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Because Queenie did it for me:

Comment on this post, and I'll tell you something I like about you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

Whee! Spreading the love! :-D


in other news:

One of my Goddesses, Maia, told me her name.
The others, I had to find the right names for them, but Maia made for damn sure I got hers right -- I'd look at the moon (totally transfixed by it/her) and I'd just hear, in my head, over and over and over again "Maiamaiamaiamaiamaia..." Until one day I kind of blinked and went. "Maia... Oh! That's your name!" At which point the constant repetition stopped abruptly.
so there you go. :-)

Anyway. I looked her up. I found, in my "Goddesses and Heroines" book (and a few other places) a reference to a "Maia" who was one of the Pleiads.

Now. The Pleiad Maia is (A) little to nothing like my Maia, and (B) largely knowns for being Hermes' mother and (strangely) for *not* inciting the wrath of Hera despite who she had her child by.


Maia and the other Pleiads are daughters of Atlas (a Titan -- aka: a pre-Olympian deity) and Pleione (allegedly another name for Aphrodite who *also* pre-dates Zeus et al.).

Note, please, that the Pleiads are named after their Mother, by the way. Also, every one of them was, er, "Wooed" (yeah, right...) by one Olympian god or another. <*cough*>politics!mistified<*cough*>.

So I'm wondering if my Maia is that same Maia, only several thousand years later, and acting more like herself? I don't know. But I figured it might be worth considering. :-)


Anyway. On with the sharing of the love. Comment and I'll tell you why you're cool/wonderful/fascinating/etc. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

On the subject of shoes:

So...

Last week, I posted about shoes.

In that same vein, I point out these gorgeous shoes from Payless (which, aaargh, doesn't ship to Canada -- not that I can be buying (more) shoes when I'm not working, but still. I dream).
I <3 Purple shoes! Or, more specifically, I <3 super-high heels, retro-looks, ankle straps, and hidden platforms. And $30 price-tags. As such, I <3 these purple shoes. ;-)


Also: The ones I posted about from Zappos? I totally ordered them. Yes, I'm crazy. (thense the bracketed "more", above). But they should be here by the end of the week.
Which means I'll (theoretically) have Fabulous Red Shoes for my foot-shoot on Saturday.

Or, conversely, to entice another shoot out of this guy. ;-)

Decisions, decisions. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon.

A Couple of Links

Puzzle Pieces (About forms of abuse).

The Difference Between Consent and Compliance (and how people generally recognize said difference, except in "sexual" situations).

The MO of Date Rapists Continues to Fool Juries (about how stranger-rape, which happens comparatively rarely, tends to get guilty-charges far more often than acquaintance-rape, intimate-partner-rape, and so-on).

As You Work Towards Emotional Healing (On shame and how to deal with it).

Pieces of Holes (TRIGGER WARNING) (On how transphobia compounds victimization. This one was very personal and immediate. Heads Up).

Stephen Lewis on Violence Against Women (Address to the UN - NOTE: OP says trigger warnings are in effect, and I can see why).

Aaaaaaaaaaaand a podcast that discusses (among many other things) the threat of (male) violence as used - by society in general - to "keep women in their place":
The Postmodern Geek's Guide to Sex #35: Return of the Brain Dump. (Link goes to a BiPolyPaganGeek post with links to the direct download).