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Hey nerds. Long time, no login. I kinda moved blogs because Reasons. If you’re interested in seeing what I’ve been up to lately (grad school! Mad Max fandom! panicking! fanfiction! queer shit! selfies!), go follow @cantharnessthemountains
Love youuuu.
New digs, and the fragrant (basil and thyme) bouquet my friend made for me for the new digs. ☺ I'm happy.
So, this blog somehow reached 10,000 followers and I have no idea how or why, but I am grateful for all of you sticking around. I’m doing a little give away of things that I like.
There will be three winners. The first winner gets the first pick and the second gets to choose next and the third gets what’s is left. Here are the options:
The winners will pick one from 1st tier:
Then pick from tier two candles:
Then pick two from the things I make:
I’ll also throw in
Some witch buttons
random stuff I’ve found in freeboxes, thrift stores, the trash, on the street, or I just have hanging around like minerals, acorns, busted mirrors tiny jars, herbs from my garden, rowan berries, black salt, small bundles of sage for cleansing, etc. You know, build your own DIY witchy stuff.
Now, the tumblr stuff:
To enter:
To win
Ok, so… reblog and good luck! Thanks so much for following me!
Also, if you type funny thing in the tags it will amuse me and I enjoy being amused.
For the morning folks. I giggled at the tags, especially the bad jokes. thanks!
3 ½ more hours!
1 universe, 9 planets, 7 seas, 7 continents, 809 islands, 204 countries, and I had the unfortunate luck of meeting u
THERE ARE 8 PLANETS, YOU UNCULTURED SWINE.
VIVA LA PLUTO FUCK YOU
I’m pretty sure “Viva la Pluto fuck you” is the best sentence I’ve heard all week.
There should be a FANDOM / NERD visibility day. I think we’re scaresly unrepresented and we should have our voice heard so we should set a date to have our faces known!
someone delete this
wtf
whats so difficult for you to understand? All humans were created equal and deserve representation, even us nerds.
Please stop.
Whatever underrepresentation or misrepresentation you think nerds are going through is nowhere near comparable to the discrimination, injustice, and violence faced by black and trans people every day.
(which, like, what? Nerd culture has been so incredibly mainstreamed in the past 15 years? Like I'm genuinely sorry if you've been bullied, that's horrible, but there isn't currently an institutional problem that allows cops to kill nerds with impunity, and then get rewarded for it as the beneficiaries of fundraisers to show support for the nerd-killing cop's actions.)
honestly i will never have written a better quote than
“a woman’s first blood
doesn’t come from between her legs
but from biting her tongue”
How are deconstruction and true love compatible?
To conceive of it, even, would entail a fundamental leap–and perhaps some cognitive dissonance. In linguistic terms, this leap would be like shifting the signifier “true” to something which does not signify “esse” or “essence.” There is precedence for this in Derrida (see The Postcard), where the abstract, unforeseeable other becomes a kind of ideal other (the [loved] other, l'autre [aimé]). Moreover, deconstruction expresses an openness towards the other, and can thus be characterized as an “affirmation” of the other, “an affirmation of what is wholly other; it is an affirmation of what is unforeseeable from the present, of what is beyond the horizon of the same; an affirmation of an other that is always to come” (15). But, “the road to other is not an easy road. Derrida might say that it is an impossible road, that is, if we understand impossibility [with Derrida] as that which cannot be foreseen as a possibility It is, therefore, the very experience of the impossible” (16). In other words, love in a deconstructive horizon would be predicated by a prevailing hopefulness, but also an impossibility of this very hope to be fulfilled/manifested. What is mournful about the loved other is that they are always absent to us, their “presence” – like the sign or the thing itself – is ceaselessly deferred. John D. Caputo wrote a really beautiful essay about this called “For the Love of Things Themselves,” in which he states: [T]he “(loved) other must remain other, must be kept safe as other, and we must lay down our arms (rendre les armes) and surrender, and by sacrificing or giving up the assault of realism upon the world, to allow the thing itself to slip away – just in order to keep it safe and to show it our love.” So for those of us who have not yet fully shaken off our Platonic indoctrination, there is hope in the possibility of the impossible. Even Derrida himself at moments falls into this category. This leap hinges on hope (after hope).
Stop kinkshaming me
Practice By Using the Following Phrases When the Opportunity Arrises:
“I’m not interested.”
“(Please) Leave me alone.”
“I’d rather you not.”
“That doesn’t interest me at all.”
“You need to stop.”
“No.”
“That’s not what I said.”
“I don’t owe you/anyone an explanation.”
“That’s too personal.”
“I would like some privacy.”
“That doesn’t work for me.”
“I’d like to be by myself.”
“I’m going to leave now.”
These words and phrases might evoke thoughts of reacting to someone bringing unwanted sexual advances. But how can we expect girls and women to be able to say no in such extreme circumstances when we’ve been socialized to avoid confrontation in such “small” circumstances as when a man is talking us when we’d rather be left alone?
You can practice exercising and nurturing your assertiveness (and confidence) by incorporating phrases like this in your day-to-day life.
For those of you who don’t already know, there is a petition going around to actually stock binders in stores (like Walmart/Kmart/Target etc.)!!!
ALSO, people who don’t bind. Please, can I have your attention?
Here is your chance to exercise your allyship. Sign this petition. It can be very, very difficult for people who bind to get access to effective binders. They often resort to harmful things (like tape) that can break their ribs or suffocate them.
Please, sign the petition. You will be saving someone from immeasurable pain.
Meet Baphomet. He’s ensuring you live in a free, equal society. He’s fighting the fight against the man for you, regardless of religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, wants, needs, preferences, wishes, thoughts, etc. He represents freedom. Nothing more. Nothing less.
The Satanic Temple… trolling the shit out of theocrats to actually protect your Constitutional rights.
David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (via friendshipandlabor)
Dublin Pride, 2015
Let’s look at this look again, shall we?
OH SHIT
Oh gosh Oh gee golly
like the problem with the tumblr community is that no one is allowed to safely fuck up
if i was my uneducated ignorant little 14 year old self y’all would have ripped me a new one and probably scarred me for life
and that’s so scary tbh, that a community of adults would and DO witch hunt and harass minors over things they’re being children about
How to gently acknowledge and inform a person:
Check their blog/content/about me. How old is this person? If they are still in HS/under 18, remember that this person is a minor and needs guidance, not chastising.
Second, look at a little bit of their tumblr. Are they going through serious mental health struggles(Depression/suicide/etc)? Please take this into account when formulating your response.
Finally, evaluate why you follow this person to begin with. Now, if you are 19 and following a 17 year old, then you are within the same age bracket and can talk to this person as if you are talking to a peer. 12/13/14/15 year olds are still formulating their opinions of the world, and you being nasty to them isn’t going to help inform their opinion. So why do you follow a 13 year old? Would you hang out with this person IRL if you two were in the same location? Would it be weird(mentally and physically) for you to hang out with this person? If the answer is yes, unfollow their blog and step away from the situation.
NOW, here is how you formulate a PRIVATE ASK OR FAN MAIL to someone who has said or done something problematic. Shaming them publicly for ignorance/limited world view is a great way to close someone off or harass them, and you don’t want to do either of these things. Online bullying can take on many forms, and being an adult harassing a young teenager adds to online culture problems
“Hey! I noticed that you reblogged (x). I wanted to let you know that this is really hurtful to (x) group, and it is offensive because of (x) reason. I just wanted to let you know because you may not have known. Thank you for receiving this message and listening”
This points out what is wrong, why it is wrong, and does not demand anything of the person you are sending this message to
And then you step away. Do not send this person 20 asks. Do not threaten them. STEP AWAY.
If they engage, respond, or ask further questions, answer them kindly. If they don’t respond, don’t continue to engage.
REMEMBER: you were 14 once too. You said and did things that you cringe at now. You said and did things that were problematic. Getting yelled at was not what you needed. You grew up, you learned, you changed. Let others do the same.
It has been a very trying day of data collection. I think I need a drink.
Hi! In regards to your post about smudging, that is most often the term used for the ritual which Native Americans perform. In Celtic/Appalachian tradition, the term is saining. While the two are very different rites, (saining is used for many different situations, including blessings, and usually involves juniper rather than sage) the Celtic tradition (so far as I know) is not a closed culture and can be used by eclectic and/or wiccan witches/pagans.
Ah, yes. I have hear of Saining and recaning. Many cultures use smoke cleansing, even the catholic church uses incense as a verb for the act of smoke cleansing.
Also, not all NA Nations use sage. Many use juniper, cedar, sweetgrass or other local herbs. I think it is amusing when people think all Native American somehow used sage when it doesn’t even grow in large parts of this country.
