Der Pass.
Okay so obviously spoilers for Der Pass/Pagan Peak ahead, uhh..
So yeah, that was something. I started watching the show in the middle of July and I was really on and off because at first I wasn't all that interested, but the more it went on the more I wanted, and eventually I found myself really enjoying it by season 2. The cinematogrophy is beyond impressive, and the acting- ESPECIALLY Ellie, who I LOVED btw, is really good.
But I NEED to get this off my chest.
Felix.
Oh. my god.
He was FINE as HELL first of all, like okkkaayyy I see yooouu with the mysterious hoodie and the gentle but creepy shit
but it wasn't always all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows apparently because Episode 8 quite possibly broke me. I just watched the same guy in a different font die twice.. as if All Quiet wasn't enough.
Not to mention, they way it happened. Oh my goodness gracious.
I was legit screaming at my computer "NOOOO NOO NOO YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME AGAIN!!! NOT AGAIN!!! IT CAN'T BEEE!!!" while both laughing and crying spontaneously.
Also, the whole Gedeon thing just added onto that. I was already a sad, sobbing mess, and then he fucking dies and at that point I was just like "WHAT THE FUUUUUCK" and then ofc I start bawling my eyes out AGAIN
AND THEN THE ENDING!?!?! It's so sweet and was so deserved and URGH it was SUCH. A GOOD. FINALE.
I might make another longer post going more in-detail about how I felt about the show but this was really just for me to rant/vent about S3EP8 because it was like a bayonet through the chest (Catch my reference?)
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Franz Hartwig in Der Pass / Pagan Peak (2018) Masken
S1E5
The demanding investigation has affected Ellie in a major way. The German policewoman and the Austrian cop bicker and fight constantly. While her positive life views get dulled and stunted, Gedeon's initial indifference changes into an obsession for cracking the case. After one lead brings them to yet another dead end, they have to start again from the top. They dive into case files of unsolved murders over the past years, hoping to find any trace of the serial killer.
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Four Servers, One Cult
WARNING: THIS POST IS LONG AND EXCEEDS THE IMAGE LIMIT TUMBLR HAS, THEREFORE THERE WILL BE MULTIPLE LABELED SECTIONS AND A REBLOG TO KEEP THE POST ORGANIZED
TL;DR the staff members of the below servers have displayed a historic and present behavior of bullying, abusing power, making absurd claims of priesthood, seership, and godspousal that can be easily debunked, anti semitic behavior, and tone policing of BIPOC when they discuss serious issues such as blood quantum. They also permit art and content thieves to post in their servers. Some screenshots will be from Flowers of Hellenism, a server that was deleted due to its original owner recognizing the cesspool the staff had made it. However the behaviors in Flowers of Hellenism have shown to be continued.
Server Names and Purposes:
Olympus Peaks - a Hellenism focused witchcraft and religious server
Keepers of Kemeticism - a Kemetic focused witchcraft and religious server
Godly Galaxies - a 17+ interfaith server focused on godspousal, priesthood, paganism, and witchcraft
Comfort Hollows - a private access priesthood server only accessible by approved members of the above servers
Server IDs:
Olympus Peaks - 909719311306866689
Keepers of Kemeticism - 908441420686315540
Godly Galaxies - 937865249418256456
Comfort Hollows - 907187922686595085
Users Responsible for the Communities:
Olympus Peaks
Owners: LiteralMochi#0635 (697152938438688848), liliflwrs#4891 (660206756546478136), olliebutanxious#8258 (625853397899411496)
Moderators: jaybird#7056 (758832979794722846), AuroraNoctifer#6969 (435917258913742849), yairo#9699 (539123876765106178), Laramie#5655 (729109174079848519), Artiosun#9014 (731426325730164779), kafun#2376 (468272825455869952)
Keepers of Kemeticism
Owners: Huntress#5176 (292843897548439553), Artiosun#9014 (731426325730164779), dinosocks#1018 (848966473611345961), r/1#4534 (829133673529737246)
Administrators: clowns.#3654 (750436259985489985), Confused Mia#2474 (580999971906650132), AuroraNoctifer#6969 (435917258913742849)
Moderators: BadBitch_Rehz#9340(507617058574434316)
Godly Galaxies
Owners: AuroraNoctifer#6969 (435917258913742849), Laramie#5655 (729109174079848519)
Moderators: LiteralMochi#0635 (697152938438688848), liliflwrs#4891 (660206756546478136), kafun#2376 (468272825455869952)
Comfort Hollows
Owners: LiteralMochi#0635 (697152938438688848), liliflwrs#4891 (660206756546478136), yairo#9699 (539123876765106178)
Moderators: AceitunaOscura#7810 (693267446597025854), AuroraNoctifer#6969 (435917258913742849), Laramie#5655 (729109174079848519)
BEHAVIOR 1: ANTISEMITISM AND RACISM
A Flowers of Hellenism Staff member who is Jewish created a quiz entitled "What Jew Lizard Are You?" and encouraged other staff members to take the quiz, which they did, with no questioning from staff as a whole or the other Jewish person on the team despite the team having issues with antisemitism in the past with a former owner. The two Jewish members of staff participating is a non-issue, the issue is the rest of staff, who are not Jewish, being willing to identify themselves with anti semitic caricatures for a joke or not.
When an Indigenous member of the server made a post in the appropriate channel (see below) with regard to their issues with blood quantum, a staff member discussed discomfort with their "anti-white rhetoric" with no major retribution and another complained that it sounded "venty". The members post was this:
This message instigated a discussion where Native members brought up their issues with blood quantum and behind the scenes was met with this:
While these comments did start an argument, nothing definitive was done discipline wise to the staff members who made these comments and they were allowed to dodge accountability and remain on staff with no issue.
When a member of Godly Galaxies who is a POC displayed interest in wanting to research/understand Voodou, the owner, AuroraNoctifier who is a white woman responded by gatekeeping and policing how Black a person had to be to partake in Voodou despite admitting she knows next to nothing about the practice.
SEERSHIP, PRIESTHOOD, AND GODSPOUSAL CLAIMS
While any of these titles hold general controversy within the pagan community due to difficulty verifying, scammers, and differing beliefs, the claims of these individuals are expansive, power-hungry, and break either their own rules or the rules of the communities they claim to be a part of.
AuroraNoctifier, for example, claims to be a Norse Gothi of Tyr despite only working with Tyr for a short period and not greatly participating in the Norse Pagan or Heathen community. She deleted her own Flowers of Heathenry server shortly after Flowers of Hellenism was deleted and hasn't participated in the norse sections of the servers she is a part of very heavily.
The majority of the staff in these servers make priesthood, seer, and godspouse claims to one or more gods.
Even members who aren't beyond the pail when it comes to priesthood or godspousal claims ("particularly close with" is how they phrase godspousal as not to break their own rule on not discussing godspousal) will condescend to members about their interest in priesthood for research purposes or other reasons. If you aren't in the club, its unlikely you'll get verified as a priest or the like easily.
The person in the below screenshot addressing a notable portion of a now-defunct offshoot server called Florum Campis as "kiddos" was only 14 or 15 when they made this message and they claim to be a priest of Zeus and have shown interest in godspousal as a minor.
There is also a generalized ego problem when it comes to the idea of the group being priests:
A current member of their priesthood chats and server discussed with us how easy it was to get into this portion of the community by lying:
I honestly can’t believe it was that simple. I am not a priest, never had a desire to be a priest, and never had a calling to be one. I am a solitary practitioner and have been so for years. It was very easy to waltz in and once I got them to respond to the ticket I opened. I asked about priesthood for a deity I worshipped briefly and one I’ve never interacted with at all. I got yes for both from their “verified diviners”, the majority of which were staff or “priests” themselves. I’ve been sitting in the community, even spouted some bullshit about what a modern priest of the pantheon I practice with would do and I haven’t been questioned, pushed, or been a concern at all. In reality, modern priests seldom exist in this pantheon and those that do have to go through an ordainment process with a group. You can’t just claim it. They’re not as well-rounded in their understanding of varying spiritual practices as they’d like to think. I ran into more issues with becoming a “verified diviner” where staff would ask me inane questions such as “what is the weather like where I am” to verify my divining abilities despite my saying that my divining skills lie with emotional matters and deity communication.
The next reblog will have screenshots and details regarding general favoritism, behind the scenes bullying, promoting creators that are known to have issues, art theft, and the general failure to uphold Xenia, which they have supposedly placed a huge emphasis on in their communities via their rules.
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