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Leftists apparently “give a shit” when my minority status is brought up in a negative light (I’m using myself as a Jewish person, as an example).

But suddenly when my veganism comes into play and how it has stemmed from and tied with my Judaism and overall ethics/morality…suddenly what I have to say doesn’t matter.

(This is aside from the fact that much like with many movements, leftism has an antisemitism problem much like it has its own race, class, ableist, etc problems.)

I am an “uwu person to be protected” to suddenly becoming “as bad as Xtian colonialists” because of my lifestyle…

…because using decades of data about how animal agriculture is affecting animals, humans and the planet is on par with Xtians colonizing, brutalizing, force converting, killing, and other heinous things to non-Xtians in the name of a deity we cannot prove exists.

So yeah, I do take offense to that. You are telling me that because I abstain from *provable violence* to lessen my impact on the earth as a whole, that I am just as bad as *people who would want me dead for being a Jew*.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sweden-wolves

Wolves are vital to our ecosystem and need to be protected. Write to your politicians, spread the word, protest, do whatever small act you can. Hell, keep spreading this post if you think it’ll reach someone and change their mind.

“Actually disrupting pack structure by killing wolves will lead to more livestock death.”

*receives death threats*

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

A massive grouper (toilet on the left for scale) 

and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what's on his mind

and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS

the mom looked at me as if her son and I belonged at the same satanic cult and that's why I knew the names of the demons in his head

so they decided to highkey just appoint all of them to my day and it took me almost a month to realize that the fact that I kept arriving and finding that all of today’s appointments were autistic children was Not A Coincidence 

anyway this one time there was a kid who was really into christianity but it was like, specifically angels 

so I’m trying to start up a conversation with him and I ask what he’s reading and he goes “do you know what a nephilim is”

and like for one hellish second my soul is suckerpunched out of my body and thrown straight into supernatural-fanfic-on-wattpad hell, and then I reassume control of my flesh prison, ignoring the mental edits of Dean and Castiel making out, and go “Aren’t those the guys who are half human and half angel?”

and the kid was so fucking happy but the mom was staring at me like ‘why are you privy to this bit of occult jesus lore’

and my heathen lesbian of a self just looks at her and goes 

we live in a world that at best turns a blind eye to and at worst encourages and fetishizes rape, incest, and paedophilia. take a look at the list of celebrities who signed a petition in support of woody allen. go back through the tiktoks about the depp/heard trial and see how many people- even women- were moaning over audio of amber heard describing her assault and saying they wished it had happened to them. look at porn blogs and websites and whatnot and see how many of them have “daddy” kinks or depict sex between step-family. read about matt gaetz and other gop members whose fetishization of teenage girls has gone unquestioned or even supported by their followers. sammy guevara talked about wanting to rape sasha banks and he still has a job while she had to sit down and explain to the grown ass man who said he wanted to rape her that it wasn’t okay to say those things. look at how many men in hollywood have allegations against them, and how many of those men still have a job. hell, just look at the way people talk about sex workers and you’ll find almost all of these things in one place!

I wondered what kinds of new Christmas entities might result if I gave a list of Krampus, Rudolph, The Yule Cat, and Meathook (one of the Yule Lads; not as terrifying as he sounds) and short descriptions to GPT-3, a neural net trained on internet text. New Christmas entities, perhaps, for our modern age?

# iconic

Hecate is a liminal goddess, the deity of boundaries and borders. While most people know Hecate as the “goddess of crossroads”, this was merely one the places/objects dedicated to her. City walls, doorways and entrances were also linked to her - the human-made borders and liminal spaces. She was both the protector of the house/city/country, refusing to let evil spirits or negative entities enter a protected area, as much as she was the goddess that allowed one to cross frontiers, to travel and go in other realms. She is after all not just a goddess of geographical liminality, but also of metaphysical liminality.

Hecate is a goddess belonging to the underworld and the afterlife. The key she holds in her hands are as much the keys of city doors as they are of the doors of death. Guardian of the roads and the journeys, she also helps beings in their travel either from the living world to the underworld (as a psychopomp) but also from the realm of the dead to the one of the living (she was the goddess of ghosts). Her torch is the light that guides in the night, and that people follow in their travel between the worlds, between life and death. She was as much the ruler of the undead as a mother goddess presiding over birth.