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That polytheist mood when youâve never felt like you really belong to anyone or youâre actually welcome anywhere... and then you meet Hades. <3
do you ever look back at your relationship with someone on the internet and just think oh my god iâm so fucking glad i clicked follow they make my life so much better
Doing a look for a little Hades inspired thing and I am about it đ„đ„đ„
Where my wife? I thought I smelled flowers
Youâve done enough watering. Itâs time for you to be the garden for once.
âwhy bother writing bisexual characters if they just end up in a m/f relationshipâ
my dude
my guy
my pal
stop talking forever
Oh I have never reblogged faster in my life
Watching my bi friendsâ identities get erased when theyâre in m/f relationships makes me think itâs even MORE important to write bi characters in m/f relationships and then be REALLY BLATANT about the fact that one or both of them is bi.
I had a bi friend who was dating a girl and when he said anything about being bi she would laugh and say âthat doesnât matter cuz youâre with meâ. Never been so happy to hear a friend broke up with a partner
As a bi woman whoâs in a m/f relationship, whoâs favorite oc is a bi man in a m/f relationship. This is very important to me!
husband kissed me this morning and murmured âmlm/wlw solidarity[1]â which is frankly the entire point of bi folks of different genders ending up together
[1] pronounced mlem and wooloowoo
oh my god the Owl and the Pussycat were bi
Clout chasing keeps ruining communities. The witchcraft community is no different.Â
You shouldnât feel like you have to post readings every single day, pump out âcontentâ to be posted every hour on the hour, craft sigils until your hands are cramped, and record vlogs about your deity experience in order to have a place in the community and be ârelevant.â
Your altars and candles donât have to be âinsta-worthyâ in order to be potent tools of magic.
You donât need to spent thousands of dollars on the most trendy crystals to cast spells.
This is a spirituality, not a runway.
Just do you.
A friendly reminder that paganism has no place for TERFs and white supremacists đâđŒ
i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much
i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can't even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don't need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught... but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don't know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you're able. i'm not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber's "best" recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get
Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook
not comprehensive but heres some:
internet shaquille's basics but especially:
making rice
making scrambled eggs
making oatmeal
levels of cooking meat
using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)
food safety + a recipe to demonstrate
how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)
cooking techniques playlist
how to cut x
basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:
freezer meals,
weeknight meals,
kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &
kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)
basic knife skills
picking the right pan for each recipe
j. kenji lopez-alt's tips and tricks playlist
egg recipes
a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles
and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:
j. kenji lopez-alt (various)
marion's kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)
maangchi (korean)
future neighbor (mostly korean)
the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have "specialty" ingredients)
family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)
not another cooking show (various)
cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)
you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)
how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)
internet shaquille (various)
babish culinary universe (various)
i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part
also disclaimer: these are channels i watch and cuisines i most often cook with (save for YSAC and boris which i just find funny) - there are tons of cuisines that are missing completely but i donât cook with them much so i donât really know who to rec
again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics
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so I worship gods for about a year and I take my practice very seriously. but the more I learn about historical practice and ancient culture overall the more I feel that I'm not enough and will never be enough? It feels that worship in the past was so grandiose and people were so different? and I'm doomed to stay forever kind of second-class in the eyes of the gods in comparison to the worshippers from antiquity no matter how hard I'll work
It's an illusion. The same illusion, in fact, which occurs when people are exposed to social media and start comparing themselves to the image they see, whether this is about looks, success, or spiritual matters.
The comparison you make is extremely unfair to yourself. You are comparing your means - the one of a single person in the 21st century- to the ones of either a state or the elite.
The religion we read about and know is most often the one of the polis, that is, the State. It's a worship that is regulated, financed, and organized. When we know of the personal worship of an individual, it is most often the worship of a wealthy citizen, maybe even someone whose name was written in stone for their important financial contribution to a sacrifice or religious event.
For the several names that made it to us, there are thousands of nameless worshippers whose worship wasn't as grandiose. No one will remember Alexandros the farmer who sacrificed a bull once a year when he could afford it -when the harvest was good-. All those people who weren't kings, a lot of which weren't even citizens to the eyes of the polis still carried out their worship, at home, in the fields, on the sea, with their local community etc. They did so with their own means, no matter how small or how big.
The thousands of nameless people - second-class citizens to the eyes of the rulers, not the gods- who worshipped those same gods are closer to you than the loud minority we know about and whose opinions you are reading through the scarcity of our sources.
As much as I mildly despair about the functionality of Tumblr, Iâm forever grateful we donât have the creative interface of other social media platforms.Â
I keep seeing youtubers talking about how the new algorithm on their creative dash is so detrimental to their mental health, both in terms of how they feel about themselves as creators and the content they makeâdreading to find out their performance rating, regardless of whether they enjoyed it or not. And itâs the same across multiple other platforms, TickTock, Facebook, Instagram. Fuck, Iâve even seen people with business accounts complaining on Twitter.
And then thereâs Tumblr. Where sometimes you canât find your own posts even though you know you tagged it, time stamps are hidden in the ellipses at the top right hand corner of the post, your bread recipe keeps getting flagged as porn, too much punctuation causes asks not to send, and checking your activity feed causes the app to crash. You want to know your trending numbers? You want to know whatâs performing well? Fuck you, guess.
18k notes, and 99.999% of them are people finding out we have time stamps.
I donât think a lot of people understand that no matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something thatâs so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And youâll say âHuh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but youâre right,â and that doesnât mean you were âmorally toxicâ before, it means youâre a non-omniscient human capable of growth.
Also, some preferred terms for things will change and evolve, and terms we prefer now might eventually be considered gauche or even offensive, and that doesnât mean you were a bigot at the time for using them. It means we evolved as a society and chose new terminology to reflect that change.
Nobody is a fully formed realisation of progressivism that can predict all shifts and modes of thought. The world will always change, and hopefully you will, too
Good news: if youâre currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.
Iâm an ant biologist and Iâd like to point out that ants also spend a significant percentage of the time doing nothing.
Turns out sometimes the most evolutionary useful thing you can do is chill and not wear yourself to shreds, whether mammal or insect. It helps you deal with emergencies and adapt to change. Plus, you can act as living food storage!
That last part is probably more an ant thing than a human thing, but hey, live your dreams.
itâs also a bear thing, which absolutely explains me
Doing absolutely fuck-all is how antarctic sea sponges live to be over 10,000 years old, so live your best, longest, laziest life.
Remember lions? Fellow apex predators?
Yeah, they spend 16-20 hours of the day laying around, socializing, raising Cubs and napping.
The last 4-8 hours are spent hunting.
Wait wait, theyâre not a primate so they donât count.
How about Orangutans?
Well, they spend 90% of their time awake just hanging out in food-rich areas, eating fruit and leaves, socializing, raising children, and chilling.
Well, theyâre not people so it doesnât-
How about Stone Age people in Europe?
They probably worked 3-5 hours per day, every day. (Though seasonal changes in food scarcity could change that)
Laborers in ancient Egypt worked 8 hours, with an hour break at lunch. They did this for 8 days, then rested 2 days. That sounds familiar. Except⊠they also had regular time off for festivals and holidays, and only worked for about 18 out of every 50 days.
Artisans in imperial Rome generally worked from 6am to Noon, and then had the rest of the day off⊠and only worked for half the year, due to all the holidays and festivals they got off.
But thatâs too easy, what about a Peasant in medieval England?
6-8 hours per day, with Sundays off, Farm workers put in longer hours at harvest time but worked shorter days in winter when there are fewer hours of daylight. Economist Juliet Schor estimates that in the period following the Plague they worked no more than 150 days a year, due to the long holidays and many festivals.
Ugh, letâs go poorer. 17th century France. Starvation was afoot for the working poor!
During the reign of King Louis XIV, the workers of France had it tough, and hunger for the poorest was a fact of life. The typical working day was as much as 12 hours long, but two hours were set aside midday for lunch and perhaps an afternoon nap. Nevertheless, the Ancient Régime is said to have also guaranteed peasants, labourers and other workers a total of 52 Sundays, 90 rest days and 38 religious holidays off per year, meaning they worked just 185 out of 365 days.
So what changed?
The industrial revolution, baybe~~
New factory owners could work their employees to the bone due to a lack of regulation and abundance of cheap labour.
The typical factory worker in mid 19th-century England toiled away for a soul-destroying 16 hours a day, six days a week, 311 days per year!
THAT nightmare became the standard by which western society began to judge âwork-life balanceâ and anything gentler than the industrial factoryâs unfettered brutality is considered âsoftnessâ
(So many people died being mangled in those machines. Hair handkerchiefs went into style during American industrialization because working women would otherwise get their hair caught in the machines, and be either scalped or be bodily pulled inside to dieâŠ. But thatâs a horror for another time)
Americans in 2020 worked an average of 8.5 hours per day on weekdays, plus another 5 hours on weekends.
Taking out federal holidays and weekends, we work 262 days per year. Most of us get 5-9 sick days to take per year. (Yes, a fixed number, no matter how sick you really are), and usually either no paid vacation, or 7-15 days paid vacation, depending on seniority and the company. Unpaid vacation doesnât have a max, but taking it often risks you getting fired.
Even comparing against the poorest laborers in ancient history the current working structure for humans is, frankly, inhumane.
We are mammals. Let us rest. Let us celebrate holidays and attend festivals. Let us attend to our homes and families.
Even the ultra wealthy folks who got their heads chopped off gave us more time off than this!!!
Someone in the comments said something like âhumans are instinctively industrious and productive, as social creatures!â
Buddy, thatâs a lie fed to you by capitalism.
In our default state, we attend to our families yes, but we also party like hell, lounge around, and make fantastic works of art just to be proud of ourselves. We made beautiful things for the joy of creating them.
Stone Age humans may have spent a couple hours hunting and gathering, but DEFINITELY spent loads of time painting every available surface. Time and weather washed most of it away, but some places like Arizona and Colorado still preserve a few of the endless murals made by ancient hands.
Evidence shows that the ancient world was COVERED in paintings and etchings - just saturated with images of birds and beasts and humans, sunsets and cool weather. We invented mythologies and painted about them. We did something impressive, and painted about it. We taught our children how to paint and lifted them into our shoulders so they could mark the ceiling.
In our most base state, humans will work enough to survive, but our instincts demand we use all other time to create art. We want to communicate. To make connections.
âWorkingâ or âbeing productiveâ is not on that list.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
id: the original post shares a tweet reading, âreminder that you are an omnivore, a predator, and a pretty big one at that. You are not a bee or an ant. It is, in fact, normal for you to just want to lay around not producing anything. Youâre a mammal. Stop judging yourself for not being a hive insect.â / end id
you know how some parents do that toxic thing where they donât notice or reward kids for improving their behavior, but every screw-up gets remarked upon and used to inflict shame? so youâre stuck in that awful cycle where there are no rewards, only the inevitability of eventual punishment?
and how that makes it extremely hard to judge your own actions or grow into a better person, because thereâs no one to confirm that you actually are doing better, and are capable of improving, and are not doomed to forever be a terrible person incapable of growth?
ok so: I donât know how to explain to you that weâve built a social media culture that treats people the same way. with the same abusive cycle.
That sounds like cancel culture
I donât know what to call it anymore. people get heated about terms like âpurityâ or âcancelâ or âcall outâ culture, or canât seem to agree on a meaning. Iâm not talking about like. no longer supporting rich and powerful celebrities when their abusive actions come to light. Iâm not talking about holding people accountable, or warning people about active abusers. but I am seriously concerned about how we treat social media users once they get even a small amount of attention, even in small niche spaces.
I am concerned about this culture of combing through years of peopleâs social media accounts, looking for âproblematicâ shit theyâve done. I am concerned with the whole culture of using âcall outsâ as a tool to harass and ostracize users large and small. I am concerned about the malice we spread behind peopleâs backs, in screenshots and posts they arenât able to see. I am concerned with this culture of demanding apologies for things said years ago, things already outgrown and regretted, and of ignoring those apologies even while pilling on more censure. Iâm concerned about this whole culture of accusation and misinformation, where the most outrageous claims and holier-than-thou performances are rewarded with notes and views, even as facts are ignored and context removed. I am concerned about the lack of accountability, the way the accused is given no opportunity to defend themselves from the onslaught, the way their responses and explanations go ignored, the way any charge can be made at any time on any evidence, with no ability to appeal or exonerate. Iâm concerned about the way this culture targets minority users and turns their own communities against them. Iâm concerned about the actually harmful and predatory behavior that is lost in the bog, and how we have lost the ability to distinguish between shades of gray with any level of sanity. And I am concerned by the sheer number of people who fail to realize they are perpetuating bullying and harassment.
I am enormously concerned with the way people who are âcalled outâ are never forgiven, never allowed to make amends, never allowed to grow, how their efforts to learn and do better are ignored even while strangers callously repeat and reblog and retweet the same criticisms ad nauseam.
And I see this everywhere, happening to anyone. And yes, this applies to larger accounts and youtubers and âinfluencers,â and a bunch of content creators who may or may not be making a decent living off of their work, but who are certainly not ârich and powerful celebrities.â (Because apparently we spend so much time in online microcosms that yaâll canât tell the difference???) Christ, my blog isnât nearly as large as some people seem to think, itâs obscure by most measures, and still Iâve been the target of mass harassment for years. Iâve seen bad and watched others go through worse, seen users with far larger and far smaller followings driven off of this and other platformsâdriven off with a violence and bloodthirst that had nothing to do with making a community safer and everything to do with a toxic culture gone wrong. Fucking fix this already.
Abuse is still abuse when it happens online, when done by strangers, when done en masse. Now do BETTER.