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I recognize 4 of these and want to find all of them

TOP TEN WAYS TO BRING RUIN ON THYSELF IN YE OLD LEGENDS :tm:

Kill the giant evil monster thing that has been wrecking your king's castle. Conveniently forget that it has a mom.

Get aroused at the naked, flexing men competing in the Naked Men Flexing Contest. (Grand prize: Celery)

Be so good at karaoke that the Sun itself gets offended and rap battles you, before giving the judge sudden magic donkey ears and ruining your career.

Be so good at practical jokes that everyone you know gets offended and plays the hilarious prank of brutally slaughtering your teenage sons and tying you to a rock with their guts.

Be so good at weaving that Wisdom herself gets offended and has a weaving competition with you, before making it the only thing you are allowed to do for the rest of your life.

Be so good at running that two gods who hate each other decide not to kill you when you eat too much of your dinner, before forcing you to run in circles faster than the mountains can think.

Basically be so good at anything that a force of nature decides 'unacceptable' and subjects you to devastating humiliation or plain torture.

Put things in tunnels because you don't like them. It doesn't matter what this is, if it goes in a tunnel you are preordering dramatic irony and sudden painful death.

Be so bad at dying that when you finally do, the devil bets you all of his demons on a card game, which you win; then annoy Jesus so badly that he decides you are the one person for whom He can make an exception to the unconditional love clause. Subsequently exploit this glitch to become immortal and infinitely wealthy.

Give the homeless man who does your laundry more food than he asked for, causing him to subsequently laugh at your cow so hard that it never makes milk again.

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Subtle ways to honor Eos 🌅🌞

- Admire the sunset

- watch the sunset with your lover or partner

- wake up in time for the sunset

- love and embrace your partner or lover

- post or share photos of sunsets online

- bake or cook breakfast

- go for a morning walk

- create and follow a morning routine

- take time to mourn failed or broken romantic endeavors and relationships

- make and drink coffee

- set an alarm to wake up

- plant or pick morning glories

- touch or collect morning dew

- be kind to and admire grasshoppers

- cook with saffron (her sacred color)

- smell roses or make rose tea

- listen to the birds sing in the morning

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reblogging to look at later

✨ Subtle Deity Worship Master List ✨

Greek Deities:

Subtle Aphrodite Worship

Subtle Ares Worship

Subtle Apollo Worship

Subtle Artemis Worship

Subtle Athena Worship

Subtle Dionysus Worship

Subtle Eros Worship

Subtle Hephaestus Worship

Subtle Hermes Worship

Subtle Demeter Worship

Subtle Hera Worship

Subtle Zeus Worship

Subtle Circe Worship

Subtle Hestia Worship

Subtle Helios Worship

Subtle Persephone Worship

Subtle Poseidon Worship

Subtle Hekate Worship

Subtle Hygeia Worship

Subtle Nemesis Worship

Subtle Psyche Worship

Subtle Asklepios Worship

Subtle Haides Worship

Subtle Harpocrates Worship

Subtle Erebos Worship

Subtle Medea Worship

Subtle Tyche Worship

Subtle Lethe Worship

Subtle Selene Worship

Subtle Eris Worship

Subtle Themis Worship

Subtle Talos Worship

Subtle Thanatos Worship

Subtle Nyx Worship

Subtle Phobos & Deimos Worship

Subtle Pan Worship

Subtle Hypnos Worship

Subtle Charybdis Worship

Subtle Skylla Worship

Subtle Harmonia Worship

Subtle Galatea Worship

Subtle Hyacinthus Worship

Subtle Triton Worship

Norse Deities:

Subtle Sigyn Worship

Subtle Loki Worship

Subtle Baldr Worship

Subtle Freyr Worship

Subtle Odin Worship

Subtle Heimdallr Worship

Subtle Freyja Worship

Subtle Thorr Worship

Subtle Tyr Worship

Subtle Jormungandr Worship

Subtle Hel Worship

Subtle Sleipnir Worship

Subtle Idunna Worship - created by @soil-and-stanzas :)

Subtle Fenrir Worship

Subtle Frigga Worship

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This list will be updated as I make more posts! I will be making separate lists for these pantheons because I have too many links lol.

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I've been thinking about talking to people about stuff like this & had no idea how. Whenever I talk about these things & someone isn't willing to listen to what I have to say, I tend to get angry easily. I want to be able to have two-way conversations with people where we can both influence each other's opinions & viewpoints, but it's hard when one or both of us are diametrically opposed to the other.

This puts things into perspective. If I get activated by talking to someone with vastly different views to me, then I'm not going to get anywhere. The same is true if they become activated by talking to me. Talking with people who are closer to my perspective makes sense. (You don't send a player who's at level 3 to fight a level 17 mob after all.)

Activism is not cold-calling.

Activism is not cold-calling, and this is critically important to understand.

I'm seeing a lot of posts on here about 'building bridges' and 'finding community,' and then (extremely valid) response posts saying "BUT HOW??" And I'm going to explain something that can be very counter-intuitive: there is strategy involved in community.

As a longtime volunteer labour organizer, I’ve taken and taught many trainings on the strategy of talking. Something that surprises a lot of people is the very first thing you do in a union campaign. You sit down with your organizing committee, take out pen and paper, and literally map it out. You draw a physical map of the workplace: where are the entrances, exits, break rooms, supervisor offices. Essentially, ‘where is it safe to have a union conversation.’ Then you draw another physical chart of your coworkers. You sort out who is union-friendly, openly hostile to unions, or somewhere in the middle, and then you plan out very deliberately and carefully who talks to whom and in what order.

Consider: If Vocally Leftist Jane walks up to Conservative David and says "hey what do you think about unions," David is going to shut down immediately. He's not inclined to listen to Jane. But if Jane talks to Moderate Jason and brings him into the fold, then Jason is a far more effective strategic choice to talk to David, and David may actually hear him out without an instant reaction.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: If Conservative David turns out to be Alt-Right David, and could be dangerous to follow organizers, we write him off. We are not trying to reach Alt-Right David. We are trying to reach Conservative David, who may actually be persuaded to find solidarity with other employees as fellow workers. Jason is a safe scout to find out which one he is. It does no one any good if Leftist Jane (or even Moderate Jane who is a visible minority) talks to Alt-Right David and puts herself on his radar. Not only has she done nothing to convince Alt-Right David to join a union - she's probably actively turned him against the idea - but now she's also in danger and the entire campaign is at risk. NOBODY WANTS THIS. Jane was NOT a hero for doing this. The organizing committee was foolish and enacted a terrible strategy to everyone's detriment.

Where you can make a difference is with people who will listen to you. You having a conversation with your well-meaning but clueless Centrist Democrat Auntie, and maybe gently helping her understand some things the media has been glossing over, is way more strategically useful than you marching up to MAGA Neighbour You've Met Once and trying to "build community" or "understand" them. They don't care. They're impervious, dangerous, and cruel. But maybe your beloved auntie will think about what you said, and then talk to her friend Anna who IDs as "fiscally conservative" but didn't vote because she can't bring herself to get on board with Trump. Then perhaps Anna talks to her brother Nic who has MAGA leanings but isn't all the way there yet. Proto-MAGA Nic would not have listened to you, nor would he have listened to Centrist Democrat Auntie, but he might absorb some of what his sister is saying.

This is not a cop-out or an echo chamber. This is you spending your time and energy strategically and safely. You are not a useful activist to anyone if you’re dead. Anyone who is telling you to hurl yourself directly at MAGA assholes like cannon fodder has no understanding of the strategy behind community building, and you should feel comfortable writing them off.

Last point: If you are tired, emotionally devastated, and/or in danger: take a break. This post is for people who would feel better jumping into action, not for people who are too overwhelmed to even think about it right now. You are worth so much even if you’re not actively Doing Activism, and your rest is worth more than “a break period so you can recharge and Do More Activism.” We all deserve the individual dignity of being worthy of comfort, rest & safety just on the basis of being human, outside of whatever we're doing for others' benefit. To deny ourselves that dignity is to devalue ourselves, and that’s the absolute last thing any of us should be doing right now.