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rainsmediaradio · 4 months

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Nigeria-Trajectory of Development - Dr Kenny Odugbemi

Nigeria-Trajectory of Development We are a poor Nation not because we do not have mineral resources, abundant human infrastructure resources, Capitals in-term of tangible asset but solely because of leadership deficit and toxic followership Our leaders don't possess tangible values, strategic relationship tried and tested and impeccable character since you can not give what do not have, we are characterized with 63% of population who are monumentally poor The general populace do not have destiny connectors, Men and Women of influence, and no burden bearers every body for him or her selves with many gifted young Men, Women oppressed and suppressed to a level where 60m of our population now have psychiatric cases The major impediment of this underdevelopment is gross indiscipline, and no obedience to the rule of law We now have in built constraints encapsulating our cultural diversity now strongly incohesive, ethnic rivalry, religious bigotry Our society are collectively and mentally wired towards ethnic imbalance and confused religious beliefs flavoured by mediocrity through collective programming Private sectors though very few ones that always outperforming public sectors Public servants so corrupt, never want to change whilst in office despite attending local and international course constitution low appreciating capital assets that can not drive any meaningful Nations development We need to have cultural change across diverse ethnics groups to reflect same National values proposition of meritocracy, pragmatism, honesty, accountability and unity Our historical choice will continue to impact present days with measurable imbalance between civil and primordial structure *Learning experience from Dubai Emirates UAE currently is leveraging on 4 pillars of institutional frame work ✓Government ✓Universities ✓Entrepreneurship ✓Corporate organizations UAE Government UAE governance structure remain most efficient and effective through deliberate Vision of their Head of government, the King who through visionary enablement and religious tolerance and we'll focus and purposeful leadership direct energy of the Emirate Council team members in same direction who now facilitated accelerator program, diversify away from oil rich resolution, using their capital venture leveraging on innovation and knowledge, the baseline idea that future belong to those who can imagine, design and execute their vision, missions, goals and objectives UAE invested 1%of their budget as venture capital to support innovation hubs using advance technology platform to support infrastructure, creativity and art, small, and Medium enterprises, and positioning themselves by offering global talent Vida for Youths across all continents who can established in Dubai to create new future for themselves and their future children and they have achieved on their goals with room for further improvement Nigeria's impediment Nigeria financial institution must support and collaterized creative workable ideas Nigeria need a new Vision as as usual, this we must articulate, execute and monitor, willfully every Stakeholders must nurture Nigeria is so unstable because of weak institutions, may be we need benevolent dictatorship but can we ever get this quality in any political leader in Nigeria this is almost impossible Our new focus 1, increase the production of what we consume only and export excess just like China 2, Build more appreciating assets technology experts well nurtured for export like India 3,Produce and wear our clothes only like Bangladesh 4,Focus more on innovation hubs like UAE 5, increase tax base, and Incentivized a tax free for Indigenous innovators 6,Encourage Statewide trade with restrictions due intermodal transport system 7, Adopt new Constitution or fall back on 1963Constitution with strong emphasis on States and Communities 8, digitally resolve insecurity, insurrections to unlock investment, 9,Removing all barriers and restrictions of taking out money as it relates to FDI inflows 10, Invest and incentivize infrastructure system through PPP Initiative, whilst government limit funding on capital project Nigeria have significant drop in our GDP due to gross incompetence, corruption, lack of transparency, instability and insecurity. We should ask ourselves this question ✓Are we half empty ✓Are we have filled At this point in our National life, we need to separate governance from our sovereignty Any body who continue to castigated Nigeria band our leaders with no meaningful suggestion is part of our problems We need to adopt "No limit Initiative, identifying our disconnection points to move from our potential to point of actualization As individual we must be determined and motivate our selves with collective consciousness to provide workable solutions to our problems Reflection from Africa Africa as a Continent is still battling with impact of European Slavery mentality Colonization Neo-Colonization Africans have never made right choice of leadership, it is time to resurrect from dungeon We must ensure that our laws and orders are. regulated and moderated with throughput sanitation Conclusion Nigerians across board must respect law and order Our leaders must be discipline, remain credible with integrity Nigerian must be made to respect law and order and charity must begin at home before getting engaged with public sector We now need to have patriotic Nigeria Elder State-Men and Women in a National constituted committee to screen politicians before they are giving opportunity to partake in any political process at all levels We all must take responsibility for our actions and inactions without any options of favouritism to have socially transformative Nigeria with collective Nations Read the full article

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shatar-aethelwynn · 3 years

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The US: Separation of church and state!

Also the US: Excuse us while our military uses religious imeragery and language.

#us politics #everyone knows that more than half the politicians are hypocrites #who want their religious flavour to be the national law #but sometimes its especially obvious

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awed-frog · 4 years

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“The big flaw with this is that it completely misunderstands who JK Rowling is and why she wrote the books. Simply put, this novel is a Christian tale. You miss that, you miss the entire point of everything it has to say.” Elaborate? Sounds interesting and I haven’t heard that before.

Well - I love this to bits and sort of wrote my thesis about it, so here we go.

Basically, you’ve got several kinds of heroes, but ‘left-wing hero’ is almost a contradiction in terms (more on this later). There’s your average Greek hero, whose status as a hero is more of a social class than it is a job and who generally doesn’t have any morally redeeming qualities (have you met Theseus?). Then there’s the medieval Christian hero - he comes in different flavours, but what’s relevant here is the Perceval model: basically the village idiot, whose only power is his good heart and who has no desire to challenge the status quo (because kings are divinely ordained and also poets tend to work for them, so ‘That vassal guy of yours has rescued yet another damsel’ story is going to be better received than ‘Your tax system is corrupt and this knight will now implement direct democracy’). Next you have the modern superhero, who was born in a very different historical context (the vigilantism of 19th century US) and as such has very different priorities. Namely: in his world, there is no higher authority and it’s up to him to use his superior skills to be judge and executioner so he can protect the most vulnerable. This understandable but toxic narrative will later get mixed up with WW2 and then the rampant capitalism of the last 30 years, resulting in the current blockbustery mess.

Anyway - if you’re a Western writer, it’s basically impossible to escape these three shaping forces we’ve all grown up with (classical Antiquity, Christianity, and US-led imperialism/capitalism), so most books and movies of the last forever decades can be analyzed through this lens. In the case of JK Rowling, what you have is a Christian author who openly used her YA series to chart out her own relationship with God. This is not a secret, or a meta writer’s delusion, or anything: she’s discussed it in several interviews. Her main problem, which is most believers’ main problem, is how to reconcile her faith in a benevolent God with the suffering in her daily life; and something she’s mentioned more than once is how her mom died when she was 25, and how this was very much on her mind especially when she was writing Deathly Hallows.

Now, I don’t want to write a novel here, so I won’t analyze the entire series, but what it is is basically a social critique of British society, mixed up with Greek and Roman elements in a cosmetic way only, and - crucially - led by an extremely Christian hero.

In every way that matters, Harry Potter is a direct descendant of Perceval: he’s someone who’s grown up in isolation as the village idiot (remember how he was shunned by other children because he was ‘dangerous’ and ‘different’), randomly found a more exciting world of which he previously knew nothing (he’s basically the only kid who gets to Hogwarts without knowing anything about the magical world, just like Perceval joined Arthur’s court after living in the woods for 15 years), and proceeded to make his mark not because of his innate powers or special abilities (he’s average at magic, except for Defence against the Dark Arts), but because he’s kind and good and humble. And in the end, he willingly sacrifices himself so everyone else can be saved: a Christ-like figure who even gets his very own Deposition (in the arms of Hagrid, the closest thing to a parent his actually has).

(This, by the way, was the only reason why Hagrid was kept alive. JK Rowling had planned to kill him, but she absolutely wanted this scene - one of the most recognizable and beloved image in Christian art - in the books.)

And even if he ultimately survives his ‘death’ (like Jesus did), Harry refuses the riches and rank he was surely offered and chooses to spend his days in middle-class obscurity as a husband and father (if I remember correctly, Harry and Ginny’s house isn’t even big enough for their three kids). And no, of course he doesn’t stand for anything or challenges the status quo: that’s not his job. His job, like Jesus’, was to defeat evil by offering himself up in sacrifice; and the entire story - especially the last book - is a profound, intimate, and very moving reflection on faith.

(“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's”, remember? It’s not your job to change anything in the temporal, material world; your job is to nurture your immortal soul and prepare it for the true life that comes after death.)

Like - I don’t know how it was for younger readers, but for me, reading Deathy Hallows as an adult, it wrecked me. Even as an agnostic, I read it over and over again, and I kep finding new meaning in it. The whole thing is basically a retelling of the Book of Job, one of the most puzzling and beautiful parts of the Old Testament. That’s when Harry’s faith in God Dumbledore is tested, when his mentor, the cornerstone of his world, disappears; when Harry has to decide whether he’ll continue to believe in this absent, flawed figure despite all the bad things he keeps uncovering or give up his faith - and thus his soul - completely. The clearest, most startling moment exemplifying this religious dilemma is when Harry decides not to go after the wand. Getting it is the logical thing to do, the only way he can win, but Harry - while mourning Dobby - decides not to do it. That’s when he recovers his faith, and starts trusting his own kindness and piety (whatever happens, he will not defile a tomb) over everything else.

Another key moment is King’s Cross - here, and once more, Harry forgives his enemy, thus obeying Jesus’ commands. He sees Voldemort, the being who took everything from him - and he pities the pathetic, unloved thing he’s become. This is what sets him apart from everyone else and what makes him special: not his birth, not his magic, not some extraordinary artefact - but simply, like Dumbledore puts it, that he can love. After everything that’s bene done to him, he can still love; not only his friends, but his enemies. He forgives Voldemort, he forgives Snape, he forgives Malfoy, he forgives Dudley; and I see so many people angry about this, ranting about abuse victims and how hate is a right, but I think they’re missing the point. This is a Christian story; from a Christian perspective, your enemies need love more than your friends do.

(“It is not those who are healthy who need a physician” and all that.)

And in any case, a hero is inherently not left-wing. The whole trope relies on three rock-solid facts: the hero is special, and he can do something you can’t, and that gives him the right or the duty to save others who can’t save themselves. Whether it is declined in its Christian form (the hero as self-sacrificing nobody) or in its fascist form (the hero as judge and king of the inferior masses), that is is the exact opposite of any kind of left-wing narrative, where meaningful change is brought about not by individual martyrdom or a benevolent super-human, but by collective action.

So, yeah - Harry changes nothing and is not the leader of the revolution, but it’s unfair to link this to JK Rowling’s politics. It’s just how the trope works. And, in fairness to her, many kind and compassionate authors who write books concerned with social justice tend to lean towards this kind of hero because the only workable alternative - the fascist super-hero - is way worse. Had Harry been that, for instance, he would have ended up ruling the wizarding world. Would that have been better for its democracy? A 19-year-old PM who knows nothing about the law or justice or diplomacy? A venerated war hero drunk on power? Instead, JK Rowling chooses the milder way out: Harry and his friends do change the system - little by little, and within the limits of the genre. Hermione becomes the equivalent of a human rights lawyer, while Harry and Ron join the Aurors (and I know there’s a lot of justified suspicion towards law enforcement, but frankly having good people in their ranks is still the only way to move things forward. It’s been years and I still haven’t heard a practical suggestion as to how a police-less nation would work). As for the government, it is restored to a fairer status quo - again, not the revolution many readers wanted, but also not the totalitarian monarchies or oligarchies or the super-hero’s world.

And as to how one can write a story that’s actually revolutionary - I don’t exactly know. Some writers rely on multiple narrating voices to try and escape the heroic trope; others work on bleak stories which point out the flaws in the system and stop short of solving them. I guess that, in the end, is one of the problem with left-wing politics: they’re simply less eye-catching, less cinematic. On the whole, it’s dull, boring work, the victories achieved by committees and celebrated with a piece of paper. From a literary point of view, it just doesn’t work.

#ask #harry potter #hp #meta #jk rowling #tropes #heroes #literary tropes #ancient greece #superheroes #the jesus fandom #writers problems #right vs left #politics #again i don't hold it against it #i think it works beautifully #and has a lot to offer to non-believers as well

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sanguinecharm · 3 years

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‘ seems to me— ‘ he said, feeling for the words, ‘ seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed....’

— Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

ooc introduction ;

hello hi there ! my name is shannon , i use she / they pronouns && i’m from the not-so-good old united kingdom : this is the third muse i promised myself i wouldn’t make because i am , in fact , a clown who got ideas while rewatching luther so — here’s my boy , levi , who i have come to love and am so excited to share with you all !

aesthetics ;

the dying sunlight of a day that dragged on far too long ; the mini-clock ticking away on his desk seems to drag on , another quiet night whiled away between intermittent drunk & disorderlies. a small pile of promotion offers to the big city he’s been ignoring for two weeks. texts from his family in the windy city. a drink after that long day but no more. his little girl all grown up , now. deductive reasoning & quiet thoughts. slow drives around the neighbourhood just to think ; the car still plays cassettes. a desire for the old days conflicting with a curiosity toward the new.

muted shades. polished boots. breaking the mould. believing in soulmates. classic noir films. but also james bond films. midnight showers with the water just a little too hot. pasta for the third night in a row. a collection of flavoured water bottles on the bedside table ; half of them are empty , half of them are full. an intense love of family and a broader definition of it than most. sunday night barbecue. another coffee.

xanny by billie eilish. people help the people by birdy. broadchurch ( 2013-2017 ). midnight, the stars and you by al bowlly. dancing in the moonlight by toploader.

basics ;

NAME : Levi Kacely Nartey

NAME MEANING : “attached” , “man born on a Sunday”

AGE : Fifty-two ( born 17 November , 1968 — Chicago , Illinois )

GENDER : Male ( cisgender )

ORIENTATIONS : Bisexual && biromantic ( moderate preference for women )

RELATIONSHIP STATUS : Married

CURRENT RESIDENCE : Elmerton , Florida

NATIONALITY : American

LANGUAGES SPOKEN : English , German ( high school level )

OCCUPATION : Sheriff

TIME IN ELMERTON : Twenty years

personality ;

levi’s often asked what he’s doing in elmerton ; that his intuitive habits could be used somewhere more ‘ lively ’ as it’s put , an asset to a city unit . . . but more than he necessarily says , the community spirit of elmerton has warmed his heart : it’s where he largely raised his now-adult daughter after moving for the promotion , and has a lot of memories. he’s comfortable in his career here , and he doesn’t want to give it up for anything.

MBTI : INTJ-A ( 52% Introverted , 59% Intuitive , 62% Thinking , 82% Judging , 90% Assertive )

ENNEAGRAM : One , with a Two wing

ASTROLOGICAL PLACEMENTS : Scorpio sun && Libra moon && Taurus rising

HOGWARTS HOUSE : Gryffindor

MORAL ALIGNMENT : Lawful Good

THEME SONG : Perseus by Unknown Brain

LANGUAGE OF LOVE : Words of Affirmation

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS : Protestantism

appearance ;

levi’s an unmistakeable presence , really , and he wouldn’t want to be anyone else ; he looks fairly like his father , though his father would argue there’s more of his mother in him than anyone notices. you can tell whether he’s working or not by how muted his wardrobe is : the more so , the more likely it is that he’s on the clock.

FACECLAIM : Idris Elba

HEIGHT : 6 ft 4 in

HAIR COLOUR : Black

EYE COLOUR : Brown

COMPLEXION : Deep

FASHION : Shirts && ties && suits && long coats && Doc Martens. Fairly neutral shades ( grey, tan etc. ) with the occasional shock of darker shades of red , if he’s off the clock & feeling it.

familial ;

MOTHER : Delia Nartey née Kamara

FATHER : Kindo Nartey

SIBLINGS : Evie Nartey

PAST PARTNERS : N/A

CHILDREN : Charlotte ‘ Lottie ’ Nartey

#fortyhqs.intro #intro | levi nartey.

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pack-the-pack · 5 years

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Any thoughts on the aftermath of mating bites? I have a headcanon that taking care of the other's bite until its healed is a huge part of strengthening a pair's mating bond. Do you think Alphas would take pride in changing the Omegas bandages every day? Or feel guilty for for causing them pain? Would Omegas fret over using the best salves and anti-inflammatory medicine?

Honestly I adore this idea. But as in most of the asks I answer my response is not just “yes, pretty much” or “No” lol Yeeea, sorry about that guys… I do think that overall the biting and the care for it is an intimacy majority of couples take pride on, but I also think the process and importance itself might change depending on personal preference of the couple, culture, time period and social and economic status. Yes We are going there again, fasten your seat belts kids, cause it’s time for a History lesson, Pack style!!!

Warning: Mentions of death, abortions, mental illness, sexual stuff and all sorts of ancient hi jinks in an incredibly lengthy post (cut possibly unavailable on mobile cause tumblr is garbage).

Disclaimer: A lot of what I’m basing these fictional concepts in is very eurocentric because that’s what I know best, I am not a historian, I am not an archaeologist or a biologist, I have no degree on no nothing let alone an specialisation on anything relevant enough to be used as educated sources for what I’m about to write. This is just for fun okay, guys? So no need to rub your years of hard work and experience on my face or be like “well actually-!”, cause it will be like just, cool to know? But very unlikely taken into account past that, so just, relax m’kay? Thanks…… Also a lot of my knowledge on these things just comes from the “History of the entire world I guess” video so yeaaa.

So first and foremost, the types of things one would use to treat mating bites. Again, I think there are variants regarding time period and culture, but I think every culture would end up coming up with rather similar things, or overlapping methods of treating such scarring, and I made a little drawing for it :3 Nothing, great, nothing awesome, but because this ask inspired me to draw something.

(Kind of messy, my pottery is kind of crooked and I totally intended for the background to be grey and didn’t just fuck up cleaning up on the wrong layers and had to pretend that was the original plan, you’re imagining, but it’s from the heart c’mon).

Before people had this fancy thing called modern medicine, they had to rely solely on instinct, anecdotes and superstition to make their medication, and of course, bite treatment wasn’t any different.

Whenever an Alpha would bite an Omega or a Beta or vice verse, the glands around the bite area would get irritated, itchy and achy. The most ancient method of soothing these aches was mud, just plain out wet dirt, applied to the area and left there to dry and reapplied only when the entirety of the first batch cracked and fell off naturally during daily activities. It was the hottest trend amongst packs 50.000 b.c. - Though there is also evidence of animal fat being used for the same purpose as well as snow.

With the end of the Paleolithic period and the invention of agriculture things started to get more advanced, now people have bowls, and lots of seeds… and grains! Grains and seeds that they can squeeze really hard and it makes residue come out of them. This is when various types of oils started to pop all around along with various simple mixtures of flour and water. Many clay statues and other rudimentary paintings from these periods show a variety of deities and rituals that existed around the manufacturing of these products and there are indications that the importance of treating bite wounds only then started to become somewhat of a significant part of mated couples’ lives. It was believed that these smaller human settlements created by the first sedentary packs, aka warrens, didn’t make distinction between the Eleusinian¹ and Asterian² dynamics when it came to mating bites and the treatments of such. Omegas would bite and care for the marks they inflicted on Alphas just as much as Alphas and Betas to one another or other Omegas. It was only when these warrens started to grow into full blown villages and subsequently distinctive cities that these differences started to develop.

Once these villages and cities started to gain shape and power, social hierarchy took on a new dimension beyond sole survival. Alphas no longer concerned themselves solely with the survival of their own small pack and hunting food to provide for their mates and children, Betas no longer concerned themselves with just assisting Alphas and Omegas in their daily activities as well as primarily caring for crops and animals, and Omegas no longer only cared to make sure their children and pack were in good health and cared for. Farming and the domestication of animals allowed everyone to have more time for architecture, writing, laws, politics, dancing, music, religion and most important of all: Figuring out how to divide people in a way that totally doesn’t benefit everyone equally, as one do. So now you got social classes and cultural diversity, and these come with different ways of treating mating bites. So around the period of the Bronze age to when the Greeks were like really important (specially cause a lot of the terminology and ideas about the dynamics carried nowadays comes from them and the Romans in western society) methods and materials started to shift a bit, but not drastically. Herbs like mint and parsley, flowers like lavender and aconite, roots like ginger and marsh mallow, and oils like that from olives, frankincense or sesame seeds as well as animal derived products such as wax from bees or blood and fat from animals and sometimes even metals like iron started to pop up all around from east to west as cures for all sorts of ailments and diseases. Brought through the sea or through land by merchants (rhizotomiki) who crossed nations and continents, carrying with them they brought all sorts of new superstitions and beliefs about mating bites. Flowers said to be born from rivers or lakes of eternal youth, roots and spices made of fire itself, honey directly from the mouth of deities or roots that’d kill any spiritual disease started gaining popularity quickly with pretty much everyone seen as a lot of these were said to provide for good fortune and happy and prosperous marriages if incorporated on biting rituals. Oracles and religious leaders would advise their followers and rulers to consume certain things before mating and to care for their bites and their partners with extra amounts of care because all of a sudden they started to become super important. Deaths, famine, bad luck, abortions and mental illnesses started to be blamed on the lack of care or the improper care of mating bites, said to either cause the body to perish in account of some malignant aspect of a specific plant or to have angered the gods in some manner.

The high mortality that could come with infected mating bites became more and more apparent the more society advanced, but they didn’t know it was because of the infection itself yet, so surviving these was not only a sign of strength or luck, but a sign of status, power, money and higher spirituality. Emperors, Empresses, feudal lords in the orient, etc. All took pride in having enough money to buy rare ingredients from merchants from far away lands as well as hundreds of slaves and servants to care for their gardens, plantations and animals which provided them with an immense diversity of always available plants, herbs and roots that gained favour in aiding with biting marks. To be the chosen mate of one of these people would grant one with a similar status and privileges, such as not dying and having better flavoured bread or something.

This also meant that they didn’t really want other people but them using these miracle medicines, because they thought that for the common people to use “divinely provided” forms of care would inevitably result in corruption of said methods and subsequently the fall of society. So now you had:

The rulers of nations and cities/nobles: Using and manufacturing refined powders from roots, grains and metals from far away nations in order to bind and cure mating bites. Rare Oils from plant eradicated anywhere but the palaces and gardens belonging to the highest circles, bandages made from the finest silks and sown and painted with all sorts of religious meanings. Concoctions that took hours, months or even years to be finished for a single claiming treatment, with recipes and processes kept secret and many times lost forever with trusted doctors/shamans that’d tend to royalty only.

Generals, Priestesses, Shamans, Politicians: Using plants and roots that were common, but difficult to come by, expensive, difficult to use or “required” a specific ritual that’d grant them some sort of untapped potential from these plants otherwise, providing them “enlightenment”, “strength”, “wisdom” and “spiritual clearance” in order to win all things from wars, to new knowledge and insight on the gods’ wants and needs to political feuds. Alcohol and other fermented blends such and wine and grape must with marsh mallow, made to clean and close wounds as well as soothing burns were prioritized here. The immediate pain was considered cleansing and efficiency. Mandrakes were rather popular as well, but for treating “deep spiritual diseases”, such as when ones mate falls ills some hours or a day after the bite is consummated, or to ensure healthy and strong offspring coming from the union since it was considered to aid on sexual prowess. However given its “immense” power and magical properties it was rarely ever given or prescribed to the masses without the supervision or blessing of a highly spiritual attuned authority.

Lords and wealthy merchants: Using, manufacturing and selling all sorts of blends, mostly creams and perfumes said to help with pain and itching. These would change depending on the city and the deities they worshiped and superstitions they carried as well as the plants naturally available in the lands (the ones that haven’t been eradicated or hogged by other classes of people). These were the ones usually gifted by acquaintances, and friends of the newly mated couple as offerings of good fortune, prosperity and fertility. These varied hugely in ingredients and price as well. Though there were other ingredients and recipes guarded with an amount of secrecy by these as well, gifted and used just by the family to other members of the same, these tended to be tended to and made with a higher degree of care, utilizing plants one would have at their disposal in their own home.

Common soldiers, artisans and lesser merchants, sailors and farmers: The people that didn’t really have much money, time or social status to dedicate to bite wounds would resort to simpler and cheaper methods of soothing their pains. Simply dousing the wounds with olive or fish oil was a common practice, as well as using salt water to wash the area. Clay of various kinds as well as coal and ground up seashells were popular on various cities as ingredients for lotions and creams and many times were offered to the gods as well as a form of prayer for good health and happy mateship. Lamb and goat fat was also very popular with the poor for its healing and relaxing properties, people would collect an array of herbs and flowers that’d fancy their partner or the both of them to incorporate into it, in order to symbolise their union as one as well as to mask the strong foul smell from the fat.

Slaves: Slaves were usually prohibited to mate by their masters, but the ones that happened to mate someone or being mated would be punished with not being able to treat their wounds. It was seen as a disgrace and distasteful to not treat ones bite wounds, and people thought only fitting that slaves who step out of line would have their favour taken from them entirely on the eyes of their gods or polite society. As a result slaves had to resort to only using water and cool mud, many succumbing to the infections and fevers that were attributed by most as a corruption of the spirit and not worthy of pity.

So as you can see, there was a divide in how they treated their wounds based on many things, and while some of these methods and rituals sometimes overlapped between classes the distinction was stark enough that you could clearly tell what type belonged to whom. It was around that time as well that the Eleusinian and Asterian dynamics started to get divided more and more as time passed. Omegas were treated as borderline property and in many places like Athens were not granted the right to mark their mate back, with exceptions occurring just in certain occasions (such as the soon departure to a losing war on the mate’s part, or to save the mate’s life though a spiritual treatment), Beta females and poor Omega females being forbidden to use certain plants and to take part in certain rituals by law claimed to be belonging solely to Omega females of higher social status, Omega males being prohibited of using any sort of soothing agents if not prohibited of being bitten altogether. Alphas having or not marks as a form of weakness or a show of strength varied ridiculously from city to city and from nation to nation (So much so that to this day there is not full agreement on that in society). And a whole lot of other rules and random crap just around mating bites alone.

With the invention of modern medicine, these things started to change obviously, people had a better grasp of what helped and what just made things worse, creams, pills, oils,,and ointments started being patented and people would gradually only look to more naturalistic methods of treating claim bites as an element of a different all-natural life style or a belief (misguided or not) that natural = better. With all that said one thing has remained true: Yes, caring for ones wounds is something that is and was believed to strengthen and solidify ones bond with their mate. People always tended to care a great deal for it, doing everything in their power to provide for their mates in the best way they knew how, if it were through giving them private care by more servants then they can count, with the best ingredients in the world at the moment, or simply by choosing smells and things that they’d like in order to show how much they care, they took and still take great pride in caring for that very fragile wound in their necks. As whether or not this is more an Alpha thing or a Omega thing, or if Alphas hate or take pride in causing pain to their partners, that varies in belief, culture and time period. I particularly think that overall it’d be a mixture of both. They don’t want to cause excessive pain to their partner but they also want their bonds to be solidified forever. The Eleusinian dynamics were always the ones more intimately connected with the production and rituals surrounding bite soothers so to me it makes sense they prioritize its quality more than Asterian dynamics, but that also is a highly individual thing.

Overall I hope this wasn’t a complete departure from what you asked >.> But I really wanted to explore this a bit more and your ask gave me the opportunity to. Remembering this is all just my interpretation and applies to my verse (PTPverse) which is completely open for creative use in fanfictions, RP sessions and others, so if you don’t agree with what I said here that’s 100% fine, to each their own, I just hope this somehow was able to help anyone ;) any lingering questions try checking out my other history posts such as the Ancient Greece Headcanons one or make another ask on my inbox for clarity. Peace.

¹ - Eleusinian dynamics: Referring to Omegas (of either gender) and Beta females.

² - Asterian dynamics: Referring to Alphas (of either gender) and Beta males.

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paininmyassachusetts · 6 years

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How long have you lived in the place you currently live?

Have you ever seen a cryptid?

Do you still have a VCR player?

What is your favourite sport to play?

What is the first video game you remember playing?

About how many books do you currently have on your book shelves?

When was your last hair cut?

Have you ever raced a car on a track?

Have you ever been in a helicopter?

Have you ever rowed a boat?

Do you forget to do up your seatbelt often?

Have you ever seen a ghost?

What is your favourite joke?

When was the last time you went camping?

Which computer operating system is your favourite?

Do you enjoy grocery shopping?

What is your favourite word in a language that isn’t your own?

Do you have any allergies?

What is the most money you’ve ever spent at a restaurant?

Have you ever broken a TV?

What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever gotten in trouble for in school?

How large is your bedroom?

What was the last concert you went to?

Have you ever dropped a carton of eggs on the floor?

What is your favourite flavour of ice cream?

Have you ever set the alarms off on someone else’s car?

Have you ever accidentally punched someone?

Do you enjoy fishing?

What places(s) feels most like home to you?

Have you ever operated heavy machinery?

When was the last time you did charity work?

Have you ever tried to grow a fruit tree?

What is your favourite fruit?

If price weren’t an issue, what car (past or present) would you buy?

If price weren’t an issue, what firearm would you buy?

What is your favourite meme?

What was the first car you ever drove?

Can you drive a manual/stick shift?

Have you ever travelled outside your home country?

Do you like vegetables?

What is your favourite vegetable?

If you ever were to change your name, what name would you choose?

If you could decorate your home entirely for free, how would it end up looking?

Have you ever won an award?

What are three of your most bizarre interests?

Do you have a favourite cryptid?

Do you have a favourite conspiracy theory?

Do you enjoy writing? If so, what genre do you usually write?

If all animals were easily made domestic, what one animal would you choose as a house pet?

Would you have a library in your ideal home?

What web browser do you generally use?

What do you want to name your next pet?

What colour are your bedsheets?

Do you read comics?

Do you enjoy watching media in languages besides your own?

How many pairs of shoes do you own?

What is your favourite underrated film?

Does your house have a fireplace?

Do you enjoy watching classic films? Which one is your favourite?

Do you want to go into space?

What is/was your least favourite subject in school?

Can you whistle?

Do you have a favourite cheese?

What do your salads usually consist of?

What are some of your favourite herbs and spices?

What was your favourite project you ever worked on in school?

How many games do you have on Steam?

Can you locate any of the constellations?

Do you often put clothes on the wrong way round?

Have you ever broken a bone?

Do you wear a watch often?

What colour are your bedroom walls?

What is your computer background?

What is your favourite smell?

What is your favourite font?

Who is your favourite philosopher?

What is your favourite Pokémon?

What are some of your favourite snack foods?

What is the fastest you’ve ever driven?

Do you have a library card?

Have you ever gotten frostbite?

What is your favourite doughnut?

What is your favourite cake?

If you could learn any extinct language, which one would you learn?

How many cars have you owned?

What are your favourite pizza toppings?

What are some obscure bands you enjoy?

Do you know anyone famous?

If you started a band today, what genre would it be, what would it be called, and who would your bandmates be?

What is your favourite firearm?

What is your favourite food to cook?

Describe your ideal partner.

Describe your ideal home.

If you could enact one law, immediately, what would it be?

What kind of character do you usually play as in role playing games?

What is your favourite non-alcoholic beverage?

What is your favourite alcoholic beverage?

Would you live on a boat?

Would you move far from home if you knew you had met the love of your life?

Which country that isn’t your own do you enjoy learning about the most?

Do you enjoy rainy weather?

Have you ever forgotten to wear an article of clothing in public?

Are you artistic?

Have you ever been stranded in the wilderness?

What is your favourite style of architecture?

What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

Have you ever accidentally broken a wall?

Do you wear pyjamas in public?

What is the worst wound you’ve ever accidentally received?

What is your current obsession?

If you could travel back in time only once, where would you go?

Do you enjoy doing chores?

Do you enjoy working in gardens?

What are some things you collect?

How do you like your eggs?

How do you like your coffee?

What is your favourite period of historical clothing?

What is your favourite instrument?

Have you ever started a fire on accident?

What is your favourite type of juice?

Where is your favourite place to shop?

Where is your favourite non-fast food restaurant?

What is your favourite soup?

Would you prefer a large or a small home?

If you could convert a decommissioned missile silo or underground bunker into a home, would you?

If you had the money to buy an island and build a castle, would you?

Have you ever attempted to start a micronation?

Do you like to dress fancy?

Have you ever considered running for office?

Do you have any famous family members?

What is your favourite James Bond film?

Where’s the most “exotic” place you’ve ever been?

Have you ever voted?

Do you wear hats often?

Would you enlist in the armed forces?

Would you consider mercenary work?

When you got to a sandwich shop (such as Subway), what do you usually get on your sandwich?

What would a perfect date be for you?

Have you ever been to a formal party besides prom, homecoming, or a wedding?

If you could learn any obscure language that is still spoken, what language would you learn?

How many children would you like to have?

Have you ever been arrested?

Have you ever jumped from a window?

Do you like to dance?

What is your favourite flag?

What is your favourite coat of arms?

What is something you like to eat that others might find gross or weird?

Do you like to cook?

Do you keep a journal?

Do you prefer linux, mac, or windows?

Do you prefer playing games on consoles or computer?

Do you enjoy documentaries?

Do you have a favourite letter of the alphabet (or any alphabet)?

Do you prefer the city or the country?

What is one food everyone loves but that you hate?

What sort of car do you drive?

Who is your favourite political leader?

What is your favourite board game?

What is your favourite movie?

What is your favourite TV show?

What is your favourite video game?

Are you married or do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

What is your favourite time of day?

Do you have a crush on anyone?

If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you like to be?

Do you speak any languages besides English? If English isn’t your first language, what is?

Do you prefer wearing dark or bright colours?

Do you profess any religious faith?

What is your favourite flower?

Who is your best friend?

What is your favourite emoji?

Does anyone have a crush on you?

What is your favourite or lucky number?

How did you come up with the name of your blog?

How many siblings do you have?

What is your favourite cookie?

Do you prefer warm or cold weather?

What is your favourite colour?

What are some things you enjoy doing in your spare time?

What is your favourite song at the moment?

What is your dream job?

What is you favourite historical period?

Who is your favourite Disney Princess?

Who is your favourite superhero?

Do you have any pets?

What was the weather like today?

Are you still in school?

How long have you been on tumblr?

What are some of your pet peeves?

What was your favourite cartoon growing up?

Who is your favourite character from any media you consume?

What is an opinion you hold very strongly but rarely talk about?

What is your favourite insect?

What is the strangest thing you’ve ever said on accident?

What is your favourite candle scent?

Have you ever been bitten by a spider?

Were you ever in the Boy or Girl Scouts, or your national equivalent?

Can you name every country in the world?

Did/do you play any sports in school?

What is your favourite type of tree?

How many pillows do you sleep with at night?

How many blankets do you sleep with at night?

What is your favourite scent of perfume/cologne?

Do you know how to knit?

What was the first meal you ever learned how to cook?

What is your least favourite colour?

What is your typical order at Chipotle?

What is your favourite flavour of Slurpee or other similar drinks?

Would you buy a suit of armour if you had the money?

Do you prefer being in the city or the middle of nowhere?

What is your favourite line from a book, besides the Bible?

What is your favourite Bible verse?

Which disease from any point in time would you rather die of?

What is your current aspiration?

Describe your crush in vague terms.

Do you like to go on hikes?

Would you ever like learn a Native American language?

When do you generally go to sleep?

What kinds of plants would you have in your dream garden?

How many pairs of shoes do you own?

Thoughts on roundabouts?

How many stuffed animals do you have?

Would you rather have a flower garden or a fruit & veggie garden?

How large is your house?

Have you ever eaten a bug?

How do you feel about the song Never Gonna Give You Up?

How old is your computer?

What type of phone do you have?

What’s a show you rarely see people talk about that you absolutely love?

Do you keep any plants in your room?

Have you ever accidentally stolen something?

Do you have any royal or noble ancestors?

What is the last book you read all the way through?

What are you doing tomorrow?

Have you ever grown your own fruits or vegetables?

How old were you when you joined tumblr?

Have you ever been in a treehouse?

When was the last time you made a pillow/blanket fort?

Do you enjoy stormy weather?

#updated version of the mash up of all my ask prompts #ask prompt

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