Hear me out, you don't need to come from a family of witches or have some direct line to a secret practice to utilize your family traditions in your craft

I made a gofundme, if anyone would like to help me pay for my surgery to unfuck my nose. I understand that nobody has money, but if you could share this that would also be helping me out.

On June 26th I'll be getting surgery to straighten my septum and remove a large bone spur which is currently blocking airflow to my left nostril. This could potentially help with my frequent migraines, but even if it doesn't, the ability to breathe through both nostrils will have various health benefits. It's also just really irritating to have one nostril that's constantly blocked.

I'm not sure yet what the surgery will cost in total, though I've no doubt that it will be more than my starting goal. Due to the way it's billed I haven't been able to get a quote from either the provider or my insurance, but I will be updating my goal once I know the total.

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Hey @friend-crow & @upthewitchypunx, found a thing for you. 🤣

I might just get to test this theory if I visit family in Texas this year.

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Whoa! I woke up to this being funded! I'm going to the Viridis Genii Symposium! I'm so grateful to everyone who helped make this happen!

I'm going to leave this fundraiser up as a pre-order for the zine I'll make about my experience. Also, if I get enough, I'll let the funders decide which workshop/s I attend.

Gonna post the link to have people pick my first workshop tonight. You should contribute if you want to participate in my (workshop) fate.

Still accepting donations that are also pre-orders for the zine I will make!

Since my actual birthday is on Monday I thought I would post this again!

Hex Positive, Ep. 035 - Money Magic (or Why I'm Not A Rich Witch)

Prosperity spells are some of the most commonly-found types of magical workings to be found in modern witchcraft and in the historical record. So why aren’t witches absolutely rolling in dough? And how do you make sure your magical windfall doesn’t come with unwanted consequences? As it turns out, mostly by keeping things simple. (Check out the full show notes for upcoming event info and credits!)

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I know that 80% of the US lives in the Eastern and Central time zones, but east coast bias in the media is so fucking annoying.

Great, you have smoke. welcome to what the western part of the country has been dealing with every summer but the only time it seems to make national news is when a town burns down. But now that NYC has apocalyptic orange skies it's all the news will talk about. On the west coast were stocking up N-95 masks before the pandemic for those days.

I get everyone wants to make fun of us for being dramatic, but most of new england isn't prepared for this. Just like all other serious weather events happening around the world because of climate change, the danger is greater because of the lack of preparedness. Our air filters are for pollen, not smog or smoke. Im new to the area but im being told this is the driest spring we've had and the warmest winter in ages. Not to mention the sheer number of people with compromised lungs because of population density and the pandemic. The seriousness of the fires in the west is not less than what we are experiencing here, and climate scientists have been warning us that wildfires will get worse and become more widespread for years. But we cannot be talking down to one another or acting like one side has it worse. This is an international issue that has needed more attention for years, now it is getting it. People are dying because of this. More people will die because of this. You can be angry about it without discrediting the people living through a catastrophe that is completely new to them.

And besides all that, I have heard from west coast natives, and the news had been reporting, that our air quality right now is worse than what california has been seeing in recent years. Maybe this should be taken as a warning of how bad the wildfire season will be for the parts of the country that are normally dry.

You know, I can definitely understand where you're coming from, and I do agree, I don't think East Coasters are being dramatic. This is a genuine crisis and it does deserve to be talked about. The part that's frustrating for me is that this same crisis has been growing in the western US for years, and we've pretty much just been left to our own devices to deal with it - including a large number of people who, as you've touched on, have compromised lungs due to either having gone through COVID or having other health conditions.

And it's hard to reassure oneself with "at least it's finally being talked about" when the very thing that got people talking about it proves that, at least in the media's eyes, it's not a real problem until it happens in the east.

So yeah. No beef with East Coasters; I know all too well how devastating this shit is and I hope that the problem can finally get addressed for everyone. I just wish that the response had been as immediate and overwhelming for the folks over here.

Thank you. I am definitely not making fun of east coast folks, this is about the hyperbolic media that only takes things seriously if it happens in NYC.

Climate change has caused so many obvious changes in the west beyond just temperature, Yellowstone closed due to flooding and Big Sur due to landslides. There's a huge struggle with water rights in the west right now. If I mention anything about it east coast folks tend to get offended about it instead of actually considering media bias.