Infinite Conflagration

The Fire Burning Your Soul

[twice-the-dreams-half-the-love]

This isn’t related towards a specific person or post but could we just… calm the fuck down?? All of us? I know, there’s always been negativity in the community - and it will probably stay that way, sadly.

But could we - no, could you. Yes you just… take a deep breath. And forget all those negative thoughts for a second. Forget that you’re sometimes doubt your identity. That’s normal and okay, this is about learning about yourself - maybe you are wrong, that’s possible. But it’s okay. It’s a journey. Stop thinking about it. Stop wasting your energy at those anti-kin - they don’t want to learn or listen to us, so they won’t. They are not worth your time and energy. Forget them.

Instead… If you have any memories think about the happiest one. Maybe let out a little bark. Or purr. Or chirp. Or growl. Listen to your heartbeat. Feel it. And let me tell you this:

You

Are

Who

You

Are

Whatever that may be, as long as your happy and don’t harm anyone it is perfect. Not everyone needs to believe you and you don’t have to prove anything about your identity to anyone.

Be who you want to be. Be who you are. You are real and you are perfect!

You are who you are for a reason even if you don’t know why. You don’t have to search for the answer - you can do if you want to but don’t feel like you need to. I think at the end we are here to be heroes. And it starts with the little things - make someone smile, pet your cat or dog today, be a good friend, help an animal.

I know, some of you were fearsome dragons, monsters and other creatures ones and you still are. You don’t need to save the world to be a hero - you just need to save yourself.

This seems a bit pointless, and it probably is… What I want to tell you is just… calm down. You are real and I believe in you. Maybe your human body feels like a cage but you are still who you are. Life isn’t always fair and beautiful - but you can make it a bit easier for someone.

I’m just a person from the internet and we don’t know each other but

Bare your teeth

Spread your wings

Go out there and fight this negativity with the most powerful weapon - love and kindness! You will never stand alone, at least I am your army.

[drehmos]

Amen. :)

[languagessi-deactivated20210423]

Chapter 1

マッネポ [mátnepo] - daughter ミチ [míci] - father ハポ [hápo] - mother タンペ [tánpe] - this プクサ [pukúsa] - Siberian onion ネ [ne] - to be, is (copula) ヤ [ya] - indicates a question (particle) ワ [wa] - indicates emphasis (particle) プクサキナ [pukúsakina] - Anemone flaccida ソモ [somó] - no, not スㇽク [súrku] - aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane アナㇰ [anak] - is (topic marker particle)   アシトマ [asitóma] - terrible, dreadful, terrifying, frightening ㇷ゚ [p] - thing ナ [na] - adds force or indicates command (particle) イテキ [itéki] - don’t ケレ [keré] - touch! ピㇼカノ [pírkano] - well パテㇰ [paték] - only, just ヌㇺケ [númke] - choose! select! エー [e] - yes (when told to do something)

[darkshadowcosplay]

At the weekend we finally managed to cosplay gaster and sans from handplates after a month of planning. It was more complicated to sew and edit everything than I thought but it was still a lot of fun.

Handplates belongs to : @zarla-s

Gaster: @darkshadowcosplay

Sans: ⬇️

Chanticosplay (@chanticosplay) • Instagram photos and videos

134 Followers, 77 Following, 70 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Chanticosplay (@chanticosplay)

[zarla-s]

oh wow, how cool :O

[drehmos]

Can't

I can't, I just don't have the words or the emotion or the energy

I can't ask for help, I can't say I'm not okay, I can't do anything about it I can't sleep I can't breathe I can't, I can't.

That's why this site is my safe place, you know. I can scream here and no one will hear me. I can scream and no one will help. I don't want help, I can't-.... It won't make sense to anyone else, but I can't want help.

So I come here and I scream into the emptiness. I have to 'speak', to let it out, but I can't let them hear me.

So I scream, and on the inside my teeth gnash and tear at me, and the darkness swallows me and I just keep going, the more I explain the less I have to feel, that's why I can't sleep you know, I can't try. I can't do it I can't stop or I'll have to feel and I can't do that right now I can't

I'm suffocating. I hold myself together by holding it all in and I'm drowning under the weight of it all. Depression is a bully, and I know it and I know what's happening but I'm tired of fighting

I don't want to fight anymore

So I curl up and let it kick me and beat me and taunt me and I slowly accept that it's right, always has been, always always always and I'm stuck in a loop all I want is always never always stupid always hurt always empty always always

There's nothing here and I'm spinning in circles, a dog chasing a tail that's been cut off, dizzy from blood loss and confused and hurt and unable to understand why I can't get any traction, but I'm also watching myself do this

Watching with pity and shame and hatred and disdain and sorrow and remorse and loathing

So I do nothing. I scream and I drown and I tear myself apart and I bully myself and I circle and I spiral and it will never end, even if it does.

You can't save me. If you save me, I'm doomed, but I can't explain why.

[zarla-s]

inno wanted something with the scenario where gaster chooses mercy and something with glowing green. A very nostalgic sound~

[index]

[drehmos]

Ow my heart

[mimiegomme]

fanart Night in the Woods.

[drehmos]

NOT THE SMARTEST DOGS doing DUMB THINGS - LAUGH at FUNNY DOGS compilation

These dogs will make you laugh super hard! Why? Because they are not the smartest dogs and what they do is hilarious! The hardest try not to laugh challenge!...

@zarla-s THE BLANKET MONSTER IS REAL!!!! I busted up laughing and immediately thought of vibrating skelly blanket monsters XD

[hgk477]

When driving at night

If you start to feel drowsy it’s best to find a motel and sleep. But keep your eyes down.

Before picking up a hitchhiker check to see if they’re wearing shoes.

Occasionally you’ll stumble across strange radio channels. Don’t listen to anything they say.

Disregard what might appear in your mirrors.

If your car is suddenly low on gas exit the vehicle immediately.

If you see someone trying to fix their car on the side of the road get out and help. But don’t ask any questions.

The contents of your trunk may vary.

If a strange fog suddenly rolls in turn on your air conditioner. It’s looking for warm objects.

You may hear strange things from your radio. Remember that you do not have a radio.

When ordering fast food always avoid the drive-through.

Sometimes people appear in your backseat. Make idle conversation and don’t antagonize them. They’re just wondering.

Focus on your lane.

Check through your phone camera if the traffic light has really turned green; spirits like to deceive you.

Never turn on the windshield wipers. Get out and clean the window manually if needed.

It is perfectly acceptable to sometimes take strange dirt roads claiming to be shortcuts. Enjoy those routes. They’re never there for long.

More guides

How to talk to the wind

Cool DIY Projects that aren’t Illegal Yet! 

[vagabond-sun]

@victiim-of-changes asked me to make a graphic for the therians whose experiences were a little less deep

because i love you, you can buy it on a shirt

[flock-of-changes]

You’re the best, and I love you. <3  Some therians write flowery metaphors and deep feelings about their animality.  Others are me. :V

[drehmos]

Sometimes my experiences are deep and beautiful.

And sometimes.... Not so much.

[crumbinmydad]

Kinphobia isn’t a thing get over it

Just gonna put it out there, kinphobia ain’t a thing. Otherkin are not oppressed, therefore kinphobia doesn’t exist. Stop making up words for oppression points. Nobody is going around systematically opressing 11 year olds who believe whole heartedly that they are stars. Oh otherkins, one day you will look back on this and laugh.

[canis-vampyrus]

We know we’re not oppressed. You need to understand that.

[crumbinmydad]

To that I direct you to the blog forgotten_genders which gave us this gem

[canis-vampyrus]

So you saw one post by one person (who, judging by the blog they run, isn’t a reliable source of information and is quite likely a troll) and assumed the rest of us think the same? You thought someone who lists their pronouns as emojis is someone to take seriously?

[drehmos]

One person's opinion does not define reality, nor the opinion of an entire group of people.

We are not oppressed.

Treated as weird, perhaps shamed a bit? Yeah, that happens, but that happens to ANYONE who is different. We're not oppressed, not at all.

[a-dragons-journal]

Alterhuman Survey

I’ve finally given up on improving it any more. It’s long, and maybe a little unorganized in places, and for that I apologize. But after a couple of rounds of beta editing, and several months of blood, sweat, and tears, I have a survey at last.

Link

The survey is a bit long, but most people probably won’t need to fill out most of it because it has sections for different alterhuman communities, so many sections will be skipped. I apologize for not making the section-skips automatic, but I don’t trust the section-skip mechanic Google has to work properly, so you’re just going to have to scroll and manually skip sections as necessary, unfortunately.

I’m hoping to get as many responses as possible, aiming for as near to a census of the alterhuman communities as I can. With as much data as I can get, hopefully I can gain and present you all with some helpful, or at least interesting, insights into the demographics of the alterhuman communities. To that end, I ask:

Please share this survey with as many alterhuman spaces and groups as you can and spread it as far as possible so as much data can be collected as possible! You don’t need to ask me permission to repost it on other websites; please do!

I will be completing a statistical analysis at some point in the future. The current plan is to close the survey and do this analysis in June of 2019, but if it seems I’m still getting a significant number of new responses in at that point, or if it seems like traffic has slowed down before we reach that point, that date may change. I will update y’all if and when that happens.

Thank you all so much for your patience and support!

[zarla-s]

A holiday request for Gaster with bonewings, haha. Scriabin should sue!

[holiday requests are closed]

[index]

[thecrackedamethyst]

I decided to make a tarot challenge for July! A little last minute I admit, but whatever.

When I read my cards, I will occasionally flip the deck over to look at the card that is on the bottom, as an answer to “why”. It’s an underlying reason for why I pulled the card that I did.

And that’s what this challenge is about: what is underneath. The answer to why.

For this challenge, I want you to pick a card how you normally would to answer the daily question. Then I want you to look at the bottom card on your deck and figure out why you answered the question the way you did.

For example. What makes you happy - The Empress. Creating new things is what makes me happy. Why - three of pentacles. It gives me something to work on and I get to work with other people and make things I would never have thought of otherwise.

This is challenge is open for tarot or oracle cards, or whatever you feel comfortable with! Have fun with it, dig deep, and hopefully learn something new about yourself. #tarotunderneath

[thecrackedamethyst]

My challenge from last July, if anyone was looking for something to do!

[wolfmoontarot]

[hedgehogsofasgard]

[goosygander]

@zarla-s So, I’ve been taking a chemistry class this year, and we were talking about the different names for the sections in atoms and

[drehmos]

XD dangit Gaster!

[dusky-phantom]

Do you know of any alternatives to a dream catcher? I had no idea that it was a part of someone's culture, I just thought people had them because they were neat.

i was going to have nice links and stuff but i was so depressed, however i didn’t just want to leave this!

so alternatives to dream catchers!

witches ladders. they are knot magic with added trinkets, usually feathers! while braiding or knotting just think of the intention of what you want out of it. an added bonus is the fact you can add things you associate with a goods nights sleep, or gems that offer magical properties of sleeping well, good dreams, nightmare reflection ect.

my favorite is satchels that can be made cheaply, filled with herbs and stones of your choice. when completed, put the satchel under a pillow or your bed!

similar to satchels are poppets, or a teddy bear works great for this if you have sewign skills. if you can make a small incision on the bottom of the bear (or stuffed animal/poppet) and while thinking on your intent put charged herbs and gems inside. then just close them right up adn sleep with the bear with you or near you.

if you like the looks of dream catchers to aid in helping you get better dreams i would suggest wreathes, you can add what ever decorations that match your aesthetic and practice, and it won’t be appropriation because its not from a closed religion

and this is a good sight that talks about a few stones that work well

source

[blackbearmagic]

Oooh, I like this post. This is a Good Post.

I actually (shamefully) have a dream catcher that I’m only holding onto because I like the look of it (and because it was a gift from my older sister, who I love dearly). 

I’ve wanted to take it down, because appropriation is Not Okay, but I wanted to put something in its place and didn’t know what. And now I know what.

I’m going to make myself a nice alternative and retire the dream catcher to storage (because I can’t bear to completely part with it, because treasured gift). So glad I found this post!

[fuzzyfishesandscaleymice-deacti]

Hey ok speaking as someone who has grown up in Cree culture and has spoken to elders about this- dream catchers are 100% ok for non-natives to use. They sell them to non-natives for the very reason they are ok with it and it’s not appropriation. That said you should aim to buy actual native made ones, not mass produced Chinese ones, but according to every elder I have asked, dream catchers are ok. Also re non natives making dream catchers for personal use- I have been told by elders this is fine. I was taught directly by elders myself who showed me how to cut willow and weave the sinew. I was teased by the younger natives for going to the work of doing it the hard traditional way when I could buy a hoop. Things like eagle feathers which are sacred obviously are a huge no, but dream catchers themselves are frequently given to outsiders and not considered by natives themselves to be part of a closed religion. I appreciate what you are trying to do here, but it’s probably better to let actual natives speak instead of talking over them about what is and isn’t appropriation to them. My family is a whole mix of cultures thanks to adoptions and even though I’m not Cree, half my family is, so it kind of bugs me seeing non natives making judgements without actually consulting anyone.

[blackbearmagic]

Oh, that’s a neat perspective! I’m glad you replied! Thank you. :3

(I still plan to retire this particular dream catcher to storage because I’m almost positive it’s one of the cheapo Chinese sweatshop ones…)

[greeniewitchering]

Hey!! A cree/Mi'kmaq gal here as well, dream catchers are 100% okay!! Again, just get them from native sources, even if that happens to be online- if they’re from a native source no sacred items that could be seen as cultural appropriation in the hands of a non-native will be included usually. The one thing about dream catchers is that you should! Not! Get them tattooed. As dream catchers are supposed to absorb negative energy and nightmares it is basically like cursing yourself, and that is never fun!

[thehoneybeewitch]

You can also make a dream-net/curtain. I’m not sure what the ‘origin’ of it is, but my grandma made them for new babies! 

[phoenyxoftheashes]

I asked a native neighbor about this a while back and he said the same thing: dream catchers are okay for non-native people to use BUT you should buy them from natives. Not the knockoffs you find from non-natives. Those people who sell the knockoffs are trying to make a profit off of native people’s culture, and that’s extremely uncool. He also said they’re not going to work, anyway…so just don’t buy them off of non-natives.

[serapphire]

100% agree. Dream catchers are okay, guys! Again, just get them from those who are actually Native as much as possible, because it helps them make a living and continue on their traditions!

Here are some Native-run businesses:

AuthenticNativeMade (Moccasins) mlprintup (Jewelry) Duckletshut (Beaded Jewelry & Dreamcatchers)

FaithEarthandSoul (Jewelry, Art, & Dreamcatchers)

WildeElementJewelry (Jewelry)

ElusiveWolf (Jewelry & Pipes)

NativeMoonRising (Clothing & Dreamcatchers)

[drehmos]

So happy to see this on my dash with info from those actually in the culture. <3