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Dirt is sacred.
There is nothing wrong with leaving offerings on the naked earth.
When we die we are returned to the ground be it whole or as ash.
From the ground comes all our food, be it directly grown or eaten from to what else we eat.
There is nothing wrong with leaving offerings on leaves or stone, plates or trays but...
There is nothing wrong with laying them to the soil either.
The compost pile is as hallowed a hill as any shrine or shelf.
We're doing D&D today, so here's a little about whats up: (potential spoilers for Strahd)
We are Farmers (hummed fanfare)-- we're all Folk Hero background, made during a one-shot where a group of farmers teamed up to protect their town from invading wolves.
Our party:
M/@tinkerpunk: The DM who started the one shot and is leading us through Strahd.
Me: Taramak "Mack" Maurhan, a (stone) Goliath Rogue (arcane trickster)
Mom/@nephirnuit: Drip Drai, a Water Genasi and chronic stoner Rogue (Phantom)
Nonna/@ashmcsidhe: Chloe Burnbutt, a young Satyr Warlock (Arch Fey)
B/@dilutedheartbeat: Fawk Auff, a homebrew race Emukocra (emu variant of Aarakocra) and our resident Bard/conspiracy theorist (College of Whispers)
We currently going through Strahd and went to see Baba (Lysaga, but we didn't learn that), we clocked the raven feathers in the scarecrows and the ravens in the cages outside her house and knocked on the door whereupon Fawk shrieked (he doesn't make many other sounds than shrieks) "Avon calling!" and Baba came to greet us.
Mack introduced himself when they were invited in, as did Fawk and Drip, but Chloe spent time in the Fey Wild and knows about Hags and Witches and all of them so she just kept her mouth shut and Mack just called her "lil sister" which is his nickname for her.
We demonstrated makeup with the disguise kit and actually sold her one. Afterwards, Fawk let her know that birds aren't real. Artificial, make by artificers to mimic what we might imagine a flying animal would be. Also that they communicate wirelessly, meaning they don't need wires to use Message, and that the noises they make are just the servos. She bought it.
Mack went stealth and investigated for goodies, found a glowing gem and grabbed it up, passing it to Drip to hold onto (the look I got from my mother). Chloe talked with the ravens at some point and asked Mack to go back and unlock the cages because she was clearly going to kill them. So I went back, got a nat 20 plus the 4 for my slight of hand and got both cages, then ducked under the house as Baba burst out, screamed "HE WAS RIGHT!!!" at the empty cages and went back inside. I rolled good so many times during all of this, I only had one failing and it was perception, I think, which sucks, but if was a "Do I know this?" roll "No."
Having lunch right now and looking forward to getting back to it.
I do so love our little band of dumb farmers. đ
Chloe also never calls anyone in Barovia by their correct name if she can avoid it. She's been to the Feywild, She knows about the power of Names (her Patron is the Erlking.) Baba Lysol. đ§đ˝ââď¸ Count Strawed. đ§ââď¸
You get the idea. This is my little goat-girl, Chloe "Burnbutt" Staghollow, the Satyr foundling raised by Orcs, so she of course, is an Orc herself. Don't believe her? Ask any of her brothers. Art by @tinkerpunk
Favorite method of burial? And why?
For myself I will likely be cremated just because that is what my children want to do. Afterwards there will be a memorial service.
I think that funerals are for the living and that is the important thing with them. They are to help the family and friends share their love and grief together, which is think is healing for all.
The plan for the moms currently is that they will be cremated with some items we've already discussed in some length and then we will mix the ashes with cement and make stepping stones/memorial stones decorated with a raven and owl for @nephirnuit and a hare for @ashmcsidhe. The rest of the cremains will likely be in keepsake urns for if we move apart again.
I have very vivid images in my head of what I'd like done for the stones including styles, colors, composition, and what mediums we'll use to make the images (probably cut glass and stones).
Truth be told - I'm pretty sure they just want one able to walk all over us after we're gone. :p I love our evil spawn.
Just like a Nazi.
I had missed this piece of news earlier. :/
Like to charge reblog to cast
Not seeing the problem with that.
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Me while editing: *adds a sentence*
*finds nearly identical sentence in the next paragraph*
Mee, while editing my current WIP (and pretty much every other project I have!)
Some random camera shots from yesterday morning at Seattleâs Gasworks Park for the annual May Day Morris to dance up the sun. Got to see several old friends. I havenât been able to go the past few years, so it was nice. Pleasant day, not too cold, NOT raining, unlike many years!
Afterwards, breakfast with a couple of belovedâs coworkers who were also at the park, at Voula's Offshore Cafe instead of our customary Bethâs, for something differ. The Greek omelette looked amazing (and could feed three, easily), I had the Greek yoghurt with honey and walnuts with a surprise of fresh fruit â that wasnât mention in the menu description, and I wish it had been, as I *almost* ordered a side of fruit to go with it. As it was, it was more than I could eat!
I also observed the undocumented travelers. Should they be reported to CBP. I am almost certain they belong to a criminal faction. They look like Republicans.
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary pub
âŚNot good. (And not legal, if I read the situation correctly.) đĄ
I wonder how this will fare in the courts.
Dick remembered a word to say when people are yelling!! man, I wonder where he learned that...
He does get very upset when he learns it's bad to say,, Bruce isn't mad of course he thinks it's hilarious
It's all fun and games and laughing at BookTok until you can't get on AO3 anymore, as someone who likes both romance and fanfic.
Vote Blue if you want to be able to read what you want to!
"I'm an english lit major and all I did was turn my love of the written word into a completely indoctrinated judge of "worth" that I can use to mock other people like a complete jackass"
The fact the person being QT'd here is using their English major to claim some authority here is actually hilarious.
For that matter, Billy Shaking Speare has some of the most erotic pornography in the English Literature. Teen angst! Love sonnets!
And then thereâs that Geoff Chaucer bloke.
Canât wait for these folks to meet their Lord and Savior. May it be soon.
May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]
yes!!!!!!!!
Lots of well-intentioned (I hope) but extremely condescending comments in the notes like âmaybe donât film yourself doing crime.â Respectfully⌠This man knew what he was doing. He didnât just film himself, he invited media to film him. He did this to make his own statement, with his own voice, with his own face. He wanted himself and his actions to be visible.
Collin Kennedy died in 2018, just two years after this video was taken. What would anonymity have achieved for him in those last two years? Avoiding punishment? His whole point was that these parking fees are already a punishment on the sick.
Is public protest dangerous? Sure. Is it more dangerous than merely existing as a sick or disabled person navigating a hostile healthcare system? I think that is for every individual experiencing it to decide for themselves.
A Winnipeg man who filled a city parking meter with spray foam to protest the high cost of parking for sick people around hospitals has died
Collin Kennedy, 50, lived with multiple myeloma â a type of blood cancer â for 19 years.
He invited media to watch him fill a parking meter with spray foam to raise awareness about the high costs of parking for cancer patients and other sick people getting treatment. Video of Kennedy vandalizing the meter was widely shared on social media. It led to a Canada-wide petition to end the practice of charging for parking near hospitals.
He was a man who fought the only way he knew how, even if that meant taking matters into his own hands and disabling parking meters. He wasnât in the boardrooms or corridors of power, he was on the streets trying to make a difference. (CBC News, December 12, 2018)
⌠over the course of his treatment, Kennedy spent over $17,000 on parking fees outside of hospitals.
$17,000.
$17,000
$17,000 !!!!!
yeah i think he makes a good point here
Medical facilities should be mandated by law to provide parking for their patients.
Just wanted to mention that my fic "I'm in Love with P-chan?!" hit over 500 views this month. This is a huge milestone, one of many I plan to reach. Just thought I would share.
For those curious it's a Ranma 1/2 fanfic that pairs Ukyo and Ryoga. Basically, Ryoga needs a place to stay and Ukyo says she'll host him.
And a snippet of the beginning under the tag with a link to the fic at the bottom.
If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.
You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.
imma gonna reblog it, with some thoughts.
Iâm a US Navy veteran, of the âCold War era.â Vietnam was starting to unravel while I was in high school. In 1968, the My Lai massacre occurred, but the true details took a while to get out.
The massacre was originally reported as a battle against Viet Cong troops, and was covered up in initial investigations by the U.S. Army. The efforts of veteran Ronald Ridenhour and journalist Seymour Hersh broke the news of the massacre to the American public in November 1969, prompting global outrage and contributing to domestic opposition to involvement in the war.
Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., the leader of 1st Platoon in C Company, was convicted. He was found guilty of murdering 22 villagers and originally given a life sentence, but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after U.S. president Richard Nixon commuted his sentence.
The soldiers who followed Calleyâs orders were following unlawful orders, whether they were actually aware of that fact, or not. The âincidentâ was reported by a helicopter crew. Go read that for more details.
This next section is quoted from https://www.quantico.marines.mil/news/news-article-display/article/611510/the-difference-between-oath-of-office-oath-of-enlistment/
âIf the orders given that day had been lawful he could have faced court martial or even charges of treason under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The My Lai Massacre was not the first or the last time a military force would be misused or corrupted. This type of power abuse is what the UCMJ and Oath of Office were designed to prevent and also what allowed Thompson to do the right thing without punishment.
There is an important difference to understand when reading the Officers' Oath of Enlistment compared to the Oath of Office.
Both officers and enlisted service members swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, but in the Oath of Enlistment, service members swear they will âobey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over [them], according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.â
Officers do not include this in their Oath of Office.
Instead, they swear to support and defend the constitution and âwell and faithfully discharge the duties of [their] office.â
Why are the two oaths different and what does it mean that officers do not swear obedience to the president or higher ranking officers? This concept traces back to the intentions of the Founding Fathers who created our governing system with a separation of powers and series of checks and balances between the three branches. This ensures no single branch or person gains too much power and becomes corrupted. By swearing allegiance to a set of ideals and laws, our military is not bound by the orders of a single person, but are dedicated to the defense of the people and their way of life.
Despite disobeying orders and even threatening to open fire on American troops, Thompsonâs actions prevented further war crimes and defended the lives of noncombatants in Vietnam. This is the purpose behind the Oath of Office allowing for the disobedience to unlawful orders.
The obligation and responsibility to act against unlawful orders is not exclusive to officers. Article 90 of the UCMJ states that service members are only obligated to obey lawful orders. This gives authority to small unit leaders and even riflemen to use their judgment to serve honorably and disobey orders when they do not uphold the moral standards of our service. Not only does this act as a safeguard to corruption and abuse of power, but it also develops a sense of responsibility and leadership at all levels of command.â
Our Founding Fathers, despite their other flaws, had the foresight to enshrine certain safeguards in our Constitution, including a separation of powers, the three branches of our representative democracy: an Executive, a Legislative, and a Judicial branch, all co-equal, providing checks and balances for one another.
Itâs worked moderately well for ~250 years. The current occupants of the Executive branch are severely testing this balance, and it may fall to our military to uphold the Oaths to faithfully âsupport and defend the Constitution of the United Statesâ.
This veteran sincerely hopes the other two branches manage to hold on and prevent it from reaching that point. Iâve lived in places where the military did have to step in and âreplaceâ the existing government.
I think it's funny (read: not funny at all)
How all these white bubblegum hipster boho gypsy girls equate travelling with being a GypsyâŚ
when as a race and ethnicity we are actively denied the privilege to travel ANYWHERE. EVER.
We had our caravans confiscated and burned. We have had laws passed against us making it illegal to travel or stop anywhere. We are prevented from legally hitching or making camp by draconian laws written by white men. In many countries it is still illegal to be Romani. Weâre arrested, detained, deported⌠If we travel within the European Union, legally, obeying the 3 month rule, weâre still deported. If weâre citizens, weâre still deported.
But sure, you fucking âGypsiesâ go travel and camp and waltz around as you feel like it, claiming the very thing that you actively deny us.
The time prophet says: "It has happened before, it is happening now, it will surely happen again." [The television programme, Lexx] or, The United States of America under President Donald Trump, second term, 2025; ordering mass deportation, requiring "proper ducmentation of citizenship", threating imprisonment of citiens, limiting travel... True, not the save as what the Roma have endure ove the centuries, but recent enough in modern history that more people should be seeing the parallels. Too many are not, or if they do, they are complicit in the enactment of them. I cannot claim Roma culture, I was not raised within it, any more than I was with my Ashkenazi ancestry, nor my Mvskoke (Muscogee Creek). But I try to honor them each, in the ways that I can, espcially in my writing. One character in my series "Love and Secrets", Brooke, is the grandaughter of a Romni survivor of Birkenau, who when younger played up the G... word in her advertising as a "fortune teller" in New Orleans. (This is shortly before she meets the woman she eventually marries, Anna.) Her mother, when she found out about it, read her the riot act over it, and she apologized, saying she had been thinking more "Stevie Nicks* than Cher" (song references) and not not understood the implications, because she had not been raised in the culture. The grandmother, by the way, was from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia -- the original Bohemians -- and the Roma she was from, the Lalleri, were almost completely extermined during the Porrajmos, the âdevouringâ (a term that isn't without controvesy itself.)
The Roma do not speak often of the Porrajmos. Some, like Professor Ian Hancock, Director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, who is Roma, attribute this to the fact that the Roma âare traditionally not disposed to keeping alive the terrible memories from their historyânostalgia is a luxury for others.â [quote from Roma in the Holocaust] * (But even the Stevie Nicks' song isnt just being a "white bubblegum hipster boho gypsy girl..." "The song Gypsy isn't a real happy story. Gypsy is a lot about returning to San Francisco. And Gypsy was written when my best friend [Robin] died of Leukemia and uh ...about the fact that she wasn't going to see the rest of this: I still see your bright eyes, it was like she wasn't ...going to make it. And uh, I was like the lone gypsy ~ this was my best friend from when I was 15 and so I was a solo gypsy all of a sudden and it was very sad for me and that's sometimes when I write my very best songs. Robin had been on the road with Fleetwood Mac for five years. As my speech therapist and also management, an incredibly efficient helper. I still miss your bright eyes ~ that's why we don't do it on stage ~ it's because it's really too hard for me to sing. Lightening strikes maybe once, maybe twice... that means one time in your life you find a very good friend, and maybe if you're incredibly lucky, you might find a second. It all comes down to you, means but you have to look very hard. ~Stevie Nicks, video interview for Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits (1988)") You can find inspiration in some very dark places. As I'm writing the story of Brooke's grandparents, Anastazja and JĂłzef, the things that are keeping me in the light are the Shema, and the Ave Maria, and the recently departed Pope Francisâ Prayer to Mary, Salus Populi Romani, (during the coronavirus pandemic): O Mary, you always shine on our path as a sign of salvation and of hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who at the cross took part in Jesusâ pain, keeping your faith firm. You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need, and we are sure you will provide so that, as in Cana of Galilee, we may return to joy and to feasting after this time of trial. Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform to the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus, who has taken upon himself our sufferings and carried our sorrows to lead us, through the cross, to the joy of the resurrection. Amen. Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
And of course, I know that not all Romani are Catholic, or, for that matter Christian. I'm not, either, but that doesn't prevent me from using their prayers, because prayers, offered freely, without coercion or pretense, are powerful magic.
And I do belive in magic. Oh, and that "to do as we are told by Jesus"? What was that again?
Matthew 22: "[36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law? [37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Shouldn't be so dfficult, but it seems to be.
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