"you're so delulu" "#schizoposting" "narc abuse" "the intrusive thoughts won" "microdosing on delusion" "when the voices tell me to" "she's definitely dissociating" oh my god please shut up please shut the fuck up

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I have one (1) fear and that is roaches. Going about it the spiritual way has helped a little, but a prayer to Beelzebub would be something new for me! I'd be very interested if you shared it 🖤

I want to write prayers to Beelzebub about the little creatures of the world, about the cycle of decay, about overcoming fears of bugs (they don’t scare me, but might others, and a prayer could be helpful).

Would anyone be interested if I wrote and shared those?

not enough platonic cuddling in this world methinks

nothing like a good stretch for the first time in centuries

(Part 2 of this comic!)

are evil dragons really evil, or are they just vitamin D deficient?

(pt 2)

everyone should be transformed into a lump of clay & then lovingly reformed back into themselves every few years i think that would be so nice for everybody esp the touch deprived. also those w a lot of tension in their muscles would benefit

Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

If somebody pitched me traditional gender roles for the first time they would have me in the first half not going to lie.

Oh, in a complex society with a massive amount of required knowledge and responsibilities, two people traditionally partner together so that the knowledge and responsibilities can be divided between them? Awesome!

Wait what do you mean the responsibilities are assigned at birth.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ONE HALF HAS FEWER CIVIL RIGHTS.

Hey hi hello so I have a question abt intention? Specifically how do you stay focused on it I’ll be doing something and partway through I’ll realize that my brain has gone off on a tangent without me noticing even if I’m trying really hard to concentrate on what I’m doing? So people will be like “yea do your spell but intentionally” and it’s like “okay either I do not know how to do that or I do not know what it means” and is it just? Practice? Or am I flat out skipping a step?

Also u seem very cool and I wish I had ur gender confidence instead of being very confused

Look, there are people who think intention is the whole ball of wax. And while I think that, in a sense, you should know what you're trying to achieve with a spell -- constantly concentrating and holding that intent is... wholly unnecessary.

Like many things in the Modern Witchcraft Movement, this is a fairly new idea. A popular one for sure, but still a new one. Like if you look at the history of folk magic, that isn't a thing.

So relax. You're fine.

(As for the gender confidence -- remember you're seeing me as a fully formed, middle aged person who spent decades of their life as an unmitigated disaster. I didn't show up like this on day one.)

So I stole some fruit the other day. No regrets though. Better to beg for forgiveness than ask for persimmons.

dudes will be like yeah that’s a fantastic episode of the show one of my favorites in fact. i can’t watch it straight all the way through because the mental distress it causes me is too acute

hello there. Could you please consider adding an "anti" tag to your anti witchcraft/spirituality/religion posts? (Or just not using those tags at all tbh) You're entitled to your beliefs, the same as everyone else, however seeing them appear in said tags is upsetting to some of us practitioners. Thank you in advance.

Speaking as a spiritual practitioner of witchcraft: no. If seeing content that challenges your beliefs upsets you, that's a you problem. The reality is that lot of dangerous pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and conspiracy theories are running wild in witchcraft communities and are actively contributing to the far right radicalization of many people. If you'd rather let people get radicalized into far right politics than encounter content that challenges your beliefs, you're functionally a far right conservative already.

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35-65 year old men who always end all their sentences with ellipses are the most underrated internet subculture. i.e. “saw this band in milwaukee in 86… good memories drinking with davey and dennis out by the boatyard after the show… Timeless music… -From Carl…”

Okay Walter White was actually pretty funny as a character bc he was so toxic that seasoned drug lords were like I cannot work w this man I have to put my mental health first