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Maggie Lewis ⊙ Jacksonville, Florida ⊙ LG{B}T ⊙ She/Her ⊙ Green & Cottage Witch ⊙ Tagged TW ⊙ Welcome all asks and conversation -personal or witch related! Particularly nasty anon hate WILL be cursed.

[kaptainandy]

“why do comedians always go after florida?”

[simonalkenmayer]

It has so much content.

[daily-tarot]

tarot vibes

The Sun has always been my favorite card to pull. I’m hoping to bring a little of it’s positivity my way.

[theartofanimation]

LY 炼妖  -  https://weibo.com/lianyaoly?is_hot=1  -  https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=7457536

[theartofmany]

Magical singing in front of a river in Denmark From Youtube channel Myrkur Øksemorder: Lake calling in Denmark (kulning) Enchanting…

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

denmark is fictional

[jaskaliina]

kulning actually started out as a way to make the cows come with you when you were going home

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

denmark is a myth

[returntoeden]

today is the start of virgo season which means we can expect a major shift in energy as we exit the intensity of leo season. both mars and mercury went direct this month and, combined with the virgo vibes, it’s going to make us much more productive. now is the time to focus on bringing your dreams into reality. that idea you’ve been putting off for months? now is the time to do the work you need to do in order to make that vision happen. we’re starting to focus on what is really important to us. take action, take action, take action! bonus: the pisces moon is bringing about new surprises, unlocking opportunities for our dreams to actually come true. take those opportunities and roll with them! 

[ulibeanzz]

happy friday the 13th yall! just some reminders:

be sure to mind cracks in the side walk (only organic ones matter, the straight separating lines dont count) 

black cats are tremendously lucky, but you should be kind to one just for the hell of it

dont look in mirrors today. 

if you see ladders obstructing walkways, going underneath it is indeed passing through a portal  but it just leads to a separate dimension where everything is the same except a lot more people have been named Frank. Don’t recommend. just walk around it

Don’t make eye contact with the suspiciously normal looking people manning said ladders. theyre Franks. 

be sure to make your midday tea and stir counter clockwise with a knife 

usually youd have to catch a spider in your home and release it outdoors in order to receive a free answer to any question, but today all spiders will give free answers to questions you didnt know you had, but in obnoxious riddles, and it’s more hassle than its worth. avoid

it is perfectly valid to levitate in your room for 10 hours while shouting ancient hymns in an unrecognizable language and then pass out and not remember any of it. you are valid 

say hello to any ghost or ghoul you see today! its only polite

however, if you see a doppleganger of yourself, you must follow it, but from a distance. dont let it disappear from your sights before youve had a chance to spot the one difference between you and it and please do remember that slight changes in hair length is usually just the wind moving it in a strange way.

if your doppleganger approaches you, then you’re the doppleganger this year. run

 if you happen to catch a glimpse of your reflection and the movement seems off, dont panic! the system will be lagging a bit, nothing serious 

candy will be extra sweet today so if you’re into that then by all means 

ok keep it sexy, keep it classy, and most of all have fun 

[ayoung-gaia]

Please read this all the way

[mainflopgirl]

if thanos wanted to kill off half of the population because there weren’t enough resources……..but then snapped half of the vegetation and animals (according to the russos)……..then isn’t he back at square one……………and there aren’t enough resources for the population……………

[mainflopgirl]

what about……..all of the empty and abandoned planets……..he couldn’t have restributed populations there? or like………..what about endangered species they’re pretty much gone now thanks to T Hanos…………..he really didn’t think this through………….

[mainflopgirl]

[mxnrique]

this is deadass what part 4 is gonna be. like he’s gonna realize “huh…. maybe this wasn’t a good idea” and reverse time.

[cottonginandjuice]

Or he literally could have just doubled the resources

[d-e-l-ete-d-deactivated20181014]

Maybe I’m wrong but all he would need is the Space Stone to teleport and  redistribute resources + life. But I guess killing half of all life made more sense.

[peterparkesfluff-blog]

Or he could’ve just created more planets and teleported the halfs but a bitch is too dumb

[d-e-l-ete-d-deactivated20181014]

He can throw a moon for a fight but teleporting some resources is too much work?

He can change reality but he uses it to fake his death and do a power point presentation?

He has the time stone, in which he could literally go back in time and save his home planet ….not by killing half of them …but by using these new powers?

[mlmiii]

He could use his massive space navy to conquer planets and coerce them to form new and innovative ways of increasing the efficiency of resource extraction and processing industries, move asteroids into the habitable zone of solar systems to allow for more colonizable space while carving out the excess weight for standard space mining, establish population growth limits on conquered planets, clear away obstacles to galactic trade, do studies on economic waste and attempts at minimizing individual subjects’ use of resources, find a way to make Star Trek-style replicators to just print resources from excess energy, do research into the MCU’s mystic elements to see if they really follow conservation of energy, ect…

Even without a single Infinity Stone

With the Space stone, he could easily construct Ringworlds around stars by teleporting and flattening chunks of uninhabited planets in place around a star, a feat of engineering we know he knows is physically possible because he visited one to commission his Gauntlet. With the Power stone he could pretty easily, you know, power entire planets with proper dampening equipment. We don’t know enough about the exact uses of the others to enact immediate, industry-useful changes, but it can be assumed that Mind could boost a planet’s research speed and Reality might be good enough at breaking physical laws to, say, conjure antimatter reactor fuel out of nothing, especially with boosts from the Power stone. 

But no, the solution is murder. 

[saulbaby]

This is why the mcu should’ve kept thanos’s original motive of being horny

[matchingvnecks]

[teachingwithcoffee]

It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol

[bigbutterandeggman-deactivated2]

Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s. 

So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem. 

BUT! Let’s look closer! 

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

[aphnxrising]

[xtrapockets-deactivated20171024]

remember loves: context is everything. and personal opinion matters. If you still find this song to be a problem, that’s fine. But please don’t make it into something it’s not because it’s been stripped of cultural context.

[vorked]

This is actually really interesting. I’ve never known a lot of the background to this song.

[thewhoopsofbeingpoly-blog]

You have to be able to say no to say yes, and the other way around.

[lucentgallivanter]

me: i love you but please, please do not step on my keyboard. go a foot out of your way and go around

my lovable yet ungrateful cat, a troublegirl and a fiend: you could sooner divert a river from its course than deny my nature 

[davey-strides]

fuckin raw line

[kitchenwitchn]

Hoping to move blogs before next Wednesday! Just trying to figure out how to set up a new main without deactivating this one... Making an entirely new account has been equally troublesome 😌

[probablybard]

modern greek mythology adaptation where hades and persephone are played by john mulaney and his wife

[proseandpeonies]

She’s hades, he’s Persephone

[sorcerywithwords]

the only personality test that matters:

1. who do you main in mario kart

2. favourite pokemon type

3. hot or cold

[kitchenwitchn]

1. Rosalina

2. Fairy Grass Type (to look at)

Fire Type (to battle)

3. I hate them both!!! But hot, because my only acceptable tempurature is comfortably toasty. I crisp weather and warm blankets 😊

[thefancywalrus]

One of my bookcases.

[ultrafacts]

Source

Video of Tama

Follow Ultrafacts for more facts

[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

[ultrafacts]

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

[karinanotcinerina]

Beautiful.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

Now I’m crying thanks

[sapphic-matriarchy]

and a new cat was hired right?

[clarenecessities]

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

[welcometoyouredoom]

[ithelpstodream]

MASCULINITY SO FRAGILE

“I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull.”

- sculptor Alex Gardega

[noseforahtwo]

Alex Gardega was hit by a train yesterday. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

[teknon-deactivated20190112]

Is the train okay?

[bluedesertbruja]

oh my god he really did die. i thought that comment was a joke. 

[transwolvie]

The “Fearless Girl” statue doesn’t belong there in the first fucking place–the sculpture is standing in front of a piece of guerilla art about the stock market crash. 

The placement of the Fearless Girl statue recontextualizes the other artist’s sculpture (Charging Bull) without his consent, turning the guerilla art that he created in light of America’s troubles into a symbol of evil. 

This sculpture of a girl was put here and is ruining the art that someone created–and when he rightfully tries to speak on the fact that his art and reputation is being re-contextualized without his consent to make him seem like a villain, he’s called out as being “afraid of women taking up space” 

This is a fucking white nonsense sculpture. It was literally commissioned by State Street Global Advisors–it’s a bid by big business to see progressive, and they’re stomping all over the work of an artist who had to actually fight to have his art put there, instead of being funded by an investment management place that wants to seem Feminist™. 

Fearless Girl is everything that’s wrong with propaganda and White Feminism and here you are talking shit about a guy who died even though he had a point–the Fearless Girl statue downgrades and ruins Charging Bull. 

[transwolvie]

Oh and HERE’S A LINK TO INFO ABOUT IT, AND ABOUT HOW THE COMPANY THAT FUNDED THIS STATUE JUST TO SEEM PROGRESSIVE ONLY HAS 3 WOMEN ON ITS BOARD–AND HOW IT’S PEAK LIBERALISM TO ONLY CARE THAT WOMEN BE IN CHARGE OF THE SAME OPPRESSIVE POWER STRUCTURES THAT MEN ARE.

[powerburial]

this website is great because this post tricks you into being happy he died at first, then theres the big twist and you have to have a regular healthy response to a human being dying again

[mysterioustomjenkins]

I mean, even if I didn’t know the story behind this stupid little girl statue I still wouldn’t be happy he died. That is a human life, gone forever, what is there to be happy about? The only ‘sin’ I can attribute to him is that he dared fight back when someone changed the meaning of his art and making his bull seem like a villain. The fact that people were happy he died is really sickening, even if he was being petty, grow up.

[earth-tooth]

dont support industries that are driving animals to extinction thank you!

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

Already reblogged one of these but another reminder: don’t by nautilus shells!