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Side blog to leave random posts on that I can’t post on my other account + discourse

[thebellekeys]

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

[venusism]

does anyone have any radfem documentaries i can watch with my female family members? documentaries would be the best as thats what they like, i really want to introduce some of these ideas to them! if there are any resources compiled together already, please send them my way!!

[heart-ly-deactivated20230702]

https://youtu.be/MFaDHgXPbUg

[vgvulva]

- episode 3 looks at porn and the metoo movement

[sealwomyn]

Separatist Lesbrarian Post

As if my Goddess research book pile isn’t big enough.. I’ve decided to make a post of my work-in-progress separatist booklist; there’s essays, feminist sci-fi, lesbian novels, all-female societies, herstories, etc. Some I’ve read but most are TBR on the Storygraph. If any women know anything that would be a good fit, or praise or criticism of anything here, feel free to add suggestions.

Fiction:

Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein (only 11 pages and I love it so much)

The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart

Womonseed by Sunlight

Daughters of a Coral Dawn trilogy by Katherine V. Forrest

Return to Isis trilogy by Jean Stewart

Journey to Zelindar, Hadra Archives series by Diana Rivers

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (this one made me want to go to the all female planet so much!)

The Demeter Flower by Rochelle Singer

The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

A Door Into Ocean, Elysium series by Joan Slonczewski

*Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (I read this, cw for shameless racism)

Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light, and Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, by James Tiptree Jr. (pen name of Alice Sheldon)

When Women Were Warriors trilogy by Catherine M. Wilson (too many men in last book, some weird scenes but good otherwise, would reread)

*The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley (read this, overall liked it but for the love of Goddess check reviews for content warnings bc idek how to warn for this)

The Carhullan Army/Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall (read, off-putting scenes esp gross het scene but interesting other aspects)

Banner of Souls by Liz Williams, added by suggestion! This looks interesting.

Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen, thanks to @violetssunsets for the addition! unfortunately was warned about het content but also a society of warrior women.

Celaeno series by Jane Fletcher, thanks to @unified-multiversal-theory for the suggestion! Has an all-woman society so I need it in my life.

Herstory and Nonfiction:

Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana R. Shugar (got this recently and excited to read this herstory)

Lesbian Land by Joyce Cheney

Sinister Wisdom #98: Landykes of the South: Women’s Land Groups and Lesbian Communities in the South (have this, many listed are of the past)

La Luz Journal by Juana Maria Paz (actively seeking this one atm, racism and esp colonization issues wrt women’s spaces on occupied land are something I want to see addressed)

Country Lesbians: The Story of the Womanshare Collective by Sue Deevy, Nelly Kaufer, Dian Wagner, Carol Newhouse, and Billie Miracle. (Billie gave me a copy of this when I visited Womanshare a few years back)

Weeding at Dawn: A Lesbian Country Life by Hawk Madrone

Amazon Acres, You Beauty: Stories of Women’s Lands, Australia, edited by Sand Hall

Circles of Power: Shifting Dynamics in a Lesbian-Centered Community by La Verne Gagehabib and Barbara Summerhawk

For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope. (70 essays! I haven’t finished it but I’m trying)

Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life by Dianna Hunter

*Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States by Keridwen N Luis (language in synopsis seems to favor male invasion of Female Sovereign Space so my expectations are low)

If any women here have read any of these please let me know your thoughts! I don’t have anon on but I’ll redact asks if you want to write in anonymously, just say the word. Hoping to find more knowledgeable lesbrarians on our beloved hellsite than myself :)

[apricitystudies]

what i read in january 2022:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & labour

i, racist

why europe’s muslims are braced for france’s stint running the eu presidency

please stop putting hell money next to chinese dishes

the aboriginal tent embassy began with an umbrella and became a symbol of sovereignty (australia)

‘won’t take it any more’: south korea’s starbucks baristas rebel

black lives matter protests spark reminder of ‘deeply rooted’ racial injustice towards west papuans (indonesia)

gender & sexuality

how to write about trans people

modern action and superhero films fetishise the body, even as they desexualise it

victory in court for indigenous women raped during guatemala’s civil war

the redemption of the bad mother

poland has ‘blood on its hands’ after death of woman refused an abortion

politics, climate change, & covid

‘everyone asks about novak’ but mehdi has languished for nine years in australian immigration detention

behind the label: how the us stitched up the honduras garment industry

‘not a single afghan without trauma’: how endless cycles of conflict are shattering afghans

'milk tea alliance’ brews democracy online among young activists across asia

the uyghur chronicles: one by one, my friends were sent to the camps (china)

the battle for the future of the west (ukraine/us)

history, culture, & media

sunset boulevard at 70: we’re all norma desmond now

secrets of south korea’s house of horrors

‘the misfits,’ marilyn monroe’s final film, is bleak perfection

the marvel juggernaut: with great power comes zero responsibility

how to kill a god: the myth of captain cook shows how the heroes of empire will fall

[albertserra]

my trans/faggot reading list

The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halbertsam

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices by Toby Beauchamp

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

gay masculinities by peter nardi

Homosexuality in Cold War America : Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Robert J Corber

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets

nevada by imogen binnie

gender nihilism by alyson escalante + addendum

Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans: An Introduction 

Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement by  Jian Neo Chen

The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (various)

Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities Sadie E Hale and Tomás Ojeda

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by grace e lavery

delusions of gender by cordelia fine

a failed man by michael v smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

time is the thing a body moves through by T. Fleischmann

kai cheng thom’s writing

we want it all: an anthology of trans radical poetics

second skins: the body narratives of transsexuality by jay prossner

transgender warriors by leslie feinberg

the faggots and their friends between revolutions by larry mitchell

translating the queer: body politics and transnational conversations by hector dominguez ruvalcaba

captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex

we both laughed in pleasure: the selected diaries of lou sullivan

how we get free: black feminism and the combahee river collective

trans girl suicide museum by hannah baer

dagger: on butch women by lily burana

black queer studies: a critical anthology by e patrick johnson and mae g Henderson

queer sex by juno roche

black on both sides: a racial history of trans identities by C. Riley Snorton

transgender liberation by leslie feinberg

female masculinity by jack halberstam

transecology by douglas a vakoch

street transvestite action revolutionaries : survival, revolt, and queer antagonistic struggle (Sylvia Rivera , Marsha P. Johnson)

a body that is ultra body: in conversation with fred moten and elysia crampton

building an abolitionist trans and queer movement with everything we’ve got (morgan bassichis, alexander lee and dean spade, 2011)

feminism and the (trans)gender entrapment of gender nonconforming prisoners (julia oparah, 2012)

normal life: administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law (dean spade, 2015)

Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera by Việt Lê

detransition, baby by torrey peters

paul takes the form of a mortal girl by andrea lawlor

a failed man by michael v. smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

my new vagina wont make me happy by andrea long chu

sexing the body by Anne Fausto-Sterling

something that may shock and discredit you by danny lavery

the argonauts by maggie nelson

gender outlaws by kate bornstein

special mentions for articles ive read that were already very formative for me

Masquerading As the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic, William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film by Steven Cohan

The Production and Display of the Closet: Making Minnelli’s “Tea and Sympathy” by David Gerstner

huge thanks to @mypocketsnug who sent #20-40

this is not at all intended to be some kind of definitive resource as ive literally read none of these yet save for the two i mention at the bottom and im compiling this for my personal use, im only publishing this bc an anon asked me to! feel free to reblog and also recommend me more but keep this disclaimer in mind

[sealwomyn]

Separatist Lesbrarian Post

As if my Goddess research book pile isn’t big enough.. I’ve decided to make a post of my work-in-progress separatist booklist; there’s essays, feminist sci-fi, lesbian novels, all-female societies, herstories, etc. Some I’ve read but most are TBR on the Storygraph. If any women know anything that would be a good fit, or praise or criticism of anything here, feel free to add suggestions.

Fiction:

Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein (only 11 pages and I love it so much)

The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart

Womonseed by Sunlight

Daughters of a Coral Dawn trilogy by Katherine V. Forrest

Return to Isis trilogy by Jean Stewart

Journey to Zelindar, Hadra Archives series by Diana Rivers

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (this one made me want to go to the all female planet so much!)

The Demeter Flower by Rochelle Singer

The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

A Door Into Ocean, Elysium series by Joan Slonczewski

*Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (I read this, cw for shameless racism)

Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light, and Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, by James Tiptree Jr. (pen name of Alice Sheldon)

When Women Were Warriors trilogy by Catherine M. Wilson (too many men in last book, some weird scenes but good otherwise, would reread)

*The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley (read this, overall liked it but for the love of Goddess check reviews for content warnings bc idek how to warn for this)

The Carhullan Army/Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall (read, off-putting scenes esp gross het scene but interesting other aspects)

Banner of Souls by Liz Williams, added by suggestion! This looks interesting.

Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen, thanks to @violetssunsets for the addition! unfortunately was warned about het content but also a society of warrior women.

Celaeno series by Jane Fletcher, thanks to @unified-multiversal-theory for the suggestion! Has an all-woman society so I need it in my life.

Herstory and Nonfiction:

Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana R. Shugar (got this recently and excited to read this herstory)

Lesbian Land by Joyce Cheney

Sinister Wisdom #98: Landykes of the South: Women’s Land Groups and Lesbian Communities in the South (have this, many listed are of the past)

La Luz Journal by Juana Maria Paz (actively seeking this one atm, racism and esp colonization issues wrt women’s spaces on occupied land are something I want to see addressed)

Country Lesbians: The Story of the Womanshare Collective by Sue Deevy, Nelly Kaufer, Dian Wagner, Carol Newhouse, and Billie Miracle. (Billie gave me a copy of this when I visited Womanshare a few years back)

Weeding at Dawn: A Lesbian Country Life by Hawk Madrone

Amazon Acres, You Beauty: Stories of Women’s Lands, Australia, edited by Sand Hall

Circles of Power: Shifting Dynamics in a Lesbian-Centered Community by La Verne Gagehabib and Barbara Summerhawk

For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope. (70 essays! I haven’t finished it but I’m trying)

Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life by Dianna Hunter

*Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States by Keridwen N Luis (language in synopsis seems to favor male invasion of Female Sovereign Space so my expectations are low)

If any women here have read any of these please let me know your thoughts! I don’t have anon on but I’ll redact asks if you want to write in anonymously, just say the word. Hoping to find more knowledgeable lesbrarians on our beloved hellsite than myself :)

[somerabbitholes]

essays, mostly history

just a bunch of interesting writing that came up while studying, researching, working

Labour, Resistance, Protest

Debt, Time, and Extravagance — Prathama Banerjee

A Market for Aboriginality: Primitivism and Race Classification in the Indentured Labour Market of Colonial India — Kaushik Ghosh

Disciplining and Policing the ‘Criminals by Birth’, Part 1: The Making of a Colonial Stereotype — Sanjay Nigam | Part 2

Convicts and Coolies: Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century — Clare Anderson

The Fictions of Free Labour — Jairus Banaji

From Poverty to Slavery: Abolitionists, Overseers, and the Global Struggle for Labour in India — Christopher M. Florio 

Orientalism, Genealogy and the Writing of History — Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay

Perceptions of Protest — Ann Stoler

Working Class Protest in 19th Century India: Example of Railway Workers — Ian J. Kerr

Military Culture

Gosains, Rajputs and the British in Bundelkhand, c. 1800 — William R. Pinch

Warrior Ascetics in Indian History — David Lorenzen

Peasant Fighting in Early Modern North India — Dirk Kolff

The Company Army and Rural Society — Seema Alavi

Migration, Mobility, Diaspora

Local and International Trade and Traders in the Straits of Melaka Region — Kenneth R. Hall

The Indian Ocean as a Diasporic Space — Iain Walker, Martin Slama

On the Move: Circulating Labor in Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial India — Ian J. Kerr

The Globalised Dawoodi Bohras — Sifra Lentin

Irregular Indians in the UK: A Conflicted Issue, Part 1 — Sifra Lentin | Part 2

[radjoy]

I've just started the beauty myth, if you have any more recommendations of books on feminism i would love to hear it!

How are you enjoying it? Feel free to message me and we can chat about it!

Letters From A War Zone holds a special place in my heart for being my first radfem book, SCUM Manifesto for being my second. Read the SCUM manifesto once like "this is a powerful satire exposing how men talk about women, and have talked about women throughout all of history". and then read it once more like “this is the undisputed truth”.

Who Cooked The Last Supper? will CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!! transformative. visionary. will totally back up your misandry and also make you so so proud to be a woman aka the creators of all culture and innovation.

Delusions of Gender is really good at breaking down how children are socialized from birth to believe in gender differences, and was one of the books that got me interested in radical feminism in a sociology class.

A Womb of One's Own is a short at-home abortion guide that I think everyone should read, regardless of whether or not you're pregnant. Jane Doe imagines a world where women are in complete control of their reproductive power, and it's incredibly empowering to know how abortion works.

Ain't I A Woman is a book that I think is really important for white feminists to read to look at the pitfalls of the feminist movement and to see how we can make sure feminism is supporting all our sisters, plus has a lot of really good historical information on black feminists. A good jumping off point to learn about historical black feminists - I read this & did follow-up research while I still had access to a university library, and tragically did not save a lot of pdfs, but if you can, there were some amazing stories I learned about, like Elizabeth Kaye/Key.

Invisible Women for wonderful and insanity-inducing science about how our lives are put at risk from male-as-default attitudes.

It Is Obscene which is an essay, not a book, but I think Chimamanda's talent for succinct, potent writing really manages to drive the point home. I think radfems should read this so we know what we're dealing with - truthfully, some people have just figured out that the best way to bully people nowadays is to fake a concern for the most oppressed members of society, and anything they contribute towards ending misogyny/racism is not driven by compassion. Honestly all of Chimamanda’s work is wonderful.

[heavenlyyshecomes]

november reads

Why do we love to pathologise normal behaviour online?, james grieg, i-d

The rotting internet is a collective hallucination, jonathan zittrain, the atlantic

Searching for lost knowledge in the age of intelligent machines, adrienne lafrance, the atlantic

State of waiting, caitlin dwyer, longreads

In time I find strength, in time I get caught in the memories of food, hamnah khan, porridge magazine

What lies beneath: the secrets of France’s top serial killer expert, scott sayare, the guardian

Has self awareness gone too far in fiction?, katy waldman, the new yorker

The original cyborg: asian women and the machinations of power, kelly pau, bloodknife

The strange life and mysterious death of a virtuoso coder, brendan i. koerner, wired

Is bruce hay the most gullible man in cambridge?, kera bolonik, the cut

Why we're drawn into darkness, robert macfarlane interviewed by steve paulson, nautilus

The girl in the picture, nile capello, the atavist magazine

short fiction:

dark, warm heart, rich larson

a forest, or a tree, tegan moore

abraham's boys, joe hill

sleep, you black eyed pig, fall into a deep pit of ghosts, kirsty logan

[apricitystudies]

what i read in may 2022:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & labour

why is australia’s parliament so white?

the funk of poverty

navigating hollywood’s creative police state

my family’s failures took center stage in “everything everywhere all at once” (usa)

as an aboriginal woman, the aussie rite of passage of living in london feels different

modern horror is the perfect genre for capturing the black experience

gender & sexuality

britney spears was never in control: why did i ever believe a teen girl could hold all the power?

the matrix has always been a trans story

how have male public figures managed to completely evade society’s critiques of influencer culture?

roe attack betrays a medieval ignorance of ancient history (usa)

politics, climate crisis, & covid

the hinduisation of india is nearly complete

american exceptionalism: the poison that cannot protect its children from violent death

‘no bus would stop for me’: indonesia’s motorcycle taxi addresses mobility needs of the disabled

defunding the police could bring positive change in australia. these communities are showing the way

we got a covid vaccine in a year. why did a malaria vaccine take 35?

the ‘biloela family’ are going home – but what will labor do with thousands of other asylum seekers in limbo in australia?

history, culture, & media

greta gerwig and white feminism in film

the black panthers fed more hungry kids than the state of california

it’s time to talk about the colonisation of skincare ingredients

what we mean when we talk about nato

the film industry will stay racist and sexist until we drop period dramas

yes, you are a gamer even if you only play animal crossing

[radical-desiderium]

I feel like the most frustrating part about trans activists is how few of them will even acknowledge that gender IS a belief system. They don't even get it, they truly think that because they bought into it as truth, the rest of the world has to follow suit. But it's a belief system, it requires just as much faith as any religion. First you have to believe in the existence of souls separate from the body, then you have to believe those souls can be born into the "wrong" body, then you have to believe feelings of disconnect from your body can (and in many people's minds, must) be solved through physical alteration.

Like...these are all points of contention. Not everyone believes in souls in the first place; your "inner self" is not a tangible, measurable thing, there is no scientific support for souls. Even if you're not religious, believing in souls, and wondering how anyone else could possibly not believe in souls, is the influence of religious thinking. And even among those who believe in souls, not everyone will agree that you can be born with the "wrong" soul.

The thing about systems of belief is that not everyone will agree with yours in particular. Belief is a choice made out of faith, and as much as people hate to hear it, being trans is also a choice made out of faith. Because trans vs. cis is all based on personal identity, you choose to identify as trans when someone else in the same situation with the same dysphoric feelings may not choose to. What makes them so tangibly different? You choose to be part of the trans community, or you can choose not to.

Belief systems can often provide a sense of community, because broadcasting your belief system allows you to find other like-minded people and find support and connections. It's why many people are religious, not because they hold the teachings particularly close to their hearts, but because they feel like their support systems are intertwined with their religion. The religion reinforces itself the more you engage in the community in this way. You see the same thing with gender, people who buy into it form their identities around it and join communities based on shared identities and surround themselves with friends who also buy into gender. All this reinforces gender as a concept, and can also insulate opinions to the point that it becomes surprising/distressing to hear dissension or pushback against those beliefs when they are outside of those spaces. With systems of belief, there's also often the fear of ostracisization from their peers if they question or change their opinions out of sync with the group. Within the community, opinions shift because nothing is static but the goal with fitting in is to have your opinions shift with the group slowly over time.

A belief system can really matter to you. You can find meaning in it if you wish, you can even build it up to be something that you consider integral to your sense of self. It's your life and you can find meaning in that life wherever or however you want. But other people may not feel the same and no one should have any right to force their system of beliefs onto others. You have to accept that there is a wide variety of people on this earth with different thoughts and opinions, and disagreement does not necessarily mean hate. Sometimes disagreement just means you don't share the same belief system.

[rationalisms]

rec list on compulsory femininity/the beauty myth

text:

the beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women by naomi wolf

femininity and domination: studies in the phenomenology of oppression by sandra lee bartky (especially foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power)

race, beauty, and the tangled knot of a guilty pleasure by maxine leeds craig

objectification theory: toward understanding women’s lived experiences and mental health risks by barbara l. fredrickson

beauty work: individual and institutional rewards, the reproduction of gender, and questions of agency by samantha kwan and mary nell trautner

unbearable weight: feminism, western culture, and the body by susan bordo

wounded beauty: an exploratory essay on race, feminism, and the aesthetic question by anne anlin cheng

selling feminism, consuming femininity by amanda m. gengler

choosing to conform: the discursive complexities of choice in relation to feminine beauty practices by avelie stuart and ngaire donaghue

globalization and beauty: a historical and firm perspective by geoffrey jones

video:

sexy inc.: our children under influence (30 min. documentary)

the sexy lie (10 min. ted talk)

missrepresentation (full length documentary, available on netflix)

this is by no means a complete list of everything that’s been said on the topic but it’s a good place to get started for everyone who wants to educate themselves on it!

[awkward-sultana]

Anne Sexton, Suicide Note, The Complete Poems / Maud Hart Lovelace / Unknown / Unknown / Edgar Allan Poe / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Al Bernstein / Unknown / John Keats, To the Ladies who Saw Me Crowned /  Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Frederick Seidel, June, The Cosmos Trilogy / Unknown / L. M. Montgomery / Iris Murdoch, The Italian Girl / Unknown / Greg Sellers, haiku journal entry, 16 June 2019 / Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Scout Clementine / James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal

[lionfloss]

Lauterbrunnen–Mürren Mountain Railway Mürren, Switzerland

[radicalromanov]

Logical Fallacies in Trans Activism

No true Scotsman - “Trans women aren’t violent! Those trans women who committed violent crimes aren’t real trans women!”

Ad hominem - [completely ignores other person’s argument] “Go fix your eyebrows, you’re so ugly! You’re a bigoted idiotic bitch!”

Ad nauseam - “Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women.”

Circular argument - “A woman is anyone that identifies as a woman.”

Ad misericordiam - “Don’t you care about those innocent trans kids that are being murdered in the street? Don’t you care about the trans women that are being violently raped every day? Trans people are being killed, there is a trans genocide happening!”

Strawman: “I’ve never actually looked at a radical feminist blog, but I’m going to make posts about how they’re all violent misogynistic and racist bigots who believe that women belong in the kitchen!” 

Moral equivalence - “If you misgender a trans person, even by accident, you are as evil as Nazis and you are responsible for the deaths of trans people!” 

Ad baculum - “If you don’t completely and blindly support trans people, then you’re a TERF and we beat up TERFs.”

[jade-sierra-rose]

Apollo🌞🏹🎵🔮

Olympian god of music, poetry, art, prophecy, truth, archery, plague, healing, and the sun

🌞Invocation:

Apollo, radiant son

Of thundering zeus,

Far-seeing, Far-shooting,

Distant yet observing.

Shinning Apollo,

Your arrows pierce any shield,

Your keen eye finds each target

With unnerving aim

Apollo, wise one,

Your oracles force clear thought

Upon the desperate;

I praise and honor you.

Bright Apollo,

Patron of beauty and reason,

I pray to you, Grant me balance,

Grant me insight,

Grant me inspiration.

Father of Asklepios,

Keep all ill health from my home,

From my family.

Foreknowledge grant me as needed,

And with eyes

To see true, undeceived

By hope, by desire.

🌞Offerings:

Libations: sun water, milk, olive oil, herbal tea

Honey & honey cakes

Chocolate with orange or lemon flavors

Orange or lemon pastries

Lamb or goat meat

Fruits

Cheeses

Wheat

Breads

Golden objects(i.e. bowls, cups, flakes of gold, etc)

Bows & arrows(real or fake)

Images or art of the sun

All musical instruments

Wolf and/or dolphin art, pictures, or statues

Any images or art or statues of birds, especially crows & swans

Incense: frankincense & myrrh

Stones: amber, sunstone, yellow sapphires, yellow topaz,

Laurel tree branches and/or leaves

Valley Lily

Sunflowers

Aloe vera

Anise

Poetry, music, letters, and/or hymns you’ve written

Art you’ve made

Photos you’ve taken

Golden jewelry

Lgbtia+ flags(especially bi or pan since he’s described as having female & male lovers)

Divination items(tarot, oracle, pendulum, etc)

🌞21+ Offerings:

Wine diluted with pure water

🌞Devotional Acts:

Read/write poetry, hymns, letters,songs, etc

Sing to him

Take care of your mental health, remember to take your medicine if you have any

Try and/or practice archery and possibly even compete in archery competitions in his honor

Try different types of divination

Watch the sunrise

Go for a walk in the sunlight

Let more sunlight into your home

Learn a musical instrument or learn how to sing

Learn simple medical care like CPR

Read his myths, hymns, & poems

Learn about his lovers

Attend pride

Support LGBTIA+ rights

Honor Leto & Artemis

Pray to him often, for guidance, healing, good health, inspiration, prophecy, or truth

Support LGBTIA+ owned businesses

Support small time and/or local indie artists, writers, & musicians

Donate to medical charities

Help street medics at protests

Digital Devotions:

Make an E-shrine

Make a moodboard

Write blogs on archery, medicine, music, arts, writing

If you have a divination service you can dedicate it to him

Altar/shrine ideas

Include a lot of solar imagery, bow & arrow statues & imagery, yellow or orange candles, statues or art of him & his sacred animals(snakes, wolves, foxes, deer, dolphins, crows, hawks), his stones, herbal medicines, musical pieces, divination tools, snake imagery, lyre statues & depictions

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Honey Lavender Bread

submitted by @materiamystica​

½ cup Greek yoghurt ½ cup plain flour 1tsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt 1 tbsp dried lavender 1 tbsp honey 1 egg, beaten

The intent is to increase mental clarity and connection. To clear your spiritual and mental brain fog so that you can think and see more clearly again. To improve clarity of vision and connection to your heart’s desire. Lavender is employed to stimulate clarity and connection, cleansing, memory, passion, peace of mind, healing, love, passion and retention. With the honey for added sweetness and stickiness to make visions all the more sweet, and memories stick more permanently. Harvesting your own lavender can also be intended to honour Lammas, too!

1. Mix everything in a bowl and preheat the oven at 350 F. 2. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead adding more flour until it’s no longer sticky and has formed a nice stretchy bread dough. 3. Put into a floured loaf tin. 4. Brush top with egg wash. 5. Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes until a golden crust has formed and a skewer comes out clean. 6. Slice and enjoy!