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Released a new video on Hodr, The Blind God. The video contains the lesser known legend of Hodr from Saxo, in which he is a warrior who even defeats Thor in combat.

There's a lot of misconceptions about Hodr. Snorri's story, which is the one that most people are familiar with, paints him as a deity who is at the whims of the more manipulative Loki. But if this is true, why do so many passages in the Poetic Edda blame Hodr with no mention of Loki? Why do the Gods prefer Hodr's name not be counted among the Aesir? This video was a huge project, and if you're interested in Loki's place in the pantheon, this video will have a lot of interesting information.

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Information in Heathenry

When I first started exploring the online world of Heathenry, I noticed a couple of things. Firstly, there seemed to be a massive informational barrier to entry, with few people willing to help point to sources other than to tell you to 'read more' and that this is a 'religion of homework'.

This came with the realization that the barrier to entry was coupled with the fact that legitimate information is not really all that readily available. I saw the dynamic show up in multiple communities were people would utilize the information they had as a way to secure their place in a hierarchy within a group. Simple stuff ranging from archeological / historical information, or records describing temple practices and such. Even stories of the Gods outside of the Eddas would have this frustrating game around it.

Most of what I've tried to do in my content and community has been to fix that problem. Simply knowing information does not mean that you should be in a place of leadership. This is not a tradition of secret knowledge. Each of my vids just gives out the information that I experienced as being so closely guarded, and also gives reading lists where you can follow up on that information yourself if you want.

The 'informational' model of hierarchy in Heathenry is ridiculous. My goal has been to upend it entirely. And I've heard down the line that some are mad at me for making sometimes obscure information readily accessible. And you know what? Good. If you've used the difficulty to find information within this religion as a method of lording authority over others, you're a bad leader.

I'm glad you're mad <3

the-jackals

Anonymous asked:

don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.

anotherfagontheinternet answered:

  1. i’m 35 years old. i’ve been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.
  2. i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.
  3. spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.

sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i’ve been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i’m growing real fuckin weary of it.

i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she’s not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?

do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.

anotherfagontheinternet

“Transgendered people are demanding the right to choose our own self-definitions. The language used in this pamphlet may quickly become outdated as the gender community coalesces and organizes—a wonderful problem.” - Leslie Feinberg

So yeah, anon, "FtM" may be a slightly older term from the 2010's and earlier, and you may not identify with it, but as Leslie Feinberg said, we are choosing our own self-definitions. That includes the outdated or unpopular self-definitions.

And besides, why wouldn't you want a plethora of terms to be able to choose from to describe yourself? So many of us grew up without even recognizing we were trans because we didn't have the language to describe what we were feeling, and now that we do, you'd take those words away simply because YOU don't identify with them? You'd further limit how your community describes itself and identifies, as if we haven't already dealt with enough suppression of identity?

Nah.

valentineish

When I was 18 and first realizing I wasn't cis, this was the sort of binarism starting to take root. I was socially transitioned by 19. I started HRT right before my 21st birthday.

I'm 28 now, and several years past detransitioning. There's a lot of reasons why. It wasn't a choice I made happily. A not insignificant reason was really, really struggling to negotiate my gender identity with the expectations of so many people.

Well-meaning queer friends would emphasize how I was always a man! Being corrected and chastised for delegitimizing myself while speaking about my experiences! And I internalized that there was something fundamentally wrong with me for still connecting to my femininity and girlhood. For feeling a creeping dysphoria about being A Real Man™️.

Simultaneously, and more loudly, was every flavor of the usual transphobia. Friends mocking me for being a "confused girl". Strangers or dates following and assaulting me in public for not passing (or more horrifying, because I passed as a young boy). Being written up at work for my gender presentation. People I trusted testing me to see if my "real" self met their expectations of a man or woman.

It is very, very difficult to "be true to yourself" when you're punished from every direction. I was shut down at my attempts to dig deeper into my gender – especially when other trans people started hopping on the truscum and binarism train. The rest of the world was pressuring me to politely put myself in the closet, and bit back whenever I refused.

So I gave up. I tried really, really hard to fit myself back in the closet for the better part of a decade. It's been miserable.

However you identify is fine. Language is ever-changing, and all of our experiences are individual. I've met men and women that have always known who they are! But I have also met trans people happily calling themselves homosexual crossdressers. People creating murals of seemingly incompatible terms to define themselves.

This shit is just so personal. And maybe it's just me, but like. What battle is won by stifling the "bad" transgender people? Are you gaining anything from the bigots watching on when they're just eager for us to destroy ourselves?

Is it that you are being hurt from another trans person calling themselves FtM? Or is that somebody else's flimsy justification for harming you??

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Nazis On The Loose

Heads up, everyone, an Odinist hate group called the Norroena Society has been reportedly invading Heathen spaces on the internet. Unfortunately, they're good at gaslighting people into following their racist belief system. For those of you who don't know this one of the big red flags in Norse Paganism is any reference to heritage. This is because Folkish Odinists -- AKA Nazi whyte supremacists -- believe that Norse Paganism should be a closed religion that only people of European heritage -- IE whyte people -- have access to. They push racist and queerphobic rhetoric, which has been the source of A LOT of Loki hate throughout the years.

https://norroena.org/about-us/

valkyriesquad

Oof.

I read that about us page, and there are plenty of dog whistles as well a statement that could easily be read as "you now belong to us, and we are more important than literally anything else" - a classic earmark of a cult.

--mod gwwh

rhyspug007

Anonymous asked:

Kinda weird how you say you’re against fascism yet you shut down anyone just because they share a different opinion than you. You guys are exactly what you say you hate... FASCIST! How come I have never seen any member of antifa actually sit down with someone and have a civil debate? I’ve only ever seen them yell and throw tantrums. Doesn’t look good for you guys, yikes.

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pleasedotheneedful

fascism in italy was not defeated by discourse.

rosslynpaladin

Something I heard recently: if you insist on sheltering both lambs and wolves, you will get in the end only wolves. If you insist your safe space is safe for bigots as well as minorities you will have a space full of bigots- minorities will be driven out.

wilwheaton

Fuck Fascists. Punch all the Nazis. Punch them until they're all dead.