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teacher: you cant bullshit this essay

me (under my breath): if youre an amateur

What Does it ‘Mean’?

a lot of things happen in witchcraft that might catch your eye, things that may worry you and feel like they have overall meaning.

however, these things are not universal signs, and while another witch may be able to help you figure it out, they can not tell you out right what it means. even if they have received a sign/message/omen/whatever

a sign for you isn’t going to be a sign for another witch. signs, omens, things that ‘mean’ something in general are not universal. it follows that if a message is meant for you, it’ll be addressed to you, right? so why would something for you be packaged in a way a different witch would be able to interpret better than you? it’s not.

it’s going to be based off your personal experiences.

that being said, if you don’t immediately understand a sign/omen/meaning, how can you figure it out?

how to tell what it means:

be open to the fact it may ‘mean’ absolutely nothing. a lot of the time, unless you use signs for the little things, these things don’t actually mean anything, and need to

be skeptical of things that ask you to change a huge aspect of your life out of nowhere. if you receive many signs that you should leave him and you’ve been thinking it yourself, that’s one thing. but if you receive something that is out of the blue and you can’t understand why you should quit something, question the sign and think critically about it.

consider the nature of it, and your experiences. if you’re being haunted by a crow (lame example), consider if you’re friendly or unfriendly with crows, or neutral.

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hey you look really cute today

april fools you look cute everyday keep it up

msculper

I am always 100% down to talk about Lord Byron always

swordlesbianopinions

“what about straight people?“ what the hell is a straight person. only straight thing i know about is the edge of my beloved sword

fleurduart

John William Godward

aethenapop

https://instagram.com/p/BRljAs_AnAs/

#aesthetic

pure

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

pyrrhiccomedy

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared.

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually.

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

notcayleb

this is a good post.

maskedriderbiocore

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

habibialkaysani

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

camera-dolly

*refers to the author of a paper as OP*

allthequeenstarot

I came across this funny deck today: the Rebel Deck. Branded as a “tarot” deck, it’s actually more of an oracle deck that is two sided, so that’s unique!

Here’s a quick description from the website:

BRACE YOURSELF.

REBEL DECK messages are QUICK, DIRTY and DIRECT. We gave the ancient practice of Tarot a modern make-over and added a little insult to insight.

This deck is rebellious, foul-mouthed and raw. No interpretation needed.

Definitely a different take on “tarot,” check it out if it’s up your alley!

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This deck is one of a few that I was debating about splurging on for next month. Seeing the other sides has turned it from a “maybe” into a “DEFINITELY!!!!”

On an unrelated note, is it April yet? :)

desertrosegoddess

Uhm. I kinda maybe NEED this deck?!?!

the-wayward-witch-whoanellee-de

oh …my….just added this to my list.

krabbydon

The anatomy of a cow poem, or ‘bredlik’

The poem is generally first person and begins with “My name is…”, unless part of a series; series are structured as dialogues.

Cow poems are in strict iambic dimeter.

A cow poem has the scheme *A*A*B*B.

The cow stanza is a 6-line stanza followed by a 2-line ‘punchline’, varying on “I [do the thing]//I lick the [thing]; much like Benadryl Cabbagepatch, the closer the conformity, the better the effect.

Spelling is more-or-less phonetic, especially for vowels, with some exceptions (classical cow poems make exceptions for “I”, notably) and certainly no numbers; the effect is often described as ‘pseudo Chaucerian’. The grammar too is fairly standard.

Or to put it another way

My naym is pome And wen you noe The rouls that mayk My strukchur floe And poeits bend Tou hone ther art

I mayk you smyl I tuch the hart

#meu tema de mestrado vai ser cow poems im dyinnnn

wakaju

last witch illustrations I’ll share online!! the rest of the illustrations ill work on just for the artbook!!! Thank you for following this series, hopefully I can make an artbook by this summer!!

here are the others witches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 , 6, 7, 8