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Happy #ComingOutDay! I’m pretty sure everyone’s aware of my pansexuality, but there are only a small handful of people who know about how I’ve come to understand myself as genderfluid. I don’t really feel inclined to tell that story because it’s not very exciting, but I will explain what genderfluid IS.

The short answer, is that someone who is genderfluid experiences multiple genders on something of a sliding scale, some days they wake up and a more feminine gender is most comfortable, other days they wake up and the whole concept of gender may make their skin crawl. Depending on that feeing they may choose to dress and present themselves in a way that reflects the gender they are experiencing- or they may not! They may also choose to use multiple sets of pronouns or in my case I feel as though they/them encompasses all of the genders I experience, and so that is what I prefer to be called by most people. It’s also worth noting that genderfluidity falls under the trans and nonbinary umbrellas.

For me, the sliding scale looks something like this:

Demigirl (close to but not really feminine)

androgynous (a mix of all my genders)

agender (not experiencing gender, sometimes I describe it as being percieved as ethereal or as a threat)

butch (masculine but I do not consider it male)

I am also choosing to neutralize my given name Victoria, to Victory.

Also I think it goes without saying that I god damn will not be arguing my identity with anyone. I’m happy to answer questions, but insults, telling me this isn’t real, or trying to tell me I’m faking it will be met with a block, I won’t even engage it will just be over no questions asked no quarter given. Who I am is no ones choice, I was born like this, I can show these behaviors as far back as I can remember, I simply had no idea how to articulate it until recently.

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Loki, who is the god of the chaos that brings necessary change, Fenris, the patron of all those unjustly imprisoned, Narfi and Vali, patrons of those slain unjustly by authority figures, and Sygin the goddess of victory and difficult decisions in the face of grief, have their hands deep in the current situation AND NOT ON THE SIDE OF FACIST, BIGGOTED, RACIST ASSHOLES. and that is the end of this fucking discussion. 

PSA

If you’re a Norse pagan that sympathizes with the alt-right/neo nazi movement or is a neo nazi that uses Norse pagan symbols, please smash that unfollow button and block me.

I don’t want that filth here.

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Hávamál Þat kann ek it ellipta ef ek skal til orrostu leiða langvini undir randir ek gel en þeir með ríki fara heilir hildar til heilir hildi frá koma þeir heilir hvaðan

I know an eleventh: when I lead to battle Old comrades in-arms, I have only to chant it behind my shield, And unwounded they go to war, Unwounded they come from war, Unscathed wherever they are

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Thor’s grandmother Nott, goddess of night, is described as “black and swarthy.” Thor is mixed-race; his mother Jord is a giantess. Thor is also the protector of Midgard; the earth and its people.

Wearing a Thor’s Hammer means you support BIPOC, their protection, and their inherent worth and wellbeing. By definition of who wields Mjolnir and why, it can never be a “racialist” symbol, and wearing one as such is no less than an insult.

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Literally every single person I've met in this community has got a cult horror story, or a sex abuse horror story, or a financial scam horror story, or some combination of the above, and a lot of specifically Heathen people have got *domestic terrorism* horror stories, but whenever there's any public or serious effort to do something about it and get our house in order we're the bad guys for """breaking frith""" and """starting drama""'

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As a black woman, I am furious. I have no words. I have no more patience. I am angry. I am tired. WE are tired. Oh and our president is a piece of shit racist and unfollow this account if it hurts your poor little feelings to hear me say that. I have spent my whole life watching and experiencing racism and white silence. No more being nice. No more staying silent. If this hurts your feelings and you feel personally attacked by the sentiment then you ain’t ready to hear the message yet. I don’t have any more time for white fragility. I’ve been tip-toeing around it my whole life and I am done. For those that are using their privilege to speak up and make a difference, thank you. You are on the right side of history. ✊🏽 Artwork By Me: @BrooklynnMusic on Instagram

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A few resources to help, learn, and promote:

TO HELP AND DONATE:

Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest

President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged

Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle

TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:

5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid

10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper 

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co

Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:

Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire

Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!

A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels

Karina Yan Glasser’s 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American Authors

10 Black-Owned Online Bookstores to buy all these lovely books from!

Bookshop.org’s List of Independent Black-Owned Bookstores 

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Reblog if you would be comfortable living in a dormitory with an openly transgender or intersex individual. We’re working on a campaign for gender neutral housing and we could use your support.

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Here it is! The instructions to make a pieced and quilted plague doctor mask!

Just as a heads up, this pattern is not really recommended for beginners. There is not a whole lot of explanation of the basic techniques, and it requires a fair bit of precision, two types of fusible interfacing, and an assumption that you can keep a consistent seam allowance and do some hand sewing and know when to sew things right sides together and such.

I am not promising anything, different methods will yield different results, I have never made a pattern exactly as it was written and neither should you. If you want something the same as the next person, go to the shops.

Actually, nevermind, this is a quarantine craft, stay home.

Keep reading

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Hey Heathens, let’s have a little talk.

If you’re an edgelord who spends their time criticizing and belittling people for their efforts to slow the curve or to find joy in the midst of some really dark times… or if you’re one of those that thinks violence will solve anything right now… guess what? You’re actually not an edge lord. You’re not even “alternative” anymore. You’re not radical or revolutionary. You’ve now become part of the mainstream oppressive system.

It’s not goth. It’s not metal. It’s not even anarchy. It’s literally participating in the bullshit propaganda of big government and big business (which let’s face it- they’re the same). Yup, you’re their tool. You have nothing remotely radical to offer anyone right now with your sarcasm and your bullying. 

See everyone else? Those dancing in scrubs despite having lost their 10th patient today, those sewing masks with cartoon characters on them, those resisting going back to work before we have mass testing, those who are howling, and singing, and trying to listen to the health professionals and scientists about how small decisions can help lessen the impact? Those are the revolutionaries. Those are the ones with compassion in the face of darkness and they’re your anarchists.

Ragnarok is here and we can’t fight it with ARs, conflict, or demonstrations of masculine power. Find some compassion and you’ll be one step closer to the real revolution that’s starting.

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So, I was studying for my finals and reading the bit in Snorri’s Edda about Ragnarok and at one point a wolf swallows the moon and it says “og gerir sá og mikið ógagn”. Now, I understand that the meaning of the words have changed a bit over time and all that, but to a modern Icelandic speaker, this just sounds like “one of the wolves took the moon, which was unhelpful”

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Incomming emotional dump, idc if you read it share it do whatever with it, I got some shit ive been holding onto for 2 days and I gotta put it someplace where annother human being can see it or I think my ears might start bleeding.

Tw: smoking, vaping, nicotine, withdrawl

I honestly dont know what to do with myself if I'm going to stop vaping. I certainly AM going to stop, have stopped, this is the end of day 2 without. Ive had enough of paying for it, having it bought for me, feeling like antsy uncomfortable shit wether I have nicotine or not, and being a raging bitch when it gets really bad. The one thing this pandemic has done is made me realize I need to take care of my lungs. But I can't tell you how may times today ive idly been say, sitting at the computer, and reached for a vape that wasnt there, or missed the sensation of my body taking the stress down a peg or two because I waved the nicotine stick at it. I'm trying pretty hard to romanticise my withdrawls as some sort of heroic effort, to get myself through it, but I want anyone who reads this to understand that quitting cold turkey is probably one of the most physically and mentally taxing things ive done since i was a teenager. I recognize that vaping is looked at as a edgy hipster thing or cringy or whatever but its what stopped me from smoking, and now I need to let go of the crutch. At the end of the day, im suffering withdrawls and anxiety and just the general moop of my life to a high degree because as a shitty 20 year old I decided to cop a menthol off my freind Jen, and a cowboy killer off my friend Aleem, and I never blinked because I never expexted to want to be an adult or care about the consequences. But here I am, on the cusp of getting my shit together and being a real adult, and it all really matters all the sudden. Its peak alergy season for me, and I am critically scrutinizing every sneeze and scratch of the throat because I'm too anxious to rationally tell my brain that isnt helping anyone. I'm begging my husband to stay awake until I'm finally ready to sleep so I dont have to be alone. Every time the cats bump the bedroom door I'm coming out of my skin at the usually not so wierd noise. I'm just so tired, and annoyed, and I have a minimum of a day of this left, MAYBE MORE, I can't bring myself to explain this to my husband because my anxiety is making me feel like its silly and I'm making all of the stress up in my head, but I can put it soneplace my anxiety already treats as a place for silly things: the internet. So here we are, at the resolutionless end of a rant that honestly could have been more satisfying but I didnt know what else to say about anything.

I feel better because I said it though.

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Thats just so relaxing to watch T-T

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So this is happening in the UK right now. The “equalities” minister is trying to ban trans yourh from getting healthcare.

This CANNOT happen

Blow this shit up

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THINGS YOU NEED TO BE A WITCH

a desire to learn

an oddly strong love for the moon, the sun, or both

an open mind

time

a little humility

salt, probably

THINGS YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A WITCH

a vagina

nor a uterus

fancy tools

money

formal training

a fancy witch name

a neurotypical brain

major talent right off the bat (this is a SKILL, you learn it, not everything will just come naturally)