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happy valentine’s day, here’s your boyfriend

By likeafunerall, and reposted with permission.

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Remus: what's your type

James: Black brother who has issues

Remus: I was gonna say the same thing

James: who's mean to me

Remus: ooo

James: with a reading addiction

Remus: oo stunning

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

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FOAMING AT THE MOUTH.

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characters will literally get a headache or nosebleed out of nowhere and be like "huh. weird. well it's probably nothing." girl, look around you. you're in a story. it's relevant to the plot.

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poor padfoot

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tell a stranger that their dog looks extremely realistic

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if u think remus didn’t introduce the marauders to dungeons and dragons and start the most complex campaign known to humanity, you are wrong

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Reblog to have something lgbt happen to you this summer

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thinking of her (the strawberry squid) 🥺🥰😵💫🍓

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"Wicca For Beginners" Book Review

I've practiced witchcraft for over 20 years and have had many encounters with Wiccans. I've often found myself at odds with these sort of people, they seem to be scared to try any kind of remotely risky magick and often come off as overly moralistic. Their descriptions of the Wiccan system make it seem like a sanitized wimpy version of witchcraft. After reading a copy of Lisa Bucklands book I think I have a better understanding of the issues with the ideology, at least if I'm to go off what's within this barebones presentation of a volume.

According to the book Wicca is essentially this libertarian ideology of "harm none, do what thou will" that is all about the worship of Nature. Here's the thing, Nature is brutal and vicious. most animals spend every waking moment in Terror that they will be torn apart and eaten alive. Forest fires kill large amounts of animals, plants and people. Volcanoes erupt, Tornadoes destroy, nature is a real nasty bitch a lot of the time. You can't say you worship nature but then be like "oh but harm none", that's just silly.

The author makes the claim that Wicca is based on the practices of witch cults that have been around for tens of thousands of years. I did a little research and it turns out this is complete nonsense. Wicca was created by a civil servant named Gerald Gardner in the 1950s and as far as I can tell he just wanted to convince pretty women to show him their nipples.

We don't actually know what the spiritual practices of ancient people were because written language didn't start showing up until a few thousand years ago. We have artifacts but we don't know the context of how they were used. If archaeologists from 10,000 years in the future found the ruins of Starbucks coffee houses around the planet and all written records of our time period had been lost they would probably think these places were Temples dedicated to the worship of some strange Mermaid Goddess.

I could have forgiven the nonsense if the book had at least had a bunch of great spells. Often times when a young person is starting down the path of witchcraft the books they'll find most readily available on the topic will be Wiccan in nature and it's important that these books feature a decent collection of beginner spells. In this entire book I found exactly one spell and it was so simple that even most self-professed baby witches would turn their nose up at it. This book is only 57 pages long, the author could have spent another week or two writing down a couple dozen spells from her own Book of Shadows. Writing a book of this nature and not including a bunch of spells would be like making a hamburger but forgetting to include the beef.

It seems strange that the author never mentiones the common practice of sex magick among wiccans. About the only useful function I could see this book having with its lack of spells and its historical inaccuracies would be as a pamphlet to let people know what they're in for when they get into Wicca. Many of the wiccans I've met have been very open about their use of Sex Magick, I find it rather distressing that the author doesn't really prepare an Initiate for what they might be in for. There's nothing wrong with practicing Sex Magick so long as everyone is informed about what's going on, at best the author is negligent by not mentioning the more sexual aspects of the religion.

I can't recommend this book to anybody, especially young people who are first getting into the practice. If you're interested in the wiccan path and you want to learn spells I suggest checking out Brittany Nightshades "Book of Shadows", it may have a few grammatical errors here and there but it's very good at teaching you what you need to know to get started and Miss Nightshade seems to have a much better idea of what her readers are looking for. (Image from Unsplash.com)

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“i need you baby, to warm the lonely nights”

[open for better quality, close ups under the cut]

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covered in cuts and burns and bruises and scrapes from trying to find download links

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okay but think about the marauders all having a crush on you :(( you sit a few people over from them when you eat and you always feel them staring at you. Remus accidentally puts his elbow in his food all the time from resting his head on his hand, staring at you lovingly.

you always have breakfast early so you can go out to the black lake before class. you throw in some toast for the giant squid, and sit under your tree.

you hear peoples shuffling feet and mumblings of, “you ask her!!” “no you ask her!!” “okay okay shut up i’ll ask her!”

you turn your head to see 3 tall flustered boys, walking up to you. they stop a couple feet away and all look to the ground awkwardly.

“uh hi y/n!!” says james while looking shy and rubbing the back of his head.

“we were uh,,,, just wondering, i-if you’d like-“

he gets cut of by sirius. “we were wondering if you’d like to go to hogsmaede tomorrow.”

“i was gonna ask it,” james mumbles to his friend.

you’re surprised this is what they wanted to ask but obviously agreed. You were friends with them and secretly thought they were all cute.

Remus literally doesn’t say a thing he’s so shy but he walks up and hands you a small flower he picked for you, and the group walks back up to the castle, not waiting back just in case you changed your mind.

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EVERYONE DRINK WATER RIGHT NOW AND REBLOG TO KEEP THE HYDRATION GANG CHAIN GOING