𝖍𝖊𝖑 ; 𝖌𝖔𝖉𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖗𝖚𝖑𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖒💀

𝒉𝒆𝒍 ; 𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 & 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒎 💀⚰️

even prettier than the moodboard I made :)

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

Hail Odin

Hail to the Masked Wanderer Hail to the Father of the Age of Humanity Hail to the One who ever seeks Wisdom Bless and walk with us this day

To all the disabled Heathens and Pagans. You are valid. You are not a "bad" Heathen or Pagan because you don't have enough spoons to attend your deities. You are not "lazy" because you are not able to "forage" for your own herbs. You are not "useless" if you are not able to grow your own food. You are not "too defective", "too broken", "not worthy", "too weak"

You are valid and I see you. You are enough. You are loved. Your deities see you and are not going to abandon you. Your ancestors see you and they are not ashamed of you.

You are amazing. You are beautiful, and you are stronger than you think you are. You are a fighter and a survivor.

I’m glad I came across this, as a physically disabled and mentally ill heathen. my impostor syndrome takes over very often

Disney+ has a “pride” collection and it’s so abysmal it’s almost funny. They don’t even have enough movies to fill a full category so they lump them in with short films. There are still only eight pieces of media in the category. 

The other two categories are series (which I’ll get back to later cause boy do I have things to say) and episodes. Episodes is a really shitty category. It’s literally just episodes from random shows that have queer plot lines or characters in that one single episode. Half of them are from shows mentioned in series. I’m convinced they only added this one so the page would feel less barren, but it’s a very poor attempt. 

Which brings me back to series. It’s here that it goes from funny to infuriating. There are shows on there like glee and the high school musical series which I haven’t seen and can’t really speak on, but what really caught my interest was their inclusion of gravity falls and the owl house. 

Gravity falls has two characters that are revealed to be gay in the finale and I think that’s about it as far as any queer rep goes so it feels cheap to put it in a pride collection. Gravity falls is only tangentially queer, and that’s thanks to disney. Gravity falls had to fight just so that two men could say they loved each other, and they could only do it in the last episode. 

But the owl house. The owl house. This is a show that disney is cancelling for “not fitting the brand,” a show the creators have had to fight just to get it as far as it has already come, and disney has the audacity to tout it in a pride collection. 

Disney works against queer characters and storylines in media, yet still shows them off when it’s time for rainbow capitalism. They’re trying to pander to the queer community while also pleasing homophobes. They’re pretending they care about queer people while also silencing them.