Having A Daemon Is All About Self Love, Baby!! It’s About Love Yourself!!! That’s What It’s All

Buzzfeed has a listicle of 90s scholastic book fair books, and they actually included Animorphs, which is awesome. However, this was their description: “Despite the silly covers, the Animorphs series did teach readers a lot about adolescence: friendship and first crushes; and tougher issues, like losing your parents (and in one case, finding them again).” Mmmm…yeah.

Gonna go ahead and assume that that was written by someone who ONLY read the back cover summaries and not a single book. Because honestly (among all the other reasons that description is bizarrely inaccurate), the books don't actually have much to say about crushes or romance. There are two fairly healthy and well-communicated romances among the main cast, neither of which involves any kind of traditional couples' drama. Even Jake and Cassie's breakup is a long time coming, and their relationship remains mutually respectful afterwards.

Today, during the break, Kleytos was so tired.

Love you, little cutie baby (maybe he will kill me after seeing this).

HIS DARK MATERIALS FANWEEK 2020 day 3 ∣ Favourite dæmon / HESTER (in Once Upon a Time in The North)

Quick someone talk to me about sense8 daemons, how Nomi’s settled into a peacock (male, of course, with a truly magnificent tail) when she decided to stop trying to fit in, and Lito’s lioness has no idea how to fight but she stood in front of Daniella and snarled at Joaquin’s coyote, and Sun’s black-furred wolf walks with a stern dignity until someone starts a fight and he turns into a raging, savage maelstrom of fangs and claws, something out of darkest fairy tales but not feral, no, just fiercely destructive. Talk to me about how none of them even thought twice about touching each others’ daemons, how Kala’s marmot danced up and down Wolfgang’s boar’s back while their human counterparts sang, how Capheus’s zebra noses at everyone’s hands like a horse searching out a sugar cube, how Will stroked Riley’s leach’s petrel while he slumbered uneasily next to her, head under his wing, and when Riley woke up in the BPO facility it was to Will’s golden lab enthusiastically licking her face.

Incorporating Aphrodite into our daily lives: A Transformational embodiment approach:

How as Priest, devotees, and other followers of Aphrodite can we most profoundly increase our connection to her while also venerating her?

It’s simpler then it sounds actually. But the most profound way I’ve found to understand and grow closer to a deity is to apply self discipline to imitate them and their values. In Aphrodite’s case we must examine her as a Goddess. What is she? At her core? She is love, unbridled and unrestricted love and beauty. She exist in all things that fall under this, in the delicate brush strokes of an oil painting, in the bashful smiles of new love, it is these things in which the Goddess resides. We can use this in our practice but choosing to project that energy.

When feeling emotionally triggered ask yourself, what would Aphrodite do? How can I apply love to this situation? Does it warrant the wrathful side of love? Or is there something that can be done to maintain or restore harmony with peace? Before acting ask yourself, is this loving? Does this express love to myself? Does the express love to others?

Show love. Tip 50% just because you can, send that text message, buy a gift, kiss your partner, compliment a stranger.

Show self love.

Go to therapy. Rest. Wear some perfume or cologne, take a shower for the feeling, exercise, compliment yourself anytime you find yourself insulting yourself. Set a boundary. Do shadow work. Meditate. Do positive affirmations as often as you can.

Create beauty.

Paint, sing, compose, draw, write, sculpt, even if you think you suck. Have a conversation with a friend. Tell a story. Clean your home. Light some incense.

Ok imagine,

Love, Simon... but instead of emails you play minecraft together.

Thank you

would it have counted as bestiality if tobias had fucked that hawk

one of the hilarious things to me about the “same birthday” concept in sci-fi shows is that time zones are never acknowledged. 

Vanya and Luther could be like “You were born on the same day as me? AND your mother wasn’t pregnant before?? Wait, we were born 7 hours apart, that would have been wild.”

Same with Leo and Wolfgang, but instead all these shows are like - “They were born at the EXACT same time, and everyone inherently took into account time differences, so we don’t need to bother acknowledging that” and I am 100% here for ignoring unnecessarily complicated explanations on shows