Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space
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Glowy Postfurry Gay Coyotter Rave Toy.
Responding to @mentions and not much else. 💜
Joined Apr 2017
cultural appropriation
@vahnj @qualia It's impossible for me to answer this authoritatively since I'm not a member of the culture being appropriated here, but here's my thinking/understanding:
The more of that that someone does, the more comfortable that I personally feel about it. What gives me pause is that I can't be sure the next person won't see me doing it and take just the superficial contextless trappings and be pretty appropriative with it.
cultural appropriation
@qualia Oddly enough this exact thought has been on my mind a lot this week, since I came back from New Mexico with a TON of sagebrush for that purpose.
Collecting my own has become my best effort to address the appropriation issues too. Seeing those little sage kids in the store, with their native-feishizing packaging, makes me feel super-gross, as does, frankly, the fact that I only encountered the process via newage routes, despite (because of?) growing up in NM.
Spiritwork
This is not to say the trip was a loss. If nothing else, even that part was a coyote lesson.
I got plenty of stuff to do based on what I got from the night walk already, which this fits tight into. It's harder than just going up a mountain and getting hit by a (metaphorical) bolt of lightning, but the literal bolts of lightning sent a pretty clear message about which approach is right for me now.
Spiritwork
And of course, it was sunny and beautiful all the way DOWN the mesa. We could've turned around again, or stuck it out up there, but gods know how the weather would've changed then. It's weather.
All the other spiritwork I did, the less-flashy stuff, the training connection I cultivated and the meditative night walk, those went fine.
But I walked up that mesa with no planning other than a vague expectation of "stuff happens" and I got slapped down hard. Should've known better by now.
Spiritwork
A bunch of stuff just slammed together in my head about my experiences during the NM trip and the conclusion I came to is... challenging.
Consider the weather. Far off inspiring thunderstorms with only occasional light rain reaching us for most of the time... except once we got to the top of the mesa where I was intending to have a "just heck me up" undirected spiritual something-or-other. THERE, it was rumbling thunder right overhead, and rain turned to hail until we gave up early.
In case anyone wants to see (a ton) more Meow Wolf pictures, here is a whole album:
https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0dGrq0zwGqGauq
This does include some of the easily-accessible documents, which could be considered spoilery, but what I included here was intended to just give a hint of the weirdness, not give away any of the deeper secrets. ^.^
@Oneironott Lot of stuff happened! Nothing bad, just lot of stuff.
@MagentaForge Quite well, just... still working on processing a lot of it.c.c;
Working on reintegrating into "normal life".
This is probably gonna take a while.
Indi Latrani
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question for otherkin who get phantoms
@forestservice I'm talking like age 8 here, giving myself dinosaur talons.
question for otherkin who get phantoms
@forestservice I can do it too BUT I parse it as "a technique I learned using phantoms as an existence proof"
Except now that I think about it I remember doing that before I had consistent phantoms. I might have to chalk this one up to shapeshifter (Coyote) spirit-blood.
@LexYeen I had the exact same thought.
OMFG they kept the bowling alley's arcade games. And put them in this little pocket universe. I'm doing. :D :D :D
https://awoo.space/media/e2-yY8FJVu1VcYanSOA
https://awoo.space/media/UFc3pUgDZRYvB1Bqs5c
@emanate From what I've gathered so far? Alternate universe portals and family tragedy.
So how do I get a couple dozen folks from the PNW all down to Santa Fe at the same time? Because literally everyone I know needs to wander around this place with us.
This is maybe the most postfurry-vibe place I have ever seen.
https://awoo.space/media/fDoc91dqOX4EI5E2GP4
https://awoo.space/media/iALgVvRA-ccmmoMipnk
https://awoo.space/media/wxBPQcQLZVSWN9vQErk
https://awoo.space/media/9w0BaaGq55SZ4_9UpR0
Me and @Elanna are going through this right now: https://meowwolf.com/about/visit/
This is... So Much.
What I expected: Cool glowy art installation.
What I got: Gone Home set in Night Vale.
And then there were a bunch of coyotes howling! With thunder at the same time! :D :D :D
^o8o^
Arrived in New Mexico just in time for an unexpected thunderstorm that we got to watch for the whole hour-long drive back to my parents' place.
Now I'm sitting out in the rain watching the storm slowly move over the horizon.
I haven't seen lightning like this in over a decade.
The thunderbirds are welcoming me back, perhaps.
I made sure to give them many awoos of thanks.
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pronouns: he/him • ve/ver
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Glowy Postfurry Gay Coyotter Rave Toy.
Responding to @mentions and not much else. 💜
Joined Apr 2017
