godswalkwithher:

thesecondsisterischaoticneutral:

brunhildeofvinland:

I’m confused by all these posts about “saying no to racist paganism” – How is it racist to recognize that germanic historical beliefs belong to a specific ethnic group – germanics? If you aren’t germanic, you have your own ethnicity, and with it a history and a paganism native to YOUR ethnicity. You will find your beliefs and abilities to be much stronger when your religion resonates directly with your ancestral blood. There’s no need and no sense for you to practice the religion of another tribe, you’re robbing yourself of your own heritage, and us of ours.

Because Germanic people were never 100% white. Because viking travels brought Germanic faiths to other parts of the world, where they shared it openly and were likely themselves interested and influenced by the various other religions they encountered. Because they allowed people they met to join their ranks, regardless of what they happened to look like.

Germanic Paganism was always inclusive. Playing gate-keeper for it now is just racist and has absolutely nothing to do with honouring your ancestry. If you really wanted to honour your ancestry, you’d pick up an actual book and learn about them and what they were really like, and honour that.

You’re arguing with a Nazi / Nazi sympathizer. You’ll get nowhere.

Because I’m not interested in arguing with a Nazi, but want to share some good advice with my followers:

My Indigenous studies teacher once said to our class when he was teaching about Indigenous people and Christianity something that I feel applies here:

“We came to this land and stole their culture and their children with Guns, Germs and Steel. Absolutely no white person has a right to complain when any person of colour chooses to participate in any of our cultural events or religions. We lost that right when we took theirs.”

Just some food for thought.

*Edit: Not legitimately closed religions (Judaism), there is room for complexity here*

zva-redink:

moggiye20:

6ayonetta:

when ao3 askin for money again but they let people indulge in racist/homophobic/transphobic/abusive/pedophiliac content

Fuck your inability to distinguish between fiction and reality.

For all the haters who are waving fists at my wife @moggiye20 paying $100. What are we paying for you ask? We are paying for a site that has the best tagging system I have ever seen (which, bless FF.net and adultff.net, has never had. Ever). We are paying for a site that updates to allow people to exclude traumatic content (for those of you who don’t want to see…say…pedophilia, homophobia, transphobia, and abusive content).

We are paying for a site that allowed us to explore our gender identity and sexuality. It has allowed us to explore our own traumas, and the traumas of others in a safe, engaging space. If you think for one second I would have learned that vaginas aren’t shameful on Mediaminer.org? You’d be terribly, terribly mistaken. If you think I could learn to not be ashamed of being bi when all the gay relationships I’ve ever seen on fanfiction.net always turned the female love interest into some bitch just for the sake of disliking her? You’d be mistaken. I’ve learned more about how to not be ashamed of myself, and how to NOT hate myself through the exploration of creative works, where I don’t have to focus on the world building and character creation in a story BECAUSE I ALREADY LOVE THAT WORLD AND CHARACTER.

And let me put my money where my mouth is (figuratively speaking, because I have so many bills up the ass it’s not even funny) for anyone who donates and sends me a screenshot of the thank you notice (with a date, feel free to black out personal information), from October 14th/2018 until November 4th/2018, I’ll open up THIRTY free art slots. You want that art piece for your fanfic? See THIS LIST (warning for nsfw art content), and I will match your donation with a free drawing ($2-$20 free sketches).

Let me see your requests for characters of colour. Let me see your requests for trans characters. Let me see requests for healthy BDSM and Polyamorous couples. Lets match the racism and transphobia by creating the content instead of just bitching about it.

So if you really want to hate on people because we want to see this site be able to give someone else what it has given us? Fuck off, we don’t need people who don’t know how to police what they see with every available tool given in a space that has worked its ass off for said tools on nothing but charitable donations.

gallusrostromegalus:

pieandvideogames:

acoffeefraud:

today I learned that there’s a town in Quebec where a bunch of people grow giant pumpkins, and on one very special day a year, cut them up, empty them, and use them as a canoe. then have a race. a pumpkin race. it’s even called ‘the potirothon’, from potiron (pumpkin) and marathon.

i have a new goal in life, guys.

@gallusrostromegalus

I AM ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED.

couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name:

I know in the books it’s already like, a Thing that Percy’s relationship with his godly family seems to be abnormally good- like, Poseidon’s not dad of the year but he’s also made it clear he deeply cares about Percy and has tried to warn/protect him in the past, there’s been brief references here and there that after tlo Percy started spending time in the underwater palace occasionally, he calls Amphitrite his step-mom and says she bakes him cookies and doesn’t mind that he’s messy when he stays over, he brought back that pendant Annabeth wears, little stuff like that- but tbh I wish it would be expanded on more because apart from the fact it’s sweet, it’s also like, kinda funny? when you think about how all the other gods are just. messes. about family. like let me just SEE him interact with his family more, it has such potential. He casually mentions he’s meeting his sister Kym at starbucks later and Jason’s like ‘she sold you out to a giant that wanted to murder you’ and Percy’s just like ‘yeah but that was months ago and dad made her apologize we’re cool now’. Annabeth still hasn’t forgiven her mom for the whole Mark-of-Athena-Suicide-Quest thing and they had a huge fight on Olympus the other day, the first time they had seen each other since the war ended, and Annabeth’s complaining about this to Percy, who’s Iris Messaging her from the bottom of the ocean because it’s Poseidon’s custody weekend. There’s a mandatory parent bake sale at school to raise money for a field trip but Sally’s on a book tour and Paul was prepared to just quit after he set the kitchen on fire, only for Amphitrite to stroll into the school the next day and ruin every PTA Mom’s life. Percy telling his friends to stay out of the water for a few days because he called Triton a bitch in the family group chat and he just wanted them to be careful. Percy trying to figure out if a bunch of Greek gods are expecting Christmas presents or not and wtf to get them if they are. Triton wanting to get Percy back for the bitch comment but knowing their dad won’t let him drown someone so he instead shows up at Percy’s mortal high school and does The Most to embarrass him. Tyson begging Percy to let him help babysit Estelle. Poseidon showing up at Career Day with absolutely no warning and trying not to laugh at Percy’s reaction. Percy getting his dad a fathers day card like he wanted to do in SoM!! Like it’s a dynamic I don’t want pushed to the side as much as it is!!! There’s so much to work with there!!! I want more! 

rosewater1997:

psantanico:

every time i have an inner transformation i pick up duolingo again

Millennial self change is marked by duolingo and meal prepping

universemarvel:

Marvel: Loki is dead.

Me, an intellectual: