"Their love was like a rose, beautiful and fragrant, yet thorned and deadly, a thing of darkness and beauty intertwined."
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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?
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I recall saying this before, but it bears repeating:
There could be a billion trans people in the world and it still wouldn't be a bad thing because being trans is not a bad thing. Even if the rate of people discovering they are trans is "disproportionate" to trends from decades ago, that is not a bad thing. In fact, it's a natural consequence for there being more trans people being able to stay alive, and, overall, being able to live in a slightly more tolerant world. You'd only see that as a bad thing if you actively didn't want trans people to either live or live a life that facilitates wellness.
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described as wearing more perfume than clothing,
on Marchesa Luisa Casati, Infinite Variety by Michael Orlando Yaccarino & Scott D. Ryersson
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explanations under the cut
Morana/Marzanna is the goddess of winter, death and rebirth -- you will freeze or starve if you have not prepared for her
Leshy is a forest spirit -- if your family has cursed you, he will come and take you away into the wilderness
Poludnica is the midday demon -- if you don't cease to work in the fields at high noon, she will make you answer riddles and, when you inevitably can't answer, kill you
Baba Yaga is a powerful witch and wastes no time on the useless
Kikimora is a domestic demon, and while she does not usually kill, she has little patience for a messy house...
Vodnik/vodyanoi is a water spirit -- he dislikes hubris and lack of awareness and respect for the power of the vast water
Liho is the ultimate evil -- when you are preoccupied with greed and the material, he will grab your hand or your neck and not let go
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Rose
Fluffynightkiller Week by @help-im-a-gay-fish
Mobster AU by help-im-a-gay-fish & jann-the-bean
Ccino by black-nyanko
Nightmare by jokublog
Killer by rahafwabas / rahaf-wabas / rahofy-sketch
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mcr stans will be like "look at him he's beautiful" and it'll be a lowest quality pic of the most greasy, rat-looking man alive
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