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24 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I had this idea that it would be funny to have one of the werewolves into making extremely specific & weird perfumes like the "odorifics" from Harold and Maude.
yesterdaysperfume.com/yesterdays_per…
Which is sort of based on my experience of ordering, on a whim, this perfume oil from the delightful @bpal
blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/activism/…
I'm extremely fascinated by the idea of mixing scents not to smell *good* but to evoke a specific mood or idea, not always a pleasant one.
Which reminds me, as soon as I get my act together, you'll be able to buy a Rougarou's Choice Tea + Tales of the Rougarou book at Friday Afternoon Tea fridaytea.com
It's a tea that I personally think makes a very good iced tea, so it's kinda seasonal.

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24 Apr
I just realized I should content-warning this for suicidal ideation, so I'm restarting the thread
Also, I forgot to link the original article.
createsend.com/t/r-6C1451630A…
So, Russell Moore has just dropped the big premise -- when he was 15 he considered suicide *because he didn't want to lose his religion* and I find that an interesting framing of his crisis because at a similar age I experienced a similar crisis --
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24 Apr
Okay, I'm doing it, a close look at that Russell Moore piece. It starts with a bold claim as a title, "Why the Church Is Losing the Next Generation" which promises he's going to do it, he's going to give us THE answer.
"Almost everyone in the world of American religion has spent the last couple of weeks thinking through what Gallup just revealed: that, for the first time since they’ve been surveying the topic, less than half the country belongs to a church of any kind."
"My first thought was grief. But what came after that was a strange sort of almost survivor’s guilt."

"When I was fifteen years old, I considered suicide—and it was because I didn’t want to lose my religion. "
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24 Apr
Another great bit of writing from Chrissy, and it got me thinking about something --
When people like Moore talk about having had moments of religious doubt, or a faith crisis, they always talk about it like it's a problem they overcame, with this kind of attitude of "I did it, you can too!"
And I get it, in a way, because if they're ultimately happy in the religion, they're glad they stayed/came back.

But it reinforces this idea that staying in the religion is, or should be, a *goal*

That if you end up leaving, *you* failed.
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23 Apr
Since everybody's talking about Disney today, I will too.

Because my Extremely Evangelical grandparents were ALSO my Extremely Disney grandparents -- my grandfather basically got out of the navy and worked for Disneyland until he retired.
So, we could get in cheap, so when I was growing up
(until the age of 12) my family went to Disneyland extremely regularly, maybe every 2-3 months.
But more than that, because Disney was a family legacy, it informed every aspect of my life. Gifts for Christmas & birthday were frequently Disney, we watched The Wonderful World of Disney every week, when we went to see movies as a family at the drive-in they were Disney
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23 Apr
This thread is extremely relevant to my interests
Because I have awkward mid-night insomnia, here I am, thinking about Book 4 in the werewolf series which I decided, a while back, would be self-consciously "gothic" in mood.
The gothic elements of the series are always there -- werewolves, swamps, sins of the past that cannot be escaped & threaten constantly to overwhelm the present, etc. But usually they're not emphasized in a really gothic *way* if that makes sense.
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22 Apr
I think we can get Republicans to vax up if they start to suspect all the vaxxed libs are getting together somewhere cool to make fun of them
One thing that CLEARLY drives right wingers nuts is the (entirely valid) suspicion that we are cooler than they are, hence the recurring, pathetic attempt to claim "conservatism is the new punk!" or somesuch.
So, play it up.
Vaxxed-only speakeasies with live music and cheap cocktails. Special vaxxed-only dinners, movie screenings, dance parties, seafood boils, you name it.
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