Unseelie and Witchery

Witch, I'm putting resources and interesting applicable stuff on this blog. Also some science. Messages asking for money will be deleted, no exceptions.

[courtesycalling]

Happy mušḫuššu monday everybody

(Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

[dumbpuppyfag]

there's a massive, underreported subculture on this site that i can only describe as secular mormonism if mormons voted democrat

[dumbpuppyfag]

zero moral nuance

queer-inclusive but still misogynist

don't have to be from the US, do have to act like you are

ostensibly welcoming to everybody, mysteriously white as hell

terrified of the idea that sex could be enjoyable for anyone

absolutely incapable of structural critique, everything is individual moral choices

enforcement through public humiliation and isolation accountability :)

fear of infiltration by a corrupting outside influence - asserting a right to privacy or failing to publicly demonstrate moral in-group status is treated as a confession

the worst music you've ever heard in your life

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

shunning out the unwanted making a callout post + harassment campaign

[redstonedust]

we all know adult humans dont get enough enrichment but the other day i was walkin home past an empty playground and impulsively ran over to spin myself on this zipline merry-go-round contraption for a few minutes and it really did feel like it unlocked some neglected part of my brain. like damn we really should all go outside and play more. fuck. they werent kidding with this play time thing. have you guys heard about play time. it could be huge.

[makingqueerhistory]

Sappho: the poetess from Lesbos — Making Queer History

We thought it best to begin as close to the start as possible, though we're certain the project will jump throughout history. While there is

Sappho is known for her poetry and her literary impact on Ancient Greece. She lived and wrote some time in the early seventh century on the island of Lesbos, and her poems mention multiple women with whom she had varying relationships. Leaving ripples throughout queer history, her legacy for loving women led to the creation of the labels sapphic and lesbian, making her a cornerstone of the modern queer community. Despite this fact, her legacy remains hotly contested.

[mckitterick]

Deadly egg recall

The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

source: X

[prof-grace-aspen]

Recalled eggs were shipped to foodservice and retail customers in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.  Recalled eggs were available to consumers at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana; Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and other smaller retail and foodservice outlets in these states plus Mississippi and New Mexico.

Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico are the currently affected states.

[creature-wizard]

The reason people are told "mundane before magic" is so they remember to do things like check whether they've got mold or carbon monoxide in their house before they decide the problem is a malevolent spirit, find out whether their health problems have a treatable medical cause before deciding they're cursed, and make sure they have a mechanic check their car once they hear funny noises instead of just casting a safety spell on it and calling it good. People get hurt if they neglect the mundane.

[classicalcanvas]

The Magic Circle (1886) by John William Waterhouse

[agatesfrommexico]

Lavender-gray and creamy white banding wraps around two distinct focal points in this large halve — the upper section shows tight concentric arcs while the lower opens into a broad chalcedony flood zone. Small druzy quartz pocket sits mid-right. Raw rhyolite rind left natural. 762g of serious collector material. 🪨

[wilwheaton]

“Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. “The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been observed on multiple systems on which port 5900 was accessible from the Internet,” the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centrum warned earlier this week. “In all these cases, root had been accessed on the affected system and a Monero crypto miner had been placed.” The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, received a patch from Apple last week for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma. The vulnerability, with a severity rating of 7.1 out of 10, stems from a bug in the macOS screen sharing capability, which allows a remote party to view the screen and control the keyboard and mouse while a machine is turned on. A flaw in the “state management,” which keeps track of preceding events, user interactions, variables, and other system states, is the underlying cause.”

— Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation - Ars Technica

[fishtrouts]

We've had a family/murder of crows visiting our garden for years now, and this season the chicks are soooo helpless! They just stand around expectantly with their mouths open as the mom crow eats. Which is what inspired this comic! :)

Stickers-socials-patreon!

[fiery-kitty]

“A gift to the Elder” – Maria Khymynets (2022)

Woodcut, A3

[breelandwalker]

Witchcraft Exercise - The Book of Lessons

A witch's personal record of their journey with the craft can have many names - witchbook, spellbook, grimoire, Book of Shadows, Book of Mirrors, and so on. To this list, I would like to submit my own project, The Book of Lessons.

Where other personal books might be dedicated to spells, correspondences, ritual descriptions, or journaling, The Book of Lessons is specifically geared toward remembering what we've learned from our mistakes. Experience is a wise teacher, but so is failure, and the lessons that come from trying, failing, and trying again are invaluable to one's growth as a practitioner and as a person.

Each page of the book is dedicated to an occasion where one tried and failed and subsequently learned an important lesson. It can be trivial or tragic or anything in between. You can include specifics about the time, date, and occasion, or simply record the lesson learned, i.e. Roll up your sleeves BEFORE lighting the candles.

You can also include important parables, quotes, or philosophical points that have helped you define your craft and your way of thinking.

This has the potential to be particularly diverting for witches who enjoy scrapbooking or junk journaling, as the opportunity to represent lessons in artistic form makes for a fun ongoing project. And it doesn't have to be perfect or social-media-worthy. It just has to have meaning to you.

The Book of Lessons isn't meant to be a depressing admonishment, but rather a reflection of personal growth, with a certain amount of rueful facepalming at our younger selves and a goodly dose of pride at how far we've come since. It encourages us to be patient with our failures and celebrate our achievements as we gain both knowledge and wisdom from past experience.

Happy Witching!

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[breelandwalker]

Just for funsies, here are some of the entries from my own Book of Lessons (text only):

When burning anything, open the window to vent the smoke.

Objects will tip or fall over at the most inopportune time if given the slightest opportunity to wobble. Remember this when planning ritual setups and work surfaces.

Aesthetics be damned. Tie your hair back.

Aesthetics be double-damned. No long drapey sleeves.

Screw the aesthetic entirely, ritual garb just gets in the way. Just wear the jeans, it's FINE.

LABEL EVERYTHING. YOU WILL NOT REMEMBER.

WRITE DOWN THE SPELL. YOU WILL NOT REMEMBER.

Do not take to heart the opinions of people who are rude, condescending, or dismissive toward you because of your comparative level of experience, depth of knowledge, or chosen path.

Do not take advice or instruction from anyone who pontificates like a Southern preacher or speaks exclusively in New Age jargon.

Your beliefs do not have to "account" for anyone else's. You do not have to make excuses for this. You have nothing to prove.

Witchcraft can be done with anything, or with nothing at all.

Power is nothing without knowledge. Knowledge is nothing without wisdom. And none of it means anything if it's only performative.

The path is not linear. The path is not timebound. The path is not easy. The path looks different for everyone.

People can do terrible things with the best of intentions.

Check the bookshelf BEFORE buying new books.

Weeds are components too.

There's always another full moon.

Seriously, open the damn window.

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lytefoot]

PSA - Do not buy an LG smart TV. They just added a line to their terms of use that it's the user's responsibility to inform any guests in their house that by entering they consent to be recorded, in order to comply with wiretapping laws. That thing is literally recording you.

You can find tutorials online telling you how to open that thing up and physically remove the mic and wifi module. Frankly I don't trust anything less.

[mookimooks]

Please watch the Gamers Nexus video on LG Smart TV's and monitors! It's basically malware at this point.

[anxietyproblem]

[pmamtraveller]

Piero Fornasetti, Sun and Moon

[lesbianshepard]

if an archaeologist says an artifact was probably for “ritual purposes” it means “i have no fuckin clue”

but if they say it was for “fertility rituals” they mean “i know exactly what it was for but i dont want to say ‘ancient dildo’”

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Back in the day I worked at a certain very famous and very high caste art museum in the US as a junior curator. Part of my job was to catalog the objects in the museum database. This includes details like provenance, measurements, and a visual description of what the object looked like.

Like I said, the museum was a pretty snotty institution. It’s got a LOT of objects it’s way famous for possessing, but nobody knew about the absolutely massive collection of Moche erotic pottery it had because the curators were totally embarrassed by this stuff.

Some examples:

Pretty hot shit, right? They never, ever put any of this stuff on public view or published it in any catalogues but - we legit had like several hundred pieces of Moche ceramics in the “dirty pots” category. Anyway, I was left alone to just do my job with regard to the database for several years, ok? And I figured, well, these’re accessioned objects in the museum’s collection - better get down to bidness. 

I catalogued every goddamn bestiality, necrophiliac, cocksucking, buttfucking, detached penis, and giant vulva drinking cup in that collection. I’d be like, 

A drinking vessel in form of a standing man wearing a tunic and cap. He holds an oversized erection in his hands and stares into the distance (note I did not say “like he’s hella-constipated”). The vessel has a hole at both the tip of the penis as well as around the rim of the figure’s head, thus forcing the drinker to drink only from the penis or risk spilling wine all over themselves from the top of the vessel. Red and orange slip covers the surface of the piece.

Pretty straightforward, right? Apparently the deep seated fear of these objects that the curators exhibited was meant to spread to me as well, but - no one ever gave me that memo, because I guess Midwesterners reproduce asexually. When the curators understood that I had catalogued all of these objects in addition to the other, non-sexy pieces in the collection, they were apparently livid, but knew they had no legs to stand on in terms of getting pissed at me for it. 

I visited the museum’s online public access database a few years back and - every single description I wrote of these pieces has been totally neutered to say something like Male figural vase. 

Long story short? Just call a dildo a fucking dildo. It’s all gonna be ok, I swear.

[workfornow]

This is absolutely the MOST unusual reblog I have ever tagged with what is probably my second-favorite tag, “talk to me about your work.”

Plus it’s hilarious.

[cloudfreed]

I love ancient art history !!!!!

[clockshunddachshund]

@lowercasetrashwriter

[scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat]

Museums should have sections dedicated to artifacts like these with a warning that says “There’s a lot of private parts in here but we’re dedicated to displaying history so we won’t censor these. Enter at your own risk” or something. It’s prudish to deliberately hide history because of some ding dongs.

[dovewithscales]

Fucking Puritanism.

Unpopular opinion: Sex exists. Making body parts taboo is both psychologically bad for us and kinda stupid.

[expressions-of-nature]

Zagedan-Atsgara Lakes by Konstantin Shishkalov