I'm So Happy Because Yesterday We Went To The Beach. In General I Don't Like Summer But See The Sea Conforts

Please reblog if you believe ANYONE can worship the Norse gods, regardless of race, orientation, gender etc!

Live footage of me watching that one part of episode two

Todavía no la supero JAJAJA

Pleaseeeee listen to this!!! It's in Spanish but is soooooo good!!!

I was searching stuff of Freyja when I ended up reading a post where basically that person said that Odin accepts all people at Valhalla (even n*zis) because he only cares about fighting. What are your thoughts? Do you think that Odin accepts n*zis?

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, not the thoughts of all Heathens everywhere or even the rest of the mods here. Also, I’m not going to be censoring the word “nazi,” because as much as I’d love to avoid showing up under that search term, people who don’t want to see it deserve to be able to properly blacklist it.

Do I believe Odin agrees with or tolerates nazi ideology? No. I don’t believe that the Eddas are the infallible word of the divine or that we should base our morality solely on medieval texts written for a very different society, but even in those medieval texts, Odin welcomes foreigners and turns to them for wisdom. In some cases, he falls in love with them, has children with them. If you read the jotnar as another “race”, which many white nationalist Heathens do, then Odin is mixed race himself.

Even if you ignore all that, he does a lot of subverting of the social order. He breaks gender roles. He breaks the laws of nature through witchcraft. He goes wandering as a hobo while he’s supposed to be, you know, ruling. Not exactly the paragon of traditionalism.

Do I believe Odin only cares about fighting? Of course not. This isn’t to deny or minimize his associations with or participation in war, because that’s unequivocally there. But if you look at Havamal, and other passages with sayings attributed to him, you’ll find just as much emphasis on being wise and and just generally being a decent human being. There are instances where he’s explicitly associated with healing, e.g., the Nine Herbs Charm.

But despite all that, I’m not going to say any particular individual, no matter how vile they are, is barred from Valhalla, or any Heathen afterlife to the extent that one believes they exist, for a couple reasons.

For one, the Heathen afterlife just isn’t based on morality. Valhalla is not Heaven. It’s a training ground. Hel, despite the etymology, is not the Christian Hell. Good people, even Baldr, end up in Hel. Some people think the concept of Valhalla is actually pretty new, a consolation prize for warriors whose bodies couldn’t be brought home to their ancestral grave mound at a time when the Norse were starting to raid farther and farther away, and that Hel or the grave mound was the default for everyone prior to that. Your reward, or punishment, for the few short years you get here is the legacy you leave behind.

Secondly, even if the afterlife was based on morality, it would be really fucking presumptuous for us to declare who’s beyond saving. It’s perverse when Christians do it. It’s equally perverse when we do it. We disgrace our gods by painting them as so petty and vengeful as to sentence someone to eternal suffering for a few years of mistakes. Even if you’re not taking the sentiment seriously and are just using it as a snappy one liner, there are plenty of valid material reasons to discredit fascists without borrowing a scare tactic from Evangelicals that makes your gods look bad.

I don’t say this to spare the feelings of nazis. Nazis are terrible people. I fully endorse using any measures necessary in this life to stop them from committing the harm they are trying to commit. But if we’re granting the possibility that there’s an afterlife, then we’re granting that there’s an opportunity for change. And declaring change impossible is a very un-Lokean, and dare I say, very un-Odinic thing to do. You need, truly need to believe a person can be better, not for the sake of nazis, or even for the people you love, but for you as a flawed person with agency and the ability to impact others.

- Mod E

Pagan and trans issue

My mother told me today if i could change my name to Loki, instead of my chosen name(because she dont like it) and I don't know how to feel about it...

Loki is so important for me, my mum knows part of it... but I dont know if I even deserve his name... And people may thinks im so obsesed with him that I chose it to be my name. Im having an existencial crisis right now, may its not the correct moment... but i need to share this with someone.

Eyeliner ♦️

This issue made me to angry to sleep so many nights... i feel the same

I’m Tired and Angry, here’s some Anime character gender discourse

Not to get into anime gender discourse, but arguing about an anime character’s gender, like Chihiro from Danganronpa or Naoto from Persona, is entirely pointless considering the people who wrote them clearly didn’t, and probably don’t, acknowledge trans people at all, like, in general. Its very clear why the confusion of how to interpret their gender comes up, as the stories resonate very heavily with some trans people, but are ultimately denied representation because the writers just didn’t give enough of a shit to think of transgender people while creating a plotline explicitly about one’s connection with their gender, and instead of actually going somewhere constructive and giving good representation, boomerang right into “They actually fuckin’ love being their AGAB, and all of that questioning and shit was pointless, maybe at most meant to have a message about sexism or some shit.” And especially in the case of Naoto, its very clear that he’s a trans man, to the point where up until the game makes it very clear he’s a cis woman you have to actively try to think he’s not trangender (Like, his shadow’s whole fucking deal was to physically change his own body so he could be a cis man, its literally right there.) Oh course, the writers then decide to go down a painfully familiar “Oh, no, its just because the workforce they wish to be apart of is sexist towards women and no other reason for them to have issues with their gender!” (See, how people describe people like James Barry) which is just a very regressive view on this matter. So like, it gets stuck at this point where canonically, these characters are cis but are written very much as transgender, and while headcanons are great and all, Naoto will only ever be acknowledged as a cis woman, Chihiro will only ever be considered a cis man, and the writers behind them never have to or want to even think about the implications of these characters and how much it just hurts to not be represented in characters who could be very good pieces of representation if the writers gave half of a rat’s shit about transgender people.

In short: Media written about implicatively transgender characters will always suck when written by people who don’t care about transgender people and any discourse about what gender they are is null and void because of this.

I’m sure tons of people have made this exact take but its 4 am and I’m too angry to sleep.

The only "person(?)" who i feel like i have been in love with, is my spiritspouse... #justsaying

“god/spirit spouse isn’t a thing. you can’t be romantically involved with a spirit.” 

me:

Valka: 

NOT SURPRISED BUT VERY HAPPY

David Tennant says trans rights

(sorry it’s on an HP photo, it’s sort of an exorcism)

David: Trans rights!

Me, making gestures of relieved anguish: You know, you know

Mood

i wanna make a gelfling oc...