#sacred choice

[samwisethewitch]

Are you tired of anti-choice people telling you that your views on abortion have no historical/religious support?

Me too.

So I wrote a book proving them wrong.

"An exploration of the history of contraception and abortion in witchcraft and paganism.

This celebration of the history and spirituality of reproductive freedom combines thorough research, reflection, and magical practice with an easy-to-understand writing style. Learn about birth control in the ancient world, which gods and goddesses were historically called on to prevent pregnancy, how to cast a spell to find an abortion provider, and more!

Written with an intersectional, trans-inclusive approach, Sacred Choice acknowledges the nuance of reproductive justice and the ways abortion and contraception access is affected by race, gender, ability, and social class."

Release Date: September 22nd, 2022 (Fall Equinox!)

Available for preorder now!

You can preorder the ePUB for $1 USD on Etsy. You will receive a bonus PDF to ensure file compatibility on all devices. Your digital files will be sent to you on the release date.

If Kindle is more your speed, you can preorder the Kindle ebook for $2.99 on Amazon. The ebook will be auto-delivered to your Kindle library on the release date.

You can also preorder the paperback for $6.99 + shipping on Etsy! Physical copies will be shipped on the book's release date, so you will receive them a few days after the 22nd.

Please note that paperback preorders are hard-capped at 100 copies. This is because I am a one-woman distribution team and want to make sure I'm able to fill orders on time. If having a physical copy is very important to you, I recommend ordering as soon as possible to make sure you get one.

I'm really excited about this project, so please do message me with any questions you have about the content, my research, or the release!

#sacred choice #sam wise author #witchcraft books #pagan books #feminist books #reproductive justice books #pro choice books #reproductive justice #reproductive rights #reproductive freedom #pro choice #abortion #birth control #dobbs vs. jackson #dobbs decision #roe v. wave #witch #witchcraft #witchblr #pagan witch #witchyvibes #paganism #paganblr #reclaiming #reclaiming witch #norse pagan #heathenry #inclusive heathenry #queer witch #queer witchcraft

[sylviaritter]

Two of Swords

The next tarot card is done. So far 52 cards are now completed!

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[cathedraldecay]

it’s so funny when in interviews frank talks about kids shouting out mcr songs at his solo project shows and he’s like “you don’t want to hear me sing that”, because now that mcr’s touring that man screams every word to every song, most of the time directly into the microphone. his mic is turned all the way up, every song is a duet.

#even if i didnt want to hear it (i absolutely do) i have no choice now #also how hes like ‘no one can live up to gerards voice. no one can replicate it’ #and then when he talks about his fav mcr songs he just talks about gerards voice in them #like okay we get it gerards voice is sacred to u #but how can u hear it over your wailing #anyways i fucking adore this man #mcr

[revvethasmythh]

I do think there's something really interesting about Nott specifically choosing to not tell the group she used to be a halfling before she was forced into confessing it. She had ample opportunity to tell someone what had happened to her, hell the group specifically presses her on her dislike of goblins. And they're all listening and sympathetic and supportive. But she stutters through a half-lie and says, "As long as I've been alive--as long as I can remember, I haven't felt comfortable in my own skin. I know that I'm a goblin but I'm not--I'm not like them." It would have been easier to just tell them the truth here, but she doesn't.

I have to assume there are competing forces driving this reaction. An inherent part of her relationship with Caleb at this stage is the hope that one day he will be powerful enough to make her a halfling again. But she never tells him that's what she's hoping for, again, until she's forced to. She walks past every opportunity to say something and hides in her own lies instead. Because that's safer? Because the knowledge of who she used to be is private and sacred and not something she wants to share? Because she's already given up hope that her plan for Caleb to help her would ever be successful, before she's even given him enough information to try? Maybe just because if she speaks the truth out loud she has to revisit a painful past, and speaking in half-truths feels more approachable.

Anyway, it's a very interesting illustration of the way Veth doesn't really ever share her deepest problems unless she is very much pressed to. I know it's often commented on how Sam dropped so much of her backstory without anyone having the information to know what those drops meant, but it's equally interesting the fact that she intentionally chooses not to share the information, even when there was more trust in the party, even though she knew her plan would never work without eventually telling the story of what happened to her.

#the half-truths and the omissions! tbh fascinating character choice #and yes I know sam said they could go the whole campaign without revealing the halfling thing but still #like what is the inner drive to keep her past so hidden? is it because it's private? sacred? #or is it because she doesn't want to face her past--which in turn would mean having to acknowledge how terrible her present is? #fascinating. fascinating character landscape. love her for it #critical role #cr2e19 #yes another c2 rewatch #the mighty nein #nott the brave #veth brenatto #anyway this is virtue of me just yelling at my screen: ''this would be so much easier to describe if you just told the truth!!''

[artigas]

am i truly expected to wake up every goddamn day and keep my unbridled (and correct) hatred for taylor swift all to myself just because i want to make and keep friends? hell is empty and all the devils are here

#personal #flying very close to the sun by typing her full name on this post too #i know someone who is a self identified gaylor and i am begging her to stand up #she has a theory that taylor is dating matty healy to intentionally cancel herself ahead of her reputation re-release or some shit #and honestly i'd rather she be a flat earth-er and save us both the embarassment #forgive me for being a bitch i like lana del rey's music so clearly we all have irreparable flaws #i suppose we all have our favorite racist white women and that's a very personal and sacred choice

[sylvies-kablooie]

reading a fic that is a retelling of s2 but with Improvements and honestly cannot recall which elements of the loom lore are canon and which elements this author made up because i have no capacity in my brain for technobabble.

yeah sure there's a failsafe and it nukes all the branches that got activated after sylvie killed the dude. so like there was no way freeing the timelines would ever work. was that canon? don't look at me.

and sure, the loom was only around for 1,000 years but somehow without it the universe blows up. but also life existed before the loom. it just cannot exist after it.

who knows what's going on? it is not the owner of this blog!!!

#this is a loom hate post. loom i hate u. that felt good to say. #sometimes you may think introducing an element to your story with enough confidence will mean people won't ask questions #well it's me here with questions. number one: why are you doing this #listen for a fandom that barely comprehends the sacred timeline despite the cartoons it was a risky choice to throw this Machine in s2 #you can try to explain Loom Lore to me and i would appreciate the effort but there is no way any of it would stick to my brain #so no need to waste your precious time as it would just fall straight out of my head #no comprehension whatsoever. i think i just have to accept that. #and i think that's fair!! normalize not understanding sci fi universe machines #normalize not turning loki into a tree #excited to see where this fic will go though! #loki series #loki series critical

[blueeandyellowmakesgreen]

mike wheeler you better get vecna’d next season because holy shit you got baggage

#talking with yvie about mike’s unaddressed trauma repressed homosexuality and lying to the people he cares about due to being lost #its heartbreaking how he feels obligated to be with el ever since he lost el to the ud in s1 #how he has this unhealthy need to protect or *save.* #and if he doesnt have that he has nothing #we pointed out how he lost el once and almost did so many times and he felt like he couldnt do anything in any of those situations #and when he saw el almost dying *again* he felt like he had no choice but to break his most sacred oath. #he lied in the forms of the monologus #*monologue* #he wanted it to be true and he believed it was true enough. which he thought was enough to save her. #he just wants to keep her away from danger for once bc he feels obligated to save her everytime shes in danger #ever since she closed the gate when they were kids. that traumatized him so bad #he feels himself be on the same situatuon as always and he feels he’s the only one who can save people bc he thinks he HAS to #if he cant save the people he cares about then hes not good for anything. not worth anything. #fuck idk mN #byler

[stygianoaths]

Alabaster C. Torrington based off of @pjocharacterdesign's character design!

Picrew credit: @/happymael on Twitter.

#i wished there were more vitiligo options available but i decided to make do with what i have #what i do love is the choice of the snake tattoo since it can represent his mother as the serpent is one of her sacred animals #i headcanon that it moves around his neck because he's magical like that #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #alabaster c torrington #alabaster torrington #riordanverse

[samwisethewitch]

thelanternlight replied to your post: Are you tired of anti-choice people telling you that your views on abortion have no historical/religious support?

No, I’ve literally never needed religion to justify bodily autonomy.

That's totally fair. As I've said many times before, I don't think religion (ANY religion) should affect decision-making in a secular government. The science tells us that abortion is safe and humane, and that's what we should be using to make policy decisions.

However, the reality of the situation is that in the United States and several other Western countries religion is part of the discussion, whether we want it to be or not. And right now that religious side of the debate is dominated by conservative voices from within Christianity who have spent literal centuries spreading misinformation about abortion and contraception.

Being able to claim the moral high ground is very important to these people, because the moral high ground is all they have. The science disagrees with them. The history disagrees with them. Popular opinion disagree with them. Their movement is 100% dependent on the idea that the other side is made up of evil, immoral supervillains who kill babies for fun.

My purpose in writing this book was to correct the misinformation spread by anti-choice groups and to remind people that Christians don't speak for all religious or spiritual people.

If anti-choice people are going to use "freedom of religion" to argue against science and popular opinion, they need to be ready to acknowledge that pro-choice religions exist and have existed literally since before recorded history. And if we're going to take one religion into consideration, we have to take others into consideration as well.

#replies #thelanternlight #sacred choice #my books #pro choice #reproductive justice #abortion

[chirpsythismorning]

Over halfway done with the ST5 vision playlist and… Just came across the most terrifyingly ST5 coded song and I’m 🫢

Like at first I was like, “okay, nothing really— wait no. that’s interesting… actually?… wait, what??— WAIT!

#stranger things #byler #st5 vision playlist #this is a playlist I’m making to see if I can maybe predict some of s5s vibe via music possibilities #sacred heart by dio #song came out on 1985 #they have another song called rainbow in the dark which is another interesting one #album covers for both of these are also kinda cool #don’t know anything about this band #i know like top hits from the 60-80’ #I’m on song 133 btw… #67 more to go? #my criteria for song choices is the year it came it (pre 1989 bc in don’t think st will go past the 80’s in this universe) #I also look at the lyrics to see if I can find context that matches the shows context #also they have to be somewhat known otherwise the audience wouldn’t be as interested if every song was unheard of #also ideally they’re good #this one isn’t really a bop for me tbh #I just thought lyrically it was painfully parallel to the context of s5’s plot and so I had to share!! #SoundCloud

[wild-flowerhoney]

“the love was there. it didn't change anything. it didn't save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there.”

dumbledore going to sirius after barty's received the kiss - eyes grave and tired, showing his true age. characteristic glimmer snuffed out - and sirius thinks its something about harry, something about voldemort, that has him this worried. this defeated.

but "no," dumbledore says "no, sirius, this has nothing to do with voldemort or harry." and there's an underlying sadness to his words - some unspoken grief lingering in the air. soaking every movement till his limbs appear shaky and his movements unsure, practiced yet clumsy.

dumbledore is holding a box - plain wood, unremarkable in any way.

"this," he says "was given to me by barty crouch jr before the dementors could get to him. it was his last wish to have someone to give it to, someone to keep it safe."

sirius is confused, terribly so. he says as much, reaches out as if to slap the box away, might be dangerous - dumbledore shields it, carefully, as if it were made of glass.

"i had one last conversation with crouch, where he told me all i needed to know about its contents. i've come here now to relay to you the same knowledge he gave me and pass on this box to you, as you are the one that should get to have it."

sirius opens the box.

regulus black, fifteen years old, scowls at him from an old picture. regulus black, twelve years old, waves cheerfully. regulus black, seventeen years old, looks to the side nervously.

"tell me."

albus dumbledore speaks - quiet, as if the words could fall apart were he any louder - and something secret, long hidden away in dark rooms, is brought to light.

#marauders era #marauders #regulus black #hp #sirius black #albus dumbledore #barty crouch jr #regulus black x barty crouch jr #bartylus #slytherin skittles #adding this to my list of wips #barty half crazed and knowing he's going to die #passing on all he knows about regulus because he's already dead and doesn't deserve to completely disappear #and dumbledore #truly understanding what it means to love someone you shouldn't and make awful choices in the wake of it #listening as if barty's words were sacred #here is another love that wont make it to the history books #this is very dear to my heart but also ouch

[claire-starsword]

hi i finished reading the shining force novel. translation is still not done, at some point i just started reading ahead to know the whole plot before going back to translating, but i did get to a good chunk of chapter 2 so i have a lot to post already. I hope to start posting this week but it is a busy time for me so i don't know how it will go.

I. Have been rewriting this post for hours because there's a lot I want to say, there's a lot i enjoyed but also a lot I want to criticize to death, you know how i am, if I can still rant about SF2's ending after decades imagine what i can do about a novel lol. But there's no point in ranting before you all get to read it as well, so I'll wait and hopefully post soon. I just had to vent at least a little about my impressions

#bloodline of the sacred dragons #shining force #shining series #if i'm going to be inscrutable to the audience i might as well say i was right to associate mikadzuki rider with karna all this time #no one treated this girl like she deserved #my mental amvs are flawless #edit: btw feel free to ask if you wanna know anything #i don't wanna give spoilers out on my own but if you want them it's your choice lol. it's technically a decades old novel #and i was very spoiled when i read it too

[tlatia-the-radiant]

May I ask how he is a mass murderer? He took no part in either of the purges or the Xenocide, and even tried to stop the purges. He is kinda the good guy here, and he brings up good points, you are blaming him for things he didn’t do. If anything he is a more respectable person that the Emperor, which is a low bar, but the point still stands

Laura stiffens a little bit.

"Vendis Adi. Chao Jin. Elizabet Porte. Hallis Cruz. Benna Cruz. Those were the first five casualties when the Moiraides boarded the Dawnbringer. None of them were Astartes, or even armed. They were just innocents caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. That didn't stop Custodians from killing them, or ninety-eight other people. Murshi Cen. Philla Vilm Cen. Urga Jalom. The list goes on, and I remember them all."

"That's not mentioning all the people killed when the Summer Light was crippled, or when the Pax Nova was hit by a broadside," Citalicue adds.

#tlatia answers #ooc: I'm using the casualties in the fleet as an example. which might be a bad example bc i wrote that. but. stick with me for a sec #ooc: laura and citalicue can't reference when atticus spoke about shooting fanatics trying to worship when tlatia was captured #ooc: that's not something they were there for. they don't know about it #ooc: and also they are biased characters. tlatia is their mother and their leader. they see her in a kinder light than atticus #ooc: I'm using an event they know about to also comment on one they don't if that makes sense #ooc: because there WERE ways to disperse those fanatics without killing them. the imperial palace is. well. a fortress. it has walls/doors #ooc: even just saying that 'only the emperor and His children were permitted to walk on these sacred grounds' would probably work #ooc: now is this a criticism of the choices made? only on a character level. if atticus made the best most morally sound choice all the time #ooc: then this thread wouldn't exist #ooc: god my english major is bleeding thru lmao

[irulancorrino]

when you have an incredibly stressful d&d session and come away from it frustrated and dreading the next one and two days later your DM has a Talk with you about you playing or not playing your character a certain way ✌

#he's low key right and none of it is his fault but I am NOT being brave about any of it #and am in fact exercising my sacred right to whine and complain about it #maybe I would play my character better if I didn't dread being in her mindspace so bad OKAY 😭 #that girlie is NOT having a good time and she hasn't been for a while #we're talking grief about like half a dozen people at the same time we're talking fighting on like four different fronts #we're talking most of her friends not being tooooo invested into most of what's going on #and constantly judging her choices and low key demanding she pull out a rabbit out a hat #she doesn't have a hat!! there is no rabbit!!! #sometimes you have to kill a troll to save thousands of people and a whole ass ecosystem!!! #anyway it's just that I as a player have been so so focused on trying to make sure we're progressing towards our goals despite the Horrors #that I stopped thinking about it all from the 'what would be an interesting character development right now' #and got a bit too close to it all #and like that's fair but my brother in christ YOU gave me this many Horrors!!! #anyway #apparently this campaign is ending this year and I am NOT playing the leader in the next one #y'all make the big decisions I'm gonna be having wacky shenanigans on the side for once OKAY 😭✌ #personal #val talks

[loveandthepsyche]

💫 Be realistic. Expect a miracle 💫

#miracle #11:11 #actualized #sweet dreams #love #surrender #trust #open heart #portal #perspective #choice point #power #union #sacred

[grasslandgirl]

MY SISTER TURNED INTO A HAUNTED HOUSE.... OH HOLY SHIT THE IMPLICATIONS

#you turn into a sacred place or a sacred object FASCINATING. SURENA. YOU KEEP DROPPING aBSOLUTELY INSANE CHOICES IM OBSESSED #d20 #d20 spoilers #acofaf #binx choppley #BINX SISTER???? THE IMPLICATIONS OF HAUNTED HOUSES BEING FORMER FAE TRAPPED ON THE MORAL PLANE??