LegionEris [she/her] @ LegionEris @feddit.nl

Leading a one woman branch of the Erisian Liberation Front! In love with al

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Tbh, my wife and I have been together for so long and through so much that is has become easy. We've been together more than fifteen years, and both of us consider our childhoods of abuse to be the hardest periods of our lives. We know and trust each other deeply and implicitly. She's had an increasingly serious second partner for more than five years now, and it's become pretty easy. I'm casually looking for a boyfriend, and she's excited for me. It's the foundational strength of our relationship that makes this lifestyle possible. We've built a big, full life together, and we have enough love and space in our lives to share <3

Probably the Gateless Gate, the Eiichi Shimomissé translation. I'm actually a Discordian, but I find the Principia best for introduction. It devotes a lot of space to silly rules you're supposed to violate and other introductory concepts and practices. And Illuminatus! is plagued by a masculine confidence and aggression that both the writers and Hagbard were aware of and tried to minimize. The Gateless Gate is, to me, much better for staying deep in the untethered state of pure Discordian existence. It talks a little much of patriarchs, but it's not thematically essential. And it isn't rooted in and doesn't reference modern western theology and philosophy like the Principia because it was never intended to stand in contrast to or lead people out of modern western theology. Both the Principia and Illuminatus! reference it in some way because secular zen is important to the development of Discordianism. Maybe no book has ever changed my life as much as Illuminatus! but the Mumonkan is one of my primary tools for staying rooted in this way of being. It's with me all the time. One of the first things I do when I get a new phone is make sure my Mumonkan made it over or go download it again. I read it whenever I'm feeling lost or confused and uncertain about a decision or life change. It always leads me back to me.

See, this is what gives scalpers the moral edge over landlords to me. Scalpers are largely working class people using money they earned to do something arguably unethical. Is it kinda lame? Are they losers? Yeah, and again it's arguably unethical. But are they complicit enforcers of generational wealth and power divides? Are they, as a group, one of the primary forces siphoning wealth and power from the poor and working class to those who already have wealth and power? Nah. They're just uncreative opportunists. Scalpers create a gulf of immorality between you and recreation to their own benefit, not between you and necessity to the detriment of society at large. So yeah, scalpers>landlords in my estimation.

Seeing someone imply that older users want their news and information parsed by YouTube personalities is wild. That's quite an assertion.

They're oldies, but both of the Soul Reaver games and the Raziel parts of LoK: Defiance have a two tiered death system. (Minor spoilers going forward, but I'm talking spoilers for the opening cutscene from Soul Reaver, so I'd argue not real spoilers.) See, after having his physical vampire form thrown into the well of souls and falling through an endless abyss for several hundred years, Raziel exists first as a structurally sound spirit in a world where most things don't maintain any resemblance to their corporeal forms after death. After being salvaged from the well of souls and set on a quest, he gains the power to create a corporeal form that resembles wretched wraith he has become in spirit. But that new corpse isn't him, and destroying it doesn't kill him. It just releases him back to the spirit realm, where he can regain his strength and manifest a new corporeal form. You can be killed in the spirit realm and sent back to a checkpoint, but the spirit realm is by and large far less dangerous than the physical. Very few threats can follow you, and the soul scavengers who populate most the spirit realm are little more than fodder for a creature like Raziel to slay and eat at his leisure. So you regain your strength, find a nexus between the worlds, and manifest a new body. It's probably my favorite unconventional handling of death or failure in a game because of its comprehensive and essential connections to the story and lore of the series. Raziel is the beating black heart of the mythos of the series.

No? They're hardly the first tarot cards we've owned. We have several sets. They were bizarrely left with some lingerie (which I declined) the aforementioned ring light, and the absolute motherlode of gel pens. There were enough gel pens for multiple employees to take home a set and to leave some around the motel office and lobby. I still have some more than six months after I left that job.

When I worked at a motel, I got first pick of a bunch of leftover shit by taking the initiative to sort out and organize and purge of trash several months of backlogged lost crap. I don't think anybody else actually wanted all the tarot and oracle cards, but the ring light would have been wanted.

When you're a conventionally attractive trans woman, your week can be a combo move that goes transphobic harassment>sexual harassment>transphobic harassment. When you're a dedicated person doing things that are important to you and the world, you don't always react to those experiences immediately. You delay the inevitable emotional responses in favor of continued action and productivity. Today I am off work, and those emotional responses have to be had. They're not going anywhere, and they need to be felt before they start affecting my performance in the important parts of my life. So today I'm sad and tired and a little scared. I need to pick up injection supplies from the pharmacy, but I'm just laying in bed crying intermittently. Mostly my life has never been better. I have real friends. I'm essential to a job that is genuinely important. There are people who are properly medicated and living better lives because of my guidance and consultation. There are people who aren't on opiods, who are shaking their addictions to alcohol and harder drugs, because of my knowledge and advice. These are the important aspects of my life. But they don't remove the necessity of these terrible feelings. They're just strong enough to displace them until it's convenient. Which is today. So today I'm sad and tired and a little scared.

after appropriate hearing.

It may not be a contract persay, but it does seem to support the idea that some amount of due process is required. I'd agree that there should be some option to more rapidly suspend a judge, but the constitution you quote says she gets a hearing before dismissal.

Tbh I'm not surprised at all. I'm well aware that, as a trans woman, I have no right to safety in America. Police, landlords, and employers have all made it clear to me that the rights of bigots to hurl slurs and threats at me supercedes my right to safety or freedom from harassment. When I worked at Walmart, multiple witnesses reported another employee specifically and directly threatening to cut me with a knife, a knife of a sort that was against company policy to carry on site to begin with. Because no member of management heard the threat and they couldn't quite see the knife on camera, they did nothing. Wait, I take that back, they reduced my hours so I would be in the building with him less. So yeah, I'm not surprised at all that threatening minorities is protected in America. I've been threatened and seen those people protected....

That's not right and I'll tell you why.

This could be the tagline for the entire internet.

Are threats protected by the first amendment? I think there's a legitimate argument to be made that flying a nazi flag is inherently threatening. It says to me that that person wants to hurt me, that they will hurt me if I give them the chance. It is threatening enough to cause me fear, to cause me to change my behavior for my safety. Why should public declaration of their desire to hurt me br protected speech?

I'm deep in Earth Defense Force 5. It's way more fun than it has any right to be. There's no way I'm going to finish all the content. There is a ludicrous amount, over a hundred stages in a minimum of three difficulties with four characters who all have health and equipment that can be gathered and upgraded. It's hard to make it sound fun, because it's really just using crazy guns to shoot giant bugs and aliens and shit. It's very simple, but the formula is so good. Flying around like a maniac as a Wing Glider feels so bad ass. I gotta figure out how to talk someone into playing it with me >_>

I'm uncomfortable with the idea that Kim Jong-Un might be craftier than Putin.

Throw some bombs at Mississippi, kill the bulk of their leadership, and they'll be hanging queers in a week. I have been attacked in public by an American Christian extremist; I sometimes get to fear for my life right here in the Midwest. Put these people in a state of desperation, and it'll be a swampy theocracy in no time. America is ~250 years into running a country that was founded on not having a state religion. That's a far cry from a theocracy founded under violent foreign interference less than a century ago, and we still have dangerous religious extremists. It's not a matter of culture. It's a matter of circumstance.

This isn't specific to Islam. This is what theocracy looks like. Very few religions are fit doctrines on which to run a country. There are plenty of American Christians who would have me killed for who I am.

If by "hoarding all the good drugs" you mean keeping out weed in favor of so, so many opiods, then yes. Apparently SW Missouri is a reasonable driving distance for some Texans to get some weed. An old Texan man in a big truck is often about to spend hundreds of dollars on weed. It's for their short sojourn in Missouri, they assure me.

My necromantic patron assures me that my pact with it will end with my death. It started to tell me something about the necromantic slaves of its next chosen champion, but that wasn't about me, and my short rest was almost over, so I turned my attention to some fried chicken instead. I'm sure it was nothing important.

You may have sources, but I have a goalpost on a stick that I can wave around!

Don't forget Lisa McPherson.