#figuring it out

[socialbutterfly19]

How each piece of the puzzle fits matters!!

[pinkbeetroot]

oh no im obsessed with aftg again 😫

[aquariumpacific]

We made a Community!

[serenityquest]

[amorelestrange]

I think a way I can explain my aroace-ness is like my preference for spicy food.

I want to TRY it

I IMAGINE myself eating it

I wish I could stand eating more of it

But when I eat it, I feel all hot in my mouth and spit it out

But there are spicy foods that I like but, ya know.. it's pretty god damn little

[chucklenutss]

some silly serj sketchies while i figure out how to draw him easier

featuring 1 daron and 1 me

[mooshymooshroom]

Im getting so tired of either feeling waaayyy too much or nothing at all.

[bramblywitch]

I want to have an interfaith practice of both Judaism and paganism, but I’m still trying to figure out how to combine them and when it comes to religious stuff, I generally gravitate towards Judaism more than paganism these days. 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

I was raised in an interfaith household (mostly Catholicism with some Judaism since I’m both ethnically & religiously Jewish on my mom’s side of the family). I have always had a deeper connection to Judaism even in childhood (my favorite holiday has always been Hanukkah, though I also enjoyed Christmas when I was a girl - I used to turn all the figures in Nativity scenes to face the baby Jesus figure and then I would steal and carry around the baby Jesus figure for some reason 😂).

I stopped believing in Catholicism when I was a teenager and so stopped going to church and reading my Bible. I also thought that Christianity was very hypocritical. I initially found paganism while I was in college after having seen the first MCU Thor movie a lot (I already knew of some mythology, mostly Greek, before this and at the time Marvel movies were my current Autistic special interest. Also, hilariously enough, I went to a Catholic college since it was the only college I had applied to! 😂) and after researching different religions to be sure of what I wanted my religious practice to be. I had wanted to get as far from Christianity as I could religiously, so I also avoided any other, for lack of a better word here, Abrahamic faiths, which sadly included Judaism despite my deep love and connection with that particular faith, because I was a teenager then and so that made sense to me at the time (and now that I think of this now, it might have also partly been from teenage rebellion as well). I even got a few tattoos of Norse runes for the gods (I don’t regret the tattoos because regardless of my religious practice, I am still generally interested in mythology).

Practicing paganism was fun and spiritually fulfilling for a long time until I tried to do way too much at one time and overwhelmed myself so I stopped practicing paganism around the start of the pandemic. I reconnected with Judaism at this point and loved it! I eventually reconnected with Christianity and so I tried to have an interfaith practice with Judaism & Christianity. It worked for a bit, but then I eventually tried just Christianity for a period of time and bought a Bible and a rosary again for the first time in years and it was nice for a while, but even then it still didn’t feel completely right for me since there were things in Christianity that didn’t make sense to me (original sin; Jesus being both human and the son of God and basically God all at the same time), so I stopped that, and donated my Bible & rosary (I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder & OCD, so I overthink things a lot).

I missed paganism though, so I tried again with practicing paganism which was working well for a while. I also missed practicing Judaism, so I decided to try again with an interfaith practice of both paganism and Judaism. This also worked for a little bit, but it was still kind of hard to combine them.

I eventually stopped and practiced only Judaism, but kept thinking about going back to paganism again. I’ve also been practicing witchcraft for several years as well, so I do still get paganism things for that.

I still think about trying again with having an interfaith paganism and Judaism practice, but I don’t want to overwhelm myself again, especially with the paganism. I would like to be more religious, but am unsure which religious practice to do: Judaism, paganism, or interfaith of both. As I said at the beginning of this post, nowadays I gravitate more towards Judaism than paganism and I feel that Judaism is more spiritually fulfilling for me personally. 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

[howtomakeyousee]

[snowspot]

prints hopefully in october 🐇😄😄

[beebopurr]

Posting this we should all do this I think

[socialbutterfly19]

And one day it clicks…..

[swifty-fox]

Turned 27 and my hair stopped being straight

[gennsoup]

To the angry girls, to the ones figuring it out: you are always enough

Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting (Dedication)

[nimayndolo]

Me & my five star sister posing with bags on a sled in our hometown park

Yana and I were taking a pic on the stairs, and these temporary brothers joined in

Looking cute at the Miu Miu party and feeling this bag more than I actually expected

Holding hands at Thanksgiving with my actual brother. He and I do these long holds where we either hold hands or hold each other for extended periods. Now that my aunt came over, she’s become his emotional support hand holder

My sister’s sister in law’s husband playing with her mother in law’s new puppy at Thanksgiving. This new puppy has behaviorally low reviews amongst some of their family members. Tea…

Me, J, & Kara at the beach

Me—a “coastal grandma purist,” in ACTUAL traditional coastal garb