𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛🥀

he/they|| Married|| Pagan witch and tarot reader|| BVB and HIM my beloveds|| "To seek revenge, in hell we end"

[mysmilewontfade]

Welcome to my blog!

hello there, you can call me Jester! I'm in my mid 20s, married to the love of my life, and my pronouns are he/they. I'm a pagan witch, with religious trauma so you might see some religious themes on here. I have a cat and two dogs, Sylvia, Daisy and Scotlynn. I'm also an aspiring author and photographer, who dreams of spending my days reading and writing in a victorian house in the woods.

Some of my interests include bands such as Black Veil Brides, HIM, Snow White's Poison Bite, and SayWeCanFly, but that's just the tip of the iceberg music wise. I love watching Doctor Who, Sherlock BBC, Pokemon (Bulbasaur is my fave pokemon), Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Hermitcraft, and Spongebob. Some of my favorite games include Genshin Impact, Sims 4, Animal Crossing, Overwatch and Disney Dreamlight Valley

I mostly repost on here, mess with my irl friend (love u bestie) and sometimes I might post my writings/rantings. I also post about my fave bands occasionally. I'll probably post some of my longer rumblings on here at some point.

[witch--tips]

does anyone ever feel a little disappointed sometimes by the witchcraft content we have, across all platforms? like there are so few people actually posting unique or interesting things, it feels to me like 95% of witch posts are the same 5 beginner concepts, tutorials, and psas over and over again. tumblr is definitely where ive found the most amount of unique posters who give insight into their own unique practices and theories or make actually good witchy shitposts, but still, how many posts about “how to make moon water” or whatever do we need…? i mean it is GREAT if you ever wanna look up beginner stuff, but its gotten so repetitive.

its also sooooo annoying how fake most of these posts are, or offensive, like “take this quiz to find out your spirit animal!” or “how to figure out if youre a born witch” or any other problematic clickbaity thing. also there so many aesthetic posts in the witchy tags everywhere, and tbf i do love witchy aesthetic things, but even then if you look closer so many of those posts are ai (FUCK ai) or the same 30 pinterest photos over and over again… theres also just a lot of spam and bots and people trying to sell you stuff in witchy spaces, which is annoying too 💔

[web-witch]

This person brings up a good point. It was one of the main reasons I decided to start my blog. It’s also why I’m working on my second book for more advanced practitioners. My advice is not to let the base level be the only level. Share what you have learned and grow the knowledge for all of us. I will admit I’ve been at this for 16 years and not once have I stopped learning from the people I follow on here. There is always something you didn’t consider or could use. Being a witch is about using ingenuity and creative thinking to adapt what you learn to your life.

[windvexer]

I don't say this to dissuade publicposting, but in my experience over the last 10 to 15 years, a lot of the "good" content is never going to be posted publicly.

Even 15ish years ago my experience with online witchcraft was, "this is the public group that anyone can access where nobody really says anything, and this is the invite-only private group where we say more."

And then there are the private conversations happening behind closed doors that no third party ever gets access to.

People who post 'advanced' content tend to get very little engagement, because obviously that content is only of interest to a niche audience. So there's that factor - social media is less fun when nobody wants to talk to you!

This is true even of my content. Of my longform posts, the ones with the most notes address very basic concepts (like 'how to banish', or 'tips for adhd witches') and the ones that I often think, if I might toot my own horn, share to some degree Actual Advanced Things rarely hit 100 notes, even written in the same accessible style.

The problem is that it's just not fun to spend an hour of my life writing an 'advanced' post that will get 15 likes and 2 reblogs, especially because Tumblr.com or any public-facing platform isn't my only outlet for witchtalking.

I would much rather spend an hour chatting with my friends in the private server in an engaging and multifacited discussion on the topic.

And of the 'advanced' (aka, not simply 101) topics I do want to address in detail? Well I'm doing the same as @web-witch, I'm writing books. So that content still isn't going to be circulated as public posts.

There's plenty of social risk, and very little reward, to publicly sharing your practice in social media. And everything beyond the 101 is your personal practice.

If you don't mind me spiritualizing the process a little bit, I think that void - where all the beginner content has been consumed and nothing else can be found in the same places - is a part of the mystery religion itself.

I believe witchcraft is both initiatory and transformative. If you want to keep going, you have to keep changing. A first step I think many of us encounter is, what do I have to change in order to cross this void and get to the next step?

So while there's a practical explanation for why this information isn't out there - that creators are more likely to be punished or ignored than receive any level of reciprocity or reward - I think there's a spiritual one, too.

Witchcraft is esoteric, as in, not exoteric. It's not suitable for the public. Witchcraft is and should be accessible to all. But it's not on the surface. I don't think we can make real witchcraft ever be on the surface.

Of course, this is just a religious belief. I believe that witchcraft cleaves itself away and folds ever-inwards. You chase it, or not! But either way, public advancedposting is rarely fun or worth the effort.

[mostlyvoidpartiallyjims]

[guerrillatech]

[liberalsarecool]

Oldest trick in the book.

[philosophybits]

“The people understand that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the spoils from an organized protection racket. The rich no longer seem respectable men but flesh-eating beasts, jackals and ravens who wallow in the blood of the people.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[artsekey]

Reading a book about the psychology of friendship (that, oh by the way, taps the ace and trans communities in its discussion not as clinical categories but by including anecdotes from people in those communities!!) and somehow it encouraged me to quadruple down on saying:

We literally do not have enough friendships. Our culture's obsession with romance over friendship is shockingly new (1850's on) and it is having a serious impact on our health across the board, specifically men. This problem has become sharply exacerbated in the last 20 years.

We need more friendships. We need more friendship in media. "But what if they kissed?" What if they didn't, and the love that was there mattered anyway??? Take my hand. Imagine this with me. A relationship unbound by law or expectation. People who choose one another again and again. To stay in each other's lives when there are no societal tethers holding them together.

Go read Platonic by Marisa G. Franco (PhD).

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[servantofthefates]

This is why today’s witches cannot produce real magic.

One of the reasons the craft is mostly looked down upon as fraud is because so many psychics, fortunetellers and witches are so obviously struggling in life. Financially, mentally, romantically or otherwise. So people look at us as a whole and go, “Well, that’s obviously bullshit.”

An initiate asked me, “How come the most powerful witches are nobodies?” Not kings or presidents or billionaires or celebrities. For traditional witches, the answer is easy.

We all sacrificed something substantial for our power. And we made that choice freely. We decided that the occult was far more important to us than whatever we gave up, which could have been beauty, love, glory or money.

For modern or dabbling witches, the answer is even easier.

Believe it or not, simply mixing three herbs in a bowl can indeed make a very powerful potion. But witches of old grew or raised their own ingredients. Even when they only gathered them, they had to make a trip of it and any shortcomings resulted in some form of suffering. That was their element of sacrifice.

But these days, nobody works hard for anything anymore. They get their substances at the supermarket or online. Or they borrow them from their mom’s or neighbor’s cupboards. They even substitute the more complex ingredients with something cheaper or easier to find.

But witchcraft was never a game of convenience. It is and always will be a balanced transaction.

Even the Christians know this. To believe in Satan, one must first believe in God. And those who asked the Devil for a wish offered their soul in return. Their soul! Which is fucking immortal.

Meanwhile, many of today’s witches are asking for millions or eternal happiness or the reversal of a tragedy, but in exchange they offer what? A potion with ingredients from Facebook Marketplace that they concocted in five minutes. Or an altar offering that they later ate for dinner because they didn't want to "waste" the food. No wonder their calls go unanswered.

Witchcraft today is mostly therapeutic or psychological and therefore easy, and that's okay. If it makes you feel good, then it is good. Even if it doesn't really yield considerable or consistent results, or any results at all. 

I’m not trying to sound elitist, because all of this is simply common sense. Let’s replace witchcraft with fitness. The ones you see with perfectly sculpted bodies are the ones who sacrificed time, sweat, leisure and indulgence to build that body. Not the ones who go to the gym once a month and then eat cake thrice a week and sleep for only four hours a night. Even Ozempic (the equivalent of convenience in fitness) cannot hope to recreate these results. Your own eyes can easily tell the difference. 

At the end of the day, anyone can call themself a witch. Nobody owns the word in a legal or social sense.

But the thing is, the word owns itself.

So when you call yourself its name without having earned it, you will know. You will feel a slight twinge from inside you. A split-second of embarassment. An anticipation of judgment. 

But when the word witch has claimed you… calling yourself one feels like a dress that fits flawlessly. Or a burger that tastes exactly the way you imagined. Or the perfect temperature of bathwater touching your skin, and warming your flesh, and eventually, embracing your entire being.

[theconcealedweapon]

Cops fully acknowledge guilt by association. They'll gladly charge someone as an accessory for knowing that someone is a criminal, continuing to associate with them, and helping them get away with it. But they still insist that it's possible for a cop to willingly work for an evil system, be unfazed by the violence of other cops, and still be classified as a good cop.

Cops fully acknowledge that being paid to do something doesn't make it okay. If someone committed a crime because they were paid to do it, cops would gladly charge them both for the crime. But cops still insist that "I don't make the laws, I just enforce them" or "I'm just doing my job" are justifications for the violence they inflict.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[animentality]

[ralfmaximus]

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people

Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.

There are good things happening in the world.

[meret118]

You can read about it here without a paywall.

Households exposed to COVID-19 now have an oral drug specifically cleared to prevent infection after contact with a sick person. The FDA listed Xocova, the brand name for ensitrelvir, as a 2026 novel drug approval for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 following contact with an infected individual. The decision fills a gap that has persisted since the pandemic’s early years: until now, no oral antiviral carried an FDA-approved indication for prevention rather than treatment.

[depsidase]

[theconcealedweapon]

"If we abolish capitalism, some people will have everything and some people will have nothing."

"If we abolish the police, there will be terrifyingly violent gangs roaming the streets with zero fear of consequences."

It's pure projection.

[thehmn]

In Copenhagen you can visit The Round Tower. It used to be an astronomical observatory until light pollution and the vibrations from increased traffic in the streets made it useless for its original purpose.

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a sloping marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

[liberalsarecool]

Conservatives, especially libertarians, can't compete intellectually. The men are legit dense.

Trump is dim. Speaker Mike Johnson is a joke. JD Vance went to Yale and now acts like a righteous moron. Trump's Cabinet? SCOTUS? GOP Congress? Christian Academies? CPAC?

We are living through some dumb times