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Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry

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This Vote Is Legally Binding

In response to all those articles about talking to women with headphones…

Someone always says it, whenever it comes up: “I guess I’m just not allowed to talk to anyone any more!” Well. Yes. It is my duty to inform you that we took a vote all us women and determined that you are not allowed to talk to anyone ever again. This vote is legally binding. Yes, of course, all women know each other, the way you always suspected. (Incidentally, so do Canadians. I’m just throwing that out there.) We went into the women’s room at the Applebee’s at the corner of 54 and all the others streamed in through the doors into that endless liminal space, a chain of humans stretching backward heavy skulled Neanderthal women laughing with New York socialites, Lucille Ball hand in hand with the Taung child. We sat around in the couches in the women’s room (I know you’ve always been suspicious of those couches) and chatted with each other in the secret female language that you always knew existed. Somebody set up a console– the Empress Wu is ruthless at Mario Kart and Cleopatra never learned to lose and a woman who ruled an empire that fell when the Sea People came and left no trace can use the blue shell like a surgical instrument. Eventually we took the vote. You had three defenders: your grandmother and your first-grade teacher and an Albanian nun who believes the best of everybody. Your mom abstained. It was duly recorded in the secret notebooks that have been kept under the couch in the Applebee’s since the beginning of recorded time. And then we went back to playing Mario Kart and Hoelun took off her bra and we didn’t think about you again except that I had to carry this message. So anyway good luck with that it’s just as you always said it was. Hush now, no talking

hush.

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About fascists making caring and having sympathy "cringe"

Punched me in the face when she had a literal Nazi quote for this

Abbiesr on instagram

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I’m just going to make this one post.

Heathenry, Norse paganism, Norse polytheism, norse witchcraft, and any other variation of Nordic paganism in all of its glory ARE NOT CLOSED PRACTICE.

You do not need to be Norwegian, Swedish Icelandic Scandinavian, whatever to be a Norse pagan.

The loudest group who tries to say otherwise, is the AFA a white supremacist organization. So possible food for thought, maybe you don’t want to agree with a white supremacist organization.

modern paganism is a new practice that has ancient inspiration, not origins. There is no aspects of neo, paganism/modern paganism that makes sense to call it a closed practice due to synchronization and other factors. We don’t know all of the details for how the ancient Norse people practiced their religion. What we do have written down is from a post Christian world.

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Brain, stop dwelling

I recently saw a trailer for a horror movie called "The Shaman." It is a exorcism/possession movie featuring white missionaries who are apparently squaring off against an Evil Indigenous Shaman (tm) after the missionaries' kid goes wandering into a cave with some kind of Really Bad Indigenous Thing. (Chances are good he was Told Not to Do That But Did Anyway.)

I am kind of really steamed about it! Even though I saw the damn trailer a week ago. Granted, racist, cultural appropriating, demonizing bullshit is an ingrained Thing with horror, but it still kind of annoys me! Every. Time. I see. It. (This is why I don't watch/read a lot of the horror genre. Well that, and I have a selectively weak stomach and I never know when the gore is going to be ignorable or result in me getting horribly sick.)

Now, I could be wrong. Maybe it turns out that the (extremely hostile in the trailer) indigenous elder is the good guy. Who is just cranky he has to save these idiot white Christians' idiot son from a demon. And the movie ends with shaman and missionary exorcist tag-teaming the demon. This is however SUPER NOT LIKELY FROM PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH THIS TYPE OF MOVIE.

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A cat I met in the woods yesterday

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baby javelinas….

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Dragons in Chinese culture are forces of good.

Dragons in The Journey to the West are forces of good but also invite demons - such as the Bull Demon King - to their underwater parties.

Cang Qiong Mountain Sect is a very important place and the fact that their peak lords have a tradition of ascending as one means that they are effectively a baby-god-producing factory and thus the peak lords and their heirs would get invited to parties because of diplomacy.

Mobei-Jun genuinely thinks he has been courting Airplane for a long time.

What I'm saying is Airplane is damned lucky to have never gotten caught at a party when he - according to CQMS - wasn't supposed to be there.

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Otra víctima el Chupacabra

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‘we live forever.

we are as old as the sky,

old as the moon.’

(junicorn day 01)

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smdmdm

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ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

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hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

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Kishan Empir: But Everything DOES Look Like a Nail Just a little meta post about Martha Wells' Harbors of the Sun. #fantasy #marthawells