Hurricane in a Clam Shell

Witchcraft | Water Magic | Weather Magic | Seals | Old Astrophysicists | 36 | She/Her | Writer | Artist | Married to a trans-woman, TERFs will not be tolerated | Fastest block finger in the west. Behave yourselves or be gone. | Avatar by Caroline Jamhour

[cloudselkie]

Hey you. Yeah, you. Come here.

Shay's $20 readings are open!

I've gotten some unfortunate financial news in the past week so I'm trying to open a few streams of revenue.

I'll pull as many cards as I need to from between two and four decks to answer your question. No card limits.

I will not answer:

- Legal questions

- Health questions

Send me a DM for a reading! PayPal and Venmo accepted.

[cloudselkie]

Have I mentioned how much I love chalk pastel? 2.5 hours in my sketchbook.

[void-of-existence]

HE KNOWS OH MY GODS

I SCREAMED ALOUD

[kilncreatures]

you can make several seals and put them on the hot dashboard of your car

[promiseiwillwrite]

@cloudselkie

Awwww

[pmamtraveller]

UNHELD — Lina Poluna, 2026, Oil on canvas

[maimonideznuts]

I got recommended an anime streaming site that has everything from slice of life to hentai, and the business model is the anime is free to watch but for 18+ content you have to pay a $12.99 a month subscription.

I tell you, I've never been so tempted to pay for an otherwise free platform.

It's Oceanveil.net for the weebs, the perverts and the perverted weebs obviously.

OceanVeil: Dive for Anime. Leave with Secrets.

Dive into our ocean of Anime. Enjoy anime like never before. But with OceanVeil... secrets wait for you under the ocean's veil, if you know

[misselaney]

Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.” 

The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!

[hiiighpriestess913]

Y’all I’m being so serious when I say this: go to the library for witchcraft reasons.

You can usually find books on witchcraft, yes, but there’s also field guides on local foraging and wildlife, cookbooks, books that teach you how to craft and DIY, books about environmental protection and stewardship, books on how to use herbs medicinally, books about other religions, cultures, and spiritual practices. My favorite local library even has a seed swapping program and fantastic resources to research your own family history!

Go to the library for witchcraft. Please. :) <3

[cloudselkie]

I'm really fucking tired of living in a world where there is a significant chance that any time my phone rings, the caller is a scammer. I'm so fucking sick of scammers. I hate that so many people lack the fucking humanity to not scam people. I hate it when I get calls that sound alarming until I realize they're full of shit, but there is still lingering anxiety in my head that says, "What if it's actually true, though? What if I get in trouble?" EVERY SCAMMER GO DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE.

[almyranpine]

really good tiktok

Transcript:

Girl, just do it fat. Don’t wait until you’ve lost enough weight. You’re worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Don’t wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isn’t tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. You’re allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Don’t let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. There’s no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that you’re not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.

[carrotmel]

a bountiful harvest of chubby seals slappign their bellies on the floor

(:3 っ)っ video from tokkari center

wow,, beautiful

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Hiccup... Hiccup... Hiccup

[ariaste]

Hey. look at me. look into my eyeballs. I know what you want from life. You want an absolute CHAOS GREMLIN of an old lady who is 1) horny on main, 2) HELLA QUEER, 3) also a pirate queen, AND ☝️...... 4) magical. And she has sea puppies. Puppies made of the sea. And a MAGIC BOAT

"What is this book?????" i hear you ask.

It is this book by @lincodega!!! PASHA THE STORM!!!!!! The year's absolute best pirate fantasy novel which will blow your tits clean off. I got to read an advance copy and i am here to tell you that it Slaps it Slaps it fully fully Slaps.

It comes out on June 30th, so you should go read it right now and tell your friends who liked Black Sails, Our Flag Means Death, or Running Close to the Wind (For fans of the latter: Imagine if Avra Helvaci was an old woman. This is the kind of horny chaos gremlin energy we're talking about. Everyone around Pasha is like "Pasha no" and Pasha is like "PASHA YES!!!!!!!!")

SUMMARY: An exiled pirate queen hunts a killer whale on the high seas, while caught between a power-hungry empress and a revolutionary conspiring to end her reign . . . Pasha the Northern Storm was once the most infamous Meridian pirate who ever sailed the sister oceans. Now, a decade into her exile, Pasha’s afterlife is being held hostage by Atle, an absurdly attractive noble who knows far too much about pirate magic—but not enough about sailing to realize how dangerous Pasha really is. Minister Atle Itaavar is duty-bound to serve the Kingdom of Garda, but as Queen Thivaldís gathers support for her ambitions of empire, Atle turns to treason to stop her. In order to destroy the Queen’s new necromantic navy, Atle plans to steal the Queen’s flagship, kidnap a washed-up pirate to sail it, and track down a legendary killer whale to bring it down.  But the hunt for the great undying whale drags Pasha, Atle, and the crew of the Dog into a cosmic reckoning as they face threats from ghosts and gods alike—and the Queen of Garda is close behind.

(Also if y'all wanna do me a solid and signal boost please and thank you? Lin deserves it! <3)

[lincodega]

hehehe click here, preorder it today, right now

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[hballegro]

Attacked by very sudden torrential downpour and went to check the weather radar and then remembered this image

[wiisagi-maiingan]

There is something about people who have blogs dedicated to "fighting" every single bigotry in existence that leads to them making the worst takes possible. When you tend to spend a lot of time in activist circles online, you tend to get exposed to a lot of extremism that just becomes more and more prevalent because no one wants to be the "liberal" in the room, so everyone is just taking increasingly extreme stances that eventually turn into absurd parodies of themselves and the strange echo chamber you're in makes you think that those are beliefs that people genuinely hold even if they make no real sense when you scrutinize them even a little bit.

The internet rewards extremism with views and follows and attention, so it pays (often literally on other platforms) to constantly be upping the ante and saying increasingly extremist things, so that you stand out from the rest. It is very important to get off social media for a while and recalibrate by talking to actual real people in the world outside of your anarchist and communist circles. Join a club. Go to the library. Remind yourself that people irl are often very, very different from the extremist stances people online hold.

[cloudselkie]

Olympia Diner - Newington, CT | 05/16/2026