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Is the Cult of Salmon discord still open?

Hi yes sorry this is late! Find us on disboard by looking up “"cult of salmon” 

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Big reason why James Baxtor is one of the most beloved animators in modern times. Always and forever a big fan!

Thank you to the Steven Universe community for saying such positive things about this scene, we thought you might like to see the pencil test. These are the shots from “Change Your Mind” that I animated and that Kendra @bcakesbaxter tied down. Thank you Rebecca for letting us be a part of your beautiful show. Thanks to our Drew @poseidonsbitch for scanning it all.

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Terfs: How DARE you reduce women to our PARTS. Women arent just walking vaginas and periods! Motherhood isnt a requirement of our womanhood!!

Trans women: Hi 👋

Terfs: THOU POSSESSITH NOT THE POWER OF THE ~COOCHIE~!!! HAST *THOU* GONE THROUGH THE PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH?? DOS THOU KNOWETH THE BLOODSTAINED BURDEN OF THE ~*MOON CYCLE*~??? THE ORDER OF THE WOMB REJECTS THEE. BACK, FOUL IMPOSTER!!

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Absolutely tear apart “I’m being forced to marry this woman” jokes. I hate them so fucking much. Do you know how much of a let down it is to see the person you love and share so much with turn around and rag on you to your friends as “the ol’ ball and chain”? Imagine trusting and respecting someone so much that you’re willing to commit your life to a union with them, and meanwhile they’re talking about how their life could only get worse if they were married to you. Destroy the idea that a man’s life is best when he’s a player, and that his life is “over” once he allows a woman into it. Destroy the idea that all women are controlling, horrible bridezillas. How disenchanting it is to see so many people shit all over the love between two people.

Respect your fucking wife. If you can’t do that, don’t get married.

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Jewish and Muslim people go on Chopped and are made to cook with pork and they make it work, one vegan goes on and refuses to use any meat products he’s given and they have an all veggie episode for him.

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Pretend, for a moment, that you’re an 18-year-old teenager from a family living below the poverty line.  One day, you make a silly mistake and get a ticket for it. Nothing major - maybe you rode the subway without a ticket or smoked too close to the entrance of a building. Maybe you were loitering. Either way, one thing is for sure: you definitely don’t have the money to pay the ticket.  So you don’t.  Eventually, you miss the deadline to pay your ticket, and you get a letter in the mail that says you have to go to court. But your life is chaotic, and a court date for a missed ticket is the least of your concerns. Your family moves constantly, which disrupts your life and puts you behind in school. You have one disabled parent and one parent who is always working, leaving you to raise your younger siblings by yourself. You have no means of transportation. There is rarely any food in the cupboards. The utilities are constantly getting shut off. The week that you were supposed to go to court, your family gets another eviction notice, your cousin ends up in the hospital, and your parent finds out that their disability payments are being reduced.  So you miss your court date.  Since you missed the court date, you automatically lose your case - now you have no hope of arguing your way out of the ticket, which you still can’t afford to pay. You can do community service hours instead of paying, but you don’t have time to do that, now that you have to work part-time and odd jobs on top of everything else to keep your parents off the streets and your siblings out of foster care. You know that you probably won’t finish high school on time, let alone fulfill your hours. You might be able to explain your circumstances to the judge, but you have no idea how to go about doing that now that you’ve missed your court date, your literacy skills are years behind thanks to your constant game of school roulette, and even though legal help is available to you, you don’t know how to access it or if you can afford to do so. But that’s still the least of your concerns - since you missed your court date, the judge has also charged you with failure to appear. 

Which means you now have an active warrant out for your arrest.  And just like that, you’re now a part of the criminal justice system. A silly mistake that a middle-class teenager could have solved with Mommy and Daddy’s chequebook in a single afternoon has caused you weeks or months of stress and headaches over a process you don’t fully understand, and has ended in criminal charges. Instead of having a funny story to tell over dinner when you come home from college next Thanksgiving, you are now facing additional fines (that you still can’t pay), the possibility of a couple of nights in jail, the possible suspension of your driver’s license, and the possibility of being taken into custody any time you interact with the police. The next time your parent comes home drunk and violent, or someone breaks into the house, you think twice about calling the cops - you now have to decide if every emergency is “worth” the possibility of being hauled off to jail. And in the meantime, the circumstances that caused that first mistake haven’t gone away - you still don’t have the money to pay for the subway, you are still more likely to live in a house filled with smokers, you still can’t afford quit-smoking aids, you still live in a chaotic household that deeply affects your mental health, and you still don’t understand the legal system or who you’re supposed to talk to for information and resources. So while those other teenagers get to go through life believing that they were “good kids who sometimes made silly mistakes”, you now get to go through life thinking of yourself as a criminal. And that might be the most damaging thing of all. 

When I worked with homeless teenagers and young adults, I saw this process play out again and again and again and again. The kids often considered themselves “criminals” or “bad kids” because they had arrest warrants and criminal records, but few of them had ever actually committed a serious or violent crime - the vast majority were simply unlucky kids who did something stupid and didn’t have the skills or resources (or wealthy parents) required to get them off the hook. I had classmates in my upper-middle-class high school who did far worse things with far fewer consequences, because Mommy was a lawyer or Daddy was an RCMP officer, and some of those kids grew up to be lawyers or police officers themselves. The kids I worked with never got that opportunity. Second chances cost money, and the difference between a “crime” and a “mistake” has less to do with the offense, and more to do with the circumstances you were born into. 

So when we’re talking about crime, punishment and who is “worthy” of being helped, maybe keep that in mind.

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im very grateful for the lessons in photography i was taught in stop motion class because just now they made it possible to photograph the stars with my phone in spite of the camera usually not detecting the light of stars because theyre so dim,,,, enjoy these shiny motherfuckers

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filmed my boss firing me from my sales position

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today im glad i found out the person who did the “im gonna munch! im gonna crunch!” vine is a trans woman… i hope she has a nice day

https://twitter.com/LeftAtLondon/status/1079001153579343873

she’s also wanting to get a breast augmentation and you can help by streaming and purchasing her music to help cover the cost !

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[pixiv] [part 2]

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Resources for Male Victims of Abuse

How to Recognize Abuse

**Emotional Abuse of Men

**Sexual Assault of Men and Boys

**Men Can Be Victims of Abuse, Too

**Domestic Violence Against Men - Know the Signs

**Information for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

**Help for Battered Men

**Battered Men, Battered Husbands

**For Male Survivors of Rape and Sexual Abuse

**Male Survivors of Incest and Sexual Child Abuse

**Help for Men Who Are Being Abused

Help Lines (Phone and Text Chat)

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 (or 1-800-787-3224 for TTY)

National Dating Abuse Hotline: 1-866-331-9474

National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-237-8255

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men: 1-888-743-5754 (US and Canada)

Hopeline Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-784-2433

National Hotline for Victims of Crimes: 1-855-484-2846

National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888

Polaris Human Trafficking Text Line: Text “BEFREE” to 233733

**1in6/RAINN Chat for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Support Groups

**1in6 Support Groups

Male Survivor Support Groups

Pandora’s Aquarium - Chat (includes chats specifically for men)

Pandora’s Aquarium - Forums (includes forums specifically for men)

How to Find a Shelter

Domestic Shelters Search (shelter locator with filters to find shelters specifically for male survivors)

SAFE (located in Austin, TX, but states they can help people find resources/shelters in their area)

How to Find a Therapist

**Male Survivor Therapist Directory

Mental Health Services Locator

Resources for and About the Abuse of Kids/Teens

Love is Respect Hotline: 1-866-331-9474 (Hotline for teens)

Darkness to Light Helpline (Sexual Abuse): 1-866-367-5444

Darkness to Light Text Line: Text “LIGHT” to 741741

ChildHelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453

Children of the Night Hotline (Children in Prostitution): 1-800-551-1300

National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929

Covenant House Nineline (Homeless Youth): 1-800-999-9999

Stop it Now Hotline: 1-888-773-2362 (for adults concerned about the welfare of a child)

Jennifer Ann’s Group (for teens experiencing dating violence)

Other Resource Lists 

(While I tried to include the most helpful resources I could here (i.e., resources that lend themselves to one-on-one communication, individual reading, etc.), there are plenty of other great resources, including regional resources, listed in these links. Some of the resources are specific to men and others aren’t, but they are all helpful for male survivors.)

**Male Survivor (regional, international, and online resources)

**Husband Battering: Men and Domestic Violence

**Help for Battered Men: Online Resources

**Help for Battered Men: National and International Resources

**Help for Guys: Help for Victims (some resources for men, many general resources)

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Spencer from iCarly created the first ASMR video back in 2008

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This apparently happened late last year and I’ve only just heard about it and haven’t managed to find a tagged post on tumblr to reblog. This is horrendous. It was said he would and he has.

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You cannot under any circumstances divine the will of the Orisha in LukumÍ (Santeria, Regla de Ocha) through:

Tarot

Playing cards

“Throwing bones”

Smoke signals

Whatever other mess people are coming up with on Instagram to get divination clients.

The only ways to receive divination with the Orisha is through their sacred oracles:

Diloggun (specially prepared cowrie shells) from an initiated and trained Olorisha (Santero/Santera)

Opele from an initiated and trained Babalawo

Ikin from an initiated and trained Babalawo

Coconut from an initiated and trained Santero or Babalawo.

Each of those methods of divination (except coconuts) are only possible when you have been initiated because the very materials used to divine are made during your initiation. It then takes years of study to learn how to properly divine for others as it requires memorizing an oral tradition containing 256 signs, each of which could merit its own book, in thousands of combinations.

That’s it. No uninitiated person has the right or even the ability to divine with the Orisha for others, and we absolutely do not use tarot or anything other non-traditional oracle to speak to the Orisha.

Anyone trying to read the Orisha through other means is either knowingly scamming you or unfortunately very misinformed. You can ask literally any initiated member of this religion and we will all tell you that.

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To Safely See Demons in Dreams (15th Century CE)

This recipe comes from a compendium of spells, which you can read more about here (link). This is an amateur attempt at translating from German, so please correct me if I make any mistakes (2): 

If you want to make yourself invisible or want to see demons in a dream without them being able to do you any harm, go to the river where the water gushes, and take three smooth stones from there, put them in a new vessel, and pour water over them. Let this stand for nine days. Then take the stones, wrap them in canvas, and put them under the threshold near the doorpost. There they stay for three days. Afterwards, take them and hammer them until they are smashed to dust, put them back in the canvas they were in, hold them under your left loin and say three times:

“It may please you, Lord, my God, to send me the angels ‘Argi’el and Bargi’el and Gabri’el and Sandalfon, the prince of the forest, to watch over me in the hour I order [them to], that no creature sees me, be it with good or with malicious intent,”

and take this canvas with the stones and put the whole thing on smooth paper and write on the other side of the paper this figure (שר in a Shield of David, attached to a circle with רשי). Then throw everything into the fire and let it burn. This benefits with God’s help; tried and tested.

In Jewish lore, Gabriel is often portrayed as God’s instrument and messenger (and counterpart of Michael), while Sandalfon is an archangel prominent in Merkabah (”Chariot”) mysticism (1) (3).

The bibliography and original German text are below the cut (2).

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