Through the Misty Vale

Brandon. 23. Pansexual/ Queer. Pagan. Witch. Nerd. Black and proud. Capricorn, Slytherin, ENFJ-T Democratic Socialist Feminist Welcome. WARNING: Any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental, public or private structure, including but not limited to the United States Federal Government, also using or monitoring/using this website or any of its associated websites, you do NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information, or any of the content contained herein, including, but not limited… to my photographs/images, and/or the comments made about my photos or any other “picture” art posted on my profile. You are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing, disseminating, or taking any other action against my person with regard to this profile and the contents herein. The foregoing prohibitions also apply to your employee(s), agent(s), student(s), or any personnel under your direction or control or commission. The contents of this profile are private and legally privileged and confidential information, and the violation of my personal privacy is punishable by law. UCC 1-103 1-308 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE (It is recommended that other members post a similar notice to this or you may copy and paste this one. This is now a publicly traded site. Protect yourself.)

[walk-with-anubis]

it has been the HOTTEST of minutes

2020 man... lemme tell ya. its been a hell of a ride already. I don't even know if I have active followers anymore but I need a place to say some things and know that some random person I dont really know will read them. I dont know why that's such a comforting thought. I suppose its a bit like confession. 

anyhow, here we go:

within the first week of the new year I: 

1) got ditched by a pretty decent guy id been seeing over the holiday. we started hanging out a bit. playing video games, watching shows we both liked, finding out all the things we had in common. just generally getting used to each other and (his words) “growing attached”. but there was another element- his ex. and to be quite fair, as one who is more than used to courting disaster, I did see this coming from a mile off. man really wouldn't shut up about him. so it was kind of obvious. but silly me. lonely, desperate for affection and willing to trick myself into ignoring signs, I stuck it out and hoped it wouldn't be what I new it was. but it happened eventually. told me he needed time to himself. the next day he was back fucking his ex. i know because he posted about it in his snapchat story. son of a bitch still had the gall to ask me if I wanted to hangout.

2) found out my mother died on my birthday. 

3) broke my phone in a fit of anger when a person I had planned a date with told me they were sorry but they weren't really attracted to me afterall...10 minutes before the date that I HADNT EVEN SUGGESTED WE GO ON IN THE FIRST PLACE. and we’d been talking and flirting and whatnot for weeks. but it turns out the whole time it was a lie and that they were just scared that id be upset so they kept it up because I liked them. WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT!?!?! so now I have no phone because for once I actually allowed myself to get angry about something and lost control and broke my phone when I threw it at my laptop. my computer is fine of course. 

[alrauna]

Adam Burke (@nightjarillustration)

[kemetic-dreams]

50 cent is a fool

[malachitelibrary]

Top Ward Mistakes I

These are some common reasons why wards, even powerful ones, fail at times. I have noticed these over the years, through my mistakes and others. 

Not enough layers: Wards are made of pure energy, and usually aren’t sentient- meaning they aren’t smart and usually don’t adjust to different attackers. Without the ability to adjust, attackers can get by with ease. Having multiple layers of wards helps prevent this. While layers will vary of course based on your needs, I always recommend three basic layers for a ward, going outwards to the inside: 1) non-detection, 2) offensive ward, 3) defensive ward. The reason for these particular layers being: an attacker can’t attack if it can’t find you. If they do find you, they are then dissuaded by a ward that attacks them. They will have to go through the ward that hurts them to even get to the ward that defends you, thus weakening them and making it harder to get through that final line of defense at the same time.

Too rigid: What shatters more easily when hit- a plastic case, or a rubber ball? The plastic case- why? Because it is super rigid and unable to bend; thus, just one concentrated hit could break through it with ease. This applies to wards as well- you don’t want your wards to be unable to bend- else they shatter under a concentrated hit. Being flexible doesn’t make a ward weaker- you can still have a super tough and thick ward that bends!

Not selective or specific enough: “Keep out malicious entities.” Okay, well what do you mean by malicious? Being as specific as possible is best when it comes to protections. Instead of just saying “malicious” how about- “those that would bring me nightmares”, “those that would harm me”. This also ties into the next point-

…From whose point of view?: Okay, you did it, you made your ward. “Keep out anything with malicious intent.” But the key is…who judges the malicious intent? A nasty entity could easily go, “this is good for me!” and bypass the ward. Additionally, an abusive entity who believes, from their point of view, that what they are doing is “helping” you, and thus not malicious, could easily bypass an unspecific ward. It is best to say something along the lines of, “Things I deem as a malicious intention.” That way, it is based on YOUR judgement alone, what YOU deem as bad, and thus it cannot be interpreted any other way by trickster entities.

A circular wall, or a sphere?: You made your ward- it’s selective, not super rigid, and you made sure the terms were from your point of view. And yet- it’s still easily bypassed! Bad Entities appear in your room, seemingly untouched by the wards. What could’ve happened? Well- this ability called “teleportation” exists. If your innermost ward is a circular wall- not filled in- then an entity could easily bypass your wards just by teleporting directly to you or directly into your space! To protect against this, you want your innermost ward to be like a sphere- filled in on the inside with protective energies as well. Thus, the constraints applying to the outer layers of your wards (no malicious intent from my point of view) are applied to your actual space as well- thus nullifying the teleporting ability, or dealing damage to any entities that manage to teleport inside anyways.  

[valkryienymph]

[okayysophia]

I was waiting for someone to be a storm for Halloween!!! Yassss!

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

this is so fucking amazing.

[gaypeopletwitter]

[seraph5]

Preach

[hexandbalances]

How to Make a Corn Doll

When I visited Salem last year (like a madwoman) I purchased a jet black corn doll sold in one of their museums as a souvenir. Though I believe these are more popular to make for Lughnasadh, I'm entranced with the idea of making a version for Samhain by dyeing corn husks (sold on the international food aisle in most grocery stores) black (or orange if you prefer) during the preparatory soak. Perhaps they will take the place of a wax doll, or function as temporary watch guards in my windows. Presuming my cats don't carry them off.

Courtesy of the NC museum of history Colonial History in a box kit 

[radiojamming]

Your sailor nickname is [what color your shirt is] [your first pet’s name]. You are [phone battery percentage] years old. Your ship is the HMS [last thing you ate].

[novas-grimoire]

Teal Kali. 100. HMS Sandwich.

[walk-with-anubis]

Blue Scuffy. 80. HMS Pretzel

[damselwrites]

Color Synonyms

White

also: pale; blanched; sallow; pallid; waxen; spectral; translucent; albino; 

Grey

also: dust; stone; pepper;  

Black

also:  coal; slate; dusky; ebon; shadow; murky; 

Tan

also: flesh; khaki; cream; tawny; 

Brown

also:  henna; russet; sepia; chestnut; cocoa; drab; bronze; 

Red

also: terracotta ; rouge; carmine;  fire-engine; ruddy

Orange

also:  pumpkin ; rust ; 

Yellow

also: sunny; amber; saffron; hay; straw; platinum; 

Green

also: viridescent; grass; jade; forest; 

Blue

also: turquoise; cyan; ultramarine; royal; aqua; aquamarine;

Purple

also: berry;  amaranthine;

Pink

also: flushed; candy; cherry blossom; petal pink ; 

—– source: http://ingridsundberg.com/

—–additional synonyms added by me

[amphyria]

COLOORRRRRRRRRR

[missgoal-deactivated20180714]

I don’t even care if this shit is cannon, I just love the rainbow bitchslap I just received.

[blackberry-angel-deactivated201]

//Omg! I found it!!!

[humunanunga]

See also: these three pages

[voidchangeling]

I NEEDED THIS!!! Reblogging this to help others who might need this!

[dankmemeuniversity]

[walk-with-anubis]

Omfg YES!!! I can't STAND this shit

[apocalypse-meh-deactivated20210]

[republicanidiots]

When you’re so eager to mansplain the joke goes right over your head.  

[aegonism]

Leaked footage of the Joker movie

[lavenderheartz-deactivated20210]

Arthur getting arrested after the Murray show

[greenapplepunch]

Arthur on the train

[dingdongyouarewrong]

remember the wayside school books those were fucked up

[dingdongyouarewrong]

remember that one chapter where a new student came to the class and was wearing like 10 different raincoats and the teacher kept making him take off the raincoats one by one until they got down to the final layer and it was just a dead rat

[shiftingpath]

some other truly exceptional Wayside moments:

-Paul keeps pulling Leslie’s pigtails so he gets sent to the counsellor’s office. The counsellor is a hypnotist named Doctor Pickell, and he hypnotizes Paul into thinking Leslie’s pigtails are snakes. Because he’s a troll, he also hypnotizes Paul into believing Leslie’s ears are delicious candy whenever Leslie says the word “pencil”.

-The class is taken over by the son of hated ex-teacher Mrs. Gorf. Because they killed his mom he uses his superpower of stealing people’s voices to steal their voices and call their parents to say how much each individual student hates their family. The students are forced to listen in silence, crying. (They are saved by the cafeteria lady.)

-Benjamin is too nervous and awkward to correct Mrs Jewls when she gets his name wrong, so he goes by “Mark Miller” for months. He finally says his real name to a substitute teacher. Everyone thinks it’s a great prank and also go by Benjamin for the whole day, including the teacher.

-Louis the yard teacher falls in love with substitute teacher Miss Nogard. She has a third ear on top of her head that allows her to listen to people’s thoughts.

-Joe is the only student to order the potato salad one day. The face he draws in it looks like Mrs. Gorf and she nearly turns Joe into an apple.

-Because Wayside School is 30 stories high, they installed elevators. One only went up and the other only went down, so they got used once and never again.

-Allison gets stuck on the 19th story, which doesn’t exist. Nobody else can see, hear, or remember her. The 19th chapter is three chapters long.

[morbidmanatee]

My favorite genre of children’s story is “This would be horror if the characters were adults”

[silhouettecrow]

What the actual fuck are these books?

[phantoms-lair]

Let’s be honest, going by an alternate name because you’er too nervous to correct someone is a whole ass mood.

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.”

— lyanla Vanzant (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[thefantastician]

[mithraxx]

watching history repeat itself as the united states and countries across the world descend into fascism in an all too familiar pattern of events

[humanveil]

You’re not the Thor I know at all, are you? Yes, I am.