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@gravesywavesy ‘s side of fries. reblogs, comforts, kin, interest playground zone (24y/o)

[sleepysimonstars]

Hihihi I’m Simon I’m the host of our system. Bodily 24 but I age slide (anywhere from 5 to body age but usually in increments of 5) . All of us can use this blog DONT BE SHY <3! but I’m the admin ok?ok

This is where we put reblogs and yapping and wips and stuff! learning to embrace freak shit and I hornypost here sometimes so no minors pls thanks <3

Kinposting about: Cesare Bigtop Burger, Spamton G. Spamton, Silco, Eddie Gluskin, Ice King!! & others I think

If you couldn’t tell my favorite color is blue and also my favorite shape is a star!

art tag is #simon scribbles

nsfw tag is #simon slimin

yapping is #simon stars

[cutiepieautistic]

Ddexplores on tiktok!

[zipsunz]

i trust you two more than anything

[sleepysimonstars]

I think balding women are hot, I love when women have receding hairlines or pronounced widows peaks or thinning hair. Idk why im thinking about this again. Stupid thing to try to make people insecure about.

[songsofbloodandwater]

Decolonizing means we're going to have to learn to leave some words behind.

Decolonization isn't a metaphor. It isn't some untouchable ideal. It's an active, constant process of undoing and unlearning, while re-learning and re-making ourselves.

The world has moved on, indigenous peoples are exhausted of saying this, but some people are still stuck in 1900's racist terminology. Eliade, author that, in my opinion, we have to thank for popularizing the term "shamanism", claimed that the rituals of shamans are first and foremost ancient techniques in "primitive" cultures.... which ties back to the racist idea that some peoples and traditions are less developed, "savages, primitives", less evolved than the white people who engaged in "advanced, civilized" european religions.

"The Tungus (also known as Evenki) word saman or xaman, from which the term “shaman” is derived, is among the most frequently used indigenous terms in the history of religions and anthropology. Other examples, historical or contemporary, are fetish from the Portuguese Congo, mana from Melanesia, tabu (taboo) from Polynesia, totem (dotem) from the Ojibwa in North America, and potlatch from the North West coast of North America. These and other concepts were uncritically employed as comparative notions in anthropology until they fell into disrepute with the abandonment of reductionist evolutionary theory during the 1920s. Since that time, scholars have called attention to the semantic problems of taking words out of their original linguistic, religious, and cultural contexts in order to give them a universal meaning."

"In the history of religions and anthropology the term “shaman” has become a common denominator for religious specialists in indigenous traditions outside the Western cultural sphere, particularly in so-called “primitive” cultures. The predominant view among specialists on shamanism has been that the shaman can only exist in simple communities, i.e., in nomadic cultures based on hunting, fishing, and gathering. As we shall see, anthropologists have developed a predilection for the dichotomy “shaman” versus “priest” when describing religious specialists operating in non-Western cultures. In this model, “shaman” designates a “primitive” religious specialist living in allegedly “simple” tribal communities whereas the “priest” is a religious specialist in hierarchically organized (e.g., self-styled “civilized”) urban societies."

— both quotes are from Pharo, Lars. (2011). A Methodology for a Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Concepts “Shaman” and “Shamanism”. Numen. 58. 6-70. DOI: 10.1163/156852711X540087.

Because I don't have the time nor energy to write a detailed post myself, I'm going to invite the community to these light readings below, and to look into their further reading, as to educate themselves on why certain terms belong in the past and should stay there.

6 Reasons To Rethink The Use Of The Word "shaman"

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use the word shaman out of context. I see it as a huge problem within the pagan, witchcraft, and

7 More Reasons To Stop Using The Word Shaman

Following the post “6 Reasons to Stop Using the Word Shaman,” I decided to clarify some of the more controversial points of contention and a

If you want an alternative culturally neutral term, these days we're using the terms "ritualist", "ceremonialist", "ritual specialist" or similar. I also would like to invite people to learn their own culturally-specific terminology, really put some intentionality behind researching your own culture and language and learn the right words for what you're doing, without appropriating and misusing terms from indigenous cultures.

[jessiewithaj]

sex, but instead of fucking you, we both get naked and i hold your head in my lap and forgive you for everything you think you've done wrong.

[jessiewithaj]

hey every girl rbing this with "please", "need", or somesuch, come here.

i am giving you a big hug from which you cannot escape.

i am squeezing you into my chest until all that tension eases and you can relax and feel safe in my arms.

[jessiewithaj]

happy Pride, all you traumatized, touch-starved lesbians <3

[valtsv]

"here's my original character, Man Who Sucks But Loves His Daughter Very Much" and it's a guy who worships at the altar of patriarchal violence and the woman he uses as an excuse and an effigy to absolve him

[violaboss]

I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

sleep (eric whitacre) (added by thelonecomposer)

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

egmont overture (added by shayshay526)

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

jazz suite no. 2 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

moto perpetuo (paganini)

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology, iwillsavemyworld, shayshay526, eternal-cadenza, tropicalmunchakoopas, shadowraven45662, and thelonecomposer for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

[neurodiversitysci]

I love this!

The Sean from Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens is also great falling asleep music.

[podfixx]

The final bullet point entry made me chortle and LOL!

[wiles-art-blog]

It's make a terrible comic day.

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[greedydemands]

if youre black and planned on watching the finale of tvl, don’t. they have the man who lynched Louis carve a branding onto him while his head is severed from his body. there is nothing to see but pure and plain hatred of black people, of louis and jacob especially. jacob is being publicly humiliated and paraded around like this is a slave auction by rolin jones and hannah moskovitch and amc all together and i can assure you I personally will never watch a single second of anything amc makes and this will go down in textbooks next to birth of a nation for graphic grotesque whitelash and punishment of black ppl for Black Lives Matter movement. don’t watch this and let the black people in your life know not to watch it either

[dulxelexhe]

pov: ur those murkoff scientist who observes the reagents

project boneryard is cool, i like it

[moosopp-art]

[OC] 💙🌼

Daybreak returns on JULY 28 on webtoon!

[swearphil]

@giftober 2025 | Day 5: Buildings

I like tall buildings so I can leap off of 'em...

[spicymochi]

they are sitting and pondering

[panpan203]

This is just calisthenics

[brickerbrackerdoodle]

Prediction: Amelia’s new escape plot will culminate in the reagents flying away in hot air balloons.