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Dad was at Tesco today, and he got me a Toothless + Hiccup figure lol. Ignore the fact that I haven't gotten Hiccup out of the packaging yet, I was too excited to take photos of Toothless 😂 his wings feel like leather, it's really cool. I think the paint job on Toothless is great, while Hiccup looks eeeh, a little odd if I may say so, idk how much these cost because it was a surprise.

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norse pagan prideposting

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The pre-Christian Norse spiritual worldview is animistic, which means that it's informed by direct experiences and observations of nature, interpreted through the lens of human experience and feelings. You know how we watch snow swirl around think that it looks playful, or watch a wildfire and think that it looks angry? It involves that kind of thing.

But when most people think of pre-Christian religions, they tend to imagine later forms of Greek and Roman polytheism. The problem here is that these Greeks and Romans had begun to think of divinity in more abstract, transcendent ways, and had begun to imagine the gods as rulers of things rather than the spirits of things.

Loki isn't the lord of mischief, he's the spirit of mischief. He's in the little voice telling you make that shitpost and to stop caring about being "cringe." He's in your cat's impulse to knock something off the counter to watch it bounce or roll. Loki manifests in every accidental innuendo and hilarious typo, in every spilled cup of coffee, and every paperwork mix-up. (This is why he's a shapeshifter! He can be anything!)

So when media depicts a Loki riddled with repression and shame - say, for example, a Loki who sneers at modern media or the culture of the common folk - it's depicting a Loki who can't really Loki. That poor spirit has been bound and gagged.

Certain popular media has depicted Thor and Loki as some kinds of opposites, but when we consider the animist perspective we can see there is a serious problem with this. Loki and Thor being depicted as companions isn't some random whim; it's a reflection of the reality that thunderstorms bring chaos.

A Loki informed by Norse mythology shouldn't be complaining about Thor's "oafishness" or whatever, he should be encouraging him to wreak even more havoc. Loki shouldn't be here out of some real or imagined obligation, he should be here because he expects he's going to have a pretty good time, and because he hopes to make the situation as ridiculous as possible.

Loki being the spirit of mischief is also why depicting him as hostile to humanity isn't really in the spirit of the pre-Christian Norse worldview. Mischief and chaos are not anti-human; they're just realities of the world that humans inhabit. I get how it's easy to infer that Loki must have something against humans due to his oppositional role toward the Aesir in the Ragnarok story, but that's an extremely Christian reading of the narrative. The story is simply describing the collapse of civilization and end of the world as we know it through Norse animistic comprehension. Loki only has an issue with the Aesir, who bound him in a cave to be tortured with serpent venom. Humanity is neither here nor there for him.

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Hi!

What did you mean by an oath to your God(s) can change everything?

Thanks :)

I mean exactly that. When you swear an oath to an entity there is the possibility that everything and anything about your life might change to better suit that oath. Now I don't mean that you'll finish your ritual and suddenly -boom- everything will suddenly be different. But swearing an oath comes with a relationship, and that relationship over time is where the changes come from. I'm going to grossly simplify my buddy @windvexer's beautiful analogy here: Think of yourself as meadow, beautiful and lush with grasses. Think of your practice as the rain, it falls down and feeds the grass, keeps it green. Now if you've sworn an oath, think of that as planting an acorn. Maybe it never really grows, maybe it becomes a sweet little sapling and that's about it, but maybe everything goes right for that acorn and it grows for hundreds of years, drinking that rain, and becomes a towering tree. That tree can fundamentally change the meadow it grows in, it can crack rocks, reshape hills, it's shade will change what grows under it's bows, it's nuts will attract animals. The entire ecosystem of the meadow is different after the oak tree reaches maturity. And here's the important thing. Even if the oak tree were to be cut down, the meadow would never be the same again. Sometimes your entities will require work from you, you'll be asked to learn new skills, that new skill will change your cosmology, which will change how you interact with the world, which if you do it long enough means your personality changes. This happened to me. I started learning how to be a psychopomp because of my oath to Brona. That changed my cosmological views on death and the after life and how spirits work. As a result of that I start becoming much more intentional about my production of waste in the world. Eventually that mindfulness and intentionallity has just become part of who I am. Sometimes other relationships in your life will change, not necessarily because your entity does anything to the relationship, but because your priorities might shift. You might be prioritizing the responsibilities of your oath over other things, and people around you might not like that or understand that. I've lost friends, other practitioners I thought would be life long companions, after I took my oath to Oisin. They said I had changed in ways they didn't like. I said I was holding to my oath. You can try to protect certain parts of your life, mitigate the changes to them, by carefully constructing your oath, but a person's life is such a complex interconnected web that I've found it's impossible to complete prevent change. If you are the thing that is changing everything that you touch is going to feel some of the effects. I know this can seem scary, but I don't want to dissuade anyone from making an oath that they've been seriously thinking about. I just want to dissuade people from doing it without thinking about it. Because, if we go back to Chicken's amazing metaphor, not every acorn grows to be a towering giant oak tree. Maybe you plant the acorn it grows a foot tall, and that's it. But every acorn has the potential to be a 100ft giant, so don't plant it if you aren't ready for that possibility.

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The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

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Reminder for artists and writers to OPT-OUT of Tumblr giving your posts to companies to train AI programs

Each of your side-blogs has to enable the "Prevent sharing" setting. It's not account-wide

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Want to do something to help stop the tradwife pipeline btw? Include mothers in your feminism. Hold space for women and others who are experiencing pregnancy or motherhood. Listen to their concerns about and unique perspectives on things like universal childcare, bodily autonomy, healthcare. Hold men who disrespect, sexualize, fetishize, shame or harass pregnant women and mothers accountable. Advocate for the right to nurse in public. Advocate for bodily autonomy within the healthcare field. Listen to women and birthing parents who have birth trauma. Listen to women who have undergone things like “the husband stitch”, or medically unnecessary c-sections, or who were given drugs without consent by doctors and nurses violating their birth plan. Advocate for resources to promote an end to the high rates of maternal mortality in the US. Get to know a woman who has children. Get to know the person she is. Know about her likes and interests and hobbies. Unlearn the stigma in your head which makes you see pregnant women as “ruined” or “tainted” and mothers as devoid of individual personhood.

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Hi guys, so as I promised, here's the Toothless sewing pattern! Free for personal use only, please do not sell what you make with it! And please show me the results :) I would be happy to see your creations. Happy crafting!

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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Here's a peek at the sewing pattern:) I'm gonna copy it onto a piece of paper then scan it for you all! It might take a while tho since I don't have access to a scanner right now, but I'm working on solving that problem lol. So stay tuned, pattern is coming soon!

Guys, anyone wants a Toothless sewing pattern? I struggled to find one that wasn't too challenging to make, so I just decided to make my own 😂 and I don't want to make money off it, so I could just share it here for free. The only thing I ask is that show me what y'all create with it, and that it's not for commercial use, so please don't sell what you make with my pattern. What do you all say?

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Guys, anyone wants a Toothless sewing pattern? I struggled to find one that wasn't too challenging to make, so I just decided to make my own 😂 and I don't want to make money off it, so I could just share it here for free. The only thing I ask is that show me what y'all create with it, and that it's not for commercial use, so please don't sell what you make with my pattern. What do you all say?

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People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.

She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.

Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.

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I'm still alive btw, I've been just busy sewing plushies and other stuff 😂 and by 'other stuff' I mean making keychains and obsessing over dragons lol

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Saw a post about how halal and kosher meat will likely be the only reliably safe options in the US because their safety and cleanliness standards aren't dictated by what's the barest legal minimum that government food safety regulations demand.

So you're like 5 years away from "ever notice how the musulmans and jews never get sick from bad meat? clearly this is proof that they are poisoning us" right now.

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