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[lailoken]

"my special medicine plant got picked and used for actual medicine instead of just my abstract spritual admiration waaahhh!!! 😭" lmao you sound like an entitled child

You are going to get a very nasty hangnail soon, you odious pissant.

[thats-howthelightgets-in]

"A rare and difficult to propagate plant was wiped out in an entire area because someone was foraging irresponsibly and I think someone getting to pick pretty flowers is more important than regional biodiversity" here fixed it for you also the river hates you and that hangnail will be getting infected shortly

[stormcrow513]

I imagine this person is either someone that rips plants out of the ground willy nilly or buys from people who do,

wouldn't be surprised if they have a jar of tincture of the plant in question sitting on their shelf in full sunlight very aesthetically placed

And after reading about the negative consequences of their actions the felt bad and instead of you know correcting their behavior decided to double down

"your completely valid point made me feel bad about myself so I'm going to attack you instead of bettering myself cause I don't want to wash"

Talk about entitlement,

This shits why I'm barely logging on here and mostly liking with an occasional reblog, it's fucking exhausting

[lailoken]

@powderandclay Thank you for the supportive words. ⚔️

@stormcrow513 I also think this is most likely the case. It really is entitled, and like you say, it's tiring to come up against it.

[lailoken]

The Mistreatment of a Sacred Plant

Recently, I had an unpleasant emotional and spiritual shock. I struggle a bit to talk about it because of how upset it makes me, but I feel like the subject matter is important enough to warrant the discussion.

As some may know, one of my dearest plant allies is the Ghost Pipe. I work closely with Monotropes in general, but the Tutelary Spirit of Monotropa Uniflora, in particular, serves as a chief Plant Patron of mine. Part of maintaining this relationship involves visiting a specific location in a devotional capacity, in order to watch, tend, and learn from the population of Ghost Pipes that grow there. I went back to this place not long ago, in order to thank the spectral flowers for lending their power and grace to our Handfasting Ritual, and I was horrified to discover that every one of the colonies I've stewarded over the last few years is completely gone.

They aren't a major food-source for any animals I know of, and this was way more than a die-back, since I recognize what that looks like. What's more, for every colony to have naturally vanished without a trace since the last time I visited was unthinkable. As such, I'm all but sure that someone "Wildcrafted" them to make tinctures for sale. This is absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating, as they have totally misused and abused this sacred plant, and damaged an extremely fragile and unique ecosystem in the process.

The main issue with harvesting Ghost Pipes isn't necessarily that it's rare, though it is in some areas. The real problems are how sensitive they are and how exacting their life cycle is. Sometimes, just touching a Ghost Pipe is enough to damage the plant, disrupt the re-seeding process, and prevent it from growing back. What's worse, the conditions required for the succesful development of these ethereal organisms are extremely specific. Monotropes are Mycoheterotrophs, which derive their energy through mychorizal parasitism. This is to say, they can only get their energy by siphoning it from a small range of subterranean fungi, who in turn, siphon their energy from the roots of certain trees. Between these and other factors, Monotropes are virtually impossible to cultivate or propagate, and they are especially susceptible to the effects of overharvesting. Unfortunately, unethical harvesting has steadily become a real problem in Western Herbalism, where Ghost Pipe tincture is growing in popularity for its mystique and its beautiful violet color. And while it does have a long history of traditional medicinal use as a Nervine, people who aren't getting it purely for its aesthetic qualities are buying it as a miracle cure, without any real understanding of how or why to use it.

I've been muddling through strong feelings of anger, sorrow, and impotence since this happened, and I feel sick thinking about someone out there irreverently peddling this precious medicine under a capitalist guise of "Herbal Wisdom." These sorts of business practices are thoughtless, ecologically unethical, and spiritually blasphemous (as far as I'm concerned). So, I beg you: please think thrice about what you are doing before you harvest a plant. Ask yourself these five questions, and weigh the answers against each other: "Why do I want to harvest this plant?' 'What harm will my behavior cause to this organism?' 'What harm will my behavior cause to this species?' 'What harm will my behavior cause to this ecosystem?' and, 'What will I suffer as a result of not harvesting this plant?

I offer up my most fervent prayers that the seeds I helped to spread earlier in the year will count for something.

[lailoken]

Yesterday, our dearly beloved rat, Hesper, passed away.

He was the last of our rats, as well as one of the most loving and good-hearted animals I have ever known. He slept in bed with us every night and spent every day overjoyed to be in our lives, even while declining following a stroke. When he finally reached a point where I could see he was starting to suffer, I made a petition to the Bone Mother asking her to embrace him and carry him lovingly to the Quietus. Not even two minutes afterward, he passed away in our hands as we stroked him and sang to him.

His warm cuddles, shining eyes, and unconditional love will be deeply missed and forever cherished in our hearts. It's really hard to lose another beloved companion while in the process of caring for two other terminally ill animals, but I am grateful he is at peace.

This is a mourning portrait taken of him after we anointed him with holy oils and laid him out on a bed of rose petals upon our Chthonic Altar. I feel compelled to share it, as a reminder that Death can be a beautiful and spiritual experience, even if it's a painful one.

[doubledoubletoilettrouble]

hello i exist n i'm dlowly wading back into online existence

[desertbroadd]

I hate being a customer I hate doing that to someone

[realhumanbaby]

How do you know what you should do

You pay very close attention your body because it doesn’t know how to lie to you, and pay very little attention to your mind because it is lying to you all the time

[ursulaklegay]

actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it

[dingdongyouarewrong]

always sad how much chinese food has to advertise itself as no msg because of basically a racist misinformation campaign. bring back the msg i unironically want it. i want it to taste good. i would go to a place that proudly advertised its use of msg no fucking problem

[batfam-bro]

For those who don’t know. MSG is just seaweed extract. It’s a racist campaign to make us scared of seaweed. And it makes food taste better. Some of y'all scared of tasty seaweed cause you believe racists.

[0zzysaurus]

All the people in the notes claiming to suffer from/have relatives with MSG allergies are utterly playing themselves because MSG allergies are a myth. Any sensitivity you think you have to MSG’s is coming from a different ingredient in the product, or is placebo.

[0zzysaurus]

Screenshots from the Healthline article if people can’t open the link. It’s not hard to find information that supports this all across the web as well.

You’re not likely to experience any sort of sensitivity to MSG in regular amounts that you would find in food.

It’s more likely that if you do experience sensitivities or allergies, it’s because of something else in the product.

MSG is quite literally as harmless to you as table salt. Stop being racists and start actually enjoying the food available to you.

[thebibliosphere]

People who feel ill from eating MSG may have poorly understood conditions like MCAS or histamine intolerance (HIT) as MSG, like many other perfectly healthy foods, is high in histamine. Other examples of seasonings that are high in histamine include black pepper, curry powder, cinnamon, and sometimes even table salt if it’s been treated with an anti-clumping agent.

This does not make MSG unhealthy, in fact, many high histamine foods and liberators are not only delicious but also beneficial for one’s health as they tend to be nutritionally dense and provide vital nutrients.

So yes, some people can be sensitive to MSG.

But as the above screenshots also points out, the individuals may also be reacting to the foods flavored with MSG because a lot of Chinese cuisine is either naturally high in histamine or fermented.

Again, this is not bad! Many extremely healthy and nutritionally dense foods are high in histamine!

The reason there’s so much backlash against MSG in particular and not, say… strawberries, aged red meat, kombucha, gluten, chocolate, seafood, pickles, Greek yogurt, anything that’s been fermented, black pepper, cinnamon, etc., is 100% racism and folks need to examine their perspectives.

I would also advise that if they do feel like they react to MSG, they also evaluate whether they may be reacting to other foods and may just not realize it.

It took me 30 years since early childhood to realize I wasn’t just a picky eater prone to stomach upsets but was actually experiencing non-IgE-mediated allergic reactions. It took until my illness progressed to idiopathic anaphylaxis and almost killed me before doctors started taking me seriously and suggested I might be suffering from a form of mast cell dysfunction.

So yes, 100% good post, and I hate to detract from the underlying message of it, but on the off chance anyone reads this and is thinking “but I do react to MSG!” you may have an underlying medical condition and need to look into HIT/MCAS.

[pridefulsuggestion]

fire is fuel.

[normal-horoscopes]

“Divine masculine” “divine feminine” so were the terfs right all along?

I'm glad you asked!

Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine are ancient terms from hermetic philosophy, they don't actually refer to physical sex, but to any two things that can combine to produce something new. The cock and the womb produce new life, the seed and the field produce crops, the fire and the clay produce the vessel, etc.

The entire point of the philosophy is that all "gendered" binaries are simply illusions, existing as composite elements of their more complete, primordial form. It is through the transcendence of binaries that the magician becomes "trans-gender" and closer to god.

[shisasan]

𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝙽𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚣𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎, 𝚃𝚑𝚞𝚜 𝚂𝚙𝚘𝚔𝚎 𝚉𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊 [𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟹]

[carnivoroustomatoes]

You might not want to hear this but people with anger issues and/or violent impulses need social accommodations. And no by accommodation I don't mean walking on eggshells around them, actual accommodations for people with these issues comes down to giving them a space away from what's triggering them to process their emotions and calm themselves down same as what kind of accommodations people who get sensory overload or just any kind of overwhelmed. There is no moral value to having anger issues or violent impulses, people with them are deserving of accommodation the same as everyone else.

[psychoticallytrans]

I had severe anger issues growing up, and the only way I was ever taught to deal with them was deep breathing. For some reason, deep breathing just triggers me to get angrier. But it's the only coping skill I ever got taught for it. Here's a few better ones.

Go and exercise. Get all of that energy out and away from the people you love.

Get a hang of when you're winding up to a rage and learn to tell people that you need to step away. I will warn you that the first time that someone refuses to let you go once you learn this skill will spook the hell out of you if you don't have a backup skill, so figure out ahead of time what you're gonna do if they won't let you leave.

Learn to set boundaries. One of the best things I ever did for my anger issues was tell people that I can't deal with people stealing food off my plate. Second best was when I'm mad, telling people not to touch me. I spook easily when I'm already angry.

Get a pack of pencils and if nothing is working, break one. Sometimes you really do need to break something in order to feel better, and pencils are cheap.

Don't cook with a knife when you're mad. If you get too much adrenaline, the knife can slip and hurt you.

If you have anger issues that pop up without any seeming reason and frighten you, I would strongly recommend going over the situation and over your mental health. If there's anything consistent with a mental health condition or with something particular happening to trigger it, seek to eliminate the trigger or treat the issue. Depression, anxiety, trauma, you name it, it can probably present as anger issues under the right circumstances.

Some quick notes for people without anger issues that want to help someone who has anger issues:

Fear transmutes into anger really, really well if someone's fear response is "fight". One of my guesses for why so many men have anger issues is that we're told we're not men if we have any other response to fear. However, this issue is far from exclusive to men.

Don't box people in when you're arguing with them or soothing them. If someone is backed up against a wall and upset, then getting closer to them without permission is a bad call for your safety and for their soothing, because that removes the ability to get away from you. Ask before getting close. This goes double if someone is injured or otherwise vulnerable.

Teaching angry people that are distressed about being angry the pencil trick on the spot is really easy and works more often than you can think.

Respect people's requests and boundaries. A lot of people think that some of the boundaries I set up are silly or that once we're pals, they can ignore them. No, because a lot of my boundaries are related to trauma, and crossing them will trigger me and bring up my anger.

All of this goes for children with anger issues as well. I was a child with anger issues, and a lot of disrespect for my boundaries and needs was because my anger was dismissed because I was a child. Respect children's anger.

Walking on eggshells is not and will never be a good way to treat anger issues. Recognizing that people with anger issues deserve to have their boundaries respected and to be treated like human beings is.

An end note: Anger issues are not the same thing as being abusive, because emotions are not abusive. Someone with anger issues can become abusive if they take them out on people, but so can someone with suicidal thoughts who takes them out on people. The issue is targeting another person in order to feel better, not having a mental health issue.

An end note for people with anger issues: It really can get better. You can find coping skills and perhaps meds that help cool you down and settle you. You can find people that will accept that doing that one weird thing spooks the fuck out of you, and will let you leave if you're scaring yourself. You can gain control of yourself without shutting down emotionally. It's achievable.

[mise-n-abyme]

"Within each one of us lies a star of truth residing in a constellation which is seated within a galaxy inside of an ever-expanding universe. Without essence, we would be no more; without self-knowledge, one would forget the divinity that shines inside and projects itself outwardly; one who would be devoid of all color in life, for they have yet to find the primordial gnosis which flows through them."

~Mise-n-abyme

|Artwork: Flammarion Engraving | Unknown

[just-shower-thoughts]

It is an unspoken rule that if a little kid is hiding under a blanket or couch cushions, you are required to comment on how lumpy the blanket is and pretend to sit on it to try and “smooth it out.”

[tgmember]

Also, if you’re playing hide-and-seek with them, it is critical that you search every other possible (and impossible) hiding spot, all the while wondering out loud how they managed to disappear just like magic, before walking right past their hiding spot.

[the-catholic-geek]

And if a baby starts playing peekaboo you are required to act surprised when they show their face again

[pornhubstepmom-deactivated20191]

If a kid hands you a phone, you answer it

[a-trashcan-made-out-of-fandoms]

If a kid shoots you with a Nerf Gun you are supposed to Die a dramatic death and explain “ugh you shot me blaahh”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

when you push a kid on the swings ya gotta do the woosh

[zetsubonna]

I literally just blocked about a dozen people on this post for being cranky about children.

Being a joyless shitbeast to kids isn’t cool. They’re kids. If you want to be Oscar the Grouch, that’s fine, but do it in a way they understand and explain it to them.

“I don’t want to play, I’m grumpy. Thank you, though, that was kind.”

It’s literally not hard. Kids are small people. Treat them with common fucking decency.

[archibaldtuttle]

Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

[musdomus]

Reblogging Money Potato for big things!!!

[quousque]

I just saw the most Galaxy Brain gender take ever, from a cis man on reddit

[ID: a screenshot of a comment from reddit, with no username visible. The commend reads: This doesn’t make a ton of sense to me either. Setting aside the question of whether gender/sex is assigned or observed at birth, the gender I was assigned at birth was ‘boy.’ The gender I have now is ‘man’. Boys and men have different gender roles, and few adults identify as boys anymore. From this standpoint, every adult has a different gender than the one they had at birth. End ID]

Framing “girl” and “boy” as separate genders from “woman” and “man” is such an amazing take. it’s a framework that accommodates and explains so many trans experiences. Some trans people never were their AGAB. Some feel like they were their AGAB, but that that changed (usually when puberty hits, which is when you start “becoming a man/woman”. The accepted societal path is that girls grow up to into women, and boys grow up into men. But some girls grow up into men, and some boys grow up into women. This guy was a boy who grew up into a man, which generally works out pretty well for people. Some boys and girls grow up into people who aren’t men or women, even! It’s like this random cis guy skipped right over transgender 101, 102, 201, etc. and stumbled directly into Transgender Nirvana.

[ceanothusspinosus]

This is like one of the things in Kate Bornstein’s gender workbook! Maybe not exactly adult-child, it’s been awhile since I read it, but it offers some prompts for thinking about other gendered identity shifts that aren’t The Big Trans One.

[roach-works]

i love this take, since i thoroughly and whole-heartedly identified as a girl when i was young. but i never really wanted to grow up to be a woman, and didn’t like it when i had to, and i’m much happier as a man….who used to be a girl.

[slugspoon]

even in dreams