Typhoid & Swans; It All Comes From the Same God.

My life is full of boy scouts and jedi knights

[seraphickalmagick]

Presenting: A simple pendulum board!

For those of you who don’t know what pendulum divination is, or how to use a board: fret not, there is a post in the queue that will answer your questions.

For those of you who do, feel free to print this board, use it as a template, tilt your laptop screen back enough that you can sort of use your pendulum over it- whatever you’d like.

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[ink-pedia]

Rachel Baldwin

[foodffs]

Thick, light-textured Classic Sugar Cookies that are made with shortening instead of butter. These cookies bake up tall, uniform in color, and noticeably better than butter! 

https://www.bakedbyanintrovert.com/classic-sugar-cookies/

Follow for recipes

Get your FoodFfs stuff here

[koiotchka]

I disbelieve this claim. We shall have to have a competition!

[quantum-natura]

Witch Tip

Place pendulums, talismans, small crystals, and pentacles in a himalayan salt candle holder for cleansing in between uses. 

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[tunfischblog]

flight rising commission of Trickilicky‘s fae dragon.

What a cool dude

:D

[raddest-kidd-deactivated2020061]

I have late night conversations with the moon, she tells me about the sun and i tell her about you

[carrioncoyote]

Some #taxiderpy I encountered today.

An off coyote. A wonky grey fox. An otter that ate a bee. A dog-like squirrel skelly. And Lyze of Kiel maybe????

[visardistofelphame]

Simple Visualization exercises

The “Rubbing hands together” exercise 

steps

sit in a comfortable position and place your hands together

rub them, until you feel a nice warm. You will then slowly pull your hands apart

In your head, picture a light forming between your hands and strands of light coming from each hand to form into the ball 

picture the light coming from your dominate hand and feeding into your submissive hand.

What color is it? how big is the ball? What do you feel when you picture this?

When you’re done, you merely place your hands back together and picture the energy going back into your hands

“Clapping” exercise 

steps

close your eyes and breath deeply

clap your hands together softly, then picture a ripple effect of color/light coming from your hands after the clap

continue this step, and as you do gradually make the clap stronger and stronger

finish the exercise with one loud clap

“Breath from your Stomach” exercise 

steps

sit down and start to breath

once you’ve properly relaxed, you will picture a large glowing ball in your stomach

with every inhale the ball gets brighter

with every exhale the light spreads throughout your body

continue this, till the ball completely engulfs you

“Watching eyes” exercise

steps

sit down somewhere nice and comfortable, and once you’ve relaxed you can begin

picture yourself standing up from your body and leaving it behind.

walk over to the end of the room, then turn around

look at every detail in the room as much as you can, then observe yourself in great detail

continue this for as long as you can

[princesslunita]

[filenesdebasement]

a lot of my issues with kink discourse (both pro and anti) come from its assumption that “kink” is a unique phenomenon, as opposed to like, one of the many ways humans explore power play, risk and danger in controlled environments

[shinelikethunder]

And this is why I will never get tired of fencing analogies. It’s a quintessential controlled, lower-risk way to engage in age-old violence and domination behaviors. And it’s infinitely adaptible to different discussions, since it comes in flavors like:

Fictional, romanticized swashbuckling in books/movies/plays

Kids whacking each other with sticks in the backyard and pretending they’re swashbuckling

Adults whacking each other with DIY padded sticks in the backyard, pretending they’re swashbuckling, and calling it “boffing” or “LARPing” or "screw you, adults still get to have fun”

Idiots whacking each other with real swords for fun and ending up in the hospital

Stage combat techniques used to act out fictional swordfights more-or-less safely for an audience

A codified sport with specialized equipment, vocabulary, rituals, a well-established enthusiast community, and a lot of rules about Taking Safety Very Seriously

A historical martial art that also had rules/traditions, but whose end goal was still Stabbing Motherfuckers For Real (and/or Theoretically Nonlethal Dominance Pissing Contests Where You Might Still Get Stabbed For Real)

That aggro asshole who challenges you to a duel with a GoT replica he’s had hanging around since last year’s Renn faire and will absolutely put out your eye if you go along with his dumb shit

That aggro asshole who’s got a long history in for-real street fights and starts threatening you with a knife he actually knows how to use

Other excellent analogies when metaphorical sword-whacking doesn’t fit the discussion: D&D, horror movies, and haunted-house attractions for heavily narrative/psychological kinks based on things “no one should want.” Grueling feats of endurance, groups that enforce a “no pain no gain” ethos on their members, and hazing (in benign, malignant, and outright dangerous forms) for voluntarily participating in physical/mental sadism and masochism. Military service, colleges with highly structured residential life, and personal trainers for voluntarily signing up to have someone else impose control on your life. Roller coasters, extreme sports, and various thrillseeking activities for flirting with the experience of danger at varying levels of actual risk. Hockey, American football, and many other sports for violence/dominance games that can be made low-risk, but whose established communities are rife with abysmal, institutional, deeply-rooted indifference for safety.

Honestly, human societies have all kinds of structures set up to engage with danger, power, control, pain, fear, and horror in voluntary, partly-neutralized ways. For all kinds of reasons. With all different kinds and levels of risk-reduction–attempted, achieved, and (truly or falsely) claimed. We have ways to talk about and judge them. It’s just that, well, human societies are also really fucking neurotic as soon as you toss sexual anything into the mix, and we either forget all our ways to talk about play or we pretend they don’t apply. Because Sex Is Uniquely Dangerous And All The Pretend Dragons Are Real And Going To Eat You. Or, on the flip side, Sex Is A Uniquely Liberating Magical Playground Where Fire Will Never Burn You If You Perform The Right Rituals And Say The Magic (Safe)words To Turn It Into Pretend Fire. Both are nonsense, but as long as there are camps who circle wagons and treat every argument like a cannon blast aimed at one or the other extreme, it fucks up everyone’s ability to use the structures, contexts, practices, and judgments we already have. And, yes, to bring them to bear on the actual, specific, concrete ways that power/danger play can raise different considerations when it involves erotic desire and intimate partners. Because every kind of power/danger play raises a different set of considerations, and Sex. Is. Not. Exceptional.

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[koiotchka]

:D

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[mypieceofculture]

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[mittiepaul]

What if instead of being proud miserly creatures, all dragons were just super nervous? They hoarded out of financial anxiety and whatnot.

(I doodled a dragon who ended up looking really concerned and I decided to clean it up and draw a few more to go with it. Dragons are the most fun to draw when they are the opposite of fearsome)

[tor-magala]

Okay but why you gotta call me out like that tho

[koiotchka]

Awww poor babies!

[lithicc]

Stating that the founding of the U.S. was a fascistic, imperialist, white supremacist venture is not hyperbole. 

Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin all saw Indigenous people as an inferior race and advocated for rapidly breeding large families of white settlers to people the continent and make it impossible for the Indigenous people to find any free territory left. They also feared an increase in free black or mixed race people.

Jefferson revised Virginia laws, codes, and statues after the revolution:

“[…]which were designed to prevent the increase of the state’s free Negro population. It was to be illegal for free Negroes to come into Virginia of their own accord or to remain there for more than one year after they were emancipated. A white woman having a child by a Negro would be required to leave the state within a year. The individual who violated these regulations would be placed “out of the protection of the laws.” This would have left them subject to re-enslavement or even to murder at the whim of their neighbors and was, therefore, a most severe punishment.”

Jefferson also authored a law for the castration of men and the mutilation of women’s faces who were accused of sodomy.

One of the main reasons that Franklin called for revolution against Great Britain is because he complained they were hindering the “increase of the race” by not letting whites settle beyond the colonial borders. 

“That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Compexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.”

It should be noted that many white colonial leaders only wanted to keep the “red” around if they converted to Christianity, took up agriculture and industry, and lived like whites did. If they wanted to live like they always had or in their own autonomy they were subject to genocide. Even later Andrew Jackson committed genocide against a large group of Indigenous people who had taken up to living in the white settler way, they farmed, manufactured, were Christian, and even had printed newspapers and small businesses. Some of these Indigenous plantation owners had slaves even. It’s rarely mentioned that some of the wealthier of them took their slaves with them on the trail of tears. 

Anyways, fuck the U.S., even it’s liberal/socialist defenders can not entertain the idea that we can keep a war machine that was built on genocide and white supremacy around. The whole infrastructure must be destroyed right down to its foundations. There can be no talk of building a progressive state on a continent soaked in the deaths of millions. Perhaps climate chaos will help in pushing settlers out of the vast majority of the continent.

The attacks on pipelines, fisheries, and mines should only be the beginning in a physical decolonization of this continent. Industrialism is the means by which this settler state thrives and grows and it is easier to attack and destroy the infrastructure that reproduces the settler state than it is to go on some holy proletarian war head on with the beast that will likely lead only to the creation of a nicer, more egalitarian settler society anyways.