PERSEPHONE

updated 03/11/21

You can call me Persephone!

she/they pronouns

17

bi

neurodivergent

mental illnesses

eclectic witch

swiftie

My DRs

Hogwarts

Gravity Falls

The Selection

Coffeeshop AR - WIP

DNI - homophobia, racism, r@ape talk/ jokes, misogyny, neonazis, bigots, transphobia, no putting anyone down for their personal beliefs. This is a safe space.

I haven’t successfully shifted yet, but i’ve become really close! I know a decent amount about shifting, and will answer any question you have! My askbox and messages are open to followers only.

I usually don’t post anything triggering, but triggers will be tagged #tw with the trigger alongside. Please let me know if you want me to add the tag to any of my posts.

I absolutely love this community, you guys are the best <3

Here are some of my favorite mutuals/shifting blogs!

@batshifts @lilytek @shifting-haven @violetshifting @romeshifting @caffeinated-shifter @shiftingforfictionalcharacters @gen-is-shifting @im-shifting-to-the-moon @luminous-shifting-vibes

If you want to be added/taken off just let me know!

yesss my slytherin is showing >:)

Taking a break from shifting? Awesome. I’m glad you’re taking care of yourself!

Just doing some shifting research? Learning is great! Hopefully you find what you’re looking for!

Scripting a new DR on a whim? Make it a good one! You can never have to many.

You are always progressing in your shifting journey. No matter what path you take, what methods you use, how often you attempt, you are always getting closer to your DR.

-The other night I rolled over in the middle of the night to shake my partner awake, proceeded to tell him how I was glad that ‘this time round we would truly have the freedom to love each other properly’ and how his hands belonged to his last self, but his eyes had never changed in all the lives I’d known him. And he just laid there in the dark like wtf because I was asleep. Like I’d woken him to tell him that all in my sleep and then left him to have a crisis.

- Watching the history channel with my Pop on the couch, tender age of 7, and they’re talking about crucifixion. And my pop, ever the funny man, is like “that looks like it aughta hurt”. And I just turn to look at him and without hesitation reply “only at first”. And he’s like “what do you mean” and tiny me just shrugged and said “well there’s a place beyond the hurt where everything just stops” and he turned the telly off and left the room.

- night before Christmas 2012, dreamt I’d been stabbed in the lungs by an angel with the face of a falcon. He looked at me and told me he had to do it, so that ‘my next breath would come as a rebirth’. When he started to glow so brightly that it burned my eyes, I woke up to all the lights in my house on and a dark bruise beneath my rib cage. Will admit, that one freaked me out.

- walked past a graveyard with a friend back in middle school on the way to her house, and mid conversation I stopped talking and stood stock still, looked over at the walls,and quietly said “I have a friend in there”. Then picked up the conversation and continued strolling like nothing had happened. To be fair, I didn’t realise what I’d said. She still tells me I’m the reason she can’t walk past that graveyard anymore.

- a couple of years ago when I was in Wales I walked past an old stone house just outside of Aberystwyth, and just started to weep. I had the overwhelming thought that I needed to be in there to get dinner ready for the children, but in a different life so long ago and so impossible to reach, that thefeeling of loss was instant and overwhelming.

- was about to use a pedestrian crossing, when my whole body just sort of went hey don’t do that, and so I stopped and put my arm out to stop the woman who was crossing behind me, and 2 seconds later a car came skidding around the corner and crashed into the tree on the other side of the crossing, and I just whispered “ha, not this time” and didn’t really think about it until later when I realised I’d nearly died again. (Btw i waited for th ambulance to show up and the dude driving the car was fine, just hit his head and was drunk af at 10:30am on a Thursday).

- another dream I had just this week, I was sitting in an otherwise empty cinema with a tall, thin man. I can’t really recall what he looked like, except he was well dressed, impossibly pale, and he kind of blurred when you looked directly at him, so I mainly watched him out the corner of my eye and looked ahead at the blank movie screen. He was holding my hand, and he asked me if i enjoyed my life. I said yes and explained why. He then said, almost verbatim, “And how does this one weigh against the last? Can it tip the scales, or is it, at last, to be found lacking?” And I replied, almost verbatim “I weigh my lives against my joy, and each life I find there is more joy to be discovered.” He replied with a laugh, lifted my hand to a kiss and said “till next time then” and disappeared. I woke up in the dark with both my cats sitting on me, alert, and staring out my bedroom door.

My sister and I have also been known to argue in our sleep. Witnesses assure us that whatever made the shouting start, we both knew what it was and were mad about it. We don’t need to be in the same room for this.

My great grandmother died when I was very young (like four years old). I told my parents that she had come to say goodbye to me before leaving. I knew she was dead before they did.

Sharing dreams was mentioned and while I’ve never had the same dream at the same time as someone else, I have regularly had dreams about a woman named Faith. For years, I didn’t tell anyone about her bc tbh she kind of creeps me out and is soothing in equal parts. Come to find out, my dad also has dreams with Faith in them and his dreams involving her deal a lot with death, like mine do.

Every house I’ve lived in since I was a child has been haunted, but they haven’t all started out that way. My grandmother thinks it is the family that is haunted, not the places. (There’s that family curse coming back in to play.)

I’ve had a reoccurring nightmare since childhood involving running through a city with cobblestone streets as a child along with several others. By the end of the nightmare, me and all the children have died. The first time I had this nightmare, I woke up crying and saying that everyone had died again and I still couldn’t stop it.

I had a dream in 2014.

I was walking down a hallway with lots of doors on either side, like a hotel. At the end of the hallway was a door that just felt important. And then it opened. Darkness spilled out from all directions. I was enveloped in it, and the next thing I knew, I said this to the darkness:

“If I forget what I saw, will you let me go?”

For anyone in the shiftblr community, don’t feel guilty for taking a long break, not posting about shifting in a while, or not being interested in shifting anymore.

It is very uncomfortable that people feel worried about leaving an activity such as this. /nm just concerned in general

You should feel comfortable to, at any point, for any reason:

•stop believing in shifting and if you want to, to explain why [like you said People Can Leave, always, for any reason. People can change their minds. We should wish them well and accept it and make them feel like they can express that change in mind without any negative results]

•tell the shifting community if you think a behavior, ideology, etc. is harmful and engage in conversation [respectful discussions are good!! constructive criticism is good!! we don’t want to just Never Listen! obvs this is assuming they are Genuine and not hostile or trolling. this is also as a community/in general as individuals aren’t obligated to respond to ever polite individual they see if they don’t want to]

•take breaks from shifting and shifting content or communities [come and go as you please!!]

•to completely stop shifting permanently despite if they still believe or not [you are under no obligation to Still Do It even if you believe it’s possible]

•to want to talk to originally Shiftblr friends about stuff other than shifting, even exclusively [I mean they should feel comfortable enough with the community to bring that up to friends without fearing Bad Reactions]

•to completely uninvolve yourself in shifting content and communities (maybe except to educate yourself if you’re still shifting bc I feel we shouldn’t stop learning ever) [as long as it doesn’t impact your safety go ahead!! it’s kind of like a fandom, you don’t have to stay! but you should still consume educational stuff imo just to make sure you’re being safe and educated]

•to explore shifting without wanting to do it (learning about it, consuming continent related to it, etc) [you can hyperfixate on it, have a special interest of it, or just wanna learn about it! You don’t have to Plan To Try It to be here!]

This is just Some Place. We are just some (in a gender neutral way) Dudes on tumblr. We are not Special, nor like an organized group, we’re just a buncha individuals doing the same thing (and go apeshit over animals sometimes <3 /pos) It really is just a hobby.

You should never feel bad about stopping, especially something such as this.

If you feel bad about it because of the behavior of the community then we are probably doing something wrong.