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if you like crafting and also free things, might i suggest the antique pattern library?

it’s a not for profit that’s gathering books, patterns, and other materials related to crafting that are out of copyright (or getting permission from copyright holders in some cases) in order to share them online. they scan items, clean them up, then make everything available for free!

free things are great, especially when you’re just starting to get into something. like oh, i’m supposed to spend money on this hobby i just picked up 20 minutes ago???

the first time i ended up on the site, i seriously spent hours just trawling through everything. there’s the usual suspects like knitting, crochet, embroidery, but there’s also woodwork, calligraphy, and books on things like how to mount and frame pictures. with cross stitch patterns, they also make modern charts with the dmc colour codes available.

links to their webbed site and instagram:

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/

https://www.instagram.com/theantiquepatternlibrary/

behold, a glorious cat cross stitch pattern (link goes to antique pattern library page):

[image id: Multicolour charted cross stitch design of a cat sitting on a red pillow with tassels, holding a green ball]

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Winter Captures the Night by EranFowler

This artist on Facebook

vargamormusings

I've been stuck in my bedroom due to COVID, but thankfully I don't have plain white walls!

sigil-hunter

Wow

injuries-in-dust

Happy solstice.

sosuperawesome

Crafting Witch on Instagram

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Extremely City white people are so fucking weird they see a pic of a deer and theyre like “its an Old God, tell me the wisdom of the trees Forest Lord … wow this is just like game of thrones” its a deer. Its a fucking stupid idiot animal it doesnt know shit

whenthebirdsareheardagain

Yes deer are dumb panicky dinguses in real life, but sometimes a picture will capture one looking all majestic and we just… want to believe…

whenthebirdsareheardagain

Case in point: this dude

Yes he got like that by being so hormonally addled that he tried to fight a tree. But try to tell me a forest god wouldn’t have big leafy antlers just like that if he were to take a physical form.

knivesandteeth

who says the old gods aren’t stupid animals who are so hormonally addled they’d try to fight a tree

mutedtempest

@librariansheart for your enjoyment

alexaloraetheris

Look, I’ve lived a good chunk of my childhood in a halfway abandoned mountain village in the middle of nowhere. Which meant wildlife galore whether you liked it or not.

And that meant sometimes we saw a deer in the middle of the road at midnight and the majestic motherfucker just stared us down until my mom shredded our tires to stop from hitting him. Once we stopped he did a little half-bow as if saying ‘You have not committed an act of godslayer this night. Your bloodline shall bear no curse of mine’, and walked away chill as you please.

The next day a neighbor told us a deer with fucking big antlers got tangled in his fence because it was trying to steal his grapes.

I went on a hike with another neighbor to collect yarrow for tea. A bear came out of the woods towards us, went on its hind legs and inquiringly roared. And he pushed me, tiny as I was back then, behind me out of sight and spread his jacket wide to make himself seem bigger than he already was. He let out a sound I had not known humans were capable of making. He and the bear looked at each other for a moment, and came to an understanding. The bear went down and walked away, respecting a powerful opponent protecting its young.

A week ago, there had been a bear that completely tore apart our trashcan and gorged itself on half-fermented apples we threw away. My cousin had to chase it away, drunk out of its tiny fucking mind, with an umbrella that made weird noises when opened. The bear ran for its life, crashed into our wall, fell on its ass, and scampered away.

I was playing on a swing once, all alone, and a fox came up to me, the most beautiful animal I had seen in my ten years of life. Thinking it wanted to pass, I stopped swinging and sat still not to spook it. But instead of passing, the fox circled the swing, found it wanting, and came to sit before me perfectly poised and looked me in the eye, and I could swear it wished to tell me something but I could not understand the language spoken before human time.

Then my mom came out of the nearby inn, shrieked at the fox and swung her purse to chase it away. The fox jumped, ran off and fell into a ditch, all notions of grace gone with the wind.

What I’m saying is: the old gods are absolutely idiot animals who embraced the life of constant sex and hedonism in return for losing their higher power. Whether or not they regret it, we’ll never know.

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@thegreenchapel

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Well the Old Gods are old. In the same way your grandparents are old. They’re a font of experience and wisdom, they’ve survived wars, famine, poverty–but they’re thwarted by a smartphone. The Great Stag understands “car” in the same way he understands “challenger.” He understands “fence” in the same way he understands “brambles” or “underbrush.” He can handle plant fiber in his way but metal might be a bit beyond him. The Old Gods understand their ways. The Great Stag can can give you the wisdom of being a stag, but humans aren’t stags, so not all of his wisdom applies to our experience. If you promise not to hunt in his forest for a year and a day, he’ll show the trails his herd uses so that you can get out of the woods faster. Maybe you’ll keep that memory, maybe you won’t. If you do remember, you are responsible for being a stewart.

Some believe the Old Gods are living gods. There’s no one single Mother Bear. It’s a title that gets passed on. The beings are inhabited by divine force much older and deeper than any human can imagine. Picture a pebble being thrown into a pond. Each new incarnation is like a new ripple expanding outward. If the Old Gods are living beings then they are limited and falliable. They make mistakes and are prone to embarrassment. Like we all are. Instead of merely venerating them, sympathize with them.

marlynnofmany

Behold, the rare sight of an Old God interacting with something new:

runcibility

Now hearing “In the air tonight” played on a church organ, thanks.

griffys

i love cats so much. i literally would die for any cat. show me a cat right now. that’s my favorite cat

cherryblush916

This guy

griffys

that’s HIM!!! that’s my favorite guy

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ravenhexxx

On any given night…

everythingfox

Owls are sky cats confirmed

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Stijn

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When I was a little girl, I had strep throat once and a very high fever. I experienced Alice in Wonderland Syndrome where small things grew big and vice versa. It’s also called dysmetropsia.

The thing is, as I got older (mid-20s) I began to wonder if life itself isn’t just kind of plagued by a sort of existential dysmetropsia or AWS or whatever.

It’s like, our lives will always seem insignificant when faced with the fact we only live once, for a brief time, and are one of billions of others.

But our emotions as humans are primed to feel massive and of great import. So it’s like life is big, and small at the same time and it causes dissonance.

And yes, I know this is the plot of Unbearable Lightness of Being but I’d never connected it to that childhood experience before.

My own views on things, and my views on magic/witchcraft, have kind of led me to embrace the dissonance between the two as a sort of churning force that keeps reality what it is.

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Riathyra by N P y e

tabithalovesstuff

Small witchcraft things you can do 💕

If you wear glasses and/or contacts, keep a quartz crystal in the glasses case/on top of the contact case overnight to help you see the world with "clarity" (spiritual clarity of course, if you're like me your eye sight it too far gone for real clarity lol)

Add spices to your coffee or tea to set attention (you can stir clockwise for bringing something into your life and counterclockwise to take something out)

Lay out your clothes for tomorrow with crystals that will set your intentions for the days (like a rose quartz if you're gonna go on a date in said outfit, just for example). You can also use color magic to match intentions as well.

Use makeup too! This can be anywhere from using color to match intentions like above with clothes, to drawing sigils with concealer before blending (or if you want it to be visible, add a sigil to your eyeliner look)

Charm or add a ward to a stuffed animal you sleep with every night (or you can cast it on a blanket or pillow) so you have extra protection while you sleep.

Do witchy research! Want to learn about herbs? Then go do research about herbs! Wanna start using crystals? Do research on them and the most common ones.

Witchcraft isn't always about long complicated spells, magic is like a muscle that you work on and build up, and small exercises like these are great ways to build up that muscle when you don't gave a lot of time or energy

I want to move onto a lovely patch of forest near a river or spring or waterfall with a coven of fellow witches. We could help each other culivate vibrant herb and vegetable gardens and dance naked in the moonlight just to keep the locals away. We could raise our pets and/or children together, take care of one another when one of us is sick. We could while away long afternoons on front porches knitting or drawing or crafting while we talk about the mysteries of the universe. We could share knowledge and skills with one another to build our little slice of paradise. Eventually we could become self sustaining and live off the land. No more soul sucking jobs or traffic. And although we could travel we wouldn’t really need to because we would have surrounded ourselves with so much beauty and peace already ☺️