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A poem titled "Prayer for Werewolves"

by Stephanie Burt.

Someone will probably love you for who you are.

If not, you'll still find friends,

friends who, given time, or given

warning. will probably gather around you, hold your hands,

and wrap you in soft coats and

blankets till the violence

inside your body ends.

Someone will probably love you for who you are,

not just for who you labor to be.

Maybe you're lost in your skin today. Maybe you're burning

and wish you could tear it all off. Please

don't. You are variously

a marvel, an athlete, a wilderness, a source of warmth

and a way to learn from fear.

When you have claws. your claws are yours, your ears

bristle and are yours; your irises

are citrine, pure, and yours. They let you see

through smog and pine thickets and into the future, where

you need no chains to feel secure,

and someone will probably love you for who you are:

then you will know each other's scents

and nuzzle or lope together. But for

now, you have friends,

who are not going anywhere. Please

stay here. /end description]

Insect-people Art Prints by StrangelyRose

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Extremely City white people are so fucking weird they see a pic of a deer and theyre like “its an Old God, tell me the wisdom of the trees Forest Lord … wow this is just like game of thrones” its a deer. Its a fucking stupid idiot animal it doesnt know shit

Yes deer are dumb panicky dinguses in real life, but sometimes a picture will capture one looking all majestic and we just… want to believe…

Case in point: this dude

Yes he got like that by being so hormonally addled that he tried to fight a tree. But try to tell me a forest god wouldn’t have big leafy antlers just like that if he were to take a physical form.

who says the old gods aren’t stupid animals who are so hormonally addled they’d try to fight a tree

@librariansheart for your enjoyment

Look, I’ve lived a good chunk of my childhood in a halfway abandoned mountain village in the middle of nowhere. Which meant wildlife galore whether you liked it or not.

And that meant sometimes we saw a deer in the middle of the road at midnight and the majestic motherfucker just stared us down until my mom shredded our tires to stop from hitting him. Once we stopped he did a little half-bow as if saying ‘You have not committed an act of godslayer this night. Your bloodline shall bear no curse of mine’, and walked away chill as you please.

The next day a neighbor told us a deer with fucking big antlers got tangled in his fence because it was trying to steal his grapes.

I went on a hike with another neighbor to collect yarrow for tea. A bear came out of the woods towards us, went on its hind legs and inquiringly roared. And he pushed me, tiny as I was back then, behind me out of sight and spread his jacket wide to make himself seem bigger than he already was. He let out a sound I had not known humans were capable of making. He and the bear looked at each other for a moment, and came to an understanding. The bear went down and walked away, respecting a powerful opponent protecting its young.

A week ago, there had been a bear that completely tore apart our trashcan and gorged itself on half-fermented apples we threw away. My cousin had to chase it away, drunk out of its tiny fucking mind, with an umbrella that made weird noises when opened. The bear ran for its life, crashed into our wall, fell on its ass, and scampered away.

I was playing on a swing once, all alone, and a fox came up to me, the most beautiful animal I had seen in my ten years of life. Thinking it wanted to pass, I stopped swinging and sat still not to spook it. But instead of passing, the fox circled the swing, found it wanting, and came to sit before me perfectly poised and looked me in the eye, and I could swear it wished to tell me something but I could not understand the language spoken before human time.

Then my mom came out of the nearby inn, shrieked at the fox and swung her purse to chase it away. The fox jumped, ran off and fell into a ditch, all notions of grace gone with the wind.

What I’m saying is: the old gods are absolutely idiot animals who embraced the life of constant sex and hedonism in return for losing their higher power. Whether or not they regret it, we’ll never know.

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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown wants federal officers out of Portland. DHS chief Chad Wolf won’t listen. Why?

Turmp is flooding Portland with his secret police, and appears to be getting away with deliberately escalating tensions to create chaos and violence. 

It’s a performative, but it’s also a dress rehearsal for fascism here. Stay safe.

Stalhorse is done! This was really something else.

This time I recorded my progress and already put the first part on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/v-stalhorse-part-38565858

Ye gods I made a Face

I will never get tired of this

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Listen, this is not a difficult concept. Maybe it’s a NEW concept for some people, since womanhood has been so historically tied to the idea of motherhood, but that doesn’t make it less true. Inclusive language isn’t just some feel good performative virtue signaling, it’s literally just more accurate. 

Reblogged because I fixed a typo in the image.

uhh.. this should not be a Venn diagram. people who can become pregnant on the right should not be under the category of women who can become pregnant which is what the middle section would indicate

That’s not how Venn Diagrams work.

The ENTIRE LEFT circle is “women.” The ENTIRE RIGHT circle is “people who can become pregnant.” ONLY The OVERLAP between the circles is “WOMEN who can become pregnant.”

The part of the “women” circle that is NOT overlapped by “can become pregnant” represents women who CAN’T be pregnant. The part of the “can become pregnant” circle that is NOT overlapped by “women” is people who can become pregnant but aren’t women.

Ok, it looks like there are several people in the notes who are…having a hard time processing the Venn Diagram. Let’s do a quick refresher on how Venn Diagrams work.

Here is an example:

Here is the original Venn Diagram, but with additional color coding:

Hopefully that clears up any confusion about what the image is trying to say.

I can’t believe you had to explain Venn diagrams, people literally learn that in 3rd grade.

Overall very nice diagram explaining the subject

Thank you. I think some of the confusion was stemming from where I placed the labels? (Like, “Women” is INSIDE the circle, but on the left hand side, rather than like..placed ABOVE that entire circle?) I dunno. Sometimes people just struggle to interpret visual representations. Hopefully the color coding makes it more clear. 

It’s fine, I just wanted to clear up the confusion since some folks were misinterpreting the chart in EXACTLY the wrong way. lolol. 

…but trans men aren’t women and don’t belong in the middle.

They aren’t in the middle???????

Ehhhhhh, my new meds ruining my reading comprehension. You’re right, they aren’t. I’m just going to go sit in the corner and let people with functioning brains talk.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Listen, this is not a difficult concept. Maybe it’s a NEW concept for some people, since womanhood has been so historically tied to the idea of motherhood, but that doesn’t make it less true. Inclusive language isn’t just some feel good performative virtue signaling, it’s literally just more accurate. 

Reblogged because I fixed a typo in the image.

uhh.. this should not be a Venn diagram. people who can become pregnant on the right should not be under the category of women who can become pregnant which is what the middle section would indicate

That’s not how Venn Diagrams work.

The ENTIRE LEFT circle is “women.” The ENTIRE RIGHT circle is “people who can become pregnant.” ONLY The OVERLAP between the circles is “WOMEN who can become pregnant.”

The part of the “women” circle that is NOT overlapped by “can become pregnant” represents women who CAN’T be pregnant. The part of the “can become pregnant” circle that is NOT overlapped by “women” is people who can become pregnant but aren’t women.

Ok, it looks like there are several people in the notes who are…having a hard time processing the Venn Diagram. Let’s do a quick refresher on how Venn Diagrams work.

Here is an example:

Here is the original Venn Diagram, but with additional color coding:

Hopefully that clears up any confusion about what the image is trying to say.

I can’t believe you had to explain Venn diagrams, people literally learn that in 3rd grade.

Overall very nice diagram explaining the subject

Thank you. I think some of the confusion was stemming from where I placed the labels? (Like, “Women” is INSIDE the circle, but on the left hand side, rather than like..placed ABOVE that entire circle?) I dunno. Sometimes people just struggle to interpret visual representations. Hopefully the color coding makes it more clear. 

It’s fine, I just wanted to clear up the confusion since some folks were misinterpreting the chart in EXACTLY the wrong way. lolol. 

...but trans men aren’t women and don’t belong in the middle.

I am the rain, I am the tower I am the builder, the furnace of power Grower of grief’s infernal flower I am the love, that only devours Windhand - Griefs Infernal Flower - Hesperus

shoutout to the ancient gaelic freaks who looked at seals and thought “I bet that’s secretly an extremely fuckable woman”

this is it. this is the single funniest coronavirus meme. what the mcfuck

This is one of those ‘kind of sorry I get it’ jokes…