Voices In The River

monkeychewtoy:

inneskeeper:

Gender is a performance and I’m a dancing frog in a top hat that keeps getting dragged off stage by a big hook.

I especially love this because Michigan J. Frog (yes that’s the name of the frog you’re thinking of, yes you really can just name characters anything) was the original “well now I am not doing it” meme. He would put on these amazing performances until someone tried to put him on display, at which point he would just act like a regular-ass frog

Originally posted by howardhawkshollywoodannex

so this post can also be read as “gender is a performance and I’m only doing it when I want to, not when others demand it”

fuck yeah

Originally posted by throwbackblr

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

lesbian-archives:

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, 1994

OH it’s a lesbian and her enormous sunflower

I thought she had her arm around the shoulders of her wife, who was dressed as a plant monster for some reason

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Note to self (and let’s go ahead and call this #31DaysOfWitchcraft Day 28, because I’m not positive I’m going to have it together to make another post when I get home): Things I need to run a Pagan publicity booth that I do not currently have -

1) The little plastic or metal clips intended to affix a tablecloth to a folding table. Binder clips work semi-okay for a substitute, but they look janky.

2) Some plain white fairy lights for the purpose of running around the interior roof of the booth. I could use my keep-the-citrus-trees-from-freezing set, I suppose, but they’re incandescent, and warm white LEDs would probably be better for this purpose.

3) A fresh set of LED candles for the cleansing/blessing station (and also my travel altar). The ones I have must be at least twelve years old and have gotten a little dinged up. They also never had the batteries changed out, and the Fire and Air candles are just about out. (Spirit and Water are doing fine, oddly enough. Earth is noticeably dimming but still flickering along.)

4) Some shorter tapestries to hang along the side of the booth. I don’t want to be up in our neighbors’ business, but I also don’t want a long tapestry flapping up into their stuff and I don’t want to block airflow.

5) A selection of unthemed chants that I can just run off a few days before an event, and then if I don’t use them, I can toss them in the bag and just not have to run off any for the next time. It’s nice to have themed selections for an event, but I can run a one-page of those and hand them out separately. Tossing ten excess copies in recycling after every time is a downer, but I don’t want to stop doing chant circle/chant workshop for the couple of people who do show up.

Having said that, I am really enjoying introducing people to spiritual cleansing. The looks of *relief* on some people’s faces after walking them through the five stations is amazing! I also want to give a shout-out to the young person who was paralyzed with anxiety talking to a stranger but wanted to do alll five stations anyway, and made it all the way through. They were incredibly courageous and I applaud them!

ALT

Today’s Tarot draw: Gran Ibo (Two of Cups). Where does the wisdom of your elders enter your life? How does the wild knowledge of the winds, the waters, and the plants meet the cultivated knowledge of civilization? To whom are you listening, and does what they say feed your soul?

Today’s Deck: the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, co-designed by Louis Martinié and Sallie Ann Glassman, Art by Sallie Ann Glassman, book text by Louis Martinié. This is another deck I’ve had around for forever and a day, but very rarely use, partly just because it has a lot of embedded context I’m not really party to. It’s gorgeous, though.

For Day 27 of #31DaysOfWitchcraft, ~*~I accidentally bought two of the same Tarot bag~*~

This is not actually a problem. It does mean that I’m going to have to hang a charm off of one of the bags so I know which deck is in which bag, though. And I know why it happened; it’s a very pretty bag.

Figuring out storage solutions for occult accoutrements is a problem, though. A lot of my stuff is oddly-sized, and a lot of witchy stuff involves wax, ceramic, glass, silver, bones, and feathers - not the most durable of materials. At the moment I have a low chest of drawers storing a lot of my stuff, and a wicker basket thingy with all my incense. Both were better solutions when I was 15 years younger and did not have my back randomly seizing up on me when I bent over.

I am contemplating moving some stuff around in my mundane crafting cabinet - that’s where my essential oils all are anyway - and trying to make space for stuff like inks and decks and seasonal things like the skull candleholders. But that requmoving a bunch of *other* stuff around in a small space. I wish I had space to have a bigger chest of drawers in there, but I really don’t.

But I need a place to put all this stuff, or I’m going to end up with duplicates. Again. >_<

the1920sinpictures:

1929 Original GE (General Electric) Monitor Top Refrigerator. From Images of Yore, FB.

Oh, is that what it’s called.

frothlad:

dvandom:

But do you also say “all y'all” or treat y'all as plural already?

“All y'all” is reduplication for emphasis at least as much as it is for pluralization.

“You” and “you’un” are singular.

“Y’all” is plural and refers to a group of people that is reasonably well defined.

“All y’all” is plural and refers to a less clearly defined, and often but not always larger, group of people.

If you are talking with three Deltas, “you” is the one you’re currently addressing, “y’all” is the three of them in front of you, and “all y’all” is the whole sorority chapter - or possibly the whole sorority.

liberalsarecool:

Atth: homophobes

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ALT

Today’s Tarot draw: the Two of Pentacles. How do you balance your physical needs, the things you want, and your financial stability? When pressures push you in opposite directions, do you stand your ground - and if not, how do you choose which way to sway? How do you avoid consuming the resources you need to thrive in the long term?

Today’s deck: the Alchemical Tarot, co-designed and illustrated by Robert M. Place, co-designed and booklet written by Rosemary Ellen Guiley. This is … I dunno, I’ve had this deck for forever and I never really work with it. It’s kinda Eurocentric, but usually that doesn’t turn me off a deck entirely. Maybe I just don’t jibe with the art style.

For Day 26 of #31DaysOfWitchcraft, the Bible thumpers are at it again.

For those who don’t know already, there’s a Pagan market in Livingston, TX that started about a year ago. It is, at its core, a craft fair with pointy hats, Stevie Nicks skirts, and black lipstick on. A bunch of people in the Pagan/polytheist/occult/metaphysical space show up at the farmer’s market pavilions in a park in a small town on the outskirts of the Houston sphere of influence and sell each other their woodburned kitchen spoons, homemade brooms, herbal smoking blends, goth jewelry, tie-dyed shirts, and resin tchotchkes. It’s honestly one of the most wholesome things our community does beyond “go to brunch”.

It also comes with its own protestors. They’re local holiness Pentecostals, and most of the time it’s the junior pastor of one specific local church and his Jesus-bothering besties. As near as I can tell, the church they belong to has about 60 people, but the largest group I’ve seen them show up with was just under a dozen, half of them children. They show up with a bullhorn and a set of signs more appropriate for a Planned Parenthood protest than a Pagan market, and trade off yelling for an hour at a time. Sometimes they make it through the entire market, but usually they pack up after a few hours. Sometimes they stand in the road, but that usually gets the park cop to show up and make them move.

Their theology is … bad? Let’s go with “bad”. If I thought their worldview was true, I would have to declare myself a maltheist.

Anyway, the next market is Saturday and I’m going to be there repping Spirit Haven. It looks like the Pentecostals have successfully riled up a group of what I think from their language are Independent Baptists to hold their own separate protest-cum-prayer-meeting in the park. While I am not worried about violence, I am concerned about them potentially getting verbally abusive in the name of their ideas about their god. I’m also mildly concerned about internecine conflict - one of these groups is Once-Saved-Always-Saved and the other very much believes in Falling Away, so it would be very easy for them to find incompatible cracks in their theology to fight about.

So, yeah. Good vibes appreciated if you have any to spare.