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PtN Spoiler Time of the Month

Lured by the snake, ate the bitter apple. Now she's smiling, asking for your judgement.

Will you banish her to hell, or send her to heaven?

Or just let her fall, and watch her reborn like a phoenix?

#path to nowhere #ptn #ptn chief #ptn spoilers #ptn bianca

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What is Cultural Appropriation?

Cultural appropriation is the wrongful use (e.g. ignorant consumption, theft, bastardization, oversimplification, or unauthorized commercial use) of cultural properties from a culture outside one’s own. If you use cultural customs or iconography without the understanding or regard to how it is meant to be used and by whom, you are appropriating. Similarly, in creative writing, you are appropriating if you divorce elements of a culture from their context and meaning, and bring them into your worldbuilding solely for their aesthetic value (“because it’s cool”).

This is different from “cultural appreciation,” which also involves using or adopting a cultural property, but done so in an appropriate context and often with the guidance or invitation of those from that culture.

Why is appropriation harmful? First, it contributes to the misrepresentation of these cultures in media, even if your work is understood to be fictional or speculative. Real life marginalized groups already have a hard time finding authentic representation. Second, it contributes to the history of colonial appropriation and theft. Stolen art and artifacts, many of which still unattributed or undated, remain in museums and private collections today. All because of people who felt entitled to the aesthetics of their colonial subjects while throwing out their cultural significance.

To avoid appropriation, do your research and engage in dialogue with people from that culture. Read their stories and talk with them. Ask them to critique your work and follow their feedback. Show care and respect.

Further Reading:

See our #cultural appropriation tag.

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This Q&A is an excerpt from our General FAQ for Newcomers, which can be found in our new Masterpost of rules and FAQs. If you're looking for more resources on POC representation, start there!

-Writing With Color

#writing advice

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PtN Angell Spoilers

Angell loves you, but she'd rather live without you. 🥲

#path to nowhere #无期迷途 #ptn #ptn spoilers #ptn chief #ptn angell

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Closed Practices are Closed - Open Replacements

This is my small rage vent spitting scalding tea about the topic because witches today have ZERO respect for closed practices. This is a small lists of reasons to why are closed, what is closed and how replace them (because witches seems to HATE when someone tell them to not do something). The only “but” here is that SOME deities are semi closed, it means that you are not allowed to try to contact them UNLESS they reach you FIRST. But the rest, CLOSED IS CLOSED.

继续阅读

#witch #witchcraft #witchblr

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Closed/ Semi Closed beliefs

Because many people think that beliefs, practices, religions and deities are like bags of cookies in the supermarket and that they have the full right to pick whatever they want, when they want. So here a next part of the serie of “Closed are closed” rants. This time…

Beliefs, cultures and religions:

继续阅读

#witch #witchcraft #witchblr

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List of Open Religions / Practices

Since I can’t access my side tumblr page that had the list (since both Safari and Chrome say the connection’s insecure for some reason), here ya go. Don’t ask for the sources on where I got these because hell if I know anymore.

DM me if any of these are actually closed.

Magic / Practices:

Altars

Ancestor connection/communication

Astral projection/travel

Astrology

Blood magic

Bone magic

Charms

Crystal healing/magic

Curses

Divination

Dream magic

Elements

Energy work/manipulation

Familiar work

Grimoire/Book of Shadows/Magic Journal

Herbal magic/herbology

Hexes

Knot magic (there’s so many options besides dream catchers)

Meditation

Nature magic

Numerology

Oils/Essential oils

Poppets (NOT voodoo dolls)

Potions

Sabbats

Scrying

Shrines

Sigils

Smoke cleansing (NOT smudging)

Spirit work (Be aware of cultural boundaries)

Wards & Shielding

Religions:

Paganism

Hellenic

Etruscan

Minoan

Roman

Mesopotamian (including Babylonian)

Celtic polytheism (including Gaulish, Irish, Scottish, German, Iberian, and Lusitanian)

Slavic polytheism

Finnish polytheism

Heathenism

Asatruar

Vanatruar

Rokkatruar

Lokean

Reconstructionist

Northern Tradition

Norse Tradition

The Elder Troth

Folkish

Universalist

Neo-Druidism

Neo-Wicca

#witchcraft

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Okay I just found out someone named a planet in Virgo 黎深 (Li Shen, Zayne's Chinese name) on Zayne's birthday...

Sometimes I'm amazed by how rich my... uh, my husband's fellow wives are 🥲

Planet intro (translated by me):

"In your dream, just follow the fragrance of jasmine, then you'll return to my side in no time."

"This is a planet full of blooming jasmine."

Yall can find this star in Xingxie Association's app by searching planet code TYC313-550-1 🌌

This is literally LOVE AND DEEPSPACE

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace zayne

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Spoiler Content

To kill the blazing sun that once was my beloved.

#path to nowhere #ptn #无期迷途 #ptn spoilers #ptn chief #ptn yao #ptn duruo #ptn yanyan

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Ptn Spring Festival Event Spoiler!

Du Ruo yall craved for and a glimpse of Yao the high pristess _(:з」∠)_

I'll keep posting following up content once new parts are released. Dang it the next renew is the day after tomorrow, can you believe it?! (งᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌)ง⁼³₌₃

#path to nowhere #ptn #ptn spoilers #无期迷途 #ptn chief #ptn duruo #ptn yanyan #ptn yao

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every year or so tik tok starts debating who the “real mean girl” was in mean girls and i’m just so baffled by the lack of media comprehension. the point is that they are ALL MEAN GIRLS. Yes! Janis was a mean girl. But so was Regina. All of the girls were mean girls!!! That’s what the gym scene is about, every girl gong up on stage and admitting something horrible they’ve done to another person.

It’s why Cady’s character had to be home schooled and not just transferring from a different school. It had to show you that everyone is capable of being a “mean girl” because high school is kill or be killed. It’s so easy to hurt others in the name of protecting yourself. Even girls who were kind and wanted to be kind succumbed to being a “mean girl” in order to make it through the day.

Mean Girls isn’t about right vs wrong. It’s about hierarchies in high school, it’s about the performance of femininity, it’s about toxic femininity, it’s about expectations and the desire to be accepted.

#truth #mean girls

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PtN Spoilers Ahead!

Let go Vanilla!!!

#path to nowhere #ptn #ptn chief #ptn vanilla #ptn spoilers

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Your last choice - here

#more one and two please!

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Merciless CN Spoiler Time

Who do we have here 👀👀👀

#path to nowhere #ptn chief #ptn spoilers #ptn #ptn lady pearl

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Darlings, I just finished the new chapter! So this is

Cn Server Spoiler Time!

I'm literally screaming and crying on zis

#path to nowhere #ptn #无期迷途 #ptn spoilers #ptn chief #ptn hella #ptn hecate #ptn don #ptn crache

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Thoughts on shipping these two? 👀

Thunder Laying Low × Shield of Revenge

#path to nowhere #ptn #无期迷途 #ptn spoilers #ptn demon #ptn don

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Okay update, he's name in the official doc is Don.

However, with his jail picture received, I kinda wanna ship him with Demon.

You know, the idealist Aragorn-ish dude who has been laying low and never really gives up × the dead-inside angry veteran who seeks only death & revenge and never wanna give up...

And just look at em! Same outfit color! Same scar on z nose! Ur tellin me they are not a ship? No way! Simping our thunder & shield begins now!

Ok so apparently everybody is talking about the new s rank sinner Donald.

Annnnnd now that someone in cn server mentioned, there're 4 dis letters on Donald's tie that ppl tryna decipher. And these 4 letters happened to be MWGA, meaning

Make West area Great Again

and our dude is

Blonde White Guy wearing Sunglasses

and

Former Leader of West area

yall see what I mean?

his first name is Donald

So that makes our New S Rank Sinner Donald what?

yell it in comment if yall wanna lol

#path to nowhere #ptn #无期迷途 #ptn don #ptn demon #ptn spoilers

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Ok so apparently everybody is talking about the new s rank sinner Donald.

Annnnnd now that someone in cn server mentioned, there're 4 dis letters on Donald's tie that ppl tryna decipher. And these 4 letters happened to be MWGA, meaning

Make West area Great Again

and our dude is

Blonde White Guy wearing Sunglasses

and

Former Leader of West area

yall see what I mean?

his first name is Donald

So that makes our New S Rank Sinner Donald what?

yell it in comment if yall wanna lol

#path to nowhere #ptn #无期迷途 #ptn donald #ptn spoilers #donald trump