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Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

It was a global problem

After my presentation at last February’s Sacred Space Conference, a few people have asked if I’ll be at next year’s event. The short answer

buggywiththefolkmagic

Hello Tumblr. Especially my little corner of Tumblr. I do unfortunately come with bad news. On this and every other platform I actively use I have been singing the praises of one H. Byron Ballard, thanks to a friend doing a very big deep dive a certain...aspect of her character has come to light which is in my opinion:

Unacceptable.

She holds TERF views and as an Appalachian, and a queer one at that? I cannot and will not support anyone like that. My copies of her work are being tossed, and all of my support of her on this blog will be edited with clarification that I no longer support said work.

And per usual for proof I do have screenshots from her Facebook, of which no apology or acknowledgement has been made that I can find. I imagine since this is roughly when she began working with a major publisher she might have been advised to dropping the topic online? There is apparently some mentions of this in her 'irl' interactions as well but I am digging for internet proof of such. If anyone finds anything further please let me know.

Proof from her own Facebook is below. And if asked I will provide direct links to ensure that they are not doctored in any way.

Appalachia is a welcoming place, TERF beliefs are not welcoming and therefore not Appalachian by extent.

My heart was already hurting for my home, now it also rages.

dappermouth

No moon, no light to cross your face.

dappermouth

prints are finally up! x

bramblesand

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

bogleech

Thank you for this good PSA because I’m still seeing sincere, published, professional writers doing “ahhhhh oh no this monster was SO UGLY i’m mentally ill now!”

brunhiddensmusings

forms of eldritch horror include but are not limited to - nobody will ever believe you, you must live alone with this knowledge - you will never feel safe again, and you realize you were never safe before - everything that was familiar is now strange and abhorrent to the point anything that now seems normal should be held in utmost suspicion - having this new knowledge has opened doors that will continually reveal new equally cursed knowledge without end - death and madness are no longer escapes

lustcannibalism

stop asking ai for advice and start asking bitches with tarot cards to read your future

english-idylls

skodasforge

Not to hand it to the Pope but telling world leaders during Holy Week that God isn’t listening is kinda funny.

awanqi

"St Michel"

Speedpaint and tutorial on my Patreon.

Prints

awanqi

"Hermes Psychopompos"; the guide of souls to the Underworld.

Process, speedpaint, hi-res vers., etc. on my Patreon.

Prints

I also make pins! This month's pin (Feb) has 1 week left to get, so don't miss out.

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symbolism-art-history

Gamaun, The prophetic bird painted by Viktor Vasnetsov (1848 - 1926)

ejacutastic

sunflowershine03

her storytelling skills are killing me

brightlotusmoon

arcusxx

art by kasia jasmina

normal-horoscopes

You don’t actually believe lead can be turned to gold, right?

SEE HERES THE THING

IT CAN

ALCHEMISTS HAVE HADRON COLLIDERS NOW

anarchocunt

It has happened Anon

screensavorstudios

Hold up, you didn’t highlight that last part? The part about how Soviets ACCIDENTALLY Turned lead shielding into gold with an experimental nuclear reactor???

xerohourcheese

There is a ‘however’, however.

Due to the processes used, the resultant Gold is usually highly radioactive.

Or, if you prefer to use a more, arcane, vernacular, Cursed!

normal-horoscopes

YOURE JUST JEALOUS OF MY MICRON THIN LAYER OF FRESHLY TRANSMUTED GOLD

cluegrrl

It also cost more to power up the reactor long enough to make the gold than the gold is remotely worth.

normal-horoscopes

HEY THE TASK WAS “TRANSMUTE GOLD” NOBODY EVER SAID IT HAD TO BE COST EFFECTIVE

dduane

(chortle) Somebody remind me which SF writer, years and YEARS back, suggested that the reason possession of fairy gold was deadly was exactly for this reason…?

littlepinkbeast

Closest I know of isn’t fairy or transmuted gold, but Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions had the “curse” on plunderers of a sun-struck giant be the result of the carbon in the giant turning into radioactive silicon and irradiating anyone who went near enough to take the giant’s gold.