Hello! I'm Tauros, and I'm a polytheist! I don't know how I identify anymore spiritually, but I try my best to honor my ancestors and show reverence to the land and to the spirits around me. I worship the old gods of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. I have a very close relationship with Perkwúnos (I call him Tórṇts!), the god of thunder, and Páusōn, the god of nature! After a depressive episode I kinda lost my way a bit, but I'm slowly getting back on the horse and trying to right myself again for the sake of myself and the spirits and ancestors I follow. I honor Dyḗus Pətḗr (Sky Father),Sā́wḷ (Sun Goddess), Tórṇts (Thunder God), and Páusōn (God of flocks, fields, forests, and lust)
she/her makes you feel happy and fuzzy I know it, you are a girl no matter what. seriously. don't water yourself down to appease people especially Transmisogynists.
I was honestly a bit nervous to draw and post this one, because it's such a deep rooted and genuine issue I struggle with. It's a thing I wish could be fixed in some way, but I feel pretty comforted it resonated with so many others too
Gang of violent murderers has a fear of people defending themselves against their attempts to murder them.
Of course "defending themselves" to them means "killing anybody who looks at you funny," so they're of course afraid of people killing them for doing nothing in particular.
It aches my heart that Father Ares is not very much talked about in Hellenic Polytheist spaces and oftentimes misundestood. Or that is just what I've seen so far wandering around the internet.
I just wanted to talk about how dear he is to me in many ways, even from the times where i was not yet a Hellenic Polytheist. I'll always be grateful to be able to feel the warmth and ease in my heart when I'm overly stressed and anxious. Muscle by muscle, tissue by tissue i feel the entirety of my heart with all its shape alter with the serenity he brings where I'm even at my worst. Even on the verge of ending my own life his warmth and protection prevented me from doing so. That was how i met him and I'm forever grateful for all he has done for me to protect and support me in every aspect of life.
Not only he has protected and leaded my way to come out victor from the battles inside me, he has protected me so much from harmful people, especially men. I know that he's not traditionally seen as the protector of women in the Greek world but I can say that I've experienced his protection on me as both a woman and a child of his on many occasions. I've been abused and used many times as a little child, ruined my self esteem and self respect over unnecessary men who are completely and utterly uncapable and neglectful. Though with him, brick by brick rebuilt myself and my image in the eyes of mine. With him i learned to not lower myself for the sake of love. With him i learned to be the primary source of love for myself. Now that I've came to learn many things with sometimes an unspeakable pain and yearning, i'm grateful that the love for men i once almost worshipped and idealize stayed unrequited. Because i know for a fact it was Father Ares protecting me and at the end the worst i experienced in matters of love was just rejection. He has done so much for me, made me go through a process of which i found my core self and cherished it eternally at the end.
He's my beloved father and i feel the most secure, protected and warm when i feel his presence around me. This is my first ever post on tumblr, on this account i had for ages. I just hope that it reaches for those who need and who are willing to seek help.
And please know that he is, of course, the god of war but also the war inside us. Which is for me the bloodiest and the most gruesome war where we are usually all the figures of war in the body of one. We are both the little soldier who got drafted to war the day they were talking about dreams of future with their friends at high school but also the experienced, unforgiving enemy general. We are both the scared infantryman on the frontline but also an obnoxious war criminal. But at the end both the oppressor and the oppressed is us and no one else. All the cruelty for nothing but anguish.
He is there for all. All those who are oppressed, who are scared and anxious. Never hesitate to reach out to him in times of distress and where it feels you're stuck completely in life. His hugs are the warmest and he will lead your way through the war inside you. I get intensely emotional when i talk about him, even wept some tears while writing this. I seriously love him so much.
My dear Ganymede. They speak of him as a symbol, a constellation, a prize lifted into the heavens but I see a child standing at the edge of the earth, still smelling of grass and milk and daylight, still belonging to his mother. He is innocence made visible. And worse innocence noticed. No one speaks enough about the moment before the sky opens. No one mourns the seconds when his feet still touched the ground, when his mother could still reach him, when the world was small enough to be safe. They rush past that part, eager for gods and stars, as if divinity excuses the violence of being taken. I think of his mother often. I think of her hands what they were doing when the air tore open above her son. Was she folding cloth? Grinding grain? Calling his name? Did she hear the wings? Did she run? Did she scream until the mountains learned grief? And I think of myself, standing in that place, knowing that no prayer, no scream, no love is strong enough to stop a god who wants.
Racism, violence, sexism, homophobia, stolen elections, gerrymandering, pedophilia, hate crimes, white nationalism, mass incarceration, private prisons, police brutality, ice, radicalized young white males, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, far right, maga, billionaires, disinformation, media bias, entitlement........amerikkka has a problem.
And the people doing it will be rememered just as fondly as the fucking cops and fire fighters who brutally attacked black people and others fighting for civil rights in the 60s. We should have enshrined it in the constitution
They are talking about prosecuting family and friends of the founder of ANTIFA. The problem is that I'm pretty sure the "founders" of ANTIFA and their girlfriends are dead.
Anonymous ia more of an org than antifa is. They want to go after progressives broadly not a particular group. They want to go after YOU. And they’re already on the march. Remember your rights.
Men being horny for women isn't inherently about power though. Like this is so odd. OP is completely correct and y'all should really acknowledge that yes, straight men being horny for women IS in fact morally neutral
Mens attraction being inherently predatory and destructive and needing to be restrained is, in fact, part of evangelical ideology, and i think a number of people have unrecognised evangelical beliefs, left over from their youth or gained from societal permeation of whatever. And maybe they should recognise and critically examine those beliefs. And think a bit about where they got them from, instead of thinking up feminist justifications for them.
"Mens attraction being inherently predatory" is an excuse to pretend men are mindless beasts who aren't in control of their own actions, which by extension also means they cannot be blamed for said actions.
It's "Boys will be boys" taken to the extreme.
It's the attitude that leads to bullshit like blaming rape victims for the way they were dressed.
It's not feminism, it's the exact opposite, it's a fucking scapegoat for the people these "radical feminists" claim to hate.