Student and Fox

Miss Major in The Trans List (2016)

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, September 20, 1942

glad to see that absolutely fucking nothing has changed since september 20, 1942

in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,

this is 1947 Cincinnati Enquirer erasure

please do not forget your smash mouth

So so so true. I said something (pre-virus, like a year ago) to my therapist about doing a thing “when the dust settles” from whatever stressful thing was happening at the time. She asked me if I could remember a time when the dust settled for me.

And I couldn’t.

There’s always something. Sometimes it’s fucking huge (pandemic, anyone?) but often it’s just ordinary crap. Relationship struggles. A big vet bill. My health being unusually shitty. Moving house.

It’s not even always bad! Starting a new job. Getting kittens. Redecorating.

There’s always something.

Don’t put off your life until the dust settles.

The dust settles when you’re dead.

this one’s a bit longer, but still very important. healing is a gradual thing, of course, but one day, you will wake up and you will notice that your heart is not as heavy as it used to be. healing is not overnight, but it’s also not too far away and nowhere near impossible.

i don’t think i was meant to be a person. i think i was meant to be a small mushroom growing on a decomposing log deep in the forest. i think that would be ideal. 

(Rude) note to self.

And then there’s muntjac who have both!

And sometimes deer species that don’t have fangs anymore will grow vestigial ones!

(pictured: a white-tailed deer skull with a vestigial canine tooth)

Mother Duck Parades Her Ducklings Through Hospital In Cutest Photos EVER

“Every year, without fail, a mama duck chooses one of the enclosed courtyards at our M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center to lay her eggs and take care of her babies. She lets us know when she’s ready to go by tapping on the glass, and this morning, it was time for this annual rite of spring.”

Photos/text by Thompson Health

Something I think we tend to tend to forget, when talking about closed religions, is to think about why they’re closed. Because there is ALWAYS a reason for it; no community just shuts itself off from others just because it feels like it.

Some religions are closed because they’re based on cultural values and beliefs that outsiders, who weren’t raised with and immersed in those beliefs, wouldn’t be able to ever truly understand. Brujería is an example of this, as far as I know.

Some religions are closed because they’re based on location, with their beliefs centered around local things that don’t make sense outside of that location. There are some small Shinto sects that are closed for this reason.

Some religions are closed based on race, because people of a specific race banded together under terrible circumstances and formed beliefs based on their shared experiences. Hoodoo, for example, was created by African slaves so it’s only open to Black people (mainly African diaspora).

Some religions are closed because you have to be born into them, usually because it’s part of the religion’s tenants and foundation. Modern Zoroastrianism almost never recognizes converts.

Some religions are closed because, historically, they were mistreated and often criminalized, with sacred practices being stolen and bastardized by outsiders who were allowed to witness them. Those religions ended up closing to outsiders in order to protect themselves and survive. This is why the majority of indigenous religions are closed.

It’s important to understand the reasons behind religions being closed, not only so that we can learn to accept that decision, but also so that we have a better understanding of history and other people.

Through tiktok today I learned there’s instruments that SUMMON WORMS

The worms: “I’m pickin up good vibrations”

Show up to a sound bath with just these bad boys.

If I was remaking the Princess Bride I'd have Buttercup hire Vizzini, Inigo and Fezzik herself to help her fake her death and take her away so she could go and seek out the Dread Pirate Roberts and get revenge for Westley's death, and also get out of the marriage to Humperdinck, so she rocks up on the ship in disguise and this time Westley doesn't recognise *her*, but she realises it's Westley and she's just making loads of snide remarks trying to figure out why he's been merrily fucking about on a boat this whole time, meanwhile Westley's having a little bit of a bi moment about Buttercup-in-disguise but because he's loyal as fuck he's not going to do anything about it but they get into a fight and Buttercup is like 'Why the hell did you just fucking leave your girlfriend to fuck around being a pirate you could at least have written a letter' and he's like 'Oh I'm sorry???? What on earth would you know about it, this is none of your concern, I should've killed you when you came on board' and of course during this scene they're also having a very tense sword fight with Inigo making quips from the sidelines like a sports commentator, and Buttercup's like 'WELL WHY DON'T YOU JUST KILL ME THEN, FARM BOY???' But then the ship lurches to the side and she gets thrown overboard and Westley is like 'Oh my God I'm so stupid!!!!' So then he has to dive in after and pull her out.

I LOVE THIS??!?

Once she’s back in the boat she and Westley have a heart a heart conversation and it’s very cute (Inigo and Fezzik are throwing rhyming couplets back and forth in the background).

Humperdinck is still trying to start a war, so when he hears his prospective bride is captured! by pirates! he chases them, and captures them all as soon as their boat makes landfall. Westley, Inigo, Fezzik, and Vizzini all go to the dungeons, and Buttercup is confined to the court physician’s rooms to ‘recover her wits’ from her ‘scare with the pirates’ (translation: she’s spitting mad and has a sword now and has to be restrained to keep from Murdering Humperdinck).

The gang in the dungeons are all in separate cells, so they each organize their own jailbreak. Fezzik just. breaks his door, Vizzini confuses his guard into handing him the keys to the door, Inigo has his ‘Father, guide my sword’ moment and finds a secret passageway out, and Westley is just sitting outside his cell waiting for them, both of his guards knocked out. he claims they turned on each other and then he picked his lock.

Meanwhile, Humperdinck releases Buttercup, which was a mistake, because now she gets to beat him up and give the ‘to the pain’ speech. Inigo has his conclusion with the six-fingered-man, meanwhile Westley finds the queen, convinces her that Humperdinck has been warmongering, and she decides to crown her younger child instead. Westley meets up with Buttercup, and together they find Inigo and Fezzik (who has grabbed the horses).

Inigo becomes the next Dread Pirate Roberts and Fezzik goes with him. Humperdinck never recovers from the scandal and gets shoved in a monastery somewhere out of embarrassment. Westley and Buttercup become wandering swords, just Robin Hooding their way through life, settling down to be farmers in their old age.

You're hired

“Well,” said Inigo, shrugging, “I myself am no stranger to murder plots.  I just don’t know that the four of us can fight an entire crew of pirates.”

They were drawing quite close to the Revenge, now.

Vizzini scoffed.  “Obviously not.  They say Roberts is a bloodthirsty pirate, but too honorable for his own good.  Our employer will simply challenge him to a duel.”  He glanced forward, to the front of the boat, where the enigmatic figure who had purchased their services stared intently ahead, and continued in an undertone.  “And, since we’ve been paid in advance, the outcome matters little.”

So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

This is really great??

We used it in my LGBT history class and it’s SO WONDERFUL I LOVE it PLEASE READ at least some chapters. It has photos and sources and goes into detail in footnotes when it doesn’t have time for a tangent.

Fascinating.

it's okay if you're slipping back into old bad habits and coping mechanisms, I'm not disappointed in you. we're suffering. we're scared. it's going to be okay.

Autistic peeps, reblog and add what texture you hate the most

Mine is canvas

I’ve had some people ask, so yeah this is post is totally fine for people with adhd to reblog too

windbreaker material can literally die

that fuckin starchy polyester in some shirts can fuck off the the fire. Same with fuckin underwire bras

ADHD but microfiber I cannot

Unpopular witchcraft opinion: Yarn is the most versatile spell component of all times, it can be used in just about anything and can be used to substitute nearly anything in a spell. It is also the most overlooked.

I hope you don’t mind me asking, but can you tell me some specific uses/your favorite uses for yarn? :3 I’m always looking to expand my knowledge!!

I’m glad you asked and sorry for the delay, I’m only on here intermittently.

Some sample uses for yarn in spells.

1) Bindings.

Okay so this is an obvious one because yarn is basically a string, tying stuff up is easy. But I find that it’s good to make more elaborate ones too with crocheting or knitting, because you can make a more elaborate “pattern”.

2) Protection.

Making small items (see 3) as well) and charging them with protective spells, filling them with herbs and/or crystals, is a good way to make an anchor for a protection spell. I have a small, crocheted bear that’s a protective amulet.

In fact

3) Satchel/amulets/bracelets/necklaces

are so easy to make from yarn and takes less gear than say sewing.

As someone who sews too, by hand and machine, you need less stuff to start and less space to crochet or knit a bag or satchel. Bracelets and cords for amulets/necklaces are also easy to make in yarn.

4) Spell items.

Sometimes it can be hard, even impossible to get an item, so why not make one out of yarn.

Spell calls for a rose or other flower, but that specific one isn’t in season or it’s late winter and nothing is blooming? Make one.

5) Bags.

Not spells as such, but I love to make bags from both crystals and cards from yarn. I prefer to crochet them as it makes for a sturdier and stiffer result than knitting.

On the whole I find working intent into something when you have to work on it for a period of time, from maybe half an hour for a small item to hours, days even months for bigger ones, is easier exactly because you spend so much time on it. And it makes for more “effective” end result.

Knot magick and colour associations are my favourite!

Weavers and fiber craftspeople have always been associated with magic, mysteries. Betwixt&Between have a great episode all about magical crafts.

And In the last episode of Witchcraft for the Restless, I have a whole segment about using a crochet hook in your craft :D