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Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like "if you think you might lose, avoid doing that", "being outnumbered is bad generally", and "consider lying."

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this Conversation pit is ruining my life

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Trying to decide whether or not to table at events sucks so much now. Because I actually love tabling? Especially at zine fests, I always have a good time. But everything is, at best, "masks suggested" now, so on top of rolling the dice on if I'll even be well enough to go, I'm rolling the dice over getting the thing that disabled me.

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It was funny talking to my brother about Etsy recently because he said "oh, Etsy is just drop shippers now" and I was like "right... because not everyone is searching for witchcraft zines and handmade binding poppets when they go to Etsy"

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Guess who remembered to update their etsy shop with zines they made more than six months ago?

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So I collect witch arts and crafts for the Museum of Contemporary Witchcraft, mostly by perusing Etsy and the like. My first collection is poppets, and I've found a wide variety, and now I've started looking at mini altars and travel shrines, since that's another strong intersection between art and witchcraft. And there are plenty of altars to all the current favorite gods and spirits, but the thing is, I haven't found a single travel altar to Hermes. And I just think that's funny, cause, you know, Hermes. I've found one for the planet Mercury, but none for, you know, this god of travel.

Come to think of it, it was also challenging to find a mini Hermes for my car dashboard. I found one eventually, but I had to order it from Greece.

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Cardiology tests all came back good. My long covid symptoms are not caused by any sort of heart issue, which is good, if bittersweet news. I really was hoping for an easily treatable tachycardia so I could just take a pill and get back to normal. As it is, I don't need to worry about my heart for a couple of decades at least, but every time possible causes get eliminated I think maybe this is just all in my head and I can stop pacing, go back to pre-2020 energy expenditure and everything will be fine. That course of action hasn't worked so far, but this time, maybe this time it will.

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going to a dentist knowing there are no more covid precautions and I'll be exposed to the thing that disabled me is way more stressful than any of the fillings I had to get as a kid

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I know I've said it before but it's so hard to be the most feared witch in this village. There are so many witches here and some of them are definitely scarier than I am

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I made a potion to cure my springtime sadness. It's mostly sugar water but there's some ginger and rhubarb and gold sparkles in there too

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hey did you know that uhh

i. the monster's body is a cultural body

ii. the monster always escapes

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire

vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming

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Reposting this because I need to materialize it somewhere.

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Truly the all time funniest writer thing is when you're doing edits and you think to yourself "omg I've got the PERFeCT sentence to add right here!" and then you stick it in all excited, only to find that literally three lines down you have virtually that exact same sentence in the draft already.

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A fun witch exercise I like to do is to look at different items and figure out how they could be used in a working.

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when i was 20 i hadn't transitioned yet but i had a dream where i died and saw my own spirit leave my body and my spirit had the form of a silhouette of a young girl in a sundress and even without any context i felt inherently that that was "me" and then i woke up. a very cisgender experience

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Shawn and Gus are drift compatible but under no circumstances should they ever be allowed to pilot a jaeger