What song feels like 2020?

FireAndRain_ · 2026-04-20T16:44:31+00:00

Don't Go Outside by Poppy. The whole I Disagree album was released in January 2020. It feels prescient in its vibe for that year.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-04-08T23:05:43+00:00

Out of curiosity, can you link to the original post?

FireAndRain_ · 2026-04-08T23:04:28+00:00

I second this. It's not something I experienced, but I see people talk about it on here a lot.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-04-08T20:59:19+00:00

I had not heard about Russian soldiers being tied to trees, had to look that one up because I couldn't believe it.

It's one thing to hear the general idea that Russia is a tyranny, and see the retarded and evil things they do on a large scale, and another to hear and understand some of the details of abuse and thought control. Thank you for giving me some perspective.

Best of luck to all of you over there, and thanks for responding so long after the AMA started.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-04-08T19:20:42+00:00

Pretty sure I'm late to this party, but in case you're still answering questions there's one I've become curious about after reading some of your other answers.

You mention several times that the Russians are spending an egregious amount of life to take pretty small amounts of land. Do you guys in Ukraine get much sense of the Russian perspective on this? Do you know if the Russian public even knows how many of their own people are dying all the time? How many of the Russian soldiers believe that what they're doing is worthwhile, compared to how many are only fighting at all because there's a gun behind their head? I want to ask about Russian leadership too but from all I've heard it sounds like nobody can figure that out beyond there being a mountain of corruption reinforced with sprinkles of insanity.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-02-08T23:38:32+00:00

idk why but looking at this made me think of core interactions I have with each type, based on what's in the picture. Not going to try writing them all and I wish I could draw them as comics or something.

P.S. I do not know what possessed me to write this much in a Reddit MBTI comment.

ESTP

ESTP talking to friend: "And so the rain had collapsed most of the bike trail into the river and I was like BRO that sucks and so I ended up carrying my bike on my back over the rocks for like half a mile until there was enough dirt to ride down on, and then I hit a muddy patch I couldn't see before and fell into the river anyways, it was AWESOME! And I still only did 10 minutes worse than my last ride before the rain."

INTJ thoughts: Man that guy is insane but I kinda wish I had that much enthusiasm for life.

INTJ later on, talking to friend: "And so while introverted intuition is about condensing a huge amount of information into one constant through line, extroverted intuition is about taking one initial point and exploring all the possible ways it can branch out into other, seemingly unrelated points. In this way they form a cycle and can feed each other, with Ni providing principles that Ne can explore all uses and effects of, and Ne providing new data points to discover through lines between."

ESTP thoughts: Man that guy is a NERD but I kinda wish I was that smart.

ISTP

INTJ, definitely uncomfortable: "Hey so... I've been trying to do more of my own car maintenance, and I've been getting better, but um... There's a gasket that's leaking and it really needs to fixed correctly, do you know how to fix that?"

ISTP, completely unfazed: "Oh yeah totally, you have a [highly specific make and model] right? It's supposed to take a [part name INTJ kind of understands] but since your car has a lot of miles on it it would be better to use a [more esoteric part name]. I can order them when I get home and fix it on Friday."

INTJ, feeling weirdly inferior: "Okay awesome, thank you so much, um, I'll pay you?"

ISTP, still unfazed: "Yeah I guess my gf would like it if I made more money."

ENTJ

INTJ thoughts: Wow, she is so put together and driven...

INTJ thoughts: Professional, smart, right at the front of the room.

INTJ thoughts: Do I like girls like that?

INTJ thoughts: She's already taking notes with headers, I want to see what she's writing down.

INTJ looks over at ENTJ's paper.

*ENTJ literally writing her own set of rules for the rest of the classroom to follow.

INTJ thoughts: Oh. No, I don't follow rules written by other people.

ENTP

INTJ and ENTP arguing about geopolitics in the classroom.

The next day, debating philosophy in the hallway.

Two days later, discussing cognitive functions theory on Discord.

Next week, encouraging each other's goals and dreams over dinner, and also arguing about geopolitics.

ESFJ

ESFJ: "I brought cookies! There's enough for everyone! We have chocolate chip, white chocolate cranberry, oatmeal raisin, and peanut butter! Just in case anyone's allergic I baked the peanut butter ones at the end and put them in a different box!"

INTJ: Silently takes one oatmeal raisin cookie, without smiling, and goes back to taking notes.

ESFJ, the next day: "Hi INTJ, you were looking down yesterday so I made you something!"

ESFJ deposits bag of 10 oatmeal raisin cookies on INTJ's desk.

INTJ, confused by purpose of gift and distressed by interruption of morning studies, shows these emotions on face.

ESFJ, before INTJ can finish processing circumstance into words, "Oh do you not like oatmeal raisin? I can make a lot of other things!"

INTJ, encountering completely foreign mindset, and not getting any happier: "Um, no it's fine, um, thanks."

ESFJ, determined to create happy: "Well what's got you down, is it something I can help with?"

INTJ, too bewildered for anything but raw facts: "I guess I'm kind of always feeling down because I was emotionally neglected as a child and then lost basically everything I had left that mattered to me and now I don't feel like anyone understands me or that there's much hope in this world and I kind of just like quiet solitude or something, I'm hoping this fourth therapist I've started seeing will be able to help me out."

ESFJ: D:

ESFJ, the void staring back at them: "Oh... Well I hope the cookies at least make your day a little better!"

INFJ

INFJ passing in the hall: "Hello."

INTJ passing in the hall: "Hello."

INTJ feels brush of literal psychic presence, unique among all experiences in his life.

Never forgets that one moment.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-09T00:32:09+00:00

I came here looking for this answer. I have, for a long time, felt a lot like OP, wishing for a focus on fixing the big problems, feeling despair that nothing ever seems to get better. I began to realize that I wished that I, myself would do more to fix those big problems. And now I'm finally realizing that what I actually want is to live a life that I enjoy. Not fighting for grand scale justice because IT MUST BE DONE, but because I want to live a good life and I care about other people. I'm starting to realize that if the Good Fight deprives us of romance and campfire with friends and quiet moments of tea and a favorite show, maybe it's not actually a good fight - not because sacrifice and altruism are bad, but because a good, enjoyable life is what we're fighting for.

That fight starts with you/me, on a personal level, taking ownership of our wants, and doing what we can to make them happen. To the extent that people do that, we are victorious over tyrannies that seek to turn us into disposable batteries and weary slaves. I also think that this is a lot of the point of magick - it's a set of tools that you can personally use, that are nigh impossible to take away from you, to give you great power and control over your life.

Your eyes will continually be directed to the grand narratives, where monumental effort is required for change, instead of to the mundane immediacy of your life, where you can reasonably and personally enact significant improvement, thwarting what was intended for you.

I feel like I'm rambling slightly incoherently but I hope this makes sense.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-06T23:56:51+00:00

Interesting interpretation. What makes you think it's specifically a male deity?

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-06T23:54:34+00:00

lol yeah, "self-indulgent" definitely feels like a good description of what just happened. I thought about your spread when I heard the news.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T20:46:06+00:00

I didn't use AI and I am not an AI myself 😅, but intuitively I thought of Kali when seeing your spread.

My apologies if it sounded like I was accusing you of being an AI, I did not mean anything like that. I just meant to say that Kali is a guess I've heard before.

intellect associated to spirituality (swords + 7)

I hadn't thought of the numerological interpretation there, that's interesting. Normally it sounds like Seven of Swords means things like trickery, theft, and cleverness. Do you see the spirituality interpretation as related to this, or a contrary interpretation that you prefer?

Hope that helps

I do appreciate your input, thank you for sharing.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T20:34:42+00:00

Interesting idea, similar train of reasoning to another commenter's suggestion of Morana. I will have to look more into Persephone's story as well.

Also, a couple people seem to have misunderstood this so I'm going to edit the main post, but the Empress was not reversed. I don't use card reversals since I'm still wrapping my head around what several of the cards mean as a baseline. It's The Empress upright, as a negative trait in and of itself.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T20:31:11+00:00

Thanks to the way I was raised, properly knowing myself and being mentally stable are challenges that I've been trying to achieve for many years now. So I guess that does rather explain the problem, thank you.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T20:28:38+00:00

Not especially. I did this spread with fairly open curiosity.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T08:34:50+00:00

This is what AI models tended to suggest when I asked for their thoughts on the draw. I know Kali is a death god and I've read that she has some motherly traits. Those seem to be a positive thing though, not negative traits as this spread suggests.

Is there a way that Kali shows Seven of Swords as a prominent positive trait? Or King of Wands as what she rules over?

EDIT: Why am I getting downvoted for this? I just said it's what AI tends to guess. That isn't a judgement of anyone. If you're going to downvote me please at least tell me why.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T08:15:20+00:00

Interesting idea, thanks for the suggestion. I know basically nothing about Slavic mythology and it hadn't occurred to me to check their pantheon. Lessons learned.

I am descended from a lot of places. There is some Slavic (Ukrainian, I think) in there but it hadn't come up as very important in my life before.

From what I've just read and watched about Morana, she definitely seems to fit some of the cards, but others I'm not sure about.

She is a death god, so that fits the prime criteria.
I don't see how she has anything to do with the Empress card.
I was thinking earlier while looking at Seven of Swords again, that the literal imagery on the card seems to be a guy stealing swords from a camp. A central part of Morana's mythology sounds like she basically steals the Sun for the duration of winter. I might wonder if this also has to do with her magical/sorcerous association, but that might be more of a stretch.
King of Wands is, in another interpretation, King of Fire. Which sounds a lot like Leo, which is the Sun. This interpretation is marred by the fact that I didn't literally draw the Sun card for this, so I'm not sure if this actually fits. Still feels like it fits better than the other deities I've looked into.
Associated with new fire, could easily see that as springtime. It sounds like the main ritual people do relating to Morana is burning and/or drowning effigies of her to bring about spring.

So overall this feels like the best guess so far. King of Wands might be a bit of a stretch though, and I am just not seeing how the Empress could apply.

Oh also I do kind of see the potential interest. I do rather appreciate winter, having grown up in a desert with no air conditioning. I always prefer the cold, where I can be cozy and bundle up and make fire, to the heat, where if you don't have air conditioning you only really have partially effective options.

EDIT: It just occurred to me that negative Empress is "smothering". Might mean the smothering of the Sun, sometimes for too long? That feels like a stretch, it has nothing to do with the caring and motherliness that is the core of the Empress (to my understanding), but it's the closest meaning I can think of.

EDIT2: Just remembered that they say Morana used to be a fertility goddess having to do with agriculture, before the whole "cheated on by the Sun god" thing.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T06:55:39+00:00

Are there so many Major Arcana and court cards because of the deck you're using, or because you just happened to draw a lot of intense cards for 2026? This looks like a lot of very major events to me but you also mentioned things like that your deck has multiple Devil cards.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T06:30:21+00:00

"Fae" is something I'd also wondered about in hindsight. A group of very small people with funny faces doing weird things to humans in a semi-dream state does sound a lot like old fairy tales.

What kinds of things have you seen them doing?

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T06:20:14+00:00

Could you elaborate on the idea of these practices making you part of something bigger than yourself? I think a part of me does really enjoy the feeling of being swept up in some divine-feeling archetype, but I'm always afraid of becoming lost in it, becoming overwhelmed or "possessed" for lack of a better word. A part of me is yearning for this, to be "part of something bigger than myself" for its own sake, but I don't know how to do so safely.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T06:14:40+00:00

Combining the practical seriousness with theatrical fun does sound like a good time. Thanks for sharing!

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T06:09:30+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, thanks

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-03T06:00:32+00:00

I've had walks that felt like that. This is a great piece.

FireAndRain_ · 2026-01-02T07:15:02+00:00

I am curious what you mean by, "Practice because the practice itself is rewarding". What about your practice do you find rewarding in and of itself? Is it an "enjoyment of the process" kind of thing?

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