Ah, I see. Thank you for your honesty. Please, take as much as you need. There will be enough for everyone.

A change of scenery. Simple, but marvelous.

A glimpse into your future, for you brave souls! (Divination is tricky business, tread carefully my dear!)

Knowledge from the universe, eh? Perhaps this will be of interest to you.

Rest for the weary, right this way. It's a personal favourite of mine.

A home-cooked meal you say? I like how you think! A labour of love worth savoring (and sharing with friends!)

For something to pass the time, try looking here, or if that doesn't hit the spot, here.

Seeking adventure to a far-off place? I know a way to get you there.

I hope you found what you were looking for!

Okay, not to be overdramatic but this is one of those things that makes me feel so in awe and in love with people. OP spent their time making this?? And it's delightful?? And full of compassion and curiosity about strangers on a hellsite. Take what you need, take a breath, enjoy this shared moment of human experience. I did. 💜

Okay so I'm gonna hijack this post and make it apart of my welcome to my blog post because I love it.

Welcome to my blog! I'm a physically disabled occultist. This post has a list of my major posts about witchcraft and posts I didn't create but thought were really helpful.

Also, i make art! From painting to sewing to full on DIY. Art blog is @wishful-seeker-art

Boyfriend just came in and dumped all this on my lap

He shows affection like a cat bringing you a dead animal lol

He just said "i love you" and walked away lmao

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

They like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

This all makes me very happy to know.

spirits don't have to be your friend. the rock in your backyard doesn't have to behave like a human or be useful to you to deserve respect. there is inherent value in loving the web of spirits that surrounds us without asking what they can do for us.

to be very clear, this is also about not anthropomorphizing nun-human spirits. this is also about decentering human relationships to spirits in the web of interconnectedness.

So good at feeling not so good at expressing

Me @ all my friends. I may not have the processing power to get wholeheartedly into a new Thing but I will happily listen to you and chime in with a "Fuck yeah!" at appropriate moments. I love @betwixttwoendlesswinters' philosophy rambles. Fuck yeah, you funky little robot! I love @escaped-cryptid's bugposting. Fuck yeah, invertebrates! I love @vivianinkwell's rambling descriptions of hypothetical technology I will probably never fully comprehend. Fuck yeah, mechanisms! I love @gobbykins' art and makeup I love @wishful-seeker's linocuts and sewing projects I love @scrapplescribbles and @birch-and-aspen's art and story ideas I love @ominous-faechild's mysterious OC picrews and color-coded posts (and wish my brain would just shut up long enough for me to properly get into a new story bc I've seen everyone else in the discord go all 😱 about her writing)

I love all of y'all

Hell yeah! I love that you MAKE WHOLE NEW LANGUAGES FOR FUN. Like what??? So cool and i have no idea how you do it lol.

my daily affirmation as an author

It's so, SO important to share success stories like this. I know an actual JPL engineer who doesn't believe in climate change because, "you never hear about acid rain anymore."

He thinks climate change can be lumped in with acid rain and the ozone layer of "things that were overblown and not really important because no one talks about it anymore."

It didn't even occur to him that we actively fixed the problem. Here's the EPA page on acid rainfall.

From the page:

It's also important to talk about success stories tonfuel hope that we can overcome current and future conservation and environmental issues.

We fixed the hole in the Ozone layer too.

I wish I could take this post, go back in time, and shove it in the face of literally everyone.

All of these problems are fixable

I wanted to share this: WE FIGURED OUT HOW TO BRING BACK DEAD CORAL!!! By using sounds of living coral to attract fish.

Coral can be saved!!! This planet is way more resilient than we give it credit for. And we don't give humans enough flowers for stopping the harm billionaires cause.

The indomitable human spirit does save the world actually

ChatGPT isn't reliable source for witchcraft and demonolatry. I'm sorry if you will be offended by this, but it isn't. Yes, it can give you sources, but it also cannot tell the difference between correct and wrong information, and also gives you biased information because it's constructed to please you.

Go to Wikipedia and scroll down to "references" or "sources" and look them up.

Go read online books from various of websites.

Go read the physical books about the practice.

Go watch YouTube videos and vlogs about the said practices.

Go talk to witches and demonolators, many of them can give you great advices.

Heck, you can even learn something from Reddit and Quora, and they will be much better and detailed than ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is even more influenced by propaganda than a human being. Ai can never be the answer to practices that require humans to be understood and experienced.

The Hanged Man is a Tarot Card that usually symbolizes contemplation…

…things being put on pause…

…gaining new perspectives…

…And the need for a sacrifice.

Baneful Magic Requires Trigger Discipline

Apply the Four Universal Laws of Gun Safety to your magical practice and you'll be golden.

When I give my ancestors/deities offerings like flowers, herbs, or food, after I feel like they've used them I still use them myself. I eat the food, I use the herbs and flowers in magic. I like to think they become blessed items. Ik some people are very against eating/using offerings but can we normalize practice being different for everyone? My spirits are okay with me doing this, it's our way of connecting to another. I think of it like they're trees. I give trees CO2 and they give me oxygen. Our relationship is mutually beneficial, we are a system of caring for each other.

It is actually common practice in many cultures to then eat most if not all of the food offerings made to ancestors- those days often becoming like feast days in turn, because it would be a waste to do otherwise. So do not worry, you are in good stead. 🥂

I wish it was more normalized to be "ugly". I shaved my head when i was 16 because i was obsessed with my hair looking good and being pretty and i realized i didn't feel comfortable in my own skin unless i was "presentable". So i shaved it all off. I did this to teach myself i don't have to be pretty. I'm allowed to look weird, im allowed to look like a boy, im allowed to not be attractive. Im still just as vaild and should be taken just as seriously whether i look nice or not.

I hate that children go to Sephora now. I hate that every person on the internet is wearing filters or full glam make up or botox or lip filler. I don't hate these things because i think make up or botox is bad, i hate it because it seems like no one feels comfortable in their own skin unless they have all these things. Everyone thinks they need these things to be taken seriously or presentable, because if they don't have these things they WILL be judged. I hate that shit.

Let me be ugly, let me be chopped, let me have acne and scars and cracked lips and eye bags, let me have no hair and a weird shaped head, let me have a lazy eye, let me have my snaggle tooth. let me be a raw uncensored human being with no fucks to give. Let me remain unbothered in my least attractive state. And let us all realize that we don't need to look good 24/7.

Being ugly is freedom. In some of the best moments of our lives we are in our ugliest - camping, music festivals, late night parties, orgasms. In those moments we are sweaty and our hair is messy and our make up is fucked up and we can't shave or even shower for a few days, and yet we are happy and full of love and friendship.

I personally love being pretty, not because I feel pressured into it - I barely leave my house - but because it brings me joy. But being ugly is freedom.

I miss body positivity movement. I feel like it died out and we spun right back into eating disorders and make up tips for pre-teens.