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I figured I would make a more personal blog separate from my writing where I can post my art and reblog random shit.
If you like mysticism, Norse gods, and weird shit, check out my main blog here.
Otherwise this is a generally less specific blog dedicated to thoughts and opinions.
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carl jung girl you were so right about avoidance
“if we don't accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis. if I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. a neurosis is a much greater curse! in general, a neurosis is a replacement for an evasion, an unconscious desire to cheat life, to avoid something. one cannot do more than live what one really is. and we are all made up of opposites and conflicting tendencies. after much reflection, I have come to the conclusion that it is better to live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result-because avoidance is much worse.”
Carl Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (The Tavistock Lectures)
And now for something seemingly random but I’ve been getting back into figure skating after about 20 years away (I stopped when I was 10), and it’s been the most rewarding experience I’ve ever had.
I don’t know what it was but perhaps developing my frontal lobe and then making the decision to learn new things as a result of the time I’ve also spent with Loki who has been teaching me how to learn things with grace and certainty without beating myself to a pulp and also leveling out my nervous system so that when I am close to falling, I can get back to being in balance. This has been just what I needed to get back into my favorite sport I’ve loved since I was a toddler.
Long story short, I think I am close enough now to where I left off as a 10 year old and am able to spin and do spirals again and yesterday at the public session, a little girl’s eyes bugged out of her head and she went “are you a figure skater?” And told her dad that I “look like a ballerina” and I almost bawled on the ice. That little girl was me, holding the pinky of my dad as I scooted across the ice for hours trying to find my balance. Every single time she passed me while I was practicing, her eyes lit up and she smiled and waved.
This was by far the best session I’ve had in the 6 weeks I’ve been back at it, going consistently every single weekend and every chance I get to do off ice training.
I will probably end up hiring a coach in April to start after my birthday as a gift to myself.
This is by far, the best gift I’ve ever given to myself as a result of the work I’ve put in. It’s a testament to how far I’ve come and the confidence that working with the Gods has given me. I feel like a new person.
proud father
The Gods Are Not Your Escape From Reality
You’re not married to the Gods, they’re not your parents, and you are not a priest.
What you are doing is slipping into a dangerous delusion that you built to cope with your loneliness.
It’s harsh, but it’s the truth. These beliefs aren’t just wrong, they’re disrespectful to the Gods themselves.
The Gods are not characters in your personal story. They are not emotional stand-ins you can project your fears, insecurity, or abandonment issues onto. They are GODS conscious, ancient, and powerful beings who deserve reverence, not your role-playing or projecting.
And on the title of Priest. That is a sacred role. It’s earned through discipline, devotion, and a life shaped around service to the Gods. It requires real personal sacrifices and extreme levels of devotion and effort. It is not something anyone can grab off the shelf because it makes them feel special.
Calling yourself a priest while you can’t even discipline your own mind, control your impulses, or manifest basic stability is nothing but a delusion to make yourself feel better.
Turning the Gods into your imaginary friends to fill whatever void in your life isn’t the answer, it drags a holy and sacred being down to the level of a coping mechanism. That isn’t connection, and that is disrespectful.
The Gods do love us. They guide, inspire, challenge, and elevate us. But they are not substitutes for human relationships.
You need real friends. You need real community. You need people in your life who exist in the world with you, who can talk to you, push you, laugh with you, and call you out when you lose your path.
Recognizing the difference between divine relationship and emotional projection is the first step to actually having a divine relationship. Stop treating the Gods like plush toys, and start respecting Them as the powerful beings They are.
If you want a real connection with the Gods, with yourself, and with other people then step out of the fantasy, into reality, and start building something real.
Humans will worship, this is natural for us.
The choice is whether to bow to emptiness, to social media, celebrities and fleeting trends, or to the Gods, who give power, wisdom, and strength.
Worship either drains you or transforms you depending on your choice.
The Gods Are Not Your Escape From Reality
You’re not married to the Gods, they’re not your parents, and you are not a priest.
What you are doing is slipping into a dangerous delusion that you built to cope with your loneliness.
It’s harsh, but it’s the truth. These beliefs aren’t just wrong, they’re disrespectful to the Gods themselves.
The Gods are not characters in your personal story. They are not emotional stand-ins you can project your fears, insecurity, or abandonment issues onto. They are GODS conscious, ancient, and powerful beings who deserve reverence, not your role-playing or projecting.
And on the title of Priest. That is a sacred role. It’s earned through discipline, devotion, and a life shaped around service to the Gods. It requires real personal sacrifices and extreme levels of devotion and effort. It is not something anyone can grab off the shelf because it makes them feel special.
Calling yourself a priest while you can’t even discipline your own mind, control your impulses, or manifest basic stability is nothing but a delusion to make yourself feel better.
Turning the Gods into your imaginary friends to fill whatever void in your life isn’t the answer, it drags a holy and sacred being down to the level of a coping mechanism. That isn’t connection, and that is disrespectful.
The Gods do love us. They guide, inspire, challenge, and elevate us. But they are not substitutes for human relationships.
You need real friends. You need real community. You need people in your life who exist in the world with you, who can talk to you, push you, laugh with you, and call you out when you lose your path.
Recognizing the difference between divine relationship and emotional projection is the first step to actually having a divine relationship. Stop treating the Gods like plush toys, and start respecting Them as the powerful beings They are.
If you want a real connection with the Gods, with yourself, and with other people then step out of the fantasy, into reality, and start building something real.
There's a certain genre of pagan that will claim Christianity is the source of everything bad and pagans did nothing wrong, then turn around and complain about how Odin treated Loki and his children.
Like... do you even hear yourselves here?
And then there are the people who hear pagans criticizing Christianity and its cognitive dissonance, its stranglehold on Western society, paired with its delusion that it's persecuted, and go "what about bad things pagans did" and take "that's not the topic of discussion, as if it erases It all because it somehow balances out - we're talking about the dissonance and control over the whole metaphysical paradigm" and say those pagans aren't willing to look at actual history of paganism.
Sometimes, it's just whataboutism with a "fairness" mask.
Question everything, even your own convictions.
The moment you stop asking ‘why,’ you hand your freedom to someone else
I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit.
Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks!
Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you.
No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset.
It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast.
Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.
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