Bones and Botany - E. Moss

Question! For Science!

Ok, witchy and Pagan folks who use crystals: if you were gonna make a fact sheet about each of your stones/crystals as part of a grimoire, what all would you include? Place of origin, color, and metaphysical properties all seem obvious, but anything else?

— @themodernsouthernpolytheist, A Prayer for the Soul in my Arms

I wrote this prayer 7 years ago while I was still a vet tech to recite with all the animals I had to euthanize over the years. But I never thought about it being so much comfort to me. My best friend of 31 years had to put down one of our college dogs today. His name was Anubis and he was the best boy. From a street puppy in Appalachia to a big boy of 14 in Brooklyn, he lived such a good life.

Jason saved his life. After he and his brother started fighting, I was afraid I was gonna have to put one of them down. I called Jason in tears and asked him to take him; he did. This time he had to call me in tears to tell me it was time.

Words will never say how much I appreciate him for everything he’s done over the year. My heart is broken not just for me, but for Jason, his husband, and even his ex who he contacted, too. I know time will help heal, but I also know we’ll always all carry that scar forever. And be better for it. Rest well, sweet boy.

regretby Nilanja

Hahahaha

LMAO

Not to mix (social) medias, but this ain’t a witch hunt, it’s a TERF war.

No safe quarter here for bigots.

I want to be extremely explicit here- sending anon hate to anyone for any reason is shameful. Yes that includes "defending" another user. That is not how you handle any situation here. If you have a problem with someone else, you either use your fucking name, or you block them and move on. I have been on this god forsaken hellsite since 2012 and have managed to never once send anon hate. Every fight I've ever picked has been right here in the light of day with my name attached because I don't hit people who can't hit back. Every person not worth my time has just been blocked. If you're going on anon to send nastygrams, you're a coward who knows you a) shouldn't be saying what you're saying and b) knows you can't handle the consequences for being an asshole. Get it together. You're embarrassing the rest of us trying to curate our experiences like responsible members of society.

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We could ask the same you filthy gog

Just to confirm, since I've had a few asks about this - yes, that is the correct pronunciation of 'King Arthur'.

Also the giant's name written down is Rhita Gawr.

also worth mentioning that the man who founded the institute of sexology that the nazis targeted was a gay jewish man. nazis also had theories that jews were responsible for creating gay and trans ppl, theories that still circulate to this day. so anyone who tries to reject that part of history is absolutely partaking in holocaust denial.

when you see rhetoric about people recruiting kids into being gay or trans or uniquely preying on children- know that since the far right conspiracy brain considers jews to be at the root of social progress - the groomer insult can be read as a blood-libel offshoot.

hello, i’d like to get in touch with irish gaelic language and irish culture folks side of tumblr, can anyone help me check out who to follow?

I did not expect my internal rhythms to be so thrown off by it getting dark at 4:30pm. I think it's cause Louisiana is closer to the equator than Maine, the difference between when the sun sets in the winter and summer isn't as pronounced as it is up here. It's messing with me something fierce and I'm not sure if the effect is being felt in my circadian rhythm or in my emotional rhythms, or both

I do feel that! I’m from a city ~300 miles inside the Central Time Zone, but live about 40 miles inside the Eastern Time Zone from 18-33. Now that I’m back in my hometown, everything is so off even after a few years cause it stays light so much later when you’re just inside a time zone.

Hot take but you can’t learn about paganism without also learning about white supremacy and how it uses pagan religions to push hate group agendas all over the world today. If you don’t learn about the connections between the two and how it operates, your ignorance enables white supremacists to keep on doing it and using it to recruit others. People in our community who do nothing and stay silent are literally a part of the problem, there is no opting out whatsoever. Divorcing the two makes the issue repeat itself over and over and over again.

It’s not hard to include this in your research and stay aware. It’s the bare minimum.

Torii Gate made of speakers in Kamiyama, Tokushima. You can connect your phone to it and play anything.

This is impressive in so many ways.

why didn’t they do this in the first place ?

Are you seriously asking why, a couple thousand years ago when gates like this started being built, they didn’t make them out of modern electrical speakers?

Yeah. Makes sense to me, I guess

….okay, repeat after me.

You cannot build something in 100 CE out of something that won’t be invented until the 1950s CE.

I don’t follow your logic

don’t listen to that poster, traditional amplifier torii gates were dismantled in the Edo period on order of Tokugawa Iemitsu (1623 - 1651), a noted devotee of acoustic enka music, in order to suppress the popular visual kei movement.