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Mind lost in a World

@smallmindlost

I try to share the worthwhile bits and pieces of a Web full of Everything. Honest to god wizard holding the knowledge of the cosmos in my magic brick.

in addition to the fact that people just have different natural rhythms, a big reason why we can’t seem to go to bed as early as we “should” is that nighttime is, for many of us, our safest and most fulfilling time of day. we don’t have to work, we won’t be contacted by bosses or insurance companies or collection agencies or other suffocating life business… we’re likely only to be contacted by our friends, or by no one at all. night time is release; it’s ours. we can rest or recreate. we can do things we actually want to do. who would choose to cut that short?? just to usher in the next morning when our lives are not our own again? nighttime is precious and nothing could be more normal than the desire to embrace this

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So, y’all remember that post that said animals in urban areas slowly became nocturnal to avoid encounters with humans? Apparently that includes humans.

We need kink at pride because “kink” isn’t just kink. “Kink” is:

  • That boy wearing jeans that are too tight
  • Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them
  • Having a beard and wearing a skirt
  • Wearing any kind of choker
  • Literally anything else they decide goes against the “norm”, and it can be literally anything. That is why we need kink at pride.
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No we don't. Respect ppls boundaries. If respect isn't normal anymore what will be normal then? Anything, no matter how it impacts or scars other peoples lives? Kink doesn't belongs to pride.

Look around you. Do you see where “No Kink At Pride” has led? Being transgender is illegal now. Exactly what people said would happen. You know what’s going to be next? Being gay is going to be illegal. Because being gay is not “respecting straight people’s boundaries”. They don’t want to see you. They want to kill you.

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In support of the OP, let me clue the reply poster in to some of how the worldview of conservative bigots works:

If you are trans you are a sex pervert

If you're gay you're a sex pervert.

If you're the world's most chaste and godly nun praying in a convent, who has a lesbian thought once while delirious from a fever, you are a sex pervert.

If you're a family with a white picket fence house, a breadwinner, a stay-at-home parent, two cars, a dog, and whose politics are right wing... if you happen to be a same-sex couple, you're sex perverts and probably pedophiles.

If you're a closeted, self-hating, self-hurting, self-repressing queer going through every torturous form of conversion therapy, who condemns the other queers, who screams at the people who seek abortion help outside Planned Parenthood... you are a filthy, irredeemable sex pervert, a danger to children, and the most sympathy you deserve is transient pity if you admit to struggling.

There is nothing you can do, no behaviour you can engage in, no thought you can have, no clothes you can wear, no existence you can lead that is not an unacceptable sex perversion in the minds of these people. Your existence is kink, and you cannot appease them into thinking otherwise.

The bigoted conservative mind cannot conceive of queerness except as perversion, except as hedonistic degenerate thrill-seeking. They don't know another reason to do any thing, except as an exercise of power over someone else. Their entire world revolves around this idea. Everything is power, everything is control.

Therefore you can never appease them. Your mere existence is to them a totalizing threat, to their worldview, to their sense of normalcy, to their positions of social power, to their patriarchy, to their holiness. The only thing you can do that will ever satisfy them is die.

Which leaves us with this:

Either we have solidarity with our queer siblings - yes including the ones you don't understand, yes including the ones who have that weird sex that you think is fucked up, yes including the cringe annoying ones who "make the rest of us look bad," yes including the fucked up problematic ones who need to change and make amends, but who deserve their human rights whether or not they ever do that.

Because to the bigot, to the conservative, you're every bit as much of a pervert as Jenny Piss Kink and their polycule of submissive puppy-masked gender sluts. You throw your bricks when they come for Jenny, because when they come for the Piss Puppy Polycule, they're coming for you too.

has it really been three whole years? has it only been three years?

or: how to miss something that never really leaves and how to know when something is dead or dying or sleeping. happy three year anniversary dream smp, i hope it was worth it.

tiktok, unknown creator / tumblr replies, @goosekid / "cheater, cheater" twitter, @/mangobaii / tumblr, @hiveswap / tiktok comments, @/ashmanathletics / aeschylus: the oresteia, aeschylus / road to hell (reprise), hadestown

Fuck dude, sorry. I dropped my red sulphur and quicksilver into your dang bong.

Really? damn bro haha i didnt even notice, this shits weak as f--

OH FUCK!

ALCHEMIST WEED GOT ME OFFICIATING THE CHEMICAL MARRIAGE OF THE RED KING AND THE WHITE QUEEN

What she says: im fine

What she means: the average age of conception over the past 250k years is apparently 26.9. Let's round it down to 25. Think of your birth mother. Hold her hand. Imagine her holding hands with her mother. Within 4 people, you're back in time 100 years, and it's an intimate family dinner. Just after WWI. Add another 16 people, a small party of 20, and you're in the 1500s. Double it, twice, and you're at 80 people. Your family would fill a restaurant, and you're at the height of the Roman empire. At 100 people, Confucius is alive but Socrates has not yet been born. 100 people. That's a medium sized wedding. A small lecture theatre or concert. 200 people, probably the biggest party i could ever hope to host, takes you back 5000 years. The guests at your soirée of parents would be contemporaries of the Egyptian and Indus Valley civilisations, although you'd probably be too busy fixing drinks and nibbles to talk to all of them. Just imagine it. 200 of you. That's all it takes to get back 5,000 years. And we could go further. 1000 people, a decent sized concert, a large high school, and we're at the end of the last ice age. Your ancestors are comparing their pink floyd vinyl with music played on instruments carved from wood or bones of long vanished species. Wander through the crowd. See your own features and phrases and gestures refract out like a kaleidoscope. What would they make of you? What do you make of them? Why does it feel so unfair that even that first 100 years --that small family dinner of four--is out of your grasp? Maybe it's because questions of spatial distance have become negligible to us now. why, oh why, does time hold out against us so stubbornly

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Somatic Diagnostics

Can you feel your whole body at once?

If not, evaluate the disconnects.

Perhaps you can feel your legs and your torso but not as one seamless whole. This may be due to a closed off pelvis.

Or maybe you can feel your chest and your head but without a sense of continuity between them. A constricted neck/throat may be the cause.

Practicing body scans regularly will help you to find the areas of your body that are numb, constricted, or locked into a holding pattern.

At the end of a body scan and in general, it’s important to feel your body as a whole. Because even if you can feel each part of your body with crystal clear awareness, they still may be fragmented from one another.

Seamlessness and wholeness are interrelated. Investigate this for yourself.

LY

April fool's? ⁉️ Only for April 1st? ⁉️ That's a weak mindset. That's low perfomance 📉 👎👎 I am a fool every day 🗓 The grind 💪💪💪📈 never stops ❌ ⛔️ I am in it for the long run 🔛🏃‍♀️ No quitter mindset here 🚫🔝 🏆

To become the wise man you first need to recognize you are the fool. Well maybe you do as I'm already too wise for my own good

I BET WE CAN FORM A WIZARD'S UNION TO CREATE AN OPPOSING FORCE TO THE WIZARD COUNCIL. THAT WAY, WE CAN PROPERLY HAGGLE FOR ACCESS TO OUR OWN DAMN SPELLS WITH THOSE SNOOTY BUREAUCRATS.

WHO'S WITH ME?

“We apprehend what is construed as objective reality through an intricate interplay of common defense mechanisms, logical fallacies, latent symbolism, archetypical structures, idealized and adulatory romanticizations, unconcious memories and repressions, whimsical desires and proclivities, mostly unorganized dreams and aspirations, subjective biases, all-too-human denials, libidinous impulses, angry resentments, avarice, ingratitude, ego-induced fears and oh so many projections…which are all intrinsically linked to individual trauma, educational influences, familial socialization, and the broader socio-cultural context.”

— Consequently, our apprehension of reality is rendered inherently partial and mediated by these myriad factors. This observation calls into question the extent to which we can truly access an unadulterated version of reality, as our perceptions are invariably shaped by subjective and contextual influences.

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some little reminders i needed today <3

@lilcowgirl7 \ anaïs nin mirages: the unexpurgated diary: 1939-1947 \ jeanette winterson why be happy when you could be normal? (via @weltenwellen) \ @sunsbleeding \ dante émile it’s winter, i’m not in love yet but i’d like to be \ franz kafka the diaries of franz kafka, 1910-1913: “january 2, 1912” (via @dailykafka) \ sheryl st. germain going home: new orleans \ mary oliver dream work: “wild geese” (via @lesbianherstorian) \ @inkskinned \ bryan washington visitor (via @typewriter-worries) \ nia vardalos tiny beautiful things (via @julykings) \ ada limón the hurting kind: “it’s the season i often mistake” (via @firstfullmoon) \ lev st. valentine there’s this game i play every morning (via @darkerthanerebus) \ raymond carver rain (via @figtreeification) \ anis mojgani songs from under the river: “here i am” (via @saintsebastiensbf)

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TRANSGENDERISM WILL OUTLIVE CIVILIZATION
QUEERNESS REFERS TO THE CHAOTIC MYSTERIOUS REALITY THAT LIES OUTSIDE OUR CIVIL DOMESTICATION KNOWN AS GENDER, SEX, AND SEXUALITY.
WE ARE AS THE DARKNESS FROM WHICH SPRINGS TREES, SEAS, AND ROCKS, AND THEY ARE AS THE LOGICS FROM WHICH COME ROADS AND PRISONS.
WE ARE THE REALITY THEYVE COVERED UP WITH WELL CONSTRUCTED LIES.