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bedroom hymns ii | a sexually charged playlist for when lust is dripping from every breathless word and claw marks and bruises are a sign that you did a damn good job

night time - the xx | bloodstream - stateless | body electric - lana del rey | master & servant - nouvelle vague | stripped - depeche mode | talk show host - radiohead | sex and violence - scissor sisters | closer - kings of leon | whore - archive | undress your mind - bacalao & sonne | love and feeling - chet faker | cola - lana del rey | between two points - the glitch mob

[ listen ] because my muses once again have their heads in the gutter

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Louise Bourgeois | Lacs de montagne, 1996. State V of XIII,variant. Engraving and aquatin. 

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@laz-va

[bostondann]

Sometimes I miss the cold.

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Resources For Fantasy & Mythology Writers

Designing A World

City and Town Name Generator

How To Create a Believable World

Fantasy Religion Design Guide

Fantasy Map-maker

The Language Construction Kit

Fantasy Name Generator

The Pagan Name Generator

Writing Fantasy: Tools & Techniques

Fractal World Generator

Creating a Magic System

The Middle Ages

A Large List Of Articles On The Middle Ages

Middle Ages Weapons

Medieval Clothing

Medieval Clothing Pages

Medieval Name Archive

The Domesday Book

European Nobility Titles

Mythology

General Folklore

Various Folktales

Heroes

Weather Folklore

Trees in Mythology

Animals in Mythology

Birds in Mythology

Flowers in Mythology

Fruit in Mythology

Plants in Mythology

Folktales from Around the World

Egyptian Mythology

African Mythology

More African Mythology

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

The Gods of Africa

Even More African Mythology

West African Mythology

All About African Mythology

African Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Aztec Mythology

Haitian Mythology

Inca Mythology

Maya Mythology

Native American Mythology

More Inca Mythology

More Native American Mythology

South American Mythical Creatures

North American Mythical Creatures

Aztec Gods and Goddesses

Chinese Mythology

Hindu Mythology

Japanese Mythology

Korean Mythology

More Japanese Mythology

Chinese and Japanese Mythical Creatures

Indian Mythical Creatures

Chinese Gods and Goddesses

Hindu Gods and Goddesses

Korean Gods and Goddesses

Basque Mythology

Celtic Mythology

Etruscan Mythology

Greek Mythology

Latvian Mythology

Norse Mythology

Roman Mythology

Arthurian Legends

Bestiary

Celtic Gods and Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic Lands

Finnish Mythology

Celtic Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Islamic Mythology

Judaic Mythology

Mesopotamian Mythology

Persian Mythology

Middle Eastern Mythical Creatures

Aboriginal Mythology

Polynesian Mythology

More Polynesian Mythology

Mythology of the Polynesian Islands

Melanesian Mythology

Massive Polynesian Mythology Post

Maori Mythical Creatures

Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses

Hawaiian Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses

List of Gods

Encyclopedia Mythica

Mythical Creatures & Beasts

Questions To Ask When Worldbuilding

The World

Physical and Historical Features

Magic and Magicians

Peoples and Customs

Social Organization

Commerce, Trade, and Public Life

Daily Life

Basics

Alternate Earth

Not Earth at All

Climate and Geography

Natural Resources

World History

Specific Country(s) History

Rules of Magic

Wizards

Magic and Technology

Miscellaneous Magic Questions

Customs

Eating

Greeting and Meeting

Gestures

Visits

Language

Ethics and Values

Religion and the Gods

Population

Government

Politics

Crime and the Legal System

Foreign Relations

Waging War

Weapons

Business and Industry

Transportation and Communication

Science and Technology

Medicine

Arts and Entertainment

Architecture

Urban Factors

Rural Factors

Fashion and Dress

Manners

Diet

Education

Calendar

Magic

The Hypertext List of Spells

Gemstone Properties

Gemstone Meanings

Crystal Healing

Fairy & Other Spirits

Elven Phrases

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neat stuff.

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Useful thanks!

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For reference: colors produced using dyes available in the Middle Ages. [source]

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A reminder that the clothing of the Middle Ages was less brown (and the people were more brown) than often depicted.

[jflegros]

Captain Rahmani is the first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator in Afghanistan’s history and has received death threats from the Taliban http://dailym.ai/1anDGt1

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 Captain Niloofar Rahmani ❤️ 

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Gorgeous ass kicker. Honestly read X-wing fighter at first.

[allwomenallbodies]

All women are real women. All bodies are beautiful.

[jaleesabartley]

Making Shea Butter …

This is a beautiful process. This factory is run by women who take pride in their work … come along and take a tour  …  

(Photos by me! : Jaleesa Bartley)

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Some of the hardest working women in the world, to be honest.

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Hey, how about purchasing a pound or more of this shea butter? Support Sekaf Shea Butter Village Womens Cooperative! 

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This post came right on time cause I’m out

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Word I’m out too… and I got my last batch in Ghana. I was worried i wouldn’t find any more that I knew actually cam from Ghana and supported the people there

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Please support these women y'all they’re doing good work! - K

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Boost!

[zenmister]

Enjoy Life

Anytime you find joy in things, that joy is in you. When you find joy in a connection with another person, that joy is in you. As you coordinate fun things to do and people to be with, you are creating circumstances for you to find your joyful mindspace. The joy is always in you.

When you think of joy as being in things, you will always look to things and circumstances to bring you joy. When those things or circumstances are not present or if you are stuck doing something that you consider joyless, you will find  misery and tedium as you do them.  When you believe that whether you feel joy or not is based in your response to things, you can look to yourself to find joy in many more situation.  When you are not enjoying what you are doing, don’t blame the activity, but look into your reaction. When you do that, and challenge your habitual responses, the narrow path of joyful things becomes much wider.

As you do things you enjoy, notice the wide variety of ways you find joy in yourself. As you practice finding joy in yourself, you need less elaborate things to evoke that joyful response. You can enjoy taking a shower or washing dishes. Washing dishes is generally not a joyful kind of thing, but you can feel joy in doing it if you are not consumed with finding misery in the task.

There will always be circumstances that bring you joy or bring you down, but when you look to your own response as the source of the feeling, you can deal with any circumstance. You won’t always be joyous, but when you do it regularly it gets easier. Conversely, if you often practice finding misery in things and circumstances that will be your stronger habit. Life isn’t all full of joy. You instill your joy into it. You enjoy life.

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Three Poisons

The roots of our suffering are the three poisons, desire, anger and ignorance.  Desire and anger seem manageable, ignorance seems huge. Ignorance, in this case, is ignorance of our true nature, our Buddha nature.  Realizing our buddha nature is basically attaining enlightenment.  It is feeling, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are Buddha. It seems that if we were to realize our true nature, and rid ourselves of ignorance, that desire and anger may just fall by the wayside.

Recognizing our true nature can take an entire lifetime, or many lifetimes some believe.  Zen is good that way.  Zen practice aims at helping you find your true nature in this lifetime. Eckhart Tolle seems to think you can recognize this right now. Alan Watts also believes that awakening is available in any given moment, if you give yourself to the moment. Who you choose to believe may have something to do with how patient you are. Regardless of how long it takes to dispel this ignorance, it seems a large task.

Anger and desire are certainly more accessible, but they may not be easier to dispel. They could well be the keys to tackling ignorance.  The first step in addressing anger is taking ownership of it.  If you want to end your suffering, you can no longer afford to let other things make you angry. You may still get angry, but you have to see your anger as a choice you make, an emotional option. Then, pay close attention to your anger and see how it affects you and those around you. Anger is likely the easiest of the three poisons to manage.

Desire is a good poison to work with because it is almost always present.  The only time desire is not present is in those fleeting moments when you are content. As soon as restlessness resumes, desire is driving it. If you were able to pay attention to your desire whenever it arises, you would live a mindful life.

If you suffer, you suffer from these three poisons. No matter how far out your mental health may be, these poisons are affecting you.  I just thought you should know.

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Isohama, Ibaraki, 1949 Kawase Hasui

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straight men trying to make Serious war dramas and accidentally making incredibly tender homoerotic cinema is the funniest thing

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In his essay, “Masculinity as Spectacle,” Steve Neale seeks to extend Laura Mulvey’s work on the male gaze and to challenge her assertion that the male or male-identified spectator can never look upon the male body as an erotic object. To challenge Mulvey’s assertion, Neale identifies the mechanisms mainstream Hollywood cinema uses to represent the male body as erotic. One way of doing this, Neale argues, is by making the male body the target of violence. In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy – as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh – as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege – as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover – as long as he is riddled with bullets. Violence makes the homoeroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.

-Kent Brintnall

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Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals) 1981 Barbara Kruger (American, born in 1945)

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Reading about abusive men and the way they think. Very unsettling and an incredible book so far. Here are my very professional notes.

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what book is this?

[tehbewilderness]

This is from “Why Does He DO That” by Lundy Bancroft.

[chemicalheart-deactivated202009]

I’m so glad I’m seeing more and more Lundy Bancroft quotes on my dash because this book CHANGES THE LIVES OF ABUSE VICTIMS. The programs run for rehabilitating abusive men through the courts? Bancroft DESIGNED THEM. His programs are replicated ALL OVER THE WORLD. He literally wrote THE book on abuser rehabilitation.

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Here’s a link to a pdf copy. If you haven’t read this book yet, read this book.

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Can we talk about how it seems like the entirety of the book is online on PDF, this making it accessible to anyone with an internet connection?

That is how we stop abuse.

We enable everyone to know what it looks like, so that when it happens, they can shut it down.

[bhuttu]

Arm yrself with knowledge!

[birkenth0t]

Changed my life, would reccomend.

[fuckyeahsexpositivity]

Reblogging for the PDF link.

—BB

[egodram]

Always reblogging because this isn’t just a partner abuse thing, this is a common abuse tactic PERIOD: Parents, siblings, bosses, general assholes, etc…

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http://www.pdf-archive.com/2014/07/20/why-does-he-do-that/why-does-he-do-that.pdf

new link (the old one is broken)

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Pretty sure I’ve reblogged this like eight times, don’t care.

[nevertrustamanwho]

Link to pdf

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Reblog for those who need it ^ ^

[melgillman]

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

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The Arrogance of Youth

When we are young, we believe that we know. We believe this because for most of our lives, we did not know, and we have come to recognize this. So we think we know now, based on our past.

But what of the future? Even now, we do not know. Our future selves will see this, but we are blinded. Blinded by pride, arrogance, and ego. We think we know.

Give up knowing. Look, instead. See.

Observation will give you more than thoughts or beliefs. Being is as it is and you can see it right now.

Do not strive to know. See that you don’t know, be open and humble. This is wisdom.

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Kim Keever

“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.” 

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Ella Webb | For Morgan. Offerings to the Spirits