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Thinking about Ash and Kieran essentially being opposites in how they view being special.

Thinking about Kieran, who was rejected by the one legendary pokemon he idolized most, finding out Ash has befriended so many mythical and legendary pokemon everywhere he went, including Ogerpon.

Thinking about Kieran's anger toward Ash growing from jealousy over Ogerpon, to jealousy over Ash being a "chosen one," A hero who's always strong enough to save the day whenever the need arises, while Kieran's left feeling too powerless to make a difference in anybody's lives.

Thinking about Ash, the 10 year old boy who broke down crying the first time he was ever asked to save the world because he was the "chosen one."

Thinking about Ash, who continued to risk (and lose) his life so often for the sake of all he has ever loved, and who will probably have to do it many more times for who knows how much longer.

Thinking of Ash, who was literally abducted and tortured by Lysandre because he was someone special, a "chosen one."

Thinking about Kieran tearing himself apart, lashing out and lamenting that he could never be strong enough to do the heroic things Ash has done, and that he could never be special the same way Ash is.

Thinking about Ash, seeing his friend hurting so deeply, and yet still at a loss over what to do.

you have a brain, you are capable of critical thinking, you can sift through the material and keep what is edifying for you and discard what isn’t

like, okay. i grew up REALLY STRICT christian. like. every piece of media i consumed underwent a fine-toothed comb by my parents to be sure there wasn’t anything “sinful” in it. I got into a tearful, screaming fight with my mother over whether I was allowed to watch a piece of educational children’s material on PBS because one of the characters said “damn” once.

(I’m still not sure they did. In retrospect, I think my purity-focused mother misheard something and, having her suspicions confirmed that you couldn’t trust any “secular” source not to be sinful, reacted accordingly.)

(Pay attention, that parenthetical was also relevant.)

Do you know what my teenage rebellion was? Listening to the oldies station in the car when I had my driver’s license and could go places on my own. That was my big fuck-you to my parents: listening to the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel and the Fifth Dimension when they couldn’t tell me how I shouldn’t be listening to them because the creators of that music were drug-addled, free-loving atheists whose own disregard for God and religion might just infect my impressionable spirit. Like I was gonna listen to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and go do LSD and become an atheist. This was my teenage rebellion in the year 1999.

I’m 35 now. And all right so I became agnostic. But I didn’t become a drug addicted prostitute because I loved listening to psychedelic rock music as a teenager. (And you know what? Even if I had become a drug addicted prostitute, I’d still have worth as a human being, so dissect that one.) And it wasn’t even the psychedelic rock music that turned me agnostic: It was Christianity itself. But that’s another story altogether.

My point here is: Y’all are on here acting like my goddamn parents, “don’t watch this” and “don’t listen to that” because this character does XYZ problematic thing and this author said ABC ignorant thing two years ago at a con when they were put on the spot in an interview. If you watch this movie where a teenager falls in love with someone five years older than them, you’re going to become a pedophile! If you read this book by an author who once used an outdated term for someone in the trans community, then you’re a transphobe!

Y’all need to sit the fuck down and stop acting like nobody ever taught you to think for yourself, because I know damn well that you’re capable of critical thought and you don’t need your media chewed up and spit into your mouth like a baby bird. And I’m an adult and I sure the hell don’t, so stop telling me I’m going to choke because I’m consuming something complicated, complex, and not already pre-morally-dissected for me.

I grew up in the 90′s, in the era where Pokemon was encouraging satanism, Harry Potter was teaching witchcraft, Power Rangers encouraged violence, and video games inspired school shootings.

My grandmother was almost every bit of the mother in Waterboy to a T. If she didn’t approve of what I liked, it was clearly the devil and I needed to stop liking it. This shit didn’t even stop when I was in my twenties.

I get summoned for jury duty and I’m told it’s going to be a long drive and a long ass process so I bring a book. Now at the time I was in the middle of reading the Percy Jackson series, knowing my grandmother (who had to drive me) I knew she wouldn’t approve of me reading a book series about other gods, so I instead bring the Zombie Survival Guide a neat little fake instruction booklet. Apparently, even that wasn’t safe for my poor innocent developing early to mid 20 something impressionable brain because zombies were the foot soldiers of satan.

Even before me, my dad had to deal with similar shit with his mom. One day he came home from school and almost all of his rock band and movie posters were torn down from his bedroom walls and thrown away because his mom thought they were too evil. And no, this wasn’t the grandmother I was living with.

It is surreal as fuck to have survive life under my grandmother and get out from under her, to be 30 and log onto the internet and see people my age or younger claim how better they are than the “boomers” then do the exact same puritanical policing they did over the exact same topics for almost the exact same reasons.

“You can’t like this because it’ll turn you into drug addicted prostitute.”

“You can’t like this because it’ll corrupt your soul.”

“You can’t like this because it’ll mean you’re ist/phobe.”

“You can’t like this because it’ll mean the whites/straights/men/cis will win.”

LEO SUN GEMINI MOON SAGITTARIUS RISING

hey girlies so basically irl I’ve gotten a lot of questions on what some things in astrology mean because it can be super confusing. this is gonna help you figure out what some of your birth chart means and why its important. also ill include some basic info to just overall themes in astrology. u guys can always send me questions on how to interpret your birth chart and if you want me to do personal readings then i will! lets get into it bc this is gonna be long asf. (i think i know what I’m doing)

so lets start off with what the basic ideas are to the different planets in your birth chart

(if you need to get your birth chart, go to cafeastrology!)

sun: 

rules: leo

about: so your sun is your “main” zodiac. when drunk people at the bar ask you “what’s your sign?” you would respond with your sun sign. your sun sign is an overall judgment of who your are, so some people might feel a disconnect with the traits of their sun sign because its such a broad spectrum. the sun controls your ego, basic personality, and consciousness. the different zodiacs have a set of overall traits. this is where a lot of stereotypes are born since its such a wide category (ahem… not all gemini’s are two-faced and not all scorpios are sex crazed demons, girlypops)

moon: 

rules: cancer 

about: your moon sign reflects your inner thoughts, and can hold different qualities than the sun zodiac. (what i mean by this is a sun in cancer for example is slightly different than a moon in cancer.) your moon sign also controls your emotions and moods , and can affect your instincts and habits. your inner-conscious is deeply affected by your moon sign, and your attitude towards many aspects of life are affected by the zodiac in your moon. many people relate more to their moon sign, so if you’ve always felt like your sun sign isn’t accurate, check ur moon sign ladies! 

rising/ascendant:

about: your rising sign is determined from the time you were born and is based on where the sun was on the horizon when you popped out.  your rising sign rules your social life and how you appear to others. your rising sign can also affect your looks! for example, a leo might be more unruly and expressive, while a cancer may stick to more cool-tones and have more of a relaxed demeanor. your rising sign can have an impact whether you’re an extrovert/ambivert/introvert as well. basically, the rising sign is the outer you, while your moon sign is the inner you.

mercury:

rules: gemini (that’s me hoes) and virgo 

about: mercury can often affect reason and your means of communication. mercury can also change and impact your way of thinking, so those susceptible to mercury’s orbit can be moody, obsessive, over-thinkers. we’ve all been there before kittygirls. if you’re ruled by mercury or have a large amount of gemini/virgo in your birth chart, you can have a lot of nervous energy or anxiousness. most of us get affected by mercury retrograde and thats why we all seem to have shitty periods in our lives at the same time. as the iconic all time low once said, “we go together or we don’t go down at all,” right?

venus:

rules: taurus and libra

about: your venus sign basically controls your love life and artistic nature, so if you ever wonder why your daddy issues get in the way of your love life, your venus sign may have something to deal with it. a lot of times your venus sign impacts the way you show love or view love as a whole. you may be naturally attracted to somebody with the same venus zodiac or someone with the same elemental rulerships of the zodiac in cancer. venus also impacts your artistic nature, and your view on beauty in your life.

mars:

rules: aries 

about: just like our lovely aries ladies, mars is fiery and intense. mars impacts your sex life majorly. how you view and value sex can vary depending on which zodiac is in mars, and sometimes if mars signs are different/elementally different a couple might run into differences in what they like in sex or how they value sex. (*cough* if you have a fire elemental zodiac in mars you kinky as FUCK!) although mars isn’t only sex- its also impacts your motivation, competition, passion, and more. 

jupiter:

rules: sagittarius

about: jupiter is a tricky one. it basically rules your optimism, luck, personal growth, and goal setting. some people who aren’t super affected by jupiter may have issues with optimism or constantly feel unlucky in their lives, and those who have a lot of sagittarius in their chart or are affected by jupiter may be the opposite, with lots of lucky opportunities. i see jupiter as a huge fortune cookie. happiness can also be ruled by jupiter, and personal image can fluctuate with jupiters orbit. 

saturn:

rules: capricorn

about: saturn is ruled by capricorn, who often can be stubborn and driven, and thats exactly what saturn is. saturn basically rules your ambition, drive, discipline, structure, and responsibility. capricorns and those who have a lot of capricorn in their birth charts are comfortable under pressure, and understand boundaries. knowledge and tradition is a huge part of saturns traits, and reliability and stability comes along with saturn. though selfishness,  stinginess, frustration, and disappointment can be negatives with being affected by saturn/capricorn. 

uranus:

rules: aquarius

about: if you can get past the fact that uranus sounds like ur anus, you can start to understand the seriousness of it. uranus revolves around your future. this planet can intimidate many, because at some points in its orbit you can experience super unpredictable changes and reform, even revolutions or realizations. with your personality, uranus affects your uniqueness and eccentricity. so when jughead said “im weird, im a weirdo,” we can all infer that he was being affected by uranus, or has a lot of aquarius in his birth chart.

neptune:

rules: pisces

about: now listen, i think we all know a pisces (or several) who has ruined our lives, or made them great in one way or another, but that doesn’t completely reflect neptune. if you think about it, neptune is mainly ice and water, reflecting the water sign- pisces.  neptune as a whole rules over your dreams, imagination, and intuition. another thing that neptune plays with is your spirituality. those impacted by neptune are usually very kind, forgiving, and naturally wise due to their faithful nature. they also may feel that they’re connected to the universe or religion, and are less susceptible to be nihilistic and materialistic. the negatives that may go along with those who are impacted by neptune can be over-sensitivity, naivety, and desperation. something thats kinda dope though is that these people have a higher chance of being psychic due to their overload of intuition and connection to the universe.

pluto

rules: scorpio

about: pluto is the god of the underworld, so you can expect some deep shit to be under plutos rule. plutos orbit is extremely slow since its on the edge of our solar system, so its affects may be gradual or may take a while to manifest. pluto can rule your self-transformation, power, and the death/rebirth cycle. you might be thinking wtf girly death/rebirth cycle? what i mean by this is that if you fall, you can pick yourself back up, and if you dig yourself a grave, you can get yourself out. the traits of those heavily ruled by pluto are restlessness, motivated, passionate, and a truth-seeker. though some negatives of pluto are stubbornness, extreme intensity, and relentlessness. at different points in plutos orbit, such as retrograde, you might uncover some hidden secrets and solutions may reveal themselves. thats some scary shit. 

so thats the basic intro to what the planets mean and what they rule! i know this post was suuuuuper long, but i hope you enjoyed it and learned some good shit! soon ill do posts on elemental rulerships of the zodiac, and a whole ass post on retrogrades and what they mean. thanks thots ill catch ya later xoxo gossip girl

I’m both happy and sad to announce that today marks the start of the final event, Blog Moodboards!!!

To spice it up a bit, I’m adding a little something to this event!!

The first 5 people to reblog this post will be getting their very own Blog Moodboard based on what’s on their blog and in their bio!!

And yes, only 5! That’s it, that’s all!