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@thelegendaryroguewave

23. San Francisco. Pisces ☀️
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Noticing who truly listens and how I feel energized and recharged by these interactions vs the exhaustion and frustration that arise when attempting to talk with someone who completely dominates the conversation.

Good listeners are rare. Please cherish your friends who actively listen. ✨

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saturneum

astrology soulmate word search

i made my own astrology word search for y’all

FIRST SIGN YOU SEE IS YOUR SOULMATE’S SUN SIGN

SECOND SIGN YOU SEE IS THEIR MOON

THIRD SIGN YOU SEE IS THEIR RISING

i got scorpio sun / virgo moon / capricorn rising

psa this is just for fun dont take it seriously

I got virgo sun/ pisces moon/ sag rising

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capvenus

scorpio sun,leo moon, virgo rising

Virgo Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Leo Rising

virgo sun, capricorn moon, scorpio rising...my ex lmao

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blaruto

I still think Moana deserved an Oscar for this part

To me, the moral of Moana is that only women can help other women heal from male violence. 

The movie starts with the idea that the male god who wronged Te Fiti must be the one to heal her. This seems to make a certain sort of intuitive sense in that I think we all believe that if you do something wrong you should try to make it right. But how does he try to right it? Through more violence. Of course that failed. 

It was only when another woman, Moana, saw past the “demon of earth and fire” that the traumatized Te Fiti had become (what a good metaphor for trauma, right?) and met her with love instead of violence that she was able to heal. Note that they do the forehead press before Moana restores the heart, while Te Fiti is still Te Kā. Moana doesn’t wait for her beautiful island goddess to appear in all her green splendor before greeting and treating her as someone deserving of love.

Moana is only able to restore the heart because Te Kā reveals her vulnerability and allows Moana to touch her there. Maui and his male violence could only ever have resulted in more ruin.

…this is exactly what I was trying to say and you put it beautifully. @i-want-cheese This is why the scene makes me tear up every damn time. Women’s honest, ugly reaction to trauma is almost never even depicted in films, let alone honored the way it is in Moana. Te Fiti doesn’t have to “rise above” being violated before she’s allowed to heal. Moana sees her and says

I know your name They have stolen the heart from inside you But this does not define you

She utterly accepts Te Fiti’s rage, her fear, her lashing out at anyone who comes near the remains of her ravaged body island. Female ugliness isn’t punished, it’s mourned and loved. What an indescribably comforting moment.

teatoppy

Welp I’m crying

Let us not forget that the cause of her rage was a narcissistic asshole who would do anything to make himself sound like a hero.

Damn y’all…..💔

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I never understood abusive relationships until I found myself lost in one. Now I have so much more empathy for people still lost in them. I can’t believe I was ever so pompous and ignorant to believe I was above being manipulated and abused.

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cosmicsource

Pisces, always remember to shield yourselves. Your tendency to easily absorb the energy of your environment can leave you drained quickly.

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unpretty

my two categories of anime rec are “it’s okay if you don’t really like anime, you’ll probably like this” and “this will not make any goddamn sense to you if you have not wasted years of your life on trash”

y’all took about five minutes to turn this into some kind of contentious madoka post when i was just sitting here innocently contemplating the spectrum from miyazaki to the bread anime

Okay, so, I feel like I should explain the greatest invention of the modern age…that was produced by my apartment.  We call it, the Weeb Ass Shit scale, after our traditional method of asking what anime somebody was watching (”What Weeb Ass Shit is this?”) It grades a given Anime from 0-10 on three different methods: Weeb, Ass, and Shit. An individual will have different degrees of tolerance for various levels on the different scales. 0 is low, 10 is high.  Weeb is the degree to which the show assumes a familiarity with japanese pop culture or anime tropes in general, not only in terms of the actual content of the show, but occasionally at a conceptual level. Hyperspecialized high schools with all-powerful student councils, for example, add a couple points to the Weeb scale. Same goes for the presence or use of tropes that would be bizzare and off putting if you weren’t used to seeing such things in other anime. 

A zero on the Weeb scale could be enjoyed by somebody who doesn’t even know that Japan exists, a 10 assumes the audience possesses a PhD in japanese cultural studies with a focus on animation. Something like Cowboy Bebop comes in at a 1, while I’d put Kill-La-Kill at a 6. Anything of the form “These Girls are anthropomorphic versions of something else” rates at least a 7 in my book.  Next comes the Ass Scale. Put simply, how much Fanservice is in the show. busty character design, male-gaze camera angles, skimpy outfits, hot spring episodes, character A tripping and landing in a compromising position on top of character B, all that nonsense.  At a 0, you’ve got something you would watch with your Grandmother after church (Miyazaki’s stuff comes in at a 0).  Finally, the Shit scale, which covers general overall quality. A 0 indicates that the show is flawless, a 10 holds that you would rather sandpaper your own face than watch it. It should be noted that the Shit scale should be judged independent of the others. Too much T&A shows up on the Ass scale.  Proper use of this scale is in the form W/A/S.  For example, Shokugeki no Soma (Aka Food Wars) would come in at W 4/  A 6/ S 3

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