Your Friendly Neighborhood Witch

Hi I'm Amara, I'm cis, pansexual, pagan, a writer, & an all around full time quirky nerd girl cliche

[ahumanyarn-blog]

Gender neutral ways to refer to your child:

* Kiddo

* Responsibility

* Progeny

* Heir

* Ward

* Spawn

* Vassal

* Personal collaborative genetics experiment number 1 / 2 / 3 / etc

* Exception to most choice based moral quandaries Feel free to add more.

[sabertoothwalrus]

unmute

[copperbadge]

I have never so joyously reblogged a bird video in my life. 

[zipscribs]

a comic about someone who gets a visit from the reaper a bit sooner than expected, but has someone whos been waiting for them 

Hey, do you like my art? Help support me and buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/zipper ❤️

[zipscribs]

[zipscribs]

“What happens when someone dies, but they have no one there waiting for them yet?”

[zipscribs]

you are never truly alone

[aw3zom3zauc3]

;A;

[azuretheshitposter]

👏THE👏REAPER👏DID👏NOTHING👏WRONG👏

[bcnnyv0mit-deactivated20211019]

IM FUCKING CRYING OMG 

[mimihatsune-deactivated20210719]

This post is so good I JGLUFJLSDHXGKCLHDKG

[mossy-graveyard]

a post so good you know a mother fucker had to reblog

[krishnahare]

[krishnahare]

[im-not-a-skelmersdale-monster]

The past 4 years have been rough on doge

[pang0ro]

if you’ve read this post then you’ve read ender’s game

[ahumanyarn-blog]

& you didnt need to give $ to a horrifying homophobe & racist  to do it

[thoodleoo]

my advice to anyone out there in academia is to write with the confidence of an ancient natural historian talking in a position of authority about something he knows absolutely jack shit about

[thoodleoo]

like imposter syndrome is a real and terrible thing but if it makes you feel better you’re definitely not nearly as wrong as pliny “there are 176 kinds of fish in the ocean and that’s a real true fact” the elder

[artfulkindoforder]

petition to start using “suffering sappho” as an interjection irl

[conan-doyles-carnations]

Gosh that’s suddenly making its way into my vocabulary

[lilyvonpseudonym]

[guiding-light-deactivated201902]

Ahem

[antibutch-deactivated20180507]

Gay as FUCK

[xenaskywalker]

“Is she, you know, *makes vague gesture with hands* quite familiar with Sappho’s surviving poetry?”

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Barbara and Etta doing the Lesbian Secret Handshake here :D

[curlsandstems]

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Be sure to check out IAmDSharp!

[thegreynightsky]

GO OFFF

[babydollbucky]

Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

This person is the real deal. They were clearly classically trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?

[dungeonmemes]

[displayheartcode]

[kakaphoe]

Did Galavant get cancelled because it was too good for this shitty world?

[sirredmayne]

I’m color-blind, but I can pick out that [Yves Klein] blue anywhere. I wrote 30,000 words on this color, and I never grew tired of it. The pigment is staggering. It’s amazing that a color can be so emotional. One can only hope to achieve that intensity in acting.

[fidefortitude-deactivated202011]

all hail eddie redmayne, patron saint of academic bullshittery

[sophibeans]

You have been visited by the Eddie Redmayne of bullshit, reblog to have plenty of bullshit to spew on your final exams

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop

"This could end up being one of those little oddities and mysteries of our careers that 40 years from now, we’ll be retired and still questioning quite how this happened," one monk seal expert said.

This has nothing to do with anything but it’s the greatest headline I’ve ever seen

[lopsidedown]

This article is amazing

[resmeae]

I’d put my favourite quotes from the article up, but it’s the whole dang article.

[idionkisson]

“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”

[fursasaida]

The “most plausible” theory, he said, is that monk seal teenagers aren’t all that different from their human counterparts. Monk seals “seem naturally attracted to getting into troublesome situations,” Littnan said.

“It almost does feel like one of those teenage trends that happen,” he said. “One juvenile seal did this very stupid thing and now the others are trying to mimic it.”

[ahumanyarn-blog]

Well its better than tide pods.

[goddamnshinyrock]

oh god what is going on now

[goddamnshinyrock]

guys calm down, you can still draw fictional people naked

[vaspider]

#just not fucking.#I can live with that.#honestly this is slightly irritating but not ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’

Yyyyyeah except they’ve already:

purged the ‘chronic pain’ tag

purged the ‘top surgery’ tag

made ‘trans’ tag inaccessible to non-functional

deleted a bunch of chronic illness blogs

deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)

This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects. 

The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.

[vaspider]

ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers. 

Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)

This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.

[thebibliosphere]

I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.

Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.

(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)

Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.

And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.

So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.

[prokopetz]

Random Headcanon: The reason the Wizarding World in Harry Potter uses such arse-backwards technology isn’t cultural elitism. (Well, not entirely.) Rather, it’s because if you enchant anything more complicated than a screwdriver, it tends to become sentient over time. Devices that use electricity are particularly bad for this, and almost always “wake up” eventually. Arthur Weasley’s car going rogue and running off to live in a forest is actually a fairly favourable outcome; the students still tell horror stories about what happened to the guy who smuggled in (and subsequently enchanted) a digital wristwatch.

[roachpatrol]

this is the best answer to this plot hole i’ve ever heard

[ardatli]

TIL… that in the middle ages there was a popular belief in a demon of language, one who collected the words of people women gossiping in church, and the mumbled syllables of priests who weren’t saying mass properly. He was also held responsible for scribal errors. “Later he haunted printing presses, causing typesetters to make mistakes.”

TIL… there is a typo demon, it has a name, and it is Tutivillus (Titivillus).

[materassassino]

Can he leave me alone please

[ardatli]

I asked and he said ni. 

Hey Tedbaldus, you missed a letter.

[melrows]

This is Kjell Lindgren. He’s a NASA astronaut who just got back from 5 months on the International Space Station. There are two reasons why this picture is hilarious:

His wife is flawless and makes bad space puns to make him do household chores.

I have that shirt. Thousands of people have that shirt. That shirt is available at Target. Which means actual astronaut Kjell Lindgren, with his wardrobe already full of NASA-issued and logo-emblazoned clothes, was at Target, saw a NASA shirt, and was like, “Yes, I am buying this because this is what I want to spend my actual astronaut salary on.”

 tl;dr NASA employs a bunch of fucking nerds

[wolfayal]

It gets better.

Courtesy of Wikipedia, here’s the poster NASA released for his mission to the ISS:

[queerlyglittering]

NASA confirmed for a bunch of fucking nerds

[karama9]

*wipes single tear*

They’re just too beautiful.

[systlin]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. 

NASA personnel are, like, the top nerds. The alpha nerds. The absolute nerdiest nerds. The nerds other nerds look to for nerdspiration. 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

THIS IS ADORABLES :D

[yet-another-elsanna-victim]

I strongly recommend a visit to the following website (http://spaceflight101.com/iss/iss-expedition-posters/) that has all of them.

Everything started off all vanilla but a Expedition 16 they showed that they were truly Masters of The Dork Side of The Force:

Some other amusing posters they approved:

[midoriko-sama]

Nerdspiration

[gahdamnpunk]

An absolute badass

[bramblepatch]

hey so I’m not giving JKR any credit whatsoever for accidentally writing a nonbinary icon (bc if she’d meant to do it she’d never have shut up about it) but Tonks refuses to use even shortened forms of her heavily feminine given name with anyone except close family members and has The Classic Genderweird Dream Power of at-will minor shapeshifting and uses it to look punkishly androgynous with Cool Hair thank you for coming to my TED talk