Moss Rhedyn 🌿 he/they

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

Alchemy mostly focused on attempts to turn other base metals into gold.

What if instead of turning one metal into another, alchemy became a practice of channeling our emotions, our energy, through ink, clay, song, paint— to transform what we feel in our bones into art, connection, and community.

Found in the earth, forged in fire, metal creates paths for currents to flow from one point to another.

It can be weapon, but it can also be a mycelium— a conduit for nourishment and information.

It can be the strings on that old guitar or the nib of your pen or the ferrule on your paint brush.

Funding freeze temporarily blocked by federal judge. Take a deep breath, unclench your jaw, and stretch.

Stories and art are vital, especially now.

Art is alchemy and soil, transforming energy with no where to go, into a torch we can carry through the dark.

Blitzkrieg and Shock Doctrine are upon us— a war of lightning.

Look to nature.

We do not fight lightning with lightning. We fight lightning with soil and metal.

Who are the lightning towers?

Who grounds the storm in earth?

And how do we transform it from fear into tangible community action?

When people in power gradually increase the volume overtime, people of goodwill learn to call a scream a whisper.

When people in power gradually become more fascistic overtime, people who trust in thrones learn to call a Nazi, “just someone who doesn’t know any better.”

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I feel this so much right now, this song has been stuck in my head all day today

definitely 💯

This is so beautifully said and so true! Those unique differences in all our voices create the harmonies in songs

Yeah absolutely! It is so exhausting and draining, this month feels like it’s been a whole year

As many others have said, systems of oppression and oppressive regimes are fractals of abuse.

This back and forth from TikTok and the government towards us the people, is abuse.

Make no mistake, this is disorienting by design.

yepppp…

Okay, so now I just clicked to open TikTok absent mindedly and the app is back for me??

A glimmer ✨

As expected, I opened CapCut to the notification that it is banned like TikTok.

Out of curiosity, but not expecting it to work, I tried a VPN. It did not work for TikTok, but to my pleasant surprise I was able to access CapCut with a VPN.

that is just right in the heart 😭. same friend, so glad we are still connected

The last post I was able to see on my TikTok was a video with the sound, “I would have gone with you to the end, through the fires of Mordor.”

We will keep finding each other and connecting with our communities here and else where no matter what