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✨In the generes I rep, I'd love to see more projects by writers from Black, Indigenous, Latine/x, Asian, AAPI, Middle Eastern, and African communities and their far-reaching diasporas, as well as the LGBTQIA+, trans and nonbinary, and disabled and neurodiverse communities. #MSWL
✨Aro-ace rep and meaningful platonic relationships
✨Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror with non-western settings and cultures
✨Anti-colonialist, -caste, -patriarchy, -establishment, etc. with driving plots and strong characters
#MSWL
✨Dark academia w/ high personal stakes and rich settings
✨Asian-inspired SF/tech-fantasy crossover in the vein of Xiran Jay Zhao.
✨South Asian, SWANA, and Middle Eastern voices in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror
#MSWL
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🍁🍎🌾🍃Welcome September🍃🌾🍎🍁

The Month of September is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows

O afflicted Virgin,O soul great in virtues,as in sorrows,both the one&the other spring from that great fire burning in thy heart for God,the only love of thy heart!
St Alphonsus Ligouri Image
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Fun facts about the Blessed Virgin Mary (#BVM), the color #blue, and whiskey. 🥃 Duccio Virgin and Child in Majesty, Central Panel from the MBlue Dyer Distillery in Maryland
#Blue is one of colors that appears least often in nature, so it was one of the last to be manufactured by humans and highly valuable.

There is even some some evidence that blue's rarity meant that it was one of the last color words added to languages.
businessinsider.com.au/what-is-blue-a…
[[Side note: this article traces theories on why Homer (~8th century BC) uses the phrase "wine-dark sea" nytimes.com/1983/12/20/sci…]]
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THE MATERNITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY - #Oct11

1. The Maternity of the BVM is celebrated on the second Sunday in October. The object of this feast is to commemorate the dignity of the Mary as Mother of God.
Mary is truly the Mother of Christ,
#Maternity #BVM #JesusChrist Image
2. who in one person unites the human and divine nature. This title was solemnly ratified by the Council of Ephesus, 22 June, 431. The hymns used in the office of the feast also allude to Mary’s dignity as the spiritual mother of men.

The love of Mary for all mankind was
3. that of a mother, for she shared all the feelings of her son whose love for men led Him to die for our redemption.

The feast was first granted, on the petition of King Joseph Manuel, to the dioceses of Portugal and to Brasil and Algeria, 22 January 1751, together with the
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I had my first panic attack in front of a cop.

He'd asked a group of kids on the street to go home after a fight. My friends and I were off to the side, standing away from the crowd, silent and still, in a city we didn't know, waiting to be picked up by my parents 1/13
This was over 10 years ago, before parents consistently owned cell phones. We couldn't "go home" as instructed. But instead of listening to me as I tried to explain, the officer sprayed the area in front of us with pepper spray as well.

My friends moved back several yards. 2/13
Breathing had never hurt before. My brain couldn't process why that was no longer true. Logically I understood it was because of the pepper spray. But as I saw everyone else moving while I couldn't, I thought maybe it was affecting me differently, and that maybe I was dying. 3/13
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