a green witch

Fangirl, hockey fan, nutty Albertan Oilers are my Cannons Breathe deep, seek peace (and read more)

[vampirescholar]

the worst part of this whole captain america nonsense is the idea steve supported an organization which brainwashed and tortured bucky and i will never get over how awful it is

[agreenwitch-blog]

2016 , Road at Night

[dewdropdwelliing-deactivated201]

🌳🍂 “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius 💜🌈🌿✨

[wyntercraft-deactivated20190812]

How to correctly say “Samhain”

I see a lot of people saying this incorrectly, and as a person who speaks fluent Irish-Gaelic (my first language) and grew up in Ireland, I figured I’d clear this up.

Samhain is pronounced shahv-nah. 

(if you want to be traditional, havh-nah if you’re female.)

Not sow-win

Not sam-hayne

Let me explain:

The “Sam-hane” pronunciation comes from people just saying the word, and sow-win comes from a man who didn’t even speak Irish by the name of Gerald Gardiner, and while he was a Wiccan, his pronunciation of Samhain was entirely incorrect, there is no “V” in the Gaelic language, so “mh” is pronounced as “V”. Feel free to ask me questions on this, I’ll be glad to answer them.

So with that…

Happy Samhain everyone!

[da-at-ass]

(╯°□°）╯︵ uᴉɐɥɯɐs

[agreenwitch-blog]

New photo of me and my youngest sister, looking extra fanciful 😄

[browndresswithwhitedots]

[agreenwitch-blog]

After an extended hiatus to deal with real life, I'm back.

[blindthoughts]

I just really hope all of you find someone who is really cool that you can love and have sex with and all that shit but you can also talk politics and about evolution. someone you don’t cling to at parties but you nonchalantly grab their ass when you walk by them in the crowd and someone you reach for at 2am in between dreams to cuddle.

[trajans-deactivated20150201]

Anti-TERF/biological essentialism resources

This list is a work in progress & is always growing. If you have any suggestions of additional links, please submit or add on.

What is a TERF?

You might be a TERF if…

TERFs aren’t really all that radical, anyway

Trans-exclusionary radical feminism: what exactly is it, and why does it hurt?

Ways in which TERFs are similar to other hate groups

Biological essentialism is harmful

It’s Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of “Biological Sex” to Defend Their Transmisogyny – Using debunked science as a scapegoat for transmisogyny? Don’t do that.

Sex is not a biological reality

Bilaterally Gynandromorphic Chickens, and Why I’m Not “Scientifically” Male

Intersex society of America: What is intersex?

Common misconceptions

Seven Transphobic Tropes Debunked

Scientific studies/resources

Why Male and Female are Not Enough, by Anne Fausto-Sterling

Medical historian, psychiatrist, and UCLA clinician Vernon Rosario, for example, notes that sex is “a polymorphic and multifactorial model” that must take into account dozens of genes, chromosomes and environmental factors. Even in orthodox biology, it seems, sex is no longer as simple as XX or XY.

The many non-XX-or-XY combinations of chromosomes

Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

The two-sex system is a historically recent and culturally specific understanding of sex grounded in the Enlightenment.

[agreenwitch-blog]

Sadie the Golden Retriever looking ridiculously happy 😍

[agreenwitch-blog]

One ridiculous beautiful and somewhat over-filtered sunset, coming right up. (July 13, 2015)

[just-shower-thoughts]

When NASA sent out New Horizons 9.5 years ago, Pluto was still a planet. NASA just flew 3+ billion miles to get catfished.

[kawatooru]

where do lesbian viking warriors go when they die in a mighty battle?

[kawatooru]

galpalla

[rosewednesday-blog]

I tried to scroll away. I really did.

[mxmarkargent]

what’s better than this, valkyries being palkyries

[eyebrowgod-deactivated20181204]

a 90’s kid? don’t you mean sad adult?

[eyebrowgod-deactivated20181204]

70,000 people have reblogged this but no one is trying to defend themselves

[vanilita]

There is nothing to defend

[lookingforshadows]

#i read a post once that described 90s kids as the generation of nostalgia #because so much technological advancement happened in such a rapid timeframe when we were growing up #that we can clearly remember having technologies that are now obsolete #like going from a corded hugeass phone to a small computer in your pocket just within our formative years is a major thing #and it sparks a nostalgia for our seemly ‘simpler’ childhoods #because so much rapid development makes it seem like it was a lot longer ago than it actually was (x)

[instead-of-sighs]

This is the most solid explanation of our decade I have ever heard.

[fakenasty]

Oh my god

[retr0philia]

Just to add onto that, our childhood wasn’t even technology based. We grew up knowing of chalk, skateboards, jump rope, street hockey, playgrounds, butterfly collecting, etc. Slowly technology took over our lives and now there are hardly kids playing outside in the summer. We can clearly remember our childhood as it was and now we can see the clear line between it. We were the generation right smack in the middle of it all. Our parents were of non-tech and our children/young siblings will be all tech.

[breelandwalker]

Not to mention, ours was the last generation that grew up with all those bright promises of “work hard, go to college, and you’ll have a successful life,” only to find those hopes abruptly dashed when the housing bubble burst. Milliennials have grown up expecting that disappointment, because for them, the problem has been there since Day One.

So 90s kids aren’t just nostalgic…we’re BITTER. And we ache for those days when we could still think that the world was boundless and full of the opportunities we were promised since the first day of kindergarten.

[agreenwitch-blog]

^^ that explains so much about my life right now....

[eyebrowgod-deactivated20181204]

a 90’s kid? don’t you mean sad adult?

[eyebrowgod-deactivated20181204]

70,000 people have reblogged this but no one is trying to defend themselves

[vanilita]

There is nothing to defend

[lookingforshadows]

#i read a post once that described 90s kids as the generation of nostalgia #because so much technological advancement happened in such a rapid timeframe when we were growing up #that we can clearly remember having technologies that are now obsolete #like going from a corded hugeass phone to a small computer in your pocket just within our formative years is a major thing #and it sparks a nostalgia for our seemly ‘simpler’ childhoods #because so much rapid development makes it seem like it was a lot longer ago than it actually was (x)

[instead-of-sighs]

This is the most solid explanation of our decade I have ever heard.

[fakenasty]

Oh my god

[retr0philia]

Just to add onto that, our childhood wasn’t even technology based. We grew up knowing of chalk, skateboards, jump rope, street hockey, playgrounds, butterfly collecting, etc. Slowly technology took over our lives and now there are hardly kids playing outside in the summer. We can clearly remember our childhood as it was and now we can see the clear line between it. We were the generation right smack in the middle of it all. Our parents were of non-tech and our children/young siblings will be all tech.

[wordsnquotes]

MUST READ:

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

We follow Lily, a fourteen year old girl, Lily who has lost her mother and has an atrocious father, in her journey to self discovery and freedom. It wasn’t as sweet as honey-like the title suggests, instead it manages to be both: sweet and bitter simultaneously. It is strong, well-balanced, and infused with the right dosage of heartbreak.

Lily is a dynamic, throughout the novel, she undergoes a great amount of internal struggles and changes, which is vividly described, that you find it easy to understand and relate to them. We learn a great deal about her as we follow her life though the ‘safe heaven’ she finds in the pink house. By the end of it, the author gives us all a big lesson on character development!

This book is amazing in every single way. The writing is incredibly clever, the story deeply touching and the characters so well written. It is easy to transport yourself to the exact time and place of every scene going on. Every person on earth should read it and embark themselves in this heartwarming adventure.

by guest reviewer Lore

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[wnq-writers]

She is, and forever will be a lone wolf. She’s happy living life in her own mind and she’s content with watching the world around her in silence. She’ll never belong to anyone, and that’s what’s so beautiful about her, she’s running wild.

Emily Trinkle (via wordsnquotes)