think about this the next time you come at me sideways and then go home to a man and let him nut in you for a Big Mac and a Red Box rental because he begrudgingly fake listens to you for five minutes a day
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On numerous occasions, Bjork has admitted interest in metaphysics and the occult in general. From a 1995 interview, “I think she took me to all the occult creatures of Iceland… I think I probably believe most of it, actually. I’ve got Pluto in a very important place, and that’s what I’m about. I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up. And kill it in the evening, which is a bit outrageous, but there you go.” This statement points to an interest in the occult, and of course the zodiac. Bjrok’s first band was on the British anarchist label, Crass Records. The band was called KUKL, which is the Icelandic word for “witchcraft.”
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Azealia Banks
Recently the “212” singer announced her practice of “brujería” (Spanish for witchcraft) and her bizarre nature made a bit more sense. That is until she posted a video on her Instagram revealing she had been sacrificing chickens in her closet! In December of 2016, Banks posted a video of her herself cleaning up what appeared to be blood and at least two dead chickens while wearing goggles. While literally no one is surprised by her interest in witchcraft, killing chickens is pretty extreme. In an interview with Broadly, she said that she got her interest in witchcraft from her mother who would practice “white table magic.“ “Real witches do real things,” Banks said. If by real she means slaughter birds from the comfort of her own home, then totally.
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Kate Bush
Everyone already knows this one, as Bush is very open with her love of the occult.Her 1993 album The Red Shoes is credited with being an occult retelling of a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale. One song from the album featured lyrics taken from the Lesser Banning Ritual of the Pentagram, a ceremonial ritual used in modern occultism. She also has a song titled “Waking the Witch” perhaps a reference to her own growing interest in the occult. She has stated about the song, “What fascinated me in doing that song was the idea of a witch-hunter hiding behind the priesthood, as a guise, and coming to get this woman who is not a witch, but he wants to make her so.” Her music paved the way for similar artists such as FKA Twigs and Grimes (who also has made the list), another possible musically talented witch.
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Stevie Nicks
The Fleetwood Mac singer has denied being a witch time and time again, but the denial itself is cause for speculation. Her song “Rhiannon” tells the story of an ancient Welsh witch goddess. The show American Horror Story: Coven asserts that Nicks is indeed a white witch while discussing the song.
Nicks even appeared on the show herself as a white witch, further cementing her witchcraft status. She has been seen wearing pagan inspired jewelry while performing and has also been quoted as saying, “I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.” While she denies being involved in witchcraft itself, she has mentioned that she dabbles in Goddess Worship.
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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez’s grandmother lives in Miami and has an affinity for the Caribbean form of witchcraft known as “santeria.” The claim is that Lopez’s grandmother does rituals, with and without Lopez herself, to help benefit her career.
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Grimes
Grimes refers to her musical style as “Witch House”, a subgenre of electronic music that uses occult and dark themes. The Witch House visual aesthetic can also be seen in her music videos. She claims the album “Visions” was created after performing a spell that required her to not sleep or eat for days and create the music with the effects of sleep deprivation.
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Fairuza Balk
The Craft is known for showing just how cool and trendy witches can be, but Fairuza Balk, one of the four main cast members, believes in Wicca in real life. Balk is openly pagan and at one time owned an occult pagan shop called Panpipes Magickal Marketplace, which claims to be the oldest occult store in the U.S. She purchased the shop in 1995 while working on The Craft but reportedly sold it in 2001.
Wicca, or Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary form of paganism. Wicca, as it is currently practiced, is still a fairly new religion, leaving a lot of room for interpretation and practice. Balk and her fellow cast members from The Craft may not have been practicing Wicca, but they definitely were witches. Balk’s character Nancy goes on quite the magic sparked rampage in that movie, while the real Balk sells scented candles online. She has been quoted with saying, “People don’t understand witchcraft, they just make fun of it, but is is something very sacred to me.”
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Daryl Hall
Who knew the blonde haired half of Hall & Oates was interested in witchcraft? “Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a solid six or seven years immersed in the Kabbala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions [and] ancient techniques for focusing the inner flame,” he said when interviewed by Penthouse in 1987. During this time he worked on an album with Robert Fripp of King Crimson called “Sacred Songs.” A track titled “ Without Tears” is based on the book Magick without Tears by Aleister Crowley.
The pop rock singer has also claimed to be related to Crowley and the great-grandson of a male witch. Many of Hall’s lyrics allude to his interest in esoteric magic but it seems that recently the singer has cooled off on his occult studies.
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Viggo Mortensen
Mortensen has claimed on several occasions to be a proud Pagan and openly shows his worship of Norse gods. He has several Pagan symbols tattooed on his body and always wears his necklace of Mjolnir and the Pagan cross.
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Yoko Ono
Ono has asserted on several occasions that she practices New Age Witchcraft. In a recent interview she is quoted saying:
“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I’m just bringing that out. Don’t be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.”
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Robert Plant and Jimmy Page
The creators of Led Zeppelin are both known occultists, Page perhaps being a bit more interested in Satanic magic than Plant, who has written dozens of songs based around Gaelic/Celtic Paganism, Druidism and Norse mythology.
In their unnamed album, each member of the band is assigned a sigil from the “Book of Signs”. Robert chose the the feather of Ma’at, the Egyptian goddess of justice and fairness, and is the emblem of a writer (ie song lyrics). It can be found in “The Sacred Symbols of Mu” by Colonel James Churchward. This is not a common symbol, but does turn up in Egyptian and Red Indian texts. Jimmy chose “Zoso”, which is a Saturnical symbol that has multiple meanings both astrological and demonic. It is mentioned in the Grand Grimoire and Aleister Crowley’s writings.
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Jayne Mansfield
Perhaps the biggest sex symbol of the 60s alongside Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield was actually a member of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan. LaVey had given her the title “High Priestess” of San Francisco’s Church of Satan and she was also rumored to have been in a relationship with LaVey.
Despite her Satanic practices, her family insisted she have a Methodist minister conduct her funeral ceremony.
want to get out of a conversation? this isn’t plot-relevant, I’m out
trying to encourage someone? you’ve got to push the narrative arc, my dude.
someone questioning your divine presence? plot hole, probably.
I always thought “you’ll have to speak with my legal counsel” was good for dodging mundane but awkward questions (why were you late?) but this is clearly superior.
ooh, in that vein, I’m fond of ‘that’s classified.’
In Twilight, Bella has absolutely no qualities that make her interesting as a character. She’s shown to have very little personality, in the books or onscreen, and is only made “interesting” (a relative term here) via the inclusion of her sparkly, abusive boyfriend. It feeds into the harmful mentality of adolescent girls that you need a significant other in order to find fulfillment, particularly if he’s significantly older and likes to watch you sleep. Yikes.
Examples:
Bella is welcomed to school by a friendly, extroverted girl and given a place to sit amongst her and her friends. Despite this girl’s kindness, Bella shrugs her off as a stereotypical shallow cheerleader, and spends her time staring wistfully at the guy across the cafeteria from them. Once Edward becomes her official boyfriend, she immediately loses interest in her new friends as her life shifts its orbit to revolve completely around him.
How to avoid her:
Female characters are allowed to have lives outside of their significant others. They’re allowed to have friends, quirks, hobbies, and interests. Give them some.
The best fictional relationships are based off of characters who compliment each other, not one character who revolves around the other. Make sure your female character’s life does not centralize around her significant other.
Strong female characters don’t look down on other girls, even if they are outgoing cheerleaders. Being pasty and introverted doesn’t make you a better person, y’all – if it did, I’d be a decorated hero by now.
Give them aspirations besides getting an obsessive, much-older boyfriend. In fact, don’t give them an obsessive, much-older boyfriend at all – if you do want them to have a significant other, give them one who cares about their interests and accepts that they have lives and goals outside of them.
2. The Molly Hooper (i.e. the starry-eyed punching bag)
Who she is:
Like most things about BBC’s Sherlock, Molly was an amazing concept that went progressively downhill. I used to love her quiet tenacity and emotional intelligence, and was sure that with her strong basis as a character, she would overcome her infatuation with the titular Sherlock and find self-fulfillment. Nope!
Examples:
She remained stubbornly infatuated over the course of five years with an ambiguously gay man who, en large, treated her badly, leading to her public humiliation with zero pertinence to the plot or resolution. Moreover, her infatuation with Sherlock quickly usurped almost all of her other characteristics, leading her to an increasingly immature characterization that was difficult to relate to.
How to avoid her:
By all means, please write female characters who are quiet, kind, and unassuming (a female character does not, contrary to popular belief, need to be rambunctious, callous, or violent to be “strong”) but remember than none of these traits need to make the character a pushover. Let them stand their ground.
Similarly, attraction to men (or anyone, for that matter) does not invalidate a female character’s strength. Just be sure she values herself more than their attention.
As I said earlier, don’t be afraid to make characters who are gentle and soft-spoken, but be wary of making them “childlike,” or giving them an infantile, emotionally characterization.
My best advice for writing gentle, soft-spoken, unassuming women would actually to look to male characters in the media fitting this description; since male characters are rarely infantilized as much as women are by popular media, you’ll get a much better idea of what a well-rounded character looks like.
3. The Irene Adler (i.e. the defanged badass)
Who she is:
Yup, another one of the BBC Sherlock women, among whom only Mrs. Hudson seemed to come through with her dignity and characterization intact. In the books, Irene and Sherlock have absolutely zero romantic connotations, only bonded via Sherlock’s irritation and respect with her substantial intelligence. In the show, it’s a different story entirely.
Examples:
Irene is a badass character who’s turned into a teary-eyed Damsel in Distress via her uncontrollable love for the show’s male lead. It doesn’t help matters that she’s a self-proclaimed lesbian who falls in love with a man, which, unless you’re a woman who loves women yourself and writing about a character realizing she’s bi/pansexual, I would recommend against doing under any circumstances. She ends up being defeated and subsequently rescued by Sherlock – a far cry from her defeat of him in the books.
How to avoid her:
If you’re writing a badass female character, allowher to actually be badass, and allow her to actually show it throughout your work as opposed to just hearing other characters say it. And one punch or kick isn’t enough, either: I want to see this chick jump out of planes.
That said, “badass” does not equal emotionally callous. It doesn’t bother me that Moffat showed Irene having feelings for someone else, what bothers me is how he went about it.
When writing a character who’s shown to be attracted to more than one gender, just say she’s bisexual. Pansexual. Whatever, just don’t call her straight/gay depending on the situation she’s in. Jesus.
4. The Becky (i.e. the comedic rapist)
Who she is:
Most people who know me can vouch for my adoration of Supernatural, but it definitely has its problems: it’s not as diverse as it could be, its treatment of women is subpar, and yes, there is some thinly veiled sexual violence: all three of its leading characters have dealt with it at one point of another (Dean is routinely groped by female demons, a virginal Castiel was sexually taken advantage of by a disguised reaper, and the whole concept of sex under demonic possession is iffy to say the least.) It’s rarely ever addressed afterwards, and is commonly used for comedic fodder. Possibly the most quintessential example of this is Becky.
Examples:
Becky abducts Sam, ties him to the bed, and kisses him against his will. She then drugs him, albeit with a love potion, and is implied to have had sex with him under its influence.
How to avoid her:
Male rape isn’t funny, y’all. Media still takes rape against women a lot more seriously than rape against men, particularly female-on-male rape, and I can assure you its not.
Educate yourself on statistics for male sexual assault: approximately thirty-eight percent of sexual violence survivors are male, for example, and approximately one in sixteen male college students has reported to have experienced sexual assault.
Moreover, be aware that forty-six percent of all instances of male rape have a female perpetrator.
In other words, treat themes of sexual assault against men as seriously as you would treat themes of sexual assault against women.
5. The Movie Hermione (i.e. the flawless superhuman)
Who she is:
Okay, in and of herself, Movie Hermione is amazing: she’s beautiful, intelligent, and heroic, as well as possibly the most useful character of the franchise. She only bothers me in context of the fact that she takes away everything I loved most about Book Hermoine, and everything I loved about Book Ron, too.
Examples:
Book Hermione was beautiful, but not conventionally: she had big, poofy curls, big teeth, and didn’t put a lot of effort into maintaining her appearance. Movie Hermione looks effortlessly flawless, all the time. Book Hermione was intelligent, but also loud, abrasive, and unintentionally annoying when talking about her interests (which meant a lot to me, because as a kid on the Asperger’s spectrum, I frequently was/am that way myself – it was nice to see a character struggling with the same traits). She was also allowed to have flaws, such as struggling to keep up with academia, and being terrified of failure.
Movie Hermione also took all of Ron’s redeeming qualities, and everything that made him compliment her as a couple: his street smarts used to compliment her academic intelligence, for example, staying calm while she panicked in the Philosopher’s Stone when they were being overcome with vines. He also stood up for her in the books against Snape, as opposed to the jerkish “he’s right, you know.”
How to avoid her:
Allow your female characters to have flaws, as much so as any well-rounded male character. Just be sure to counterbalance them with a suitable amount of redeeming qualities. This will make your female character well-rounded, dynamic, and easy to get invested in.
There’s no reason for your female characters to always look perfect. Sure, they can be stunningly gorgeous (particularly if their appearance is important to them), but it’s physical imperfections that make characters fun to imagine: Harry’s scar and wild hair, for example. Female characters are no different.
If you’re writing a female character to have an eventual love interest, allow their personalities to compliment one another. Allow the love interest to have qualities that the female character is lacking, so that they can compliment one another and have better chemistry.
Basically, write your female characters as people.
God willing, I will be publishing essays like this approximately every Friday, so be sure to follow my blog and stay tuned for future writing advice and observations!
Hello my dears, especially all of you young new enthusiastic witches who are curious about the world of witchcraft and the use of mysticism in your life. Witchcraft is very rewarding and is practiced worldwide for a variety of reasons. I, too, was once a curious and honestly confused young witch trying to figure out where to start and how I should begin my journey. This is why I am creating this new series of guides for all of you who have found yourselves in that boat. I truly hope that these will help you greatly!
With these guides, I will be posting all sorts of information for you including vocabulary, links, resources, correspondences, exercises to practice, examples and even in some cases “homework” for you to give a try. So feel free to take notes or save these posts to your blogs for easy access. Feel free to message me or send me asks as well if you have any questions on the topics I cover. Also, to show your appreciation for these free lessons you can buy me a coffee at my Ko-fi Page as a tip, but this is not required at all.
What is a witch?
Let’s start with something simple but important for all beginners to understand. What actually is a witch? A witch is an individual who uses magick, pretty simple. They do NOT have to be female or born “into it” or Wiccan. A witch is a person who uses and practices witchcraft and Magick.
What is magick?
Magick is making an effort through energy of oneself or other types of energies to change aspects of one’s life. These changes can vary depending on the type of spells, rituals and practices you are using. The reason a “k” is used at the end of magick is simply to separate it from the word magic which is often associated with illusions and parlor tricks. Though some do still call it “magic” so it is really out of preference.
a little boy just asked me, “Excuse me, I have a question. This is my question: which pharaoh battled Jesus?”
All of them when they died and went to be judged before the lord for paganism, greed, fraud, treachery, lust, wrath, or violence.
did their “judgement” involve Jesus putting on a mecha suit and taking them to pound town in an arena or is your religion significantly less exciting than it could be
hey guys new invention: a hat that goes on my head and just fucking explodes whenever I misuse slang or idioms
I still think this is a perfect use of that phrase
“It absorbs a spirit, which it then burns. By waving the flames on its arms, it puts its foes into a hypnotic trance.”
A curse to make another’s lives go numb and things they once enjoyed to feel dull. (This curse can be broken by the caster)
You will Need:
Pendulum (preferably obsidian or a dark stone/metal)
4 black candles
2 purple candles
Burning safe plate/bowl
Target’s name written on a strip of paper (
Bowl containing any of the following: cayenne pepper, chili powder, used coffee grounds, onion skin, dried garlic, catnip, poppy seeds and/or black peppercorn
Set Up:
Set up a good space for your spell to be cast. It needs to be comfortable but safe to burn your candles without risk of burning yourself or something else. Keep water or salt near you to help prevent any flare ups (only use water if no oil is on the candles or around the candles, oil fires and water do NOT mix). Cleanse yourself and your space as you feel is proper and ground/center yourself as needed.
Set up your candles up with two black candles on the outsides and the other two blacks on the inside with the purples between the outside and inside candles. Light the candles starting with the black candles outside in every other on each side, careful of not burning yourself. For small set ups a longer match or lighter is recommended.
Once all candles are lit place the bowl in front of you with candles on either side and herbs already mixed into the bowl. Once the bowl is placed you are ready to begin the spell.
Steps:
With your pendulum in your dominant hand hang it over the herbs and sway it very carefully side as to prevent it from hitting a candle or other object. Once you have a good flow going you may begin chanting: “Right, wrong, right, wrong. You have not done me any good, you have only done me wrong. For this I shall punish you. All that you love and all that brings you joy, shall only bring you emptiness, misery and void.” Repeat the last line three times.
Once you have finished the chant carefully on your fire safe plate/bowl light the name of the target you have written on fire using one of the candles of your choosing and let it burn to ash. Mix the ashes with the herbs and toss them in the trash.
Finish the spell by cleansing yourself, the area and your pendulum. Once you have well cleansed take a good long rest.
To Break Curse:
You can state ways to break the curse during your chant if you choose or determinants for it to break automatically such as “when they feel remorse” or “when they change their attitude” or you can set it to be a specific time such as “in 3 months the curse will lift.” this is all really up to you.
I am getting some very nice guests today. Treat me nice and I will be nice to you. I comped one man’s parking and another guy who was having a rough day but has been very nice to me i gave vouchers for a free movie and a free coffee on property. Be nice to your hotel staff, especially front desk workers, we are willing to be generous back
I mean, just be nice to people because they’re people too, but yeah. I’m nice to people and often get stuff because of it, though that’s not really the intention.
Oh I definitely agree, but often people think being rude and insulting front desk workers about how slow we are or how we aren’t catering enough to them will get us to give them more for free. You would not believe how often people make sarcastic remarks or try to make us feel bad hoping it gets them stuff. It doesn’t.
I am getting some very nice guests today. Treat me nice and I will be nice to you. I comped one man’s parking and another guy who was having a rough day but has been very nice to me i gave vouchers for a free movie and a free coffee on property. Be nice to your hotel staff, especially front desk workers, we are willing to be generous back
Search my tags for Cleansing and Protection. all of the information i have or have found are under those tags. I tag all of my witchcraft related posts. Nothing is ever ‘too contaminated’ it just needs to be cleansed
“It absorbs a spirit, which it then burns. By waving the flames on its arms, it puts its foes into a hypnotic trance.”
A curse to make another’s lives go numb and things they once enjoyed to feel dull. (This curse can be broken by the caster)
You will Need:
Pendulum (preferably obsidian or a dark stone/metal)
4 black candles
2 purple candles
Burning safe plate/bowl
Target’s name written on a strip of paper (
Bowl containing any of the following: cayenne pepper, chili powder, used coffee grounds, onion skin, dried garlic, catnip, poppy seeds and/or black peppercorn
Set Up:
Set up a good space for your spell to be cast. It needs to be comfortable but safe to burn your candles without risk of burning yourself or something else. Keep water or salt near you to help prevent any flare ups (only use water if no oil is on the candles or around the candles, oil fires and water do NOT mix). Cleanse yourself and your space as you feel is proper and ground/center yourself as needed.
Set up your candles up with two black candles on the outsides and the other two blacks on the inside with the purples between the outside and inside candles. Light the candles starting with the black candles outside in every other on each side, careful of not burning yourself. For small set ups a longer match or lighter is recommended.
Once all candles are lit place the bowl in front of you with candles on either side and herbs already mixed into the bowl. Once the bowl is placed you are ready to begin the spell.
Steps:
With your pendulum in your dominant hand hang it over the herbs and sway it very carefully side as to prevent it from hitting a candle or other object. Once you have a good flow going you may begin chanting: “Right, wrong, right, wrong. You have not done me any good, you have only done me wrong. For this I shall punish you. All that you love and all that brings you joy, shall only bring you emptiness, misery and void.” Repeat the last line three times.
Once you have finished the chant carefully on your fire safe plate/bowl light the name of the target you have written on fire using one of the candles of your choosing and let it burn to ash. Mix the ashes with the herbs and toss them in the trash.
Finish the spell by cleansing yourself, the area and your pendulum. Once you have well cleansed take a good long rest.
To Break Curse:
You can state ways to break the curse during your chant if you choose or determinants for it to break automatically such as “when they feel remorse” or “when they change their attitude” or you can set it to be a specific time such as “in 3 months the curse will lift.” this is all really up to you.
my favorite Millennial Thing™ is when a group of us are standing around and talking and someone asks a question that no one knows the answer to and suddenly it’s a race to get out your phone and google it and be the first to know, and then someone starts reading the Wikipedia article about the thing aloud to everyone else, and what started as a casual conversation is now A Learning Opportunity and we all walk away a little more knowledgeable about a random topic
Like, Boomers hate when we do that, but I think it’s one of the best things about us.
So long as we have internet or a cell signal, all of the world’s collective knowledge is at our fingertips, and damned if we aren’t going to use it.
-When I told the army doctor that sometimes my period pains make me unable to function for days, he didn’t even write that down. -When I told my dad “don’t touch me, I’m in pain” he backed down for a moment until my mom told him “she’s on her period”. Then he just laughed. -When I told my teacher before a big test that I was unable to do it because I was in extreme pain and could barely move at all, she said I was making up excuses and that it wasn’t a real reason not to do the test. -Wenever I tell someone about how different I feel during my period emotionally they say I’m just “making up drama”.
We need to start treating people on their periods like actual human beings in pain.
-The fact that it occurs monthly doesn’t make the pain less real. It should be treated seriously and with respect. -The fact that the hormones effect the emotions doesn’t make your sadness less painful or the anger less valid or that terrible feeling of being lost less terrifying. Guess what? Hormones affect everyone. Feelings aren’t always rational. It should be also treated seriously and with respect.
Please stop mocking people with periods. Please stop dismissing us. Please stop violating our boundries. Please respect people with periods.
We love our vegetarian and vegan friends and family (and I have a lot of them!!). We don’t support an organization that claimes to love animals and does nothing but hurt them and the people who love them.
Hugs and support to my extended dog show family at Crufts.
Not saying that youre wrong because peta is on some sketchy shit but what did they do to hurt animals?? Again not saying that ur wrong I just don’t know
We also do NOT support vegans that force their carnivorous pets to live on a vegan diet. Hypocrisy is somthing I HATE and if you really cared that much about animals you would do the research needed to feed your pets a species appropriate diet.
my dad had a skype interview today so he was sitting in the living room looking all professional in his suit and tie and everything while he’s talking to the people who are interviewing him. and OF COURSE my cat decided that she NEEDED to speak at that moment so she just starts meowing left and right and talking crazy talk to the point where the interviewers just start laughing because she just will NOT shut up. so my dad just kind of sighs, looks at the camera, and goes, “i’m so sorry. i have to ask my cat to leave.” and then he looks over at victoria and very calmly and professionally goes, “victoria, i’m afraid you’re being too loud, and i’m going to have to ask you to leave.”
and she did. she fucking turned and walked out of the living room.
i specifically chose animals that are (or believed to be) extinct due to human influence: thylacine, great auk, baiji, west african black rhino, golden toad, dodo, passenger pigeon, and quagga. there are many other species i could have included. the plants are also based on extinct species, but i found much less information about extinct plants, unfortunately.
the text doesn’t necessarily relate to each animal or their extinction. it’s all basically the same idea: let’s all be nice to each other, because today, the universe is vast and incomprehensible, we are all suffering, we are all going to die, and we’re all in this together. for today.
i’m busy for a couple weeks with conventions, but after that i’m considering a companion series with ancient extinct animals, so feel free to send me your favorites 🙂
Our attending walked into the room wearing her white coat, name badge on, and introduced herself as the doctor. The patient continued to refer to her as nurse the entire time we were there, and when we left, asked when the “real doctor” was coming. This same attending had to stop wearing her (very conservative, knee-length) dresses/skirts because male patients would comment on her legs or try to touch them. An ophthalmologist friend was telling me that she won’t do slit-lamp exams with the door shut anymore because male patients have (more than once) groped her.
Racism is still a big problem, too. I have another friend who, just yesterday, was told by a patient something along the lines of “it’s a good thing you aren’t a doctor (he is) because your people are coming here and taking up all the doctor jobs.” And that was definitely one of the milder things I’ve heard patients say about race. They’re usually screaming slurs.
I’ve introduced myself as a doctor, discussed treatment options, and when I left, I heard the patient complain that she hadn’t seen a doctor at all.
I don’t think writers realize that “strong female character” means “well written female character” and not just “female character who punches stuff and shoots stuff”
From what I learned is that a Sudanese tribal man who had 16 year old daughter made a marriage deal with another man when she turns 19. 3 years later (in early 2017), the girl ran away to her aunt’s house for fear of being forced to marry which then made the father tell his daughter that the marriage was canceled.
She came back and immediately realized that she was duped.
After the wedding, the man tried to force himself on noura for a five day period and by the 6th day, he called in his cousin and family members to pin his “wife” (more like captive) down while he raped her.
The second time the man tried to rape her she killed him and ran to her family’s home. When she told them what happened, her family disowned her and her father took her to the police station.
The court accepted noura’s accounts, but since marital rape isn’t illegal in Sudan, noura was charged guilty on homicide.
The family of the rapist husband will officially make their demand on the 10th of may between blood money or execution. (Their lawyer already made it clear that they will demand her execution.)
The victim’s lawyers said they will ask for a retrial, while her family still shows no support and have since moved to a town far away to distance themselves from her.
An email was set up by a supporter (@bsonblast on insta) for anyone who wants to send noura a message of support. The letters will be printed and given to her.
Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.
I decided to make these little graphics for people who may be playing on the switch and can’t get the guidebook or who may not have WiFi to look it up. Now you can just save these and pull them up whenever :3
Willow Wisp's Witching Corner 