Tencrowns

♏️🔮🌿 They/Them/Whatever I blog about witchcraft, art, gardening, tarot and environmentalism.

[tencrowns]

While I plan on lingering on Tumblr until they kick me out, our regularly scheduled "tumblr is dying" wave has actually prompted me to buy my own domain, which is something I've been meaning to do for a long time but never worked up the gumption to. There's no actual site there yet, but uh. More to come, I guess.

It's not a be-all end-all solution because honestly I consume way more content on tumblr than I actually post any original thoughts or work of my own, but I think the big career change (weekends free! project-based instead of having to always be available! my creative work used and respected in a professional context!) has given me a lot more confidence in my design chops and time to perform tarot readings, which really requires experience to feel comfortable in, I think.

I've definitely geared the vibe around here towards witchy stuff, so would people be interested in fancy, graphic printable versions of my plant posts? I'm also very into journaling/planning and roleplaying, and I've got character sheets I've made for my own use under my hat. It just seems like a lot of different "ideas" to have under a single tentpole, you know?

[dreamresponsibly]

bro shut up i’m trying to recall the details of my prophetic dream

[hellospriggan]

[tencrowns]

I had a baby! Everyone is home and recovering.

Now to start figuring out the trip to Oberlin reservoir to photograph ducks.

[shamebats]

You'll have to turn sound on for this one

[anexperimentallife]

[marlynnofmany]

In my household we talk about "pathways in the brain" being like deer trails in the woods -- the more the deer walk along one route, the more their hooves wear down the grass until it's just a strip of bare dirt.

But if the deer start traveling a different way, the grass grows back.

[the-haiku-bot]

But if the deer start

traveling a different

way, the grass grows back.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[tencrowns]

Organizing my seed collection and doing some germination tests to see what to keep since some of these are a couple of presidential terms old. (It’s the Baker Creek seeds, I bought them before I knew they were the way they are.)

Apparently I’m really into nasturtiums?

[tencrowns]

So this has become the “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” tray. Not a bad germination rate so far considering some of these seeds were packed as early as the 2016 growing season! What’s sprouting so far are zinnias (giant and ‘Exquisite’ cultivars) and calendula ‘Resina.’

Both very quick to germinate if you are doing any kind of gardening with kids or are just impatient. Going to get some nasturtiums started with the intern today for another quick gratification plant!

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[tencrowns]

Did some separating and repotting today. I’m so tired, just a few more weeks to go.

[rederiswrites]

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

[rederiswrites]

Nazis are taking over my government, and like, not even just the Nazis we fucking elected! And I'm...making hamburgers? Because somebody has to make dinner? I just feel completely unhinged.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I think that's how random civillians generally feel in these situations. Someone's gotta make dinner.

[lizardlicks]

If you're wondering, there is plenty to be done about it, and plenty being done about it already, even if it's not happening instantly in a way you can perceive.

Is Somebody Doing Something?!

Yes. Let me break it down for you.

[rederiswrites]

Reblogging because this is an excellent article that both tells you about some of what's being done and breaks it down in a way that will help you understand and think about future action. Please read!

[rashinimadhushani]

🪄🦄🧞‍♀️🧞🧚🏼🧚‍♂️🧙‍♀️🪻🌑🔮

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Everything was removed from the altar today and wiped down. Candlemas items were out away and Morana returned to the place of honor for a little while.

[pharmaciacatholica-deactivated2]

just got out of mass here’s s medieval depiction of werewolves receiving Communion

[catholic-academia-aesthetic]

St. Brendan the Navigator giving Holy Communion to a mermaid

[victusinveritas]

St. Brendan the Navigator saying Mass on the back of a whale. As you do.

[depsidase]

[tencrowns]

Made a trip to Blick this weekend to refresh/try out some different brands. I want to warm up with some studies, it’s been such a long time. May find me tromping around in the mud two weeks postpartum, as I found a major stopover for ruddy ducks in spring in state.

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[figtreeandvine]

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.