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The Indigenous people of North America endured one of the greatest and cruelest onslaughts in human history. They went through the end of their world. Today we may be afraid that something like that may happen to us. We may watch the signs of the times and feel insecure, aware that when the great tides of change shift, they do not always shift for the better. Pandemics, environmental destruction, corrupt governments, war and natural disasters: my ancestors have been through it all before. They have survived, and they have returned to the land of the living. They bring a message of hope and transformation. They offer a vision of healing and restoration. They have something to tell us about how apocalypse works. They can lead us to discover not only how to live through difficult times, but how to change the course of history to prevent the worst from happening. They have an answer.

--We Survived the End Of The World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope by Steven Charleston

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when you're dumb as hell but the morbidly dressed dyslexic baddies keep falling for you anyway

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sheepish is a really funny word. fuck im so nervous (turns into this)

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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I wish people treated queerness as breaking the rules of the dominant cis-hetero patriarchy so you can authentically be yourself. Instead of adhering to a new slightly less restrictive set of rules which you will deride other people for not following (basically whatever label discourse is now flaring up)

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when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

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It’s more comforting to convince yourself that all men are assholes then it is to face reality which is that your ex boyfriend wasn’t destined to become an asshole but for a variety of complicated societal and personal reasons he ended up that way anyways even though he could’ve chosen to not be an asshole

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“I’m an equal opportunity offender. I make fun of everybody.” - Guy whose identities all align with the systemically dominant power groups in his cultural and geographic context

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can you fucking imagine

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it's such a sadness to me that kids eventually lose that 'no filter' thing when they grow up. my niece asked what 9/11 is and someone explained it to her and her unfiltered conclusion was "bro. is that it"

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*wokely* tell me what genitals you have, stranger i just met

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"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach

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still thinking about that r/hypotheticalsituation post where someone was like "what if a potato chip spawned somewhere randomly in the world. and every hour the number of potato chips at that location would double. and the only way to get rid of them for good would be to eat all of the potato chips before they doubled again." and someone calculated that it would only take like, 48 hours of people ignoring a weird pile of potato chips before an absolutely irreconcilable number of potato chips was blanketing a city.

and then people were like "no wait if it spawns randomly in the world, it's highly likely it would be in an ocean" and then people were debating whether there were enough small fish swimming at the surface in the open ocean that would be able to eat a potato chip and thus save humanity from the potato chip apocalypse.

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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I've discovered something exciting about the way my magic functions! For context, my current belief system incorporates both animism and microcosmic thinking. Sort of like this : "everything has a spirit, and even though spirits are projections of my unconscious mind, that's okay because I am the universe staring at it's reflection and choosing to be whole."

So every tool of mine has an entity attached, usually molded and awakened by me- similar to the creation of a thoughtform. And in order to benefit from their aid, I feed them. What hit me today, and inspired this post, was the method by which I feed each of them. The enchanted cup that drives away headaches, sour stomachs, anxiety, etc, has a tiny cat-spirit that drinks the cream I put in the tea; her reward for hunting down these ailments is to eat them like the vermin they are. The shrine to the entity of Knowledge I work with is laden with to-be-read books, which I read out of as part of its sacrifices- and its benefits include helping me to learn and more easily comprehend what I read.

The amulet that houses a glamour-weaving demonic eye is fed by compliments given while wearing it.

In other words, what charges the magic is directly benefitted by the magic itself- so doing a better job means getting more out of the deal, for both me and the tool-spirits in question. My process is basically creating intentionally self-fulfilling prophecies and waiting. This is the kind of tech thing that I think @windvexer and @creature-wizard would go crazy for, so adding mentions just in case.

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem