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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 10m

Truly comic scene: found a lost item—it’s always under the chair, always—and then when restoring the chair to good order, knocked over a couple dozen books on the end table.

A good sign to assemble that new bookcase!

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 1h

Oh so NOT the sword falling out of its sheathe at Edoras.

PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 1h

Voted!

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 3h

If a baseball game can now go for approximately six days if I understand correctly, surely—surely!—we can provide an extension on spooky season.

In that light, I had forgotten to share this tour of Horace Walpole’s home, who helped kick off goth as a genre, and has a delightfully bright gothic pad.

Strawberry Hill House is one of London’s literary hidden-gems. Tucked away in a quiet corner of Twickenham, this castle-come-theme-park was built in 1749 by Horace Walpole — the guy who wrote the firs...

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 4h

Again I know very little about so very much, so do the leaves help other critters?

I’m going to imagine so because doing so feels joyful.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 4h

Make sure to leave your leaves on the ground to help pollinators have a place to find a cozy home in the winter!

Do I know the details? I do not! Hear it being shared so seems like a good idea.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 9h

the monsters in three of my WIPs are monsters because they use their power over others to both cause and get away with harming people with less power

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 10h

What makes the monsters in your book/wip monstrous? Is it their actions? Their perception by humanity? Are they just different? #WritingPrompt

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

Sometimes I feel like the universe drops hints here and there, however they are so hard to decipher and inscrutable, one can never TRULY know what they mean, or if they are relevant for our lives, right?

There’s just so much SUBTLETY involved, which helps make life magical.

Ahhh…. Who can say?

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

I’m very much not interested in using an app for dating… and Hinge means…

… do I have to say it?

MY DEEPEST APOLOGIES FOR THIS ETYMOLOGY.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

Had a brief moment where I got curious on the etymology of unhinged, and do I ever regret that!

Hinged is connected with “to hang,” with the idea of a door or window hanging from above. So, to be hinged is to be hung up, while to be unhinged is to no longer be up.

And NOW I am horrified by Hinge.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

I’ll see myself out.

Follow the light of the green lamp? Got it.

PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

Without the proper terror, it’s just Sparkling Carraway.

Charm City Aloof Wife @rahnealexander.com · 1d

i don't know who needs to hear this, but it's not a real gatsby party unless the host winds up dead in their own swimming pool

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 8h

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

I worked on a silly lil project which will almost assuredly never be seen by anyone but myself and whatever ethereal beings may find it interesting.

I’ve had an EXCELLENT time with this little jaunt, even if my brain may be a bit more addled, I’ll take that for the genuine smile on my face.

PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 7h

What does everyone know that I am not sure if I know it not is a question I am CONSTANTLY asking myself.

We can often believe others know more than they do and less than they do at the same time, and I think Gandalf would delight in an aphorism such as this.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

Do think this also gives a nice twist when thinking about a story like Jennifer’s Body.

Trying to remember other big stories where someone is constantly referred to as a shepherd or sheep, goes out in the wilderness and chats with a devil, and is ritually sacrificed for others’ sins.

I kid, I kid!

PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

You can make somebody a scapegoat, however beware if you do, as you have no idea what will return from the wilderness, what you’ve created.

After all, this was just a goat living their life, until others decided to turn it into their sacrifice.

I *might* not be be thrilled at that.

👀

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

So if you have been made to feel like a scapegoat, and then felt others have treated you as if you’re some sort of demonic creature who resembles not you but their own personal doubts and fears projected onto you…

… congrats, you’re part of a millenia old tradition!

Also a warning perhaps.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

The “az” for goat traces back to Assyrian, Akkadian and Sumeria in Mesopotamia, with “ez” and “uz.” I believe “ezki” was also a variant.

Curious to track that down as Enki, the underground crafter of civilization, had fish and goats, and became the sea goat known as Capricorn—the Devil in Tarot.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

Shocker, over time someone might get a bit MIFFED.

The az in azazel means goat, and azel means away. So… away, goat! Azazel!

Also found a note that the repetition of the azel sound acted as an intensifier, so sending away by sending away indicates more of a ritual.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, minor detail, the term scapegoat came from translating the Bible, because—awkward—the actual word used for the release of this sin-filled goat into the wilds is…

… Azazel

Oops?

So when we say somebody is being demonized… SURPRISE.

Refuse to take account for all you’ve done? Blame others?

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

More importantly the community gets away as well after being relieved of the responsibilities and consequences for their actions.

I’m not going to say I’m an expert on this particular religious ritual, I am more talking about the widespread usage of sympathetic magic with similar practices.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

Am I talking up the getaway car except in goat?

Well… sort of?

What I found was this traced back to a goat being released into the wilderness—the desert—on the Day of Atonement after a ritual where the sins of others are transferred to the goat.

Community’s sins passed on, the goat gets away.

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PrismTism 🌈 Heather ✨AuDHD @prismtism.bsky.social · 12h

Tracked down quite the etymology last night.

In my family, very much feel I’m often in the role of the black sheep, the scapegoat.

What the heck’s going on with THAT word, though? All my interest in the history words comes down to curiosity, or more often WTFFFFFF.

This seems simple. Escape goat.

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