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Hi, I'm Vern!
I'm a Hellenic Polytheist primarily devoted to Lord Apollon. I worship all the gods.
I've been on my pagan path since 2019. I also tarot, journal, crochet, and write poetry! I tag my creations and poems for the Theoi with #ttcjournal and #ttcpoems.
I post spiritual things and fun sillies on here. Feel free to say hi! š
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It's still so funny to me that hobbit society has technology like pony-traps and handkerchiefs and post offices but the realms of Men and Elves, at least, are very much still in their version of the High Middle Ages. I would kill for a scene where Aragorn starts doing the whole Galavant thing - we shall meet when the night air grows as chill as the depths of Moria and the setting sun colours the sky that particular shade of blue as to recall to us the sinking of Numenor into the very Sea Itself - and Pippin just goes 'have none of you guys ever learned to use a freaking clock'.
Frodo offers to buy Gandalf a watch so he can actually be on time for once and nearly gets bodied into Bywater Pool.
Sam is nearly reduced to tears upon trying to learn Gondorian recipes because all the cooks in Minas Tirith are using that old medieval technique of recite five Paternosters and the fish will be perfectly fried. Please. They're called egg-timers. Every hobbit has one. He'll buy them one himself if they'll just let him cook like a normal person.
WAIT FUCK HANG ON
āIn the house of Elrond, and it is ten oāclock in the morning,ā said a voice. āIt is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.ā I seriously doubt Elrond has a big old cuckoo clock hanging around Rivendell and messing up the aesthetics so wizards evidentlyĀ doĀ keep timepieces about their person. Does Gandalf have a Rolex?
Gandalf knows exactly what time it is and is late on purpose.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to"
Precisely when he means to guys. He was telling everyone the whole time
yeah
me switching between lmao, lol, haha, and keysmashing to keep my laughter fresh and fun
One pool floatie to rule them all
in case anyone besides me wanted to see it in use :)
It took me a minute not gonna lie
we were meant to live slowly!!!! we were meant to savor moments and feel unabashedly lazy and frolic and smell the flowers and laugh with our entire hearts and love with our entire souls!!!!! donāt ever feel guilty for resting!!!!!! donāt ever feel guilty for slowing down!!!!!! enjoying life shouldnāt be something youāre ashamed of
Police may also feign kettles in order to cause a protest to disperse.
Protests that move quickly are harder to kettle (but are easier to split up as people get left behind). Something important to note is that kettles are used by police to gather intelligence. Police may tell you that you will be allowed to leave if you provide your name and your address, if you give information about other protestors etc. Police can and will lie to you, do not trust them. Never talk to cops. Being trapped in a kettle is stressful. Police may decide to arrest a few of you or all of you. Their goal is to gather information and to demoralize you. They might threaten or harass you. Your goal should be to remain calm and to help the people around you remain calm. Remember if nobody talks, everyone walks.
kettles are illegal in some places in the US. never forget that cops are above the law and break it all the time. do not be lulled into a false sense of safety by laws against kettles. "that's illegal! you can't do that!" does nothing to stop a drove of riot swine.
stay watchful even if kettles are illegal in your area
stay watchful even
if kettles are illegal
in your area
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Something something, teapot short and stout and steamed up, pot calling the kettle black, fuck the cops.
in the club wondering if people can tell iām traumatized by the way i carry my body
Tomorrow? like the thing that killed Macbeth?
letās be primitive horses with mama
u should be able to just live on a train like is that too much to ask. im tired of pretending its not my dream. why do we torture ourselves only being on trains to get places i need her at all times
On a train trip about a year ago, I was up late in the lounge car, which had a glass roof. Sitting there, staring up at the full moon as we travelled through the night. People at the table next to me were playing a game of cards and generally goofing around. Further down the car a man was softly playing guitar, while several other passengers sat around him having low conversations. It felt like something that could have happened any time that trains have existed, a human moment disconnected from the intense specificity of the present. Dreamlike and deeply grounded at the same time, it's like a cool, soothing breeze each time I think of it
Damn right I want to live on a train
Video from Aaron Parnas on Instagram.
Government controlled media is already reducing it to "hundreds" of people in the streets today, but rest assured it is tens of thousands of Minnesotans marching through downtown. Local folks on bluesky were saying all the buses were full, the metro trains were all full, the highways were empty on a Friday.
This is not insignificant. This is what resistance looks like. We outnumber them and we are organized
Shame might not work forever, but it *is* working *right now*.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
Key quotes from the article:
Researchers have known for decades that there are two primary types of people who perpetrate violence. The first is the small fraction who are independently motivated to commit violent acts. The second, and much larger group, are those who commit violence to seek approval and status from others. This is especially true among men who use violence to affirm their masculinity. Research on gender is particularly relevant for understanding ICE, which has an overwhelmingly male workforce and uses messages of masculinity and domination in its recruitment materials. A lot of men may be joining ICE because they think it will allow them to bond with other men and gain power in our society. ... To put it another way, the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of ā and reward them for ā that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether.
And, the kicker? Where it takes 2 or 3 agents to make an arrest elsewhere, they are traveling by the half dozens in Minneapolis:
ICE Watch organizers have also observed that it takes many more agents to make a single arrest when they are around. In other cities, ICE traveled in groups of two or three, but in Minneapolis, we primarily see groups of 6 to 12 agents. The Department of Homeland Security has pulled agents from other cities to ramp up efforts in Minnesota, which guarantees there will be fewer deportations from the places they left. Plus, ICE's fixation on breaking up ICE Watch groups and detaining observers ā often white citizens ā has interrupted its original mission.
ICE Watch is shaming ICE (among other things, including documenting their crimes and providing a lifeline to those who are kidnapped).
And it's working.
And even if it wasn't working to the efficacy as shown, it's (1) cathartic to jeer at these fascists, (2) shows support to the community that you are not alone in thinking these agents are scum, and (3) still helping because everyone who joins ICE is a social pariah and knows it *because of this outward and ongoing shame*.
It doesn't matter if they think we're degenerates. Sometimes the things us "degenerates" say will stick and hit a nerve.
These boys are falling apart so fast ICE is trying to recruit therapists. Which is what inspired my earlier post about how treating these guys is a huge liability therapists donāt want to take on.
Also it is critical to us in the target area to signal unambiguous support for our neighbors and that those opposing ICE have significant and broad support.
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Bhawani Das
