[aureateexegesis]

Holy fucking shit y'all.

[drunkardsprayer]

ok but

[crystal-rebellion]

Have some samples from the comments - 10/10 would recommend browsing them.

Anonymous asked:

I’ve been using runes for a while now, and I am looking for a theft prevention rune. My one concern is that I don’t usually use a rune without first knowing it’s name, and the anti-theft runes I found on your site isn’t explicitly named. Does it/do they have a specific name, or just a general category that they are grouped into like Þjófastafirs?

justins-galdrastafir answered:

Þjófastafir - Icelandic “Thief Staves”

Good question. Let’s start with clearing up a few things. “Stafir” is the plural of “Stafur”, which originally were translated to “character/s”, but for the purposes of writing about “Galdrastaf-ir/ur”, have been given the word/s “stave/s”, i.e. “Galdrastafir” is translated to “Magic staves”.

A stave can either be a rune-like shape, a string of rune-like shapes, a symbol, an insignia, or any bunch of lines and squiggles put together either in a symmetrical pattern or in what appears to be chaotic randomness.

Some staves are named and some are not, and this tends to follow the scribe’s choice. The scribe usually is someone who copied from an earlier manuscript. The few manuscripts that seem not copied generally do not have names. As a rule, Christian linked staves are named, usually referring to a particular entity (God, spirit, priest, etc.). When non-Christian staves do have names, it is common that then all the staves in that manuscript are named. The name can then be either unique to that single stave or a class, category or kind, such as “Þjófastafur” (Thief stave) and “Ægishjálmur” (Helm of Awe).

Þjófastafir are actually one of the most common types of stave. By my count, there are over 50 unique designs. That count does not include the same stave appearing in duplicated manuscripts, though standardly, they can then take a slightly changed design or different proportions depending on how exact the scribe copied. Even the earliest manuscript known as “Lækningakver” (Medical Book) from around 1500 AD has one:

Its purpose is given: “If a man wants to know who has stolen from him…”. It then provides instructions on preparing the stave and other actions to follow so that “I may see the shadow of the one who has stolen from me and others.”

This is actually pretty standard for most of the Þjófastafir. Methods can differ from one to the other. In some, the stave is carved on wood to be placed under one’s head during sleep so that the thief will be revealed in a dream. In others, the stave is scratched on a bowl, it filled with water, and the face will appear in it (called “coscinomancy”). It should be noted that this kind of magic is not unique to Galdrastafir - appearing across most of Europe in the late middle-ages.

There are a few rune-row staves that appear in the “Huld” manuscript with the purpose of revealing the thief:

However, not every Þjófastafur is for revelation. This messy three-set is to get back stolen goods (after written text “og lát undir höfuð þér” = “and put under your head”):

There are some that intend that the thief cannot leave, some to allow theft, but of most importance to my anonymous poster, this stave “to prevent theft”:

If you want further information or a stave graphically remastered, contact me by email from my homepage at:

Galdrastafir: Icelandic Magical Staves and Sigils - Ægishjálmur, Vegvísir, Lukkustafir and others

Galdrastafir history, meaning and use in grimoires, charms, and tattoos, with particular focus on Ægishjálmur, Vegvísir and the Lukkustafir

galdrastafir.com

[justins-galdrastafir]

Glettingastafur

In a manuscript dated to the early 1800s but copied from an earlier manuscript “this stave protects against attacks brought upon you” with instructions to carve it on a rising moon. Labelled on a later copy as “Glettingastafur”, meaning “bantering” or “harassment” stave. 

My own translation, remaster and effects.

[sapphic-giraffic]

Listen.

Everyone is furries.

Every single one of us.

You either live your truth, or you die lying to yourself.

Don’t wait.

You have nothing to lose but your chains :3c

[my-friends-dont-know-im-a-furry]

“you have nothing to lose but your chains” is raw as fuck and to finish it with a “:3c” is a fucking power move

[unpretty]

one time while we were in the car andrew said “i basically think your gender is whatever robot body you would choose to have in a transhumanist future, but then again, that would make my gender a featureless floating orb” and i think about that a lot

[unpretty]

[unpretty]

glad this post is back because it took another two years after stating that their perfect body would be an orb for andrew to realize they’re agender

[futureevilscientist]

@jaffre

[theweirdwideweb]

So in Minnesota there’s this cultural taboo about taking the last piece. If there’s a group and everyone orders pizza, typically one slice will not be eaten. At the office if someone brings donuts, the last donut will be left alone. Possibly cut in half. Then that half cut in half, but always leaving at least a little on the plate. The reason is it’s considered impolite because someone else might want it. To take the last piece is a desperate thing to do. There’s even an expression: “I wasn’t raised by wolves.” Anyway, here’s the best local facebook post going around right now. 

[goathazard]

I saw this and thought to myself, thats so strange because thats a thing here in sweden as well, how two different places so far apart can have the same taboo.. and then I remembered something from history class

[goathazard]

Humans are wild, huh?

[dankmemeuniversity]

[2geub]

New year, new me!!!!!! *Burns off finger prints*

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[rslashrats]

me after sitting on the capitalist toilets for an hour and not being able to feel my own ass

[amagicalduck47]

[wrecktangle]

[thissitewasamistake]

"Expect to be sued"

They should expect to get their kneecaps shattered

[splendidland]

somethin’ i am a little bit sick of is that because i am a 6′2 trans woman, i often get people commenting on my selfies with things like “please step on me” and “i want you to beat me up”. what is it about me that makes you think i’d want to do either of those things? i am very gentle and also my body is chubby and weak and i get fatigued from walking up anything steeper than a 20 degree angle hill, i’m definitely not going to have the energy to defeat you in combat.

[splendidland]

i think there’s a Bad Attitude online that it’s somehow okay to make unsolicited advances towards people if you’re submissive about it. i’m a very affectionate person but comments like that from strangers make me feel uncomfortable.

[splendidland]

i see a similar thing to this too where trans men are constantly infantilized and refferred to by cutesy terms, and like, and obviously this isn’t something i personally experience, but i’m really suspicious of the ways people describe trans bodies without our consent.
i love strong women and i love cute men, but i’m so tired of how the gender expression of trans people is so often dismissed in favour of someones personal preferences. i’m not a big muscle babe who can beat you up, i have about as good fighting abilities as a 3d character who’s motion capture was performed by a bionicle, and i am sure there are a lot of trans men out there who are very bothered by being called things like “cute soft boii” or whatever.