#mytwocents

[lunar-years]

Okay it’s silly to even be indulging this part of the discussion but TO ME in MY headcanon I think both Jonathan and Nancy do want kids (not 6 of them. Perhaps 2.) And while no, this is never something we see onscreen, I do feel it can be reasonably supported in the text based off of what we see in season 4.

Jonathan and Nancy have clearly had a discussion about their future. Yes, they are still high-schoolers but they are serious about one another and have experience a hell of a lot of life together. The show has shown them being emotionally vulnerable and having deep conversations with one another time and time again. And they have obviously, canonically, discussed going to college together! As a result of this, I do not think it’s super far-fetched to suggest they also spoke about their future together in terms of eventual marriage and children.

When Jonathan is freaking about his future kids hating him, he is also freaking about Emerson, and how he hasn’t applied, like Nancy thinks he has, due his own presumed obligation to his family. I personally think this all tied together. Jonathan’s fears go much deeper than college. They have discussed a real future together, kids and all, and now it’s freaking Jonathan the fuck out because he thinks he’s both holding Nancy back and that he will never be able to measure up to that future they have planned together, which he does want, but doesn’t feel he can grab a hold of. Because Jonathan doesn’t think his own dreams matter in the grand scheme of things!

Which is all to say, I do think Jonathan and Nancy have discussed kids. I do think they want a family together. And when I say “Steve and Nancy don’t want the same things” I don’t mean “Steve wants kids and Nancy doesn’t” I mean, “I think Nancy wants a future where establishing her career is her (and her partner with his respective career) first priority, and she wants to leave Hawkins and establish that career in a place very different from Hawkins. But I do not think she doesn’t want to get married and yes, eventually (like, in her mid-late 30s) start a family. I just think she wants that in a way that is very different from the life her mother has had, in marrying straight out of high school, becoming a stay-at-home mother, and never leaving her home town.”

[5oftwaregore]

i dont think being a girl would fix neil i think thatd make him worse actually

[theepicmirroregg]

A "Certain someone" posted something like " a donkey at the end of its wits"

This is the last post I will make on this topic, as I am against harassment and bullying. I won't say who exactly did it, but I don't want to just remain silent. I think the real donkey is you. First you publicly dragged @ephemerasnape through the mud because you didn't like the fanfiction about Rookwood and Anne. You always had the choice to press the X button and express your criticism objectively, which you didn't do. Furthermore, you claimed Ephemera's OC Oswald for yourself without giving her credit for this character, which is a shitty move by the way. Now you seriously stand up and say "you start a fight out of nowhere." Stop acting like the victim, because you are definitely not the victim—you 👏🏻are 👏🏻the 👏🏻bully. There is a saying that says "speech is silver, silence is golden" — and you should do that now and sit ya‘ ass down. You are not Slytherpuff— you belong to St. Mungo's

[disappointment-san]

Solomon's “please side with humanity” speech 

You want humans to be seen as equals, yet are completely fine forcing demons (+possibly angels)  into submission? Solomon, my sweet, my love, my annoying bio-weapon-making little troublemaker, that is not how that works.

(This next part was written a few days later)

Ok, so I've had time to marinate on this whole part, and I'm just gonna say it. I do not believe this question to be a 'us vs them', or even a 'demons vs humans' .

I believe this to be more of a "will you love me enough to choose me?" at a VERY bad time.

Like, look at the Suprise Guest interaction

He loves being in a domestic relationship with us/MC. He enjoys being with us without the interference of others *cough cough the brothers' cough*. I believe there is more to this than just "please choose me" but this is how I see it now.

How do you think the walk back the Cyprus Hall go? What conversation will they have? Will he finally tell us how he feels? Will it be overheard?

I am very excited to see where this goes and I am ready with the tissues.

[oeldeservesthenorris]

Normalize speaking about sensory processing disorder, and if the NHL wants to truly make Hockey for Everyone, incorporate guidelines into the game/event experiences to accommodate. That cannon for example - I mean, Elvis cannot be the only one this triggers.

Also unrelated to hockey but, it’s vital to discuss grief and PTSD because the process don’t always manifest the same way for everyone. This was incredibly brave of Elvis to share, but it shouldn’t HAVE to be such an anomaly, especially among men. 

[yasmijn]

Minggu lalu join seleksi wawancara Beasiswa Luar Biasa-nya KM-ITB, karena mereka emang buka slot donatur untuk ikutan jadi pewawancara. Mau ngomongin tentang peserta yang pertama. Sebelum wawancara, aku dikasih essay aplikasinya, yang isinya adalah kesulitan finansial - full tentang gimana keluarganya cuma disupport sama gaji ibunya yang nggak seberapa, nggak rutin, dan ayahnya yang lagi nggak bekerja sama sekali, juga hutang koperasi yang semakin menumpuk.

Aku nanya dia dapet UKT berapa, dia bilang awalnya dia dapet UKT 25 juta terus dikasih keringanan jadi 10 juta. Sebagai yang dulu semesterannya 5 juta, pas denger sekilas tentu agak bete ya sama kampus, kok slowresponse dan tega ngasih UKT 10 juta padahal emang secara perhitungan nggak akan sanggup bayar? Eh setelah ditanya lebih lanjut, ternyata dia masuk ITB nya lewat jalur mandiri.

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Kadang tuh penasaran deh, apa emang kurang jelas apa gimana ya? Pas anak-anak ini daftar-daftar kampus lewat pilihan jalur mandiri, yang harusnya secara logika tau dan sadar lah pasti akan lebih mahal. Menurutku, harusnya pas pendaftaran itu ada surat pernyataan bahwa dia mengerti dan paham bahwa jalur ini lebih mahal daripada SNMPTN dan SBMPTN dan dia memang sanggup membayar dan dia tidak akan mengajukan keringanan. Orangtuanya juga harusnya bisa kasih pengertian sih, dan si anak juga harusnya bisa mengukur kemampuannya sendiri, dan juga kemampuan orangtuanya. 

Maksudku, kalau memang terbatas secara finansial ya berjuanglah supaya bisa masuk jalur yang nggak membebani orang tua ☹️☹️☹️ Pas udah berhasil masuk jadinya pusing sendiri kan.

Sebagai orang yang pernah kerja di kampus, sedikit banyak paham lah bahwa emang kampus tuh gapunya uang. Dana operasional dari pemerintah nyampe setengahnya pun nggak, jadi emang harus puter otak untuk cari uang. Salah satu caranya adalah lewat jalur mandiri. Bahkan menurutku pribadi sih jalur mandiri ITB juga masih masuk akal gitu loh harganya, nggak sampai ratusan juga kayak di PTN-PTN lainnya. Kalau memang merasa jalur mandiri itu mahal, ya jangan masuk lewat situ karena berarti it’s not for you. Karena jadinya u mengambil jatah yang bukan milik u, dengan mindset ‘yaudahlah gimana nanti’, dan mengambil hak kampus juga untuk bisa dapet dana tambahan.

[luci-lle-e]

loose incense making

To answer to @liminalblessings : I’m not a specialist, I mostly use my instinct and some inspiriting things, like books (bio-regional old folklore for instance. I also find C. Boyer's books very inspiring even if she is not talking about incenses). I also use poetry (mine and the one from great poets), art (painting, linked to the ‘colors dance’ cause the final shape of the incense is also very important I think), my dreams and the little experience knowledge about plants I have acquired.

I harvest all the plants I use. I have the chance to live in a region where the vegetation is very rich in bio-diversity, between valleys and top of the mountains. I don’t like buying dry plants but it’s sometimes very useful to make some exchanges with other practitioners (for example to have resins who are not available in my country like dragon’s blood or olibanum.)

I also try to gather resin from trees when it’s needed. And I don’t hesitate to put ‘extras’ on it (things who are not usually seen in an incense like hairs, feathers, bone powder, insect powder, etc.)

Offering incense is (for me) the only possibility we have actually to make blood sacrifices regularly to pay homage to our land, so I take this very very seriously.

All my pickings are ritualized. I don’t pick anything "until" I donate something to the earth. And my gifts are always made up of things that are important to me.

Also I always gather less than I’m thinking I need. (And in the end I have always more than I thought.)

To finish, I use planetary correspondences, of course. But it’s not correspondences I learned from books, it's things I learned directly from my land observations crossed with things I have read in books.

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The well known site of W. Rost : Pflanzenkunst, provide useful infos from someone truly passionate about plants, trees, resins and her link section is also very interesting.  Particularly this old link  : https://www.making-incense.com/

Also the book : “Herbs and things, a Jeanne Rose Herbal”  teaches me a lot.

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[rayrod67]

Here's my theory for what it's worth. I think both Ben and Denny go in the water. In the promo picture Ben has water falling from his jacket. It's very noticeable. Denny does as well. Both Phil and Keanu have drops falling from there hands but very little. I think they fight and either knock both Denny and Ben in or they knock Denny over and Ben goes in after. Denny dies and Sharon cancels Keanu . Anyway my two cents.