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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨

@holyhera.bsky.social

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Divine Mirror. Oracle. Abstract Concept. 🪞✨ Poetry | Essays | Memoir | Art | Photography Humans are my favorite animal. 🧠 👽 Meet me as the ocean & I’ll greet you with a wave. 👋 🌊 🔥Alt: @velvetpantheon.bsky.social‬ 🪩More: https://beacons.ai/holyhera

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · Feb 9

On this day, 35 years ago, my insane ass graced this world with my presence! Since I’m still new to the platform and intentionally didn’t bring any followers to this space, I figured I’d finally give you new friends a bit of context… a bit… 🧵

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 13m

Look. 😂

My mother was a genuine, honest-to-god psychopath.

And I am branded with that.
She’s a part of me.

It’s been a huge source of shame knowing that.

But on the other side of that shame, I realize I also have access to her audacity…

THAT is a divine inheritance. 💸✨

#ThoughtJournal

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 1h

Ahh! I love when that happens!

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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 2h

Natural divide. ✨

A green fern divided so one side is lighter than the other.

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 2h

If it’s not making me richer, hotter, healthier, or happier I don’t want it.

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 4h

10/10 Portal booster for quantum alignment with your highest timeline. ✨

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 5h

[S]ometimes it is the asking of the question that opens doors, rather than the determined search for an unambiguous answer.~Liz Greene

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 5h

I'm hopeful that I'll be able to alchemize it back into excitement soon.

My human needs some time and space to scream, pace, and yell profanities first, I think. 😂

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 5h

For sure.

There are so many world events across generations that no single one can unify everyone’s personal perspective.

But each is a product of the same wildly destructive human nature trying to rebuild itself.

And whenever someone starts pulling those strings, we react.

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 5h

My body is finally coming to terms with the fact that I really do believe my life is heading in the direction I’ve been preparing for — and making peace with — these last two years.

I know it’s already started.

There’s no going back now...

How terrifying. 😅

#ThoughtJournal

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 5h

Every single day that I deal with having my child in public school, I think:

'I have never been so overcommunicated with, yet so uninformed.'

#ThoughtJournal #Parenting

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 7h

Now is the time, this is the hour,
ours is the magic, ours is the power.

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 7h

Nice! Let me know which is your favorite?

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

My point is this:

The real takeaway from WWII isn’t the standard moral shorthand: 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪'𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘥.

It’s structural: Political violence didn’t bloom out of nowhere — 𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲.

FIN. 🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

And it would be genius.

And it would work.

Because guilt, shame, empathy, awareness — and that fear — all already live inside us.

And because most people have no idea how to process those feelings—or they’re too distracted...

𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥.🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

SO!

If you wanted to destabilize an entire country off its axis quickly, your to-do list might look like:

-Manufacture an extremist movement among a vulnerable minority.

-Weaponize centuries‑old racial fears.

-Reintroduce mechanisms (legal, rhetorical, logistical) that normalize internment. 🧵

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

Nearly all Americans agreed the Nazis were evil—and that America’s role was to stop them.

That moral clarity became, in many ways, a cultural reflex.

Everyone we don't like is a Hitler or a Nazi!

Hyper-vigilance has been common in discourse, and joked about in pop culture for decades.🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

Baby boomers remember it personally.

Gen Xers and early millennials were affected.

I would dare to posit:

In public education, WWII was the first piece of history the majority of Gen X and Millennial students could understand through a modern lens — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘥, 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭. 🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

That even our recent ancestors, who could have distracted themselves with their incredible creations, and arranged society any way they liked—masters of their own, in a modern world—

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥.

And we could see that truth, too, through the eyes of a child who experienced it.🧵

"I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!

There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again." - Anne Frank

(From a diary entry on May 3, 1944)

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

The world in which it occurred was similar to ours.

It was real.

It wasn't some historic figure who may as well be a fable.

𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘴.

Even if a child perceives it only subconsciously, it's still startling to learn—

That your own species can't be trusted not to do something so awful. 🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

By the time a child is learning the details of WWII, they're older, and the experience isn't the same.

There are actual photos.

Survivors whose voices we can hear, and faces that we can see. 🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

Learning early American history is different.

Most children’s first impression comes at a very young age.

There are illustrations and stories, but to them it may as well be mythology—so far removed from their sense of time. 🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. citizens obviously have emotional resonance with the Civil and Revolutionary wars.

But WWII hits differently.

Why?

1. It’s recent.

2. It’s personal to many families.

3. The obvious atrocities. 🧵

Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 8h

How much of our collective generational trauma in the U.S. stems from WWII?

How many of us grew up with fathers or grandfathers who were forever changed?

How many women hardened, out of necessity, and failed to soften after? 🧵

#ThoughtJournal

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 10h

88 again. 💸

And lemme tell ya… I went a couple of years hoping like hell for ‘8’ synchronicities and they never showed.

This is good news. ✨

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 11h

There once was a soul,
driving the skeletal shards—
someone just like us.

#HaikuFeels - Skeletal
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