TheWillowWitch

🍀Libra-21-Mommyof2-Ecclectic-Pagan-Witch🌙

[innerchildabortionclinic]

"fruit has sugar" warning post reminds me of my coworker who told me to make sure I don't get "addicted to fruit". yeah i'm also addicted to a nice walk on the beach

[eclecticoccult]

I think saying, "Hi friend," to plants and wild animals is witchcraft.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

[bears-official]

lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around

[thepioden]

Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram

[thepurplegeologist]

in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine. 

[laboradorescence]

i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft

[sioltach]

Switching between these every day

[mamoru]

if a surgeon says you have to fast, you have to fast. end of story.

if a surgeon says your child has to fast, they have to fast. even if they are rreeeaaaallly hungry. even if they beg for food. even if they cry. even if they throw a tantrum. even if they scream for hours.

if a surgeon says you have to fast, you have to fast.

[lillypadcrochet]

For a bit more context/plainer language from a child life specialist:

the medicine the doctor gives you to make you sleep, called anesthesia, makes you sleep differently than you do at night. Medicine sleep is so deep that the muscle that keeps your stomach closed falls asleep too.

Your stomach and your lungs are connected by your esophagus, which connects to your mouth and brings air to your lungs and food into your stomach.

Because you’ll be laying flat on your back, This means if you have food in your stomach it can come up out of your stomach, and because they’re connected by your esophagus, food or drink that comes out of your stomach can go into your lungs.

Because they aren’t supposed to have stuff other than air in them, having food or drinks in your lungs can make you really sick.

The doctors really don’t want that to happen, which is why they ask you not to eat or drink anything the day you’re having your surgery/whatever you’re getting anesthesia for. It can be really hard but it’s important!

[mamoru]

everyone move over this post is about fish religion now

[noodles-07]

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

[heroineimages]

Mental illness is all in your head in the same way that prostate cancer is all in your ass.

[noodles-07]

this person wins everybody else go home

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[clearestbluest]

<3

[shining-bewear]

[minimalistquotes]

A lot of problems can be solved just by removing some foods, some people, and some habits from your life. Read that again.

[theseventeensteps]

obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

[ravenandmoon]

I love you primordial deities

I love you titans and titanesses

I love you lesser known/worshiped deities

💕💕💕💕

[crowdoespaganism]

sometimes paganism is walking down to the coffee shop and getting a self-care drink as a devotional activity for your deity

[ashshellenicmusings]

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be homophobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be transphobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be racist.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be anti-imaginate.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be a nazi.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and mock ANY of the gods.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and hate ANY of the gods.

Pick a side. The gods or hatefulness.

You. Can't. Choose. Both.

[peacozy]

This spring I want someone to put pretty little flowers in my hair

[leclercari]

i need everyone to hear the story of colman domingo meeting his husband bc it's just the most beautiful thing i've ever heard

[bisexualshakespeare]

Audio for Interview on Graham Norton audio:

You're in Berkley, California in 2005 and you're minding your business going into a Walgreens. Which is like a Boots here. So I'm going in there cause it's a Sunday night. Just-I live in New York, I go in there to get a mask, a facial mask.

So I'm walking in and I see someone walking out, has beautiful hair down to here, (gestures below the shoulder) lip piercing, beautiful, beautiful. I see this guy and we look at each other and I'm like 'oh my god' and I'm on the phone and I come outside. We look at each other and he's talking to this young woman, and she seems to be angry at something. So its a lot of like- *mimes yelling* and he's looking at me and she's all *mimes anger*

And I'm like, what's going? So I'm like ok let me get off the phone. I get off the phone, they walk off down the street. But he keeps looking back and I wave, but he just keeps going. And then I'm just dumbfounded and I end up in a Blockbuster across the street, and I don't even know what I'm doing I decide to look at my watch and it's 8:03. And I look outside, I think is he here? I think maybe I'll come back next Sunday and he'll be here. I'm that kind of hopeless romantic.

Cut to three days later, I'm trying to buy a used computer and I'm just scanning craigslist. They have that over here right? I'm scanning craiglist. So I thought, maybe I'll place one of those Missed Connections ads. I wonder if they work, cause I would read them on the subway. I go to page 2 of them as I'm reading and I see: 'saw you outside of Walgreens - Berkley. He placed an ad for me two hours before.

Sterling K Brown: Come on, brah.

I jumped up I'm like, are you kidding me? That's me. He described me with my faux hawk, it was 2005. *laughing* And I was like, get out of here. So we met up three days later. We had our first date. I was trying to be a good boy and go home. He said, can you stay over? I said sure but let's just cuddle. We cuddled. I thought he was asleep. Four o'clock in the morning, I couldn't sleep and I say to him, "I think I love you and you're about the change my life." And we've been together almost nineteen years now.

Sterling K Brown hollers. "Yooo! Are you serious? Oh my god!"

The crowd cheers. Graham and the other panelists make similar amazed sounds. /end]

[spiralstaircased]

I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal

[lucien-calore]

"patron saint" stop using catholic figures in a blasphemous way! it's disrespectful to catholics.

[spiralstaircased]

youve made me very happy by saying this

[lucien-calore]

you...enjoy being disrespectful to catholics?

[spiralstaircased]