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Headcanon: As opposed to demons, who burn, fizz, and explode when they’re being killed with pure holiness, when angels are confronted with the equivelent (I headcanon it as being the ice water from the Ninth circle or something equally unholy), they don’t burn, angels freeze to death, just like Satan freezes in the Ninth Circle.
Angels will freeze from the inside out, and they have a very slow mental shutdown, they will feel their holiness fading fast and often their mind goes first, then the pain of the cold sets in, they go numb, and finally they turn into ice statues, which just melt or shatter after a few minutes. It’s brutal to watch and worse to experience.
Further headcanon, when demons are confronted will low level holy stuff, like water that isn’t truly blessed (I’d think holy water comes in levels, like, arbitrary blessed stuff, water blessed with true faith, water blessed by prophets, water blessed by angels, etc), they’ll have something similar to a burn. If you put a demon in a church or sanctified area, it will start to exhibit symptoms of heat stroke. Vomiting ichor and sulfur, headaches, dizziness, that sort of thing (then eventually they burn slowly).
Angels generally are tougher, since it’s easier to sanctify something than make it truly unholy (similar to how it’s easier to fill something up than empty it out, you can mix flour and sugar easy enough, but separating the two is a bitch). Desecrating something takes determination. When confronted with low level unholy stuff, angels start to have symptoms of frostbite. When placed into unholy areas, an angel will start to exhibit signs of hypothermia, they’ll become disoriented, drowsy, and very quiet.
what about the reshaping of modern technology, by the human body?
“You can’t pull it because you love me.”
AKA
“What’s your life without me?”
If you want the version with subtitles, find this video on my TikTok or Instagram ☺️🫶 Will be posting the stills to this video sometime this week 💙
In this context, I Interpret the line, "because you love me" as a jab at Rick's 'obsession' with Prime—the way he's spent most of his life hunting Prime down. When Rick's finally face to face with Prime, his life mission, everything he's done to get his revenge comes down to that one moment. I saw this audio as another way of conveying Prime's "What's your life without me?" line. 🫣
song: “Love Love Love” by the Mountain Goats
cw for explicit suicide mention in the full lyrics
instead of finishing the OTHER toh animatic i started, i have made this new one which i also havent finished yet!!!!!!!!!! but since i needed to sew it together to look at how much instrumental i need to fill, here it is so far :)
simple tutorial on how to make those bottlecap buttons you see everywhere
you'll need:
bottlecap•soda tab•safety pin•pliers•sandpaper/file•paint/paint markers/smth to decorate with•clear nail polish
remove the print on the buttons using a file or the sandpaper
(if you wanna keep the print skip this step, use a cloth to protect the print from scratches when folding down the sides of the cap)
fold down opposing sides of the cap, to help add in the safety pin
bend the tab at a slight angle, insert it into the cap. make sure the side of the safety pin that can not open is the one stuck under the tab
fold down one side of the cap to lock the tab in place, then try and press the tab as flat as you can, to lock the safety pin in place (prevents the buttons from moving on the safety pin, if you like rattling buttons, skip this step)
fold down all other sides of the cap
cover the button in one or more base layers of paint
add ur design (i use paint or paint markers for good coverage and vibrant colors)
cover that in one or two layers of nail polish, it will protect the button from rain and the paint from cracking
thats it, lemme know if you want tutorials on anything else, i like making em.
someone at nasa did an actual research paper of the trajectory of the martian…
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150019662/downloads/20150019662.pdf
i love nerds
Plurality Practice
Plurality Practice is a sub term under neo-religion in which a system has a system specific spiritual practice.
It can be worshipping in-system gods/deities, following practices from source, having spiritual based plural workings, ect.
[Any system can use this term]
Tagging @ficto-religious-archive
knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.
knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.
Therian Study Alert
The Jackal in the City: An Empirical Phenomenological Study of Embodied Experience Among Therians and Otherkin
The result of FurScience's interviews and focus groups with therians at Anthrocon since 2016 is finally out. Tens, possibly hundreds of therians were interviewed one-on-one in close to hour-long sessions, their responses recorded, transcribed, and later analyzed anonymously. The study was published in The Humanistic Psychologist and is 20 pages long, detailing the experiences of therians and otherkin, along with associated analyses and a suggested re-terming of what we call "mental shifts," at least in the context of psychology.
While most therians will already be familiar with the what this study will reveal, I'd consider this the closest thing to a "therapist's guide" to therianthropy/otherkin that currently exists. It's accessible for $20 through the APA website linked above. For those who would not like to pay for it, I will summarize below:
The study analyzes the experiences of many therians and otherkin and seeks to "destigmatize and depathologize" our experiences. They provide well-structured examples of what we experience, as well as its psychosocial connotations starting from early childhood and into adult life.
They define a therian as "an individual who believes that they
are not human—or at least not completely human. Instead, they identify as a species of non-human animal that either currently exists or has existed and is now extinct," and an otherkin as a person identifying "as a nonhuman being that is typically considered mythical or fantasy-based (e.g., fairy, elf, unicorn)."
They apply Sara Ahmed's work on the ideas of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation to alterhumanity. They dive into our preference for natural environments over manmade ones, our disconnect from other humans and our own bodies, species dysphoria (which they describe but do not explicitly name), and reorientation by means of our own personal image, shifting, seeking out community, and "ontological doubling" - "living [a] human life with its human demands, alongside a pervasive feeling of being out of place."
They suggest the "re-terming" of what we call "mental shifts" and "phantom shifts" and the like as embodied shifts instead, seeing as they involve more than just a shift in consciousness and can include physical sensations (such as phantom limbs) and can occur in response to the environment, by one's own volition, or spontaneously. While some may be against outside individuals coining terms for us, these are professional psychologists and this likely has more to do with their own understanding of us. Per the study:
"Therianthropy and otherkinship are often experienced as an attunement and orientation toward, and a belonging with, nonhuman animals and to the natural world. In connection with their environment, therians and otherkin experience profound changes in which they are less likely to be mindful of their humanness; instead they experience heightened sensations (especially those sensations that are sharp for their theriotype/kintype), increased spatial awareness, phantom limbs (feeling limbs and body parts belonging to their theriotype/kintype), and personality changes (e.g., from passivity to aggressiveness or assertiveness, from anxiety to calmness, introversion to extraversion, etc.). These changes were conceptualized as mental shifts by Grivell et al. (2014), but due to how this experience involves not just a shift in thoughts and emotion, but in the body and their relationship to their environment and to others, we here use the term embodied shifts. By conceptualizing shifting as an embodied experience, we reaffirm that affective [for the uninitiated, "affect" in psychology regards one's physical expression of emotions - gestures, postures, vocalizations, etc.] and behavioral changes, alongside altered states of consciousness, are not experiences located within the individual, but take place in the intersubjective field (e.g., as a reaction to changes in the environment, feeling threatened at work, or experiencing comfort in isolated spaces or with groups of accepting people). Although these experiences can be orienting in terms of the therian’s or otherkin’s experiences of self, allowing them to become reoriented to their environment or situation, it can also be disorienting for them and their social interlocutors."
The conclusion to the paper encourages professionals (therapists and such) to understand us through a lens of cultural humility and provides some hope in that "(perhaps ironically) humanistic psychotherapy..." can provide therians and otherkin some sense of wellbeing.
Overall, this is really good for us. If you are in therapy, do consider forwarding this study to your therapist.