Body Shaming Men Is Also Wrong And Not Funny

Why are you always so mean?

sorry when i was younger a tumblr user pushed my mom off a cliff

Not Cis Deities

I was reading a book that pretty much said “All the deities of the world are masculine or feminine” and I lose my shit. So, for pure LGTBQ+ rage, I will give a basic small list of non cis deities/ high entities.

>>>Of course, this is based of myths, speculation, discussions, stories, by witches contacting with any of them, etc. No one except these deities themselves can truly know their gender, and by no mean this pretend be offensive to any of them.<<<

- Atum, Ra, Hapi, Wadj-Wer, Shai (Egyptians, intersexes)

- Seth (Egyptian, third gender)

- Sobek, Thoth (Egyptian, male aligned agenders)

- Aphroditus (Also nonbinary, later renamed Hemaphroditus…), Zeus, Agdistis, (Greeks, Intersexes)

- Dionysos (Greek, trans, boy raised as a girl)

- Loki (Nordic, androgynous/intersex)

- Nana Buluku (African, intersex)

- Mwari (African, androgynous)

- Sedna (Inuit, gynandrous or hermaphroditic),

- Maya maize god (Maya, third gender)

- Tlaltecuhtli (Aztec, androgynous)

- Inari (Japanese kami of agriculture, depicted as various genders).

- Erzulie (lwa Haitian Voodoo, can manifest aspects that are LGBT-related, including transgender)

- Ōyamakui (Japanese, transgender mountain spirit).

- Lan Caihe (Taoist pantheon, androgynous)

- Kuninotokotachi (Shinto, genderless)

- Shiva, Ila (Hindus, androgynous)

- Vishnu, Radha (Hindus, gender-fluids)

- Krishna, Rama, Ardhanarishvara, (Hindus, intersexes)

- Bahuchara Mata (Hindu, originator and patron of the hijras, trans and intersex, considered third gender)

- Budha Graha (Hindu, agender)

- Jumadi (Buta Kola, androgynous)

- Lakapati (Tagalog, hermaphroditic)

- Nagmalitong Yawa, Matan-ayon (Tagalog, intersexes)

- God (Waray, intersex)

- Ungud (Australian Aboriginal, androgynous/transgender)

- Bathala, Malyari (Philippines polytheistic religion, transgender/hermaphroditic)

- Amihan (Philippines polytheistic religion, genderless)

- Mahatala-Jata (Borneo, androgynous/transgender)

- Artimpasa (Scythian, androgynous)

- Baphomet (Occult deity/demon, hermaphroditic)

- Šauška (Hurrian pantheon, androgynous)

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"listening at a volume louder than this point can damage your ears" i wish my head would explode everytime i listen to music domt tell me what to do

ENCANTO + letterboxd reviews

Writers need to understand the fundamental difference between a woman who chooses to reject femininity for themselves versus a woman who tries to reject femininity for all women and belittles and mocks any women who choose to be feminine. Femininity is not the enemy. The problem is the lack of agency that prevents women from choosing whether they want to be traditionally feminine or not. Attacking and totally rejecting femininity only upholds the notion that masculinity and men are superior. Women who cut their hair short, wear pants, don't want to have kids, and know how to use a sword or a gun can and should coexist with women who wear dresses, enjoy makeup and jewelry, and spend most of their time in the domestic sphere. The idea that these two kinds of women negate or impede the other defeats the entire purpose of feminism, which is CHOICE and AGENCY. Instead of vying for a world where women have to reject femininity to be considered strong, create a world where women have the choice to fall anywhere they want on the spectrum.

Tummies are sexy and so are thick thighs and so is cellulite and so are stretch marks and so are uneven tiddies and so are love handles and

Things Read in February

Essays & Articles:

The Battle for the Heart of the Great American Nudie Suit

"We Will Always Have the Nightmares"

A California redwood forest has officially been returned to a group of Native tribes

On the Lie of "Let People Like Things"

The Case Against the Trauma Plot

The Joe Rogan Controversy Has a Deeper Cause

Is 2000s Tech the Next Big Fashion Aesthetic?

We Owe Courtney Stodden An Apology

'The Rise and Fall of LuLaRoe' Investigates Scandal Behind Marketing Company

Matilda Bernstein Sycamore on Writing on Your Own Terms

The mythical genius of Daidalos, the first polymath

Horror Fiction in the Age of Covid

Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk

How to Have Closer Friendships (and Why You Need Them)

How this jellyfish earned the nickname 'Psychadelic Medusa'

Herodotus' Other Lies

Is it a clash over writing...

France's nuclear colonial legacy in Algeria

"My pink socialism became red as a wound": Impossible interview from Ukraine

My Body is Used to Design Military Tech

10 Questions You Should Never Be Asked in a Job Interview

Stop Pretending the Left is on Putin's Side

The American Boy

Millennial Women Made LuLaRoe Millions. Then They Paid the Price.

Mary Renault: how classical Greece reflected her troubled life

i: vision

Poetry:

Do You Wonder About All The Black Girls Speckling That Beach by Salt

February by Jack Collom

Arguing with Something Plato Said by Jack Collom

Invocation by Cid Corman

Ariadne by Jeanne Murray Walker

Worm Moon by Mary Oliver

Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing by Margaret Atwood

The Horse Fell Off the Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

The Summer A Tribe Called Quest Broke Up by Hanif Abdurraqib

Theseus Within the Labyrinth by Stephen Dobyns

Books:

Ariadne by F. L. Lucas

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Los Reyes by Julio Cortázar, translated by Juan Sebastian de Vivo

The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Dark Tower and Other Stories by C. S. Lewis

Theseus by Plutarch

John Green

What Makes a Good Friend? 1. Shared common values 2. Equality (that is, you both put the same amount into the relationship, and both benefit equally from the friendship) 3. Sharing common interests and activities. 4. Sharing common struggles; having gone through things together 5. Trust, honesty, respect, loyalty, and dependability 6. Being committed to each other’s happiness and personal growth 7. Respecting each other’s principles; someone who never asks you to compromise, or go against, your values 8. Someone you can laugh and have fun with 9. Someone who believes in you “no matter what” 10. Someone who’s a good influence on you, and inspires you to be your best.

Getting the same thing at a food place every single time is not weird can we normalize this please