Just Witchin

She/they, 30s. Formerly a witch blog, now just a “stuff I’m interested in” blog. Stuff I’m interested includes witchcraft, botany, science, academia, memes, extremely specific anime, and a couple of tv shows. See also: my dragon ball sideblog, @vegetas-mustache where I alternate mocking and cooing over a genocidal maniac (reformed) as a grown woman. Buy me a Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/zennawrites

[anonpolls]

Do you enjoy the smell of cloves?

Yes

No

Nuance/Bald

Remaining time: 5 days 17 hours

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

was your pet expensive to get?

yes

no

not the most expensive but not the cheapest either

for free

it was a gift

found it outside

traded for something

results

Remaining time: 2 days 21 hours

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 1 day 23 hours

[draconym]

Coca Cola flavored Oreos taste like if you could eat clipart

[draconym]

These taste like an abstract concept. Summer Vacation flavored. Yankee Candle ass cookie.

[errant-light]

this just keeps being relevant

[thelawfulchaotic]

This skit absolutely slaps forever but I have to tell you guys the secret.

The weird Oreos don’t sell… but the weird Oreos just being around and visible make people buy more regular Oreos.

That’s why.

[draconym]

The weird Oreos DO sell, but my housemate is the one buying them all

[unfavorableinstigation]

I think they add an important element of randomness to the environment. My father in law bought 6 or 7 boxes of the Selena Gomez Oreos so he could set a Selena Gomez Oreo alarm to go off mid workday and then say to his coworkers, "Oh, my Selena Gomez Oreo alarm is going off!" and unearth from his locker his 6 or 7 boxes of Selena Gomez Oreos so he and his coworkers could distribute them around the neonatal ICU ward where they work. He said it livened up an otherwise extremely dreary day.

[backupstardust]

As someone who works in an arts and crafts store, I have sold SO MUCH resin to people who are using the celebrity-themed ones to make jewelry

[draconym]

Wait are they using the packaging or are they trying to freeze an Oreo in carbonite

[netscapenavigator-official]

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

[zennagreenwitch]

Whhhhhhhhhhy is there an earwig on my loofah?!?!?!?!

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[kedreeva]

I scheduled this in 2025 to give you all a week to make Moon Day Monday preparations! I think I will order a little rocket cake or bake some moon phase cookies!

[gallusrostromegalus]

A cat is a machine that turns proteins into violence.

[starathsbunker]

#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac tags by @gallusrostromegalus

I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious

[gallusrostromegalus]

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

Yes, he is more than twice her size. Yes, he is five times her age. Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.

[self-loving-vampire]

It would be nice to reclaim transfeminism from the people who are fixated on how throwing slurs at nonbinary people is supposedly liberating.

[self-loving-vampire]

And as someone who sincerely does not consider men and women to be fundamentally all that different I'm also not a fan of how often the same circles end up sort of essentializing various actions and traits or modifying their value based on the gender of the person involved.

[everything-narrative]

Are the """nonbinary exclusive radical transfeminists""" in the room with us right now, or are you just angry at transfeminine* people for having the temerity to exist?

(* = Transfeminine here means AMAB nonbinary people and trans women, i.e., those who experience transmisogynistic oppression, without being able to perform cisnormativity.)

If this is a legit complaint, kudos. Can you give me their urls? They sound awesome.

Anyway let me just edit what you wrote to remove references to transness:

"It would be nice to reclaim feminism from people* who think throwing slurs at masculine women and feminine men is supposedly liberating"

Oops. That's an antifeminist screed right there.

(* = don't think I didn't catch that little degendering sleight of hand. You're referring to a group mainly composed of trans women.)

As for your second point:

The point of transfeminism is not that men and women are fundamentally different. That is something you have fundamentally misunderstood. And/or a rhetorical fallacy of some kind.

Feminism says that men and women are not fundamentally different, so kudos for understanding half of the equation.

The other half of feminism is that men and women are TREATED DIFFERENTLY BY SOCIETY, and that this is unfait bullshit.

Transfeminism says that the feminist thesis applies to trans women, too. Trans women are not fundamentally different from you. They are just murdered and raped more, are paid less if they can find employment at all, and live on average ten years shorter.

So next time pigs fly and you see an evil trans woman slinging slurs, remember that you wouldn't last a day living her life. Remember that to , are just another unsafe person who might well commit violence against her and suffer no consequences.

[self-loving-vampire]

>> Pretends self-described transfeminists who are hostile to nonbinary people don't exist.

>> Proceeds to immediately out self as exactly that type of person immediately afterwards.

You're just admitting you're a deeply intellectually dishonest person by pretending that's just not a thing that happens then.

So next time pigs fly and you see an evil trans woman slinging slurs, remember that you wouldn't last a day living her life.

[self-loving-vampire]

Replies like this are ironically a pretty good example for why we need transfeminism that doesn't devolve into becoming transphobic towards other categories of trans people, especially given that you can't reliably tell them apart or tell what their identity or experiences are based on their behavior, and the fact that nonbinary trans women also exist.

It's also an example of why you shouldn't just assume people's genders on the internet, have your gendered assumptions color your entire view of who they are, and fabricate embarrassingly incorrect life narratives to justify lecturing them about things they have firsthand experience with and post about regularly.

This is one reason why I don't like being gendered or having pronouns in bio to begin with, people just approximate me to stereotypes and ignore my real self.

Wouldn't it be better to focus on what was said rather than writing fanfic about how I "wouldn't last a day as a trans woman" when I have been one for over 3 decades?

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

I had to laugh at the "are they in the room with us right now?" comment..because.. yeah? Two of the most well know transfemninsts are super exclusionary to non binary people. Have you never read Julia Serano or Jules Gil Peterson? Fake ass transfemninst over here.

[softness-and-shattering]

Also "degendering sleight of hand" for using "they" to refer to a group of people? Ive seen this accusation before. Correct me if Im wrong bc I might be confusing languages, but English doesnt have plural 3rd person gendered pronouns, does it? Any group of people is "they" because thats how pronouns work in English, thats not misgendering/degendering, therea just no other possible word to use.

And to simultaneously call nonbinary people "feminine men and masculine women" is really something.

"We get raped and murderer more, you wouldnt last a day of her life" is also chilling. Does survivorship make someone more worthy here? Is she wishing that fate upon people, "try be a trans woman and die about it Id find that cathartic"? Cause only the "right" type of trans women deserve to live? - I dont think she put that much thought into it which is a differrent kind of scary. Trauma doesnt make you correct, or an authority, it just makes you hurt. We'd all be better off working to heal our trauma instead of trying to weaponize it to win or shut down arguments. Experience makes you an authority only of your own experience, which is a differrent thing to trauma.

[zennagreenwitch]

Kinda hung up on the whole “reframing” thing, myself.

“It would be nice to reclaim feminism from people who think throwing slurs at masculine women and feminine men is supposedly liberating”

Oops. That’s an anti-feminist screed right there.

Leaving aside the absolute bullshit of saying that nonbinary folks are just confused men and women, which I think has been addressed by everyone else, this whole statement is just nonsense.

What in the fuck is antifeminist about allowing people to express their gender outside the social norm? What, exactly, is un-feminist about being a masculine woman? Do I need to wear kitten heels and nylons and makeup to be a real woman? Are my work boots and messy hair and short nails betraying my gender?

The whole point of feminism as I see it is that people are allowed to exist as we please. As WE see fit, not as someone else dictates. Feminism is a response to the ways that women have been historically oppressed for a variety of bullshit reasons and in a variety of horrific ways, but it’s not about cis women or even just women. A lot of trans men were probably lobotomized to make them behave like good wives and daughters. Cis women who literally just wanted to wear trousers and not get married were lobotomized. Trans women have been treated with disgust and suspicion and faced with the same horrific violence as people assigned female at birth. I stand on the shoulders of everyone who fought to exist as themselves and defy anyone to tell me what is required of me to call myself a woman.

[zennagreenwitch]

Hey, geologists…

Pspspspsps

Got something for ya

There’s a weird rock in the landscape “river rocks” at work. In case it’s not clear, it’s the central brownish rock with the fucked-up looking gray-and-brown business on the top of it, like a crinkled paper bag. My question is this:

Why is it like that? Is it, like, cool weird or just a random machinery accident?

[zennagreenwitch]

Hey, geologists…

Pspspspsps

Got something for ya

There’s a weird rock in the landscape “river rocks” at work. In case it’s not clear, it’s the central brownish rock with the fucked-up looking gray-and-brown business on the top of it, like a crinkled paper bag. My question is this:

Why is it like that? Is it, like, cool weird or just a random machinery accident?

[tolovaj]

THANK YOU

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

the other night I dreamt that ao3 got a new number go up button titled "jorked it"

[apolladay]

What would you rather find living in your attic/basement/spare room?

1000 cockroaches

One man

Voting ended onJul 9

If you don't have one of those, imagine that you do.

[7dmom]

Sorry we don't talk any more. You said something 24 months And 17 days ago around noon when cancer was in the sky that implied the evil in your heart. I could have fixed you but I didn't because low key I don't need that megative energy in my life anymore. The evil is still in you btw.

[dragongirlsweetie]

i do think oil executives should be considered mass murderers and treated as such. they knew this was going to happen

[beatcroc]

I have the worlds widest fattest fuck of a cat and he has an underbelly that begs to be bothered akin to a glowing video game weak point

[beatcroc]

Do you understand what I have to deal with here

[beatcroc]

[zennagreenwitch]