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Buteo jamaicensis, Red-tailed hawk

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Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE.

Picking up and moving is starting to sound real great right about now. Cannot believe I’m paying $1700 for a two bed one bath APARTMENT. Jfc.

For anyone that was excited about me going to school, unfortunately my older student loans were defaulted and I was kicked off of financial aid. I wasn’t aware that could happen while you were actively enrolled, but it did.

I’m currently on a 60 day forbearance while I wait for my IDR to be approved so I can return from default to repaying status, but school will have to be put on pause this term. I’m hoping I have it figured out by next term, but who knows.

Trying my best to maintain a positive mindset and assure myself that everything will work out how it’s supposed to. Just a rough patch.

67 and 13 for the recipe ask!!

13 has already been answered but 67 has two recipes!

You get Delores’s Spaghetti Sauce and Chilaquiles!

Oh yeah, if you’re interested in following my worship to Hekate and Ares, I just started a new blog for my Hellenic worship @keysandcataclysm

Yeesh I am never letting someone suggest Cyndi Brannen books to me again. That was…bad at best.

#gonna go read Sorita d’Este to restore my faith in authors right quick

Me: “I’m so excited to read this book about Hekate!”

*book says spaces to Hekate must be cleansed by means of white sage or sweet grass braids*

Me: *puts book down* “oh for fucks sake”

#Hekate #honeyandspite

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A Dark-Eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) in a shady spot this afternoon.

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If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.

The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.

The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.

The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.

The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.

The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.

If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.

You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.

The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.

Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.

Veterans' benefits suck these days.

Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.

The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.

The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.

A lot can change in four years.

#my college business course considered recruiters to be marketers #I’ve watched marine recruiters put my husband through the ringer #they do not give a shit about you the just want the bodies

I remember when I first started working with deities. Aphrodite had caught my interest, myself being someone who lacked self-confidence. I hoped I would find it with Her. I read all of the books I could find, set up an altar, and started working on building Kharis. A month had gone by with daily prayer and offerings, I wasn’t seeing any “results” and I was losing faith quickly. My experience didn’t match up with the videos I’d seen on TikTok, the posts I’d read on Tumblr. Nobody was “reaching out” and I wasn’t getting these blazing, in-your-face signs I’d come to believe was the norm. I stood at Her altar and I cried. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong. I begged Her to please just show me SOMETHING. Anything. And then I went to bed, feeling defeated.

The next morning I went outside, and when I looked up at the sky, I felt the world fall out from beneath my feet. My first ever physical sign from a deity. I was so awe-struck and overjoyed. And I’ve never ever doubted my worship since. I no longer actively work with Her, but She will always have such a special place in my heart.