SwampSeer: Diviner & Witch for Hire

Professional card reader, seer, secular witch, Victorian enthusiast, Goblin Queen, and cat lover extraordinaire. SL Wenrick of Silent Seance. http://silentseance.etsy.com www.silentseance.com I do not offer free readings.

[swampseer]

Dukes and Duchesses, Marquis/Marquess, Viscounts, landhermits, swamp dwellers, everyone between, and other landers:

I know it's been too long. I love you. I support you. I know it wasn't fair to any of you to effectively abandon you. I'm sorry. I went out for a pack of smokes and didn't come back.

Nothing, and none of my choices regarding this spot had anything to do with you. It as, actually, very definitely me, and deciding to travel. I've been far and wide since we last spoke, on all planes. I was guided elsewhere and I'm sorry I wasn't honest sooner.

I'm still the same Swamp and same Mama but, I'm traveling and seeing the world. I love you all, so, so much. I'm so proud of you and who you've become.

[vonbaghager]

A faerie introduces himself. Then, holding out a hand, asks, “And your name, please?”

And, like a fool, you give it to him.

[monstersdownthepath]

I got asked for clarification on this (but can’t reblog that particular post cuz on mobile), which I’m more than happy to provide.

In this post, a faerie is asking for ‘your’ name. The way he is wording it, however, and the accompanying beckoning motion, makes it seem as though he is asking for you to physically hand your name over. Which, because of how some faeries operate, he is.

In this instance, saying your name aloud to the fae would be literally giving your name over to him, the exact consequences of which are left up to the imagination–usually, a fae even knowing your name gives it some measure of power over you, but giving something your name would likely let it completely take over your life.

In this instance, the wording you want to use is something like “I will not give you my name, but I will tell you that it’s [name].” Alternately, you can just lie to him.

[ayellowbirds]

Might i suggest the less direct yet still name-preserving “you may call me…”? It dodges the request while still giving an answer of a name, which does not even have to be yours, but any name you feel like telling the fae they can use to refer to you. I would recommend “Ainsel”.

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Glad Tumblr is still dispensing useful real-life tips

[asymbina]

Tumblr: tells me that people in the Old Country have a healthy respect for the Eldritch Horror sort of fairy

Also Tumblr: gives me Useful Life Pro Tips for dealing with said Eldritch Horror sort

[won-der-land89]

[swampseer]

Hello, dukes and duchesses! It's been a hot minute. I'm doing just fine! I hope you're all safe and happy! 💓

I figure I should probably drop a line and let everyone know I'm okay and that this blog will likely remain largely inactive. I just don't have the time these days. I love you all very much, my little doves. Be safe, stay warm/cool, do your best every day, and make your dreams come true!

[badpsychicadvice]

“Welcome to witchcraft class let’s talk about curses.”

“Hello students today I’m going to teach you about a bunch of very creepy stuff that I may or may not have done let’s just not think about it too hard okay?”

“That bad dream you had was definitely a curse. Every bad dream you’ve ever had was probably a curse.”

“To break a curse walk backwards through your kitchen to the fridge, pull out a milk jug filled with holy water, and chug it while standing there with the door open.”

“There are fifty thousand types of witchcraft you can do with a rusty nail so I hope we’ve all had our tetanus shots!”

“You definitely don’t need dirt or hair or whatever creepy stalker mementos from your target to be able curse them. Honey, this is the age of Instagram. It’s time to curse your enemy’s Cheerios.”

“You’ll have to memorize these next ten steps. You can’t write them down because you don’t want to have any evidence in your house that you’ve ever even thought about doing any of this.”

“Don’t huff grave dust. You don’t get any cool visions from it. Trust me, I know.”

“Now, remember: I’ve only told you 1/100th of the things I know how to do today, so don’t try any of this stuff on me because then you’ll learn the rest of what I know from what you’ll probably consider the wrong point of view.”

[johnbitchsociety]

“The Vampyre” by John William Polidori

[listing-to-port]

Seven rooms in an infinite library

1. The room that has slowly grown back into trees and skin. The trees have not yet shed their ink so you can enter into their crumbly trunks and read most of their secrets still, although you will need a torch and some patience and to know the right song to open the tree back up should it slam shut on you. The skin is mostly confused; it has formed back into limp, meatless cows which flap in the breeze from the air conditioning unit. 2. The toilet. Legend has it that there is only one toilet in the library; it is merely very busy in space and time. This is why there is always the same dog-eared book of cartoons on the shelf. Enterprising explorers have been known to stash energy bars in the cistern for emergency retrieval once lost in the booky depths. 3. The room you get into by opening that very small book on the bottom shelf and reaching your hand into the hole on page twelve to flip up the latch in the room beyond, after which you can open up the large book on the stand and enter through any of the doors on pages six, twenty-eight or one hundred and sixteen at your leisure. I do not know what is in that room, because my hand is too big for the hole in the small book. But yours may be smaller. 4. The large large print romances section. No, larger than that. Larger than that, too. It is not so much an area for the partially-sighted as a lobby for massive letters to hang around in, posing and slouching and occasionally making words, but mostly making out with each other. At least one of them is probably a colossal squid and not a letter at all, but every time it faces suspicion it covers itself in ink and that will do, for this place at least. 5. A room of propaganda. It has a number of entrances; based on certain aspects of your appearance and personality, the librarian will recommend an entrance for you if you want to first be exposed to propaganda only against them and not you. But the room is so designed that you can always look up and see them as they sit and read texts about you. Given the vast asymmetry in the amounts of propaganda available, its geometry is a marvel to behold. 6. The room where they keep the books that you write in your dreams (not the ones you would like to write; the ones that you write in your dreams). You may not remember the dreams, but there they are. It is a round room with one great spiral shelf, starting with the tiny books you wrote in infancy and progressing onwards and upwards through taller and thicker tomes. There is a ladder, should you need one. You are not sure if they stop at now or not. 7. A room of infinities and of their puzzles and paradoxes. Perhaps surprisingly, this is right at the entrance of the library. Of course, the way back out from there is infinitely long. There is a sign stating this at the entrance of the room and for some reason, perhaps some slavish devotion to conventional notions of space and time that we in the library have quite transcended, nobody takes it seriously enough. Anyhow, there is a mirror in there where you can find your other sibling, the one who always when you never and vice versa and so on.

[androgena-deactivated20210219]

British dude: *says some pretentious shit in a monotone voice over a synthesizer*

Me:

[swampseer]

Hey dukes and duchesses! Thank you to everyone who’s asked around if I’m okay. I’m just fine! Don’t worry! Tumblr has just become less of a priority as I’ve switched gears. I love you all very much and don’t worry!

[erstwhilejewelry-blog]

Antique Victorian engagement rings

[flammentanzerin-deactivated2020]

Engaged to marry 16 dead Victorian dudes.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

May you and your 16 zombie Victorian lovers find happiness.

[tacticalnymphomania]

Good heavens, do they KNOW?

[swampseer]

has a bath: witchcraft

drinks tea: witchcraft

looks at the moon: witchcraft

lights a candle: Wi t c h CR a FT

[shelbymelissa]

I have had a difficult time finding a safe and inclusive spiritual space for mystic seekers and mystics alike. Many groups have emphasized the divine feminine and connecting through one’s womb space. Which is all well and good if it works for people. This has however left me feeling alienated and isolated. I don’t connect with divine energy in that way, and I don’t see divine energy as gendered.⠀ ⠀ So I made a space for myself, and others who may be feeling similarly.⠀ ⠀ In the Mystic Seekers Circle, everyone is welcome to share and support each other. I hope to create a space where people feel safe. A space where pronouns are respected and used. A space where people don’t feel alienated and isolated based on their gender and organs.⠀ ⠀ If this sounds like a supportive space you want to be a part of, please feel free to join me in the Mystic Seekers Circle on Facebook!⠀ ⠀ Use the link below to sign up to receive your invitation to the circle!⠀ ⠀ http://eepurl.com/cMjT55

[foresthoney]

Swamp hasn't posted in a while... Do you think they're okay?

She’s fine, just living her life. She said she was taking a semi hiatus and not posting very much.

[swampseer]

Thanks for the concern, guys. Really, I am fine. No need to ask around or worry!

[swampseer]

Hey dukes and duchesses! Thank you to everyone who’s asked around if I’m okay. I’m just fine! Don’t worry! Tumblr has just become less of a priority as I’ve switched gears. I love you all very much and don’t worry!

[carmenquinn]

The original Addams Family in color

[swampseer]

Hey dukes and duchesses! Thank you to everyone who's asked around if I'm okay. I'm just fine! Don't worry! Tumblr has just become less of a priority as I've switched gears. I love you all very much and don't worry!

[fullychaoticpatrol]

I love how it’s “The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and MISTER Hyde” as in, yeah, they are basically two sides of the same person but only ONE has a doctorate

[decepti-geek]

#unless your bitch ass second personality helped you write that thesis it is your fucking doctorate