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What are some daily witchcraft things you don't personally do anymore, but would recommend to new witches?

I'm gonna go a little off the rails from your question, hope you don't mind. I do some of this stuff and I've maintained most of my witchy habits throughout my practice.

Ideas for your Witchcraft Routine

Daily:

Meditate

Pull a tarot card

Ask the pendulum a question or two

Interpret or at least journal your dreams

Pick some witchy items to carry on you for the day

Pray to any deities (if you have them)

Weekly/monthly:

Cleanse your tools

Cleanse your space

Charge your tools/crystals

Add energy to/add new layers to/redo your wards

Give offerings to your deities

Make moon water

Take note of current/oncoming moon phases & what you want to do for them

Take note of any supplies you need more of

Look at your notes, is there anything you want to start researching or work on?

Reflect on previous tarot readings

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Hello! I have a question: I want to start practice witchcraft, but it seems like every page about witchcraft and types of witches on the internet is focused on wicca. What type of witchcraft works best for someone who doesn't want to be a part of a religion, and how do I find good information on that?

Finding Information on Secular Witchcraft and or Witchcraft Without Wicca

This is a common problem, so common in fact many people come to me assuming they're the same, you have to be Wiccan, or that all people believe in the rule of three. The community and resources are absolutely saturated with it. When you see something, or its perspective so much it's easy to make these assumptions. Often if you see a theme over and over again it's true or required. Certainly not in this case though. I would like to clarify here. You do not need to be Wiccan to be a witch, you do not need to pick a witch type or certain beliefs, and you do not need to be of a certain religion or have certain beliefs to be a witch. I'm sure you specifically already know this (to the person who sent the ask) but this is a good time for a PSA. Onto the good stuff. I believe the word you're looking for here is secular. Secular witchcraft. Secular is a funny word. I've seen it used to refer to simply absence of religion in a practice (which includes my practice) or an absence of belief in anything spiritual or unseen (doesn't include my practice) but for now it's the best word I've got so I'm gonna go with it. Secular witchcraft as I usually see it isn't really an exact path. Unlike paths like Wicca or even labels like kitchen witch, secular doesn't have to determine your beliefs necessarily or what you actually do. It's more about the absence of religion as an essential thing. Many secular witches do some of the same things as Wiccans or use the same tools as Wiccans and other things like that. As far as finding information goes I'd say reach out to new places for your information and inspiration. Try different websites, books, bookstores, authors, creators, something fresh. That seems obvious but it can be easy to forget so hear me out. Yes, Wicca is absolutely everywhere and it's annoying, yes, a lot of the surface of witchcraft in resources and online is Wiccan, but sometimes you will find stuff that's not influenced by it at all. Most of what I happen upon these days doesn't have its influence so I know those spaces exist and weeding most of it out is possible. It takes time. I don't like to recommend the internet as a resource overall but finding secular witches to follow can give you a good general idea of what the practice can look like too. And what Wicca doesn't look like. This leads into the next bit! If I were to discard every book I have on witchcraft that had something I didn't agree with in it I wouldn't have any books left. You have to learn about Wicca to weed it out and get a better perspective. We are researchers. This is a practice of study. So you have to learn to cherry pick in the best way possible. With proper research and without appropriation that is! Say you're reading through a spell book and it cites a method for hexing but it says it will "come back" and something bad will happen to you. The hex is simply for reference to them. Well if you know the author is Wiccan because you looked further into them, and you know that they all believe the rule of three and often conflate the practice of witchcraft with Wicca itself, then you'll know that remark about something bad happening no matter what is bullshit because witchcraft isn't Wicca and not all of us believe that. You're then free to use the spell as you please. Cherry picked, my witchlings. Note, please do not just go doing spells without an understanding of them and their methods/history. That was just an easy example. I don't want you guys jumping into hexes or possibly appropriating closed methods. Of course if you decide to believe in the rule of three and don't want to do hexes that is completely valid and I understand. This is just for the sake of teaching and the person who asked. It's about knowing that you don't have to believe it and you have the choice. They, as in the example author, would not be painting a diverse enough picture of what witchcraft is and what we believe. Acquiring some good resources, authors, creators, and vetting abilities will take time. But I wish someone would have told me all this

when I started because I would have figured it out a bit faster. Good luck & I hope that helps! 💕

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Witchy Song Suggestions

Hello Family! I am with you today to speak about some of the songs which I listen to when I am trying to manifest. I may suggest some *Some of these songs may fall into more than one category.* Feel free to add songs!

Love/Romance Magick:

Wonderful by Lianne La Havas

Serial Killer by Lana Del Rey

Lovefool by The Cardigans

Little Numbers by BOY

Love by Lana Del Rey

Romanitcise by Chelea

A Dream by Rachmaninoff - Sung by Dawn Upshaw

Morgen by Strauss - Sung by Barbara Bonney

Hey Now by London Grammar

Like I Can (Cover) by Jordan Smith

Golden Slumbers (cover) by Jennifer Hudson

Bittersweet by Ellie Goulding

Warm on a Cold Night by Honne

River Flows in You by Yiruma

L’heure Exquise by Hahn - Sung by Susan Graham

The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelson

Giant Steps by John Coltrane

Red Arrow by Gem Club

Blue Skies by Ella Fitzgerald

Long Time Ago by Trad/Copland - Sung by Nathan Gunn

Chi Il Bel Sogno from La Rondine by Puccini - Sung by Renee Fleming

Claire de Lune by Debussy - Performed by Xavier de Maistre

Che Gelida Manina from La Boheme by Puccini - performed by Vittorio Grigolo or Luciano Pavarotti

Sex Magick:

Is It a Crime by Sade

I Put a Spell on You by Nina Simone

Teeth by Lady Gaga

All Night by Beyonce

Hey Now by London Grammar

Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge

Hummingbird Heartbeat by Katy Perry

Pillowtalk by Zayn

Do What U Want by Lady Gaga

Off to the Races by Lana Del Rey

Money Magick:

Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine

Feeling Good by Nina Simone

Coca Cola by Beth Hart

Digital Witness by St. Vincent

6 Inch by Beyonce

Money Honey by Lady Gaga

Beautiful, Dirty, Rich by Lady Gaga

National Anthem by Lana Del Rey

Million Dollar Man by Lana Del Rey

Luck Magick:

Tokyo by Lianne La Havas

Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine

Feeling Good by Nina Simone

Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds

Q.U.E.E.N. by Janelle Monae

Evergreen by Yebba

Right Place, Wrong Time by Dr. John

No Roots by Alice Merton

When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing by Lana Del Rey

Nagual by Trifolia

Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae

Beauty:

La fille aux cheveux de lin by Debussy - perormed by Xavier de Maistre

Venus by Lady Gaga

L’heure Exquise by Hahn - sung by Susan Graham

Unstoppable by Lianne La Havas

Radio by Lana Del Rey

Bel Air by Lana Del Rey

Breaking my Heart by Lana Del Rey

Binding:

Paradise Circus by Massive Attack

Work Song by Hozier

Summer Bummer by Lana Del Rey

In My Feelings by Lana Del Rey

Brother Sparrow by Agnes Obel

Wallflower by Agnes Obel

Avenue by Agnes Obel

Gold Dust Woman by Fleetwood Mac (good cover by Karen Elson)

Up in Flames by Ruelle

Body Electric by Lana Del Rey

Circle the Drain by Katy Perry

No Roots by Alice Merton

Hit Me Like a Man by The Pretty Reckless

Backfire by Lana Del Rey

Goodnight Moon by Shivaree

Baneful Magick (Curses and such):

Paradise Circus by Massive Attack

Wallflower by Agnes Obel

Strange Fruit sung by Nina Simone

Sinnerman by Nina Simone

Seven Devils by Florence + The Machine

Power and Control by Marina and the Diamonds

Teen Idol by Marina and the Diamonds

Kill of the Night by Gin Wigmore

The Rake’s Song by The Decemberists

Humans by Sevdaliza

No Rest for the Wicked by Lykke Li

Killing Moon by Roman Remains

Bones by Ms Mr

Limbs by Widdowspeak

Yubaba (Spirited Away Score) by Joe Hisaishi

The Raven by Alan Parsons Project

Neverland by Sisters of Mercy

Countdown by John Coltrane

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfuly

Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde

You Know that I’m No Good by Amy Winehouse

Power Gathering:

Death Defying Acts by Angus & Julia Stone

Django Jane by Janelle Monae

The Curse by Agnes Obel

Superpower by Beyonce

Spectrum (Song and Album) by Florence + The Machine

Sinnerman by Nina Simone

Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks

Four by Miles Davis

Twice by Little Dragon (Lianne La Havas also does a beautiful cover)

Sarajevo by Max Richter

Retrograde by James Blake

Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode

With You In My Head by UNKLE

Out Alive by Ke$ha

Ninth Gate: Vocalise performed by Diana Damrau

Sunrise by Yeasayer

Castle by Halsey

Breath of Life by Florence + the Machine

Healing:

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac

Who You Are sung by Jordan Smith

Stevie’s Dream by Janelle Monae

Hunger by Florence + the Machine

Life Goes On by Fergie

Wonderland by Haley Reinhart

Twice by Little Dragon (Lianne La Havas also does a beautiful cover)

Alive by Sia

Unbreakable Smile by Tori Kelly

Arabesque No. 1 in E Major by Debussy - Performed by Xavier de Maistre

Im Here from the Color Purple

Meditation:

Death Defying Acts by Angus & Julia Stone

Icarus by White Hinterland

Love Drought by Beyonce

Twice by Little Dragon (Lianne La Havas also does a beautiful cover)

Sarajevo by Max Richter

Cranes in the Sky by Solange

So Much More Than This by Grace Vanderwaal

Arabesque No. 1 in E Major by Debussy

La fille aux cheveux de lin by Debussy

Protection:

Safe & Sound by Capital Cities

Florets by Grace VanderWaal

Sarajevo by Max Richter

Alive by Sia

Ständchen D.957 by Schubert - Performed by Evgeny Kissin

C’est L’extase Langoureuse by Debussy - Sung By Elly Ameling

The Fire by Kina Grannis

The Bird by Duke - Sung by James Taylor

Arabesque No. 1 in E Majoy by Debussy - Performed by Xavier de Maistre

Confidence:

Fashion! (Artpop) by Lady Gaga

***Flawless by Beyonce

Bodak Yellow by Cardi B

Raining Men by The Water Girls

Sugar Pill by Kovacs

Q.U.E.E.N. by Janelle Monae

Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds

Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves by Aretha Franklin

Land of Lola from Kinky Boots

Sex Is In the Heel from Kinky Boots

Screwed by Janelle Monae

I like that by Janelle Monae

Bad by Michael Jackson

Check it Out by Will.i.am & Nicki Minaj

Happiness/Just Good Vibes:

Blood (Album) by Lianne La Havas

Blue Skies by Ella Fitzgerald (or anything she sings)

Origami by Capital Cities

Pocket Full of Sunshine by Natasha Beddingfield

Rumors (Album) by Fleetwood Mac

Young Volcanoes by Fall Out Boy

Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing (cover) by Tori Kelly

Seven Wonders by Fleetwood Mac

Happy by Pharrell

Feel it Still by Portugal. The Man

Let’s Get Together by Beth Hart

Arabesque No. 1 in E Majoy by Debussy - Performed by Xavier de Maistre

Tightrope by Janelle Monae

I hope y’all find this useful! Feel Free to add songs! Also, email me at [email protected] for any questions, follow my YouTube @ Mojo Magick for some Magickal content, and Be Blessed!

Love,

Mojo Magick

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Decided to make this it’s own post because it got long… In reply to @witchwork-at-home here

You are right to be suspicious of the ‘starseeds and lightworkers’ alien BS, because it has its roots in Nazi Germany!

Time for a history lesson…

Once upon a time, a Russian lady called Helena Blavatsky founded a movement known as Theosophy, which was a bizarre mishmash of Neoplatonism, Buddhism and Hinduism. This movement would go on to influence lots of other occult movements and a lot of the New Age.

You can read more about it here on wiki, but some of the concepts/ideas that the New Age borrowed from it are:

reincarnation

the soul’s evolution, and the idea of humanity’s evolution

‘ascended masters’ (known as The Masters in her philosophy)

a universal ancient religion or ‘secret doctrine’

ALIENS. the idea that human evolution is linked to the universe and across other planets

different ‘races’ of aliens

And here’s where we get into the racism… Even though she uses stuff like Hinduism and Buddhism, don’t let that fool you.

Blavatsky had this idea of the seven “Root Races”, divided into Sub-Races. Her philosophy was based on the idea of ‘emanation’, so the more you get to “pure spirit” or absolute Source, the purer you are… Yeah. I think you know where this is going.

The first race was pure spirit. The second were called “Hyperboreans” who were also supposedly pure spirit and came from somewhere near the North Pole. Then there were “Lemurians”, “Atlanteans” and so on…. Sound familiar? Blavatsky linked them to real world peoples.

According to Blavatsky, the “Atlanteans” mated with “she-animals” resulting in gorillas and chimpanzees. (Linked to black people, who were considered less evolved and less human.) The fifth race was the “Aryans” (yes, really) who would eventually be replaced by the “sixth” race and the arrival of the Messiah-figure stolen from Buddhist cosmology, “Maitreya”. Humanity would evolve into a final, seventh race.

(3D, 4D 5D? Ever heard those terms referred to about humanity’s “spiritual evolution”? That’s where that comes from.)

In case you think Blavatsky effectively used girl power, she also had this to say:

About physical races, she wrote that Africans, aboriginal Australians, and South Sea Islanders are inferior to Europeans, stating “MONADS of the lowest specimens of humanity (the ‘narrow-brained’ savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian) had no Karma to work out when first born as men, as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had.”[263] She referred to aboriginal Australians as “half-animal”.[264]

Blavatsky’s Theosophy went on to influence Anthropsophy (by Rudolf Steiner…. yes, those Steiner/Waldorf schools), and Ariosophy. With Ariosophy, Guido von Liszt blended German romanticism, the fashionable occult revival of the time, and Theosophy, to create the doctrine that would directly influence the Thule Society and the Nazis.

According to Thule Society mythology, Thule was the capital of Hyperborea, a legendary country supposedly in the far North polar regions, originally mentioned by Herodotus from Egyptian sources. In 1679, Olaf Rudbeck equated the Hyperboreans with the survivors of Atlantis, who were first mentioned by Plato, again following Egyptian sources. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) began his work Der Antichrist (The Antichrist) in 1895 with, “Let us see ourselves for what we are. We are Hyperboreans.” - Ariosophy

(He also had a big influence on the idea of “the runes”……. so almost anything you learn about runes is pure made-up Nazi fantasy with little origins in actual Norse practice. I’m sorry, it sucks, but it’s the truth!)

So yes, they believed that the German people were descended from a pure race of alien masters to take over the earth and ‘evolve’ humanity. Or something.

The idea was that the Nazis wanted to return to a fantasy time of an “Aryan-Nordic” pre-Christian, proto-Indo-European religion. They were big into romanticism, the idea that modernity is bad and artificial, that we need to go back to nature. There was an idealization of peasants as “closer to the land”, a rejection of capitalism, but to replace that with monarchy as man’s natural state.

“[..]in his famous Land und Leute (Land and People), written in 1857–63,” which “discussed the organic nature of a Volk which he claimed could only be attained if it fused with the native landscape….Riehl rejected all artificiality and defined modernity as a nature contrived by man and thus devoid of that genuineness to which living nature alone gives meaning…Riehl pointed to the newly developing urban centers as the cause of social unrest […] for many "subsequent Volkish thinkers, only nature was genuine.”[2] “Riehl desired a hierarchical society that patterned after the medieval estates. In Die bürgerliche Gesellschaft (Bourgeois Society) he accused those of Capitalist interest of "disturbing ancient customs and thus destroying the historicity of the Volk.”

Wow, sound familiar? Almost like modern paganism? Gee whiz!

Also they were BIG into Odin, which is why the term “Odinist” is also a red flag in Heathenry. This is also why if you see “hyperborean” in someone’s url, they’re probably a neonazi. It’s also why Neonazi heathens go ON AND ON about ~ the ancestors ~ because they’re picturing some mythical white people who never really existed.

And THIS is why “starseeds” and “lightworkers” and all that alien bullshit is exactly that: bullshit. Also this explains why it has a connection to conspiracy theories, because those are antisemitic too. This is how the crytals-and-yoga to neonazi pipeline works. You should be suspicious!

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Don’t tell people to respect their elders. Be an elder worth respecting.

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Abuse is abuse; whether it comes from a person that thinks they care, or from a person that couldn’t care less.

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I had a dream that the king and the queen of a small country had a daughter. They needed a son, a first-born son, so in secret, without telling anyone of their child’s gender, they travelled to the nearby woods that were rumoured to house a witch.

They made a deal with that witch. They wanted a son, and they got one. A son, one made out of clay and wood, flexible enough to grow but sturdy enough to withstand its destined path, enchanted to look like a human child. The witch asked for only one thing, and that was for their daughter.

They left the girl readily.

The witch raised her as her own, and called her Thyme. The princess grew up unknowing of her heritage, grew up calling the witch Mama, and the witch did her very best to earn that title.

She was taught magic, and how to forage in the woods, how to build sturdy wooden structures and how to make the most delicious stews. The girl had a good life, and the witch was pleased.

The girl grew into a woman, and learned more and more powerful magics, grew stronger from hauling wood and stones and animals to cook, grew smarter as the witch taught her more.

She learned to deal with the people in the villages nearby, learned how to brew remedies and medicines and how to treat illness and injury, and learned how to tell when someone was lying.

Every time the pair went into town, the people would remark at just how similar Thyme was to her mother.

(Thyme does not know who and what she is. She does not know that she was born a princess, that she was sold. She only knows that one night after her mother read her a story about princesses and dragons, her mother had asked her if she ever wanted to be a princess.)

((Thyme only knows that she very quickly answered no. She likes being a witch, thank you very much, she likes the power that comes with it and the way that she can look at things and know their true nature.))

The witch starts preparing the ritual early, starts collecting the necessities in the winter so they can be ready by the fall equinox. Her daughter helps, and does not ask what this is for, just knows that it is important.

The witch looks at Thyme, both their hands raised into the air over a complicated array of plants, tended carefully to grow into a circle, and says, sorry.

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THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

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I’VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS FOR SEVEN YEARS

DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS TO ?????

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That last fatal scream tho

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THE TERROR IN HIS SCREAM OH GOSH

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i’m crying

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WAAA-

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I will always reblog this on the off chance some other poor soul has been searching for it

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IT’S BACK

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HOYL SHIT ITS B A CK

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IT’S BACK?? ON MY DASH?

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re-blogging again xD

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what was that we were just saying about still having posts circulating from ridiculous numbers of years ago? 😂

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Anthropology major answer: “There absolutely was such a time! Modern humans and our ancestors shared territory numerous times over prehistory with cousin species like homo neanderthalensis, homo floresiensis, and many, many others!”

Folklore student answer: “Also, almost all cultures have something like djinn, faeries, hulder, fox spirits, and other similar creatures who can appear at least human and are very, very dangerous to humans!”

Both of these things are true, and may be connected both to the above and to each other. :D

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Biology majors: it’s dead bodies guys. Corpses.

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Listen I hate this take on the uncanny valley so fucking much because many subpsecies of homonids lived in the same areas but some of them got along well enough to coexist and neandertals had enough desirable genetic traits to the point where human women (see here for a blanket on female vs male choosiness) would often pass up incel homosepian for the chad neandertal.

Genetics aside, various hominid species didn’t start visually looking all that different until 50,000 years ago, while under the skin changes began as early as 89,000 years ago (ie the development of the Y chromosome but I might be oversimplifying at this point) Point being, even our non-human cousins didn’t. look. that. different. from. us. Especially comparing the diversifying of humans themselves crossing trans continental as it was. And even then neandertals still had advantagious traits for living in the Eurasian hemisphere.

Also I digress, regardless of it being intentional, and with few perserved records from that chapter in our species’ history, I don’t like the implication that the uncanny valley effect stems from humans being inherently racist (for lack of a word for hatred of non-human intelligences). I know that sounds off the wall but prejudice and sense of superiority by birthright is vastly different than othering by means of the sucess of social groups and the need to compete for territory or resources. Racism is entirely a Eurpean fabrication and it’s been proven time and time again to be a cultural outlier and purposfully designed to further the agenda of corroded theocratical religious divinity (here, here, here) and the financial benifits of the exploitation of colonism that otherwise has not been replicated by other cultures to the same degree. (this is the only example off the top of my head but I’m know there’s more.)

You know what’s older than racism?

You know what’s more flesh crawling than neandertals?

fucking rabies

You know what LOOKS like a human but doesn’t ACT human ENOUGH? Do you know what might bite you and get you sick or turn you into something that also moves about in a non human way? Brain parasites that give you painful headaches and intensifies agression and confusion.

Say you’re a monkey and one member of your troop gets bitten by something. Later he starts twitching and swaying about. He keeps stumbling out of trees but barely feels anything when he hits the ground. He won’t eat sleep or drink. He makes guttural noises that keep alerting predators and he’s in obvious writhing agony. Suddenly he’s not your friend anymore. He doesn’t recognize you and he attempts to bite and claw at anything that moves.

Up until preventitive oral medications and vaccines were developed in the 1970s there was NOTHING stopping rabies and it still prevails today and kills hundreds of thousands of people in third world countries with limited medical resources a year. There’s no cure for rabies once youve got it and the only reliable diagnostic is a brain autopsy.

Rabies. TB. Leoprosy. Syphilis. Meningitis. Toxoplasmosis. Anthrax. Mercury Poisoning. Prion disease. These are all bad and in different varying degrees can cause limps, sores, agression, confusion or dazed trances, ambled pacing, convulsions or uncharacteristic behavior in humans.

Basically everything that people are terrified of when it comes to zombies. Vampires bite. Werewolves rip people apart. Demonic possesion? Easy. Changlings take the place of your loved ones.

Also I don’t think that it’s a conicidence that the things we find uncomfortable with the uncanny valley also just happen to line up with predatory behavior, smiling too wide or staring you down, blinking too slowly or moving towards you with a slow steady speed. It’s just a danger signal to keep other monkeys in a troop from getting bitten by an infected monkey. Simple as that.

After all what’s scarier? A dead body, or moving body that will MAKE you dead?

I’m not going to be a hypocrite by pointing out racism being excused as a stemmed human behavior without claiming that the deep seated primal fear of disease doesn’t make a good excuse for ableism as well. I mean we use othering to discern friend from foe, and then at some point decided that was a good enough excuse for racism. Theres legitimate proof that ancient homonids could and would be hospitible to the disabled out of compassion. The point of having these initial fears is to guage saftey measures first, but once someone or something is proven to be harmless that normally should be the end of it. I mean if an adult wild silverback gorrilla can look at a spycam and decide it’s chill after a moment of inspection then there’s really no excuse for any of us.

Healthy othering =/= newly invented racism.

healthy fear of infectious diseases =/= excuse to hate disabled people.

But yeah rabies is more likely the reason for the uncanny valley effect thanks for coming to my goddamn ted talk.

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Reblogging this version bc of sources and I personally think this makes for much more interesting (and terrifying) lore than any other post in this thread.

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Now I can reblog this

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It’s probably harder to enter a school than to enter the Capitol building

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Obviously not a black cat, but this is a picture of my sister's cat named Stevie. She was born blind but she's doing okay. She loves to lay down and purr on me when my sister isn't there for her. Just wanted to share since the last person shared cat pictures.