A Hufflepuff dwells here...

[transtarks]

“you have to stop buying every mug you think is cute” what’s that? i can’t hear you over the sound of all my mugs clinking together in the cabinet as i try to find space for this new mug i bought

[shiftythrifting]

Pancake the steamrollered teddy bear, found at the op shop last Christmas. Though he’s pretty two-dimensional, he has a unique personality and is perfectly travel sized to squish in a suitcase — or to slip down the side of the bed.

[vodcar]

i’m in tears i can’t stop thinking about Pancake

[the-witches-glossary]

Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate Potion 🍁🎃

For prosperity, money , and opportunity!

[Since the last time I tried to post this it deleted, I am trying again!]

Ingredients:

🎃 2 c plain or vanilla almond milk - abundance

🍁 1 c heavy cream - abundance

🎃 1 c chocolate, cut into bits (Milk or dark) - wealth, abundance, happiness

🍁 1 can pumpkin puree - prosperity, communication, general magick

🎃 1 tsp cinnamon - amplifies spells, confidence, money

🍁 ½ tsp nutmeg - luck, good fortune

🎃  1/3 tsp cloves/ground clove - dispel negativity, jobs, opportunity, used in charms

🍁 ½ tsp ground ginger - power, increasing your own energy, protection

Instructions:

🎃 1. Heat milk and cream in pot on stove, low/medium until simmering.

🍁 2. Lower heat and add chocolate. Stir clockwise.

🎃 3. Add pumpkin puree and spices. Stir clockwise.

🍁 4. Let simmer until hot. Enjoy!

Drink before a job interview, whilst putting in applications, before or during abundance or wealth spells or rituals, and so on!

[hejshxbsjhxhsjshd-deactivated20]

my four moods: princess, brat, slut, angel

[bewareofthecar1966]

oh to be a round little bird and to say beep from time to time

[catchymemes]

Exciting news out of Madison Wisconsin…

[evangelinethewitch]

[moontechnologic]

💕sweethearts💕 moodboard

[cosed]

eating bread dipped in soup unlocks new emotions

[cinthi-lante]

that 16th century peasant feeling

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Hate when I say I don't like the Beatles or whoever and ppl are mad and other ppl are like defending me like "relax this is a joke." It's not a joke. The Beatles want what the animal crossing soundtracks have and they'll never achieve it and I mean that.

[silk-fleur]

December Mood: rose chocolate truffles, Waltz of the Snowflakes, long hours spent in the kitchen, antique christmas decorations, leather gloves, rosy cheeks because of cold, russian tea made in samovar, elegant chignons, Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, strong rose perfume.

[wearemadeofblood]

[bnmxfld]

“I have so much of you in my heart.”

— John Keats

[beccap]

“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”

— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

[matchingvnecks]

[teachingwithcoffee]

It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol

[bigbutterandeggman-deactivated2]

Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s. 

So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem. 

BUT! Let’s look closer! 

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

[softiesongbird]

[havanasliu]

men will watch the most trash shit ever released but when it comes to a girl squad movie it needs to meet the highest bar to be considered watchable and worthy of their oh so valuable time lol i have to laugh

[astrangeenchantedboy]

i was thinking abt that earlier bc my coworker said "so birds of prey doesn't look very good" and i said "i don't care if it's the most trash ass movie ever made, i'm excited and i'm GONNA watch it!" he said "what, just because they're women" and i said "uh. yeah."

especially in genres, women are held to a weirdly high standard. there are like eight fucking movies where tom cruise plays himself in ridiculous high-stakes spy settings and no one bitches that they're unrealistic or stupid or whatever but margot robbie does it once and suddenly it's all about the integrity of the art.

[deeperwells]

Men will fully see 11 Fast and Furious movies and 7 spinoffs to “support the boys” or whatever but the second a girl movie comes out theyre all film majors

[straightboyfriend]

nothing better than hanging out w a cat….. love those triangle ears……….. love thos meows…. the mrows….. the mews, if you will,