#your deities will understand

[lunasun1verse]

A reminder that it’s ok to take breaks from the craft. It’s ok to step back and not touch your altar for weeks or months while you study and/ recuperate.

Don’t feel like you’re a bad witch for taking a break. You can absolutely overwhelm yourself if you aren’t careful.

I haven’t done a daily pull all month, and I don’t feel bad. I do light a candle daily and burn incense to make sure I stay connected, but I don’t feel an ounce of sadness or remorse for it. My deities are honored other ways, and they understand that life gets entirely overwhelming.

Do not feel bad for taking breaks.

Today’s song is Luminary by Joel Sunny

What a lovely song to listen to. It makes me feel like I’m touching the heavens or flying through the air. Ironically, I first heard this song when I was scrolling the YouTube shorts. A guy was showing AI generated visions of what different Bible verses would look like if we saw them irl. Such a beautiful song.

[gotstabbedbyapen]

It's always "Hades isn't bad or cruel, his deeds are just metaphors of the inevitable death" or "Hades kidnapping Persephone represent the premature death".

But when the argument "Zeus has numerous affairs and many children because he represent the fertile rain" is brought up, all nuance is suddenly out of the window and Zeus is just a womanizer who can't keep it in his pants.

[notbecauseofvictories]

This is going to sound negative, but I think Snuff deserves to be the last Discworld book. I mean, Raising Steam is good in certain ways, a fond elegy to the characters and plots a reader has come to know so well. I don't even object to the visceral pleasure of the earlier novels giving way to something diffuse, harder to pin down. (Unseen Academicals felt like this---a wonderful novel, but not actually a victory; just a plot that rearranged matters in an interesting way.) But there's a sort of...ill magic setting in, by the time you get to the scene where Vetinari gives medals to our wonderful shining heroes of the railway.

Namely, they're too good at this.

Vimes uses the Summoning Dark multiple times, and without even the terrified self-doubt he was showing in Snuff. (I have other issues with Snuff, but that was an interesting thread to pull.) Vetinari not-too-discretely points the Black Clerks at a problem, and it is solved; when necessary, he goes undercover working on something he personally considers vaguely distasteful, and yet becomes the center of a folk song. Moist neither sleeps, nor eats nor makes love to his wife (except sometimes, too rarely in his opinion) but rushes all over doing the railways' job for---what? for why?

They're too good, they've climbed too high; Vimes and Vetinari are edging into myth while still being alive, and Moist was already half of a song anyway, has been since he put on the golden suit.

I'm not saying it's not an interesting setup, because strangely it is. But it feels like the start of something, not closure at all, because what else is Discworld good for if not to tackle the fact that everything glowy and laden with awe will not remain such. Because, you know, that's how the world works.

[prolibytherium]

There's a LOT of things people do wrong when constructing fantasy beliefs in pantheons of gods, but one of the more specific is having only one god related to fertility and it kind of being just a horny sex thing.

Like you'll have one in the entire bunch whose sphere is listed as fertility and it's basically like Yeah this is the sex one. She's always depicted naked (but not TOO naked because censorship and/or the writer's own skittishness). She's going to have the exact body type epitomized in contemporary western beauty standards and there's usually no chance in hell that she's gonna be fat (unless MAYBE they're referencing 'venus' figurines). Her thing is fertility, which means having sex and making babies. Might be a goddess of beauty or love or marriage too, because these are kinda sex things, but that's probably it. And yeah that sort of thing is virtually nonexistent in real life.

Like the concept of fertility is so fundamentally important to the function of most societies in human history in ways that it is just Not in industrialized imperial core countries. Most people are getting food from stores, and not having to worry about harvesting crops or breeding livestock or foraging for food or having enough animals to hunt, so fertility only really comes up as a concern if you're trying to have kids (and there is certainly societal pressure to have children, but your wellbeing and survival is rarely going to Depend on it). And I think writing only from that perspective and not even trying to learn about WHY fertility is so conceptually important is why you see this trend.

There's no absolute universal statement about how people believe in gods but it's broadly accurate that systems with many deities will Usually have more than one deity associated with fertility, and these associations will certainly include human reproduction but also the fertility of livestock/hunted animals, plants, the land itself.

Some fertility deities may also be heavily associated with seasonal changes or environmental factors that agriculture or foraging is dependent on (spring/summer/fall, seasonal rains, seasonal flooding, rain itself, sunlight, good soil, rivers, wetlands, etc). Some certainly might be related to love, marriage, sex, and beauty, but that's VERY RARELY going to be the sole way the concept of fertility is embodied. And they'll often will have other associations not directly about fertility, or related to fertility in culturally specific ways.

[sqlmn]

Lightning, water, and fire! Like forever before the plot starts. By the time the plot starts, the lightning and fire deities have been subjected to punishment by the two gods that picked them.

Oh (the fire deity) is first to be punished. They basically decide that since they're going to live for a long time, gotta set some long time goals! And they opt to be the wrath of the gods since most of the other deities are too 'soft' in their opinion. So Oh just. Smites humans. This isn't really a /good/ thing and in their defense mentally, they do it to help Ymber since he's the softest of them all. So their punishment by the gods is to be split in two, effectively halving the power of one into two. (Now they are in a male and a female body and use both male and female pronouns apart since they together make they but apart it feels weird to be they. But prior to the split they use they/them. Also the split bodies go by the names Ohiwe and Ohime.)

Fulj is the second to be punished. She falls in love with a mortal woman and that is a crime according to the gods. Mortals and immortals are not to be together and it will only bring suffering to both sides. So her punishment is her memories of the woman are stripped and her body basically broken to the point she can't remain physical all the time.

Ymber, unfortunately, is the one who blames himself for the discoveries and punishments. If he had only tried to restrain Oh more then maybe they would have chilled out and stopped before being punished. If he had only tried to persuade Fulj to not continue seeing the mortal woman so often perhaps she wouldn't have been punished. So he's just increasing the guilt on his shoulders every day that he remains unpunished since the elder gods have both laid down to rest. They can't enforce their laws anymore and none of the deities are keen on harming one another at this point. They just want to continue existing in peace.

[goldensunset]

i love a lot of games but pokémon legends arceus really feels like it loves me

[sarafangirlart]

Hades is a lot of things but he was so real for punishing Pirithous immediately rather than humiliate Persephone by letting Pirithous bone a cloud version of her like Zeus did. My guy went straight to the point.

[wizardnuke]

i love dnd..i love playing heavy utility/support/backfield and i love having three to six attacks in a turn and an insane ac. at heart im a support player ill get my hands on whatever we're missing in a group

[recitedemise]

I like to think, in any romantic scenario, it was Gale that fell for someone first.

He was the one pining. He was the one who sat there gazing longly at them over the rippling heat of the campfire, fondness in his chest and a quiet want in his belly. He's a tender heart, eager always to illustrate his faith and unyielding loyalty, and it makes him... Well, inclined to stumble head over heels. Of course, he's conflicted after Mystra, still has a hurt that makes him a bit wary to confess to his very quickly-growing affections, but seeing someone's genuine warmth and sincere care for him? That is more than enough to will him to boldly move on. He knows what he feels. He's VERY in tune with his emotions. He wonders on many nights what it'd be like to hold them. To kiss them tenderly. To swallow their breaths. Once. Twice. He watches them laugh as they talk with the other members of the party, and Gale's books on constellations, forgotten in his lap, isn't even half as cosmic as them.

[theeviltrinity]

Dumb ass Lucifer keeps adopting the qualities of GOD. Whoever the fuck GOD may be and that’s how sick and tired I am of Veronese Design. SOME BITCH ON FACEBOOK EVEN MADE A MOTHERFUCKING GOD DAM NED POST THAT LUCIFER IS BEELZEBUB. NO, motherfucker. That’s how much I don’t understand.

UPDATE 11/24/24: They just work better in their own capacity. Or perhaps 🤔 they work better when you know that they have their own capacity and/or role. There’s certainly many hybrids and all I have to say is THANK GOD that Jesus Christ is OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.

That’s the American way! 🇺🇸

Thank God for CASH APP! For those who are not mobile cash app is the best placeholder.

A note to the unwise: stop selling your soul! I remember I kept getting mad 😡 at these prostitutes. I said I didn’t want or like these prostitutes. I was so angry. Stop selling your soul!

I remember this guy came over here mad as hell at another one of my assets as a whole. However he approached the soul selling issue with respect and dignity. What he didn’t approach with respect and dignity is my Hecate. He just hated my Hecate. Said she had on some facade and that’s why her man left her ran away etc. That nigger ran away because she pieced together his motherfuckering letter to the devil that she ripped apart and threw away, testing her to see if she would piece it together, then that guy told the guy that had power to move her about the issues he had with her piecing together his letters to the devil and instead of my happy experience as a 14 yr old girl in America… I don’t know. I looked at his Hecate and loved his Hecate so much I bought one.

The moral of the story is if you have a problem with your lover or partner and she doesn’t want to fuck you there was always a reason why she didn’t want to fuck you. And holding out on them until you feel better and they satisfy your emotional needs is better than sending them a message telling them why you withheld pussy. And that’s all. I’m never harmless.

I never sold my soul. And I swear on life that I never sold my soul.

[magicianing]

My dears, I truly do not wish to intrude on your practices. I would, however, like to say, for all those lacking in experience and guidance, that if you believe a major deity is "courting" you (and only you), it is most likely a misunderstanding, or else that you are not speaking with whom you intend.

[tadpoles-and-daydreams]

apparently I'm just sillyposting today

I love writing fanfic bc I can just do whatever the fuck I want. Like, the genshin fic I'm writing right now is half "LOOK AT MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS" and half "how many amphithere* traits can I project onto the sea dragon character?"

One side character is fantasy pagan and literally worships the old gods. Which is funny bc the dragon guy is one of said old gods. Imagine if you were chilling and suddenly your deity just showed up one day, flesh and blood, and they were actually an eldritch horror.

[ravens-two]

Not me asking Lady Fulla for help with managing my money and promptly getting my card cancelled 💀

Like alritghty now I can't spend it on stupid shit

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

what if we were both followers of gods and we both took to our oaths with such dedication that we're rejected even by our fellow followers but then we found each other and saw ourselves reflected back in our wanting and needing . and what if we were both morally grey . a ha

[subconsciousmysteries]

it pains me to announce that if you got fucked over by someone with a mental illness and now you project that mental illness onto everyone mildly strange who you come into contact with

you too are MENTALLY ILL and you need to stop scapegoating others for your problems because you are the fucking problem.