St. Seraphim | they/xe
@saint-seraphim.bsky.social
Temporarily embarrassed Monastic.
Emotional Savage.
Artist and Poet in Recovery.
A Tiger in a Garland of Night Flowers.
Emotional Savage.
Artist and Poet in Recovery.
A Tiger in a Garland of Night Flowers.
Pinned
A chronic lurker, coming out of the shadows with my thoughts, fragments and shards.
Working towards mustering the courage to post longer form writing, or potentially (gasp) visual art works at some point.
Working towards mustering the courage to post longer form writing, or potentially (gasp) visual art works at some point.
People talk about "holding space" without really thinking about what it means; it's not always going to feel good and frictionless. If you do it well, it rarely should be.
Sometimes holding people's experiences makes us uncomfortable. That discomfort is fleeting for you and everyday for them.
Sometimes holding people's experiences makes us uncomfortable. That discomfort is fleeting for you and everyday for them.
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
People talk about "holding space" without really thinking about what it means; it's not always going to feel good and frictionless. If you do it well, it rarely should be.
Sometimes holding people's experiences makes us uncomfortable. That discomfort is fleeting for you and everyday for them.
Sometimes holding people's experiences makes us uncomfortable. That discomfort is fleeting for you and everyday for them.
There are some comments that are social media friendly posts and some that are more suited to kitchen table conversations; I think we should probably start learning the difference.
(Me, about to make a post about Rennaissance biology and transness from a place of love but thought better of it.)
(Me, about to make a post about Rennaissance biology and transness from a place of love but thought better of it.)
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
There are some comments that are social media friendly posts and some that are more suited to kitchen table conversations; I think we should probably start learning the difference.
(Me, about to make a post about Rennaissance biology and transness from a place of love but thought better of it.)
(Me, about to make a post about Rennaissance biology and transness from a place of love but thought better of it.)
I find after a hard week of study, I need to schedule in stupid time. Sensory time. No thought head empty, smell good play with colours time.
It helps greatly. I'm going to bed x
It helps greatly. I'm going to bed x
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I find after a hard week of study, I need to schedule in stupid time. Sensory time. No thought head empty, smell good play with colours time.
It helps greatly. I'm going to bed x
It helps greatly. I'm going to bed x
The thing is about being well read is that it can be way, way harder to recognise when you're being a fucking idiot.
Another one of my "ask me how I know" series...
Another one of my "ask me how I know" series...
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The thing is about being well read is that it can be way, way harder to recognise when you're being a fucking idiot.
Another one of my "ask me how I know" series...
Another one of my "ask me how I know" series...
It's lovely that I've cultivated a little network of people who, I can say I'm starting to get the winter blues and a number of people come out to offer support.
That feels good. I am happy with that.
I also, as an aside, need to ándele on the master's applications.
That feels good. I am happy with that.
I also, as an aside, need to ándele on the master's applications.
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's lovely that I've cultivated a little network of people who, I can say I'm starting to get the winter blues and a number of people come out to offer support.
That feels good. I am happy with that.
I also, as an aside, need to ándele on the master's applications.
That feels good. I am happy with that.
I also, as an aside, need to ándele on the master's applications.
I'm spending time tabulating Master's courses to go onto next and funding.
Legitimately could cry thinking that my personal tutor paid £3k for a Master's and I'm looking at scraping together upwards of £12-14k.
Like, what the fuck is a broke clever bitch like me to do?
Legitimately could cry thinking that my personal tutor paid £3k for a Master's and I'm looking at scraping together upwards of £12-14k.
Like, what the fuck is a broke clever bitch like me to do?
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'm spending time tabulating Master's courses to go onto next and funding.
Legitimately could cry thinking that my personal tutor paid £3k for a Master's and I'm looking at scraping together upwards of £12-14k.
Like, what the fuck is a broke clever bitch like me to do?
Legitimately could cry thinking that my personal tutor paid £3k for a Master's and I'm looking at scraping together upwards of £12-14k.
Like, what the fuck is a broke clever bitch like me to do?
My hot take, I think everyone's allowed to crash out a little from time to time.
I also think, everyone's allowed to developmentally regress under stress from time to time. As a treat.
No shame from me.
I also think, everyone's allowed to developmentally regress under stress from time to time. As a treat.
No shame from me.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My hot take, I think everyone's allowed to crash out a little from time to time.
I also think, everyone's allowed to developmentally regress under stress from time to time. As a treat.
No shame from me.
I also think, everyone's allowed to developmentally regress under stress from time to time. As a treat.
No shame from me.
You know poetry is a skill when your average person tries to write new lines to a familiar jingle and very rarely do they match the original meter.
Read a few too many awkward rewrites of The Grand Old Duke Of York today and downvoted nearly all of them for poor cadence.
Read a few too many awkward rewrites of The Grand Old Duke Of York today and downvoted nearly all of them for poor cadence.
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
You know poetry is a skill when your average person tries to write new lines to a familiar jingle and very rarely do they match the original meter.
Read a few too many awkward rewrites of The Grand Old Duke Of York today and downvoted nearly all of them for poor cadence.
Read a few too many awkward rewrites of The Grand Old Duke Of York today and downvoted nearly all of them for poor cadence.
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German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate
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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate
shorturl.at/OFfig
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As someone who struggles with compulsive rumination, I think thought-terminating chiches get a bad rap.
Sometimes you do just gotta be like "Shit happens."
It is what it is.
Sometimes you do just gotta be like "Shit happens."
It is what it is.
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
As someone who struggles with compulsive rumination, I think thought-terminating chiches get a bad rap.
Sometimes you do just gotta be like "Shit happens."
It is what it is.
Sometimes you do just gotta be like "Shit happens."
It is what it is.
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JK Rowling has called Emma Watson out of touch with how regular women live
Now the question is, did she write this in her literal castle or on her private yacht?
Now the question is, did she write this in her literal castle or on her private yacht?
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
JK Rowling has called Emma Watson out of touch with how regular women live
Now the question is, did she write this in her literal castle or on her private yacht?
Now the question is, did she write this in her literal castle or on her private yacht?
Not gonna lie, I really do not like psychiatrists.
However, my favourite kind of mental health professionals are psychiatrists who've gone a bit mad themselves.
Especially if they leave the profession and go on to theorise and create instead.
However, my favourite kind of mental health professionals are psychiatrists who've gone a bit mad themselves.
Especially if they leave the profession and go on to theorise and create instead.
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Not gonna lie, I really do not like psychiatrists.
However, my favourite kind of mental health professionals are psychiatrists who've gone a bit mad themselves.
Especially if they leave the profession and go on to theorise and create instead.
However, my favourite kind of mental health professionals are psychiatrists who've gone a bit mad themselves.
Especially if they leave the profession and go on to theorise and create instead.
I don't give a fuck if you think you're "one of the good ones."
We all living in a eugenicist society; there's an upper limit to the goodness we can embody on our own when processing all the sludge that engenders.
Getting hung up on good gets in the way of effectively dealing with that sludge.
We all living in a eugenicist society; there's an upper limit to the goodness we can embody on our own when processing all the sludge that engenders.
Getting hung up on good gets in the way of effectively dealing with that sludge.
September 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I don't give a fuck if you think you're "one of the good ones."
We all living in a eugenicist society; there's an upper limit to the goodness we can embody on our own when processing all the sludge that engenders.
Getting hung up on good gets in the way of effectively dealing with that sludge.
We all living in a eugenicist society; there's an upper limit to the goodness we can embody on our own when processing all the sludge that engenders.
Getting hung up on good gets in the way of effectively dealing with that sludge.
Are you a lover or a fighter?
Me, an annoying non-dualist: yes.
Me, an annoying non-dualist: yes.
September 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Are you a lover or a fighter?
Me, an annoying non-dualist: yes.
Me, an annoying non-dualist: yes.
Mystical experiences never went anywhere, they just became pathologised.
What else can you call that oceanic feeling of loving and being loved, through every cell of your body and from every moment of time, past, present and future, but direct contact with Divinity?
I may become a Griot, yet.
What else can you call that oceanic feeling of loving and being loved, through every cell of your body and from every moment of time, past, present and future, but direct contact with Divinity?
I may become a Griot, yet.
September 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Mystical experiences never went anywhere, they just became pathologised.
What else can you call that oceanic feeling of loving and being loved, through every cell of your body and from every moment of time, past, present and future, but direct contact with Divinity?
I may become a Griot, yet.
What else can you call that oceanic feeling of loving and being loved, through every cell of your body and from every moment of time, past, present and future, but direct contact with Divinity?
I may become a Griot, yet.
I assume the thing that makes me scary difficult to understand is the floral quality my mind takes on in moments of stress.
I've come to accept it as a unique and effective coping strategy. Being an artist and poet allows me that agency.
Just another way to gild the cracks in my mended porcelain.
I've come to accept it as a unique and effective coping strategy. Being an artist and poet allows me that agency.
Just another way to gild the cracks in my mended porcelain.
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I assume the thing that makes me scary difficult to understand is the floral quality my mind takes on in moments of stress.
I've come to accept it as a unique and effective coping strategy. Being an artist and poet allows me that agency.
Just another way to gild the cracks in my mended porcelain.
I've come to accept it as a unique and effective coping strategy. Being an artist and poet allows me that agency.
Just another way to gild the cracks in my mended porcelain.
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freud really popped off with projection as a concept bc this is just a christian telling on himself
September 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
freud really popped off with projection as a concept bc this is just a christian telling on himself
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i think leftists who can't accomodate people of faith into their politics are really really making a profound mistake
How? You simply tell them to fuck if they are homophobic, transphobic or aren't secular. It's easy and refreshing.
September 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
i think leftists who can't accomodate people of faith into their politics are really really making a profound mistake
It is never, ever too late to turn around when you're on the wrong path.
You may have to brace for immediate impact of the causes and conditions you co-created. You still have to deal with the long term ramifications.
It gets better. It is the right thing to do.
It will soften.
Others will help.
You may have to brace for immediate impact of the causes and conditions you co-created. You still have to deal with the long term ramifications.
It gets better. It is the right thing to do.
It will soften.
Others will help.
September 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It is never, ever too late to turn around when you're on the wrong path.
You may have to brace for immediate impact of the causes and conditions you co-created. You still have to deal with the long term ramifications.
It gets better. It is the right thing to do.
It will soften.
Others will help.
You may have to brace for immediate impact of the causes and conditions you co-created. You still have to deal with the long term ramifications.
It gets better. It is the right thing to do.
It will soften.
Others will help.
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In line with the deceased's wishes, I extend his memory and family no empathy whatsoever. I am deeply relieved that he is gone.
September 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In line with the deceased's wishes, I extend his memory and family no empathy whatsoever. I am deeply relieved that he is gone.
Karma isn't a criminal justice system. Structures of power offset effects down the chain onto the disempowered.
As people remember their power, effects will get pushed back to their cause.
The consequences of our actions are our only true possessions. Some take time to return, if ever.
As people remember their power, effects will get pushed back to their cause.
The consequences of our actions are our only true possessions. Some take time to return, if ever.
September 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Karma isn't a criminal justice system. Structures of power offset effects down the chain onto the disempowered.
As people remember their power, effects will get pushed back to their cause.
The consequences of our actions are our only true possessions. Some take time to return, if ever.
As people remember their power, effects will get pushed back to their cause.
The consequences of our actions are our only true possessions. Some take time to return, if ever.
A more niche, and definitely personal axe I have to bear against J.K. Rowling, is that her foul eugenicist behaviour has robbed us of the potential of a perfectly good gender neutral term for wise man/woman – wizard – now perpetually associated with her fetid intellectual property.
September 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A more niche, and definitely personal axe I have to bear against J.K. Rowling, is that her foul eugenicist behaviour has robbed us of the potential of a perfectly good gender neutral term for wise man/woman – wizard – now perpetually associated with her fetid intellectual property.
Emotional complexity can looks like instability to people who don't have the vocabulary to understand.
That complexity can also be messy without the framework to weave it into some kind of sense.
We still don't have good protocols for emotionally sensitive people with complex emotional lives.
That complexity can also be messy without the framework to weave it into some kind of sense.
We still don't have good protocols for emotionally sensitive people with complex emotional lives.
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Emotional complexity can looks like instability to people who don't have the vocabulary to understand.
That complexity can also be messy without the framework to weave it into some kind of sense.
We still don't have good protocols for emotionally sensitive people with complex emotional lives.
That complexity can also be messy without the framework to weave it into some kind of sense.
We still don't have good protocols for emotionally sensitive people with complex emotional lives.
