Acanthus Hljóðvé

You can call me Acanthus! Yep, after the plant. My altar is home to Hellenic, Gaelic, Norse gods, and so far one Kemetic god. He/They pronouns, thx Nazis unkindly FUCK OFF @netherdraws._.art is my art Insta The pfp is by Scheadar on DeviantArt so not my art! The banner is a free stock image from Unsplash

[the-amazing-fire-fox]

Welcome to my Tumblr!

I go by Acanthus or Nether! I’m a 22 yrs old Georgia peach 🍑 ⚝Why Acanthus or Nether?⚝ My pagan name Acanthus comes from the greek name for the thorny plant genus of the same name. I feel it symbolizes the hard things I've gone through in the past but also the strength gained from those things. I actually went through a ceremony with a based and progressive pagan church to formally have that name. Nether is from a fursona I made a long time ago inspired in not small part from Minecraft that I threw all my gender longings at before I realized I was transmasc. I go by both at the same time because I think trans people with multiple names is badass.

Pronouns: He/They Transmasc bisexually vibing in that space between being a trans man and nonbinary ⚧ I’m about to go on T soon through Plume just gotta schedule my first appointment! In a LDR with a Scottish transfemme who is the loml, I wanna put a ring on her so baddd ♥♥ ∞AuDHD with anxiety and depression wooo ⋆˚ʚɞ

☿ The main gods in my Hearthcult are Dionysus, Hermes, and Brigid! ☿ My practice started when I was 14 as a Lokean witch and now it’s shifted to a loose Hellenic recon with so many gods I can barely handle it /lh ☆ I love doing divination and have a big tarot/oracle deck collection I do tarot readings on my Kofi 🀧⛤☾☾𖤓⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆ I’m super into all things horror and I am a scare actor every October I also do cosplay horror characters but not as much as I used to because adult life keeps getting the way boooo {¬ºཀ°}¬ I’m a mish mash of goth and emo in style and music taste

[theangryman]

Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars

Transgender men say they are often harassed, denied medically necessary care and “forced to be someone” they're not while incarcerated.

absolutely fucking sick to death of “trans men are privileged because they don’t get v-coded in prison”

[angel-bunny-writes]

just so we're very clear

the fact that SOME trans women and fems are enbyphobic and transmisandrist doesn't give ANYONE the right to misgender them, deadname them, or be otherwise transphobic/transmisogynistic.

i saw someone call a trans woman a "shemab" for holding those opinions, and that's not something we do here, folks!!! i won't tolerate that!!!

at the end of the day, trans women are our sisters and we should strive to be in community with them, as long as they show mutual respect. but name-calling and such behavior is NEVER acceptable.

[washedoutwings]

loki devotee ask game

// plain text: loki devotee ask game /

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🐍 do you consider yourself a lokean, norse pagan, heathen, or other label?

🕷️ do you worship/work with any other members of the norse pantheon

🐺 do you worship/work with any of loki's children (Fenrir, Hel, Jörmungandr, Narfi, Váli, and Sleipnir) and/or his wife (Sigyn)?

🔥 what are some of loki's identifiers/signs in your practice?

🍃 what are some of loki's favorite offerings in your practice (of any type)?

🎵 what pronouns do you use for loki?

🐀 how does loki appear for you?

🥃 how do you connect with loki in your daily life?

🪲 what drew you to working with loki?

♠️ how do you communicate with loki?

🩶 how long have you worked with loki?

🧱 share any details about your practice :]

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[rainbow-runes]

Treasure Finder II

Trickster makes the world by giving the gods their most important symbols, thereby making Them who they are. Inspired by the Snaptun Stone. Original is acrylic on wood.

I liked this version my better, but unfortunately, I can't sell prints because I worked too close to the edges and the printer cuts bits of it off. :/ oh well. I'm trying to fix it in GIMP, but I'm not great at painting in GIMP yet.

[morbidmomma]

Loki

Art by morbidmomma

[norsepagan-moodboard]

April Fools, Loki’s Day themed Lokean Moodboard

[morbidmomma]

Mischief

[inside-absinthe-dreams]

In mythology Loki is associated with knots and nets. There is a myth in which he invents the fishing net (and the gods immediately use it to chatch him, of course).

Does this mean that wearing fishnet stockings is a devotional act?

[the-amazing-fire-fox]

I really love this idea!

[the-entity-down-the-street]

Nobody:

Loki:

[transmasc-theory]

"Go outside" not in the sense of "be in nature to reset your brain a bit" but in the sense of "go and look at how the world actually operates when you aren't in a bubble of people with your shared thoughts and beliefs every so often to remind yourself of how privilege actually operates in the real world."

"Trans men aren't victims of real transphobic violence, they're just seen as mentally ill girls (and therefore safe)" is a belief that only exists if you have never seen how women with schizophrenia are treated. Look at how conservatives SNEER the words "mentally ill" when talking about LGBT people they want to murder. Them calling you "mentally ill" is not a sign they want to protect you and help you "recover" like you think it is due to spending time on sites that are generally more positive to mentally ill people. When conservatives call someone mentally ill, they want that person locked up and forcibly medicated for the rest of their natural lives at best, and killed at worst. Go outside. Watch.

[orphanedsource]

the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you

[revcleo]

This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.

This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.

[penrosesun]

I have a friend who was strongly against inclusive bathrooms because he felt that “bathroom stalls are already really exposed due to how they’re constructed, so no wonder women don’t want men in the same bathrooms as them” and when I pointed out that we could just… build better bathrooms… with less exposed stalls, he got really quiet and then said “honestly that sounds so much better, but there must be some problem with building them like that, because otherwise wouldn’t we already be doing it?” BESTIE we are. WE ARE. Old-style bathrooms are cheaply made, poorly designed, and all around bad. Haven’t you noticed that men’s restrooms rooms get weirdly sticky? Haven’t you noticed that women’s restrooms end up with giant lines? This is because these rooms are architecturally awful. And we can do better now, because we know more! And we are!!! People are actively designing better bathrooms that address known problems, and guess what: those bathrooms are “inclusive” in the same way that curb-cuts are inclusive. It doesn’t matter if the ramp was built for a wheelchair or a stroller; it doesn’t matter if the bathrooms were designed specifically for gender inclusivity or just because fall-apart-if-you-sneeze-on-them metal stall dividers with giant ass peek gaps suck. We can in fact improve our built environment to better meet our needs. Stop cutting off your nose to spite your face; stop settling for less just because someone else might also enjoy it.

[english-mace]

Seattle's SEA-TAC airport has an all gender restroom that's a row of about a dozen fully enclosed separated little rooms that lock, with a shared bank of sinks and it's great. Love it. Lot of very strange encounters at the sinks, feels odd the first few times! But people laugh it off almost instantly. Because it's not actually a big deal to share a sink.

[snazzymolasses]

Every single one of you uses a shared gender bathroom every day.

It's called the bathroom in your house.

Both male and female people have used that bathroom. For some folks, daily.

Nothing bad happens.

You have total privacy while in there because you can completely shut the door.

Now imagine that, but in a public building. Just a bathroom like the one in your house (without the tub/shower). With a door that fully closes and locks.

Nothing bad will happen. We'll all just enjoy more privacy.

[beggars-opera]

Things I would like to have, immediately:

Autumn temperatures

Apple cider with cinnamon stick

Pumpkin picking

Weather under 70 degrees

Halloween decorations

Horror movies on tv

Lack of heat

Walks in the graveyard

Ghost hunting expeditions

Cool, breezy, chilly, brisk, refreshing, no-humidity air

[chatnoob2thescreamingparrot]

I wish more people coming into greek mythology as a fandom and not a religion would realize that it is in fact one practiced actively by real people.

That's not to say you can't enjoy it as a fandom. So much media is based off the greek mythos, and the poems and media that tell those stories are themselves media.

But I've also seen to many people carry over fandom arguments into actual hellenist spaces. Which is not okay. The gods, as gods, as a religion, are not inheritly good or evil. The concept that God must be good is one held in Abrahamic religions, not pagan ones.

The are gods and are forces of nature and the domains they represent. They are not good or evil, they simply are.

Do not bring your fandom into someones religion, and do not argue about it to them. You are enjoying a peice of media, they are practicing a religion, these fundamentally different things and both sides need to respect that

[p0rcelain-pup]

i love my black trans siblings, i love my indigenous trans siblings, i love my latine trans siblings, i love my arab trans siblings, i love my asian trans siblings, i love all of my trans siblings of color. yall are so important to our community <3

[aaeternamque]

The Spirit of Spongecake Day and the Passage of Time

I'm 33 now. I've got silver hair coming in my hair and what beard I've managed to grow thus far. Today I got groceries and there are strawberries in my fridge. I was maybe 19 when I made that offering and in many respects that part of my life feels like it happened to someone else.

Not in the sense that I've turned away from it, but that key choices I made in my mid-20s allowed me to grow into who I am now. (And who I suspect I would have always been, had it not be for many factors in my personal life.) My circumstances have changed, but the past housing and food insecurity is never far from my mind.

When the offering was made, I certainly never expected that anyone would remember it after so long. Nor would I have believed that some people still mark it on their calendar as a low-effort, low-cost way to honor Loki with sweets and humor. I put the photo out there, but to was the Lokean community who decided what it was. You all, still, decide what it is.

As my circumstances have changed and I'm lucky enough to be able to, I plan on making a donation to a local food bank in my area on Spongecake Day. The amount depends on how much I'm able to save, but at least a few hundred. I say this not to pat myself on the back but to consider how Spongecake Day's meaning, for me, has grown as I have.

The core of the original offering was that I didn't have a lot of fresh food and offered what I had, even though I wanted to hoard it all for myself. Times, especially in the US where I live, are such that many families are struggling to get food or other things they need. For me, as an adult with some expendable income, Spongecake Day is more about paying it forward. Helping others. I strongly believe that if I have the ability to help, I am morally and ethically obligated to do so. And I believe this is what Loki might expect as well. I am, again, speaking for myself and my practice.

I see Spongecake Day as a day of humor, silliness, taking joy in the small things we can do and that no act of devotion is too small. I also see it as a reminder to care for others in our respective communities in any way we can. Especially in this current political and social climate, when government systems are unable to care for their people as they ought to.

Ultimately, the choice is not mine to decide what Spongecake Day is or will be in the future. Or if it indeed has a future. It's up to the Lokean community at large. It doesn't belong to me. It belongs to all of us.

[wrathful-warhound]

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