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Trollmoot – a discord server for worship and work with troll spirits and the Jötnar
Trollmoot is an online 18+ gathering space for those who worship and work with troll spirits and the Jötnar. Whether you're experienced in trolldöm (Scandinavian folk magic), curious about working with trolls, or seeking community with fellow practitioners, you'll find a home in Trollmoot.
The meeting space of trolls, Jötnar, and their devotees. All are welcome here. | 40 members
Hail to you Loki Revealer of Corruption, Speaker of Hard Truths May your presence drain the festering wound Remove the infection from flesh And grant it godly hue once again Sly One, Protector of Those Brave Enough to Speak Out May we speak with unfettered tongues And reveal the hard won truth We hold your torch in our hands
Never forget, this is what Russia pays her to do.
No one does more damage to their own self proclaimed values than third party voters.
How much environmental legislation might have been passed by a President Gore, in comparison to President Bush's real life terms? Great job, Ralph Nader--you handed anti-environmentalist Republicans two presidential terms and set the fight against climate change back by a decade.
How much do you want to bet that Jill Stein and Ralph Nader both received extensive financial and legal support from the Republican Party?
No bet. I know I’d lose.
You will not see any political posts on my blog except this one most likely.
Fuck Ralph Nader. Fuck him and his bullshit and fuck Jill Stein.
I'm old. I voted for Al Gore. I sat up all night watching the tallies for each state come in on TV and seeing how Ralph Nader had given George W. Bush juuuuuuust enough of a margin to be able to twist our stupid Electoral College in his favor and take the election.
And then we had to wait for Florida and their goddamn "hanging chads" which is a debacle of its time that will make anyone of a certain age groan and roll their eyes. Because Florida.
George W. Bush received fewer votes than Al Gore. Period. More Americans voted for Al Gore. By all rights he should have been our president. The man who was pushing for climate change science 20+ years ago while everyone openly mocked him in the media.
But Ralph Nader just kept running for president!! 1972, 1980, 1992, 1996... and nobody ever really took him all that seriously. He never had a real political "party" until the Green Party formed in 2000. But the thing is. Ralph Nader purposefully fucked the election. He wasn't trying to win. He knew he could at best, hope for 5% of the popular vote. Towards the end of the campaign time, the "run up", the candidates should be focused on states that will matter most. Him being a small, supposedly environmentally focused independent candidate, should have been campaigning to get tons of votes in big liberal states like California and New York where he had the most appeal.
What did he do instead?? He spent all his time in swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania, attacking Al Gore. He knew he was pulling Democratic votes away from Gore in states where it would matter. He was purposefully trying to run as a spoiler. And he spoke often about his support for Bush. Fuck Ralph Nader. Thanks to him we got George W. Bush and watched our civil liberty erode for decades. (Reminder, Bush INVENTED the Dept of Homeland Security. And it was supposed to be temporary after 9/11. Now they treat it like our very own secret police. But I digress.)
Now we've got Nader 2 Electric Boogaloo with Jill Stein in the 2016 election. The Green Party strikes again. Using the same old playbook. It's the exact same story. Hillary Clinton wins the popular vote, more Americans voted for her. But the Electoral College says the other guy is president because Jill Stein and the Green Party did such a good job siphoning off liberal votes. Nice work!! Hope you all enjoyed the fruits of your labor with the state of the world you ushered in.
And now in 2024 they're looking for a repeat. Fuck off. Just fuck all the way off.
The Electoral College needs to be abolished. But until that time comes, third party candidates are not feasible and voting for them as a liberal is naive. You are not helping anyone. You are not "sending a message". You are not changing anything. You are wasting your vote on a candidate who will not win instead of voting for someone who actually has a chance of doing some good. I'm very sorry if the Democratic candidate is not perfectly aligned to your particular beliefs. Please think of everyone else and practice harm reduction and vote for them anyway. One of two people is going to win. Would you rather it be the person you disagree with, or the openly fascist racist rapist dictator who wants to turn this country into the evangelical third Reich? Choose wisely.
I Would Write Us a Masterdoc If It Meant You’d Look My Way (Again)
I pull up the concert footage and show my friend, explaining the story behind it They laugh at the fact he was waiting in the wings “Could you imagine not being over someone after nearly 20 years? That’d be the worst” And I laugh too telling them I couldn’t Shoving your name down from behind my teeth (Stuffing it back into the box where it belongs) The images rush me still Of swollen lips in the rain kissed just a little too hard Of the shadows of empty hallways and bathroom stalls Of the softness of her brown eyes, always so distantly sad Of the last time I laid my head on your shoulder to rest (The last mercy you granted me) My throat clenches for a moment As I think about how you told me that if it was meant to be We’d meet again after college, we were too young to be this serious I’m almost done with my Masters and still waiting like you’ll call me Trying to ignore every dream where we meet again, ex friends to the end I guess (It's been 10 years, I doubt you’d even remember where to find me) And then it’s his eyes looking at me curled in his bed from across his room Bathed in the soft glow of a computer As my heart hammers in my throat like it’s calling to him Begging him to cross the room and make everything more complicated Wondering through the slightly drunken haze if his was racing too (Knowing I’ll never know the answer) He once told me that all of his dreams were nightmares But in my dreams he holds my face and kisses me gently Telling me that he remembers these the most and he’ll see me again The ache in my chest stings like a reopened scar Maybe we were just fireworks that went off too soon (I try to forget that 4th of July) Somehow I think you both have the same eyes That same distant sadness, that same warm earth Like a sunset in the desert that I needed to get lost in Maybe I was already lost Maybe I’ll never be found (I gave too many pieces of myself to you) I’m sorry every poem is about you How deep I can get into my own heartbreak Forgetting that I should be happy for the lives you have now Maybe these are the last blues I’ll ever have Maybe I should drown in them (I am a patchwork of all the people I’ve ever loved)
i couldn't bring myself to call (except to call it quits) 🌧☎️
nintendo: can't have alcohol in our child gambling games!!! solution???
vacation juice
Me after consuming nineteen (19) glasses of vacation juice:
“ I know her satellite coordinates. I know her IP address.”
-Bloodhunter, upon rolling a Nat 20 investigation check to determine another character’s location.
down with found family. UP with FOUND DIVORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
getting many questions about FOUND DIVORCE. FOUND DIVORCE is when TWO PEOPLE who were NOT EVEN MARRIED are already DIVORCED. thank you.
Have people heard of falling fruit? It's a map that marks off foraging locations that are accessible on public land.
It's global and crowdsourced and points you towards FREE FRUIT. (And herbs and nuts and things.) They have an app too but the app costs $2 and you can still pull up the map on your mobile browser for free.
A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and sha
This is how I found those park cherries!
happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only
Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal
Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only
aint it crazy how many people realize they're queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????
I never stop enjoying reading this. Literally everyone's lives improves.
Ancient legends say that if you reblog this on June you get 110% gayer and stronger
All skirt/dress wearers when we discover they have functional pockets 😍
It’s also worth mentioning that this is the guy who posted this:
His name is Jim Sterling and he is a rather… colorful games journalist who actually uses his platform to report on stuff like horrible working conditions, abuse and even stuff like sexual assault in the games industry.
He also raised concerns about the addictive nature of stuff like loot boxes and micro transactions long before anyone else did.
They recently came out as non-binary “gender trash” (his words, not mine) and uses he/they/any pronouns according to his Twitter. Give their videos a look see if you are interested in hearing about workers rights in the creative industry.
we love and appreciate James Stephanie Sterling in this house
Jim used to be a relatively big name reviewer back in the Angry Trillby Reviewer Days until they suddenly ‘quit’ their job with the very prominent games journalism company they worked for and were summarily blacklisted by the entire AAA industry.
Why? Because a massive scandal broke at the major game publisher Ubisoft revealing a culture of systematic sexual abuse, including high-ranking officials within the company that would regularly drug and rape female employees, which management and HR seemed fully aware of and would protect and move around the perpetrators Catholic-church-style. Reviewers were told not to talk about it and, when it became impossible to contain, to not talk about it where it’s “irrelevant” – that is, never mention or hint at any such stuff when actually reviewing and promoting Ubisoft games, because it’s a separate thing, see, no need to distract from the game (Ubisoft’s goal here was to be able to continue to advertise their games to players who hadn’t heard about it, and wait out the scandal until those who had just assumed everything was dealt with and forgot, which worked).
Jim refused. They knew this would tank their career, they knew they were throwing away an incredibly promising future. They did it anyway.
James Stephanie Sterling in one of a very small number of game reviewers out there with an actual fucking spine and a moral code made from titanium. They’re still effectively blacklisted from the industry, because since then they’ve refused to reform and play Good PR Robot like reviewers are supposed to do (because the AAA games industry thinks ‘reviewer’ and ‘critic’ are synonyms for ‘PR person in a gig economy’), shining light on repeated abuses and scandals in the industry, both internal scandals like this (discrimination, worker abuse, fraud, the normalisation of crunch culture and not paying workers) and ways at which the AAA industry scams players (abuses of early access, loot boxes and ‘pay to win’ mechanics that used to be the realm of free-to-play games now dominating paid titles while the prices of those titles also go up, abusive subscription models and ‘always online’ services, fun little tricks that companies love to pull with “remastered” games, and lately NFTs). Jim’s usually a good six months to a full year ahead of the curve on spying out this bullshit, able to see and warn about it before it becomes trendy enough for other reviewers to touch, and the result has been being continually silenced by game companies and passively buried by algorithms due to illegitimate DCMA takedowns, incorrect copyright strikes spurious lawsuits, being frozen out of gaming news, and whatever other nasty tricks people can pull. They came out as nonbinary very shortly before hitting a million subscribers (despite the forces agaisnt them) and then suddenly lost a lot of subscribers over a short period of time. Which was surely a complete coincidence. Yep. Just a coincidence. Have they backed down on literally anything? No. Because they decided to do this properly despite the cost and they are NOT fucking around.
They also call out particularly bad bullshit of indie developers (we’re talking the con artists and bigots in indie development in particular), not just AAA, which once hilariously resulted in a tiny no-name developer attempting to sue them for TEN MILLION DOLLARS. (Well, I found it hilarious after the fact. It was incredibly frustrating and somewhat stressful for Jim at the time, if one of the more ridiculous silencing tactics.) You can see them report on that here:
They are also a wrestler.
They choke slam people
I am not kidding
Pronoun update! According to their instagram, Steph uses She/They pronouns and they have genuinely never seemed happier the whole time I’ve been a fan, which started waaaay back in the Escapist days. I’m so proud of her and how far she’s come- and they’ve never once slacked on their principals the whole time. They employ queer folks, advocate for us, she shout outs amazing smaller games with healthy business practises- and she fucking chokeslams people for fun in the ring. My favourite heel, Commander Sterling: I thank God for her <3
honestly shocked it took this long for me to find love for our girl on tumblr, I got into her videos just before the transition started and seeing her joy helped me along my journey as well
check out her videos!
She’s also been losing followers each video since she came out, so please do support her and spread the word
shocked nobody added a clip of Commander Stephanie Sterling choke slamming <3
Wow! This post went ways I could have never expected when I originally posted the Twitter post! I’m glad!
need a full body massage a margarita 400mg of ibuprofen a plate of brownies at least an hour in a jacuzzi and 20,000 dollars cash
reblog to give a mutual a full body massage a margarita 400mg of ibuprofen a plate of brownies at least an hour in a jacuzzi and 20,000 dollars in cash
no I'm not kidding (x) (x) (x) (x)
You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.
Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.
And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.
Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.
On a related note, that post also opened up the world of naps for me. I used to think that napping was mostly pointless for me, because I'm pretty much incapable of falling fully asleep in the middle of the day. But when I redefined naps to include "lying down with my eyes shut for an hour," even if I just spent the whole time brainstorming fanfiction, that was often enough to get me from "exhausted and running on 4 hours of sleep" to energized and refreshed
The post (?) as found on Reddit with bonus explanatory Reddit comment.
sorry i don’t think ill ever get past the blatant racism in the fact that the italian and irish mobs are heavily romanticized and almost idolized while latino/african american mobs and gangs are seen as the scum of the earth who single handedly ruin society. not saying either is good or anything but the absolute polar opposite way that white organized crime vs non-white organized crime is treated by media and white society is fucking nuts to me. just blatant stone cold hypocrisy
like white people organized crime is cool and sexy and movies and tv shows about it are classics (the godfather, the sopranos) but if black or latino people have organized crime and make music about it then it’s the reason society is collapsing or whatever and it’s glorifying violence. what if everything was equally nuanced
This might be the best thing ever filmed.
I’ve seen the gif, but it’s even better with the context of how little time it took.
please watch this show
Happy anniversary, Stonewall riots! Stay revolutionary!
