three demons in a trenchcoat

Khal, I guess (they/them) | I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home.I follow as furfirebones but I don't actually use that blog. I'm keeping this blog specifically to reconnect with the witchblr oldies. You're supposed to eat the banana.

[khal-winchester]

My name is Khal. Please don't call me Emma. I have not used the name Emma in 10 years. I am 36, but the memory you have of me may be 24. I was some unlucky dude on witchblr in 2013-2014. I use they/them and she/her pronouns. I am a practitioner of mostly non-witchcraft type magic who chooses to self-identify as a witch. This is a sideblog.

Note: I have diagnosed trauma-related structural dissociation and a hereditary schizophrenic spectrum disorder. These things do not typically impact my online behavior and their themes and patterns do not have anything to do with my witchcraft. Mostly I experience time loss, behavior changes, auditory hallucinations, and (in prolonged times of very high stress) persecutory delusions + non-violent, non-spiritual psychosis. But I have a very good system in place to help me keep things in check.

I do still use the term "Hearth Witch" on occasion, but I mostly consider myself a practitioner of heirloom/familial traditional magic with a side of traditional witchcraft.

I never had a cult. I had some goofballs in my inbox on anon and I laughed them off as a joke until it become an inside joke that outgrew me. And some weirdos took it seriously. I should have responded to it in a different way, but I didn't. But I never had a cult.

I unearthed this blog specifically because someone was trying to use old beef with me against someone else. I decided to keep it because I don't want to allow anyone else the opportunity to speak for me and to reconnect with the community.

This is not my only witchcraft blog. I never left the witchcraft community. I continued running shops, websites, blogs, etc. and making resources in a much less social capacity but (thankfully) never had the same experience that I had in 2013 witchblr.

If you would like my other witchcraft blog, you can DM me for it. If you would like my Discord handle, you can DM me for it.

[perfectquote]

“You have galaxies in your head, do not let people tell you you cannot shine.”

— explorinqmyself

[khal-winchester]

If one doesn't make life fulfilling in some way, no one else can do it for them. It doesn't have to be a huge way. It doesn't have to be a dream job. It doesn't have to be the picket fence. It doesn't have to be traveling the world.

It can be anything that makes you feel good. Do a craft. Try coffee from around the world. Play your way through every variation of Monopoly. Watch every John Cusack movie in reverse chronological order. Write fanfiction for a series no one else watched. Embroider pillows. Just do something that helps you feel better and helps to recenter you. If for no other reason than because you deserve it.

[khal-winchester]

I think, a lot of times, when we feel the need to be assholes on the internet, what we actually need is either 1. more enrichment in our enclosure or 2. more control over our lives. When life is more fulfilling and feels more in our control, there's a lot less impulse to log onto social media and be a bag of dicks to strangers and acquaintances. Being unfulfilled and feeling out of control both tend to lend themselves to seeking fulfillment and control in negative ways.

Hobbies are nice. We should all have hobbies that really make us feel fulfilled and allow us to spend quality time with ourselves.

[khal-winchester]

As for me, I'm making socks.

[khal-winchester]

I think, a lot of times, when we feel the need to be assholes on the internet, what we actually need is either 1. more enrichment in our enclosure or 2. more control over our lives. When life is more fulfilling and feels more in our control, there's a lot less impulse to log onto social media and be a bag of dicks to strangers and acquaintances. Being unfulfilled and feeling out of control both tend to lend themselves to seeking fulfillment and control in negative ways.

Hobbies are nice. We should all have hobbies that really make us feel fulfilled and allow us to spend quality time with ourselves.

[unusual-suspects]

the passing of time by guild of calamity

[khal-winchester]

I don't really like to take shortcuts in witchcraft. I don't know. I just feel like the doing and the making is part of the magic.

[khal-winchester]

Fruit offerings. Offerings of fruit.

[khal-winchester]

There comes a point where you run out of much to say about witchcraft, despite continuing to practice it daily.

[velvetcloak]

misamaru

[rayblossom]

[khal-winchester]

Strawberry lemonade, my elixir.

[khal-winchester]

I slept most of the day with a migraine. So, on the one hand, my sleep schedule is going to be royally fucked. On the other, I have a pretty good excuse to stay up late and play too many video games.

[scribeherself]

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

[khal-winchester]

I lost my cat for 20 minutes. I thought she ran out again (as rescue cats are wont to do). She was in a paper bag the whole time.

[xxziggystardust]

[heytinafey]

the elegant european woman didn’t stay for tea, but the promise of tomorrow hung in the air