@scottie-t - Tumblr Blog

You will patch up all the holes in 2025.

(this isn’t a post about knitting)

8th house/scorpio placements protection (by placements + planets!)

　　　✦　　　.　　. 　 ˚　.　　　　　 . ✦　　　　˚　　　　 . ★⋆. ࿐࿔ 　　　. 　　˚　　　　*　　　　✦　　　.　　.　　　✦　˚ 　　　　 ˚　.˚　　　　✦　　　.　　. 　 ˚　.　　　　　　　　　　 ੈ✧˳·˖✶ ✦　　

if you enjoy (yes!) having placements in scorpio or 8th house, you know you need a lot of discernment with anything coming towards you in your life: friends, lovers, anything you consume mentally needs to be well fit.

Because your energy field is like a deep well — people will throw their coins in and make their wishes whether you asked for it or not. Some will come to drink from you. Others will try to drown in you. You don’t need to catch every coin or rescue every swimmer.

Your protection is in recognizing that not everything deserves entry into your inner sanctum. Scorpio/8H energy is magnetic by design — it pulls stories, secrets, obsessions, and projections into its orbit. But discernment is your shield: just because you can merge with someone or something doesn’t mean you should.

Rituals help, as well as discernment, selection, and anticipating only good of people.

Practical Protection Tips for Scorpio / 8H Placements

Journal the Shadows → Scorpio energy pulls secrets out of people (including yourself). Instead of letting that intensity swirl inside, keep a private “shadow journal.” Write down what doesn’t belong to you so you can release it.

Salt + Water → Keep a small bowl of saltwater near your bed or desk. It acts like a sponge for psychic debris. Change it weekly. (Classic Scorpio protection move: letting water absorb what you don’t need to carry.)

Protective Dress Code → Wear black, deep reds, or obsidian jewelry when you know you’ll be in draining spaces. Scorpio rules protection through armor — fashion can literally serve as a shield.

Digital Discernment → Curate your feed. Scorpio/8H placements absorb the emotional undertones of what they scroll through. Unfollow accounts that feel invasive, obsessive, or draining.

Closing Portals → Before bed, say out loud: “I return all energy that isn’t mine and close all doors that aren’t meant to be open.” Scorpio thrives when boundaries are affirmed as sacred rituals.

Candle Check-Ins → Light a candle when you’re processing heavy emotions. Watch the flame. If it flickers wildly, your aura might be overloaded. Once it steadies, blow it out — symbolizing release.

Scorpio in the 1st House → Protect your aura. People project onto you the moment you enter a room. Wear protective jewelry (obsidian, black tourmaline) or a symbolic “wardrobe armor.” Let your appearance set the energetic boundary.

Scorpio in the 2nd House → Protect your resources. Be mindful of who you share your money, possessions, or talents with. Keep a small charm or coin in your wallet as a symbol of financial sovereignty.

Scorpio in the 3rd House → Protect your words. Others may try to twist or weaponize what you say. Carry a journal with you to “say it safe” first. Mantras before speaking can protect your tongue from being drained by gossip or arguments.

Scorpio in the 4th House → Protect your home. Your sanctuary absorbs outside energy. Use salt by thresholds, cleanse with incense or bells, and create a private space that no visitor enters.

Scorpio in the 5th House → Protect your joy. Lovers, friends, or audiences may want to feed on your creative fire. Share only what feels fun, not what feels obligatory. Protect your playfulness like it’s holy.

Scorpio in the 6th House → Protect your routines + health. You can obsess over fixing or purifying yourself. Instead, schedule downtime as medicine. A glass of water + 10 minutes of silence daily can act as psychic detox.

Scorpio in the 7th House → Protect your partnerships. You attract intense bonds. Know when merging becomes enmeshment. Keep one hobby, journal, or ritual that’s only yours and never shared with partners.

Scorpio in the 8th House → Protect your soul. You already swim in the deep. Don’t take on others’ trauma unless you’re prepared to transmute it. Energy-clearing rituals (like shower visualizations — water washing away what’s not yours) are vital.

Scorpio in the 9th House → Protect your beliefs. You magnetize powerful teachers and philosophies — but not all are meant for you. Before adopting a worldview, sit with it in silence and feel if it empowers or drains you.

Scorpio in the 10th House → Protect your reputation. Your public image attracts fascination, projection, even jealousy. Share selectively online. Build your legacy brick by brick, not by overexposure.

Scorpio in the 11th House → Protect your circles. Friend groups can get intense, even cult-like. Choose your communities carefully. Carry a protective talisman to social events to remind yourself of your individuality.

Scorpio in the 12th House → Protect your psyche. You absorb collective shadows in dreams and solitude. Spiritual cleansing is key: meditate with

☉ Sun in the 8th House → Protect your vitality. Others may try to feed off your presence or spotlight. Schedule time away from the public eye to recharge. Think of solitude as sunlight your soul needs.

☽︎ Moon in the 8th House → Protect your emotions. You feel others’ hidden pain. Daily cleansing rituals (water, salt, baths) help release what isn’t yours. Keep a dream journal so your psyche doesn’t get clogged.

☿ Mercury in the 8th House → Protect your mind. You pick up on subtext and secrets easily, but not every thought needs to be yours. Limit conversations that spiral into paranoia or manipulation. Use writing as a safe container.

♀ Venus in the 8th House → Protect your heart + intimacy. You attract intense relationships. Vet lovers carefully and protect your finances in love. Wearing copper or rose quartz can help balance passion with safety.

♂ Mars in the 8th House → Protect your energy output. You burn hot when provoked. Channel intensity into controlled outlets (sex, workouts, creative projects). Avoid revenge or you’ll drain your own reserves.

♃ Jupiter in the 8th House → Protect your generosity. You may give away too much — financially or spiritually. Learn to tithe your energy, not spill it endlessly. Keep a charm or jar of coins as a symbol of selective abundance.

♄ Saturn in the 8th House → Protect your boundaries. You may feel karmic weight in intimacy or debt. Say “no” without guilt. Build financial + emotional boundaries slowly and consistently. Black tourmaline is a great anchor.

♅ Uranus in the 8th House → Protect your nervous system. Sudden shocks in intimacy, finance, or psyche can shake you. Keep grounding practices (barefoot on earth, breathwork). Don’t let chaos become your normal.

♆ Neptune in the 8th House → Protect your psychic channels. Others’ energies blur into yours. Stay sober with your spiritual practices. Use protective visualization before readings, sex, or money exchanges.

♇ Pluto in the 8th House → Protect your power. You’re a magnet for transformation — but also for control dynamics. Recognize manipulation quickly. Keep a ritual of power reclamation (writing, fire magic) to remind yourself you’re never owned.

⚸ Lilith in the 8th House → Protect your sacred autonomy. Others may project taboo, fear, or desires onto you. Please don’t absorb it as truth. Your raw magnetism doesn’t need to be explained or softened. Practice saying “this is mine” when it comes to your body, your energy, your choices. Keep a ritual of cleansing (smoke, salt baths, or burning old notes) to release what isn’t yours. Your power is primal — guard it from being shamed or stolen.

I hope you enjoyed this post, or found it useful to apply to your own birth chart. if you use vedic, applying to d9 (navamsa) especially for 8th house placements is also advisable to get a clearer picture.

as always, I appreciate your support and feedback!

Love, Astromeda

thehedgewitchcurrent

Mabon

The Autumn Equinox

Date: When the sun transits 0degrees Libra or September 21st

Mabon is celebrated as the second harvest festival

Traditions:

Make a gratitude list

Clean the house

Let go of what is no longer serving you

Bake bread or a pie

Leaf rubbings

Spellwork:

Home protection

Release negativity

Prosperity

Shadow work

Altar Decor: Cornucopia, apples, squash, dried corn, herbs, autumn leaves, flowers, animal pictures, acorns, corn, cider

Animals: Black bird, raven, crow, eagle, owl, salmon, stag, wolf, geese

Colors: Brown, green, gold, orange, yellow, red

Incense and oils: Cinnamon, myrrh, sage, frankincense, clove

Herbs and flowers: Bittersweet, chamomile, marigold, rue, sage, thistle, yarrow

Crystals and stones: Amber, citrine, cat's eye, lapis lazuli, sapphire, yellow agates

https://thehedgewitchcurrent.weebly.com/mabon.html

malefixium

the trees you grew up with have not forgotten you. their branches still whisper your name in the breeze and their roots remember the paths your feet once traced through their shade.

scottie-t

That includes the ones you hid and cried under. They would still cradle you if you returned.

miseducatedmelanicmuse

#SoYouReachedYourSaturnReturn

maryhale1

Some easy witch tips

rainbow-jello-wizard-man

Orange Abundance All-Purpose Household Cleaner

A useful potion for mundane cleaning purposes, designed to invoke happiness and abundance. This cleaner is safe for most surfaces, disinfects, is non-toxic, and even food surface safe. You'll want to get the supplies set aside soon for that New Year Clean

You Will Need: The peels off three oranges A large, glass mason jar Distilled white vinegar A glass spraybottle A sunny window 2 Clear quartz points Corresponding sigils & runes of your choice, inscribed on a piece of yellow paper Timing: New Moon to New Moon Rinse the orange peels well, and put them into the jar. Cover them entirely with the white vinegar, using enough to fill the jar.…

View On WordPress

fernlights

Sabbats Masterpost

The History of Samhain

Samhain Facts

Samhain Correspondences

Samhain Crystals

Samhain Colors

Samhain Plants

Samhain Incense & Oils

Samhain Animals

Samhain Foods

Samhain Ritual & Magick

Samhain Deities

Samhain Altar Ideas

Samhain Activities

Last Minute Samhain Ideas

—————————————-

The History of Mabon

Mabon Facts

Mabon Correspondences

Mabon Crystals

Mabon Colors

Mabon Plants

Mabon Oils & Incense

Mabon Animals

Mabon Foods

Mabon Ritual & Magick

Mabon Deities

Mabon Altar

Mabon Activities

Last Minute Mabon Ideas

———————————–

Lughnasadh/Lammas History

Lughnasadh/Lammas Facts

Lughnasadh/Lammas Correspondences

Lughnasadh/Lammas Crystals

Lughnasadh/Lammas Colors

Lughnasadh/Lammas Plants

Lughnasadh/Lammas Incense & Oils

Lughnasadh/Lammas Animals

Lughnasadh/Lammas Food

Lughnasadh/Lammas Ritual & Magick

Lughnasadh & Lammas Deities

Lughnasadh & Lammas Altar Ideas

Lughnasadh & Lammas Activities

Last minute Lammas Ideas

—————————————-

Litha History

Litha Facts

Litha Correspondences

Litha Crystals

Litha Incense & Oils

Litha Colors

Litha Plants

Litha Animals

Litha Foods

Litha Deities

Litha Altar Ideas

Litha Ritual & Magick

Litha Activities

Last Minute Litha Ideas

—————————————–

The History of Beltane

Beltane Facts

Beltane Correspondences

Beltane Incense & Oils

Beltane Colors

Beltane Crystals

Beltane Plants

Beltane Animals

Beltane Altar

Beltane Food

Beltane Deities

Beltane Ritual & Magick

Beltane Activities

Last Minute Beltane Ideas

———————————-

Ostara History

Ostara Facts

Ostara Correspondences

Ostara Colors

Ostara Crystals

Ostara Incense & Oils

Ostara Plants

Ostara Animals

Ostara Food

Ostara Altar Ideas

Ostara Ritual & Magick

Ostara Deities

Ostara Activities

Last Minute Ostara Ideas

—————————–

The History of Imbolc

Imbolc Facts

Imbolc Correspondenses

Imbolc Colors

Imbolc Crystals

Imbolc Incense & Oils

Imbolc Plants

Imbolc Animals

Imbolc Food

Imbolc Altar

Imbolc Ritual & Magick

Imbolc Deities

Imbolc Activities

Last Minute Imbolc Ideas

————————————–

The History of Yule

Yule Facts

Yule Correspondences

Yule Crystals

Yule Colors

Yule Plants

Yule Incense & Oils

Yule Animals

Yule Foods

Yule Ritual & Magick

Yule Deities

Yule Altar

Yule Activities

Last Minute Yule Ideas

void-milf

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

void-milf

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.

37womenwieldingknives

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

afraidofamericans

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

queeranarchism

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

anarchopuppy

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

mayflower-gal

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

mothric

@raspberryxhearts

anarchopuppy

I'm glad you're speaking up about how the idea that shoplifting hurts the workers seems a little suspicious. Everywhere I worked retail, unless I guess there was suspicion that you were in on it, was "just let them go, maybe try to get a description so we can kick them out next time"

And it’s exactly the kind of thing that some bourgeois would seed online and all the woker than thou tumblr kids would eat it up and spread it as far as they can. Every time I bring this up I get several people telling me this - that they’ve never even heard of a first-hand account of this, that it’s inconsistent with how retail chains view shoplifting, etc

I mean, I’ve never had a job even train me on how to stop shoplifting! Most of the places I’ve worked have never even talked about it, and they definitely don’t expect the cashiers and stockers to be making like, citizen’s arrests lest they lose their bonuses. Oh, and you better believe that if I accused someone of lifting when they weren’t I’d be fired immediately for bad service. That’s not the behavior they want to encourage

Again I’m not going to outright say that it never happens or that the idea itself is propaganda, but at worst it’s such a negligible effect that it’s far outweighed by the benefit you get from lifting + the damage to the company

sonnendrache-deactivated2020030

We get people shoplifting pretty often. We’re not even allowed to stop people from shoplifting by force. We have a security guard, and even they can only make police reports after a thing already happens. The most any of us can do, that we ever do, is approach a shoplifter and tell them to leave. Most of the time they leave with the items, because we can’t touch them or rip things out of their hands or bags. That’d be a legal nightmare. You can’t arrest nor can you physically confront anyone unless your store has it’s own legal precedent for detaining people (like actual cops in shopping malls).

Management can’t, and doesn’t, make us responsible for this. And we’re a small local grocery that actually feels the pinch when people shoplift. It comes out of our budget though, not our paychecks, because every business has insurance that covers these things, not to mention an acceptable amount of loss that’s accounted for. If someone steals some orange juice, the sales-to-purchase logs I make every week lump it right in with the yogurt I opened to give out a free sample. Loss is loss and it’s part of business. Unless you’re selling TVs or something like that, you can’t always even be sure of how much you’re losing - since, again, you can’t just grab and shake em down to find what they stuffed in their bag.

If your boss tries to intimidate and make you and your coworkers feel responsible for shoplifters, it’s all hot air. You’re only screwed if you’re the one doing it and you get caught.

(hot tip though: with tiny business like us, you can actually get lucky by just asking for day-olds. It can’t hurt to try. We give food out constantly. I probably give away at least $1000 or more in food per month. Steal from Walmart)

the-golden-summer-rose-archive

Holy shit holy shit shut the fuck up???

You know what they do when there’s a high theft in stores? Cut hours

Cutting hours is basically, functionally, the exact same thing as cutting your wagea to the employee. All store has “theft discouragement training” so if your area has a high amount of thdft they will ABSOLUTELY cut the hours of the people working in those areas! Like this is an actual thing I have had to deal with. There’s theft in your department? It’s becaude you didn’t smile enough to make the shoplifter uncomfortable and stop? Because you didn’t pay attention to every customer that you saw nd if you had been you could’ve stopped it because then they would know you were aware of them! And if that happened that MUST mean you’re giving poor customer service!

I have actually seen this. I have worked for MULTIPLE large chains and this basically how they “make up for lost income” because cutting hours when profits are down, or because they aren’t providing good customer service, is perfectly legal. I have literally dealt with this shit before personally.

Stop saying nothing happens to employees when shoplifting occurs, that is blatantly untrue and only allows shoplifters to feel even more enabled to steal and fuck over some poor employee.

Stop.

anarchopuppy

Bad news friend: Walmart doesn’t give their employees hours out of the kindness of their own heart. Large chains always stay as understaffed as logistically possible at all times, because that’s how capitalism works. They’re incentivized to exploit you as much as possible so they do that, regardless of the circumstances

If your management tells you they’re cutting hours because of shoplifting, they’re either using it as an excuse to fuck you over even more while making you think it’s your fault, or trying to get you to work harder and betray other poor people for free by convincing you it’s in your self-interest to do so. But the best deterrent for shoplifting is a well-staffed store and they know it, they know that cutting hours due to shrinkage would be counterproductive, but they do it anyway because that’s not their motivation for doing it

I’ve worked for multiple large chains too you know, and so have dozens of people I’ve seen saying this excuse is bullshit (check the replies for more!). What I’ve learned is that it’s impossible to determine the source of shrinkage, whether theft or miscounted/damaged/lost/underdelivered inventory. I’ve learned that some amount of shrinkage, including from theft, is always expected and accounted for. I’ve learned that it’s virtually always way too much of a liability to have employees on the floor try to stop shoplifting, and most of the time the only training on the topic I received was to not do anything. I’ve had jobs where I stole something almost every shift and no one ever caught on or brought it up - I mean do you guys really think lifting is such an unexpected and uncommon thing that they have to go into panic mode every time it happens? Please

Your enemy isn’t the single mother lifting baby food, it’s your boss. These retail chains can afford to give you the hours and the pay that you need, but they don’t - not because you’re doing a bad job, but because you let them get away with it. You and your employer have an inherently adversarial relationship, and the best course of action isn’t to bow down to their demands and attack other poor people who are just trying to get by, it’s to fight back. You should be supporting the lifters, looking the other way, covering for them - joining them! - not blaming them for your boss’s abuse. Stop swallowing their propaganda

somethingaboutsomethingelse

In the past I have literally worked for a grocery chain that was making increasing annual profits year after year. That same branch, let alone chain, continued to severely understaff the sales floor, resist giving out due raises, had a policy against ever coming close to overtime, and literally prevented every single cashier from being anything more than part time.

Shoplift. Shoplift to your heart’s content. Because I’m telling you that the guff they give low level/minimum wage workers is 100% bullshit. They’re feeding you lies in order to take the onus off of the bosses and owners for leeching off of your labour. They want you to despise both your fellow workers (“More workers steal than customers do”) and the poor and working class masses.

A franchise does not suffer from petty theft, even en masse. Unless we all unanimously rose up to tear these fuckers down, they have an intricate system of protections from banks, insurance, other company ventures, hoarded wealth of the owners, the state, etc that will protect the owners from ever taking a real hit. If they lay you fellows down it’s to boost their own salaries and year-end bonuses.

Don’t peddle their crap for them.

gendernoncompliantbi

Thing is is, as much m/f that is produced in the world, as a bi woman, sometimes I want to see a man fall in love with an obviously queer woman. I want to see a man realizing that the woman he is interested in is gnc and that isn't going to change.

gendernoncompliantbi

And women fall for GNC men! I want women who are enamored with their soft queer lover.

I want to see masc/masc and fem/fem m/f ships. Wlm and mlw can and should be queer in media.

gendernoncompliantbi

You know what, Im seeing my own post again and wanna say.... I wanna see queer makeover scenes and I wanna see the love interest gush.

I want the nerdy conservatively dressed girl bestfriend get her hair done and her fancy clothes on and she appears in a pressed suit. And I want the love interest to loose his breath because she's so handsome in a bow tie and slacks.

I want the guy in a skirt or a dress, I want his love interest so blown away by the way his nylons look.

I wanna see the girl give the boy a corsage.

I want gnc bi love. I want gnc love period ngl.

justsomeantifas

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

robobun

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

justsomeantifas

💅

aggrokawaii

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

amuseoffyre

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

notanadult

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

murderxbaby-deactivated20190102

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug.

dick-graysons-left-butt-cheek

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

iampikachuhearmeroar

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

torukun1

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

shipitbabyonemoretime

intersex-mhacha-deactivated2020

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

jeanjauthor

All of this.

claredevlingf-deactivated202207

THIS!

mittai

The argument that ‘biological differences’ make coed sports unfair is bs, because then we’d be directly segregating by things like metabolism levels, testosterone levels, height and weight. Not sex. Take one example: Michael Phelps. He has an innately higher lung capacity (twice that of the average person) that gives him an advantage. A biological difference that gives him an unfair advantage. Technically, if physical differences are unfair, he should be disqualified.

fish-to-male

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic

saturnialsapphic

Once, back when I worked in an LGBTQIA dungeon, I encountered a significantly older person who remarked to me that they hadn’t been to “this type of place” in decades. They struck up a conversation with me and told me how amazing it was to see an openly transexual youth such as myself. I asked them about their experiences with gender and they said “oh, well, I’m a bit male and a bit female. Men’s and women’s clothes, sometimes makeup in a suit, sometime fresh faced in a dress when I’m at home. You know, bisexual” Obv this puzzled me at first until I realized this person was using bisexual in a very, very, literal and old fashioned sense, as in, dual-sexed. Non-binary.

Y’all gotta understand there are generation gaps in the language we use and you open yourself up to a LOT of very interesting stories if you stop blocking off the past.

ittybittytatertot

One of the biggest problems with modern community is the idea that (white) western, post 2000s LGBT vocabulary is the only correct way to speak about sexuality and gender.

Like the freak outs under pictures of protests from the 70s-90s because signs and shirts say faggot and dyke and queer, as if these words weren’t a key part of identity and activism.

Beyond just English, I saw a couple people making fun of the term “gender x” in an anime…but why would a Japanese production adhere to English standards?

Or the way people talk about pronouns as if every language uses pronouns the same way as English.

It’s just…it indicates a mindset that these words are objective and written in stone and western youth culture is always the most correct in a way that…feels icky. Diversity in people includes diversity of language.

catchymemes

prof-grace-aspen

This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.

I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!

mieaouy

Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well

sushinfood

My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.

roseverdict

wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5

roseverdict

HOW THE FUCK

stargazing-enby

And that's that on that.

stargazing-enby

Apparently I wasn't done 🤔

lymmea

These are FABULOUS, OP, but can I suggest one to the riff of "QUEERNESS IS NOT DEFINED BY THE AMOUNT PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED"?

stargazing-enby

Thanks! Here you go 🥰

Some other additions:

Inspired by @unicorn-in-the-library:

And because @surfs-up-roxy wanted an ace one:

I didn't want to make the message ace-specific because I wanted to make a point of how all of the above include aspec people, but I tried to use an ace colour palette for the background :) I also think the message applies especially (even if not exclusively) to the ace community!

Hope you like these 🥰

prismatic-bell

@rockmarina possibly “all labels were made up at one point, stop being an ass”?

stargazing-enby

I played around with the concept a bit, I hope you like it anyway!

I feel like this also needs to be said:

dandyraccoonbeast

What about something to the tune of “queer language is not universal, sometimes the label someone uses will repulse you and that’s still none of your business”

stargazing-enby

Hope this is close enough!

And also, because the original banners were in dire need of a little update...

Rightwing white queers are a nightmare yall fuck

tkkatherineblog

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs