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Kitty Tsui (born 1952) is an American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder. She was the first known Asian American lesbian to publish a book Words of a Woman who Breathes Fire, published in 1983

read her books for free Breathless: Erotica (1996) and Sparks Fly (1997) (nsfw content)

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the fact that no matter what, i will always be lesbian is vastly comforting to me. i was born a lesbian, i am a lesbian, i will die a lesbian... lesbian. forever. lucky me!

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to have a snail in left hand and a snail in right hand and the world is beautiful again

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why does emmrich's ascension to lichdom scene kind of looks like a wedding

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kissy for the senior citizen

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they're both so insane about each other it's embarrassing

GIRLLL STAND UP YOURE FORTY YEARS OLD (i support her in everything)

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GIRLLL STAND UP YOURE FORTY YEARS OLD (i support her in everything)

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Lesbian: *is sad*

Taash from Dragon Age The Veilguard: *wakes up in cold sweat at 4am* Something's not right...

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Verdant.

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blessed be the lord of everything good and kind there is in the world

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My favorite wikipedia article that exists only in ukrainian is an article listing physical fights in the ukrainian parlament (screenshots are translated with google translate for your convenience), broken down into "reasons for the fight", "participants", "development of the fight" and "results of the fight" like it's MMA. Wiping a tear, i love this fuckass country

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Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

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Orin!!! The!!! Red!!!

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parody of that that Lynn Buckham picture that once again went wildly out of scope

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Hi there! Another witch on Tumblr recommended your blog as a great place to ask questions about spirit work. I'm fairly fresh to the practice, and spirits have always fascinated me. How or where can I learn about working with them?

There are a lot of people talking and posting about spirit work on tumblr, you can read through the #spirit work or #spirits tags and find some great informational posts, but also a lot of fluff and nonsense. I don’t personally like the idea of just reading other people’s takes and experiences as they are presented in social media, without really good critical thinking skills, and even with them sometimes, it can be hard to identify what is a good social media source and what isn’t. That’s why I’m going to instead direct you to some of my favorite books on the subject:

Kirk, R., 1893. SECRET COMMONWEALTH OF ELVES, FAUNS, AND FAIRIES.

This was a book I stumbled across while writing a paper on Cunning Folk in Early modern Britain and Ireland, it wasn’t necessarily applicable to the thesis for that paper but it just sounded so interesting I ordered a cheap copy off Amazon. Though not published until the end of the 19th century the author actually lived in the 17th, so you get at trueview into at least one Early Modern understanding of the Fair Folk. My edition contained a “Short Treatise of the Scottish-Irish Charms and Spells” which was academically interesting and practically helpful, as I try to draw a lot of my inspiration from my Irish ancestors’ practice.

Wilby, E., 2010. Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.

This is one of my all time favorites, and was another discovery from the Cunning Folk paper, this one actually got cited in the paper a lot, and was in fact what introduced me to Kirk. Over-all Wilby has some of my favorite takes on Early Modern practices in Britain. Where other magic historians seem to try to distance European magical traditions from other magical-spiritual practices happening around the globe in the same era Wilby draws very compelling parallels between British popular magic and the broad spectrum of practices defined in academia as shamanism in various cultures around the world. In doing so she links traditional British magic to a traditional spiritual practice, rather than attempting to elevate it to an “early understanding of science” which is something that a lot of European magical historians do that rub me the wrong way. Due it’s its focus on this parallel there is a lot of discussion about how early modern practitioners thought about and interacted with spirits.

I’ve broadly also enjoyed the works of Claude Lecouteux - a medievalist, who has written several books about different types of spirits and how they appear in history and folklore. I would recommend The Tradition of Household Spirits and Demons and Spirits of the Land. He’s a bit less … specific I guess, than Wilby, but his books have been interesting surveys of different types of spirits across broad historic and cultural settings.

I could recommend a whole bunch of collections of folklore here, but I’ll just generalize. Read folklore, fairy tales, and myths. Everything else I have recommended is an academic book, but folklore is a little more accessible/easy to read, but still gets you thinking in the right way.

(I know I said I wasn’t going to direct you to social media stuff, but Chicken just posted her master post of spirit work stuff, and she is one of the people talking about spirit work here on Tumblr that I have enjoyed and tend to agree with so here is a link to said master post.)

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she says nobody done no harm / grace of god and raise your arms

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