🧚‍♀️Etheria's Corner

Just a random collection of things I agree with and sometimes my own thoughts. I'm never great at being active or consistent, but I'm here.

[friend-crow]

Any good grimoire or witchcraft book should have at least a little bit of shit that makes you cringe. You don't get to learn about magic without the cringe factor.

Something something the difference between medicine and poison is dosage...

[echosblanketfort]

it hones your critical thinking skills and ups your bullshit tolerance. these are very important skills for wizards to possess

[friend-crow]

Yes. But also. Wizards are cringe.

Like you have your edgy egotistical Crowley type wizards, who some people think are badasses, but they are also HUGE DORKS.

But badass and huge dork are not mutually exclusive. True wizard shit lies in the reconciliation of these opposing qualities.

[echosblanketfort]

You are so wise. The duality lives in us and we need to acknowledge it if we want to thrive

*nods sagely while blowing a bubble pipe*

[friend-crow]

[fox-bright]

This meme is a MURDER ATTEMPT.

I am absolutely fucking serious. The original meme, without the big red denial, is someone's attempt to fucking kill people.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE of pennyroyal oil. Even Mother Earth News says there's no reason to use pennyroyal essential oil for ANYTHING, even topically or as a fragrance, for fuckssake! That should give you some idea about how dangerous it is!

Pennyroyal tea, plant matter in hot water, is a traditional abortifacient. It is *incredibly* dangerous, induces abortion by bringing the body close to organ failure (and frequently pushing the system right over the edge, because dosage is impossible to meter), but I would drink a gallon of it before I took a half-teaspoon of pennyroyal essential oil.

Two teaspoons, taken across 48 hours, has successfully killed someone.

Three teaspoons taken as a single dosage killed the consumer within THREE HOURS.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE! FOR PENNYROYAL OIL INTERNALLY! NONE!

The person who made this meme is PURPOSEFULLY, ACTIVELY, trying to get desperate people killed!

[fuckingconversations]

Pennyroyal oil contains pulegone, which is highly toxic, particularly to the liver. Ingestion can lead initially to gastrointestinal distress such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Later on, it can lead to failure of the liver and kidneys, resulting in bleeding, seizures, multiple organ failure, and death.

There is no antidote for pennyroyal oil poisoning.

- straight from poison control

[daily-weasel]

[mammalidentifier]

Mountain weasel (Mustela altaica)

[professorsparklepants]

#it fucken sumny (via @mindfulwrath)

[feminist-space]

[official-lucifers-child]

the wemther brothers

[get-grubered-deactivated2025011]

hey so just to be clear:

special interest ≠ thing you really like

special interest ≠ hyperfixation

special interest = thing pretty much your whole life revolves around, you get anxious if you don't interact with it enough, how you see the world

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Just to be clear:

A special interest is something people really do like

When it comes to hyperfixation, autistic people can experience a less intense sense of hyperfixation called hyperfocus (I’m sure people with ADHD do this too).

And your tags indicated that you have a hyperfixation about musicals if you’re constantly thinking about it.

You might have both autism and ADHD. Both can occur together.

Neurodivergent Insights has a great Venn diagram showing the similarities and differences between the two.

ADHD or Autism?

ADHD vs Autism, what's the difference? Click here to get an overview of Autism and ADHD and learn how to spot the difference.

Hope this helps

[get-grubered-deactivated2025011]

This is entirely my fault, so sorry for that, but I think I typed the post out in a way that could be easily misinterpreted. I was very tired.

I said that a special interest isn't something you really like, when what I meant was that a special interest isn't only something you really like. I've heard some people call regular interests or hyperfixations special interests because they're things they really like, when that isn't what makes something a special interest. I like Terminator, but it's not a special interest- it's just something I enjoy a lot.

I know for sure that musical theatre is one of my special interests, not only because I think about it so much but because it brings me such immense joy- not only to watch musicals, but also to talk about them, analyse them, and listen to their soundtracks. It feels like a punch in the gut whenever someone insults it (I've had family members say [about Cabaret] "musicals and movies shouldn't make you uncomfortable on purpose" and say Into the Woods is bad without ever even watching it, and I couldn't even talk to them after that), and I get really mad when someone claims to like it more than me or gets something wrong about it. Also, I relate almost everything I see to musicals. I've also had this interest for a very long time, and it doesn't look like it's going anyway anytime soon.

So musical theatre is definitely a special interest and not a hyperfixation. I do have hyperfixations as well and so I know the difference. For example, once I hyperfixated on primates and was constantly looking up and telling people facts about them, but there wasn't the same level of emotional attachment that you get with a special interests and it didn't last anywhere near as long (it only lasted around a month).

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

I appreciate the clarification. I wasn’t trying to be mean. I hope my post helped 😊

[thechanelmuse]

I was today years old. That is disgusting.

No Child Left Behind is one of the worst things to ever be incentivized in schools. It was signed into law when I was 14. Reading Rainbow was my show as a kid. LeVar Burton played a big part in why I became an avid reader to date. The joy of it. It's an adventure around the globe and through different time periods without stepping on a plane or time machine.

Children parrot behavior. In grade school, I always wanted to read the same amount of books as my teachers (50 books) and managed to double that each year. Before No Child Left Behind, book fairs and Scholastic catalogs were a serious matter like your grandma's Fingerhut catalogs. Libraries were (and still are) a wonderland.

Reading comprehension and proficiency in schools has been declining for decades. A crisis. The joy of books isn't pushed anymore and I'm always saddened by it. It's one of the reasons why I post my book reviews and recommendations on here, as well as posts from others to encourage reading and (novel) writing. Kids will parrot your behavior while the education system sadly fails to return as that example.

[mysteryteacup]

For those of us who aren't from the states, what - apart from apparently a shitty law - is that?

[kethsposy]

A law passed by Bush that cut funding to public schools whose students didn't improve every year on a set of standardized tests- meaning not that each student was supposed to improve during their time in school, but that this year's first graders had to do better on the tests than last year's first graders, and next year's had to do better still. Obviously this was really difficult over the short term and completely impossible over the long term.

This concentrated schools and other education programs entirely on those tests, especially schools with students who were already struggling, at the cost of art and music programs, home economics and shop type programs, and any in depth exploration of pretty much anything that wasn't on the test, which were pretty narrowly focused. Reading Rainbow was a relaxed encouragement to be imaginative and curious. It didn't teach kids the answers to questions on the test. So it didn't make the cut.

The program also incentivized schools to cut their losses on struggling students, expelling or encouraging them to drop out to bring the test averages up instead of being able to spend the effort to actually help them.

[anyroads]

No Child Left Behind was an absolute disaster for education, poorly hidden behind an insidious name. The real goal of it was not just to defund education (in order to reallocate those funds to appease Republican lobbyists), but to stop teaching critical thinking. Not only did struggling students get left behind, but by prioritizing students who did well on standardized tests, the focus shifted entirely to teaching students memorization without understanding context, and how to guess their best on a test in order to pass. The focus became passing tests, not actual learning. In the process, students were taught that they don't need to understand the material, they just need to know how to follow directions and give the answers deemed correct by the school boards. They were deprived of agency in their own educations.

This widened the gap between public and private school educations significantly, because students in public schools learned mostly how to regurgitate information, while students in private schools learned how to understand it, analyze it, think critically about it, and apply it - in short, if you could afford to go to private school, you still got to have agency over your education. And sure, many public school teachers were dedicated and still taught their students more than the curriculum demanded, but they were under a lot of pressure and scrutiny and their hands were often tied. Many of them couldn't sustain the effort it took (and how little they got paid) and changed careers. Meanwhile basic necessarily skills disappeared when arts and non-academic budgets were slashed into oblivion - you used to be able to learn how to sew, mend, cook, budget, do woodworking, fix a car (hell, build one), paint, draw, do pottery, and so much more in elective classes. What's mostly remained is performing arts programs, which struggle to continue existing, but since you can charge admission to performances they've had a better chance than shop class and home ec.

You have no idea what it's like to have watched all that happen under the Bush administration and now see the second emerging generation of young people who were deprived of the education they deserve and don't understand critical thought or media analysis. Those of us who are old enough to remember the Bush era are frustrated, but not at all surprised to see how reductive and binary fandom discourse is, or that critical media analysis has diminished significantly and turned into fandom discourse instead (ie. that being a child during the "what you feel is more valid than facts" Bush administration has led to the second emerging generation of people who struggle to separate their personal feelings about a piece of media from the idea that fiction is social commentary, who struggle to understand nuance and are more concerned about judging others for their even slightly divergent political views than about what makes for effective activism, or that fandom has become a way for people to judge and condemn others).

You have no idea how terrifying it is to have watched No Child Left Behind unfold in your early 20s and have thought "this is going to lead to generations of kids who will be ripe for manipulation by propaganda" and to now watch how hard it is to get Gen Z and Alpha to understand the ways they're being manipulated by fascists. Believe me when I say the very real purpose of forcing education to focus on tests instead of knowledge was to create generations of people whose brains are trained at an early age to accept information unquestioningly. That's what I see when people reblog screenshots without sources and base their political opinions on tumblr funnymen.

No Child Left Behind was devastating. We knew it then and we see it now.

[taikavaris-grimoire]

Witch tip: airdry clay

Airqdry clay is your best friend now. You can make basically anything.

Blank flat amulets/talismans to write sigils on. Curved ones (with your fingerprint maybe) where you can seal herbs with wax in for a spell and keep with you. Leaf pedants and things for offerings, spell pods, I even made a pendulum for my mother!

The options are endless! And if you get white clay you can paint it however you want after it's dry!

Go off and create, try stuff, it doesnt have to be perfect! It's made by you and that's the most beautiful thing

[yourwitchmama]

Source

[etheriacatsembroiderywitchcraft]

Soo pretty 🤩

[radioactive-yuri]

when i say that there's a disparity in how aromantics and asexuals are treated, what i mean is that romantic asexuality is allowed to exist, but sexual aromanticism is not. what i mean is that all sexual content is expected to be tagged appropriately, and sex-repulsed people can block those tags, but romantic content is almost never tagged as romantic, and romance-repulsed people are just expected to be alright with that. what i mean is that you cannot make a single post about aromanticism without someone tagging it as "ace" or "aroace" (even if you specifically make a banner that says not to do so). what i mean is that i have gotten several hate anons from other aspecs just because i talk openly about being a non-ace aro. what i mean is that all aromantic representation is aroace. what i mean is that the aspec community is incredibly sex-negative. what i mean is that popular aspec media openly spouts alloarophobia and still gets praised as good aspec representation. what i mean is that non-ace aros are expected to seperate our sexuality from our aromanticism entirely because it might make some aroace uncomfortable to acknowledge that sexual aromanticism can and does exist.

there is a fucking disparity, you're just not listening to us.

[aliens-and-penguins]

Just randomly posting the asexual flag to outnumber the supplement bots and get our hashtag back

DO THE SAME

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[tunashei]

Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

[weaselle]

my followers can have some cave pics, as a treat

[writing-prompt-s]

Good reference for writers

[hungrrryyyooowwwl]

Twilight

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[lotrmusical]

the reviews are in... glad everyone's enjoying song of the worm

[id: tumblr tags reading 'dude This Fucking Rules', 'holy fucking shit! that was legit so cool?', 'holy shit that is fucking metal', 'oh this fucks severely', 'yeah no this fucking SLAPS', 'yo this RULES']

[wilwheaton]

Holy fucking shit this is one of the most incredible things I have ever read. I am dead serious. I PROMISE you that you want to read this, and you're going to immediately send it to all your weird friends who you also know will love it.

[neil-gaiman]

The original link is down -- you can read it at

Song of the Worm - A Poem by Eliza Cook

Song of the Worm is a poem by Eliza Cook. THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domainIn the field that is stored with its millions of slain

[lanndscape]

[sister-equalist]

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

[etheriacatsembroiderywitchcraft]

Yes, I can. I don't always have the energy to use the stove, so microwave meals are a good thing for me.

[ukulelekatie]

☀️Eclipse🌙

[ukulelekatie]

Our celestial lovers are reunited today! It warms my heart to see people reblogging this art again, almost 7 years later 🧡