Wandering Jotun

Nonir. Lokean and Pop Culture Pagan. Poly non-corp consort. They/he. Highkey Tired Gay. I also run Wanderingjotun.weebly.com. Caution: this blog is VERY UPG-heavy and it's not always tagged, though I do my best.

[wanderingjotun]

The final products! Everything's a little bit lopsided, but I'm blaming that on the fact I can do nothing straight. :p https://www.instagram.com/p/B2afmQgg_CS/?igshid=1njdp61ttn908

[wanderingjotun]

I finally got motivated to organize and display all my current #FFXV merch, mostly bought at Kupo earlier this summer. I... might have a tiny bit of a problem. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Z_RPhABWS/?igshid=vlpcuwue9wd1

[wanderingjotun]

Hanging at @quince.essential.coffee and working on some new charms for the spring. Love me little local shops (especially when they're run by amazing people). (at Quince Essential Coffee House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2W77dDgJG-/?igshid=115vrjdh014f9

[fornsidramerica]

We’re proud to introduce Forn Sidr of America; the next big movement in modern North American Heathenry. Forn Sidr of America is made possible by members of the community who shared their voices, supported this cause, and joined our Team with a passion to build an inclusive religious identity.

We invite you now to join us on this journey and build with us.

Find out more at fornsidramerica. org

[north-of-annwn]

Add your voice to the Heathen Community

Please take a moment to answer some questions about your experiences and opinion on the North American and US Heathen communities. 

All answers are anonymous and are to help gauge the feelings Heathens have on certain issues. We want to hear from everyone! 

Answer the Survey and then don’t forget to reblog!

Please copy/paste the web address into your browser, since Tumblr doesn’t like links. Survey url: goo.gl/forms/HqsP6WhO560N8wXE2

[wanderingjotun]

Things and Stuff (and an Announcement of Sorts)

Things and Stuff (and an Announcement of Sorts)

It’s halfway through January now (yikes) and I’ve got so much going on:

Writing for the Just You and Me, Baby fanzine

Lots and lots of day job stuff

Getting back into original fiction writing

Waiting to hear back from two other fanzine applications

Figuring out what new product to make first this year (it’s down to two options right now)

Planning my second tattoo

Working on getting more…

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[wanderingjotun]

My plans this morning: getting stuff organized. Again. For real this time. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsa-bZmlXok/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kaxk4g45hrm7

[wanderingjotun]

Back from the holidays and Fandom PDX and ready to hit the ground running with some creative endeavors this year. Help me figure out what to start with! http://ow.ly/qP7q30neI18

[wanderingjotun]

Fandom and Pop Culture Paganism

Fandom and Pop Culture Paganism: what's it like to engage in both?

This past weekend, I attended Fandom PDX cosplaying as The Strategist. This isn’t the first time I’ve cosplayed one of the pop culture spirits I work with, and it certainly won’t be the last. But thinking on it now, it’s a very interesting experience to be a pop culture pagan actively engaging in your source fandom.

First of all, you have to deal with the shipping and objectification of the…

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[wanderingjotun]

Nothing like taiyaki and milk tea to make everything better after a rough return to the day job. How are you taking care of yourself in the start of the year? https://www.instagram.com/p/BsJkQFlFxXO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2f9k0girmi88

[wanderingjotun]

2018 Recap

Nonir's 2018 recap in convenient list form (complete with sweet links)!

Holy shitballs, it’s 2019. Is anyone else struggling with this fact? Like, 2018 was simultaneously the longest an shortest year of my life. And, because I can, I’m going to start this year with some musing on the roller coaster of a last one.

In 2018, I:

Started medication for my depression and anxiety that has helped a lot

Vended my first events with my business

Wrote and published a Loke…

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[wanderingjotun]

It's snowing and the child has decided I'm the best hater. Never mind that I'm trying to get stuff done. #catsofinstagram #noworkforyou https://www.instagram.com/p/BsEA2arF0gb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pf2efq0imncy

[edderkopper]

FB was the other place whose format I could stand (even if I’m not exactly a fan of their corporate decisions), and now they’re apparently banning stating your sexual orientation?

Like. I just want to hang out with other queer Heathens who tolerate puns and weird etymology dumps in a way that’s not limited by post length or time zones.  I honestly don’t know if I can find that anywhere else. At least, no where else other people are willing to move to.

[wanderingjotun]

And these announcements less than a week apart. I'm really struggling with this sense of impending doom, for lack of a better term. This feeling that all the community building and connection and support of marginalized communities that's happened over the last several years is being intentionally targeted to force us back into isolated shadows. And I really couldn't handle that. :/

[wanderingjotun]

Friends who have (or are migrating to) Wordpress blogs, gimme your URLs to follow. Mine is wanderingjotun.wordpress.com and may be a very confusing mash of the normal stuff from this blog and random fandom stuff.

[crystalline-magic]

PC Pagan Party Server!

Hey, hey you! Are you a witch, pagan, magic practitioner, or a spiritual person? Have you ever watched a movie or played a game and gone “I could do something with that?”

Boy do I have a server for you!

PC Pagan Party is a server of people who incorporate pop culture into their paganism, magic, or spirituality! We’re welcoming of all folks with all kinds of beliefs and practices, whether you’re a follower of deities from a show, fictionkin who incorporates their past life into their current spirituality, or if you just like making spells based off of Disney songs. 

There are spaces to talk about all kinds of PC Spirituality, with spaces for spells, religion, and spirit work for tons of different source materials, and if we don’t have the source material you practice from we can always add it! We’re not limited to PC work either, there are spaces for non-PC religions and practices, as well as several general channels for chatting in.

We don’t tolerate racism, sexism, ableism, homo- or transphobia, cultural appropriation, exclusionary rhetoric/gatekeeping, or any other form of bigotry, in order to keep our server as safe a space as possible for all involved. The server is kept PG-13, with two separate age locked channels for more adult conversations. 

Sound like your kind of place? Come join us!

[tagging people who responded to an earlier interest check under the cut]

@witchoflavender @beewixxed @cadbanee @azurel-dragonsong @darkbookworm13 @chiron-ne @taguelkin @pantasticwitch @the-mstie-witch @ocarinawitch

[wanderingjotun]

Oooh interesting.

[ignis-sassentia]

I’m hoping I can stick around this hell site–I’ve built a great community here, and I love the fandom. But in case shit hits the fan or I otherwise decide I need to leave for creative reasons, here’s where else you can find me: 

Twitter 

Discord: Ignis_Sassentia#3651

Ao3

Wordpress (I’m in the process of importing my blogs here, but be aware this will be a consolidation of my fandom and spirituality blogs.) 

I’m looking into potentially hopping on Pillowfort, but I’m very, very broke so if they’re still requiring a contribution to join the beta, that’s not happening. 

[wanderingjotun]

Reblogged from my fandom account in case Tumblr decides to delete me or whatnot. (If you friend me on Discord, please let me know which blog you came from/your blog name here, just so I know who you are.)

[shadow-spires]

Save The Blogs!

Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.

Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.

(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)

I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there. One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.  

This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress

I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.  To break it down, just in case:

 Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go. On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.

Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.

It will tell you if that option is still available for free.

Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.

Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr! The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.

Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers”  at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.

Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically. You’ll have to allow Wordpress permissions on your blog.

Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.

Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!

ALSO!!

I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.

This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access. To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick. tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.  I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.

@gallusrostromegalus @kaciart @lena221bee @deadcatwithaflamethrower

@norcumi @deandraws @morn-art, @thebisexualmandalorian @kristsune @marloviandevil @punsbulletsandpointythings @protagonistically @cris-art @elfda @fish-ghost @godtierwonder @heartslogos @haekass @iesika @incogneat-oh @itispossibleihaveissues @jaegervega @jhaernyl @the-last-hair-bender @kleine-aster @latenightcornerstore @lectorel @medievalpoc @mgnemesi @me-ya-ri @myurbandream @peskylilcritter @cywscross ,@cheshiresense @varevare @victoriousscarf @whatsmeantobe @swpromptsandasks @gabriel4sam @stonefreeak @brighteyedbadwolf @pumpkin-lith @puzzleshipper @suzukiblu @myurbandream @lacefedora @jademerien

There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.