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●~INFINITE COFFEE TIME HERE~● just a general pagan postdump alongside the deity aesthetics, my dreamlog, UPGs and dashomancy shenanigans. I'm an eclectic pagan with pop culture and heathenism combo cis female, 30+ ☆ feel free to follow/stalk me ;) ☆

[fatluka]

in a situationship with God.

[wakewithgiggli]

[torri2electricboogaloo]

i smell a trap

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[clearestbluest]

<3

[shining-bewear]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Star Wars - Japanese Menko card art (1977)

[liquidnight]

Gustave Doré

The Ailing Stag [Le Cerf Malade], 1867

From Doré’s Illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

hi. just a reminder

your feelings are real. even the small / messy ones.

you don’t have to explain your discomfort. or prove your pain.

if it hurt, it matters. if it happened, it counts. 

even if it was while holding a sandwich and no-one flinched.

love, someone who believes you

[theheidfox]

"There's a big difference between orgnized chaos and impulsivity vs. recklessness and foolery"

I feel like the biggest part of Loki devotees (especially younger ones) take his teachings of chaos as a wild card (pun intended) to just be reckless - and that's not what his chaos is about.

Hey, I get it ... We are young, we're free, the world is going to shit so why not?

Take it from me, I spent my 20s doing a lot of impulse driven shanenigans (and I'm pretty sure Loki saved my life more than a couple of times), so I get it.

But that's not chaos... that's just being young and dumb and lost.

Chaos is a creation force, it's what keeps us fighting and breathing and surviving, despite of it all. Chaos is order, and knowing that in every hurricane there is a point of stillness.

So, sure, be wild and have fun but remember to be ready and mindful.

Loki himself, chaos personified, always has plans and escapes. He is prepared (and he is... preparing from what I've seen, although I cannot see for what)

So be wild, but be smart.

Accept that you are part of chaos, but chaos is order.

Wait for nothing, hope for the best, but be prepared for everything.

That's his teachings, more than "fuck around and find out".

Survive and, above it all, thrive.

(hey, it's kinda hard for me to put into words the whole concept of my learning and trance visualizations, especially if you consider English is not my first language so feel free to ask about it, but be respectful and remember i'm just human)

[broomsick]

Scandinavian myths for children, Katya Anikina

[il9vemyputer]

everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her

[solowinged]

let’s travel through the vast unknown with mama

[cristalplanetheart]

[no-reference-georg]

Oouuuhhhhh you are not majestic but you are having so much fun

[asmrgaret]

"you caught me unawares" more adjectives should end in plural. you caught me undecideds

[selftrepanning]

where’s it’s friday like it fucking matters

[thecureinorange-deactivated2021]

[lonely-dog-song]

[thepumpkin-queenn]

[sierrawitch]

This may be a hot take for paganism at this current point in time (considering most things are now accepted with nary a question) but it is impossible to “godspouse”.

There are so many people “godspousing” the same deities, I honestly think it’s just infatuation and novelty with a bit of main character syndrome and/or lack of human interaction thrown into the mix. (Could it also be TikTok/short form influence, hmm?) Tbh I think claiming “godspouse” is disrespectful to deities period. We are not the same entities.

They can be your patron/guardian, but your spouse??? 😭 is it a semantics thing that people just aren’t following??

[varwlf]

I understand you are discussing paganism here but I'm going to divert to Christianity for just a moment, and then we'll return to arguments in regards to paganism.

Jesus is literally referred to as the "bridegroom of the soul" for nuns. There are many saints that have had ecstatic and erotic visions of Him. This does by the definition of the modern parlance fall under "godspousing".

Now let's look at classical mythology. How many human lovers did, say, Zeus take? Across pantheons gods have taken lovers not only amongst themselves but across species (Loki and the horse, anyone?). It is not outside of the realm of consideration that human lovers are therefore well within argument that this phenomena, while likely far more rare than actually claims to be, is still none the less fully possible.

Secondarily, there is an ABUNDANCE of folklore that supports the idea of spirit lovers and spouses, not only among the gods.

I highly recommend you take a look at the works of Ida Craddock if you want to learn more in regards to the more modern side of things (still late 19th century but still).

[cyber-corp]

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

[cyber-corp]

i know what i’m doing dw

[cyber-corp]

Keep in mind I only know like. Two Greek gods by name. Homer is one of them, and he was good friends with Odysseus I think?

[cyber-corp]

Wait fuck Homer isn’t a god he wrote the fucking thing. Fuck

[cyber-corp]

POST CANCELLED NO ONE LOOK

[cyber-corp]

desperately google searching for “greek gods to pray to when people notice your online idiocy”

[pluto-officially]

You're failing.

[cyber-corp]

You don’t think I know that, God of Death? Can I pray to you so I can DIE ALREADY

[communist-mannyfesto]

Pluto is Roman, not Greek

[cyber-corp]

?????

[enigma-system03]

Short version is that Pluto is a later name for the god of death, which is often associated with the Roman era/Roman mythology. Hades is the earlier name.

[cyber-corp]

I set up my own house made of sticks and it has promptly fallen on me

[cyber-corp]

HE’S NOT EVEN REAL?????*

[cyber-corp]

I made this post thinking I knew what kind of fire I was playing with. Hephaestus, God of Fire, looking upon me from his fuck off tower or whatever said “Oh you think you know? Check this shit” and promptly set my post ablaze for everyone to observe

[legionoftuna]

Hephaestus doesn't have a tower, he lived in a volcano

[cyber-corp]

FINE THEN. BIG FUCK OFF VOLCANO. WHATEVER

[cyber-corp]

wrong.

[pointless-achievements]

Achievement Unlocked:

Lightning Bait

You're basically doing the post equivalent of standing out in a field during a storm with a ten-foot copper pole, you better hope Zeus is busy hiding from Hera.

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASES ADDED!

lots and lots :)

[uredrunk]

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Shoutout to pop culture magic practitioners and witches and occultists.

Shoutout to pop culture pagans and polytheist.

Shoutout to the IRL magical girls.

Shoutout to selfshippers and self-inserts.

We may not be approaching the media we love in a "mainstream" way, but we're having fun, and that's the important part.