Pronouns: My existence cannot be contained by your pathetic "genders" so use whatever I guess Armchair sorcerer whose complete disregard for personal safety and lack of fear of consequences is only kept in check by serious concern for personal safety and much fear of consequences. My current goal is to eventually get off my sorcery armchair and immediately go overboard with a spell and have it blow up in my face. I'm going to keep adding lines to my bio and hope the fact that it all gets mushed into a single unreadable line on mobile is just on my end actually fuck that I can use an unreadable bio like caltrops to deter invaders and ninja spies
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Holy shit you guys I got barefoot shoes for the first time and have worn them outside for a grand total of 1 hour and I never ever want to take them off
SPOOKY MONTH
SPOOKY MONTH
SPOOKY MONTH
SPOOKY MONTH
SPOOKY MONTH
To celebrate the official turnover to ✨Spooky Month✨ I'm going to talk about something dumb that spooked me as a tiny stupid baby child.
Do you ever have your head up against you pillow while laying on your side and hear your heartbeat in the ear reverberating against the fabric? Well when I was a dumb idiot 4 year old I was convinced that this sound was, in fact, caused by an entire army of Nefarious Little Guys marching in-step directly outside my window, actively working on Nefarious Shenanigans. The sincere feeling of childhood betrayal when my parents Did Not take me seriously.
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Accidentally ruined a mr spider's incredibly impressive web because he managed to make it between my exterior wall and a package I got yesterday and I just. Stuck my hand right in there. Didn't even see it. Then I couldn't convince him to evacuate the cardboard so I ended up just opening the package right there and letting him have the box.
Baby pawpaw why do your leaves brown. Your soil is moist but well drained. You are shaded on my porch like the trees that shield you in the forest. So why, my child? Why do you cry?
I'm not cool enough for Lord Chicken.
Not yet.
public service announcement that I will follow any witchcraft blog that posts at least 70% original content, not even saying Content, but just anything personal and original, no matter where you're at with your path or practice, I consume witch OC the way a lizard consumes the sun on a hot rock.
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Visible Mending Guide
So I realized that I may not have been sufficiently mist/watering the seed pods the past week or so since they were drying out unusually fast so uh. I hope. I hope they're okayyyyy hahaha
Do I have enough plants that even making sure they're all watered is becoming a massive time sink in what little free time I have?
Yes.
Is this, perhaps, too many plants?
Absolutely not and once my capsicum flexuosum seeds germinate I'm immediately going to start selectively breeding them to have big, juicy berries because NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THE HOT PEPPER COMMUNITY APPRECIATE THEM.
Is a potting soil mix of 1/3 potting soil, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 worm casting perhaps too much fertilizer for miner's lettuce? I guess I'll find out.
Do I have enough plants that even making sure they're all watered is becoming a massive time sink in what little free time I have?
Yes.
Is this, perhaps, too many plants?
Absolutely not and once my capsicum flexuosum seeds germinate I'm immediately going to start selectively breeding them to have big, juicy berries because NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THE HOT PEPPER COMMUNITY APPRECIATE THEM.
malls are dying because they don't have blacksmith, apothecary, alehouse or peddler's
Thinking about the fact that I wasn't able to keep Lucky Bamboo alive for a month but I've had the same 2 blueberry plants in pots indoors for 5 years now and they're so happy they made blueberries despite not being exposed to frost temps or being actively polinated at all
Shit I'd donate to CAH's legal fund with 0 expectation of getting anything in return.
Namely I really really want them to take over twitter.
HUH
What Native people say about the use of sage: you can use sage, but you cannot smudge as nothing you are doing (waving sage around) is actually smudging. Smudging is a ceremony and you are, we promise, not smudging. Please buy sage from either us, or someone who sources the sage from us. White sage may not be considered endangered by the US government but corperate sourcing is making it difficult for us to source sage for our own religious purposes. Let alone to sell it.
What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.
Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.
1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.
2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.
3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.
I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk ™
Scams, Hoaxes, Conspiracy Theories, & Cults Everyone Should Know About
Jilly Juice: Jillian Mai Thi Epperly claimed drinking sixteen cups of her super salty cabbage concoction each day could regrow missing limbs and cure everything from cancer to homosexuality. In reality, overdosing on so much salt caused followers a host of health issues that Epperley dismissed as "healing symptoms."
Nonhuman Body Hoax: Jaime Maussan attempted to pass off mummified human remains as nonhuman beings to the Mexican government. (This isn't even Maussan's first hoax, by the way. He has a history.)
Love Has Won: Amy Carlson, a woman who'd walked out on her own children, started a New Age cult in which she presented herself as "Mother God," the creator of the universe. She claimed to be in contact with dead celebrities and alien beings, and taught a conspiratorial worldview. As her health declined, she attempted to treat herself with colloidal silver and alcohol, and her behavior became increasingly abusive. When she finally died, her followers sincerely believed she would return to life and kept her body in a sleeping bag. (She did not return to life.)
Seed Faith Offerings: Reverend Gene Ewing came up with the perfect get-rich-quick scheme to prey on desperate Christian believers: tell believers that if they "sowed seed" by giving money to him, God would bless them with even more money in the future. He made millions of dollars from these donations, while most of his followers never saw the miraculous returns they were promised.
William Walker Atkinson: In the early 20th century, William Walker Atkinson wrote around one hundred books, many of which he wrote under various pseudonyms. Some of these pseudonyms included alleged Hindu mystics. That's right - this guy was practicing literary brownface to sell his mystical ideas.
The LDS Church: In the 19th century, a man named Joseph Smith claimed that an angel had told him where to dig up a set of golden plates that were supposedly written by ancient Hebrews who'd come to North America. Smith even had eleven close associates who vouched for the plates' existence. Yet the script they were allegedly written in bore no relation to actual ancient scripts of the Near East, and the the names the locations in the books he "translated" were very obviously derived from placenames he would have been familiar with. (For example, Oneida/Onidah.) Oh, and actual archaeology and DNA studies have discredited pretty much everything from this guy's weird racist narrative.
Fake Cancer, Fake Cure: Wellness entrepreneur Belle Gibson claimed that she'd cured her brain cancer with natural remedies. Gibson never actually had cancer in the first place.
Medbeds: Back in 2020, QAnons and QAnon-adjacent people started circulating claims that a new form of healing technology was about to become available to the public within the next several months or so. Depending on who you asked, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and even the Galactic Federation of Light were involved. The time of their supposed unveiling came and went, and what do you know, there are still no functioning medbeds used in actual medicine.
COVID Vaccine Zombies: Conspiracy theorists have been claiming the government practices high-tech mind control for ages now. One recent iteration of this is a conspiracy theory claiming that people who'd received COVID vaccinations would have malicious DNA code activated by 5G on October 4, 2023, turn into zombies, and riot. The time came and went, and no zombie outbreak happened.
Ms.Scribe: In the early 2000s, a Harry Potter fan known as "msscribe" or "Ms.Scribe" faked her own harassment through a number of sockpuppets, with the apparent goal of becoming friends with some Harry Potter fandom bigwigs. She manipulated the fandom for a few years until the deception was finally uncovered.
Hello! I have been a long time without practicing witchcraft, so I am a bit rusty. I’ve been wanting to do some Otherworld journeying, and I was wondering if you’d feel comfortable sharing how you usually go about doing that? Do you enter a trance, and if so how do you go about doing it? Are you with spirits the whole time, or are you ever alone? If I’m prying too much, please feel free to tell me to get lost!
I do go into a trance as part of my traveling process, but I'll be honest, I don't know if my method will work for anyone else. I use the pain of my CRPS as a focus, like some people use drums or mantras. I spend most of my time trying to block out my pain, but when I'm trancing I let it wash over me until it's all that I'm aware of. I dive down deep into it until I come out the other side of the maelstrom in the Otherworlds. I understand that this method is not for everyone, but outside of getting into the trance I have some more tips and methods at the links below:
Hedgecrossing with Stag
Traveling Tips
Spirit Meeting Recording - The first part of this guided meditation is basically an audio version of the first link.
Once I'm in the Otherworlds I actually do spend a lot of time alone. I have certain responsibilities and duties in the Otherworlds. Those sometimes means walking the boundaries of the regions or domains I am responsible for by myself, or wandering around those domains checking in on Things or Folks. Usually once I'm done with these "chores" I'll have a political or social visit to make, and that's when I'll spend more time around spirits. Or if I don't have visits to make I'll spend time with Oisin or one of the other Forgotten Ones.
Goddammit Tumblr stop "celebrating milestones" like "oh wow you liked 50 posts" or "you posted 5 times good job" I'm not a todler shut up shut up shut the fuck up
at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.
Don’t mind me. Just cleaning your dash
I'm gonna have to try this. Can't speak to artificial scents, but I've been using powder detergent for a while now (not really sure what it's made of - ingredients just say "soap") and it does a great job of getting rid of stubborn "dirty" bacterial smells. However, I don't think it really gets rid or dirt and stuff any better than normal detergent.
Kind of fucked up that it takes multiple laundry cycles to get the smell of scented detergent out of used clothing.
Not just that! Apparently after the Jews escaped slavery, the Egyptians started mocking their god Yaweh who, at the time, was considered a desert god of storms, by equating him with the Egyptian god Seth, a donkey-headed god of storms and foreigners who was also just kinda shitty and not very well liked. The Jews would have hated this not only because they hated the idea of animal-headed gods in general, but donkeys in particular were considered very filthy. So this kinda feels like it could be a callback to that!
Source: Esoterica on YouTube
The earliest depiction of Christ was a shitpost
Reading lots of beginner witch tips and one thing that seems to keep coming up is Cultural Appropriation and Closed Practices, and it got me thinking as to why people even feel tempted to get into cultures they're not already involved in.
It seems like it's predominantly a White American problem, which seems similar to how predominantly White Americans were really really into those DNA testing kits a while back, which a lot of those people seemed to be using to try to, once again, connect to cultures ther have to part in otherwise.
Now I know lots of people have (rightfully) compared colonists to invasive species that wreaks absolute destruction on the environments they're introduced to, but if we take that a step further and look at culture itself as a type of environment - in that it provides a very important type of nourishment to its participants and is shaped by those participants - it kinda starts to look like Modern America is more like a cultural desert (i.e. capitalist hellscape) where many of the specimins in that "biome" are severely undernourished and are desperately seeking nutrition elsewhere, and are then becoming invasive to those cultures with a strong tradition and herritage.
Not saying that anyone should be "accomodating" to those people because of that though. Like, I understand why the spotted lantern fly is DECIMATING MY GRAPE VINE but I'm still gonna smack the shit out of it because that one Does Not Belong in this ecosystem. But maybe if America as a whole would be less obsessed with Money and Power we could pour some proverbial compost on the arts and humanities instead. Like, mow down all the kudzu vine and mulch it to feed the food plants. Or something.
And maybe that analogy can be extended to situations like "Person is born into culture A, but they need more Spirit Vitamin B than is provided in culture A, so they are drawn to culture B"
What am I even talking about. I don't know why I wrote this.