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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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"I know everything about ancient Egyptian theology" okay bet

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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I am gently taking your hands and begging you, BEGGING YOU, to understand that humans are not inherently harmful to the planet. We are animals who are part of the ecosystem. We belong here. This is our home. We belong here. You belong here. Yes, you belong here.

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"your god isnt real" gets honestly so funny when we start talking about polytheist animistic religion, like. i can bask in the sun, i can gaze at the moon and the stars, i can drink and party, i can make love, i can feel the rain on my flesh and the wind in my hair and the earth between my toes,

sure i might believe things about those things that you dont, but those things ARE real and they ARE what im worshipping at the root of it, you can feel what im feeling just like. go touch grass,

"it doesnt feel magical or mystical, it just feels like im standing on dirt" yep. thats the divinity in it, it IS just the earth and the sun and the sky and the bonds and joy between people, those things literally give you life. they keep you going and pushing forward, keep you happy and healthy, they also bring you hardships and horrors, we are at the mercy of nature, all im doing by practicing my religion is appreciating the world i live in,

Ra travels through the sky at day, keeping us safe by lighting our world and fighting Apep, he gets swallowed by Nut every night, where she keeps him safe and veils the sky, staring down in yearning at her brother Geb, only to give birth to Ra again the next day,

so im thankful, im thankful theres a sun in the sky to light up our world, im glad theres a sky to hold the sun and im glad theres an earth to look up at the sky,

Kemetic framework doesnt work for everyone, everyone sees nature differently, different cultures developed different associations, but nature is definitely real, and its okay to have a deeply spiritual bond with it, or a gifting cycle, or a magical practice,

so if youre fixating on the "but its not a literal allpowerful dude in the sky with omnipresence whos literally doing all of these things and communicating with u and giving u miracles", then all i can say is get your head out of the bible, youve got the wrong idea entirely about how varied religion and spirituality can be, which to be clear is okay, so long as youre aware your perception of religion as a whole might need some work if ur gonna speak on it as a whole,

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I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

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This year I'm of course gonna do pot smashing! I've been doing it as a group activity with my friends the last couple years and it has felt unsatisfying so this year I will be doing it by myself and making it Ultra Religious like I've been wanting to. (My friends definitely would've been okay with doing it that way I just personally feel uncomfortable revealing how I truly do magic.) So, I plan on doing that on Set's day.

The last two days I will be camping so I'll be enjoying nature! I will probably be bringing a honey cake with me to offer and to share with friends.

I had a dream a few nights ago where I made a couple lil statues of Nut and Geb hugging each other so I think I'll try to do that before the days start.

I will dance on the first day!

i know some folks have already celebrated/are currently celebrating, but what are folks doing for wep ronpet this year?

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A couple days ago you posted asking for ideas for your series and I have a sort of idea. I learned magic through tumblr, it was my first exposure and teacher. Because of that, I've been a little lost lately, on what my practice is actually founded on. I wonder if you could write something up to help myself and others like me who have a shaky foundation, like how to back up to finding out what the basic building blocks are to build a practice on and to ask yourself the Big Questions that should influence your practice. I hope this makes sense! Anyway, thank you for your previous posts, they've been really enlightening! :)

This is.... fascinating.

Thank you kindly <3 Let's see if I can make anything from it.

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hangzhou, zhejiang province, china (photo by 拾叁药, MelonSeeds)

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This weekend I thrifted the cutest book ever....like I literally gasped when I pulled it off the shelf in the craft book section of Freedom Thrift near Blue Ball (real town name, I promise).  

The book is called "Soft Toys to Stitch and Stuff," a Farm Journal Craft Book, published in 1983.  Sometimes I think I've seen all the cool weird vintage books...and then I encounter a new one.   As soon as I opened this one, I knew the images had to be used for some Clotheshorse-isms about fast fashion, consumerism, and wealth inequality.  Also, I definitely need to make some of these animals because they are all amazing!

Which one is your favorite?

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They love being worshipped. 🖤

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putting the poly back in polytheism

something that I've noticed in neo-pagan/polytheist spaces is this focus on one or a few deities. while this is a valid approach and seems to be working amazingly for many people, i wanted to write a short defence of a different form of polytheism that, while maybe less visible on social media, is equally viable.

the poly in polytheism necessitates the belief in multiple gods however modern forms of worship take many different forms on top of that. from my years being in pagan spaces on social media I have noticed that to many, being a polytheist means worshipping one or a handful of gods and having very close relationships with them. which deities someone chooses to have this kind of relationship with stems from multiple possible sources, for example, personal interest, the deity's domain being somehow related to a person's life or an inexplicable draw to them.

to me, this seems to be the dominant view on social media of the form that neo-paganism takes, however, after years of exploring my spirituality and practice, I have come to the conclusion that this is not how I want to worship. I am writing this post for more people like me, who are interested in exploring this often less mainstream approach.

an ancient template

reading about Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations I was always struck by the number of minor deities with hyper-specific domains and associations. as a modern pagan, I could not understand the appeal of worshipping such a deity, ie. using so much time and resources to build a relationship for only a handful of niche issues that you could approach them with.

but as I kept reading and exploring, I realised that I was approaching polytheism completely differently than the ancients did. they truly did live in a world full of gods and they did not require a relationship built over days, if not weeks or more, to approach a deity and ask for their aid.

as long as you followed the rules of reciprocity, you could approach any deity that was relevant to your situation because they were the best equipped to help you with your problem. now this is not true for all of the population all the time, there were definitely also for example, people devoted to one deity, but from my understanding, this seemed to be the general form that polytheism took in those ancient civilisations.

the influence of monotheism

I think another feature of online neo-paganism is this expansion of the major deities' domains which then removes the need to worship the smaller deities. now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for expanding the domains of deities, especially if this is done from a revivalist perspective in order to modernise them for the contemporary worshipper. but sometimes I feel like completely unrelated domains are added for the sake of convenience more than anything else, ie. so that someone can keep worshipping the same deity(ies) without approaching others.

this, in my opinion, goes against one of the core aspects of polytheism which is the idea that different gods rule over different domains and have power over them. following this idea, it would make very little sense to pray to Neptune during air travel as he has no influence over the skies. yet, I sometimes see the deities be treated more like monotheistic gods which are all-powerful and can influence anything in the world.

if this is your view of how the gods work, that's fine, but I feel like sometimes people accept it without questioning it much or thinking about their view of theology at all. after mulling this idea over for some time, I realised it made much more sense to approach those specific deities, even if they are much less known or minor because this fits into my beliefs about polytheism much better.

a poly-practice

so, how would a poly-polytheistic practice look like in the modern day? well, there are many ways to go about it but I will just share bits from my own experience.

what I have ended up doing is focusing on different deities as they become relevant in my life - I focused on worshipping Janus at the beginning of the year while also taking the time to pray to Fortuna in moment when I needed her aid. I then did some extra reading on Jupiter, but didn't forget to thank Mars every time I went to the gym. I no longer felt the pressure to have some sort of special "connection" to every deity or "feel their presence", just trusting that they are there and then catching glimpses of divinity in my daily life.

looking into which Roman festivals I wanted to celebrate also opened my perspectives to more deities I would not have otherwise worshipped on my own. like this, I feel like I am building an arsenal of deities I can turn to when I need and of course, it is also vital to remember that I can call on multiple ones at the same time, just like the Romans saw the gods aiding one another in their tasks.

I only have one altar, which is practical and thus quite minimalistic, but there is space for my prayer notebook as well as other supplies that I need for my rituals.

conclusion

of course, this kind of practice results in a much more "impersonal" relationship with the gods, but I never really felt the need to communicate with them directly or things like that, so it fits me well. I find comfort in imagining a world full of gods, who may only know me in passing but who look out for me nevertheless.

in the end, the goal of this post is not to change anyone's mind about how they worship, but to present an alternate perspective which you can learn from but also completely disregard. in the end I am just happy that you were interested enough to reach until the end of this post. thank you for reading!!