#for witches to beware of

[weirdlookindog]

Power O’Malley - Beware the Beautiful Witch, 1913

#power o'malley #beware the beautiful witch #occult art #witch #witchcraft #painting #horror art

[amygdalae]

painted my nails yesterday ^u^ the colors are called "starry night" and "spikes & studs" and the sparkle top coat is called "glazed", all sally hansen

#beware my pale and spindly witches claws #painting my nails is a fun ritual that gets me to sit still and stop fidgeting a bit

[maddiviner]

A person can worship a goddess and still be a raging misogynist.

I see this all the fucking time, too, and the "b-but I'm pagan!" line does get trotted out.

Yeah, no. I don't care how devoted you (claim you) are to Hecate/Freya/Babalon etc, I care how you treat flesh-and-blood people.

You can't pretend that "worshiping a goddess" makes someone, by default, not a misogynist. I see guys who have a (weird) notion of "divine femininity;" a perfect nurturing caregiver of sorts. They then get irate when a woman won't take that role for them.

They expect a (very narrowly-defined) goddess, and when they don't get one, they get mad. I end up reading their rants online as a bystander. A lot of these guys will claim the woman has somehow betrayed them, isn't pagan enough, or is an evil supernatural being?! Vampire? It's sometimes something like that.

On another note? Many transphobes are also very loud about how they "worship goddesses." They're, of course, equally loud about their disrespect for women, though. There's some "trad pagan" types, too (or whatever they're now called) who believe in goddesses - but also believe that women belong in the kitchen.

So yeah. Don't assume someone's safe and not bigoted simply because they worship Demeter or whoever. Don't let them claim that their goddess patron absolves any shitty behavior. This is a thing that keeps popping up, and I think people should be mindful of it. Don't let people like the above act as if worshiping Minerva, Aphrodite, or Juno (or whoever) gives them a free pass to be a bigot.

Also? A whole fucking civilization can worship goddesses and still be a terrible place for women.

That doesn't mean that those pantheons are misogynistic. It also doesn't mean that those reconstructing the religions are misogynists. It means that it's possible to have systemic goddess worship and misogyny together.

Don't give me that "b-but in some very specific scenarios, rich women could even *gasps of joy* own property!" either. Don't act like the mere existence of priestesses meant women there held great power, or even that the priestesses themselves necessarily did.

You can't take that kind of thing to mean that your average woman had basic rights in some of these pagan societies. In some cases, that was the case, yeah, but it's hardly been the majority. From what I've read over the years, a lot of it depended on wealth and status.

Even in Ancient Athens (pre-Pericles), women weren't considered citizens, exactly. They could take part in some religious ceremonies, but not most. While they had some financial freedom, they were generally relegated to domestic roles.

Colette Hemingway from the Metropolitan Museum describes this as "extreme social restraint." It doesn't sound like I'd want to live in that kind of civilization, even if I had modern creature comforts. It's similar elsewhere in the ancient world. Not everywhere, but enough places. Don't pretend otherwise.

Much of our history has included misogyny. This isn't a new thing. It was part of paganism. It unfortunately still is. Pretending "we were all considered equal before the Christians came" is disingenuous. And yeah, I've heard people make that exact claim in pagan places.

#pagan #paganism #witchblr #witchcraft #witch #eliza.txt #occult #misogyny #feminism #goddess #goddess worship #diana #history #gender #ugh #be aware and beware #safety #assumptions

[ladyamericanasstuff]

#female hysteria #being a female #female rage #adult human female #being a woman #being a girl #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girl boss gaslight gatekeep #girl interrupted syndrome #girlblogging #girlblogger #girlhood #girl hysteria #this is the experience of being a quiet girl #this is the experience of not being enough #this is the experience of being a only daughter #witchy vibes #witchcore #witches on tumblr #beware of the witches #witches #anyway #<3333

[le-ki]

a clawthorne never has to work for her next meal

#beware the witch #anyways caleb is easily flustered and whipped #caleb wittebane #evelyn clawthorne #evelyn wittebane #my art #the owl house #toh

[the-musical-cc]

#witch from mercury #gundam #my dudes I love that there's girlfriends in this but uhhh BEWARE #anytime a Gundam series focuses on a couple you better brace for the hurt

[daddy-long-legssss]

The transition from ‘This House Is a Circus’ into ‘If You Were There, Beware’ is so good.

#I like ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ gets lost in the mix sometimes because it came out right after WPSIATWIN and they have similar sounds #but FWN is so fucking GOOD #‘If You Were There Beware’ is one of my favourite AM songs #I’ve always gotten a ‘Humbug’ vibe from it with the ‘circle of witches ambitiously vicious they are’ #to have heard it live would have been incredible #arctic monkeys #alex turner #matt helders #nick o'malley #Jamie cook #this house is a circus #if you were there beware #favourite worst nightmare #fwn #personal

[bleufunkk-blog]

☽𖤐✪𖤐☾

“𝔅𝔢𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔄𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫.” -ᵃⁿⁿ ᵐᵃʳⁱᵉ ᵉˡᵉᵃᶻᵉʳ

#photography #ann marie eleazer #beware #autumn #soul #dark soul #dark souls #dark aesthetic #witchcraft #witches of tumblr #witches #dark nature #nature photography #naturecore #nature #bleufunkk

[chaoticincompetent]

Made the mistake of browsing a cookbook while waiting for my ADHD medication to kick in... and stumbled across a recipe for nettle soup.

Now I've fallen down a major foraging rabbithole and have plans to make dandelion scones and chestnut tahini as well.

Help??

#foraging #dandelions #nettles #traditional cookery #someone rein me in before i attain my true form as a witch living deep in the woods #all will hear of my presence and beware #but I'm just baking and drinking tea #and talking to my three cats

[swimminginlakes]

Mushroom adventure

I love forest walks and every time I see a cool shroom I just have to take a picture 🥰

It’s been raining a lot lately and I could finally leave the house so I didn’t even mind !

Also the leaves are finally changing colour so the walk was incredibly colourful and scenic. Made me feel so much better about everything that has been going on lately.

Might move into the dark depths of the forest and live in a goblin cave 🦡

#witch #witch of the forest #mushrooms #beware the mushrooms of the forest #fly agaric #poisonous mushrooms #poison #live deliciously #forest #forest walks #witchy vibes #goblin #goblin core #goblin cave #forest fairy #moss #beauty #earth #witchcraft #vibes #love #personal #my post #personal diary #wild living

[eldridgecandell]

The Inquisitor

Two years.

Two years beyond space and time.

Two years with those claimed as family and journeyed.

Two years gone.

The young black destrier hooves gently beat into the rocky path of the road to Drustvar as the man on it's back rode in silence.

Alone.

There would be no fanfare. No trumpets of triumph or calls of joy.

This soldier was not about joy or fame.

He had returned for one thing and one thing only.

To hunt.

#eldridge candell #order of embers #world of warcraft #roleplay #wyrmrest accord #witch hunter #returned #beware his work

[weirdlookindog]

George Wilson (attributed) - Beware the Power of the Dead Witch!, 1974

#george wilson #beware the power of the dead witch #ripley's belive it or not #cover art #horror art #art #painting

[sulettaofficial]

Thinking back on the Cradle Planet mini web novel, specifically the scene where Aerial is begging Suletta to bail TF outta going to school, and then Suletta utters The Phrase™, and Aerial is suddenly on board with the idea. I can't help but think, just how deep does the brainwashing go?

Hey, first of all, you're my first ask anon! Congrats! <3

Second of all, this turned into a much longer post than I expected and I'm so sorry

TL;DR I think she's conditioned in a way where "you move forward, you gain two." makes her susceptible to doing what someone says after hearing it.

Link to the novel for anyone who hasn't read it yet. Here.

Honestly the novel is kind of wild in a sense. If I'm doing my math right (since I'm on Firefox - thanks Tumblr - it doesn't say "x out of y" when you ctrl + f) there's like four instances of "gain two", which is a lot more than any episode, I think. (It's usually like only one usage of it in an episode, right?? Maybe two at most???)

It just kinda feels like the author is really trying to signify the importance of The Phrase™. Also, the use of words like "spell" and "mom's words are powerful" are...significant, imo. I'm being conspiratorial, I know.

RE that scene, Aerial responds with

>I'm surprised. >Suletta says she isn't going to run.

Aerial has been Suletta's safe space this whole time on Mercury. You'd think that Aerial would know what Suletta's reaction to school would be, and given Suletta's behavior in the anime and the web novel, it sounds more accurate for her to bail. Suletta even acknowledges this to some extent!!

S: "I'm scared. Mercury is all I know, and Mom said she won't be able to go with me." A: You don't have to be Mom's tool. You don't have to take on someone else's curse. S: "Should I decline? If I go, I mustn't fail. Enrollment costs money, and I don't want to embarrass her. What should I do?"

AND THEN SHE SAYS THE PHRASE. And Aerial's response? Literally just

>!

But what makes it even better is that apparently Suletta just. Didn't hear Aerial??

>A: She can't have heard my voice, but Suletta speaks as if responding to me. >S: "If you run, gain one…"

Why would Suletta not hear Aerial? She always does! Except when she says this phrase.

And Prospera has been using this phrase since she was five, just to get her to get an "injection" (I'm assuming a vaccine, since we haven't really had any foreshadowing with Elan about Enhanced People needing anything like an immune-suppressant or anything). So clearly she's been conditioned since a very young age.

Considering the Elan's behaviors (if I remember correctly, Elan 4 was the first Elan that she encountered?), it doesn't sound like they have any Sleeper Phrase. It's more so that they're coerced with promises than psychological conditioning.

And to go back to the anime, when she's talking with her mom her reactions - before the phrase - are this

She's fidgety and horrified.

Prospera says The Phrase

I don't have it as a gif, but then her eyes move back and forth

And then while shaking, she says this

Back to the novel, with the school scene.

Aerial tries to reassure her, Suletta is unsure, then she says the phrase to herself and we get this line

>"You know what, Aerial? If we move forward, we'll gain lots of things--not just two. I'll study, of course, make friends, find mentors, and maybe go on dates!"

It sounds like every time The Phrase is used, someone - her mom, herself - needs to sort of talk her into it still. It seems like The Phrase instills some sense of confidence in her, sure. But it also makes her more susceptible to what someone says.

And hey, am I remembering this correctly? Isn't there a scene in one of the episodes where someone - I feel like it was Miorine? - says "You move forward, you gain two, right?" and then Suletta Does A Thing??

I think she's conditioned to be more confident in herself with whatever someone says after saying "If you run you gain one, if you move forward you gain two." She's not quite like a Cyber Newtype where you have Four out there going "THE ZETA GUNDAM IS MY ENEMY!" It's more subtle than that. She needs someone (apparently even herself) to talk her into doing something. And I'm guessing that she can talk herself into things because of all the times her mom says "You move forward, you gain two." and then goes on to be like "Suletta, you'll be really cool and people will like you and this is important and I love you and you're really really great and stuff." that it's just become a normal response to her to just do the thing. So she says "you move forward, you gain two." and then just naturally falls into "Okay, now here's the part where I tell myself to do the thing."

#the witch from mercury #g witch #the witch from mercury spoilers #g witch spoilers #Suletta Mercury #Prospera Mercury #sleeper agent discourse #fan theory #ask #I talk far too much please beware of this

[wisdomfish]

#beware #man #self #the worst witch #enemy

[ladyamericanasstuff]

#content warning #living dead girl #in your area #beware of the witches #witchy vibes #witchcore #witches #witches on tumblr #witches of tumblr #female hysteria #female rage #femme fatale #violent femmes #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girl interrupted syndrome #girlblogging #being a female #this is the experience of being a quiet girl #this is the experience of not being enough #im just a girl #<3333

[koipalm]

reading dungeon meshi has been so fun and while there have been a few times i was shocked frozen by what was going on i still think that witch hat atelier fucked me up more by a good measure

#txt #dungeon meshi spoilers in the tags BEWARE #mostly the stuff about falin and curing her like holy shit #but i do think that a lot of it gets toned down by the humor around it #like marcille and the rabbits and dead party #but with witch hat atelier the moral dilemma just eats away at the characters god #theres this control over characters agency #and the whole 'for the greater good' narrative #that leaves so many people behind #the discussion about disability is so interesting but so intense