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Spending time in nature is very grounding and healing right now. Plant a garden, vist botanical gardens, go on a picnic, take sunset walks, listen to the birds sing in the morning, watch the stars at night. Create time for what recharges you.
☀️Sun water☀️
🌞Used for:
Protection, healing (especially physical), happiness, truth, clairvoyance, courage, strength, prosperity, luck, self-love, cleansing, confidence, leadership, justice, gardening, growth, warmth, comfort, fertility, and creativity
🌞How to make it:
Leave the water on a sunny windowsill or outside, preferably in direct sunlight. Sunrise, 9 am, 12 pm, and 3 pm are perfect times for this, or you can leave it from sunrise to sunset. You can also add herbs and flowers to it as well (lemon peels, orange peels, marigolds, chamomile, cinnamon, sunflower, etc.) Or charge it with some stones (like sunstone, orange calcite, citrine, tigers eye, goldstone or carnelian), but please don’t put these stones in the water. You can also make a sun tea with sun water for a very potent solar spell.
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If you like to play The Last of Us, then try Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
If you like to play Beyond: Two Souls, then try The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
If you like to play Call of Duty: Black Ops (Zombies), then try World War Z by Max Brooks
If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
If you like playing Final Fantasy, try playing Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
If you like playing Mass Effect, then try Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
If you like playing Halo, then try Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
If you like playing Portal, then try House Of Stairs by William Sleator
If you like playing Mario Kart, then try The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia
If you like playing Dark Souls, then try Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
If you like playing Life Is Strange, then try We Are Okay by Nina Lacour
If you like playing Stardew Valley, then try How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
If you like playing Fable, then try Young Elites by Marie Lu
If you like playing Borderlands, then try Velocity by Chris Wooding
If you like playing Dishonored, then try Airman by Eoin Colfer
If you like playing The Oregon Trail, then try Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
If you like playing the Elder Scrolls series, then try The Naming by Alison Croggon
If you like playing Red Dead Redemption, then try Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
If you like playing Bioshock, then try Dark Life by Kat Falls
If you like playing Fallout, then try Razorland by Ann Aguirre
If you like playing Assasin’s Creed, then try The Way of Shadows Night by Brent Weeks
If you like playing Dragonage, then try Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
If you like playing The Legend of Zelda, then try Graceling by Kristin Cashore
If you like playing Until Dawn, then try Ten by Gretchen McNeil
If you like playing Sonic, then try Maximum Ride by James Patterson
If you like playing Overwatch, then try Bluescreen by Dan Wells
If you like playing Uncharted, then try Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
If you like playing Pokemon, then try Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by JK Rowling, and Newt Scamander
If you like playing Mario Party, then try Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
This is amazing!!
I have to reblog for two reasons:
1)This is actually a good way to get people into reading.
2)That passive aggressive joke in the last one is pure genius.
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A Note on Cultural Appropriation
If you’re not Native American, its not smudging its smoke cleansing.
If you’re not Native American, its not a spirit animal, it’s an animal guide, patronus or daemon. (And no it’s not a totem animal either.)
If youre not African American or Afro-Carribean, it’s not a voodoo doll it’s a poppet.
Yes, you’re not wrong in pointing out that i just gave you a list of synonyms. No one is saying that these CONCEPTS are inherently appropriation. But specific terms carry their specific ties. Know what ties are for you, and what aren’t.
Things You Do Not Have to Be In Order to Be a Witch
-Pagan. You can be a witch and be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or any other religion that does not use the label “pagan” for itself.
-Wiccan. Witchcraft is a secular practice. Wicca is a religion that involves the practice of witchcraft sometimes.
-Religious/spiritual. You can be an atheist witch.
-Female. Men and nonbinary people can be witches.
-White. A person of any ethnicity or race can practice witchcraft and be a witch.
-Straight. Anyone of any sexual orientation (gay, lesbian, bi, pan, ace, poly, multi, omni…) can be a witch.
-Cis. Trans and nonbinary people can be witches.
-A hardcore environmentalist. Respect for nature is certainly never a bad thing, but you don’t have to chain yourself to a tree or live in a building run entirely on solar power or eat only organic food to call yourself a witch.
-Vegetarian/vegan. Witches can eat meat and animal products. Remember, witchcraft is a secular practice. There is no dogma.
-Full of love and light. Witches who do not follow a religion or moral code that says otherwise may curse as they see fit.
-Dark and scary. Some witches do not want to curse anyone, and that is also fine. Make healing potions and yummy smelling tinctures to your heart’s content.
-Fictional. Witches are real, and they don’t all dress, act or believe in any particular way. All witches are valid.
Agree with 99%
Sure you can be a witch without being vegan
But it’s not very moral or ethical lol
A witch who supports animal abuse and exploitation (which is what you do by definition when you pay people to slaughter animals) is going to have a hard time fully connecting to the world around them. Have you ever been to or near a slaughterhouse? You can feel the evil energy coming from the building. That’s what you’re condoning and taking into your body when you eat dead animal flesh.
tips for disabled people who cannot go vegan
I’m disabled & vegan, w/epilepsy, so I’m fine on a plant-based diet, but I am aware that there’s a lot of people who cannot go vegetarian or vegan, so here’s just a wee list of things you can do if you’re keen on animal activism
Get involved & raise awareness! Sign up for any protests etc for animal rights in your area, maybe talk to abled/neurotypical friends and family, and get them to cut down some of their animal product consumption!
Veganism is about doing what is possible, not what is going to harm you! So never be too hard on yourself
When you hear people in the vegan community calling meat-eaters animal abusers/carnists, etc, keep in mind that this refers to people who can change but won’t. It’s kind of like when I talk about straight people. If I say that straight people are homophobic, I don’t mean every singe straight person is (I’m comparing here, not equating. sexuality has nothing to do with eating meat/disability)
Don’t let people on either side use you as an excuse. Don’t let vegans say that x disabled person can be vegan therefore all disabled people can be vegan, but also don’t let abled meat-eaters use you (a.k.a “I have a friend”) as an excuse to keep eating meat.
If there is any animal product you can cut down on, then definitely cut down! Tiny steps have a massive impact on supply&demand.
Don’t buy leather, fur, silk, wool, etc (this does not mean that you should get rid of all your clothes. If you have to buy a new jacket, look for one made with faux leather!)
If you’re rich (lol what) , buy from local farms.
If you’re getting a pet, adopt! My cat is from a shelter and he is the most wonderful baby. I love him.
And again, don’t be too hard on yourself. You aren’t the problem here
There’s probably loads more, so feel free to add!
And keep in mind that veganism is doing anything you can that is practical and possible to reduce your contribution to exploitation and abuse. Many vegans are not able to do this completely and have to take medicine or occasionally eat animal products due to inaccessibility, mental illness, or physical illness. What makes a person vegan is what they believe in primarily concerning other animals and how they go about putting that belief into action. If you believe in respecting animals and optimizing their well-being and apply that in as many actions as you possibly can then you are vegan. Veganism is doing your best in your circumstances, it’s not about being perfect.
It is very difficult to get any medication, injection, pill etc., that has not been tested on animals. Even if the production of it doesn’t involve animal testing, the research and development did. That’s not your fault, so please don’t deny yourself medication that could help you. It’s not the same as choosing between bacon and kale. When there are no choices, that’s not on you.
Celestite is such a magical mineral ✨
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When your friends choose the restaurant and you’re the only vegan
Respect Your Deck
I think the worst habit I had to break when I started reading tarot was wanting to reshuffle and draw another card when I didn’t like or didn’t understand what I initially drew. I had /problems/ communicating with my GT deck when we first met. Every reading seemed shallow and cryptic, I could never pull a card that I felt like revealed the meat of the issue. I couldn’t break through my deck’s attitude: sarcastic, with its chin held HIGH, definitely knows it’s better than me. A true Royal personality.
I didn’t start connecting with my deck until I started trusting it. I decided to stop re-drawing cards all-together because I could always feel that it pissed my deck off when I did. The card(s) I draw is my answer, and that’s final. When I began trusting my deck, my readings started to become clear. I was not only forcing myself to study the card, but forcing myself to get in-tune with my deck’s language, as well. I carried this trust over to “tarot jumpers”- my deck loves to fling a card across the room when I’m shuffling and I was making a mistake by putting the card back in the deck and continuing to shuffle. Now, when my deck throws a card at me, I listen. That’s my reading. There was a small internal battle of “but I have a method to my shuffle….and I’m not done.” Deck says I’m done, I’m done. I have to trust my deck.
I’ve developed a new philosophy regarding tarot reading that has so far served me well: my deck is never wrong. I can certainly interpret it’s message incorrectly, but my deck will never lie to me. Since reading by this rule, I’ve earned gallons of respect from my deck and improved our communication tenfold. I’m able to understand the cards I pull intuitively, as though my deck literally speaks to me every time I flip a card. My relationship with my deck has never been better, and only gets stronger every day.
Respect your deck.
how do u actually save bees?
Plant bee-friendly flowers
Support your local beekeepers
Set up bee hotels for solitary bees
If you see a lethargic bee feed it sugar water
Spread awareness of the importance off bees
+Don’t eat honey✌🏻
NO.
That will not help save the bees at all. They need the excess honey removed from their hives. That’s the beekeepers entire livelihood.
Seriously refusing to eat honey is one of those well-meaning but ultimately terrible ideas. The bees make way too much honey and need it out in order to thrive (not being funny but that was literally a side effect in Bee Movie). Plus that’s the only way for the beekeepers to make the money they need to keep the bees healthy. Do not stop eating honey because somebody on Tumblr told you too.
excess honey, if not removed, can ferment and poison the bees. even if it doesn’t, it attracts animals and other insects which can hurt the bees or even damage the hive. why vegans think letting bees stew in their own drippings is ‘cruelty-free’ is beyond me. >:[
the fact that we find honey yummy and nutritious is part of why we keep bees, true, but the truth is we mostly keep them to pollinate our crops. the vegetable crops you seem to imagine would still magically sustain us if we stopped cultivating bees.
and when you get right down to it… domestic bees aren’t confined in any way. if they wanted to fly away, they could, and would. they come back to the wood frame hives humans build because those are nice places to nest.
so pretending domestic bees have it worse than wild bees is just the most childish kind of anthropomorphizing.
If anything, man-made hives are MORE suitable for bees to live in because we have mathematically determined their optimal living space and conditions, and can control them better in our hives. We also can treat them for diseases and pests much easier than we could if they were living in, say, a tree.
Tl;dr for all of this: eating honey saves the bees from themselves, and keeping them in man-made hives is good for them.
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Plus, buying honey supports bee owners, which helps them maintain the hives, and if they get more money they can buy more hives, which means more bees!
Supporting bee owners =/= supporting native bee populations. NATIVE bees are endangered. Not the 7 species of honey bees that are domesticated. And supporting bee keepers is causing direct competition for resources with native bees (who are often much more efficient pollinators than domesticated honey bees).
Want to support bees? DO NOT BUY HONEY. Would you try to protect endangered species of bovine by buying milk from nearby industrial dairy farms? No? Because that makes about as much sense as buying honey to support native bee populations.
More resources on why not to buy honey:
Honey can have many side effects, such as affecting blood sugar levels, causing allergic reactions (especially with people who are allergic to pollen, celery, and other plants), causing abnormal heart rhythms, and can poison infants and young children from the bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
Here is another post on why buying honey is harmful to domesticated honey bees and endangered bees.
Another post on why honey isn’t ethical to purchase, some of the common industry practices in beekeeping, and alternatives to honey.
Even MORE resources:
You’re Worrying About the Wrong Bees
Some Beekeepers Burn Their Hives - Literally
Antibiotics Used for Large-Scale Honey Producers
Beekeepers Replace the Bee’s Honey with Cheap Corn Syrup (Which May be Killing Them)
Mislabeling is Rampant in the Honey Industry
Toxic masculinity, not biology teaches emotional repression leading to many men not knowing how to communicate clearly.
The belief that men are biologically inclined to be more aggressive and oppressive is false.
Men do not need to repress a instinct to be aggressive because it doesn’t exist.
They are taught from an early age to repress all emotions except for anger which leads to violent outbursts.
Toxic masculinity upholds this repression leading to many men not knowing how to communicate clearly and to associate women with emotions they deem “inferior”.
i’ve compiled a huge google drive folder of anarchist, socialist, feminist, anti-colonial, anti-imperial books+ essays, crip + disability theory, queer theory, critical race theory, film theory, transnational + diaspora trauma study essays, and writings that combine all of the above
some essays i’ve got from school, most of the books and some essays r from beautiful people on the internet
to be updated as often as i get more shit. which is fairly often~
new categories r: abuse, domestic violence, consent, rape // film theory +chinese film +soviet film // ananarchism+socialism // anti-prison // crip theory + other disability theory // diaspora, transnational trauma // education // empire + hegemony (anti-colonial/imperial, etc) // feminism, womanism, black feminism // gender + queer theory // history // MENA (middle east/north africa // misc essays // novels // palestine // philosophy (sorry) // pop culture + tv analysis // race, ethnicity, racism, antisemitism // religion // resistance theory // science (ideology, philosophy, history // yiddishkeit
categories r growing + changing as i put more time into organizing these files and receive more stuff to add. also a lot of the new stuff i’ve received from other ppl i havent had time to look thru properly so i know i’ve miscategorised some stuff but w/e ill get to that in the summer. if u have anything u’d like to add to this drive, please email me @ [email protected]
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“Tragedy of the Commons” is probably the most blatant and vulgar of the reactionary narratives. In a nutshell, it argues that when social utilities are owned and managed by everyone, they’re in turn owned by no one; everyone will naturally try to maximize their own self-gain and soon you will have chaos and autocratic monopolies. Hilariously, the cappies who argue this don’t seem to see the irony behind it all. “Monopolies and cutthroat resource-grabs will happen if we socialize this utility and understand it as commonly-held, so we should privatize it and divvy it up into the private hands of a few elite owners, all while cutthroat individualism forces majority non-owners into wage labor and subservient dependence under those arbitrary owners.“
It doesn’t even pretend to focus on human freedom like some other passages from neoliberal scripture, too. At least standard neoliberal dogma pretends to care about the breadth of important choices a person can make throughout their lifetime, and at least Randian propaganda pretends to care about the working class by claiming that TRUE capitalism (NOT corporatism though, #ISwear2GodCapitalismAndCorporatismAreDifferent) would uplift everybody out of poverty. Tragedy of the Commons, on the other hand……"I don’t want the peasants mucking up MY miles-long forest and MY dozens of apartments with their dirty prole shoes.” It so gleefully and unabashedly advocates autocratic class domination based on resource and capital access that I swear I’m transported back into the 19th century every time I hear a cappie mention it.
I studied environmental history, we understood the “tragedy of the commons” as the tragedy of capitalist exploitation of resources previously held in communal management. That the introduction of global markets removed the incentive for sustainable management of ecosystems for continuing use. At least in the context of environmental historians it is understood as a powerful anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist critique. It’s been a while but I’m fairly certain the book “The Organic Machine” about the development of the Pacific NW’s energy infrastructure took this perspective.
Elinor Ostrom, recipient of the 2009 Nobel in economics, busted this myth on tragedy of the Commons. She basically researched a bunch of communities to show it is entirely possible to sustainably maintain resources, as long as there is ample self governance between people within the community.
See also: + Sustainble development and the tragedy of the commons + Ostrom’s eight design principles + Review/overview of Ostromite environmental economics
PSA for pet owners who like essential oils
So I got an oil diffuser over a year ago and JUST found out that lavender essential oil, as well as an entire list of others, are TOXIC to animals. I have two beautiful cats that I love to pieces and I’ve unknowingly been diffusing poison into the air around them. I am so lucky that they haven’t started displaying any symptoms but I have now read of other pet owners who weren’t so lucky. So guys, please be super careful if you are using these oils. Or better yet, don’t buy into this whole oil diffuser fad if you love your animal friends. It can literally kill them or make them very sick.