Lights are on, nobody's home but
me, I step lightly as I can
and the floorboards
still
creak
Every step, my heel tenses
waiting for the turn, for the hollering,
the nightly ritual of dangerously, egregiously existing.
It doesn't matter how dead and buried they are;
doesn't matter how far I try to run away;
doesn't matter that I've lived alone for years;
the ghosts don't haunt the houses.
They live inside my blood, instead.
True and sincere answer to all of the people who ask, "I have just seen X animal, what does this mean?":
Rejoice, my friend, for this is a most auspicious sign! You have received one of the greatest blessings known to human kind: you live in a world full of creatures! Take comfort and enjoy this divine blessing.
My life for the past six months has been a series of cascading disasters, culminating in the need to find a new home seeing as how the house I've lived in for the last twenty years is almost uninhabitable, both literally and figuratively.
back in February, my close friend Jack moved across the country to stay with me in order to escape a dangerous family situation. since that move, he and I have been threatened with eviction by my landlord repeatedly. he and I have decided to rent a house with our mutual friend @caputvulpinum in northeast texas.
with a new home, I'll be teaching the both of them blacksmithing, and I'll be able to focus more on my art without worrying about my home or my family collapsing around me. I need to raise $2k for my share of the deposit and moving expenses, so please share this post everywhere you can. my gfm will be linked here and in my bio
i love the part of sophocles' ajax where odysseus very carefully, very diplomatically debates agamemnon, trying to convince him that ajax deserves a proper burial
some of my favourite lines:
AGAMEMNON:
Odysseus, are you for me or are you against me,
and for this man?
ODYSSEUS:
I hated him when it was honourable to hate him.
!!
ODYSSEUS:
He was my enemy, but he was also noble.
AGAMEMNON:
And you have respect for an enemy's corpse?
ODYSSEUS:
I am moved by admiration for his greatness,
rather than by hatred for his smallness.
AGAMEMNON:
He was a man of many turns.
ODYSSEUS:
Many of our friends later become enemies.
AGAMEMNON:
But do you wish to praise these so-called friends?
ODYSSEUS:
I do not see friends and enemies
as mutually exclusive.
and the finishing blow:
AGAMEMNON:
I see now that every man works for himself.
ODYSSEUS:
Who else should a man work for?
i love the part of sophocles' ajax where odysseus very carefully, very diplomatically debates agamemnon, trying to convince him that ajax deserves a proper burial
some of my favourite lines:
AGAMEMNON:
Odysseus, are you for me or are you against me,
and for this man?
ODYSSEUS:
I hated him when it was honourable to hate him.
!!
ODYSSEUS:
He was my enemy, but he was also noble.
AGAMEMNON:
And you have respect for an enemy's corpse?
ODYSSEUS:
I am moved by admiration for his greatness,
rather than by hatred for his smallness.
AGAMEMNON:
He was a man of many turns.
ODYSSEUS:
Many of our friends later become enemies.
AGAMEMNON:
But do you wish to praise these so-called friends?
ODYSSEUS:
I do not see friends and enemies
as mutually exclusive.
and the finishing blow:
AGAMEMNON:
I see now that every man works for himself.
ODYSSEUS:
Who else should a man work for?
The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.
Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”
O' Light-Bearing Serpent
Of the Garden of Eden
Presence of Presence, Rising Sophia-Zoe
Serpent of Return
Daughter riding the Beast
Mother pressing against the Serpent
Spear-Bearing Mistress set over the Seven
Which adorns your finger
O' Christos-Akephalos
Light-Bearing Prophet
Chrism-Bearer, Liberation
Child born of Christosophia
Male and Female, One Singular Light
Who overcame the Skull of Adam Primal
And brought the Eros unto Heaven's Gate
O' Lucifer-Angelos
Intermediary Angel Betwixt Hither and Thither
Whose Crown is the Two Horns
Faustian Luminary, Wisdom-Bringer
Light in Heaven and Hell
Root of the Tree, you are Psychopompos
Branch of the Tree, you are Angelos
Your Name is the Bearing of Light
You Archetypal Name
Granted unto Many
We praise you, Illumining Cross
All Made One in LVX INVICTA
I've heard it said that well constructed humor on a topic is a better sign of understanding than any recited list of trivia.
Witchblr seems like a small community but I'm regularly reminded that there are corners of it that I am not experiencing, which, in turn, seem to have escaped the nonsense emanating from the corner of witchblr that I inhabit.
Whenever one of the regularly occurring discourses starts back up I am generally only seeing the debunking side, typically as I scroll past a series of posts with blocked tags.
I recently saw a post saying that it's weird how little crossover there is between witchblr and wizard RP blogs, and I am still doing the John Travolta looking around in confusion meme. Was OP trapped in the part of witchblr that is all sincerely posted spells and lists of correspondences? Have they somehow avoided exposure to the shitposts of my people?? We're on that hybrid track. We actually do magic but our discussion of it is veiled in hijinks. Come, the veil grows thin!
How the fuck can there be anti vaccine "witches?" If you disagree with binding an invisible malignant entity into a single drop of potion that seals a subject's blood against the full force of that very same entity's curse then you are not and can never be a witch you're just a karen who buys rocks
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