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thenatsdorf

Catnip trimming day. (via)

sashaforthewin

This fella is not lost in the sauce, he is precisely where he means to be in the sauce

oshuns-ambience

Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

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Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

oshuns-ambience

I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

oshuns-ambience

metalheadsagainstfascism

-yinx1

normal-horoscopes

"The Occult" is a massive umbrella and it's honestly insane learning which specific chunks are the ones that end up radicalizing people. For all the racism present in its history, Ritual Magic can't even hold a candle to Herbal Medicine in terms of number of straight up neonazis in the community.

normal-horoscopes

It's never the goth shit that ends up full of Nazis. The really dangerous parts of Occultism is any subculture that appeals to both middle class moms and neo-nazis, because the fascism is able to wear a family-friendly face. Turns out there's a chunk of both cultures that both deeply mistrusts doctors and wants to explore "natural solutions" to medical issues.

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There are a lot of bored upper middle class moms in america who have disposable time and income, but also have chronic illnesses that aren't being treated by our garbage late-capitalist medical industry. It's why Gweneth Paltrows GOOP exists. They sell solutions to people who have everything to gain and relatively little to lose from exploring a new idealogical niche.

Fascists, on the other hand, are explicitly and actively opposed to anything they deem "modern". Think of that line "Reject modernity, embrace tradition." Their backwards-focused nostalgia for a past that never really existed causes a lot of fascists to reject modern medical science entirely, instead focusing on "Traditional" remedies. Dieting and exercise communities also appeal to their ideas on individuality and self-improvement.

normal-horoscopes

God this is too fucking real.

"Hey real quick, why does the third sentence of this recipe for candles with rosemary in them mention your opinions on the nation of Israel?"

#vaccines are a miracle #they are magic with the best of intent #goop is a snake oil salesman !!!!!!!!

magicandman

tarotforintroverts-deactivated2

This is so fucking important!!

aqueerkettleofish

This also applies to physical health.

Several of the founders of the Pagan Movement from the sixties are dead because someone convinced them to try herbal teas and pretty rocks instead of, like, chemo. And by the time it was clear that it wasn't working, it was too late.

optical-disillusion

sunpdf

My mother boils seawater. It sits all afternoon simmering on the stovetop, almost two gallons in a big soup pot. The windows steam up and the house smells like a storm. In the evening, a crust of salt is all that’s left at the bottom of the pot. My mother scrapes it out with a spoon. We each lick a fingertip and dip them in the salt and it’s softer than you’d think, less like sand and more like snow. We lay our fingertips on our tongues, right in the middle. It tastes like salt but like something else, too—wide, and dark. It tastes like drowning, or like falling asleep on the shore and only waking up when the tide has come up to your feet and you wonder if you’d gone on sleeping, would you have sunk?

carri thurman, the alchemy: salt from water

weepycat

peak fantasy environment designs:

floaty islands

glowing mushrooms

bigger versions of normal animals

animalistic dragons

deep, sentient forests

sky/space whales

souichisan

crystal clutters

multiple moons

planet rings visible from the ground

library-seraph

#*banging on table* A DEER BUT ITS BIG

systlin

Gardening For the Lazy Cheap Bitch Masterpost

Container Gardening!

Controlling slugs organically with booze!

How to judge planting depth with penises!

Grow your own saffron!

Keeping grass out of your gardens!

Plants die, don’t fret!

Making garden beds without tilling or digging!

Shit to grow with minimal effort!

How to get plants cheap!

Compost with zero effort!

cybercrimer

i go to the dmv to pick up my id and they hand me this:

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beltane tea recipe

once again, we find ourselves on the very verge of summer, and Beltane is a great holiday to stop and heal yourself before going off to enjoy the rest of the lighter half of the year. i wrote a simple recipe for a tea you can drink while celebrating Beltane.

needed:

🌙mint –purification–

🌙ginger –protection–

🌙cinnamon –cleansing; spiritual guest calling–

🌙water

🌙anise –joy– (optional)

🌙honey (optional)

preparation:

🌙put the water to boil;

🌙add the herbs to a sachet;

🌙introduce the sachet into the boiling water and let steep for 5 minutes;

🌙sweeten to taste;

🌙ice if wished;

🌙merry Beltane !

much love ♡

;tyra

shakespearean-soprano-deactivat

SEND ME A GREEK GOD

Aphrodite: what you find attractive in a person

Apollo: favourite piece of music

Ares: opinion on war

Artemis: favourite animal and why

Athena: share a piece of wisdom

Dionysus: red, white, or rosé?

Demeter: favourite season and why

Eros: describe your crush

Hades: do you believe in life after death?

Helios: opinion on tanning

Hera: opinion on feminism

Hermes: last text you sent

Hestia: describe your ideal house

Pan: opinion on gay rights

Persephone: is climate change really a thing or is everyone just overreacting?

Poseidon: list three fears

Zeus: three places you want to travel to

geekstudio

Geeky lotions and lip balm by Geek Studio

isakurayou

radical-agriculture

it’s gardening season! please don’t plant lettuces/greens directly into the ground in an urban area or close to a building without getting a soil test. the risk of lead poisoning is very high. if you can’t afford a soil test and you must plant into the ground, try to grow something where you will only be eating the fruit and not the leaves & stems (i.e. tomatoes, cucumbers, etc) bc there’s less of a chance that heavy metals will migrate to the fruit tissues. better yet, build a raised bed or plant in pots!