#Cultural Introduction

[japanese-logic-digest]

Five Everyday Things That Reveal Japan’s Unique Way of Thinking

You don’t need to visit a temple or study philosophy to experience Japanese logic. It’s everywhere—in lunchboxes, in small talk, even in the way people queue. This article introduces five simple things you might encounter in everyday Japanese life, each of which quietly expresses a deep way of thinking. 1. The Bento Box (弁当)More than just a packed lunch, the bento is a miniature exercise in…

[koscheys-skull]

Bullying, Mean, and Honest Truths About Spirituality

Under the cut is an honest and crude description based off of my own bias and opinion of new people joining Spiritual practises, the occult, or seeking magic and mysticism.

So you want to start practising the Occult.

You are drawn to the idea of Mysticism, Magic, the Occult, and “Witchcraft”. Let me say that again, but louder.

You.

Are Drawn.

To the IDEA Of Mysticism, Magic, the Occult and “Witchcraft.

A lot of people like the idea of pets.

Pets are fun! You get a cat or a dog and they hang around and you imagine yourself going for long walks or hikes with a canine companion, or sitting at home and enjoying the company of a furry feline. Maybe it isn’t a dog or a cat or a common household pet. Maybe you want a bird! They are fun, right?

You see people on the internet through videos on whatever platform you’re wasting your hours on. You fantasize about what you would do or have. You spend hours entertaining this fantasy while looking at everyone else’s lives and situations.

You are drawn to the idea of something.

And then you ignore the important detail that these things require work, time, and dedication.

The Occult is just like people and pets.

There’s more people that i know that should not have pets than people that I know are responsible pet owners.

This, for me, is the same with the occult. Only, if you choose to neglect the Occult practise you claim to be drawn to, there isn’t really a penalty like a vet bill or a dead creature that you were supposed to be responsible for, for your negligence.

“Oh, I’ll just pick a “class” like an RPG and I’ll roll with it.”

Will you though? Will you dedicate the time and energy to do research on the subject matter you claim to be interested in? And not only will you give it the time and energy to just begin with the research, but will you also put in the dedication to put it into practice?

Be realistic with yourself. What are you actually going to do? Are you capable of maintaining routines and managing yourself and keeping up with the demands of the occult? Or are you just whimsically interested in it because it sounds “cool” and you had some friends in school that played with some tarot cards so now you think you’re a witch.

Let’s pretend you do actually have the self control and discipline to dedicate yourself to a spiritual path and practise. Let’s pretend you have that kind of integrity (but let’s be honest, you and I both know that’s a load of wash.)

Most likely, you’re coming from an Abrahamic Background, aren’t you? In the least, you’ve spent a lot of your life surrounded by vaguely misshapen ideas of “some sort of binary system where there’s good and bad spirits” or something or another and demons might be a thing? You don’t really know. But you took a class once that talked about Greek and Roman gods or maybe the Norse and Celtic gods, so you know there’s Gods out there! So that’s a START! Let’s go!!!!!!!!

You can just pick a god and run with it, right? Like, who cares? Just pick what makes you go “Yeah that’s neat and cool. I’ll take this out for a spin.” and pretend that you’re somehow deeply connected to this being. You read something or another about this deity or this pantheon at some point or another (or something like that). Just google search and read the Wikipedia page and waste a few more hours on it till you’re a Reddixpert on it! You have everything you need and a few days later you throw down a candle and incense and you’re blown away by feeling a strong connection to this god! HOLY COW! It’s working?! Let’s face it, you’ve not been connected to anything at all in your self obsessed life for a long time. So you think it’s “Special” when you get an answer. It’s not.

Sorry, sugar. You’re not special. You’re not a little special little sugar plum fairy that is adored by the gods. Because, believe it or not, you have to build relationships. But not just that, you’ve just pulled a “White Person” move. Most likely, you didn’t consult with or have any discussions with practitioners of the ethnicity and belief system you are interested in. Nor did you research the culture and how the religious and spiritual beliefs of those people manifest. I would suggest you learned some or a little bit or even all of the language of the people that the religion belonged to, but let’s be honest again with one another, you don’t have that in you for sure. You chose to take a God from a Pantheon and chose to take it entirely out of context. Congratulations! You pulled a White Colonialism Move so good that you took it to a spiritual level!

What? You thought you could just pick whoever from wherever and just rip them out of their culture, place, language, and people and water it down till it suited you? What is this, Wicca?

It might be! If this sounds like your idea of fun, check out Wicca. They’re full of it. You have gods from across all seas (Except for some reason the Pacific? Not sure if it’s a weird Asian racism problem or if they’re just focusing on everything the British Empire stole from) being Shipped together like smutty fanfiction. It’s insane. Anubis and the Morrigan are having babies every year, I guess, and their child, who’s always a Son, is the next Cernunnos who is also Pan but also Hades and also is Thor every third life (or something, I don’t know I’m not Wiccan).

What, you didn’t think that you actually had to respect a culture and the people that a religion belongs to? What are you, a pilfering bandit? There’s a right way and a wrong way to do these things. But what’s important is that you have to be honest.

Yeah that’s a big word. “Honesty”.

How honest are you with yourself? How true are you to what you think you can achieve and accomplish? Are you really going to read all of those books and write notes and document things? Are you really going to make a whole entire lifestyle change that surrounds and accommodates the culture, belief systems, and structures of a culture’s religion and beliefs? Are you? Are you really? If you make the change, are you going to commit to the change? Or, in a few weeks or months are you going to revert right back to the way you’ve always lived your life?

Again. This is the difference between enjoying the idea of something versus actually doing the work. And that is what the occult is. It is work.

Work. Work. Work. Work. Work. It is putting you on the grindstone and making you both rethink, reshape, and re-evaluate your entire being. It is going to make you uncomfortable. It is going to challenge you. It is meant to help you grow and be better. And growth doesn’t happen when you’re being spoon fed off of a lace spoon. Your idea of what things are is going to be challenged.

That’s another word that has a tendency to throw people out of the Occult. Challenge.

If you’re new to the Occult, you’re going to have to learn a critical skill that, in my opinion, very few possess.

Everyone wants to be “right”. It sucks when you’re wrong. How well do you handle it when someone corrects you. Let’s be honest. It’s awkward. It’s embarrassing. Everyone wants to be right. YOUR PRIDE IS SENSITIVE DAMNIT!

You’re a sensitive snowflake and you need to be swaddled in soft cashmere and reassured that you’re perfect because of course you are, sugar-pie.

But we have to touch some grass and live in reality. Yeah, I know the occult feels like you’re indulging a fantasy, but it’s not. Spiritual practises and spiritual beliefs are real things that have real people of many different cultures and languages and walks of life. And these practises are not just little badges and stickers you can throw on a water bottle and make yourself feel like a “Validated Witchy Bitch, Baby! ‘Cause we’re Feminist and COOL.”

(And by the way, you are not “The Daughters of the Witches you Couldn’t Burn”. Get fucked, you uneducated slut.)

You are going to have to approach everything, and yes I mean everything, with the air of caution in your heart and mind that says “Maybe I do not know what I am talking about.”

This is almost impossible for some (haha just kidding it’s pretty much everyone. I’m guilty of failing at this sometimes myself), to approach everything that someone says with an air of “Maybe this person knows more than me.”

When you engage with other people and you give them the space to speak about a subject that they are educated in, always be open. You must be so open that you automatically assume that you know nothing about the subject that someone is going to educate you on. Assume you have no education at all. And then listen. Yeah, I said it. You have to listen.

Listening??? To someone else??? Telling you what’s what???? Are you kidding me? What is this, a Learning Experience?

Yes, Yes it is you poor summer child. It is a learning experience. And if you can’t be bothered to learn and to try and learn then you’re not going to make it.

And if you can’t be bothered to listen, to read, to do work, to give effort, and to re-evaluate yourself constantly, you are not going to make it.

So make the choice.

Commit. Or walk away.

No one is going to think poorly of you for admitting that you’re not cut out for this.

But everyone. Everyone you interact with that is a real practitioner with a real lifestyle that encompasses their spiritual practise (because, surprise! The spiritual and the Mundane are intertwined in a very close and intimate way for practitioners) will be able to sniff you out from a mile away and know that you’re not worth your own salt.

It’s okay to be “casual” in some circumstances. It’s okay to be “subtle” or to follow paths that are more accommodating to your needs. That’s fine. Don’t get me wrong. This is a high energy and very taxing experience. There are paths that are accommodating to your needs and your degree or spoons, your laziness, or your life conditions. (I’m inclusive, dammit. Some people are disabled. Some are just fucking lazy. Some are kids with a fantasy fetish. I don’t know. I don’t care. Figure out which you are and make choices like an adult).

But don’t go picking a path or integrate yourself to a spiritual lifestyle that has high demands or you cannot adhere to. Not only is it disrespectful to the culture, the people, and the beings involved. But it’s not good for yourself, either. You will not benefit from the experience. You won’t make it anywhere and you’ll be left constantly feeling like a failure because you cannot accommodate the demands of a lifestyle and belief system that has expectations that are outside of your parameters to accommodate.

But back to YOU! Because let’s be honest, this is mostly about YOU. Everything is mostly about you and yourself. That’s just how a massive amount of people think. Which isn’t wrong, don’t get me wrong. But you have to be Self Aware. (I know most of you are not self aware. Get over it). When you set yourself up with all these fantastical expectations and then nothing progressive and fantastic happens with your practise, it is mostly because you failed to follow through with your own work. Something happened along the way where you struggled for some reason or another and you didn’t have the discipline and the integrity to keep up with something. And that feeling sucks. You feel “Let Down” by the Occult. But you let yourself down. In some way shape or form, you let yourself down. Because everything is about you, this means you have to be responsible for YOU. Yeah. I said it. You have to be responsible for yourself. No one’s wiping your Spiritual Ass for you. You have to do your own work and wipe your own spiritual butthole, and that also means cleaning up your own spiritual messes and doing the spiritual work and dedicating the time and dedicating the energy and making the changes to your life you need to make and then committing to them. It’s all Change, baby! And if you can’t handle change, then you can’t handle commitment to the occult.

And that’s okay! If you can’t handle some things, then DON’T FUCKING DO THEM?????

Maybe step away from that. And yeah, it’s okay to “try” some things to a degree. But please. For the love of fuck, approach them with the respect, dignity, and understanding that they deserve. Always approach a practise (And 99% of all practises have roots in SOME sort of ethnic culture!) with the respect it deserves. Do your best to adhere to those cultures and their beliefs and be as strict as you can while accommodating those traditions. They’re called “Traditions” for a reason. Treat them like they are sacred because they are. I shouldn’t have to explain to people that “Traditions of Spiritual Cultures are Sacred”, yet this post is being made because, quite clearly, this is a common issue.

I’m not “Gatekeeping” anything by saying this. I’m telling you to explore as much as you can. But when you do so, don’t explore different spiritual practises and traditions like the tourists that make the locals want to commit a homicide. Which is how so many people getting into the occult treat Traditions they are exploring.

You want to be a good and a welcome guest. You can’t just trample whatever you feel like because you’re too self centred with your selfie stick in Greece to be aware that you’re disrupting people trying to live their daily lives. The locals should want you. Try to connect to the people and their language and culture. Don’t just stand in their ways and think their society should accommodate you because you’re visiting.

It is okay if something turns out that it isn’t for you. Be honest about it. Be respectful about it. Thank the people and the culture and those gods for their time for being Gracious Enough to Host you. And then move on. A little respect goes a long, long way.

The Occult and Spiritual practises opens the way for you to re-think everything that you believe and to apply new ideas, beliefs and principles to yourself to help you grow and explore yourself and your connection to people and places with deeper understanding.

Be honest.

Be open.

You have to grow. And if you are interested in the Occult, Spirituality and Mysticism, get ready because there’s going to be so many growing pains.

And if you can’t handle that,

Then why are you here?

[sovamurka]

J. C. Leyendecker's "Study for Butterfly Couple" (1923) // unused vinyl design for Arcane's "Pretend Like It's the First Time" episode title card // marble statue of Liang Shanbo & Zhu Yingtai, also known as "Butterfly Lovers" from the eponymous chinese legend

[counselorbanks]

𓐩 𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠 𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥 𓐩

⋆ 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝙱𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚜🦴

⋆ 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚗; 𝙱𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝

⋆ 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚎, 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚎

⋆ 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞: 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈⋆˙𓍊₊ ⊹˚

𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆♫

"ɪ'ᴅ ᴇᴀᴛ ᴀ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴍ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛᴇɴ ʙᴜᴄᴋꜱ 'ɴ ꜱᴇɴᴅ ᴀ ꜱɪɴɴᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ɢᴏᴅ ꜰᴏʀ ʟᴇꜱꜱ."

𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬/𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬🎻𝄞

𝙽𝚒𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚊

𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚕𝚕

𝙴𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚒𝚗

𝚃𝚎𝚍𝚍𝚢 𝙷𝚢𝚍𝚎

𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚕

𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍

𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜

𝙼𝚌𝙲𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚢

Ꮥ𝙥𝗲𝑐𝗶𝒇ｉ𝘤 Տ𝝾𝓷𝖌𝖘:

⋆ 𝙻𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚘𝚗 - 𝚁.𝙴.𝙼

⋆ 𝙳𝚞𝚖𝚋 - 𝙽𝚒𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚊

⋆ 𝙱𝚒𝚐𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝙰𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 - 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚜

⋆ 𝙲𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝙼𝚎 - 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚕𝚕

⋆ 𝚂𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝙱𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚍 - 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚗

⋆ 𝙵𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚃𝚛𝚎𝚎 - 𝙴𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚒𝚗

⋆ 𝙲𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚙 - 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍

⋆ 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚗𝚢 𝙱𝚘𝚢'𝚜 𝙱𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 - 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚕

⋆ 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝙱𝚎 𝚄𝚗𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 - 𝙽𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚢 𝙶𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚢 𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚝 𝙱𝚊𝚗𝚍

𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬🌾

𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎, 𝚌𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑, 𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚙, 𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚢, 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜, 𝚝𝚊𝚡𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚢, 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜, 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌, 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜, 𝚐𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 (𝙵𝙰𝙸𝚃𝙷, 𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝, 𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎, 𝚎𝚝𝚌.), 𝚝𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚜, 𝚂𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚗, 𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚜, 𝙶𝚘𝚍, 𝚓𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚛𝚢, 𝚎𝚝𝚌.

‎𐂐◯𓇋

𓄀

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬🦅

𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎, 𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊, 𝚣𝚘𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊, 𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚍𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚜, 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚜, 𝚎𝚝𝚌.

𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬:

𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌, 𝙼𝚒𝚍𝚠𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝙶𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚌, 𝚁𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕, 𝟾0'𝚜 𝚂𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝙲𝚊𝚖𝚙 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚛, 𝚁𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝙷𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛, 𝚅𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝙲𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎, 𝚎𝚝𝚌.

▄︻デ══━一

ɪ ᴅɪᴅ ᴛʜɪꜱ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴍʏ ᴡɪꜰᴇ ʜᴀꜱ ᴏɴᴇ

ɴᴏᴛᴇ: ꜰᴜᴄᴋ ʏᴏᴜ

[mayor-david-prentiss]

it's literally a crime henry didn't get pulled into dancing in the nomad camp quest ending

[angelsquared]

˚₊‧꒰ა sideblog of @afterschoolangel ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

╰⪼ random thoughts, photos, … that don’t match w my main blog .𖥔 ݁ ˖

.ᐟ.ᐟ all rules, warnings and DNI’s of my main apply here aswel .ᐟ.ᐟ

tags ༉‧₊˚.

𐔌 #mani’s bs ⟶ thoughts

𐔌 #mani’s lens ⟶ photos

𐔌 . . .

[pollsforattentionlovers]

Welcome to pollsforattentionlovers

I made this account for pplwNPD and/or HPD, narcissistic/histrionic traits/behaviours, and those who are questioning to send in asks AND vote on polls!

I made this because people like us need a space to express ourselves too.

Others are allowed to send in asks, but please keep in mind that the polls and confessions are reserved for the aforementioned demographics.

I also take requests.

No DNI! Please be civil!

Anons will go here!:

[rotten-lilies]

ᛝ ﺃ𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔬 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔱 ! 𓇢𓆸

⋆ ꪀ𝖆𝖒𝖊: Reizo

⋆ ꪖ𝖌𝖊: minor

⋆ 𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖉𝖆ꪗ: 08/29

⋆ i'm brazilian, i post in english even though my english is not that good so i'm sorry for any spelling mistakes (╥﹏╥)

⋆ i'm a jirai and my blog is too :P

⋆ i LOVE comments and asks, NEVER hesitate on sending me comments and asks!! (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

ᛝ 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖆𝖓𝖉 ꪻ𝖗��𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 ᭙𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 !

⋆ Self harm (i don't post pics, but i post about self harm)

⋆ Violence

⋆ Traumas

⋆ Suicidal ideation

⋆ Vents

⋆ I do complain A LOT about EVERYTHING

⋆ if i find more things on my blog that ppl should be aware about i'll put it here! (if you find smth i should put here too please tell me!)

ᛝ 𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝕯ꪀﺃ

⋆ Homophobics and Transphobics

⋆ Sexists

⋆ Lolicon/Shotacon

⋆ Nazis

⋆ Racists

⋆ Porn accs

⋆ Pedophiles

⋆ if i don't like you for some reason i'll just block you, but i barely do that

⋆ you can dm me, i don't mind and i love when people online interact with me! but i can be pretty boring on DMs and i don't send messages first oftenly but it's bcs i'm pretty anxious with talking to new people, so it might take me a while to interact properly, i'm really sorry abt that (＞ｍ＜)

⋆ i love reblog games, i'll be really happy if you tag me in a reblog game! but i may take a while to notice that i was tagged on it, or to remember that i did it but it was on my drafts, i'm sosososo sorry for it!!! (⁠⇀⁠‸⁠↼⁠‶⁠)

⋆ if you want me to answer any questions about myself or my blog that aren't in this post, feel free to ask! (>⩊<)

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: The ATF has questions about how some explosions on Greendale's campus tie into the local rumors of a cult led by Troy Barnes. The study group has answers. Sort of.

Author: @scioscribe

[socstudies]

୨⎯ studyblr reintroduction! ⎯୧

hello! i've decided to start posting on here for my last semester before i graduate from uni (what???) bc i always feel so motivated and inspired when im active in the studyblr community!

i've been away for like a year but i used to be superrr active here and on studygram when i was doing my gcses and ibdp!

𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 a b o u t m e𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

im from the uk

in july i'll be graduating with my degree in criminology and sociology !!

im doing my dissertation on the perception of public opinions on crime sentences in england/wales !

im super interested in social theory so i think a lot of my posts will be about that

my emotional support social theory is functionalism bc for a while in first year it was the only one i could both remember and understand lol

my favourite books are: wide sargasso sea, we have always lived in the castle, slouching towards bethlehem, cleopatra and frankenstein, on the run (gothman), twilight :)

my favourite tv shows/films: twilight, to all the boys i've loved before (all 3), fleabag, normal people, orange is the new black, gilmore girls, gossip girl, cmbyn,

i have noooo idea what im doing after i graduate but im trying to be okay with that / figure it out :)

some of my old posts that i loved:

10 things i loved about back to uni season

scared of bears ft aesthetic pics :)

[laceykouture]

about me

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Im 14 y/o ୨୧

you can call me mari or mimi !

๋࣭⭑ I live in PA, usa

my fav music artists are taylor swift, phoebe bridgers, ethel cain, lana del rey, ariana grande, gracie abrams

I love all things pink, fluttershy, hello kitty, poetry, frappuccinos, n scrolling on pinterest ♡

looking for new friends n ppl to talk to !!!

ʚ this is a girl blog ɞ

[666-s8ndevotee-666]

INTRO POST

hello! My name is Ripple and I am trans masc, Ace, autistic, a therian, furry, kemonomimi, and currently taken. I tend to over think a lot and spiral easily so keep that in mind if u want 2 talk 2 me.

My pronouns are he/they and neos

My favorite pokemon are: espeon, lucario, zorua and zoroark, lycanroc midnight form, skitty, espurr, and umbreon

My religions are: theistic satanism and hellenic polytheism

My favorite YouTubers are: jacksepticeye, poofesure, joinen, Peter knetter, Matt rose, avnj, mbh, and (slightly) markiplier

I like: warrior cats, madoka magica, serial experiments lain, texhnolyze, vulture culture (taxidermy, bones, ect) Watership down, cats, dobermans, pokemon, my religions, ponyo, sanrio (kuromi), heathers, plushies, and ONYX

I DONT like: loud noises, flashing lights, bright colors, yelling or loud noises, pushy christians (nice ones are fine), and mean ppl in general

My hobbies are: drawing, doom, scrolling, listening 2 music, talking 2 ppl, hanging out with my cats, hanging out at my altars, goofing off, and eating

My good qualities are: caring, creative, funny(?), kind, and optimistic

My bad qualities are: impatient, over thinks, lazy, and not good with words

Yayyyyyy i hope we can be friends !! Nice 2 meet u all, by bye

[toothfairyinc]

-ˋˏ✄┈┈intro post┈┈┈

-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈about me┈┈┈┈┈

call me teeth collector !

androg transmasc, he/they

i love making new moots please guys please

-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈interests┈┈┈┈┈

MUSIC!!!! - tom lehrer, nine inch nails, harley poe, the smashing pumpkins, fiona apple, ramones, hole, violent femmes, rancid, bad religion, dead kennedys, schoolyard heroes, the doors, the cramps, the dresden dolls, the dead milkmen, pixies, the kinks, third eye blind, KMFDM, misfits, the velvet underground, elliott smith, etcetera

shows - arrested development, malcolm in the middle, NUMB3RS, narcos, tear along the dotted line, the mandalorian, sweet tooth, ghosts

games - the last of us, i have no mouth and i must scream, DREDGE, red dead redemption 2, blood west, sunhaven, stardew valley,

other - bug pinning, wet specimens, bones, pretty much all animal and/or bug preservation, new to D&D, i love watching movies and short films, i LOVE reading, i collect clown dolls, cds and animal skulls, i love crafting literally anything.

-ˋˏ✄┈┈DNI┈┈┈

bigots, pro-ed, rightwing politics, proshippers, purely gore accounts—i don't mind if you post gore along with other stuff, just not if its the ONLY thing on your account or if its extreme, haters of whimsy

-ˋˏ✄┈┈ACCOUNT CONTENT WARNING┈┈┈

animal bones, bugs, me being a perverse freak, constant spam posting, talk about grown men, macabre themes

[neurodivergentshiftingcultureis]

໑ৎ♡ Get To Know The Account And The Creator ♡໑ৎ

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໑ৎ♡ About The Account ♡໑ৎ

This is an account for Neurodivergent Reality Shifters to send in asks specifically about what Neurodivergent Shifting Culture is to them, how they experience it, an example of it, and other similar topics to those things.

So, you would say: “Neurodivergent Shifting Culture is ____”

If anyone has any questions on what is allowed to be sent in, just leave a comment or send an ask to begin with, and I’ll let you know. <3

The list of regular anons will be here: 🔮🦐

Before you follow, interact, or send in asks, know that permashifters, respawners, and those who shift to a reality where they’re a different race or age (as long as you aren’t doing it for p3dophilic reasons, or visa versus) are very welcome on this page.

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໑ৎ♡ About The Creator ♡໑ৎ

I’m Rhysand (pronounced Reese-Sund), also known as Rhys (pronounced Reese). I’m a Neurodivergent, Queer, and Nonhuman Reality Shifter.

Neurodivergent Identity:

I’m undiagnosed AuDHD (Autism + ADHD), APD (Auditory Processing Disorder), SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder), ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder), and Pure O OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), medically recognized PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and SAD (Social Anxiety Disorder), and diagnosed MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) and GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). I’m also undiagnosed PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) and/or PME (Premenstrual Exacerbation).

I also have a few other undiagnosed things, like BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder), Misophonia, Excoriation Disorder, and Trichotillomania. Those are things that just come along with my “main” mental illnesses and neurodivergencies.

I don’t yet have the confidence to say that I’m disabled (because I don’t wish to intrude on that community or mislabel myself), but I probably am, due to my severe daily executive dysfunction and a few other things.

I have special interests in Wings Of Fire, Harry Potter, Dragons in general, and Neurodivergency.

I have no current hyperfixations, and I’m incredibly low on dopamine.

Tone tags are very appreciated when talking to me, so please use them! If you aren’t sure how, just ask and I will let you know! <3

Shifting Things:

I first found shifting in 2020 or 2021 on Tiktok, and as soon as I heard about it, I did my own research on it. I started trying to shift often, even with my lack of knowledge on the subject and my poor mindset. I originally wanted to permashift and/or respawn, but after I realized just how much it was effecting me mentally, I took a major break from it for about 3 or 4 years, only trying to shift occasionally.

I found shiftblr in early 2024, and my shifting knowledge increased, my mindset improved, and my motivation was renewed.

I’ve shifted once to a parallel reality, where I relived/redid a day.

I’m considering permashifting to my Better CR DR, but I have way too many DRs, so we’ll see how that goes.

Queer Identity:

I’m very queer in the gender, NOT a girl or under the womanhood category, and I use He/They pronouns + any/all neopronouns, nounself pronouns, xenopronouns, and emojiself pronouns.

My most preferred pronouns are He/Him, It/Its, Xe/Xym, Ze/Zym, Ne/Nim, Ne/Nym, 🌙/🌙’s/🌙self, Moon/Moonself, Bug/Bugself, Bee/Beeself, and honestly a lot more. Go haywire, as long as it’s not She/Her, you’re all good.

I’m AroAce, Aromantic and Myrsexual (Neuroasexual, Nebulasexual, Requiesexual, Rosesexual, Merosexual, Placiosexual, Falsaesthsexual, Acorsexual, Apothisexual, Bellussexual, and Dreadsexual), and I’m Homoalterous, Omniqueerplatonic, Panexteramo, Pansensual, and Panaesthetic.

I’m a Lesboy and T4T-leaning.

I’m Ambiamorous and have no preference.

Please use masculine, neutral, creature, fey, dragon, wolf, and thing terms when referring to me.

Nonhuman Identity:

I’m a Polytherian, Otherkin, Otherlink, Otherfix, Otherhearted, and Fictionflicker. I fluctuate between Nonhuman and Human, sometimes one is stronger than the other one and visa versus, but always on some level both, but I mainly just say I’m nonhuman. I’m Transspecies and Voidpunk. I’ve only been awakened for a few months.

My theriotypes are Vancouver Coastal Sea Wolf, Red Fox, Nurse Shark, Snow Leopard, Norwegian Forest Cat, and Canada Lynx.

My kintypes are fictionkin (Dark Fey, Forest Type, from the Maleficent movies), dragonkin (SeaWing/SilkWing hybrid), dragonkin (Night-Light Fury Hybrid) and Raccoonkin.

My linktypes are Owl (Snowy or Barn) and Sable.

I’ve been Fictionflicker for Hylian and one of my OC species (Orphinki).

I have a Whale Shark Hearttype.

My Other Accounts:

@rhysandshiftingthespectrum - My account for Neurodivergent Shifters and my new main shifting account and main account overall

@toomuchdivergentformyneuro - My account for my Neurodivergency, Special Interests, and Hyperfixations

Other:

I’m taken by my lovely boyfriend ( @thesunnishboy ) and I’m not looking for any more partners.

I’m celiac, have a dairy intolerance, have pollen allergies, and a dust allergy, plus probably allergic to other shit, so woo for me. (Sarcasm.)

I’m a minor (16).

I’m Agnostic, a bit spiritual, and I’m very respectful of others’ religions.

I have one sibling (She/Her), and she has two accounts on here, although she isn’t that active.

I stand with Palestine.

I love answering asks of any and all kinds, so never be afraid to ask, you are not bothering me or being annoying or too much. <3

I’m pro non-offending p@raph!les and etc., who are in recovery/getting help.

I’m pro endogenic systems, mixed origin systems, non-traumagenic systems, etc.

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໑ৎ♡ DNI List ♡໑ৎ

Any queerphobes (including those against intersex, mspec lesbians and gays, lesboys, turigirls, gaybians, etc., just basically any contradictory label, radqueers, TERFs, and SWERFs), racists, sexists, proshippers, those who sexualize age-regressors and pet-regressors, ableists (including those who demonize personality disorders), those against physical alterhumans, those against furries, offending MAPs and P@raph!les + supporters, pro-ED, pro-SH, pro-SI, those who romanticize any sort of mental illness, neurodivergency, and/or disability, anti-shifters, those against permashifters, respawners, and race-changers, those against endogenic/non-traumagenic/etc. or mixed origins or unknown origins systems, those against Palestine, those who’s blogs are Christian or God/Jesus Christ themed heavy (nothing against y’all, just have trauma with it), those who directly send NSFW stuff towards me, those who can’t respect boundaries, JK Rowling supporters, and just about anybody else that makes me uncomfortable. I will block verrrry freely.

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[honeybadger-has-a-grimoire]

An Introduction to Arthurian Paganism

Hey, everyone! I’m back with another practice-related post. This time, we’re talking about Arthurian Paganism.

It should be noted that I am still researching and learning about the Arthurian Canon, and Tumblr’s #Arthuriana tag has been, unironically, extremely helpful. They have massive blog posts with links to copies of books that have been published and translated, abridged or unabridged, compilations and separate short stories, etc. which are becoming quite useful to me in my research. And for that, to the people who post and follow the Arthuriana tags, I say thank you. Your work—be it memes, academic compilations of sources, or artwork—has made this not only easier, but very fun.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about the Arthurian Pantheon, starting with what it exactly is at this point in my research and spirituality.

What is Arthurian Paganism and How did I get here?

The what and the how are where I want to start. Simply put, I think this is the easiest thing to understand before we go down the rabbit hole of me assigning correspondences, working with festivals, etc.

Plus, anyone, especially in the Western World, has some vague understanding of what the King Arthur story is about. This gives us some equal playing field for a good understanding of the jumping off point of my spiritual path with the Arthurian Pantheon.

So to begin, the Arthurian Pantheon is the characters of King Arthur Stories being honored as deities.

I stumbled across this accidentally when I was trying to worship the Lord and Lady of the Land. A lot of how envisioned these deities came across as King Arthur and Lady Morgan Le Fay—and I was quite intrigued and confused. I had done some honoring of Morgan Le Fay in the past, but not much, and yet could not shake the feeling that there was something here for me to explore.

And as a child, I was always in love with the King Arthur stories and retellings I came across.

It took me a few months to fully embrace, but, by the time Lunasdagh arrived, I began considering in earnest how to honor King Arthur and Lady Morgan within their respective mythos.

King Arthur Pendragon is a mythic King of Britain. While there’s no real historical evidence that states he was a real person, to my knowledge at time of writing, we can trace his story specifically back to Wales as a folk hero in the Mabinogion. Here Arthur is usually portrayed as a vaguely supernatural entity who helps other travelers on their quests.

One such notable one is of Arthur helping his cousin win the hand of a giantess in marriage, if I remember correctly.

His time as a Welsh folk hero is discussed, briefly, in the Mythillogical podcast’s episode on YouTube. The link can be found here.

This version of Arthur is quite different from what he will become, as he is a wanderer and has a lot more agency in these tales. King Arthur tends to lose a bit of focus and agency over the overarching story of Camelot as the Canon grows both in characters and gets codified over time.

This loss of agency or lack of focus, whichever you prefer to call it, reminds me quite a bit of the human life cycle. Arthur, as people add on to his legends starting with Geoffrey of Monmouth and his Welsh Counterparts going all the way up to the modern day, goes through the cycle of birth, childhood, young adulthood, adulthood, elder, death, and finally rebirth. He represents a very human experience—from making mistakes (sleeping with his sister Morgause and in a fit of regret and anger at what he did goes to try and drown every child born on May Day in order to not eventually die at the child’s hand) to just trying to be a genuinely good man and king (his attempts at trying to persuade his Knights and Lords to have Mercy on Queen Guinevere when she was falsely accused of murder and rightfully accused of adultery).

King Arthur is very human and that is necessary for a chief god of a pantheon that I believe in, because I could never get behind a perfect god or a supposed son of god who is meant to share a human experience to understand us better but yet simultaneously is meant to be perfect.

So King Arthur became a comfort as a chief god, even if I haven’t really worked with him yet.

I do say good morning to him every morning though, because I associate King Arthur with the sun.

I mainly got here through Lady Morgan Le Fay, though. She reached out to me about a year ago through a vision I had while working at my part time job. I saw myself following her through mists in an indigo cloak with silver embroidery. So I began to honor her the best I could—I even picked up the Mists of Avalon, and read it for a while, to get her perspective on Arthurian Canon. Then, as the stress of finding a full time job and then having two jobs all began to bubble up, I fell off.

(Which I will get back to the novel eventually. I’m going to be reading a lot of Arthurian books and romances for the foreseeable future.)

Recently, through the attempt at honoring the Lord and Lady of the Land, I found my way back to Lady Morgan. When I reach out to a goddess in divination, I ask for her. When I do my kitchen witchcraft, I do it in her name. When I think of making something for my craft, I think of making it for her.

I wanted to do this seriously and the best I can.

Doing so led to me realizing that it’s not just King Arthur and Lady Morgan who gained spiritual/magickal/etc. independent being status through the centuries of rewriting, retelling, and rediscovering the Arthurian tradition again and again. They all were alive in their own way. Entities in their own rights with their own domains and their own things to teach us, the characters of King Arthur’s stories are alive.

And I had that realization relatively recently. Just a bit before my “Sir Gawain Type of Day” post.

So that’s how I got here.

Now let’s talk about my recent experiences.

My Experiences with the Pantheon:

This section will be quite short as my experiences aren’t much in the grand scheme of things—and a few are a bit personal. The findings are rather few as of right now, but I am starting out and the Arthurian Pantheon as a whole requested that I focus on the research aspect first as a way to honor them before I do anything big like celebrate Sabbats and stuff.

Lady Morgan also reiterated this fact with me last week, and reminded me that I do need to practice patience with myself.

And I’m trying, promise.

For my experiences with the pantheon, I’ve mainly interacted with Lady Morgan. She helped me pass my excel certification exam which allowed me to get my current full time position, and I asked that of her because I thought I’d be quitting my part time job once I got a full time position. I would have more time for the craft, which I promised her that I would make. However, the current state of the economy, and the cost of living where I live specifically, required me to work both jobs in order to pay bills and save up for an apartment.

So, I never really kept up my end of the deal—despite trying to for a while.

Lady Morgan’s energy never seems to give much away about her emotions. I’ve only ever felt an ancient patience and kindness with her. Much like a dusty old library on a misty spring morning, Lady Morgan’s energy is that of learning the art of patience and being okay with waiting—leading you down the path at your own pace.

Her energy also is heavily linked to the moon, mists, and rainstorms from what I’ve found.

The moon is something that she always radiated to me. Lady Morgan guides the way through the night, providing light and guidance through moonlight and stars. The moon tends to show its phase in a very different way if I’ve just been speaking to Lady Morgan earlier that evening and the stars seem much brighter despite the light pollution.

In my limited dealings with Lady Morgan, I’ve also found that, if I did something she was particularly proud of, a morning mist greeted me the next day. I feel the most comfortable in the mists, especially in the morning, so I always appreciate that little treat.

Lord, or more accurately, King Arthur has a different energy that I am sometimes able to connect to in the mornings.

King Arthur’s energy to me is very much the sun. It’s bright and welcoming and even protective to an extent. He’s constant, strong, and reliable. I also associate him with stags, not only because of the whole White Stag search that may or may not have ruined his wedding to Queen Guinevere (depending on the version you’re reading), but also because deer are quite common where I live. Does are definitely more common than stags, yes, but the few times I see a Stag I just immediately think it’s King Arthur.

I think this association began with the Mists of Avalon. Especially when there’s a whole trial by deer that Arthur needs to go through in order to be accepted by the Tribes and it results in his son with Morgaine, Mordred.

Beyond that association, stags tend to be connected to nobility and dependability in our modern media symbolism shorthand, with the most prominent example coming to mind being Elijah Mikaelson from the Vampire Diaries extended universe. Elijah’s nicknamed the Noble Stag for being a Mikaelson the people can trust to keep his word to the letter. He usually acts as the consciousness of his brother, Klaus, and tries to put family above all else.

In my mind, King Arthur is much the same. His energy is that of a stag—a man who keeps his word, puts the people he loves before himself, and is a just king.

And, finally, I felt Sir Gawain’s energy once. I wrote a blog about it, just a small musing really. But to me Gawain’s energy is that of liminal tidings. His energy is soft and comforting as the wheel of the year turns and we shift from one season to the next. At Yuletide/Winter Solstice, he deals the blow to the Green Knight—which rings in the warmer half of the year. And at Litha/Summer Solstice, he faces the Green Knight once more to bring in the colder half of the year.

Possibly.

I think this may change as Sir Gawain is definitely a god of the seasons and their shifts, but I can’t tell if it’s Sir Gawain who rings in the different parts of the year, or if it’s King Arthur, or someone else I have yet to interact with, or no one in the pantheon at all.

But, for now, I will say it’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that ring in the colder and warmer halves of the year.

But that is the extent of my experiences with the Arthurian Pantheon thus far. I am reading up on them still, as a part of my research and way to honor them.

My Recent Findings on the Pantheon:

Through my research, as I currently read “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” as translated by Jessie Weston, I have found that King Arthur likes to hear stories of great feats from his knights and/or songs, or see a good game before he eats a feast, so that will be implemented during times I offer some food up to him. He also refuses to eat until everyone at court is sitting and served when hosting a grand feast, so if I invite people over I will try and do the same. King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table love to have feasts with dried meats and honey wine ( AKA mead ).

When I get my apartment, I will practice making honey wine for libations to the King and his Knights.

My time browsing the Arthuriana tag on Tumblr, and the abridged version of Le Morte d'Arthur read by Derek Jacobi, indicated that Sir Gawain loves apples. So when I honor Sir Gawain specifically, I’ll see if I can make apples ready for the occasion.

The abridged version of Le Morte d’Arthur previously mentioned also pointed two days that I specifically took note of: Arthur’s birthday, being around December 24th, and Arthur’s king making which was on Candlemas, February 2nd. So I will definitely be celebrating Candlemas, and King Arthur’s birthday, which falls during Yuletide.

The Mists of Avalon audiobook that I’m listening to on Spotify indicates that Lady Morgan is knowledgeable in herb lore and is gifted with the Sight. So any form of herbalism and divination could be considered devotional acts to Lady Morgan. Or working with the Fair Folk, as in that telling of Arthurian canon has Lady Morgan descended from the Fae Folk of the British Isles.

And that’s all I have at the moment research wise. I haven’t had time to sit down and finish “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” in order to move on to the next pieces of Arthuriana on the docket.

Conclusion:

As you can see, I don’t have much in the way of research or experiences yet. Really, this Introduction to the Arthurian Pantheon is just me trying to get my thoughts and early findings down on paper so I can continue forward.

I really can’t wait to learn about and from this very large and very diverse pantheon.

I’m not even sure if I’ll get to everyone—or if this counts as Celtic or Pop Culture paganism! I tag it as Celtic since these stories tend to be leaning more Celtic in nature and its birth in the British Isles.

But I hope you guys enjoyed this introduction into the pantheon and my experiences with it! I’ll make a more comprehensive and scholarly introduction when I have more time, knowledge, and experience under my belt with the pantheon if necessary. For now though, this is where I end the introduction post.

Until next time!

[seoulciology]

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name: ana pronouns: she/any mbti: esfj interests: pink, sociology, k-media languages: english, spanish, french, korean fav song: attitude - ive fav artists: njz, ive, jungkook

i've been interested in sociology since before i knew what it was, honestly. i've travelled a lot and love exploring other cultures so that definitely influences my interest. i listen to a lot of kpop and watch some kdramas, i also have explored korean true crime. my fascination with korean culture derives from those hobbies, and the fact it's a very different culture to what i'm used to.

i hope you enjoy seeing my opinion on little parts of korean culture, and feel free to correct/fact check me if i get any facts wrong (though i will try not to) also, i’m not here to start political discourse, i aim to provide sociological analysis. if you have a comment to make, make it civil.