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Erin/Ovi/Ghoul. Ace. 29. He/She/They. Bipolar. Friendly Reminder: Take your meds. Hellenic Polytheist. Devotee of Thanatos, Hypnos, Prometheus and Dionysus. Witch. Current Song: Broken Drum Remix by Beck, Boards of Canada.

[thanatoseyes]

This is my introduction post. Howdy! Aloha! Hi. . . I'm not great when it comes to talking about myself, but here are a few things about me.

My name is Ovi, Erin, or Ghoul, whichever you prefer I'll answer to either. I am an adult, so this blog has adult themes and swearing. Just how the dice fall I'm afraid. I'm Bipolar. I've had psychotic symptoms in the past. I am medicated. If you feel like asking anything, I'm pretty open about it.

I am a Hellenic Polytheist, with many many many different interests and devotions.

Here is a list of the deities I worship/work with:

Greek Pantheon -

Thanatos, Hypnos, Prometheus, Dionysus, Ariadne, Ares, Hermes, Hades, Persephone, and Hekate.

Extension: Hero Worship

Tiresias

Norse Pantheon -

Freyja, Loki

Celtic Pantheon -

Brigid

Mesopotamian Pantheon -

Tiamat

Inanna

Egyptian Pantheon -

Thoth

Ars Goetia -

Stolas

Buer

Asmodeus

Luciferian (Lucifer)

Yes, I know it's a lot, but these are all deities who have inspired or reached out to me and honestly, it just makes sense. Most of them are chaotic beings and that's usually how my life works.

Some other facts about me are that I am queer, genderfluid, and have a lovely wife. I'm also a witch! A Southern Witch specifically.

That's about it. I think. I'm pretty open to discussions, so feel free to drop an ask.

And! I've made a gift registry if anyone wants to buy me books.

Fable: Ghoul 🦌

[fictionalgod]

[bizarreauhavre]

Devil and snake occult ceremony ritual dagger. (19th century)

[guerrillatech]

[coelii]

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

[kinkykinard]

[simply-a-dream]

“don’t take it personally” how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?

[creative-anchorage]

[suriandtaal]

[thulium]

[skygenders]

College should be free and you should be able to study “useless” degrees just for the love of learning

[damazcuz]

Are you doing okay? We missed you at the devil's sacrament. He mentioned you by name. Everyone was looking around and cheering until we realized you weren't there. If you need to talk I'm always here. At the aforementioned devil's sacrament.

[jehovahhthickness]

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

[jehovahhthickness]

Okay inflation is crazy.

We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.

[victusinveritas]

Like this sort of thing? Follow sluttyprimarysource on Threads and think about reading Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson.

[thisusernameisunique]

You know what always gets me. The american way of fork swapping. Yes you cut your meat with a knife in your right hand but then you have to swap the fork to your right hand because no one taught you how to eat off an upside down fork in left hand.

[pansyfemme]

hits your cervix with my car

[ithinkihaveanaddictionproblem]

what

[pansyfemme]

beep beep

[kuttithevangu]

In folk music men are always dying in industrial accidents and women are always haunting stuff. What if a woman dies in an industrial accident and a man walks these hills in a long black veil. What then

[animentality]

[rebeccasteventaylor]

My workplace recently had a thing about ‘do you know how many days we lose to stress related sick days? Here are some ways to manage stress’ and it’s things like ‘keep a gratitude journal’

But I don’t know - when I started work, many decades ago, it was expected you’d start at 9, finish at 5. You’d get your lunch break. You are expected to give about 70% of yourself the majority of your time. The last hour of each day and Friday afternoon were quiet times. There was time in the day to hang out with your coworkers for ten minutes talking about anything, not just work.

Now you’re expected to come in early and leave late and work through lunch. Give 100% all the time, more if you can push it. Don’t take leave. Work every second of every day as hard as you can push yourself. Do not waste time in the kitchen just chatting. Why aren’t you working harder?

And perhaps we’re burning out and take massive amounts of stress leave not because we’re not keeping a gratitude journal but because we are all being pushed to breaking point consistently, day after day, until we snap.

The older days weren’t perfect. But there was an understanding that work wasn’t life, and we could relax a little at work and still get paid enough to live. Now we are expected to give everything we’ve got, then give more, and not get paid enough to do something as simple as get a coffee after work. Even our hobbies are supposed to be monetised.

I blame Reagan and Thatcher but also blame every business leader since then who thought that pattern of work was in any way sustainable.

[kauricat]

This is how it used to be in the U.S.

One of the big things that changed a lot of workplaces from this prior mentality to the way it is now was the big Recession in 2007 - 2008.

It was a scary time. So many people lost their jobs. Even places that didn't do layoffs shrank their teams by attrition.

And that left a lot of work that still needed to be done.

The folks who were lucky enough to stay on worked really hard to get that extra work done, because they were terrified of they didn't, they would be next on the chopping block.

And it was not an idle fear; management basically said it out loud, "Do the work of two people, or you're next. There are a lot of jobless folks who would be grateful for your job, and we could replace you in the blink of an eye."

And then they told themselves, "Oh, so they CAN do more, with the proper motivation!"

And they did all their forecasting and budgeting based on employees who were working at a fever pitch out of fear. For the rest of forever.

If we hadn't let the unions go the way we did, things might be different now. They'd have been able to push back and say "Hey. The Recession is over! Time to ease up on burning through your employees' health!"

But we decided to believe the anti-union propaganda, and they lost a lot of their power to protect the workers.

[teawitch]

I'm old enough to have gone to corporate seminars on stress back then. Because it was one of the big employee concerns - we are all suffering from stress and overwork.

So corporations brought in speakers who told us that stress was a sign of growth and that if we weren't feeling stress, it meant we were stagnant. And of course stagnant people weren't contributing as much as they could to the company.

Oh, there were exciting techniques presented, like write what's stressing you on a piece of paper then crumple it up and throw it in the trash to throw away your stress. Because, of course, you were stressed about a single specific task and just needed to move that out of the way.

I left that job during a round of layoffs. I remember reading reports from psychologists that they were finding that the people who were let go actually had less stress than those who kept their jobs. Less money and less financial security, sure. But the less stress part had everyone in shock.

There is a difference between being busy and being stressed. Turns out the constant threat of layoffs does a lot to create stress. While just working a few extra hours to complete a project might leave you tired but not necessarily stressed.

Sometimes you have to leave a job before things get better.

[enki2]

[vblaqk]

taipopo729 今日の絵 英雄への献花

Today's drawing A floral tribute to a hero

[cottoncanyon-deactivated2018012]

Reblog if it’s ok for people to give you $599.99