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Wow.

Sword Saint Humid-Summer-Dawn crossed the southern sea and bore three sons, to whom she taught the sword.

The eldest son was born tall and strong. He favored mechanical augments, preferring the high stances and decisive blows of traditional autokata. And he was named Fog-Between-Mountains.

The middle son was born lean and agile. He favored synthetic reinforcements, preferring the patience and grace of formal autokata. And he was named Waxing-Moon.

The youngest son was born small and sickly, with lungs deformed by the damp. His body could accept neither machine nor plastic. Yet he trained with his brothers, trimming every excess movement to conserve precious breath. And he was named Dancing-Mouse. And he was greatest of the three. And it was he who founded the Southern Mouse Style.

"The masters of the Southern Mouse School treated me to a grand feast, in honor of their founder and my old friend. When all were good and drunk, they asked me in hushed tones if the murals were right. I told them yes. Master Dancing-Mouse was actually that short, and his ears were actually that large. I once joked to his mother that I suspected the ears were the true key to his agility. Perhaps they allowed him to sail upon the wind like a racing yacht."

-- The Sword and it's Shortcomings, by Strikes-From-Horizon, former Sword-Saint.

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from the river to the sea

#Stacked #love is normal

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Stacked. Deal it out.

A surprisingly helpful bit of social maneuvering I've figured out from trial and error: Throughout your life, you are going to need things from people. Often, it's going to be on a deadline. And when that deadline passes, you generally want to know what's going on. So, you need to ask them.

There are two kinds of people, broadly, in this situation. The Shameless will tell you what the holdup is, with absolutely no regard for if the reason is "good enough". This is actually very helpful, because you get the real reason immediately, and can start working on a solution.

The Ashamed is trickier. People who are Ashamed are people who were often told they were giving excuses when they were trying to explain, and they'll often avoid you until they solve the problem on their own. This causes them and you a lot of stress, and often takes a lot longer to solve.

Long term, the strategy for dealing with people who are Ashamed is to provide a supportive environment where they're comfortable sharing any problems they're having with getting things done. But, there's a way to at least partially short-circuit that:

Provide an explanation for them.

One example might be "Hey Susan, I noticed that I don't have your report yet. Are you busy with other projects?" The readymade explanation signals that you're willing to accept an explanation, which is the big anxiety point.

Sometimes, you still won't get an honest answer- especially if the honest answer isn't "good enough" by the standards of the person who traumatized them. But, I've found that it often at least gets you a lie that lets you give them some slack or work around the problem.

Let's say that Susan has actually completely forgotten that she needed to do the report. She's horrified at herself, and completely unwilling to admit the real problem. But, she can now safely reply with "Sorry Jennifer, I've been swamped, and it got lost in the mix. I can have it to you in two days. Does that work?"

From there, so long as Susan gave an estimate for when she can actually do it, she and Jennifer can hash out a solution.

It's not a perfect solution, but it works astonishingly well for how small of a change it is.

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Oh my. Just rereading and the tears again.

Beauty.

Alice/Rob she/he/her/him/they/their

Alice and her first women's clothing

I sat with one hand in a shopping bag, touching perfectly ordinary cloth that was shaped for a woman.

And then the tears and the crying. 

Some part of me maybe gave up long ago on this day ever happening.

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On behalf of LGBTQ+ authors on Medium.com, I thank you for your tight support.

Almost crashed my forklift trying to get a picture of this

#self love #dad jokes

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Void - Istrandar

#deity worship #deity work

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Thank you.

She illumines the earth, Her three eyes moon, sun, and fire flashing light.

— Ramprasad Sen, Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma, compiled by Rachel Fell McDermott, (2001)

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Apparently "flex" means to show off.

I don't want to show off that I consider my feelings less important than the awesome irresponsible strength of my Ego's mind.

Cause my feelings ars important.

I also choose to allow people past my normal boundaries when that makes sense to my mind and emotions.

Maybe I misunderstood something?

#mindfulness #self care #self love #love is normal

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Yak.

Truly a shame there's not more yak appreciation on tumblr.

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⌖ Artemis - excited to see her again

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Reblogging because somehow it found it's way into my stream as "More like this".

You are LGBT if..

You are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. That’s it. Aces aren’t LGBT.

#lgbtqia #love is normal

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Wow. Thank you. This is not my religion but that is such a powerful tale.

A heart ate Loki, / in the embers it lay,

And half-cooked found he / the woman's heart;

With child from the woman / [Loki] soon was,

And thence among men / came the monsters all.

— Hyndluljóð (The Poem of Hyndla), translated by Henry Adams Bellows [describing Loki eating a woman's heart, causing him to become pregnant with a monster]

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Sorry for increasing the average age and depravity of your cute and cuddly little site!

You know that by not leaving the site 8 years ago, you just keep increasing the average age? Cause that's how demographics works?

Just keep on being you.

Love. Bandaids. Power tools. Best!

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I am a forest fairy and I have to periodically connect with nature to regain my strength. Daily is not enough.

Unfortunately I grew up as a whiteass traumatised boy in the 60's and 70's. Living on a farm with, like, 5 wooded areas, was a saving blessing for me.

Thank you, Artemis, my other Goddesses, and all my nature spirit friends.

Thank you for writing about your life, and I hope you know that teacher just avoided you in the woods, her spirit craft and wood craft were just that good.

#love is normal #spiritualism #self love #mysticism #spirit work #aphrodite #earth mother

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I like them, too. The other ones looked so good on Trump in 2019 that I had to get a completely different set.

Just saying.

Tumblr Code.

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Please help a disabled genderqueer that suffers from daily chronic pain buy groceries, meds, and life needs. I have p/ypal, (Saintsilence6) and c/shapp (Saintsilence). I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, eternally grateful for any help and for reblogs. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

Here is my face. Hiiii 👋