witchofthemossbog.bsky.social
Witchy stuff, Tarot, Nature, Art
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I have a tree I thought for years was a hawthorn. It turned out to be a Bradford pear of all things. But it's lovely all the same, and it's blooming. I'm fortunate that mine doesn't seem to be of the stinky variety.
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He really seems to be. I've never had the privilege of meeting him, but he seems lovely in every interview or talk I've ever heard him give.
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Will do!
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I started reading that a couple weeks ago and realized I wanted something more foundational first, as my practice is shifting toward being more specifically druidic. It's next on my list!
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Pagan book by excellent Welsh author. If a bit of alternative spirituality is your thing, you could do worse than Kristoffer Hughes.
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I love the bees!
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Just getting into visible mending myself; I love the tatting!
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I don't think I've watched the news in over four years, and the last time I voluntarily turned it on instead of just watching because I was at someone else's house must be well over a decade ago. I stay informed, but msm has been out of touch for a long time.
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Um. Okay, not what I was talking about. Annoying, surely, but not what I was talking about.
You sure that D was undeserved?
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Scam. Block.
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Did you ever have someone in one of those classes that used the opportunity to discuss to purely argue? Like they weren't actually interested in a discussion or learning; they were just loud and thought they knew more than the professor, and they took joy in being annoying?
That's a troll.
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I do not have the pattern, but someone on Ravelry helpfully posted photos of what it looks like before it's all sewn together, and I think I can reverse engineer them.
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Thank you and you're welcome! I wish I could tell you the colorway; the brand is Laines du Nord but I lost the ball band ages ago lol.
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It's not hard! YouTube is a great resource for beginners, as is the website Ravelry.
I recommend getting yourself some yarn and either needles or a crochet hook and diving in. Neither is particularly difficult; it's really down to whatever appeals to you more.
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It's mostly a nonresponse tbh.
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Someone never hung out with their friends in the ladies room and it shows.
This is like... pretty normal behavior.
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I always tell transphobes that they have absolutely peed in a stall next to a trans person at some point without ever knowing it.
Almost like it didn't affect them.
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I've been impressed by how unsuccessful both trolls and bots have been. If you glance at most accounts on your way to the block button, they generally have very few followers and almost no engagement. Trolls especially are mostly shouting into the void.
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Yeah, but if everyone ignores and blocks them, it takes the incentive out of making them.
That's why we have to identify, report, and block. Just make it a waste of time.
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I know. I find it baffling that a couple of children were like "mean old Mrs. Smith PINCHED ME with her with her witch powers" and a bunch of grown adults were like, "Guess we gotta kill 25 people now."
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The original false accusers were children.
They were completely believed (all evidence to the contrary) by a bunch of grown men who used the made-up tales of children as an excuse to murder their completely innocent neighbors.
And by the end, everyone was accusing everybody.
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You're welcome. I myself am a woman and a witch, and as much as I recognize that prejudice and persecution against both groups is and has been a thing, its a disservice to the victims to lie about the actual circumstances of their lives and deaths.
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I mean she absolutely can get mad. You might think she has no *right* to get mad, but she has both the ability and the freedom to be as mad as she wants.
Once words leave your mouth, you have no real say over how people respond to them.
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It really wasn't. All the people executed during the Salem trials were Christian church goers and few if any spoke against the church.
It was a complex event but much of it really was people just accusing neighbors they didn't like, or making accusations to get themselves acquitted.
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Please! Thank you!
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I've gotta second both Damh the Bard (Damh is pronounced Dave, fyi) and S J Tucker. Her Spiral Dance album is pretty great.
Damh the Bard runs the Druidcast podcast and one of the things he does with that is showcase a LOT of pagan music. The interviews are worthwhile even for nondruids imo
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I mean I'm intrigued on the strength of the name alone.
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Ya know, I have always casually loved Enya but never considered her for my pagan playlists; brilliant suggestion tbh.
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Love her so much! ❤️
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I think I have some of your music in my pagan playlist! And I love Damh the Bard. I will check out Wendy Rule; she's new to me.
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Absolutely checking all these out. I love Loreena McKennitt already!
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First off, thank you! Second, thank you for YOUR music; I cannot tell you how much Spiral Dance has meant to me over the years.
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Gah, I hate that. I wanna see what else they got!
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I love when plant magic is this on the nose.
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Love it! Who's the artist?
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Pagan Reddit is wild. It's so nice here in comparison.
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Yes! It just smells so good
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Love these! I haven't tried juniper yet, but I have a bunch of it out behind my house. I should give it a shot.
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Aww that's uncool. I'm faceless, but I do try to be nice! Generally my gripes are with gatekeepers and people who advocate outright dangerous shit that might burn down your house, but otherwise I just wanna see people have a good time.
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It seems like forming their own coven would have been the thing to do. I mean, sure, it wouldn't have had *initiation* or whatever, but like... they had five people! Get together and do your thing!
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Moss is the best and deserves all the love
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God the struggle. Even this comment might be inappropriately friendly. I have no idea.
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I have a very tiny following, but it's growing, and this approach seems to be working for me.