The Smithing Witch

I am the smithing witch. I am a metalsmith and witch, exploring the ways that these two practices can inform and bleed into each other.

[lindleland]

"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back

[adeebobo]

this reminds me of me and my friend’s horse named Drugs

when i was in middle school me and my friends had a small yellow horse eraser we fondly named “drugs”. this lead to a lot of middle school tomfoolery around his name and saying shit like “Ma’am, so and so took drugs from me” and other dumb shit like that.

eventually, our english teacher, Mr. R, caught onto the joke. instead of writing us up or sending us to the principal though, he played along, making similar jokes like “(name), stop taking drugs.” “hey. you three. you need to share drugs if he’s going to be at the table.” “no drugs today, guys?” so on and so forth.

by the end of the school year it had become a very fond joke between us and this english teacher, so we decided since we were moving onto our freshman year, we decided to give our eng teacher this little yellow horse eraser.

so we go find our english teacher, Mr. R, who was setting up cornhole with our principal and other “big important people” for our 8th grade graduation party, and we hand him the little eraser.

to which he yells as loudly (and happily) as he can: “YOURE GIVING ME DRUGS?!!”

i actually went back to visit him before i left for college, and to this day he still has Drugs on his desk, and regularly tells his new students about me and my friends. ty op for reminding me about Drugs the Horse

[springsgreenleaves]

[springsgreenleaves]

No, that's okay, Tumblr, if the other three people mentioned are meant to see this, they'll find it.

[cantotallyeven]

Me and my thousands of locally saved songs on an SD card

[victorlincolnpine]

me and YouTube on firefox with adblocker

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“Witchcraft is not safe. Witchcraft is not good and kind. Witchcraft is the domain of the trickster, the outcast, the wanderer, and the crooked. It belongs to those who know every light casts a shadow; who have looked into the depths of darkness in their soul and accepted what they’ve seen along with all that is good. Witchcraft requires cunning, manipulation, self-awareness, adaptable morals, and dash of madness.”

— Sarah Anne Lawless

[smithingwitch]

I think I’ve reblogged this before. But in case I haven’t…

[kaijuno]

And what about it

[ohifonlyx33]

Heaven forbid women do anything

[brandyrobbinscyberpunk]

Sigourney Weaver photographed by Helmut Newton, 1983.

[anhed-nia]

Jesus, well what the fuck am I supposed to do now??

[aesethewitch]

You can write down as many correspondences as you want, memorize entire lists from someone else's blog or book or whatever, but none of it will matter if you do not understand those correspondences. It's so critically important to ask "Why?"

Why is spirit purple? Why is love red? Why is chamomile calm? Why is quartz "all purpose"? Why does cinnamon speed up a spell?

Why, why, why?

What do you actually believe? And why?

[breelandwalker]

THIS! THIS THIS THIS GODFUCKINGDAMNI THIS!

So many witches just parrot the same correspondences to things - colors, elements, plants, planets, crystals, whatever. And I would bet MONEY that most of us don't even know where those correspondences come from or why the associations are there.

I mean, spoiler alert, a good chunk of them are just Things Somebody Made Up Once And It Stuck (-cough- crystals). Others are based on older associations from alchemy, astrology, or medicine (back when the doctor would draw up your natal chart as part of your diagnosis and treatment).

It's fine to go with the "standard" Western Correspondence Canon if it resonates with you. But PLEASE, at some point, do just a little bit of background research into the origins of the things you use most often. Just to have the context. Even just to have the Oh That's Kind Of Neat. (We should all be doing practical research alongside magical learning anyway.)

(And yes, you CAN make up your own correspondences if you find that something doesn't fit.)

[aesethewitch]

Exactly! It's the difference between blindly accepting information and thinking for yourself. Asking questions is a critical skill for magical practitioners to learn. You'll never graduate from the Beginner Stage if you never Ask Questions and make your practice your own!!

Yeah, your spell might still work if you don't know why you're throwing that particular ingredient in a jar. But you won't understand why or how it worked, and that's where you become Intermediate.

[stormbornwitch]

Now is the time of change; of storms; of destruction; of breaking down barriers and old ways of doing things.

To make it through this time, you must be like water and change as well.

Like streams, rivers, the ocean, rain, hail, sleet, snow, or ice, you must change your form to suit your conditions.

Do not hold on to material things, status, or position. These things will be dashed against the rocky shore like crashing waves.

I feel this in my bones and in my blood. I hear it in the screaming wind as the storm rages outside.

It is going to get worse before it gets better. You must adapt and try to help as many people as you can.

[tamarrud]

Do you think there shouldn’t be a Jewish state at all? Not even in a different continent?

You might need to sit down for this one but ethnostates shoud not exist, regardless of what continent they might be on lmao

The existence of an ethnostate by default means the subjugation and violence committed against other groups of people and you cannot name anywhere, definitely not a continent, where a homogenous ethostate can be established without displacing the people already living there who are not part of the ethnic group.

The only way this can ever be achieved is through ethnic cleansing and you're literally asking me if I'm in favour of that and the answer is fuck no

[midtowns-second]

Doppleganger by Naomi Klein

[tinktoks]

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[stolensugarbombs-deactivated202]

Goals

[womaninterrupted]

Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history

What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?

[surroundedbybooks]

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

[ndcirque]

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

[macleod]

In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

[fallentechnate]

[eaglefairy]

@xkcd-for-that

[xkcd-for-that]

Digital Resource Lifespan

[thatdisasterauthor]

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.

[mayflower-gal]

Star Trek yet again being accurate about future history (Picard saying “little is known about this era (the early 21st century) because much of the digital records are gone.”)

[sggk]

U may be fooled by my constant melancholia and generally pathetic state of being but take heart in knowing that i am trying unfathomably hard to live

[daily-spooky]

[daily-spooky]

[smithingwitch]

Intractable darkness sweeps me through a narrow passage.

Doors into night.

A stream of unconsciousness brings me to her.

She sorts and sifts through the sounds of the lost, seeking those without a home.

She is the night and the end, yet she is no one.

[daily-spooky]

[smithingwitch]

This witch is back.

I’ve been through some things.

Some things have changed, others stayed the same. It’s been nearly a decade since I’ve posted here.

In that time:

I fell into shadow through poison, and there in the depths I was met with a shadow of myself. In this form, I was taken through the city of the dead. I travelled along the river in the chasm that divides the city from the wastes beyond. What or whom is there, I do not know.

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Deyr fé

Deyja frændur

Deyr sjálfur ið sama

Deyr fé

Deyja frændur

Deyr sjálfur ið sama

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