another cycle 🔄

I’ve been eating way more healthy fats this week (olive oil w bread, olives, avocados, keifer, homemade granola made with butter and coconut oil, salmon, etc.) and I noticed how more manageable my luteal phase has been. 👀👀

3.8 Timthriall an tsaoil, nó, timthriall na mBan

In Chapter Three, Part Eight, I will be discussing something that has captivated me for the longest time, and that I have finally gotten around to researching and discovering the beauty of. I am talking about Cyclical Living. I cannot wait to share what I have discovered with you, from reading the book ‘Do Less’ by the powerhouse that is Kate Northrup. What is Cyclical Living? Cyclical living…

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The Sexy Politico talks about menstrual cycles and learns about Cyclical Living with Lisa Jara

This episode of the Sexy Politico Jackie interviews Lisa Jara, a Menstrual Health Specialist & Soul-based Life Coach.  Lisa and I talked about society’s fear and shame about menstruation, and we discussed period poverty a little bit.  Lisa taught me about cyclical living and how we need to attune to the cycles of our bodies.   If you want to learn more about Lisa, check out her links…

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"Why he was conducting the survey wasn't completely clear"

Well that dog whistle is loud and clear to my trans ass. The reason is eliminationist. Full stop. It's to make us even more second class citizens than we currently are. To push us further into the margins. To make is pariahs to distract from their disasterous policies. To direct the fears and anxieties of the public on to us and have them do the dirty work of eliminating us. The history of politicians targeting an extremely small minority to demonize is... Well, do I even need to say it?

And I'll reiterate: it was never about "protecting kids." Nearly all University students are adults. That excuse is dead, the mask is off.

If you give even the smallest shit about trans people as just human beings that deserve rights and even just to be alive then you have to do something. Anything. We are begging you.

after the house fire

By implying that children are too stupid and rude to learn about the world and learn how the world works and how to interact with others, you are casting responsibility away from the people who are responsible for that child's upbringing and placing the blame on the children (who don't have the autonomy given to them to be allowed to decide what they want) who can't help what they do and do not learn, often.

If the children aren't okay, then investigate why before turning to thought-terminating clichés of, "Well, the kids are just stupid and dumb and aren't even worth the effort because they're lazy!"

I find it funny you post things about the wrong people becoming therapists yet you want to be a social worker and actively defend rapists and abusers 💀

CW: mentions of SA/cycles of abuse.

you must think you're really clever. the therapy industry has a huge amount of problems (like any other industry built on service to other humans, like the medical industry), and i think even the people who want to work within the therapy field (whether as a psychiatrist, a counselor, a therapist, a social worker, a sex therapist, etc) can still critique the many issues within it, mainly the racism, eurocentrinism, and the individualistic values that much of talk therapy promotes. I don't know where you got the second part of your statement, because not only is it widely inaccurate of what I was thinking of doing in social work, it also is just not a great idea to hold about people who work with people who do harm.

there are therapists/social workers who work exclusively with cops/law enforcement, and ethically those people CANNOT work with people who are victims of law enforcement or people who "break the law" (incarcerated folks). It just doesn't work, because if you work with both, it can create a conflict of interest. this is the same with people who work with victims of assault (SA or not). these therapists/etc who work with victims of assault/abuse CANNOT work with abusers. The same is vice versa, as in people who work with those who do serious harm cannot work with their victims.

I think your self righteousness is misplaced. You clearly have a lot of work to do in regards to removing your own feelings and judgement from the work that many therapists and social workers do. I don't know if you know this, but everyone (yes, even people who do serious harm) are deserving of basic human necessities, like oh i don't know. Housing, healthcare, or therapy. It is not my job as a future social worker to judge people, that is wickedly different from holding someone accountable. Judging is like sending someone to prison for 25 years, further removing them from the communities and resources that could generate accountability. Further, no one can hold anyone accountable unless said person consents to being held accountable. There are different procedures for whether they do or not. My job, as a future social worker, is to help people, because I believe all people deserve to ask for help and receive the help that they need.

Not sure if you know, but I'm against incarceration/punishment. I believe we hold punishment as the way to "teach people a lesson", but if you do not work with people and actively step in and disrupt cycles of trauma (housing crisis, hunger, substance abuse, interpersonal abuse, racism, ableism, etc), you will only find that people re-offend unless they are given the resources they need to be better. Yes, there are people who genuinely want to do harm, but harm does not exist in a vacuum, and if you are unwilling to acknowledge that, then I genuinely wish compassion to anyone who slips up around you and shows you that anyone is capable of any level of harm.

People who do serious harm are victims of the same cycle abuse as everyone else. You white knuckling your self righteous black and white morality is the reason why you cannot understand that even the worst kinds of people deserve the same access to care as victims of harm. You think that people who work with individuals who do harm as them defending them, when the reality is many of us with the brains built to do this kind of work want to stop this harm and correct abusive behavior. Unfortunately for you, people are capable of change. No one is asking you to like anyone or their actions (because I don't have to like the people I work with either, freak), but what people like me are asking you is to accept the fact that all people do harm, and when people are given the community and resources to, they can change for the better and recognize the serious harm they have caused.

Not everyone who goes into this work wants to aim their energy into the "socially acceptable" work. I think social justice morality and the sanitization of revolutionary politics has rotted our brains into believing that we must do and be the most "woke" person ever, channeling our energy into victims of harm. But what we fail to recognize through that is that some people would rather divest their energy into de-radicalization of fascists, or others want to put their energy into theory, others want to learn how to connect with the land and be sustainable, and others want to learn how to help others. And just like them, there are people who are willing enough to use their skills and compassion for conflict/resolution, accountability practices, and to help those who have harmed. Because, unfortunate for you, activists should NOT be juggling being the theorist, farmer, therapist, spiritualist, leader, mediator, protestor, rioter, etc and etc. Some people are simply built to put their energy into what they are good at. This doesn't mean that the farmer does not encourage the theorist to continue thinking and writing their theory. And I am sure the theorist, one who cannot farm and till, is grateful for the skills the farmer brings once dinner comes around.

it's funny really because I still am not sure about what I want my focus to be in social work, and for you to assume that I am "defending" abusers/rapists by thinking about working in extremely hostile, tense, and exhausting environments in the attempt to disrupt cycles of violence is me "defending" these individuals...it just reveals more about you than myself, anon. Many people already work with abusers/rapists (many of those therapists being victims of abuse/SA as well), so you may as well call the ones who are actually doing the work rn "defenders" of abuse. see how that bodes for you.

that's all I have to say.

my neighbor and i are in a cycle. they play house md loudly. i hear foreman's voice and decide that i need to watch house later. they hear me playing house. they decide they need to watch house later. i hear foreman's voice and begin to crave house. so i watch house on top volume. they hear me playing house and decide to watch it too. i hear foreman's voice and begin to crave house. so i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch house loudly. they watch house loudly. i watch hous—

And Eurydice was a young girl, but she'd seen how the world was.

When she fell, she fell in spite of herself:

In love with Orpheus

This was inspired by the incredibly talented @shrylia 's illustration of Eurydice, and by a text post that I saw on pinterest that compared Eurydice and Katniss Everdeen. Unfortunately, I did not save the pin, but I will update this post if I am able to find the op for it!

I feel like a lot of BotW AUs where they work with Ganondorf just has Zelda as the designated Team Mom who has to be the sensible one who hates fun and has taken it upon herself to babysit The Boys.

I’d like to see one story where Link and Kohga bond over being the minders of their respective legendary demigods, only to realize Ganondorf and Zelda have been suspiciously quiet, so they go look for them to make sure they haven’t killed each other.

They find their protectorates resolving a disagreement by sending two battlebots they constructed out of rocks and twigs into symbolic ritual combat and cheering when their makeshift champions bonk into each other like that one scene from “The Simpson Gene.”

bts from this mornings yoga flow.

the pre ovulation sexual energy is so intense 🌸

I haaaaaaaate the fact that I gotta work in a world where I’m expected to “perform like a man.” Likeeeeee take your expectations and SHOVE IT. My body is literally prepping to bleed. My brain is foggy. My breasts are tender. My energy is lower. The spiritual downloads are sharper. F*ck off.

love love love how utterly selfish elevenamy becomes for each other. amy deifies eleven and then demands that he always live up to her standards. he can’t just be a person, he has to be her saint/god/father. he has a responsibility to her. okay so she made him into a god, he’s going to act like it. eleven does whatever he wants to amy whether she likes it or not. she’s always little amelia to him, someone that he gets to push around and to use to prop up his ego. he’ll emotionally manipulate her, he’ll make her wait for him. because he can. because she lets him. because there is nothing unforgivable between them.

One thing that I don't think has ever been properly explained in the series, so I will supplement with headcanon, is how Muzan was able to find out the special properties of his blood. And to do so quickly enough to create demons of his own in a rather short amount of time.

So, I propose that the doctor witnessed Muzan's transformation himself, and likely held him captive very briefly in order to study his condition. Enough to explain that his new disease is almost certainly blood-borne in nature and likely to inflect others.

After some time being held in containment, Muzan's new demonic transformation is completed and he could easily overcome his restraints, and the good doctor became one of the first to be eaten.

pov: you’re The One

pov: you’re EarthForce’s main defense for the original last, best hope for peace