The New Witch Times 🍁

 The occasional movie review, spells, photos and reblogs and the occasional WIPdate.

[mariolanzas]

DIPLODOCOIDEA

Diplodocoidea were a group of Sauropod Dinosaurs known for their long tails. Many more Sauropods of all families are included on THIS VIDEO. This poster is now also available for PRINTS and more HERE

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[richardstabbert]

In September 2011, an 83-year-old man named Maurice Sendak picked up the phone in his Connecticut home and called Terry Gross at NPR. He had been on her show many times before. As one of the most beloved children’s book authors in history, he had written and illustrated Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and dozens of other books that became woven into the childhoods of millions. He had a new book out called Bumble-Ardy. He had created it during the most painful period of his life, while his partner of 50 years, Eugene Glynn, was dying. "I did Bumble-Ardy to save myself," he told Terry. "I did not want to die with him." What followed was one of the most beautiful interviews ever broadcast. For nineteen minutes, Maurice Sendak talked about getting old, about dying, and about the people he had loved. He spoke of the maple trees outside his studio window that were hundreds of years old and how, in the final stretch of his life, he had finally fallen completely in love with the world. He cried. Terry cried. Listeners all over the country, driving in their cars or washing dishes, pulled over and cried with them. He spoke of the tragedy of being 83 and outliving almost everyone he loved most—his parents, his brother Jack, his sister Natalie, his longtime publisher, and most painfully, Eugene. Then he said something that has been quoted ever since: "I’m not unhappy about becoming old. I’m not unhappy about what must be. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more." He talked about how strange it was to find peace so late in life. He had spent most of his years unhappy, raised by Holocaust survivors who carried a grief they passed down to him. He had spent decades in therapy, once saying he believed in the existence of happy people but had never been one of them. But near the end, something changed. He told Terry he was now in love with the world. He could look out his window at those beautiful trees and see them for what they were. He called it a blessing to grow old and have time for the things he loved—the books, the music, the quiet moments. "I have nothing now but praise for my life," he said. At the end of the interview, he shared something with Terry that stayed with everyone who heard it: "You are the only person I have ever dealt with... who brings this out in me. There’s something very unique and special in you, which I so trust." As they both wept, he added: "Almost certainly, I’ll go before you go, so I won’t have to miss you." Then, before hanging up, he gave her three final pieces of advice: "Live your life. Live your life. Live your life." Eight months later, on May 8, 2012, Maurice Sendak passed away peacefully in a hospital in Connecticut at the age of 83. His friend Gregory Maguire, the author of Wicked, was with him in his final days and brought him a gift: a photograph of Lewis Carroll sitting on a windowsill with his feet hanging outside. It was a perfect goodbye. The man who spent his life drawing children stepping into other worlds was now stepping into his own. His books remain in nearly every library, and generations of children still join Max on his wild rumpus, always returning home to find their dinner waiting for them—and still hot. In that final interview, he told Terry he would keep crying for the people he lost all the way to the end. "I’m a happy old man," he said. "But I will cry my way all the way to the grave." He cried because he loved them. That was the whole secret. That was always the whole secret.

[goth-queen]

[thenewwitchtimes]

well that's a piss off. I just had reason to click through and they replaced my header with some AI bullshit image mean to look sort of like the one I had before. I fixed it to be something I want. Either that, or I was hacked for a really petty reason.

[teaboot]

Okay so Ollie loves sinks and showers and running water of all kinds, yes? This is known.

And ever since he was a kitten, when I first caught him peeing in the bathtub and he sae me use the shower to clean it out, he has been doing this whenever he wants a faucet turned on

Tub, sink, shower, whatever- he will climb on in. Scratch scratch scratch. LOOK at me. Then do it again

I learned this was intentional when I taught him the word "water", and after that whenever I caught him scratching I'd say "water?" and he'd stop to run over to the spigot and stare at it in anticipation like the strange little freak he is.

Well it's been a few years. I keep the bathroom sink filled when it's out of use because whenever it's empty he gets upset. I have learned to live around this

Tonight he didn't get to watch the bathtub drain because he was playing with a can downstairs. By the time he was done the bath was empty and I was getting dressed.

And so he began to scratch.

"No", I told myself. "I just got dry. I am not turning the shower on now. Not this time."

I saw him stop. Look back at me. Then resume scratching.

I left to throw my towel in the laundry.

Then I came back.

And I heard a plop.

My friends. Family. Compatriots.

I pulled back the curtain to find my son dropping STEAMING HOT LOGS in my MOTHER FUCKING BATHTUB

What the absolute FUCK

[archerinventive]

A happy Makers Monday to you all! 🩷

May magic and inspiration find you this week.

New designs are underway and coming to the shop soon. :)

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArcherInventive

[yesornopolls]

are you watching the new interview with the vampire season?

Are you watching the new interview with the vampire season?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 6 hours

[seabeck]

Fungal log

[eroscestlavie]

We rly need to bring back the term “acquaintance” like into regular and frequent use. So many high drama community squabbles and feelings of betrayal could be avoided if people just admitted there’s a step between “stranger” and a full on friend whose friendship you have a commitment to continuing and fostering. Like sometimes you’re just aquatinted with someone and you might decide you don’t like them after getting to know them a bit better…that’s very normal

[herpsandbirds]

"Mango" the baby Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco), family Ramphastidae, order Piciformes, found in central and parts of northern South America

photograph via: Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens

[herpsandbirds]

Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, northern India

Photograph by Jayeeta Chowdhury 

[nature-travel-photography]

Beauty - Author: XOXOAndXenon

[uroko]

Enbaru River, Yamagata City, Japan // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

[annabelle--cane]

like as a feminist and an asexual if you ever imply that not having sex / not having "enough" of it is a conservative or reactionary trait I will be running you over with a bus pronto

[annabelle--cane]

you do not need to have sex ever. if you don't want to then you can just not do it. you don't need to have sex in order to mature as a person. you don't need to have sex to prove that you don't think it's immoral. you don't need to have sex to be a good partner. you don't need to have sex to be physically and/or mentally healthy. all of these goals can be achieved by hundreds of means other than sex. you can chose to do it for any reason you want, but you can also chose not to do it for any reason you want, including just not really feeling like it at any given time in any situation. the only thing not having sex says about your life and character is that you decided not to have sex. you can really really just not do it and that will be 1000x better for you in every conceivable way than making yourself do it when you don't want to.

[carrot-boi]

The Spear Cuts Through Water

[lil-leviathan]

Five scarves now for sale on my Etsy!

I will be working on adding more in the next few days. Shipping only to the US for now, unfortunately, unless someone knows a trick for cheap and easy international sales.

(P. S. Shipping costs are baked in... if you can meet me at an in-person sale they'll all be cheaper!)

[asexualbookbird]

what is UP tumblrinas i just had to start over my knitted shawl from the beginning after weeks of work how are you doing

[asexualbookbird]

once more, with feelings,

[asexualbookbird]

many feelings