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#omg that is hilarious

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"Safe Abortion for All.

No Compromise - No Apology"

Print by Bum Lung Press

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🧸 cause as a dad, I can nap anywhere lol so it intrigues me where others prefer to nap.

Oh hells... in my bed, definitely, but I love to nap, so it would be "anywhere soft and comfy."

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~ 💖 ASK GAME 💖 ~

📷 What’s set as your phone’s lockscreen?

🍫 Cheese or chocolate?

✨ Do you have any nicknames?

🎵 Last song you listened to?

✏️ Have you ever written fanfiction?

😏 Are you on discord?

 💛 Do you have any piercings?

🐰 What do you think says the most about a person?

🍪 If you were a cookie, what kind would you be?

🐶 Are you more of a dog person or a cat person?

🎧 Headphones or earbuds?

🌼 What’s the last thing you said out loud?

🙃 What’s a weird fact that you know?

🦉 Are you a morning person or a night owl?

🧸 Favorite place to nap?

🏳️‍🌈 Are you a member of the LGBTQIA+ community?

🦋 Describe yourself in three words.

👖 Jeans or sweatpants?

🥤 What’s your go-to Starbucks order?

🧡 A color you can’t stand?

💎 What’s your most prized possession?

☕ Coffee or tea?

🦖 Favorite extinct animal?

🌙 How long have you been on tumblr?

🌴 Desert island item?

🐸 Describe your aesthetic.

🔮 What’s your dream job?

💙 Relationship status?

🌿 Describe your favorite outfit.

🎤 Is there a song you know all the lyrics to?

🤎 What color is your hair?

💌 Do you talk to yourself?

💄 Do you wear makeup?

🌸 Best compliment you ever received?

💞 @ your favorite blog.

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Re-reading your books recently and found myself adopting a new paradigm inspired by your texts: inverted cards are Dark and upright cards are Light. So when the inverted cards appear, the omen is along the lines of "this mystery has not yet manifested" or "this mystery has not yet been brought into your Light" of the said experience or situation. As someone who never connected with "good" or "bad" interpretations in tarot, this one really stuck with me. Just wanted to say thanks for always sharing your knowledge with us and figured that you may find the inspired concept interesting enough.

That's a really cool view of it! And thank you for the compliment, I'm glad to be helpful.

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How do you reconcile problematic creators of properties that are heavily involved in your geekomancy? (If you have this problem at all)

In most cases, I dump the properties from my practice (like I have with Harry Potter). I'll mourn if I need to, but I don't want to build a sorcery structure around a practice created by someone who victimizes others or creates an unsafe world for others to live in.

I've had to deal with this for years though. Ever since I was a little kid reading Narnia, y'know? So I've got lots of practice. *chuckles*

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#my lone post for Jesterfest #I'm terrible

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#this #speaking as someone who is able to do this when necessary #there's literally nothing fulfilling about having to take responsibility for another person's choices

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What is your advice for someone who can read tarot relatively okay for other people but is trash when it comes to reading for themself? (Cards dont make sense and literally every card is reversed despite careful shuffling to get a healthy mix of both upright and reversed cards)

*hugs* I know that frustration all too well.

Ok, so here are some things I say to everyone where tarot reading is concerned:

It's not just what the cards say, it's what they don't say. A tarot deck works by representing the whole world and all of the various turns and twists of fate people can experience. When Death shows up, but not the Ten of Swords, that's because you're dealing with Death, but not in the form of an ending. Likewise, if the Three of Coins appears and not the Eight, then your experience will reflect financial growth and demonstration of your mastery, rather than the learning of that skillset.

For this reason, I encourage diviners to adopt a different method for reading inversions than "the bad version of this card" or "the opposite." For the latter, there's already a card in the deck for any "opposite" meaning you could come up with. For the former... every card can be bad or good in the right circumstance. For myself, I use a method where the inverted cards are signs that the querent will have difficulty understanding that card, and I should take pains to carefully explain that one, pointing out nuances that might be missed. Generally it means the card is "shadowed," or their own beliefs and views obstruct the truth. Another really good one I read recently is the idea of an upright card being "invoked" and an inverted card being "banished," which is a very interesting perspective. I like the idea of "this card is departing from you, or taking its blessing/curse/experience away."

Those two things I say to everyone, just to clear space. The first really specific piece of advice I'd give to you if you're having trouble reading for yourself is do not add cards. Read what's already there. Take a picture of it, note everything in a journal, and look at it periodically. Focus not on what your feeling is, but what the card means. Do research, look it up in books, especially your own writings on the card if you have them. Seriously, adding too many cards makes the reading even harder to read. "Clarification" cards are a joke.

In addition, check your spread. The spreads we use are how we talk to the world and ask for information. Make sure that when you lay those cards in that pattern, you actually want the information the spread can offer. If you're looking for advice, don't ask a spread that's solely about prediction, that sort of thing.

I'd also suggest you take a look at the deck and see if it really expresses how you experience the world, and then I'd do divination that has nothing to do with your wishes for a while, to see if it can accurately relate the world to you. I wanna be specific here- what I'm talking about here is not how you wish the world was, but rather how you experience the world as it is. The deck is meant to reflect the world as it is, and reveal its secrets to you, and if the deck isn't doing that for you in your readings, you may need to use a different deck, or maybe even a different divination method at all.

If all your cards are coming up inverted all the time, that's a sign. The deck is specifically speaking to you and saying something to you. If it were my own deck, that would be a message that "you ain't gonna get it, so you may as well stop asking." I can't say what that omen means for you, but I would consider it a big one, maybe a step or two above "stalker" cards, and just below the significance of a reading that's more than 80% one suit. If that's the case, I'd ask your cards what they're trying to tell you that you're not getting, and record the answers. For myself, I use three-card combinations for those kinds of specific questions.

If you wanna reach out and talk to me more in depth, I'm definitely available if you wanna come off anon and have a conversation, or you can just send a few more anon asks if that's your comfort level. I hope I helped, one way or another. *hugs*

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reblog if you’re in the mood for anons rn

Always

#sure! why not!

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Texts From Superheroes

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#I mean... the same could be said about Jean...

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Witchcraft and poetry are inseparable for me. What is a poem but a spell, every word woven with care and intention? A poem has the potential to craft new worlds, to open a portal into unseen realities, to rewild our hearts and souls. Poetry is spellcraft.

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Lakes and graveyards are very similar in that if you detonate a large explosion inside either one a lot of dead bodies come to the surface.

#XD this killed me #someone call necromancer

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Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language

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Okay… Have you read Sex Wizards by Alethea Faust? 👀

If so, thoughts?

Follow-up question: do you think the magic system in the books can be practiced irl?

Hmm... I haven't read them, no. I'ma go look them up!

Edit: huh. Never heard of this. I love the idea of queer kinky sex magic stuff! I may look into them.

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How can I interact with spirits if I really struggle to perceive any sort of mystical phenomena? (Honestly, I feel like I have some sort of block)

Unfortunately, I don't have a simple answer for this, because I don't know your specific situation. That being said, there are a number of ways to open one's perceptions, and also a number of ways to learn to experience the metaphysical. Most of those involve trance techniques, and can involve anything from various forms of meditation or bodily trance induction to drug and herb use for entheogenic purposes.

It depends on your situation, tbh. I would need to know more about you, a lot more and over time, in order to give you really good assistance there. What I do know is, it's a step-by-step process that's largely experiential and about training your mind to look for signs, and then training your senses and your body to recognize them. It just takes time and work, and each phase of the process takes different amounts of time or work for each different person.

I know that's not much consolation. Feel free to message me off anon and we can talk privately, and I'll see if I can help more.