"average cat owner spends 3 years in prison" factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette's mother, who kicked her body like the football and went to jail for One Thousand Years is an outlier adn should not have been counted
It's amazing how often "separate but equal" language still gets applied to women without anyone seeing anything wrong with that.
Mauritanian henna, Mauritania, by abir_sdm
My most recent make is this ancient Minoan ensemble! It consists of a tunic (heanos) worn under a flounced wraparound skirt shaped like a double-bladed axe (labrys). Despite how heavy the linen skirt is, the entire outfit is surprisingly easy to move around in. I even waded into the river to rescue a bee!
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Milky Way at Wandering, Western Australia
Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.8
Foreground: 5 x 20 seconds
Sky: 10 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
fuck yes dragon tuesday
The narratives I hear about XYZ holiday observance being originally Christian or Pagan have gone back and forth multiple times during my life. At this point I'm mistrustful of the entire discourse and just want to see some research.
autistichalsinEver notice how any time someone calls you "cringe", 99 times out of 100 what they mean is "you're happy and I don't like it"
autistichalsinNo one ever calls bullying cringe. No one ever calls rudeness cringe. No one ever calls toxic negativity cringe. Only hobbies get called cringe. Only enjoying things get called cringe. Only jokes and mannerisms and interests get called cringe.
wathanismhi, i recently found your blog. as an ex-muslim also interested in paganism, can i just ask where you learnt about wathanism and if there are any specific resources on the pre-islamic arab gods that i could use to learn? i'm not arab, i'm pakistani, and i've looked into ancient subcontinental religion pre-islam, but i'd also like to learn about wathanism, since i've never heard of it before in my life despite actually looking up pre-islamic arabia's gods. thank you :)
hi hun 💕 sorry for taking forever to reply to this, i've not been very active on this blog for a lot of reasons right now. but regarding your question, i think my answer is gonna be super disappointing lol. resources are def very very limited, and a lot of what's available isn't translated (much of it is in arabic, but a lot is also in various now dead languages).
there is an english & arabic speaking community on reddit and discord dedicated to wathanism, which is really great and i'd highly recommend it. the discord has a section on books and articles, most of which are academic and peer reviewed in historical journals. since this is a religion that was largely wiped out and has very few people interested in studying it and few resources to even examine, learning about it is kind of a huge undertaking that involves a lot of niche academic texts and a lot of cross referencing.
it's a grind basically lol, but the discord is great because it's a place where people who are very passionate about reconstructing the religion will trudge through those sources very diligently, not just as a detached academic study but as a spiritual "i want to apply this in my own daily life" kind of way, ykwim? so that's very cool. i can't speak to the community too much, cause i mostly just use it as a reference point and don't talk much with people, but it's the most concentrated place of quality knowledge on the subject i know of.
the best crash course, easy to read article i personally know of on the matter is still this paper (if you copy the link into scihub you should have access to it), just bc it hits on the specific things i'm most interested in without being incomprehensible jargon. the way i practice my religion is probably not the most historically accurate tbh; for me, it's just about living by the values of respecting your community and heritage, and i think this paper does a great job of explaining why those were such important values to the old arab pagans. the people on the discord can def give you a better sense of what the practice looked like in Ye Olden Days.
also worth noting: if you're hoping to find like defined, clearly laid out mythology about the arabian gods like there are stories about norse or greek or roman gods, that's rly not what you're gonna find (at least not as far as ive ever known to exist). for the most part, the things you're gonna find are about what people valued, what rituals they had, and how they lived. the vast majority of info we have on the gods is like "people prayed for this goddess to bring good crops and for that god to protect the village," but rarely if ever are there detailed narratives or myths like there are for other old religions.
This is incredibly petty, but it drives me nuts that Strahd von Zarovich's surname uses von (Germanic) with Zarovich (corruption of Tsarevich, a Russian word)
sproutlettforgive yourself again and again and again and again and again
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Kitty is Not Happy about me going back to work and not being available to pet/play with her 24/7
cemeterythingmy personal conceptualization of angels, at least in the most traditional sense, is that they're divinely wrought and operated tools with a halo. unfortunately this presents me with the plucked chicken dilemma, because by that definition you can technically argue that a circular saw is a kind of angel.
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marzipanandminutiaedon't forget the RIDICULOUSLY accurate 1790s-1840s costumes
like. they made a tiny embroidered 1840s carter's smock that Rizzo wears in ONE scene for a matter of MINUTES
the costumes in the scenes where Belle and Ebenezer meet and where they break up, again, appear in ONE scene each. and yet both are fully accessorized and show the fashion shift in the several years between those events
they didn't have to do that! very few people would have noticed! AND. YET.
"Kill them with kindness" WRONG. drop the opera house chandelier on them.
cryptotheismI'm a Buddhist Inverse Solipsist. I believe that I am the only guy still in samsara, and all of reality is a truman-show-like act by billions of bodhisattvas who are just humoring me.
cryptotheismI'm a Theo-Illegslist Muslim. I believe that Islam was the original religion practiced by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. However, I also believe I shouldn't be held by a divine covenant I wasn't there to sign.
cryptotheismI'm a polytheist with high standards. The pantheon only has the one. For now.
cryptotheismI'm a Post-Nicene Navajo Arianist. I believe that Christ was NOT co-eternal with God the Father, and that Coyote is part of the godhead. I actively refuse to explain how.
cryptotheismI'm a protestant accelerationist. I want the Catholic Church to sell more indulgences so god will smite them faster.
cryptotheismI'm a scientific puritan. I believe the only way to truly test if humans have free will is to try and convince Christ to kill himself.
cryptotheismI'm a Judeo-Islamic Para-evangelist. I believe the Messiah will only return once every jinn has converted to Judaism.
cryptotheismI'm a Sumerian Traditionalist. All the gods are dead because we haven't fed their idols in 2400 years.