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tomshiv in s4 + me and my husband by mitski

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My mom gave me some gluten free knock-off Girl Scout cookies and one of the Os fell off

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trying to stop using twitter entirely has been super hard !! it’s very lonely here in comparison where literally everyone mildly cool i’ve known mildly closely for the last decade is on twitter. and it’s soooo much more normal to personal post there to me. so this is me forcing myself to do it on tumblr bc i’m tired of seeing the people who i’m attached to on there but don’t like seeing anymore. and because i have very little willpower. so yeah for housekeeping new personals tag will be rio raves and you will probably hear more from me. if things go right! you will hear more from me. just from this post it’s already nice to not have to divide my thoughts into chunks. i still probably will lol bc this whole post has been made out of order and cut around like i do threads but anyway. i’m looking forward to making an actual effort to be a poster™️ like i was back in the day. i guess. i actually really never did post here i’ve always been a lurker

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Are you a "the volume has to be on an even number or a multiple of 5" neurodivergent or are you a "the volume is an odd number because fuck you" neurodivergent

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Tarot Spreads 🎴

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50 KITCHEN WITCH TIPS TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE WITCHY

(And other useful things I've learned over the years)

Hi! This is a list of dos, don'ts, tips, tricks, and other fun things that I've learned over the years. I always love finding more effective and efficient ways of doing things so if you have any cool things you'd like to add, leave them in the comments or reblog. I'd love to read it.

Anyways... On with the list ^_^

Light candles around your kitchen space (just make sure nothing flammable is near you)

Annotate your cookbooks with the correspondence of the ingredients.

Mediating is really good to calm the mind before cooking.

Cut oranges and lemons thinly, dry them, and hang them with twine around your kitchen

Need a cleansing tip? Open all your windows near your kitchen. Let some fresh air in.

Cutting sigils into apples, pie crusts, and carved potatoes.

Save lemon and orange rinds, freeze them, and then use them to clean the garbage disposal.

Make infused oils and honey: Things like garlic honey, lavender honey, herb oil, sun oil, moon oil, dandelion oil, and other different edible oils are very fun and useful to make.

Hid sigils in pages of your cookbooks and kitchen witch journals.

Add some plants! Snake plants and spider plants don't need too much light, and growing your own herbs in your kitchen is awesome too. Basil, lavender, thyme, aloe vera, rosemary, etc. are good fits. You could also add some plants that require more sunlight on the kitchen window sill. Like cacti and succulents.

Bring crystals into your kitchen space such as rose quartz, clear quartz, amethyst, or whatever you want the space's intentions to be.

I keep a small money tree on the sill, along with cacti for luck and protection.

Make a simmer Pot! Mostly because it makes the whole house smell good, easy, and fun.

Stir clockwise for best results!

Learning how to pickle things is actually pretty witchy. Plus, anyone could do it as it requires absolutely no kitchen experience. You could pickle any vegetable, even if you don't like pickles. I originally learned this after having to take shelter from a natural disaster. A person brought a bunch of stuff and taught us how to pickle things with different spices and herbs. Very fun!

Decorate your kitchen with your favorite stuff. Crystals, decor, heat mits, that cool mushroom cake stand you've been eyeing at the World Market for the past 2 weeks, cool looking curtains, sun catchers. Why stop there? Paint the walls, hang shelves full of marked-up cookbooks that are a little too well-loved and thumbed through.

Wanna be the person that has the amazing-smelling house every time people come over? Syrups take some time to simmer down, it's actually a pretty good time to leave it on the stove to simmer. Since syrups have a lot of aromatic ingredients, it acts as a really good-smelling simmer pot.

Hang up herbs to dry with twine from cabinets that are rarely used.

Invest in that new set of plates and cups.

Homemade jams, butter, sauces, and syrups are your best friend.

Crochet or knit your own dish rags, pot holders, etc.

Don't pour extremely hot things into a glass that's not Pyrex, it will break, and you will be very sad about it.

Don't cook anything while extremely upset or emotional (For safety reasons)

Make recipes you want to make, not just because you'll like the effect. Make it because you think it's tasty.

Chinese Five Spice works in place of herbs for protection and luck spells a lot of the time! It's cheaper to buy 1 spice than 4 different spices that total up to 15 dollars when you could just spend 3-4 dollars.

Take a shower before cooking (I don't know how to explain this one other than it makes you feel better)

Don't use microfiber/plastic material clothes on hot burners, it will fuse to the burner and melt. It is VERY hard to get off.

I don't know if I need to put this one but I did see someone do it so nonstick pan = wooden utensils and plastic utensils, metal pan = metal utensils. Do not use a metal spoon in a nonstick pan, please. It can make you very sick.

Keep your pets away from hot oil, open ovens, and hot pans.

You can proof bread dough in the fridge overnight if you don't have the time to bake, or want to eat fresh bread right in the morning.

Need a quick witchy meal for dinner in 12 minutes? Use premade tomato pasta sauce and doctor it up with thyme, rosemary, and garlic, for protection and distilling stagnant energies. Serve with pasta of your liking.

You can substitute Butter for Crisco/shortening, buttermilk for 1 cup of milk + 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, and heavy cream for 1 cup of half and half plus 2 tbsp of butter.

Use leftover animal bones to make bone broth

Teach yourself the art of bread scoring (It's fun, and you can show it off to your loved ones!)

Collect and hoard your own and others' family recipes.

Sometimes the food doesn't have to be a spell, sometimes it just makes you feel good and you don't know why.

Listen to your favorite music in the kitchen, it makes the monotonous things like chopping veggies move faster.

Invest in a vegetable chopper if you don't like chopping vegetables.

Find a really good hot cocoa recipe and make it once a week. Master it. Just for your own happiness because hot cocoa is really good. You could also be the friend/family member that makes the best hot cocoa ever.

Focaccia Bread Lasts a very long time, and it's very easy to make!

Keep a first aid kit near where the oven is, in case of burns, cuts, or serious injuries where time is everything.

Quick Bread and no-rise loaves are simple for beginners, tasty, and take little time. They also feel very witchy to make.

Study a bit of Herbalism! It's fun and really helps better understand the herbs you're putting into your food.

While something is boiling, put your wooden spoon over the pot to minimize the chance of something boiling over.

Try a bit of coffee magick, it's simple to get into, and gives you a boost of energy to take on the day!

If you're over 21, wine-making is a very interesting way to celebrate the sabbats. Just with that, make sure you KNOW what you're doing. With anything fermented, there's always a risk if you don't store things correctly. Apple wines, strawberry wines, dandelion wines, etc. all very cool to experiment with. If you're not over 21, vinegar is a similar way to experiment.

Hang up some witchy things, sigils, photos, cool magnets, and other things that give you joy on your fridge. (Sometimes if you are lucky they have some fun magnets at five below)

If you live in the US, for some reason, there are a lot of books in the book section dedicated to witchcraft and spirituality. At least where I live. And they are all under 5 dollars!

Teas are the cheapest and easiest things you can practice being a kitchen witch.

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black cat activities 🐈‍⬛

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70's Kodak Colorburst Instant Camera Logos

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70's Kohler Sink Advertisements (via: archive.org)

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you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

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So what, Dionysus wasn’t a God of wine and intoxication? No, he wasn’t. He wasn’t a God of vegetation or “awakening powers of nature” and similar armchair fabrications a-la XIX century either. Wine is just Dionysus’ attribute exactly like thyrsos, kantharos, ivy, vines, snakes, a retinue of animals, satyrs and maenads, general concept of liberation, recklessness, abundance, happiness, and equality - or the feeling of drug intoxication varying from dizziness to ecstasy to wild insanity. In a number of stories, in fact, this insanity is achieved not through wine consumption: it’s sent by the God onto the people that do not wish to worship him (like Minyas’ daughters) through (or accompanied by) wildly growing ivy that spreads over the looms, snakes slithering in wool baskets, and droplets of wine and milk that begin to drip down from the ceiling of the workroom. Basically, to transform people, the God first and foremost transforms the space around them, and wine here is far from being the only source of his power. The liberating force of the God also manifests not through wine alone, but rather through a combination of everything that makes a good feast.

- Вадим Михайлин, Дионисова борода: визуальная организация поведенческих практик  в древнегреческой  пиршественной культуре (RU)

- Vadim Mikhailin, Dionysus’ beard: visual organization of behavioral practices in Ancient Greek feast culture (extract trans. by me)

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If you think it's wrong or shameful for someone to have a casual relationship to magic, witchcraft, the gods, etc., you are functionally a fundamentalist. There's no difference between you and the Bible thumper who thinks everybody needs to be in constant prayer and thinking about God's will at all times.

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Greek Gods 101: Artemis

Artemis is a Goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth, the wilderness, archery, youth, healing, and disease. Excluding the universal offerings, some common offerings include:

Depictions of the Moon

Moon Water

Lavender

Bows

Arrows

Flowers

Moss

Honey

Photos or Figurines of Animals

For devotional acts, some activities that can be done for her include:

Learning Archery

Going Hunting

Taking Care of Animals

Taking Care of Youth

Moon-Watching or Stargazing

Learning About Wildlife Conservation

Taking Care of Stray Animals (Giving Them Water, Putting Out Food, Bringing Them to Vets, Etc.)

Volunteering at an Animal Shelter

She is celebrated in 6 Athenian holidays:

Elaphebolia

Delphinia

Mounykhia

Thargelia

Artemis Agrotera/Kharisteria

Bendideia, maybe

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gender to me is like a car i dont really want one and society would be much better if it was not structured around it. but i got one because it helps me get around and sometimes its fun to make it go fast

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one thing abt ai and the mainstream climate of entertainment is that it's made it clear we need to celebrate weird imperfect offbeat art more than ever. the ai art i see floating around is pristine in such an uninspired way it's made me rethink my relationship w creativity entirely. i'm less concerned with creating polished works than i am with creating and consuming the bizarre, the messy, the challenging. i want my brain to go ❗️ when i see something beautiful - not because it's a perfect clone or amalgam of populart/contemporary style but because it stirs the worm in my heart that feeds on what it means to be human!! it wriggles in delight at the taste of fallibility !!!!! make weird shit and dance with your shadow!!!!!!!! canonize the magic of being human by giving the absurdity of it form !!!!!WE ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN THE EFFICIENCY OF OUR CELLS!!!!

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why are yt to mp3 websites always the shadiest fuckin sites I feel like I’m going down a dark alleyway risking the chance of getting drugged and/or stabbed just bc its the only place where I can find a guy to deal me some decent fart with extra reverb dot mp3s

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I Was At Pavlove Live.