My former boss and I can’t agree. I don’t have the $ to see musicals so I just listen to albums and invest in ones I really want to watch. She won’t touch the albums until she’s seen it.
These are the weedy wildflowers of my neighbourhood - I stumble across them on my walks all the time. Have you spotted any of these growing around you?
They are non native species to my area, but they’ve made themselves quite at home. Depending on where you are in the world, these may not be quite so weedy! But weedy or not I love them 🥀💖
Calling all Old Gods of Appalachia fans!
Hello, family! A couple of us have gotten together to create an unofficial fanserver for OGOA, in hopes of engaging with the fandom in a more fandom-esque space, rather than a space that the creators of the content are in. There is a slight difference to the feel of it. As well as a space for those of us who are in our adult years and don't feel comfortable discussing the topics that OGOA and other horror podcasts touch upon with minors.
Kin of the Old Hills is a fan-run, UNOFFICIAL server dedicated to the horror anthology podcast Old Gods of Appalachia. This is a server run by fans, for fans, and is not meant to take the place of the official server. The intention is purely to have a fan-specific space where fanworks and theories etc can be discussed openly and casually, as it is known that the creators Steve and Cam would prefer to avoid written works and fan theories for storytelling (and likely legal) reasons. Joining the official server is still recommended for the most up-to-date news straight from the Hedge themselves.
It is small for now, as are all servers, but we hope to grow and foster friendships and community with the common thread we have. We hope to see you there!
“Holy Ghost. Holy haunting. Holy damned. David drank honey to be with God When love fell like brambles from his lips. Hallelujah suffering falls Pain waxes us clean like wine. Take this my tarot darkened future Into the cross at your throat Tell me that you can live with certainty Tell me that you can bear the river at the end of it The salt water tainted sea. Do you take when offering is given? Are you offering? Leg bone. Sheep skin. Cleaving knife. I want to get inside you with my calling. It is a calling. Don’t you remember? Don’t you remember the way the red felt inside your hands? The cold swept church. Angel. Angel. Angle inside at the corner of a whisper. Words make edges and the edges cut deep. Vein struck ichore like mining gold. Pretrichor nighttime is my favorite passtime. Where did this savior learn my name? Oligarchs shutter at matchsticks Martyrs keep the peasants warm. Look at the moon The way my red silk dress Hangs over my window chest like a warning sign. The walls feel heavy tonight Like stone could crumble as time. Love is nothing if not treachery.”
— Religeous Fervor by Bianca Braswell (via cubancoffeequeen)
how can you be so controversial and yet so brave
(reposted from Twitter)
Hey so, have I ever told you about the time I was at an interfaith event (my rabbi, who was on the panel, didn't want to be the only Jew there), and there was a panel with representatives of 7 different traditions, from Baha'i to Zoroastrian?
The setup was each panelist got asked the same question by the moderator, had 3 minutes to respond, and then they moved on to the next panelist.
The Christian dude talked for 8 minutes and kept waving off the poor, flustered, terminally polite Unitarian moderator.
The next panelist was a Hindu lady, who just said drily, "I'll try to keep my answer to under a minute so everyone else still has a chance to answer." (I, incidentally, am at a table with I think the only other non-Christian audience members, a handful of Muslims and a Zorastrian.)
So then we get to the audience questions part. No one's asking any questions, so finally I decide to get things rolling, and raise my hand and the very polite moderator comes over and gives me the mic.
I briefly explain Stendahl's concept of "holy envy" and ask what each of theirs is.
(If you're not familiar, Stendahl had 3 tenets for learning about other traditions, and one was leave room for "holy envy," being able to say, I am happy in my tradition and don't desire to convert, but this is something about another tradition that I admire and wish we had.)
The answers were lovely. My rabbi said she admired the Buddhist comfort with silence and wished we could learn to have that spaciousness in our practice. The Hindu said she admired the Jewish and Muslim commitment to social justice & changing, rather than accepting, the status quo.
The Christian dude said he envied that everyone else on the panel had the opportunity to newly accept Jesus.
I shit you not.
Dead silence. The Buddhist and Baha'i panelists are resolutely holding poker faces. The Hindu lady has placed her hands on the table and folded them and seems to be holding them very tightly. Over on the middle eastern end of the table, the rabbi, the imam, and the Zoroastrian lady are all leaning away from the Christian at identical angles with identical expressions of disgust. The terminally polite Unitarian moderator is literally wringing his hands in distress.
A Christian lady at the table next to me, somehow unable to pick up on the emotional currents in the room, sighs happily and says to her fellow church lady, "What a beautiful answer."
anyway I love my rabbi to death and would do anything for her
except attend another interfaith event
And this is why you can't give an inch to guys like that Christian. You cut their mic and you very clearly let them know that they were told the rules and if they're going to so blatantly disregard them again, they'll be asked to leave.
I'm all for learning from different faiths, but folks like him don't have any place in those gatherings.
If you're someone like that, and you follow my page, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Sometimes tarot is bullshit and y’all gotta remember it.
I remember one time a woman reading my cards at a renaissance festival was so adamant that I had a brother, so say the cards, but I absolutely did not.
🔥 Fire Safety Tips — For Witches 🌞
I just want to share some of my tips, as someone who has been practicing witchcraft for almost 20 years, for working with fire (as it relates to safety):
🔥 Buy a cauldron : I use mine for burning herbs, incense, candles, paper, fabric etc. I have one with just salt in it that I use to burn my small tapered candles and incense. It’s one of the most useful tools in my practice.
“Can Salt Burn? No, salt does not burn. It can melt at an extremely high temperature (800°C/1472°F), but this is unlikely to happen in everyday surroundings. Salt is made up of sodium and chloride, which come together to form a highly reactive bond.”
🔥 Don’t burn candles for more than 4 hours : Even if you’re in the room the entire time, it’s recommended that you don’t burn a candle for longer than 4 hours.
“If you burn your candle for more than 4 hours at a time, carbon will collect on the wick, and your wick will begin to "mushroom." This can cause the wick to become unstable, the flame to get too large, your candle to smoke, and soot to be released into the air and around your candle container.”
🔥 When burning things like paper, in your cauldron, fill the bottom with sand first : I’ve found that it helps avoid any flames from getting too high or out of control.
“Because its primary constituent is silica (SiO2), which is already oxidized, sand cannot burn. This is why it works as an effective firefighting method, which can extinguish fires by cutting off the oxygen supply and absorbing flammable liquids.”
🔥 Make sure that you triple check that nothing in the immediate area of any open flame is combustible or flammable : This means don’t burn something on a plate that’s sitting on an alter cloth lol. Or don’t spray anything into the air (like perfume or air freshener) around an open flame.
Be safe witches :)
I'm saying this from a place of genuine care: if you are seeing ghosts or shadows or having nightmares... and sageing, eggshells, Crystal's, and psychics arent cutting it..
Please.. please... check for things like gas leaks, water damage, vermin. I'm not saying your house isnt haunted, I'm just saying that carbon monoxide poisoning looks a LOT like being haunted.
I know that, you know that, but when it looks like supernatural things you look to supernatural solutions and you might not be thinking clearly.
I'm having a conversation with a pagan mom right now who thinks that dark forces are after her, so she's tried all the things that she knows... which apparently is not checking the hvac system for leaks.
Shes mad at me because I suggested getting an inspection because shes lived in the house for 14 years and she's always seen things like this and it's just gotten worse since she took over the house. Shes seeing entities, things are moving on their own, doors open and close on their own, people are being touched and scratched. 'Mold and gas dont do that!'
Drafty house. Uneven floors. Pressure changes.
Toxic mold syndrome can mimic depression and anxiety, cause listlessness. Guess what extreme anxiety can do. It can mess with your head. It can mess with your memory.
If you have scratches on you and you dont know where they came from, see a doctor. See a doctor. I dont know why you wont see a doctor. They can tell you if it comes from an animal. They can tell you if you're suffering from a mold allergy. They can tell you if you're experiencing side effects of gas exposure.
I wholeheartedly believe in ghosts. Absolutley not debating that ghosts and spirits and whatever you think you're seeing. I am posting this in a pagan facebook group. I 100% believe in ghosts.
I also believe in carbon monoxide.
Please check for gas leaks in your home. Please check for mold. Please check for critters. Like girl I believe you but please check these things.
Also be sure to check your skin. Red blotches/sudden rashes are usually the first sign of CO2 poisoning. They call it ‘tomato face’. It usually happens GRADUALLY so by the time you’re aware it could be too late.
Sometimes these things are also manifestations of Schizoaffective and sleep disorders, or other chemical imbalances in the brain, so let me just say:
Brains under stress can create images, sounds, or feelings that other people cannot see, hear, or feel. This is normal and happens to the majority of people at some point in their life.
Some people experience these things constantly without explanation, which you can take medicine to resolve.
I spent so long thinking ghosts and demons were constantly stalking me, too scared to look out windows or around corners, and so much of that went away by coming to the understanding that paranoia is a normal symptom of an anxiety disorder. I didn't see them, but I felt them, and they felt real.
You are not crazy.
You are not dangerous.
There is nothing to fear or be ashamed of. Hallucinations and paranoia are normal, and help is out there.
This is not a sponsored post I am just an old man getting excited over boring things.
Hey disabled people and neurodivergents I have an app reccomendation for you, its called sweepy.
It is a chore tracker with some features that are actually fucking HELPFUL, not just like a list of shit to do.
So what you do is you add rooms, and in those rooms you list all the things that you have to do. You set how often they need doing and how much effort they take to do. So now you never have to wonder if you need to hoover yet, it will tell you! It also has options for one time tasks and seasonal tasks. Also there are a lot of task presets to make it all easier.
And that alone is all great but if you pay for premium (a very reasonable 12 quid a year), you get more features like adding other people in your house so that you all know whats going on, and my favourite feature, the daily schedule. What you do is you set how many effort points you want to use in a day, and sweepy will go through the things that need doing and assign you tasks to match the effort points. You can even set tasks to only be assigned to specific people. Also like. Streaks and leader boards and shit if that stuff helps motivate you.
PSA as we go into spooky season and people start using activated charcoal to make foods look spooky.
"we have made the tarot deck easier to use by simplifying the imagery!" Girl the deck is easier to use the MORE complex the symbology is. The images are esoteric roadmaps that explain what the cards mean. Simplifying the imagery makes them LESS accessible and HARDER to use.
If you actually cared about accessibility, you could print smaller cards that were easier to handle, or cards with larger text thats easier to read. You know, things I've been asked by actual disabled people.
Fuck man, make a braille deck. That could be incredible.
There's a reason the RWS is standard because the symbology is CONSISTENT across the entire deck. Water in one card means the same thing in all the others.
Like, the deck is just the physical object the actual magical construct is instantiated in, like a mind in a brain, or a program in a computer. The consistency and complexity of the RWSs imagery makes that magical object EASIER TO COMPREHEND. Yes that's counter-intuitive but it's fucking MAGIC.
deletingtomorrowsmh-deactivated
Wow wish I had a cool gf
innocentcitizenthings
man’s dating a village wise woman and complaining
Man literally has plague doctor gf and isn't overjoyed
i fully and completely believe that if it had gotten out that the corpse was jurgen leitner, the entire institute would have just went ‘yeah, jon totally did it, and i think he should get the noble peace prize for it,’ and given him the hero treatment. he bounces between institute employees’ houses and they shake his hand and hide him from the cops while he pets their cats.
when he gets exonerated, they all assure him that they know that he took out leitner and that’s what matters, and then throw him a massive welcome back party. he gets all the credit for leitners death in the supernatural community and elias is fucking seething.
remembering so many people being like “well actually salt lamps don’t have any REAL benefits” as if having a pink glowing rock in the room is not a benefit. it helps me
Important information for writers who aren’t British but like to try to sound British in their British-y fanfiction
“Cuppa?” - you’re either bored or you’re offering it to someone providing a service in your home. Like a plumber, electrician or builder.
“Paned?” (Pron: pan-edd) - you’re in Wales, the question is rhetorical. You don’t have a choice, you’re having tea.
“Brew?” Or “Fancy a brew?” - Northern and you’re either a friend, familiar or been in the house long enough to warrant one.
You will also be judged for the amount of milk you have (clue: more is worse, because you’re weak, like your tea), and how much sugar you have (none is best, one is suspect, two is fine especially if a service man, above that will inspire disgust and horror).
To say nothing about your preferred choice of biscuit. And yes there is a hierarchy. And it changes based on geography and class.
I’d like to make an addition: if I yell out ‘anyone want some tea?’, that’s me saying ‘I’m making myself some tea, if anyone else wants some speak now or forever hold your peace’
