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Our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

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@academia-lucifer

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recently been experimenting with letting my dog stay out of his crate when I go to work bc he’s old enough now that I trust him and this is what I see every day before I leave

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As I waited, I distracted myself with the powers girls wield over boys and which Saint Patrick and Saint Augustine consider sins responsible for the fall of all mankind. I have read and transcribed our bishops’ rules that say women must not try to be attractive to men but must scorn the qualities in themselves that cause men to fall from grace. It has puzzled me that men, who claim more and more authority over women, show such fear of those whom they call weak. Perhaps they are hoping that women will come to believe that they need to be protected and dominated, but I cannot imagine any woman being so foolish. I wonder if Eve’s seduction of Adam was the result not of evil moral frailty but of her restlessness. Perhaps Adam was more easily amused and satisfied than Eve, who wanted more than the life of a child in a pretty garden. I do not mean to blaspheme, only to show an understanding of the scriptures from my own faults. From the time of my first woman’s bleeding, I suffered from a restlessness I could not understand or cure.

Confessions of a Pagan Nun // Kate Horsley

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blog intro

this blog is an amalgamation of multiple interests because i do not have the time to maintain multiple niche side blogs. here you’ll mostly find

irish: language, ogham, folklore, literature, etc.

nature aesthetics

my original writing

my original art (rarely)

book quotes and rambles

writing advice

dark/light/chaotic academia vibes

content from various video games/shows

general funny posts

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God forgive me, I sometimes enjoy rage.

Confessions of a Pagan Nun // Kate Horsley

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Head empty only thoughts about Them

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pov: you enter the wrong swamp🌿

not gonna finish this at all but I've been wanting to draw some kelpies recently and I WILL use this slice of free time I have lol

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One of my darker pieces from Folktale Week.⁠ Kelpies are Scottish shape-shifting fey of lakes and rivers. Sometimes a man and sometimes a horse and never to be trusted.⁠

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Kroelian PONYTA & RAPIDASH (Water/Ghost)

They are based on the Kelpie, a celtic water spirit that its said to take the form of a Horse, either black or white, with its mane always dripping wet and covered in seaweeds. They live on the lochs and will invite people to mount them, only to take them into the loch and drown them for later consumption. Their manes are also based on Kelp, a type of seaweed that is actually not a plant, it belongs to a different genera. Their shiny colors are based on red seaweed and the "red tides", the common name ofte given to a phenomenon known as "Harmful algal bloom" (HAB)