Angela Smyth

Thinking about that time someone told me wanting to pass was transphobic cause they said I was "trying to become less trans"

wise words

don’t forget this important gem

And this one

I can't believe this is not up there too:

That is. Not what I was trying to do.

the "no spoiler culture", mainly perpetuated by the marvel cinematic universe, that pushes the idea that a story is only worth watching and telling if the audience knows absolutely nothing about it beforehand, has done irreparable damage to storytelling and how an audience interacts with the story. in this essay i will-

It’s also really ironic coming from a franchise based entirely on very popular pre-existing source material.

i think if you are able to you have a moral duty to put a puppy inside of a vegetable

Embroideries works by Tran Hung

character who is sun-coded but not in the traditional ray-of-sunshine way. character who is sun-coded in the sense that they burn hot and bright and powerful, that they're a raging fury of fire and passion, and that maybe, just maybe, they are destroying themselves as they do so.

Welcome... little one

[Image Description: Screengrab of a tweet from twitter user "Cottagecore Spider Jerusalem" @ AndyEyeballs that reads:

"A lady at the apple orchard disco the other night asked if I was born a man or a woman and I, drunk, beckoned her close to whisper and then hollered I WAS BORN A BABY into her ear"

/End Image Description.]

Dr. Dionysus’s free top surgery clinic (he does it because he loves it, not for the offerings) (he’s not a doctor he’s just a completely hammered god with a knife) is now canon to all of my Dionysus posts. He invented wine, he invented dildos and he invented top surgery.

He gives you a sick tattoo of a snake biting a bull’s balls while you’re out. Or a tiger with a lightening bolt. Based on how he is feeling.

While he’s putting them under someone is like “I hope I get a dolphin [tattoo]” and he’s like “you want to be a dolphin? alright” and just turns the poor guy into a dolphin on the spot.

Sméagol is the white nonbinary roommate who starts crying if you ask them to do the dishes

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I’m taking pottery lessons right now… and my teacher said “the kiln gods are being kind to me right now.” And that made me stop and think. Is there a god of pottery? I tried to look it up but it’s hazy.

In Ancient Greece, Athena was apparently the goddess of crafts, which is a bit vague. Hephaestus was the god of sculpting, but that’s not right either.

In Ancient Egypt, I found Khnum who made the other gods and humankind on his potter’s wheel.

I found two gods of pottery in Southeast Asian cultures, Lianaotabi and Panthoibi.

But I wasn’t able to find anyone else. Pottery being such an important part of daily life all around the world, it seems like there would be more. Does anyone know of any other gods of pottery?

kiln gods are also A Thing!

they're little sculptural critters that potters make and leave on or around their kiln for good luck. a lot of them have to do with fire or are holding pottery (Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle is one I've seen multiple times) but a kiln god can be anything

I share a kiln so I don't want to take up space on or near the kiln, so I just put a kiln god through with every batch of pottery

here's a selection of mine (all holding pottery)

the head of the ceramics dept learned his wood fire techniques in Japan, including a Shinto take on the kiln gods.

wadding is a material glaze doesn't stick too, and it's used to prop up pieces in a wood fire kiln because otherwise the wood ash would weld them to the shelves.

everyone has to make a little wood fire idol out of wadding and place them on top of the kiln

and unlike a gas or electric kiln that can be programmed and then left alone aside from a few checks, a wood fire kiln needs to be babysat for the full 2-3 day fire (for our size kiln anyway).

cool thing is there's an external pit where we burn thin pieces of wood to get a good ash layer on the pieces, and you can cook in said pit while you're watching. but our prof required us to throw a little bit of whatever we cooked into the main fire as ordering

he also opened the firing by sharing some sake with the kiln before lighting it

we have so little control

the kiln can finish our work

and make them functional

or it can destroy it all

so we make offerings

and protectors

and pray

- Clay Pigeon

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