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they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells they are hurting you with spells

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1938

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Joan of Arc

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That no-good, ableist Marie Satan Kondo! Can’t believe she would just- oh

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fun words :

bastard

scoundrel

charlatan

harlot

rapscallion

hooligan

ruffian

swindler

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I’m proud to show you my collection of handmade watercolors! theyre all for sale right now on my etsy, i make them personally and with various pigments, experimenting and stuff! shop link is in my bio

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I’m so tired of stereotypes that come along every Black women. And the fact that they were created by the white media really pisses me off! I am very proud of all Black girls and I admire all their accomplishments despite the hate of the modern society. 

#BlackGirlMagic is not just a hashtag, it strengthens our self-respect and emphasizes our importance!

#SupportWomenOfColor

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Artsy Witch Ideas 🎨

• Put sigils everywhere & anywhere  Specifically: • Put sigils for creativity in your sketchpad or behind a canvas  • Hide sigils for beauty or inspiration in your art • Use magickal waters when watercolor painting by correspondence  Additionally: Rinse brushes in magickal waters • Use markers/paints ect to draw sigils with color correspondence • Enchant your art supplies so that it improves your art, rather by making it more beautiful, appealing, eye catching, inspiring you, ect. • Recycle jars & use them for witchy ingredients, but also art supplies!  • If you’re into graffiti, have a sigil or something like it as your tag, or have a condensed version of your name in Theban Script as your artist tag. It’ll look cool and no one will know what it is or where it came from, unless they’re a witch of course!  • If you’re into crafty stuff too, use ribbons for binding spells & decorate your grimoire with washi tape (I really really love washi tape if you’ve never used it to decorate stuff go get some right this second.)  An anon asked for it.  I am by no means an art witch, but I consider myself an artist! So here’s a few of my ideas. I may try some of these myself! Enjoy 💖

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THIS IS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS WHEN YOU FORGET TO RINSE THE TUB OUT AFTER USING A LUSH INTERGALATIC BATHBOMB!

He’s fine. He got a bath.

Lush glitter is made of seaweed.

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Titanic conspiracy exposed

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I'm currently sitting in my room translating and analyzing a latin text of Virgilius with classical music and tea and let me tell you this is A Fucking Mood

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Why "doing something relaxing” does not help your anxiety

A lot of the time when people give advice intended to relieve anxiety, they suggest doing “relaxing” things like drawing, painting, knitting, taking a bubble bath, coloring in one of those zen coloring books, or watching glitter settle to the bottom of a jar.

This advice is always well-intentioned, and I’m not here to diss people who either give it or who benefit from it. But it has never, ever done shit for me, and this is because it goes about resolving anxiety in the completely wrong way.  

THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO when suffering from anxiety is to do a “relaxing” thing that just enables your mind to dwell and obsess more on the thing that’s bothering you. You need to ESCAPE from the dwelling and the obsession in order to experience relief.

You can drive to a quiet farm, drive to the beach, drive to a park, or anywhere else, but as someone who has tried it all many, many times, trust me–it’s a waste of gas. You will just end up still sad and stressed, only with sand on your butt. You can’t physically escape your sadness. Your sadness is inside of you. To escape, you need to give your brain something to play with for a while until you can approach the issue with a healthier frame of mind. 

People who have anxiety do not need more time to contemplate, because we will use it to contemplate how much we suck.

In fact, you could say that’s what anxiety is–hyper-contemplating. When we let our minds run free, they run straight into the thorn bushes. Our minds are already running, and they need to be controlled. They need to be given something to do, or they’ll destroy everything, just like an overactive husky dog ripping up all the furniture. 

Therefore, I present to you: 

THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO WHEN ANXIOUS

–Go on a walk

–Watch a sunset, watch fish in an aquarium, watch glitter, etc.

–Go anywhere where the main activity is sitting and watching

–Draw, color, do anything that occupies the hands and not the mind

–Do yoga, jog, go fishing, or anything that lets you mentally drift 

–Do literally ANYTHING that gives you great amounts of mental space to obsess and dwell on things.

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO WHEN ANXIOUS:

–Do a crossword puzzle, Sudoku, or any other mind teaser game. Crosswords are the best.

–Write something. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece. Write the Top 10 Best Restaurants in My City. Rank celebrities according to Best Smile. Write some dumb Legolas fanfiction and rip it up when you’re done. It’s not for publication, it’s a relief exercise that only you will see. 

–Read something, watch TV, or watch a movie–as long as it’s engrossing. Don’t watch anything which you can run as background noise (like, off the top of my head, Say Yes to The Dress.) As weird as it seems, American Horror Story actually helps me a lot, because it sucks me in. 

–Masturbate. Yes, I’m serious. Your mind has to concentrate on the mini-movie it’s running. It can’t run Sexy Titillating Things and All The Things That are Bothering Me at the same time. (…I hope. If it can, then…ignore this one.) 

–Do math problems—literally, google “algebra problems worksheet” and solve them. If you haven’t done math since 7th grade this will really help you. I don’t mean with math, I mean with the anxiety. 

–Play a game or a sport with someone that requires great mental concentration. Working with 5 people to get a ball over a net is a challenge which will require your brain to turn off the Sadness Channel. 

–Play a video game, as long as it’s not something like candy crush or Tetris that’s mindless. 

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO DURING PANIC ATTACKS ESPECIALLY:

–List the capitals of all the U.S. states

–List the capitals of all the European countries

–List all the shapes you can see. Or all the colors. 

–List all the blonde celebrities you can think of.

–Pull up a random block of text and count all the As in it, or Es or whatever.  

Now obviously, I am not a doctor. I am just an anxious person who has tried almost everything to help myself.  I’ve finally realized that the stuff people recommend never works because this is a disorder that thrives on free time and free mental space. When I do the stuff I listed above, I can breathe again. And I hope it helps someone here too. 

(Now this shouldn’t have to be said but if the “do nots” work for you then by all means do them. They’ve just never worked for me.)

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where y’all sitting: ship dynamics edition

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art is pretty cool. you know what else is cool? not getting burned out or sick. take breaks