So much of religion or faith is ineffable, or experiential, that when people ask me to explain something, or when I feel like I want to write a post about something, my explanation just turns into a lot of vague hand-waving and sentences peppered with “um” and “you know.” Well, no, obviously they don’t know …
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30 Days of Paganism: Beliefs – Magic, spellcraft, mysticism etc
Ok, it feels a bit weird for me to be tackling this right now. I haven’t done much magic lately, but I always seem to be steeped in mysticism so maybe it’ll work out. So. Magic and spellcraft. To me the practice of magic is entirely mundane. I mean, I’m doing the same stuff I …
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STOP THROWING AROUND THE WORD ‘PSYCHOPATH’ LIKE IT’S A CUTE NEW TREND
General trigger/content warning for this post. Also: several gifs used. I just read a post that called the Morrigan a psychopath.
Addendum to the Ishtar = Easter meme: The Zealotry of Anti-Theism
Trigger warning: description of a rape analogy; discussion of mental illness stigmatization Yesterday I talked about the anti-Semitism in erasing the Jewish history of Christian holidays. (It is anti-Semitism; I know some folks think that I’m being hyperbolic here, but I’m not. When you erase an entire people’s culture, history, and religion from the equation, …
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The Ishtar = Easter Meme and Pagan Anti-Semitism
So, this is annoying me enough today that I feel I should do a post on it. This picture has been shared around so many times on FB in the past week it’s given me whiplash: There is an awesome breakdown of why this is bullshit over at The Belle Jar, posted last year around …
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Conquering the Hekspoffer (Hexipuff) and oh gods not this fight again
I have spent the past few days working out how to make a hexipuff type thing — a double sided hexagon that can be stuffed with fleece or scrap yarn — via trial and error. After a lot of the first and more of the second, I have finally come up with a working pattern …
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There is no such thing as a square god
This post is in response to something Star Foster wrote recently, which frankly is full of vicim-blamey, ableist, classist nonsense. But don’t let me tell you what to think! Read it all right here. Comments aren’t enabled, so instead of politely pointing out how I think she’s wrong in the comments (yes, I am polite …