That polytheist mood when you’ve never felt like you really belong to anyone or you’re actually welcome anywhere... and then you meet Hades. <3

do you ever look back at your relationship with someone on the internet and just think oh my god i’m so fucking glad i clicked follow they make my life so much better

Doing a look for a little Hades inspired thing and I am about it 🔥🔥🔥

You’ve done enough watering. It’s time for you to be the garden for once.

“why bother writing bisexual characters if they just end up in a m/f relationship”

my dude

my guy

my pal

stop talking forever

Clout chasing keeps ruining communities. The witchcraft community is no different. 

You shouldn’t feel like you have to post readings every single day, pump out “content” to be posted every hour on the hour, craft sigils until your hands are cramped, and record vlogs about your deity experience in order to have a place in the community and be “relevant.”

Your altars and candles don’t have to be “insta-worthy” in order to be potent tools of magic.

You don’t need to spent thousands of dollars on the most trendy crystals to cast spells.

This is a spirituality, not a runway.

Just do you.

A friendly reminder that paganism has no place for TERFs and white supremacists 😘✌🏼

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

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so I worship gods for about a year and I take my practice very seriously. but the more I learn about historical practice and ancient culture overall the more I feel that I'm not enough and will never be enough? It feels that worship in the past was so grandiose and people were so different? and I'm doomed to stay forever kind of second-class in the eyes of the gods in comparison to the worshippers from antiquity no matter how hard I'll work

It's an illusion. The same illusion, in fact, which occurs when people are exposed to social media and start comparing themselves to the image they see, whether this is about looks, success, or spiritual matters.

The comparison you make is extremely unfair to yourself. You are comparing your means - the one of a single person in the 21st century- to the ones of either a state or the elite.

The religion we read about and know is most often the one of the polis, that is, the State. It's a worship that is regulated, financed, and organized. When we know of the personal worship of an individual, it is most often the worship of a wealthy citizen, maybe even someone whose name was written in stone for their important financial contribution to a sacrifice or religious event.

For the several names that made it to us, there are thousands of nameless worshippers whose worship wasn't as grandiose. No one will remember Alexandros the farmer who sacrificed a bull once a year when he could afford it -when the harvest was good-. All those people who weren't kings, a lot of which weren't even citizens to the eyes of the polis still carried out their worship, at home, in the fields, on the sea, with their local community etc. They did so with their own means, no matter how small or how big.

The thousands of nameless people - second-class citizens to the eyes of the rulers, not the gods- who worshipped those same gods are closer to you than the loud minority we know about and whose opinions you are reading through the scarcity of our sources.

As much as I mildly despair about the functionality of Tumblr, I’m forever grateful we don’t have the creative interface of other social media platforms. 

I keep seeing youtubers talking about how the new algorithm on their creative dash is so detrimental to their mental health, both in terms of how they feel about themselves as creators and the content they make—dreading to find out their performance rating, regardless of whether they enjoyed it or not. And it’s the same across multiple other platforms, TickTock, Facebook, Instagram. Fuck, I’ve even seen people with business accounts complaining on Twitter.

And then there’s Tumblr. Where sometimes you can’t find your own posts even though you know you tagged it, time stamps are hidden in the ellipses at the top right hand corner of the post, your bread recipe keeps getting flagged as porn, too much punctuation causes asks not to send, and checking your activity feed causes the app to crash. You want to know your trending numbers? You want to know what’s performing well? Fuck you, guess.

I don’t think a lot of people understand that no matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that’s so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you’ll say “Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you’re right,” and that doesn’t mean you were “morally toxic” before, it means you’re a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

Also, some preferred terms for things will change and evolve, and terms we prefer now might eventually be considered gauche or even offensive, and that doesn’t mean you were a bigot at the time for using them. It means we evolved as a society and chose new terminology to reflect that change.

Nobody is a fully formed realisation of progressivism that can predict all shifts and modes of thought. The world will always change, and hopefully you will, too

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

you know how some parents do that toxic thing where they don’t notice or reward kids for improving their behavior, but every screw-up gets remarked upon and used to inflict shame? so you’re stuck in that awful cycle where there are no rewards, only the inevitability of eventual punishment?