Teach boys about periods

My mother also talked about periods to my brothers.

When I first got mine I had terrible cramps. Crippling cramps. I once was camping with my family and a few of my big brother’s friends when my period came. My cramps were so bad that my mom gave me a full pain killer ( I was 13 and before that she only gave me pills cut in half).

I literally laid down on my parents’ air mattress and cried in pain for an hour before the pill kicked in.

My brothers friend came in to the big tent and I was just curled up and sobbing. Now, I was quite the tomboy and was known to rough house with my brothers and their friends and made sure I wasnt seen as just “a little girl.” So my brother’s friend was confused to see me openly weeping in the fetal position (seriously, these were the worst cramps I have had in my life. My vision went white). He asked what was wrong with me.

My big brother stood up immediately and suggested a nice long hike. During this hike I am sure he had a pretty awkward conversation with his friend explaining menstrual cramps, because when they got back the pain pill had (mostly) kicked in and I was sitting up at a table when my brother’s friend sheepishly asked me if I was feeling better. I said I was better, and he said good.

When we made s'mores that night my brother and his friend kept me well supplied with chocolate.

Making sure sons know as much about periods and menstruation as daughters makes them better brothers, better sons better fathers, and better men. A man that understands a period will not lightly accuse a woman of “being on her period” if the woman is in an argument.

Raise better sons Teach them about normal bodily functions.

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this reminds me of that post about that dude who carries tampons with him at the gym because “half the world menstruates” and “you will build a whole guest room in case your friends want to stay the night but you won’t carry tampons in case they start their periods unexpectedly” or something and honestly they both give me life. <3

A heavily wounded man crawling towards you begging you to kill him but then he hears an ice cream truck jingle and gets up and runs towards the truck yelling ‘ICE CREAM! YIPEE!’ but his leg is terribly broken so its just swinging everywhere while he runs amd blood is squirting everywhere and it gets oin the truck and all of the meenu on the side but he can still order his favorite treat and eats it happily licking it like a cartoon character while giggling But when hes done he collapses and goes back to trying to get you to put him out of his misery like nothing happened

Holy shit it is not i’m sorry I just think and act like this i’m sorry

Samhain will be here before you know it. Sometimes referred to as “The Witches New Year” it is, not only a time that’s believed to be when the veil between our world and the afterlife is at it’s thinnest, but also a time to reflect on the past year and look to the future.

Let this spread be a guide as you prepare yourself for the cold and dark months ahead. 

Card 1 : Your Past

This card represents all you’ve learned and experience this past year (since last Samhain). Let this be a reminder to you of how far you’ve come.

Card 2 : Your Future Love Life

Will you have one? Is it important? What should you be focusing on in your relationship in the new year? These are all questions that this card can answer for you.

Card 3 :Your Future Work

This card will represent your career for the coming new year. Whether this be to help you figure out any doubts you have about a new career path or promotion, or if how you can better improve your current work ethic / attitude. Let this card help you figure out where you’re trying to head [in your career] in the new year.

Card 4 : Your Present

What are you still dealing with right now? This card will help you better understand where you’re at in this moment so that you’ll better understand how to get to where you want to be.

Card 5 : Your Future Self

Let this card be a guide for your coming new year. Allow it to represent where you need to be in the future, as far as self and self-love goes.

**feel free to print this out and add it to your tarot journal, BoS, Grimoire or whatever sort of notebook system you use**

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

Tolkien had personal beef with the Beatles

He actively encouraged Led Zeppelin to write songs based on the LOTR series and considered it an honor

When the current queen of Denmark was young, she made illustrations for his books and sent them to him under a pseudonym. He liked them and they were printed in the Danish version of the book.

WHAT

me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources

(via @itsbenedict)

eternalfarnham replied to your post

there’s no pocket for me to BE in, there’s no LOBBYING involved, there’s no SUPPRESSION campaign because you don’t need one! traditional methods suppress themselves when you make modern pokéballs available. you might as well start accusing AT&T of deliberately suppressing the noble traditional art form of the goddamn semaphore.

not to mention OP demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the market realities of the pokéball industry- Silph and Devon are not monopolies, if they weren’t in constant competition their magic monster domination spheres wouldn’t cost two bucks a pop. the ball spec is a public standard, and Bill Masaki’s storage system based on that standard is an open-source project. they’re only the two largest players because they’re able to leverage economies of scale. you still get smaller operations like the Laverre City Poké Ball Factory, with better regional supply chains and local brand recognition, making room for themselves in the market. 

sm FUCKING h at y’all granola-crunching conspiracy theorists. you probably also believe Super Potions cause autism.

Ok, but it is a shame that artisanal balls are basically off the market now. Like, you have to ride the monorail and hike through a half dozen routes just to find someone willing to sell you a Fast Ball. Believe me, when your boss at the power plant needs five Electrodes by Tuesday you are not going to want to make the trip to Alola; you’re going to head on down to the Mart and get some Ultra Balls, which will do the trick but aren’t well tailored to the job.

I’m with you that modern catching techniques are better, not to mention more humane, but there genuinely is a loss from more niche balls becoming harder to find. Maybe someday the long slowpoketail of consumer demand will be met, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that Shellder.

look y’all are missing the point. mass production of silph balls crowding out traditional apricorn craftsmanship is, if anything, more a side effect of the real problem: that capture artifacts are too easy to get your hands on these days. $2 basic balls are a problem. before modern ball tech you had to go to an artisan, yes, but part of their job was to care about who had the power to recruit pokémon from the wild, as a backstop against another Knight of Veilstone coming along. there was a time when you’d never lay a hand on a ball yourself until it was clear you respected pokémon, whether tame or in the wild. but now, a “pokémon journey” is open to practically every teenager, even if they’ve got not interest in treating their team with trust and love.

the worldwide rise in the last century of organized crime and apocalyptic cults who use pokémon as their muscle is a direct result of capture artifacts becoming a mass produced market commodity rather than a mechanism for preserving the sacred trust between humans and the wilderness. it’s a miracle that the powder keg hasn’t already gone off by now.

Oh that is rank historical revisionism - what, do you think artisans’ definitions of “respect” were constructed in a vacuum? We already had rhetoric as far back as the warring states period in Ransei about how only the soldierly classes, overwhelmingly descendants of nobility and taught from birth, had the intangible qualities necessary to “bond” with Pokémon. And when we start seeing apricorn balls develop in Johto, which borders Kanto - Kanto, where we know there’s been extensive cultural cross-contamination with Auroran and Dragnoran expeditions - surprise, suddenly only a small population has the intangible qualities necessary to use them, too.

That notion was, and remains, a tool to limit general access to Pokémon in the interest of maintaining class disparities. I mean, have we already forgotten the Aether Foundation’s pseudo-conservationist nonsense? Their attempt to manipulate natural resources and establish a power base in Alola, while they were modernizing and taking their place on the world stage, was founded on this exact rhetoric of “rescuing” Pokémon from local disenfranchised populations, as if taking Pokémon away from places like Po Town would improve things instead of increasing competition between trainers and decreasing safety.

Do you want more disillusioned kids joining gangs? Because that’s how you get Teams!

Artisanal balls and anyone who supports them are tools of the aristocracy to suppress the common folk. In the days when a ball could only be made by hand by an expert, only the wealthiest could afford pokemon, and as a result anyone not born into the “elites” was forced to be subservient to their “betters” for protection.

The release of the $2 pokeball meant that the balance of power shifted to the common citizens. If any child can wield the power of a god, the military and the government and the wealthiest businessmen have no power over them.

More than that, instead of power being determined by the wealth to acquire pokemon, power comes exclusively from the dedication, effort, and empathy required to train them to high levels and to maintain their loyalty. If a person simply buys their pokemon, then those pokemon will either stay at low levels forever, or refuse to obey the human because there is no respect between them; the most powerful people in the world are those who caught a critter at level 2-5 and then devoted their life to raising it into a world power.

And as a beautiful side benefit of this, standard of living has increased across the board. Since every household has at least one minor pokemon in the family and there are increasing numbers of professional, working pokemon joining cities and other civilized areas and working to improve them, every aspect of economy and industry has been enhanced by their supernatural capabilities. Electricity is generated cleanly and in abundance for everybody. Pollution is cleaned up almost completely and instantly. The production of farms, mines, and workshops is multiplied, even as safety standards improve. Yes, every few years another potential apocalypse comes about and needs to be prevented by a couple of brave teenagers, but outside of those incidents the world is damn close to utopia.

…that was all fascinating to read and I would like to see more like it, please

for instance; what the hell is in lemonade that makes it a more powerful healing alternative to regular potions

Opium

See, unlike in the real world, the Pokémon world has yet to ban cocaine in drinks.

this website is INCREDIBLE

There's this guy I call DJ Dickhead who drives past my unit real slow twice a day absolutely blasting bass-boosted trap music and one morning I opened my window to yell at him expecting some douche in a sports car and it turned out to be this old ass man with speakers hooked up to his mobility scooter and I still hate him but there's a respect in it

People are always talking about making John Green say “I love cocks” when it comes to having fun with tumblr’s ability to edit everyone’s posts but that one post where that person was saying fuckers and it got repeatedly edited to fudgers and meaners was 10000% funnier

This one?:

#none of this reaches the level of one time when staff made a post about a website update #and someone deleted the whole post and instead wrote #Were Deleting This Website Sayonara You Weeaboo Shits #i think about that literally every day its been ten years #every night i think to myself Sayonara you weeaboo shits (@cryptovocel) 

Witchcraft 101 - Ingredients you probably have but never thought to use:

Yeah, I know this one is a little short today, but I wanted to get another one of these out and I'm not feeling the best today. Feel free to give me further witchcraft 101 topic suggestions.

WITCHCRAFT STARTER PACK

This is based on my 6+ years experience into witchcraft 💘

Sorry if my English is not perfect.

🔮 ORACLE CARDS: If you want to learn how to read tarots I suggest you to start reading oracle cards before, they’re way easier to read and their meanings are always positive. Try them for a few months and then buy your tarot deck if the experience with oracles was positive! If you’re a beginners I also suggest you to read tarots and oracles together, especially if your tarots reading is not positive, oracles are able to suggest you the deep and spiritually meaning behind a negative results or what you’re supposed to learn by a failure.

🃏 TAROT DECK: I suggest you to buy the original Rider Waite deck, PLEASE don’t buy an artistic/not original deck as your first deck, memorizing cards meaning is WAY EASIER with the original Rider Waite deck, it’s also cheaper than artistic or personalized deck.

💜 CRYSTALS: in my opinion, the best crystal for a beginner is rose quartz. It works with a gentle energy and it’s connected with the heart chakra (I’ll explain later why it’s the most important one). I suggest you to buy a rose quartz necklace/bracelet (they’re usually cheap) and wear it everyday. You must recharge your crystal once a week, I always suggest to recharge your crystals with the Sun light instead of the Moon light (Sun energy is warm, dynamic, bold, positive and it radiates confidence, I noticed that it adds a strong boost to crystals). I suggest to put The Lovers or The Empress (I prefer The Empress one but you can choose) card under your rose quartz while recharging it. Rose quartz is connected with universal love, kindness, safety, inner child healing, intuition and balance.

If you want to create your crystals collection I suggest you to buy these crystals:

🔮 MEDITATION: search on youtube “heart chakra meditation” and focus on your breath while listening to the audio, imagine a white light around you, let go of your thoughts and relax. Heart chakra is extremely important: it’s like a bridge between lower chakras and higher chakras, expanding its energy you’ll be able to connect with your higher chakras in a easier way; it’s connected with pure love, kindness and positive emotions; connecting with your heart you’ll be more in touch with a deep part of you, don’t forget that emotions are extremely important if you want to manifest using the law of attraction.

🃏 WORK ON YOUR CONFIDENCE: trusting your intuition is THE KEY to be a powerful witch!

💜 !!! DON’T FORGET TO DRINK WATER !!!

i’ve noticed when i first started using crystals in my craft these crystals were the easiest to work with & communicate with. i also noticed others work well with these a lot.

clear quartz:

can be used as a substitute for any crystal!!

all zodiac signs

element: storm

properties: psychic abilities, physical healing, meditation, clearing, cleansing, expanded awareness, communication with higher realms/guides, enhancing, interdimensional communication, dispelling negative energy, protection, self healing, transformation, intention enhancement

smoky quartz:

zodiacs: scorpio, capricorn, sagittarius

planets: earth, saturn, sun

elements: earth

properties: transformation, strength, balence, protection, grounding, purification, organization, manifestation, sense of purpose, personal will

rose quartz:

zodiacs: scorpio, taurus, libra

planet: venus

element: water

properties: soothing, calming & patience, joy, love & relationships, creativity, clearing, physical healing, empathy, cleansing, relaxation, anxiety relief

amethyst:

zodiacs: virgo, pisces, capricorn, aquarius, sagittarius

planets: jupiter, saturn, neptune

elements: wind

properties: breaking addiction, travel, dreams, clarity, psychic abilities, sleep, protection, wisdom, physical healing, purification, clairvoyance, self discipline, focus, expansion, insight, anxiety relief, spiritual awakening

tiger eye:

zodiacs: capricorn, leo

planets: sun

elements: fire, earth

properties: strength, balence, creativity, intuition, protection, prosperity, balancing polarities, longevity, creating your own reality, luck & good fortune

chrysocolla:

zodiac: taurus, gemini, virgo

planets: mercury

elements: water

properties: calming & patience, joy, balence, truth, communication, meditation, stress relief, inner vision, mastering fear, peace of mind, gentle self expression, expanded awareness, inner peace

lapis lazuli:

zodiacs: sagittarius, aquarius, pisces

planets: mercury, jupiter, saturn, neptune

elements: wind

properties: dreams, balence, intution, inspiration, clarity, communication, meditation, past lives, good luck & fortune, knowledge, ascension, truth, higher self, wisdom, expansion, insight, inner vision, inner peace, trust, dreaming, balancing polarities, communication with higher realms/guides, angelic communication, interdimensional communication

black tourmaline:

zodiacs: capricorn

planets: earth

elements: earth

properties: creativity, protection, clearing, grounding, purification, cleansing, mastering fear, transmutation of negativity, emotional understanding, strength

carnelian:

zodiacs: taurus, cancer, leo, virgo

planets: mars, sun

elements: fire

properties: strength, courage, confidence, power, grounding, passion, manifestation, action, sexuality, motivation, acceptance, anger, appreciation, balence, delusions, spiritual awakening, happiness, mourning, health & healing

hematite:

zodiacs: aries, aquarius

planets: mars

elements: earth

properties: opportunities, strength, balence, clarity, meditation, grounding, focus, action, balancing polarities, manifestation, mental enhancement, transmutation of negative energy, organization, channeling & grounding higher vibrations, detoxify, addiction, anger, confidence

selenite:

zodiacs: gemini, cancer

planets: moon

elements: wind

properties: clarity, protection, meditation, clearing, purification, cleansing, clairvoyance, dispelling negativity, aura cleansing

beginner witch tings

m a s t e r p o s t 💫🔮🌙

wheel of the year/ sabbats (yule) (imbolc) (ostara) (beltane) (litha) (lammas) (mabon) (samhain) *

basics of sigil making (x) (x) (x)

intent/intention and why it’s so important

candles + color magick

beginner herbs and their correspondences 

book of shadows vs grimoire (how to begin)

grounding

beginner crystals and their correspondences

c l e a n s i n g (room) (crystals) 

random books i found (e-books) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

*i corrected the links

✨Methods of cleansing✨

✨How to cleanse✨

✨Cleansing crystals:✨

helpful magickal associations for every day of the week!

source: @libramoonstone on instagram 💕

𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬