Doin’ A Thing

I worship the Greek Gods and Goddesses, Ares holds a special place in my life. Feel free to ask or message me! If you are curious about anything about myself, my thoughts, something I posted or shared ask! I absolutely love mythologies so you have to suffer with my shitty art while I nerd out over the stories.

[redsoullesscapain]

I haven’t been on in awhile which I’m planning to change. But I interrupt my usual content with this message.

I’ve been seeing posts from people saying they lived near one of the big cities having protests so they could go and help out. I just wanted to say, as someone who lives in one of those cities, that you can help. I don’t just mean donating and spreading information I mean be actively involved from where you are.

On social media you’ll see a lot of flyers about marches, look at who’s organizing, look them up and make sure your values match and they a trustworthy, find contact info (most use signal), offer your help. They need

-someone to watch scanners for them while they are out protesting (if you cant listen then usually there’s accounts on Twitter that man scanners 24/7 and you sit there and update it every minute) and pass on relevant information. Where are the police, is any part of the protest violent, are they blocking off roads they need etc

-research. They need research on what other protesters are doing that’s working, are there other organizations or events they could partner with to make theirs bigger, is there something they want to do but they don’t know how yet? Street medic information if one of them gets mildly hurt and needs advice

-they need someone that is not at their protest as a contact, many times their families don’t know they are out there. If they all get arrested or pulled off the street into a van the word needs to be spread, if one of them gets hurt and you need to contact a March medic or someone else to get a medic, you will be the one they all tell when they are safe.

Plus anything else that specific organization needs you to do.

You can help from another state, all kinds of support is needed. Especially with the threat and reality of federal troops going into cities if they are not there already

[redsoullesscapain]

I found this at work and because the labels my work uses fell off of it I was allowed to have it! I happened to be the one to come across it, the label happened to fall off and was missing somewhere, and the manager allowed me to take it!

[redsoullesscapain]

Something that bothers me is when people don’t ask me questions when they want to. Feel free to ask me things if you have things you want to ask.

I get it, there are times and people that certain question could be considered inappropriate or offensive. I happen to be very comfortable in myself and my thoughts and things of the like and I love when people are comfortable enough to ask me something they want to ask.

I have a friend that I’ve know for a year that was struggling to word a question so not to offend me and then decided not to ask it. I convinced him to tell me and I was not the least bit offended and I was able to answer his question. I was disheartened that he thought he couldn’t ask me things after knowing me for a while.

Let me make this clear to all, so no one who comes across this blog worries or panics about asking me things.

A question does not bother me. To offend me you would have to be making a serious statement against who I am as a person or the things I stand for (healthy debates and disagreements are fine and normal but aggression is not cool) But asking me who I am as a person or what I stand for, or asking for more details are things I’m happy to answer or explain.

Got a completely unrelated question “is the sky blue? (My answer is no), ask.

a personal question about me (gender, sexuality) I’m comfortable answering

Want my thoughts on subjects (political, historical, academia...cats) I’ll answer

If I can’t answer such as i don’t know and can’t figure it out, I’ll just let you know.

You ask a question I don’t feel comfortable answering? I’ll let you know, there’s no offense taken there because how would you know unless you ask?

You’ll never know if you don’t ask

[redsoullesscapain]

Not really an ask but: I love your content and your art is gorgeous! Hope you’re alright in these tough times. Stay safe!

Thank you so much that means a lot! I really like your deity jars and your relationship with your deities posts, you’re so creative! Thank you for the well wishes and definitely hope the same for you. Stay happy, healthy, and safe!!

[redsoullesscapain]

What do I do now that I can’t use the “mom said no” excuse...wait

Person: want to go *insert thing I do not want to go do*

Me: sorry, Ares said no

Person:what

Me: Ares said no. Got a problem? take it up with him

[redsoullesscapain]

Hermes prank gone right

I was in a bad mood yesterday before work. Then, I got locked in the bathroom right after my parents left to go to the hardware store (it was one of those push lock door handles and the lock button went in on an angle and I think something inside broke). Despite that seeming like a bad scenario, it was hilarious. I was able to call my parents back to the house before they got far, the door handle had to be removed, and after 15 minutes I was free. I got a nicer door handle after that and was in a much better mood.

Gotta thank Hermes because I needed a laugh as life has not been fun lately but he knew how to make it significantly better!

[redsoullesscapain]

I work in the vintage section of a book place and I found a late 1800s book written by a woman on how to control men worth $300. Probably worth the price.

[redsoullesscapain]

My life is a bunch of side quests. The Gods think it’s funny and honestly I don’t hate it. It actually gives me inspiration for jobs I can do at home on my own!

Today I saw a tiny dog with no collar about to walk into the street but he came to me when he noticed me. He ended up at my house for a couple hours and the owner gave me $10 even though I didn’t ask.

Had therapy

Now I’m making 20 masks for a women’s shelter and someone who has nothing to do with that is paying me $40 for it so I can restock on supplies.

Then later I have to work on an “anti” comma (not really against it just against the way we teach and use them today) paper I’m writing for someone else’s college professor even though I graduated last year.

[redsoullesscapain]

PSA from chibi gods as poorly drawn by me because I’ve gone insane from isolation.

[redsoullesscapain]

Hello!! I have a question about Hellenism and how you came to be a patron of Ares? Such in, how did you know Ares was calling to you? I’ve always been drawn in by subtle signs but I’m not sure what it truly means. I have suspicions Artemis has called to me, but also Selene. Should I make alters to both? I’m a little confused but would love your insight if you wouldn’t mind sharing :)

Hi! I don’t mind sharing at all and I don’t know how long ago you asked this, really sorry if you waited. I kept forgetting to check that ask box. I don’t have the excuse of being busy, somehow the notification just slipped by me and I caught this by randomly going into my ask box for the first time.

It took me a while to figure out Ares was calling to me. I had the feeling of some protective, warrior like nature for a long while but being raised catholic I thought it was one of the guardian angels. As with anything I find even the slightest interest in I started researching like my life depended on it. It didn’t quit fit though. I had always been interested in media involving Greek gods and had a special interest in Ares, any comic with him I got (Wonder Woman comics are awesome) over time I found the religion. I started looking into it more and more and I saw other people’s experiences with Ares I thought ‘that feels familiar’. It took me a while longer of researching to finally decide that yeah, it’s him. He’s patient as fuck with me because I’m absolutely oblivious to subtle.

My advice is look into them as much as you can or want. Research is always a good friend. Don’t feel obligated to make an altar and start worshipping, but also don’t feel like you can’t. You don’t need to be called by a god or goddess to create an altar to them and pay your respects. It’s up to you, no right or wrong answer. Completely up to you, though I’m sure neither would say no to an altar from you if you decide that’s what you want to do.

Hope this helped in anyway, always happy to answer more questions or clarify something I didn’t word well. Stay happy, healthy, and safe!

[redsoullesscapain]

I made masks back in February because of something that happened to me then and have gotten a lot better since then with practice. For fucks sake, the Gods could have just told me to make masks, given me a hint. Next time if they could try not to almost kill me I’d appreciate it. To be fair, I’m oblivious and kept on procrastinating on making masks before then so maybe I deserved that wake up call.

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[catwithaknife]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzqpd9/heres-an-insane-story-about-a-rogue-music-teacher-cutting-a-kids-hair

[snailbutch]

what the fuck

[guu]

i’m just gonna take this post for a moment so i can rant but like

i Hate how entitled adults can feel over a child’s hair!

it started when i was young myself, i wanted a mohawk, but my dad didn’t approve of that look on a “girl”, and insisted i’d regret such a bold cut. at 16 i was finally given full autonomy over my own head.

but then i have a son and everyone around us is trying to keep his hair short. when we finally moved out just me my partner and him, i told him he doesn’t need to get any haircuts he doesn’t want.

so he starts growing it out, it’s still short but coming on mid-length. his teacher makes a point to tell me it’s getting long as if i don’t have eyes. i hear her walking out with him one day talking to him about haircuts, as if to coax him into one. eventually i get child services called on me for ‘forcing a transgender lifestyle’ over what i can only assume is from a combination of me drawing cute ponies on his valentine box and letting him go to school in a ponytail.

he kept it short for awhile after but told me he wanted to grow it out again, so i let him of course. he comes home one day after getting a haircut at his grandpa’s and tells me he didn’t Want the haircut.

i ask why he got it then and learned he was bribed with a promise of a surprise IF he cut his hair.

tl;dr people need to back the hell up off of children and let them have owership of what’s on THEIR body! /rant

[e-v-roslyn]

Same thing about getting a child to curl or straighten their hair. Or do anything with it. Just let kids have control over their bodies.

[captainroxythefoxy]

This happened to me when I was little too!! Growing up I had naturally tight Shirley Temple curls. The only problem was that you can’t get a hair brush through it if your life depended on it until it grew out over a few years.

but This One Lady from church decided that leaving my hair messy and curly was child abuse and threatened to call social services on my family every damn time she saw me until one day she was the designated kid watcher and ho boy my momma tells me i came out with tears in my eyes and greasy slicked down hair and that’s where she ends the story because i think my mother beat her ass but yeah.

Leave kids hair alone.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

I’m going to be honest, parents who are super-controlling of their children’s hair creep me the fuck out and I’m not entirely certain why except that I get a vague feeling they kind of relegate them to, “annoying talking doll” status.

[pretentioussongtitle]

I loved my daughter’s long blond hair. It was thick and wavy and beautiful but when she told me she wanted it cut short ‘like a boy’(she was four)  I took her to the salon and let her whack it off. 

The stylist was skeptical, ‘are you sure?” and the thing is, she said this to me, not my daughter. So I asked my girl ‘are you sure you want it cut short?’ She was. The hair went. The stylist acted nervous most of the way through like she was waiting for one of us to burst into tears, but it looked cute! And my daughter loved it! (And it’s been short ever since.)

[kintatsujo]

Autonomy over your hair is bodily autonomy and we as a culture need to start holding bodily autonomy as sacred

[mdzhb]

there is a reason that so many of us who’ve experienced trauma will reclaim control over our bodies and our selves by cutting and dying our hair. it’s part of us. it’s part of our expression. that’s vitally important to people, especially kids, who are still early in the process of learning how they fit into the world around them.

[redsoullesscapain]

My mom forced me to have long hair growing up because “girls have long hair” and “you have red hair it would be a waste to cut it off”. We used to get into fights about me not doing anything with my hair and she would always threaten to cut it off if I didn’t style it because that worked with my sisters. I told her to do it and she would get mad at that.

When I was 7 my dad took me to get my haircut before school pictures and let me chose, I cut it short. My mom hated it and my dad never took me to get my haircut again.

When I got my license at 18 I drove myself to great clips (donated my hair) got the sides shaved and the top cut short. I’m in my 20s and my mom still hates it but everyone else compliments it.

Same with ear piercings, I was forced to get them as a kid because girls have pierced ears and my sisters wanted them at that age so I had to too. They were done at Claire’s, they are uneven, one slightly tore when I was in second grade, haven’t worn earrings in years but they never closed up.

You don’t own your child’s body! Let them experiment with hair as a child, if they don’t want something like piercings that should be their choice.

[redsoullesscapain]

Decide to go outside for a walk for the first time since the stay at home order started

*starts raining*

ZEUS: no. bad. Get back inside, stupid chid. Stay healthy. Go clean your room

[brixtonlore]

anyway take this quiz to see which 2 greek gods sum up ur personality

[redsoullesscapain]

I can not deny this is accurate

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This isn’t ok

Don’t order from thriftbooks.com right now. We can’t take proper safety measures because we can’t sanitize books and we cant work at least 6ft apart. 4 people from the Illinois warehouse are quarantined and during this shutdown in Illinois they just declared themselves as essential and are forcing us to come into work. We get no PTO and we need a doctors note to miss a single day without being penalized. There are a lot of online options and please let them know you are displeased with them putting us at risk while they all work from home. Please please please

[redsoullesscapain]

Well I tested negative for the flu and strep. I was given steroids, told to use my inhaler more, use cough medicine, and stay home for a week and hope that helps my breathing. Now I’m trapped at home with no answers because they can’t test me for covid19 since I can’t confirm that I’ve been in contact with someone who tested positive only suspected cases. This is fun. Everything’s fine.

[redsoullesscapain]

I came home from work early not feeling well but mostly worried that I might have covid19 since 3 people from work were told to self quarantine because one is suspected of having it and the other 2 have been in close contact.

I figured I’d call the 24/7 doctor and get some peace of mind but not I’ve been told I’m high risk and the health department will be contacting me as soon as they open tomorrow. Now it’s the middle of the night, and my family was asleep before I got the news so I’m alone and getting kinda scared. They’ve been going on and on about how to prevent this but not what happens if they think you might have it and what happens exactly if you do test positive.

Maybe I’ll be lucky and it just so happens that I got the flu, a dry cough, and my bad lungs are just acting up all inconveniently at the same time. I really really hope so. Fuck I’m scared

This is all because my work didn’t think it is that bad, ‘there’s not many cases in the US I don’t see why we should close’. Well sir considering there was 55 cases reported today in our state, we have some in our county, and an employee is suspected of having it? I’m gonna say risks are high. Fuck warehouses! We sell used books there’s no need for us to be open when we can’t work and stay 1 foot away from each other let alone 6 feet. My department tried to, we really did. We were all very worried but we can only do so much when we have 0 PTO, and require a doctors note to not get penalized for missing one day.