#Supreme Identity

[turiyatitta]

A Spiritual Journey with Paramahamsa Vishwananda

Ever since September 3rd, 2019, there has been one figure that repeatedly stands out in my memories, the guiding light that has transformed my life – Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda.The journey began at Trinity St. Paul’s in Toronto. On that fateful day, I was fortunate enough to receive darshan from him. For those unfamiliar with this term, darshan is the divine sight – a soul-touching…

[jaybirdscoffee]

Because I’ve seen genuinely nobody talking about it, I wanted to make a post about United States vs. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court case that just had oral arguments made today. This case was brought forth by the ACLU, and asks whether discrimination against trans people can violate the Constitution, in response to Tennessee’s law banning gender affirming care for trans youth.

This is the most important trans rights case probably fucking ever, and though nothing was decided today, it doesn’t look good y’all. For anyone. In short, the Court is probably going to uphold Tennessee's ban on care for minors, but might absolutely destroy rules about sex-based discrimination. Several of the Republican justices "suggested creating a carveout from the ordinary constitutional rule restricting sex-based discrimination of all kinds." Chief Justice Roberts offered up the idea of allowing the government sweeping authority to engage in medical discrimination, and of course, Justices Kavanaugh, Alito, Barrett, and Thomas all indicated being in favor of that. The implications go beyond just trans people, here.

And not only does it look like the Supreme Court will uphold Tennessee's law, but this decision could open doors for the government to prevent adults from seeking gender affirming care, likely leaving it a states' rights situation. For many of us (trans people), this will likely end up being a matter of life or death. Red states have been trying to institute bans like this for years now, and the decision that may very well come down from the Supreme Court about Skrmetti will only embolden these efforts.

Please don't ignore this post. Please reblog it, spread it around, because I've seen dick about it on this website all day. Engage in local and state governments, form community, don't stick your head in the sand. If you're cis, you should reblog this. Trans issues effect you too, and if caring about other human beings isn't a reason enough for you to give a damn, they will eventually become your issues.

Educate yourselves, know your rights, and know what's happening in your communities. There are good things out there too. The arguments made in front of the court today were historic on multiple fronts. Chase Strangio, the lawyer for the ACLU, became the first known/openly trans person to argue in front of the Supreme Court. That's one hell of a historic first. I know the impulse right now is to turn away from news and politics, because it all seems painful, but that is the last thing we should be doing. Please stay vigilant, and stay hopeful.

[lucabyte]

have i ever voiced my like. opinion/prediction/conspiracy theory here that i think that someday in a pokemon sequel/legends/etc we're going to have some pre-existing mildly forgettable character show up a la grimsley in alola but theyre just going to be a different gender.

like . it might be in two years it might be in a decade but i swear. 100 to nil odds they are going to do this someday. because lets be real what the fuck else are they going to do with, like, Trevor.

[foggycakefart]

MY IPAD I DO ART ON BROKE SO I CANT DO DIGITAL ART, but whatever, danganronpa

idk what to draw anymore so like 😔😔😔

speech bubble translation cuz my handwriting kinda sucks:

kokichi: what if i hate queers like you

shuich (thought bubble)i: do i look like a lesbian?

[randomnameless]

Constance and House Nuvelle ramblings -

We know House Nuvelle started when Noa, after promising Seiros she won't pass her crest, went to a place near the Fangs of Fodlan, and apparently fucked sufficiently enough to create her own house.

(GG on that "do not pass on your crest" promise!)

Nuvelle people, according to Constance's Supreme support, don't marry in other houses to not bring their Noa crested blood to other families :

Saint Noa was apparently super duper good at "magic" and her descendants are also super duper good - let it be because of their crests or because they focus and research "magic" - happens what happens :

The Emperor appointed the leaders of House Nuvelle were "well versed" in magic, and muhritocracy happening, means they were appointed to important posts...

However, House Nuvelle cheered on Ionius after he terminated Hrym, and threw its lot with the Imperial household, effectively losing influence when Ionius was defanged :

JP version makes it more explicit that they were casted away from the "inner circle" of Imperial authority... but what is this inner circle? They weren't part of the great noble families, and given how Constance was set up to marry the crested heir of House Bartels (even if it would have implied Emile would leave House Bartels and his mama/sis to live with the Nuvelles, so what kind of benefit Baron Bartels would gain from this union?) but not, say, Ferdie or Linhardt, I wonder how close to the great noble families they were.

Or maybe we had some faction war going on, with House Vestra in the middle, like Ionius and his pals (the Nuvelles amongst others) vs the other noble families, and they were supposed to act as some sort of check and balances system to make sure the Emperor wouldn't be all powerful and ignore his nobles, but at the same time, the nobles wouldn't be able to run the country?

(But then Ionius did his thing, and everything fell apart)

Anyways, Nuvelle sided with Ionius, and lost the power struggle.

House Nuvelle was used as sacrificial pawn to stop Dagda'n'Brigid when they invaded the Empire - and in Nopes, we see the former Nuvelle territory was absorbed by Gerth.

However, what kind of bollocks decision was it to send scholars/mages to fend off against a joint army, when Leopold "my loincloth is a holy relic from Cichol himself" von Bergliez, famed and reknown general out there, leading the Imperial Army and Minister of War himself, was around?

Was it, like Constance suggests to Billy, a dick move made up to punish the Nuvelles from having joined Ionius, fueled by some resentment some Houses might have had - interestingly enough, in her Supreme support, Constance says it was something House Nuvelle brought upon itself by wanting to keep on preserving Noa's secret and ultimately not making any bonds or alliances with the other houses (which is, hilarious in hindsight, given how this support is supposed to be obtained in CF, aka, the route where you set to get rid of pointy ears for presumably lying about history - much like the Nuvelles did - and we're left to wonder that if Rhea opened up to more people, maybe, just like House Nuvelle, she would have had more allies to rely on in her direst time of need?).

Supreme Leader wonders if the Six great Houses, aka the ones who deposed Best Dad (tm) weren't the one to blame for House Nuvelle's destruction, given how she believes they were eager to see it fall !

But...

Gerth, a member of the Six Great Houses, feels like trash for what happened to Constance in their paralogue, and confesses he owes much to Constance and to her parents so much that he is willing to shit on his role as "Minister of Foreign Affair" and abandon a card he could use against the Church - aka hoarding Rhea's sibling's remains - to repay his debt to the Nuvelles.

Does he sound like someone who was eager to see House Nuvelle fall?

Still, the thing is House Nuvelle was supposed to defend Adrestia against the Dagda'n'Brigid invasion, they failed and their heads were killed, the House was disbanded and Constance ended up in Faerghus. So while we can wonder what the fuck Leopold "my major crest is a retcon" von Bergliez was doing with the Imperial Army while the Nuvelles died, well, they still died without any backup from the Imperial Army, aka, the largest army on the continent.

Should Constance have had some support or at least lines with Leopold in Nopes, or Caspar in both games? For sure, but hey, we can't have interesting things in those games, so enjoy your teatime I guess.

Of course, and this is a given whenever I write anything about Constance :

HC obsessed me read the "passed down something of great importance from our progenitor" as a ref to Sothis, the progenitor god - but thinking more rationally, the progenitor Constance is refering to isn't Sothis, but Noa, and the "something of great importance" is... her crest? No, that wouldn't end with her generation, dragon blood would pass on Constance's children and so on, so as long as her bloodline exists, the crest of Noa will.

But what if that "something of great importance" isn't just the crest, but Noa's talent, affinity and study of magic?

Lizard or not, Noa's magical prowesses were apparently sufficient enough to fool the Empire for generations - starting with the first (I'd say post Willy departure) but, like, those first guys most likely were taught magic by Macuil himself, so was Noa's magic as potent as his or something? Their crests - even if the devs would rather sell spoons and umbrellas than reveal what are the effects of crests in this verse in a watsonian sense - were confused!

So, Noa was a very powerful magician, and her descendants pursued the tradition of being scholars, Constance herself designs new spells!

However, too much honey for today means I'm pretty sure the devs meant "crest of Noa" as the "something of great importance" and not the love and tradition to research and develop magic, which would have been more interesting but w/c.

House Nuvelle is interestingly - for something hidden behind a paywall - the most developped House from Adrestia, and paints a pretty messy picture of what happens in the Empire, from its dawn (again, post Willy departure) to the events happening during the game.

[arrayoflightarchives]

Have religion as a queer person is so so difficult

My religion is so so personal to me but the moment I express my faith it immediately feels like I'm being a traitor to my community because I hold that faith - because of what that 'community' has done to MY community

Especially when religion is such a huge part of why my rights are being taken away

Why does it hurt to be who I am as a trans queer person and also as someone who believes in God

[soullessjack]

i think perhaps another layer of autism in jacks character is that he’s fine with being different, but is always upset to be treated or perceived differently.

[thepictoblr]

btw as an aside, trans men cant use any sort of 'gendered space' at all under the new uk supreme court ruling. Theyre not allowed to use womens or mens restrooms. This is explicitly stated as part of the ruling. The point is 'we dont want trans people existing in public' and that was the point from the start. We need to start beating these rich white bitches who have never interacted with gendered oppression in their lives to death with hammers.

[trothplighted]

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[ninjaaa-go]

why am I getting so emotional about a little plastic ghost??? morro seriously has such a grip on me it’s insane

[decayflux-protocol]

So... We just got called racist because we wanted to give genuine feedback to a creator we had been watching for months. We said that our comment can gladly be deleted, but we feel like they're just never "getting to the point," to which they responded that somehow that's the point and people should work on their whiteness rather than do black and white thinking. We also said it might be our autism, because our autism gives us this "I need a manual for everything"-thinking, and we do see things in black in white.

Suddenly, this creator goes off on us, makes four videos, clearly yelling at us, insulting us, telling us to fuck ourselves, and how it's not autism, it's our whiteness preventing us from truly seeing the bigger picture.

When we said that there are different autistic profiles, still staying calm, they only went on to yell at us how we're just excusing white behaviour.

Like. Bro? I hate to tell you this, but autistic illiteracy or autistic struggling to understand the "non-said things between the lines", especially when you're being incredibly condescending, is a thing...

They even blocked our fiancé when they tried telling them that, as a mixed race person, it's NOT their place to talk over marginalised groups and tell everybody how they're just "too white and oppressing" isn't exactly a good or nice thing to do if you really want to deconstruct WSC.

I'm literally so baffled. Telling me my disorders and legitimate science behind these disorders is just "oppressing whiteness." I can't.

[ghostisredacted]

hale really feels like he was made specifically for me. like what the fuck

[ofsavior]

nights like this making me look at Chifuyu like 🤔🌈❓

[zerachielamora]

My first dream of the year was Layers of Fear themed, so I replayed the original 2016 game tonight in honor of that

God I love this franchise

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When Birthright Isn’t Enough: The Harsh Lesson of Jermaine Thomas

The recent deportation of Jermaine Thomas from a U.S. military base casts a spotlight on the question of citizenship. It highlights the complex intersections surrounding his military base birth, citizenship rights, and eventual deportation. Jermaine Amani Thomas, a man born on a U.S. military base in Germany to an American serviceman, is a sobering reminder that the question of American…

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