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Lain they/them or he/him 21 years old vegan secular witch

[themushr000m]

#justfatgirlthings

[flowerkidnena]

D.Va rig

[vgnwitch-deactivated20170731]

Vegan Replacements In Spells

Eggs for rebirth- pennyroyal, tansy, ivy, or honeysuckle.

Eggs for general protection- acorn, basil, bay leaves, lavender, cinnamon, rosemary, clover, coriander, ferns, heather, mistletoe, mullein, vervain, st. johns wart, or peony.

Eggs for protection against evil, magic, and psychic attacks- onions, rosemary, yarrow, pennyroyal, ivy, holly, garlic, dragon’s blood, cactus, clove, dill, mugwort, cayenne pepper, or black pepper.

Eggs to protect from nightmares- mullein, lavender, rosemary, anise, dandelion, lemon balm, or catnip.

Honey- honey is used to “sweeten” someone’s feelings towards you, so using sugar, apple honey, stevia, or agave would work just as well and it’ll help save our bee friends!

Milk- almond milk, coconut milk, rice milk, or soy milk. Any of these will work in place of dairy milk. If you want to be more specific in your spells though almond milk can be used for money, prosperity, luck, and wisdom. Coconut milk can be used for protection or spiritual cleansing. Soy milk can be used for prosperity and amplifying psychic abilities. And rice milk can be used for protection and attracting rain.

✨Make sure to be safe and research herbs you want to use if you plan on ingesting or burning them!!✨

Feel free to add on to this list pals!

[godswollen-deactivated20171014]

[iguanodont]

A young couple have a strange encounter on a dark country road…… Somebody tell mothman that’s how you get hit by a car

[asian]

[meanplastic]

LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG, BE WILD, AND HAVE FUN

[puplaika]

No gods, no masters, only dogs

[catwinterberry]

[remaded-deactivated20190301]

[art4aliens]

[hizgi19]

[quu]

[queerlittlecreature-deactivated]

Honestly fuck the whole “queer people are just like you!” Respectability bullshit. I’m not like cishets thats the whole point, and a lot of lgbt people ARENT. I’m here for flamboyance, for butch girls who make old people uncomfortable, for trans people who dont pass. I’m here for all of us who are very obviously different, not just the upper/middle class cis white gay and lesbians with a picket fence and 2 kids.

[cyber-macabre]

[fvlani]

Na. You have predators after you & you really need to call the cops.

[deepseagoddess-deactivated20161]

You also probably arent acting your age , but thats a problem for a different post 😂

[neon-genesis-evandoglion]

I’m 23 years old. Men old enough to be my father hit on me all the time.

At work a couple months ago, a man in his 50s came up to me and started telling me about how he saw me a few days ago and grossly explaining how fine he thought I was. He didn’t want to fuck off when I told him he was being inappropriate, he instead asked for my number. On another occasion at work, another man around the same age asked me if I need a sugar daddy. When I am at work, I am not acting like I’m in my 50s, I am minding my own business and doing my job.

Just yesterday while I was out jogging, a man in his 30s leaned out of his truck window to yell at me. When I am out jogging or walking, I am not acting like I’m in my 30s, or trying to attract the attention of men in their 30s, I am exercising.

When I was 19, a man in his 40s followed me across a shopping center while I bought art supplies for school between classes. He followed me, caught up to me, and asked me my age, and even upon hearing that I was decades younger than him, and a TEENAGER, he persisted and kept trying to give me his number to make plans with him. I wasn’t acting like I was 40, I was shopping for school supplies.

When I was 16, I was at the laundromat Waiting for my clothes to finish, and a man in his mid 20s/30s came up to me, into my personal space, and started hitting on me. When I told him I was only 16, he just asked me “so when do you turn 18?” And getting frustrated at my obvious discomfort. I was doing laundry, not vying for a grown man’s attention.

One thing all these older men have in common when they start bothering me, is that they start off with “you look kinda young, but…”. We as a society need to stop shifting the blame onto young women and girls. Very many men are predatory and purposely go for girls that are much younger than them for sick reasons. It has nothing to do with “acting your age”. If a 20-something y/o is going after girls in their mid teens, he is a creep and a predator. There’s no way around that. Creepy men need to be held accountable for their fucked up behavior.

[kingwizardandthelizardgizza-blog]

Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters

[quasarkisses]

they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay

“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”

“Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”

“He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”

“It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”

“If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”

[nudityandnerdery]

And, of course: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

[assassinregrets]

the one that will always stay with me is “Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,” i feel like that was the first time i really understood what you could do with words.

[marsdaydream]

I will reblog this every time I see it because these are some of my favorite sentences in the English language.

[solikerez]

I FUCKING LOVE DOUGLAS ADAMS, HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY IS LIKE MY FAVORITE THING

[pippinforthewin]

I can’t believe you guys are forgetting: 

“He was experiencing the aural equivalent of looking at a picture of two black silhouetted faces and suddenly seeing it as a picture of a white candlestick.”

[dusky-phantom]

witchcraft psa

instead of jars to bury your spells in, my i suggest the idea of peat pots planters?

not only are they biodegradable, they are useful for many different things. you can grow herbs and starter plants or use them to bury a home protection without the fear of broken glass rising to the surface, or your jar staying in the ground for a 100 years. they also come in many different sizes as well. from large to very tiny

and you can even make your own from left over toilet paper rolls for a byproduct option that lessens garbage going into landfills.

there are plenty of cheaper, earth friendlier options available to us, as witches, at our disposal. it is up to us as a whole to start making better earth friendly choices, to modernize the practice. we are not from the middle ages and tradition has nothing to do with glass jars - we have the knowledge in modern days to realize how harmful the practice of burying jars actually is, we have resources to change that as well.

[fuckyeahcraft-blog]

Yarn Bombed (by RhubarbPatch)

Some lovely cheerful yarn bombing!

[bfparchive]

Ugh, guys, don’t do this, never do this, some person or people yarn bomb periodically all over my fucking neighborhood and never come back and check on their shit and now there’s just faded, raveling, mouldering yarn clumps on lampposts and fenceposts and trees that mostly looked just fine before being “reclaimed” and it makes me embarrassed about how grungy and derelict, say, the lot on my corner, or the sidewalk up the block, now seems

(also, the posts and poles used to be available for posters and fliers and now aren’t because guess what you can’t tape a show or sale poster to the fucking gross mildewed yarn things, so you’ve actually decreased useful community space, thanks so much)

[isabel--the--spy-deactivated201]

never not reblogging yarn bombing hate

[rgr-pop]

who the fuck can even afford to abandon that much yarn, yarn is like one of the less cheap craft supplies, to me yarnbombing is a form of conspicuous consumption like lawns and truffle fries (except not like truffle fries because truffle fries are fucking cool)

[isabel--the--spy-deactivated201]

literally never not reblogging yarn bombing hate/this is another really really good point, even if this is like lion’s brand acrylic that adds up a lot for one of those trees much less all of them

[yiduiqie]

i loathe yarn bombing, so +1. 

in australia a lot of yarn bombing takes place on private property, so i wonder if that contributes to the fact that i haven’t seen any gross decaying yarn bombs?

[liz-squids]

I’ve seen plenty of decaying yarnbombing around the northern end of Coburg.  It’s gross and wasteful.  And, to reiterate, bad for trees.

[liz-squids]

FURTHER THOUGHTS REGARDING MY HATRED OF YARN BOMBING, because I just angrily ate my breakfast and remembered this: 

So, Moreland City Council sponsored a yarn bombing thing outside the Coburg Library last year.  (Yarn bombing is soooooooooooooooooooo subversive, you guys!)  Some of the stuff, like knitted flowers loosely tied to tree branches, was really cool. 

Most of it was … not.  You had your trees wearing legwarmers, which messes up the lives of the organisms living in or on the trunk, and can cause rot if the wool is left to get damp and mildewy.  It also interferes with photosynthesis in some species. 

Then there were the gross, mildewed layers of wool on the bike racks.  I wasn’t a cyclist at the time, but I saw a lot of people going out of their way to avoid those racks.  And parking places for bikes are finite!  Not to mention that most of the posts around the library were also wearing blankets. 

Most annoying of all, for me, was the fact that all the seating provided for the elderly and disabled — and there are a lot of elderly people in that suburb — was covered in wet, mouldy wool.  Sucks if you’re in poor health and need a nice sit!  

I mean, I was only mildly annoyed at the time, but right now, being in the middle of a nasty rheumatoid/fibro flare-up, I’d be ropeable if the only options for resting were (a) covered in wet wool or (b) owned by businesses that expect you, not unreasonably, to buy their products in exchange for using their chairs. 

…I wonder if there’s a statute of limitations on writing angry letters to council? 

IN CONCLUSION, I hate yarn bombing.  It is bad and people shouldn’t do it.  It’s also so very tied up in gentrification that I feel like an actually subversive application of knitting skills would be to make blankets and knitwear for homeless people, or refugees, or poor people.  

[sqbr]

And this is all a pretty damning counterargument to all the people who say they like yarn bombing more than typical graffitti because it’s less damaging/permanent. They like it because it’s associated with nice, non threatening middle class establishment types. 

What I don’t get about councils paying for it: why not just paint those things? I don’t know how trees feel about being painted(*) but poles and benches and stuff could often do with some nice cheery colours, and it wouldn’t interfere with their usefulness. 

(*) googling “painting trees” was unhelpful haha

[bedbugbiting]

I hate yarn-bombing because the first time I saw it was in a park next to the downtown courthouse and across from Seattle’s busiest (and sketchiest) homeless shelter. That park is full of homeless people, all day every day. If the shelter is at capacity, people sleep in that park. So, the first time I saw yarn-bombing, I saw people sleeping under trees that were better dressed than they were. And fuck that.

[nudiemuse]

Yup.

I was invited to help yarn bomb something, brought this up and was uninvited for harshing their yarn squee.

[phlegminism-blog]

plus, the types of people who do yarn bombing (i can only assume white and middle to upper class) aren’t gonna get caught doing it and probably wouldn’t suffer very harsh consequences even if they did.  it’s kind of a form of appropriation (maybe?) because think about who graffiti/street art is associated with and how much trouble they get in when they get caught

[markusbones]

fascinating and important commentary

[hansmoleskine-deactivated201810]

wow this is really eye-opening

[3liza]

i want to add also that yarn-bombing usually uses cheap ass acrylic yarn which is, yknow, a synthetic fiber made of plastic. hence the word “acrylic”. it will not biodegrade in any reasonable timeframe. so it’s littering. it’s putting fucking plastic on and around trees, exactly the same as tying a fucking shopping bag to them, and walking away. fuck you.

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

there are so many charities in need of blankets!! if you are interested in crochet or knitting, please consider helping instead of bombing!

Charities in need of Yarn

[thoughtfulraven]

Please do not yarnbomb trees and leave them because that can also eventually cause a process called girdling, which cuts off the xylem and phloem running up and down the tree. Basically strangling it to death.