Rose Water Witch

not your typical patch of flowers

[dankmemeuniversity]

[too-cool-for-facebook]

[curseworm]

im starting a gang and we’re gonna go out and destroy every golf course. rip up all the grass and replace it with native plants and fruit trees and shit. we move at midnight be there or be a casualty of the revolution

[sophaoat]

i have spent most of my life next to a university golf course and I would risk jail to make it useful

[beneaththehat]

Zachary Platt is running out of time. The future of his world depends on the swift delivery of a hellish relic and the cooperation of an ambivalent shop assistant. Prudence Whitby is a young woman of no consequence yet a wicked twist of fate and instincts result in their becoming inescapably entwined. For an immortal who’s made a rule of keeping others at a distance, his burgeoning feelings could not have come at a worse moment. Prudence has modest expectations for her life after college. Being caught in the orbit of an irascible client who seems alternately repelled and enthralled by her was not among them. She struggles with the depth of feeling inspired by a virtual stranger before confronting a far more terrible dilemma. For the Fount of all vampires has been found, the doom of man approaches. All that stands between the earth and destruction is a mortal woman with the barest concept of what she faces and a vampire weakened by infatuation. They are not prepared and the clock is ticking…

Available on Amazon

[beneaththehat]

The Winding Key – Chapter One

Chapter One Zachary glowered down at the neatly arranged contents of his oldest friend’s suitcase. “Given that our world might very well be on the verge of ending, do you really think now is a good…

[rosewaterwitch]

Well, I’ve written another book.  You know what that means?

It means I’m going to write another chapter of An Awful Fix.

[rosewaterwitch]

A rewrite of the song "Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries", specifically the Klea Blackhurst version.

The past is weird, it’s always lurking, waiting for weakness and strife And even when you stray it doesn’t go away Can you forget? Have you already and started a new life? It’s a perfect day to pretend you’re okay

You’re all a bunch of shady pears Don’t get cantankerous, just be frank with us You dodge, you weave, you lie with grace But you can’t feint the truth when it’s in your face

So if you don’t want any cares From when you were a different man You’d better lay low and don’t play with fire The past is relentless, don’t raise its ire Oh, you’re all a bunch of shady pears So run and hide while you can

(what would be a whistle break if I could whistle)

So if you don’t want any cares From when you were a different man You’d better lay low and don’t play with fire The past is relentless, don’t raise its ire Let me just say again You’re all a bunch of shady pears So run and hide Run and hide while you can

[rosewaterwitch]

Oooh, you'll be vague Obfuscate Watching the audience writhe But we connect the dots And eventually We'll know your backstory

Thursday night and the cast is out Dropping clues and sewing doubt Fjord claims to be honest But no one's buying that Critters can smell a rat Everybody's going to lie Campaign's young and the mystery nigh Mercer's hiding something So what else is new? We're all grasping at straws And Caleb probably won't have paws

But we'll get your backstory Preferably Before ep. 50 Backstory Watch for hints in their facial tics, oh yeah You'll be vague Obfuscate Watching the audience writhe But we connect the dots And eventually We'll know your backstory

These scattered pieces, how do they fit? A daunting task but we won't quit Does Molly have amnesia? Is that even his name? Lucien could be a link We're gonna need a drink

But we'll get your backstory Preferably Before ep. 50 Backstory Watch for hints in their facial tics, oh yeah You'll be vague Obfuscate Watching the audience writhe But we connect the dots And eventually We'll know your backstory We'll know your backstory

[rosewaterwitch]

Couldn’t help but notice in the close-up of Yasha that she has the symbol of the Storm Lord dangling around her waist.

Hmmmmmmmm.

[intersex-ionality]

So I’m going to be bitter and old here for a minute.

The absolute refusal to allow anyone to use queer as an umbrella is both novel and regressive (I know, I know). For decades, queer was an accepted and neutral way to concisely refer to a coalition of loosely connected communities and identities. Queer theory, queer film, queer spaces, queer history.

This use came after another few decades of committed work in reclaiming the word from oppressors who flat out stole it from us.

It took a lot of effort to wrestle it back out of their hands, and now I’m expected to just give it over to them because decades of unity and collective action and shared experience don’t matter because a handful of (usually white, almost exclusively american) kids on this godawful website have deicded it’s illegal for me to “force it on others” and that I should instead just let them for LGBT or gay or whatever else on me.

Like, fuck off?

Fuck off.

I am going to refer to my community in the way that I have been doing for an entire lifetime. Not just my specific identity, which is queer as fuck, but the whole fucking shebang.

And I will not hand the word back over to straight people with a nice little ribbon and a coat of polish and say “here, some kids decided it was cool if I let you stab them with this word so here you go” like

Fucking, why would I ever.

Frankly, and I know how people are going to react to this but, frankly?

I damned well will use queer to refer to my community as well as myself, and anyone who wants to take it away from me can take it over my COLD DEAD QUEER LITTLE FINGERS.

I will not sit by and let antsy, nervous kids who don’t know a damn thing about our history talk down to me about how “well, actually” when they can’t even recognize the fact that trans people were still being policed out of here literally three fucking years ago.

The presumption and the ignorance are staggering.

So yeah.

Queer as in fuck you people in particular.

And, to my followers who are made uncomfortable by this, well. I will regret losing you on some level, but not enough to stop.

I fully intend to use queer as the umbrella term it has been for my entire life. LGBT never did my intersex, pansexual ass any favours anyway.

My point is, I’m not going to be referring to the “LGBT” community at all, anymore. It’s going to be 100% queer here, in a more conscious and consistent way than it has been before. Because, you see, even people who do use queer as an identity unashamedly have gotten into this pattern of being apologetic or conditional about it, with a constant, overbearing tone that even when we do use queer as a community term with have to hedge it and gentle it because it’s so dangerous.

but it’s fuckign not.

We spent decades pulling the danger out of it.

And ‘m not going to let it sneak back in.

[alarajrogers]

Every time someone says “queer is a slur, you shouldn’t use it” I feel like they’re trying to fucking gaslight me. Like, I was there when it got reclaimed. I read “Queer Science”, I saw the “Queer Studies Departments” in college and the majors in Queer Theory. Kids do not get to invalidate my life out of ignorance. And I can’t help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with, because how would the kids who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about know to invalidate that word?

You go. Reclaim that reclamation. I’ll probably use LGBT+ and queer interchangeably, like I always have, and if some kid tries to lecture my 47-year-old ass on the matter I’m just going to have to look at them over my imaginary librarian glasses and tell them “no. you’re wrong. Go back to school, kid, you need to remember you’re sharing the world with adults and there is a consensual reality you have entered into. You don’t get to make it up from scratch any more than I did.”

[hai-hai-sictir-deactivated20170]

@alarajrogers hit the nail on the head with this: 

And I can’t help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with

Because it’s absolutely surreal to see someone who is fifteen years old speak as if queer’s been used to constantly attack and smear and belittle and insult them, when they’re about twenty years too late, at the very least, to have gone through that as a teenager. I’ve seen it happen so many times, with so many teenagers on here, that it reads honestly like a script – like a Discourse Point someone’s taught them that they need to trot out as an argument, always and forever, amen. I made this connection over a year ago, when the screaming against ‘queer’ started in earnest on here and thought about it more in-depth when a number of very young activists both here and on Twitter told me unironically and with a straight face that they took all of their discourse points from the likes of leftbians and other exclusionists, starting with your garden-variety aphobes and biphobes and ending with outright radfems / TWERFs / SWERFs. 

That was the lightbulb moment for me. Question: 

what group has managed to spread their posts and their ideas far and wide on Tumblr, because people reblog without checking the source or reading between the lines? 

and what group has had a vicious ideological axe to grind against ‘queer’ as both a self-descriptor and an umbrella-term for decades now?

The answer to both is radfems. I was there ten years ago when they were absolutely driving themselves into a frothing lather over the fact that a very large number of LGBTQIAP+ youth were describing ourselves and our communities as queer uncontroversially – seriously, this was so common on the English-speaking queer youth forums I used to frequent back then that no one batted an eyelash, specifically because the work of reclamation had already been done for decades and if, asked, the vast majority of people answered that they preferred queer because it was INCLUSIVE (which is and has always been the kryptonite for groups of people whose ideas revolved around gatekeeping the community and their precious selves being the arbiters of who gets in and who stays out), Radfems quickly realized that they weren’t going to be able to demonize the word in the eyes of Gen Xers or people at the older end of the Gen Y generation in the community, because we’d either contributed to the work of reclamation or spent our whole fucking lives in communities where queer was a badge of pride. 

So, in what is honestly an absolutely brilliant move and which I’d be almost tempted to admire, if I didn’t want to spit everyone involved right between the eyes, radfems and other exclusionists targeted much younger LGBTQIAP+ people, leapfrogging a generation. Tumblr, in this sense, has been absolutely vital, both in giving them access to very young people who were just discovering themselves and whose knowledge of community history was nonexistent and in being built in such a way that radfems could make their posts go viral and attract tens of thousands of reblogs, if not more, if they knew to word them in just the right way (I’ve lost count of the number of what, at a shallow glance, seem like very decent PSAs on consent, but that at a closer reading were actually anti-BDSM screeds, easy to see for anyone who knows the dogwhistles). 

If radfems have managed to mire this place in their ideas intensely enough that they’ve turned their anti-kink crusade into an omnipresent thing in certain progressive communities on Tumblr, it’s not impossible to make the logical leap that they’ve managed to do so with their decades-long anti-queer crusade as well.   

I’d laugh and clap at the ingeniousness of it all, if it didn’t involve obliterating decades of community history, solidarity and reclamation efforts. 

[take-my-eeveelution]

#oh ABSOLUTELY#queer things#the SUDDEN BACKLASH against queer again is 100% from terfs#even back in like 2014 people were using queer on here without anybody batting an eyelash#and then one day all of a sudden in 2015 if you called yourself queer#suddenly you were getting a fucking 15 year old calling you ‘violently lgbtphobic’ like. lol what the fuck#(real thing that happened)#and yeah 100% on the ‘I feel like I’m being gaslit’#I TOOK QUEER THEORY COURSES IN COLLEGE#THEY DON’T FUCKING PUT SLURS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#THEY PUT ACCEPTABLE COMMUNITY TERMS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#like#oh my god#the rise of ‘q slur’ is honestly gaslighting that originated in the terf/radfem corners and spread until people thought it was the norm#it’s not 

Please note this. Regardless of how you personally feel about the word, this backlash against it happened much more recently than many people seem to think. And it’s worth pointing out who benefits from the backlash, and it sure as hell isn’t the people who gave decades of their lives to make the word a sign of inclusivity and acceptance.

[scarimor-deactivated20180521]

tl;dr: TERFS started a backlash against queer on tumblr c. 2015 and that’s why a cult of ignorant corrupted teens are frothing against the entire queer world today.

[calligrafiti]

We’re here, we’re queer, and if it doesn’t fit your TWERF / SWERF agenda go fuck yourself. 

[azcrowleyfell]

Always reblog debunking “Q slur” stuff.

[rosewaterwitch]

*frantically searches 8tracks for new campaign playlists*

*finds nothing*

*sighs deeply and listens to Magnus Bane playlists while thinking of Mollymauk*

[hand]

Me forcing myself to save money and cook instead of eating out

[rosewaterwitch]

I feel that any child looking this unhappy while cooking automatically summons Gordon Ramsay with a quick fix and a soothing hug.

[im-not-right-in-the-head-deacti]

[movingtotwitter-at-hazymazepone]

Oh my god is this a cat or a sheep?

[m86-deactivated20171116]

a shat

[fnafvr]

Dont call it that please

[rosewaterwitch]

a ceep

[serves-up]

I think all content creators can relate to this.

In my opinion, I don’t think followers really understand how much your requests/likes/reblogs/etc. and random asks mean to me. It’s just so refreshing and nice to know that people enjoy what I’m doing and support me.

People that go the extra mile and send an ask or message letting me know they liked my stuff honestly makes my day. I love reading tags and stuff…it’s honestly so cute….

And people who ask about how I’m doing or send me random questions or cute asks….I just want you guys to know it honestly makes my day. I just love all the interaction and such. It makes running a blog so much more enjoyable.

And Fanart/Fanwork? Honestly that’s one of the greatest things to receive. To everyone that draws or writes, please don’t feel too insecure to send it end! No one is going to criticize you over quality. It’s so sweet that you even thought about making something…I will always appreciate it no matter what, and I’m sure all other content creators feel the same.

So, in conclusion, don’t be afraid to talk to your favorite blogs and show them some love, guys! We always appreciate it! ☺️

[ryuichifoxe]

Once more art comes along I’ll wind up tweaking things but have a quick 4am Molly in the meantime |’D

[rosewaterwitch]

So Jester’s god could be Avandra or Sehanine, if she’s with one of the Prime Dieties.

Bets?  Changebringer or Moonweaver? 

[rosewaterwitch]

Since there was a sense of approval when Jester pulled the book prank, I’m comfortable declaring her a Moonweaver cleric.  To quote Tary, this is going to be fun, fun, fun!

[wnq-writers]

I’m scared to be happy because my happiness often gets ruined before I can even realise it.

@crumbledpaperhearts (via wordsnquotes)