NIEDŹWIEDŹ ✷ THE BEAR ✷ (Ursus arctos)
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"Jak mawiano niedźwiedzie mają duszę, a duch drapieżnika mści się na swoim zabójcy, np. prowadzi go na bezdroża lub w przepaście."
"Niedźwiedź był również zwierzęciem demonicznym, symbolem płodności, urodzaju, sił wegetacyjnych, a z racji swojego trybu życia (sen zimowy) - odwiecznego zmagania się zimy-śmierci z życiodajną wiosną."
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"As they say, bears have souls, and their spirit takes a revenge on it's killer, for example, leading it astray or into the precipice."
"The bear was also a demonic animal, a symbol of fertility, harvest, vegetative forces, and due to its lifestyle (hibernation) - the eternal struggle of winter-death with life-giving spring."
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From "Góralskie czary. Leksykon Magii Podtatrza i Beskidów Zachodnich"
by Katarzyna Ceklarz i Urszula Janicka-Krzywda.
published by Tatrzański Park Narodowy
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Idk I just think Zeph likes to paint ifrits nails sometimes, even buffs them and takes care of his hands while they do it. Ifrit always lets Zeph pick the color too, he trusts them. It’s a nice little boyfriend activity
Or if zephyr just wants to see ifrits strong hands covered in pretty nail polish on their cock then that’s their business
a ton of aromantic heterosexual cis men, at least in uni, are awful. two of them were my friends. i trusted them, we bonded over them saying they were both straight aroallos and I was a bisexual oriented aroace and we got along so well. then one of them added me on accident (or maybe "on accident") to a group chat where they were like a group of like the european equivalent of frat guys and they were making fun of my identity and talking about my 'tight pussy' (cause I'm a virgin, I guess). i scrolled up and one of them was on grinder hooking up with pre-transition trans men because they're "easy" and apparently can be easily convinced to not use a condom. he didn't see any of them as men, just as tomboy-ish looking girls. he was also sending screenshots of some of the cis or cis-passing guys and calling them slurs.
I don't want these people in the queer community, i got them to join our gsa and they were talking shit about that too. i dont know what their goal with me was, clearly they were just mocking me and the queer community. maybe eventually they wanted to try to have sex with me or something, idk. but after that experience i genuinely do not trust cishet aroallo men.... its like saying that polish people should be allowed into spaces for "ethnic minorities" as theyre called here. like they might be a little oppressed. but also theyre all so racist and theyd make the space much worse for the more oppressed people who are strongly affected (like african immigrants) and can't just change their surnames to escape xenophobia.
Alright, before I even say anything I need to specify that I am not trying to invalidate your experience or go "not all men" on you, and I'm not defending these men.
What I do need to say is that any category of people will have shitty people without exception. These guys you talked about are shitty people without a doubt. But using polish people being racist as an example kind of falls flat because while that is true a lot of the time, it doesn't mean that their problems don't deserve to be fixed just cause a lot of these individuals are bad. I don't know the people you've talked about so I can't jump to any conclusions about them but listen. They weren't like that because they were cishet men who were aromantic, they were like that because they were shitty people, labels aside. And I'm sorry but queerness, or any minority status is not an indicator of morality. A lot of queer people fucking suck. A lot of them are terrible people. Someone can be a minority and still have their own -isms and -phobias against other minorities and that does not fucking mean they no longer deserve to live in a more progressive world or have any type of sympathy for their struggles. And yeah the polish people thing is uh... Yikes, I would have kept that to myself if I were you
I keep seeing people saying that they don’t understand why Wille was so ready to fight for Simon last season, but won’t now that they can actually be together in season 3, and y’all do realize it’s all because Kristina is sick rn right? Wille even outright asks at one point if her being sick is his fault and he saw how she broke down after he and August fought. She’s still his mother and he doesn’t want to cause her pain, even if it is for Simon. There are more pressing concerns and more serious consequences to Wille acting out in this season than there were last season. I get that it was so frustrating to watch Wille make some of the decisions he did this season, but he’s never been perfect, and he’s under an insane amount of pressure rn.