to take rate as collectors and police chiefs in over two dozen of the kingdom’s seventy-five districts.biggest loser

Certainly one of them became Love Kumar, the Senior Superintendent of Police of Saharanpur district, who stood his floor and dispersed a procession sponsored via BJP lawmaker Raghav Lakhanpal that caused violence. At an impromptu protest at Mr. Kumar’s residence, Mr. Lakhanpal – who changed into later named in two police instances for rioting – known as Mr. Kumar “naa la yak” (nugatory) and placed his prestige at stake whilst he declared that the SSP could be eliminated.

An assault on the SSP’s house, his scared kids, and wife at home,

Which preceded the Lok Sabha member’s speech had drawn criticism from the Valuable IPS Association in Delhi that referred to as the incident “unfortunate”. “It demoralizes officer, traumatizes circle of relatives. Desire authorities uphold morale of police,” the Affiliation had tweeted.

But the lawmaker told NDTV that there has been no need for him to apologize. The BJP leader’s only remorse, he stated, changed into that “we have any such bad neighborhood district administration”. Much less than every week later, the Yogi Adityanath government regarded to have acted on his assessment. It is a choice this is bound to ship its own message to the bureaucracy.yogi musician

The authorities transferred no longer best Mr. Kumar, however also Saharanpur’s District Magistrate Shaukat Kamal who turned into seen to have long past along with the police officer’s evaluation. Even as Mr. Kamal has been appointed as a unique secretary in the nation’s rural development branch, Mr. Kumar has been appointed because the police Chief of Gautam Budh Nagar that accommodates Greater Noida, one of the nation’s key business hub.

Planes, Cruises, And Hotels: Busting The Biggest Travel Myths

We’ve all heard myths and urban legends about Large Foot, examined illogical home remedies like using warm water to make ice cubes faster and feature made conservative picks on Friday the thirteenth, but how many of us have overlooked out on a travel journey due to the worry resulting from a few tour rumors? Here are some of the most important city legends in travel and the statistics that debunk them.

Fantasy 1: People Are The Worst Tourists

Are Individuals definitely the world’s worst Travelers?

American’s rank 9th great out of 27 nationalities, in line with an annual survey of motel managers. The truth is Individuals had been ranked the loudest however also the largest tippers.

Myth 2: Once you Step Onboard Your Money Isn’t any ExactThe reality is that your soda, food, waters within the dining corridor and buffets are paid for, everything else costs along with alcohol, opportunity eating, the internet gets admission to and greater. The fact is an average cruise traveler spend 50% greater than the bottom face on extra facilities.

Myth three: Rule 240 = Money Returned

If your flight is behind schedule, the city legend states that Rule 240 requires the airline to compensate you. This is not precisely true, the rule of thumb 240 did at one time exist. It became created by way of the Civil Aeronautics Board. With deregulation though, Rule 240 has been expunged.

Myth four: Bottled Water Is Your New BFF

As a minimum 25% of bottles water is without a doubt tap water. So in case you are weary of Montezuma’s Revenge even as overseas, realize that there is a 25% threat the brand you buy will clearly be local tap water anyway.

Myth 5: Your inn Key Card Knows greater approximately You Than You!

This again is likewise no longer authentic, you’re in the key card would not recognize everything about you. This rumor changed into began by way of Detective Sergeant Kathryn Jorge of the Pasadena Police. She saw a presentation about fraud techniques indicating this as a possibility and despatched an alarming e-mail in reaction. The police branch had to retract the statements of DS Jorge to quell fears.

Fable 6: there’s Cash In That Bible

This is any other Fantasy which people want to be true, the myth is that humans consider that there is a crisp $a hundred tucked into their inn Bible. however, till date, there aren’t any reviews of such generosity.

Possibly, all of these myths relies upon at the mode of your tour, like many cruise traces do not include soda in their inclusive meal price so that you want to pay on your soda whenever you purchase it or you may want to go for a soda card plan. Other than that I desire I found that money within the Bible or anywhere in my lodge room, however my awful luck.

Kerala, Love Affair of a Balmy Destination and Gypsy Yogi

The motherland of Ayurveda and an area where the soul meets the mind whilst the frame is idolized as a temple of fitness, Kerala is a balmy, breezy gem of Southern India. This fishermen’s land of India is a blessing for yogis and yoga practitioners. The place flickers with the footprints of remarkable yogis and Ayurveda experts. Yoga teacher education unearths actual which means in Kerala’s lap as the region is a first-rate mastering center. The environment and the surroundings act as a catalyst to examine the art of yoga, meditation, and pranayama in a couple of minutes. Here are a few tips, why Kerala, the city of Ayurveda and yoga, is the suitable vacation spot to exercise yoga instructor education program.yogi owls a

True Yoga Teachers

The kids are positioned into the arena of yoga and Ayurveda given that they begin going to high school. Witnessing the ecosystem of yoga and Ayurveda flourishing within the circle of relatives, they study the art in the womb itself. Their popularity of the concern, their understanding, and know-how acquired over time comes across in their lessons in each elegance they teach. That is the motive humans flock from all over the international to India. Kerala lets in a yoga practitioner to study the art from Actual Instructors, that’s but every other privilege now not to be had to many.

Wonderful View

The peaks of the southern hills and the crystalline water of the beaches, the blue sky and the outstanding view, the entirety provide as much as a high-quality yogic experience. The surroundings inspire and ignite the passion for reaching new heights and additionally provides to the whole studying enjoying. Yoga trainer education requires a practitioner to contain the mindset of gratitude of their lives, which they analyze inside the training. When they see the same taking place inside the local, regular environment of Kerala, they absorb the teachings all the greater.yogi name meaning.mc yogi songs

The Climate

Kerala has a comparable Climate all year round, with an exception of monsoon. It is hit by way of monsoons twice a 12 months, which provides to the splendor of the environment in Kerala. The roads are soaked in water, and the timber is blessed with the coloration of happiness, carrying deep green. the whole thing while visible from through the cool breeze and a calm mind offers a facet to the region above different destinations.

History of India

India’s USP lies in its rawness. The untamed lands of Kerala, which can be far away from the touches of materialism, breathes the natural air of simplicity and cultural Historical past. This makes Kerala tick as a vacation spot for yoga teacher training guides. The gods and their mythological legends informed within the class can be seen in temples and museums. And actual level getting to know can be experienced.

Green Coffee Bean Extract, Your Ultimate Fitness Solution

In case you have been wondering, and additionally fearing the truth that they might get you in a health club so as to eliminate the extra amount of fats from your body, then think something else. The humans that in reality had plenty of fulfillment in eliminating excessive movement of the body and in reality vouch for using an extract of green espresso. The majority to know more approximately this particular thing, because of the fact that they’re not conscious that coffee can really a very adverse impact on the cell phone. In all instances, one is to understand that project the help of search in of green coffee extracts, would, in reality, have the ability to attend to your excessively within the frame. Most of the people insist at the situations sense that losing file quantity of weight is a very popular method, and you locate that you can definitely have a whole lot of antioxidants located within this precise essence of a component.

Take care of this problem, and also you do not need to worry approximately stepping into shape ever again.

There are not any poor outcomes which can be to be supplied with the aid of inexperienced espresso, and also you find that it is extraordinarily easy in relation to providing first-rate aid to the humans which can be in need of it. This way, human beings can truly get an excellent idea about the distinct styles of functions which might be to be supplied with the assist of espresso bean extract, and you possibly can effortlessly get a superb concept approximately the specific sports that can be finished with the assist of this particular aspect. For this reason, If you’re seeking out scientific outcomes, then there are a whole lot of scientists which can vouch for the fact that the inexperienced espresso has extraordinary results of immoderate weight.

Each time you study yourself within the replicate, you spot an overweight photograph

Which for actual, you do now not like. You aren’t on my own. A bigger percent of the complete international populace is seeking out approaches to transform from fat to in shape. it is common, however, that healthful weight loss plan software and regular workout won’t paintings for some human beings. In truth, many who strive these options always turn out to be pissed off due to the fact they do no longer take a look at any outcomes.

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Creator shares Small Splendor with Simcoe writers

In 2016, via wing, Wilson-yang launched her first novel, Small Splendor. On Sunday, she shared some of that Beauty with writers in Orillia.

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The Writers’ Community of Simcoe County welcomed Wilson-yang to talk on the institution’s month-to-month assembly, held at the Leacock Museum. She spent almost hours with the organization, reading excerpts from the radical and taking questions from the audience about the writing procedure.

Small Beauty centers around a blended-race trans woman named Mei. It begins in a bigger city, but quickly transitions to a rural setting in which Mei is mourning the loss of a loved member of the family.

It is not a memoir, Wilson-yang said, notwithstanding being a combined-race trans girl who grew up simply out of doors Hamilton and spent numerous time on the Bruce Peninsula.

“There’s not a splendid deal that is autobiographical in the e-book, beyond the settings,” she said, agreeing the book was an exercising extra in writing about what she recognize than what she had experienced.

Tales approximately trans people typically take the region in city settings, so Wilson-yang was cognizant of the importance of sharing a tale of a trans character in a smaller location. but It is no longer simply the small metropolis trans Tales which are lacking.

“There is now not enough Stories approximately trans humans, period,” Wilson-yang stated.

A part of what Small Beauty set out to perform changed into to increase the catalog of literature telling the Stories of trans people, fictional or otherwise.

“It’s essential to recognize that trans humans are anywhere; they are in rural settings. just because you’re trans does not imply you have to be inside the town,” she stated. “I was frequently thinking about writing a great tale that turned into reflective of my life and the lives of other humans that I knew. Because it changed into wrapping up, It is satisfactory this is vital in any other manner.”

Following Wilson-yang’s talk, she hosted a workshop for among the organization’s individuals. The focus could be for the writers to create their prose even as situating themselves inside the reminiscences of their elders.

It wasn’t the primary writers’ workshop Wilson-yang had hosted, however it became the primary time she might be operating with adults in preference to kids. She seemed anxious but excited earlier than the workshop started out.

“It’ll be without a doubt thrilling to do a workshop for adults,” she stated. “I’m hoping the adults can be excited to be right here to jot down.”

inside the teenager’s workshops, Wilson-yang has run, she’s found typically as a minimum one or of the children are keen to put in writing, and a number of the others are just there for something to do and counting down the mins until snack time.

no longer that There is something incorrect with that, said the writer who never attended a writing workshop herself as an infant.

“I would have been there for the snacks.”

Small Splendor turned into a Lambda Literary Awards finalist for Fine Transgender Fiction and Recipient of an Honour of Difference from the 2016 Writers’ Consider of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers.

Small Lovely Hand Painted Porcelain Mask

In case you are very inquisitive about the different forms of artwork around the arena or can be you’re very curious about the one of a kind varieties of precise ornaments, you must have heard of the porcelain Mask. These are Masks which can be crafted from porcelain, one of the substances invented very long term in the past in China. These specific Masks are broadly speaking sold for his or her one-of-a-kind shapes and exceptional arts. they may be either kept as series or display as ornaments in houses and places of work.

When we communicate about porcelain Masks, we can’t miss talking approximately porcelain. Porcelain originated long term in the past from China. A rustic with very lengthy records of brilliant civilization, the Chinese has invented many types of materials and this type of outstanding materials which lasted until nowadays is the porcelain. It changed into for the duration of the Shang dynasty fantastic cloth is first invented and has undergone some dynasties. What is exceptional is it is one of the critical materials broadly used around the world.

If you search idea the web on Those Masks, you may really see many exclusive styles of Masks, manifesting in different subject matters and expressions. There are the theater Masks; the pair satisfied and unhappy porcelain theater Masks which might be very famous many of the creditors.

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There are also those which might be in particular designed for wall ornament. Those porcelain Masks are commonly painted with very colorful artwork and for an easy striking motive; they’ve silk ties on them. The colored feather porcelain Mask is every other wall striking artwork sculptures. With its Stunning hand painted porcelain and feathers, this placing mask appears simply superb for your wall. With very unique portray on the face by means of hand, this piece of artwork can price as much as $forty-five. However, with its Beauty, the price you are paying is well worth the cost.

There are people who opt to depart their wall within the house naked whilst there are folks who choose to over beautify their partitions. Both choices are not incorrect but by using adding some Beauty in your wall can upload Splendor on your lifestyles. naked partitions can be dull and create a sense of nothingness while overcrowded wall can be overwhelming and create a sense of confinement. So why no longer do not forget to carry the Beauty of art to your wall and create the kind of high-quality emotions in you? no longer most effective will Those porcelain Mask offer you with a Lovely and artistic sight, in addition, they permit your whole own family, visitors and buddies to have the privilege to enjoy the arts.

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In case you do no longer have the know-how or understanding in adorning your partitions, the last result can flip out very disappointing. The patterns, unrivaled items, and the distance between every decoration, to name however a few can make your wall unsightly. Porcelain Mask is best to desire when it comes to adorning your wall as can go along with nearly all types of decor. What more, you should buy them on-line very without problems. With its experience of inventive, Beauty and mysterious, These Masks will make your wall look elegant, neat and delightful.