#sweetgrass-soul

[archae-heart]

This photo posted by @knotted-oak (aka @lonesomelore, etc.):

is stolen from Addie Leimroth on Flickr

#lensblr #photographers on tumblr #plagiarism #original photography #photographers of tumblr #cottagecore #ndn #sweetgrass-soul #knotted-oak #archae-heart

[sweetgrass-soul]

Hi Tumblr,

If you’re visiting this blog it’s either because you followed me before I deleted or you’ve been directed here by Ana Tiffany Devez’s (ghosttbirdd, chucanita, and archae-heart) harassment campaign against me.

I ran a blog called thoughtforbees from 2008-2017, and after that I ran the original archae-heart blog from January 2018 to January 2021. In this three year span of archae-heart I gained over 142,000 followers, and the experience of micro-celebrity (and then notoriety) threw my life into a tailspin.

In late December of 2020 I began receiving harassing and threatening texts, phone calls, and emails from fake numbers/accounts. Most of these messages referenced posts that I had made on Tumblr. I blocked and moved on until my employer, my alma maters, my husband’s employer, and my tribal council all alerted me to the fact that someone was repeatedly calling to A) attempt to confirm my affiliation with all of the above and B) disparage me based on Tumblr posts. The last straw came when an anonymous Tumblr blog doxxed my full name and the address to my home. This is when I deleted archae-heart, and assumed whoever was stalking me would be content with me leaving. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

I became aware of Ana’s existence in 2021 after I deleted my blog when my former mutuals (many of which know me in real life) started sending me new posts from “archae-heart”, which had now been taken over by Ana (though I did not know who was behind the cyberstalking at the time). These included accusations of being a TERF and lying about my race/ethnicity — and the “proof” provided were not from anything I had posted on archae-heart or thoughtsforbees, but screenshots from a website called Babycenter.

Now is the time I want to make it painstakingly clear that I have *never* had ANY account on Babycenter; not as myself and certainly not as any other persona. After being made aware that my photos were being posted there, I spent a significant amount of time delving into the site. It soon became clear that Ana Devez did, in fact, frequent Babycenter under numerous aliases — apparently involving herself in similar dramas where she has accused Black women of racefaking + has herself been accused of racefaking on numerous occasions — for many years. And then, through my research, it came to light that she also had a Tumblr. Ana interacted with my content when I was archae-heart and then when I came back to Tumblr as sweetgrass-soul in August 2021, Ana immediately found me, followed me, and constantly interacted with my content again. I knew who she was at this point, and remain confused as to why she would pretend to befriend me on her “real” account while at the same time continuing to admonish and defame me on archae-heart.

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I want to take the time to finally address some of the accusations levied by Ana against me.

1. I have lied about my race/ethnicity and pretended to be Black and/or Brown elsewhere online.

Ana is correct in her most recent post that I am bi-ethnic; white and Mexican. I am also Indigenous, and am enrolled with a federally recognized tribe. Anyone who followed me at archae-heart or thoughtsforbees for any amount of time knows that I have always been upfront about my (white-assumed) phenotype, that my mother is a white woman + my father a brown man, as well as my experiences reconciling my Chicana + Indigenous heritage with my white heritage. The photos used by Ana in an attempt to out me as a “racefaker” were pulled directly from my archae-heart blog, where I uploaded them — because I never attempted to to hide my phenotype. To re-upload them now while claiming she is doing so because I have represented myself as a brown woman — without any of the context of my original blog and relying on the ignorance of her mostly-teenage audience— is a disingenuous misconstruing at best and a purposefully constructed lie at worst.

I have never once claimed to be a POC/WOC (I don’t use these terms for anyone, much less myself) or a “brown” Native. And under no circumstances have I ever, EVER claimed to be Black - on Tumblr or any other website.

2. I am a TERF.

I am not, have never been, and never will be a TERF. This is just low-hanging fruit, because calling anyone a TERF on Tumblr is the easiest way to incite harassment towards them. Trans people will always be included in my feminism.

3. I am a queer baiter.

Again, this is a desperate reach made to incite as much anger against me as possible. I am a bisexual woman married to a man. I have written about my romantic and sexual experiences with both men and women. Since I am a human being and not a novel/film/show, I quite literally can’t be a “queerbaiter”. As a woman who was married to a man and has children with two different men, Ana should know better. The hypocrisy is astounding.

4. I have uploaded content that is not my own without properly sourcing.

This is an accusation I cannot and will not deny. There is no excuse for not crediting original artists, so I won’t attempt to make any. I am holding myself accountable on this, and am personally reaching out to apologize to photographers whose photos I uploaded to my blog. This is such a massive problem on Tumblr in general when it comes to aesthetic blogs, and I’m ashamed to have contributed.

5. I have been “mean” to our nannies.

I don’t know if this rumor was started or perpetuated by Ana, but it’s another odd one, and I feel compelled to address it. I’m not even sure how someone could possibly glean this from my blog/s, but uhhhh…I have never mistreated any employee, and certainly cherish the village who helps me raise my children.

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I have been silent on this issue up to this point even through the harassment and vitriol at the advice of my counsel, as we were trying to find the identity of the person/s running the Babycenter account/s without formally involving attorneys. Our personal efforts have proved fruitless, so our only recourse from here will be an ISP subpoena. I want to make it clear that I am not accusing Ana of running these Babycenter accounts or posting my photos there; I only know that she is running my old Tumblr, archae-heart, where she has posted my photos — because she openly admits it.

I am asking people to think critically about the evidence they’re being fed. The majority of these accusations against me are backed by seemingly altered screenshots from a website (Babycenter) I have never been affiliated with, under screen-names I have never used on Tumblr or any other website. On only one of these accounts I’ve been accused of owning were photos of me ever posted - both of which were swiped from my archae-heart blog where they had previously been uploaded by myself. There were never any photos of me posted that weren’t publicly available online. As a marginally-public figure, it was not unusual to find that photos of myself or my children were being used elsewhere online. This is bound to happen with 140k+ worth of followers and countless lurkers, but I never imagined they would be used in such a nefarious way.

It’s incredibly stressful and embarrassing to think that someone hating my Tumblr blog would one day lead to a possible civil suit. I didn’t want to spend the money, or effort on something so silly; but time has only emboldened and made worse the cyberstalking, and what I once saw as high-school-mean-girl-bullying now feels sinister and even potentially dangerous. This amount of obsession is not normal, stable, or healthy.

I will never come back to Tumblr under any URL and I want to make it clear that I have no other social media accounts. Anyone using previous real URLs, any of the fake screennames, or posting my face and personal information online are impersonators.

Stay safe, and remember to protect yourselves online. You can’t be too careful on the internet.

#sweetgrass-soul #knotted-oak #mountain-spirits #archae-heart

[ancestorsalive]

"To be indigenous is to protect life on earth. By honouring the knowledge in the land, and caring for its keepers, we start to become indigenous to place."

An excerpt from: “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place”, a chapter in Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass. 

— Robin Wall Kimmerer is an author, scientist, professor, member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation

#Ancestors Alive! #What is Remembered Lives #Memory & Spirit of Place #love #heart and soul #belonging #protect life on earth #caring for its keepers #indigenous to place #Robin Wall Kimmerer #quotes #ancient ways #sacred ways #braiding sweetgrass

[enchanted-wildflower]

On animism

One of my teachers at university told us something today, that I believe to be relevant to animism and therefore also witchcraft:

He explained that in the West we see everything as occurences, whereas in some languages the same happenings are described as actions. Meaning that in the West we tend to imply that there is no agency involved in whatever happens, while some other languages tend to imply that someone activily causes things. His example was that in the West rain is understood as something that just happens, no one causes the rain. Whereas in Mesoamerica it was believed that it rained because some god was crying.

While the idea of a literal crying god causing it to rain on earth might be outdated, I find it really interesting how these two perspectives - events vs. actions - might shape our relationship with the world. If rain is not just an occurence, but someone acting with agency, rain becomes another part of the community we live in. The community then doesn't only consist of humans anymore, but of everything that surrounds us. Suddenly there are all these new players that actively affect your life with their actions. Other-than-human persons that you can interact with and with whom you have to keep a friendly relationship. If the tree in front of your house isn't just an object, but a being with agency, you actually have to be at least respectful and might even want to build a relationship with them, get to know them, learn from them.

I think that's really the core of animism. Descriptions of animism are often reduced to the believe that everything has a soul, but I think believe doesn't even factor into it. You don't need to believe that there is a non-physical aspect to rain, mountains, stones. It's about how we interact with them. I don't even have to ask myself the question if the tree in front of my house has a soul in order to learn about and from them or to interact with them. In my opinion animism is something that is done, not thought or believed. It's a perspective.

Listening to my teacher also reminded me of the following part of Braiding Sweetgrass (great book btw) which explains all this really well:

A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa - to be a bay - releases the water from bondage and lets it live. "To be a bay" holds the wonder that, for this moment, the living water has decided to shelter itself between these shores, conversing with cedar roots and a flock of baby mergansers. Because it could do otherwise become a stream or an ocean or a waterfall, and there are verbs for that, too. To be a hill, to be a sandy beach, to be a Saturday, all are possible verbs in a world where everything is alive. Water, land, and even a day, the language a mirror for seeing the animacy of the world, the life that pulses through all things, through pines and nuthatches and mushrooms. This is the lan- guage I hear in the woods; this is the language that lets us speak of what wells up all around us.

[...]

This is the grammar of animacy. [...] In English, we never refer to a member of our family, or indeed to any person, as it. That would be a profound act of disrespect. It robs a person of selfhood and kinship, reducing a person to a mere thing. So it is that in Potawatomi and most other indigenous languages, we use the same words to address the living world as we use for our family. Because they are our family.

To whom does our language extend the grammar of animacy? Naturally, plants and animals are animate, but as I learn, I am discovering that the Potawatomi understanding of what it means to be animate diverges from the list of attributes of living beings we all learned in Biology 101. In Potawatomi 101, rocks are animate, as are mountains and water and fire and places. Beings that are imbued with spirit, our sacred medicines, our songs, drums, and even stories, are all animate. The list of the inanimate seems to be smaller, filled with objects that are made by people.

[...]

The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.

- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013), p. 78-80.

#animism #witchcore #witch blog #witchcraft #witch books #braiding sweetgrass #witchy #folk witchcraft #folk magic #plant witch #bookblr #bookish #booklr #studyblr #animist

[thelandboundseawitch]

🎃Samhain & Halloween🎃

Samhain is a sabbat which celebrates the final harvest and the beginning of the coldest half of the year. For many practitioners, Samhain marks the beginning of a new spiritual year. There are many mainstream holidays that are similar to Samhain, though Dia de los Muertos(Day of the Dead) and Halloween are the most well known. Samhain is celebrated from sunset on October 31st to sunset on November 1st.

Activities

Carve pumpkins

Bake pies, soul cakes, or something with pumpkins

Create an ancestor altar

Have a bonfire

Visit the cemetery

Make apple cider

Visit a corn-maze

Have a hayride

Make smores

Tell scary stories

Watch horror movies

Roast pumpkin seeds

Altar Decorations

Pumpkins and other squash/gourds

Cauldrons

Candles

Skulls

Autumn Leaves/Garland

Corn

Besom

Ancestor Items

Photographs

Acorns

Black Lace

Animals

Bats

Owls

Spiders

Dogs

Foxes

Ravens & Crows

Black Cats

Colors

Orange

Black

Red

Purple

Silver

Crystals

Obsidian

Carnelian

Onyx

Smoky Quartz

Jet

Bloodstone

Malachite

Amethyst

Black Tourmaline

Ruby

Amber

Jasper

Deities

Demeter

Hekate

Morrigan

Anubis

Hel

Osiris

Persephone

The Crone

Flowers

Yarrow

Dittany

Chrysanthemum

Sunflower

Belladonna(☠️)

Marigold

Rose

Rue

Food

Pumpkins

Squash

Apples

Pies

Soups & Stews

Corn

Ale

Grains

Cider

Mulled Wine

Beets

Turnips

Potatoes

Cranberries

Pears

Incense and Oils

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Sage

Rosemary

Sweetgrass

Plants & Herbs

Mugwort(☠️)

Cinnamon

Clove

Nutmeg

Sage

Allspice

Rosemary

Wormwood

Pine

Spells and Rituals

Samhain is an excellent time to contact your ancestors and other spirits because the veil separating the land of the living and the land of the dead is thinnest during this time of the year. Ancestors often visit their relatives in the form of a spider during Samhain. Divination, protection, and banishing spells are also common to practice and cast on Samhain.

Final Notes

Keep black pets inside. Cruel people hurt them on this night

Be extra careful with spirit work. Take extra precautions.

#witches #witchcore #halloween #witchcraft #witchy things #witch tips #witchblr #samhain #wicca #paganism #paganblr #pagan witch #pagan #pagans of tumblr #witchery #wheel of the year #grimoire #digital grimoire #spellcraft #spellbook

[rottenraccoons]

Me finding out Fractam Anima means "Broken Soul" has hurt me, what happened to vesper omg

Things Vesper Has Said Caused Their Fractum Anima

they broke a demon's heart so he broke their soul

they slipped on a patch of ice

they sneezed too hard

they stood outside in a rainstorm

they told a joke so terrible their soul tried to leave

they kissed a witch

too much sweetgrass

not enough sweetgrass

exercised too hard

fell off a roof while repairing it

"I don't know, I was blackout drunk at the time."

bad vibes

#obscura vn #rotten raccoons #asks #vesper (mc) #vesper has definitely said these things #but this is still a silly post and therefore #nonsense

[tiredwitchplant]

Difference between Smudging and Incensing *Special Information Post*

Hwello there. This is not normal from my regular posting of information about herbs but I did get an interesting question. If you would notice in my posting, I do not include the idea of smudging the herbs that I mentioned when I talk about the benefits in their bundled formats, rather I refer to it as incensing. The question was did I mean smudging or was I being ambiguous.

The answer is that smudging and incensing a home are two very different things. I am going to take this time to educate and give information I have gathered and researched to explain the difference so that everyone can understand as I have seen the terms misused and swapped around interchangeably. Let us begin

What is Incensing? Incensing as I refer it with my research is merely burning the herb and either placing it in certain areas or burning the bundle in your hands and walking around to clear out the space. With incensing, one does not have to do a ceremony, ritual or be a part of a certain culture (unless using a sacred herb) in order to practice this. You can even use incense sticks, certain candles, and essential oils in order to incent a place. This is easier for baby witches in order to create a ward or bring good fortune into your witch area without having to do very specific steps in order to invoke the full potential of the herb itself.

What is Smudging? Now smudging is a different game. Smudging is a traditional ceremony for purifying or cleansing the soul of negative thoughts of a person or a place. The smoke that is created from this ceremony is considered sacred and is produced from burning medicinal herbs mixed with sacred plants such as : sage, cedar, tobacco, and sweetgrass. This is used by Indigenous cultures in North America (although some indigenous groups in Canada use this sacred smoke for different purposes). It creates a different type of cleansing for the First Nation cultures as they can use it to clear the air around them, clean their minds, clear their eyes to see only good things and etc that helps with their connection to the land and Earth as a whole.

What is the takeaway from all this? Smudging is for the Indigenous. It is a part of their culture, heritage, and the way they cleanse to feel in a way...safe. It won't have the same meaning to use who are not indigenous and is a sacred art. What we are doing as non-indigenous is merely incensing a space and should refer to it for what it is.

Please be respectful of one's sacred practices and cultures and be careful when using the word "smudging".

Thank you. Bye bye~

#witchblr #witchcraft #green witch #medicinal herbs #witch community #indigenous #sage #smudge #sacred #cultures #indigineous people #smudging #witch blog #witch tips #witchcraft resources

[neechees]

So the blog @/sweetgrass-soul is a racist t/erf, racefaker who did brownface, and steals photographs from other artists claiming their hers.

[rockislandadultreads]

One with Nature: Connecting with the Natural World

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones

Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world--might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London, to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, via Poland's primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth. Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves, from a future of ecological grief.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron's Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Now, in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own.

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James E. Lovelock

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent “hot state” – and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse the process; the planet is simply too overpopulated to halt its own destruction by greenhouse gases.In order to survive, mankind must start preparing now for life on a radically changed planet. The meliorist approach outlined in the Kyoto Treaty must be abandoned in favor of nuclear energy and aggressive agricultural development on the small areas of earth that will remain arable. A reluctant jeremiad from one of the environmental movement’s elder statesmen, The Vanishing Face of Gaia offers an essential wake-up call for the human race.

#nonfiction #non-fiction #non-fiction books #history #Environment #biology #botany #nature #natural science #sustainability #science #ecology #to read #tbr #booklr #book blog #reading recommendations #Book Recommendations #book recs #library books #informed reading #reading for a better world

[portokali]

for the book ask!! 3, 24 🌸

3. What were your top five books of the year?

hiiiii good question good question

in no particular order:

📖 braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer. this book... her writing voice, she spoke so tenderly about life and nature, and it was the first time i read anything about the environment that actually introduced the idea of reciprocity and a practical yet optimistic approach to the climate crisis.. very life-affirming. i'd recommend this book to most ppl i know who read, and specifically you!

📖 bloodchild and other stories by octavia e. butler. she... has to be one of the smartest authors i've ever read and is probably my fav scifi author.. short story collections are almost always a mixed lot, but i loved these. each one felt very carefully worked on and complete in its own way. i love butler's ability to take a concept and weave a story that carries it across.. but heavy trigger warnings, especially for the first and titular story.. dont get me wrong i cant stop thinking about it (the wonder!).. but also .. i cant stop thinking about it (the horror!)

📖 the brothers karamazov took me almost a whole year to finish so i can't not include it.. a masterpiece.. they are literally my best friends, all 3 of the brothers... the fucking thing is that, whether an old man in 19th century russia or even by contemporary standards, i heavily disagree w his views on religion and politics, but unlike other religious artists (of all mediums), he actually uses religion to communicate life and love in a way that resonate and confront me despite, despite, despite. love how and author can sometimes reach through centuries and distance and past the layer of translation between us and still speak to me right in my soul. also if you wanna read it in greek ρε η μεταφραση του αλεξανδρου ειναι τοσο μιμαμπλ και αστεια, εχω κυριολεκτικα φτιάξει ενα εξελ με τις βρισιες και τους χαρακτηρισμους που ειχε το βιβλιο γιατι ηταν τοσο καλα που επρεπε να τα σημειωσω. ήξερα οτι θα τα παμε καλα με αυτη τη μεταφραση οταν ειδα οτι τον καραμαζοφ αντι για μεγαλογειοκτημονα τον λέει τσιφλικα.. λαικ.. που αλλου... ΠΟΥ αλλου...

📖 beloved by toni morrison... a masterpiece.. a masterpiece! my second morrison and it only further affirmed that shes one of my favorite authors of all time.. head in hands... head in hands..

📖 the left hand of darkness by ursula le guin. i got my friend to read this book recently and have been talking to them abt it again, it's literally such a great book to discuss w fellow nonbinary and trans ppl.. i do think le guin was a genius and the way she talks abt gender and gender roles is endlessly fascinating, but it's also a story about love, patriotism, duty and sacrifice... and it's good..

honorary mentions: station eleven, notes of a crocodile, the haunting of hill house, we need new names

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

yes T_T i dnf'd loveless by alice oseman just this month.. this book didn't have much of a plot, it's mostly a slice of life story telling a single character's coming out journey - i craved something with more than that going on, personally. it got tiring and i didn't have the patience for it.

#asks #pherelpis

[archae-heart]

Miranda as BlackPhillip on Babycenter, featuring more examples of her digital brown face and inconsistencies in her claims to indigenous ancestry:

Please note the signature on Black Phillip's account which includes the same names she claims are her kids, and note that she's describing the same zoom class she promoted on Tumblr while she was archae-heart.

So, now that we've established this as one of her aliases, let's have a look at how she describes herself in her comments.

Here, she explicitly calls herself brown:

And, as we've seen her do before, she likes to use the dark brown emoji; here she explicitly claims to be Mexica:

She also described herself as having naturally black hair:

She claims her mother is an indigenous Mexica/Nahua woman from the Texas borderlands, and her father is Mescalero Apache:

vs now that she's been called out for brownfacing and she's trying to explain herself w/o acknowledging what she did:

She now claims on Tumblr her mother and maternal grandparents are Irish:

It would even appear that she doctored and/or stole someone's DNA test:

It's also notable that she recently started claiming to be Diné, as well, as can be seen in her Reddit comments:

#lensblr #ndn #photographers on tumblr #cottagecore #original photography #knotted-oak #archae-heart #photographers of tumblr #sweetgrass-soul #brownface #plagiarism #grandmacore #lies | contradictions | fact checks

[shy-fairy-levele3]

2023 Book List

Unbelievably I read a staggering 70 books in 2023! The most ever! My only disappointment is NOT finishing Dracula Daily, I came so close...

Wolf Brother Michelle Paver

Skin-Walker Michelle Paver

Be the Serpent Seanan McGuire  

She Who Became the Sun 

Soul-Eater Michelle Paver

Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir 

The Girl in Red Christina Henry

As yet Unsent Tamsyn Muir   

Outcast Michelle Paver  

Leonard Cohen: On a wire Philippe Girard

Oath Breaker Michelle Paver 

Ghost Hunter Michelle Paver   

 Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life Alan Cumming

M is for Magic Neil Gaiman

Silverwing Kenneth Opal 

Last Violent Call Chloe Gong

Malice: Malice Duology #1 Heather Walter  

Pandora Susan Stokes-Chapman

A Lady for a Duke Alexis Hall                                    

Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett  

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass Drew Hayden Taylor

Conventionally Yours Annabeth Albert  

The Unbalancing R.B Lemberg  

Stone Blind Natalie Haynes

The Winter Soldier: Cold Front Mackenzi Lee 

Ruby Nina Allan

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Theodora Goss

Husband Material Alexis Hall

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason India Holton  

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix Kalynn Bayron

The Monsters we Defy Leslye Penelope

Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix Aminah Mae Safi

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman Alan Rickman

Morgan Is My Name Sophie Keetch

Threads That Bind Kika Hatzopoulou

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Theodora Goss

Feeling Sorry for Celia Jaclyn Moriarty

Daughter of the Pirate King Tricia Levenseller

A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix C.B. Lee

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour Tee Franklin

Magic for Liars Sarah Gailey

The Story of Owen Emily Kate Johnston

The Brilliant Death A.R. Capetta

Circle of Magic: Sandy’s Book Tamora Pierce

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror Daniel M. Lavery  

Death's Detective- Malykant Mysteries #1-4 Charlotte E. English

The Salt Grows Heavy Cassandra Khaw

A Touch of Darkness- Hades & Persephone #1 Scarlett St. Clair

Mortal Follies Alexis Hall

Witch King Martha Wells

The London Séance Society Sarah Penner

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes

A Game of Fate- Hades Saga #1 Scarlett St. Clair

Immortal Longings Chloe Gong

Hooked Emily McIntire  

Foul Heart Huntsmen Chloe Gong

Signal to Noise Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Daughter of the Siren Queen Tricia Levenseller  

Starter Villain John Scalzi

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl Theodora Goss

Starling House Alix E. Harrow

A Marvellous Light: The Last Binding #1 Freya Marske   

A Restless Truth: The Last Binding #2 Freya Marske 

Thornhedge T. Kingfisher

What the River Knows Isabel Ibanez  

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Hadley Vlahos

Misrule: Malice Duology #2 Heather Walter

The Raven and The Reindeer T. Kingfisher

A Power Unbound: The Last Binding #3 Freya Marske

I started some series, and I finished some series. I found new favourite authors and revisited some old favourites. Please take them as recommendations, or if you have read any of the same books come talk about them with me!  

Reminder you can also follow me on The Storygraph to see what I am reading in real time, where I am simply shy_fairy   

Previous Years Reading lists can be found here: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015

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[machine-saint]

In English, we never refer to a member of our family, or indeed to any person, as it. That would be a profound act of disrespect. It robs a person of selfhood and kinship, reducing a person to a mere thing. --Braiding Sweetgrass

skill issue :v

more seriously i do always wonder what people with this type of worldview think of people like me who align more with technology and modernity than what they would describe as 'nature'. is my soul deadened by technology? how does it interact with the idea of artificial life, virtual life, and so on?

[she also claims that the fact that English places plants in a different animacy class ('it' vs 'they') is a sign of our imperialism towards nature, compared to the Native American language she's learning that places them in the same animacy class but distinguishes man-made objects, but many languages such as French, Japanese, and Italian don't make animacy distinctions at all and that doesn't seem to have given them a special amount of respect for the land]

#discourse

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Arkansas River in Buena Vista Colorado. Photo:: Nature Heals the Soul (May 27, 2023)

[Robert Scott Horton]

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“Among our Potawatomi people, women are the Keepers of Water. We carry the sacred water to ceremonies and act on its behalf. “Women have a natural bond with water, because we are both life bearers,” my sister said. “We carry our babies in internal ponds and they come forth into the world on a wave of water. It is our responsibility to safeguard the water for all our relations.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

#Robert Scott Horton #Arkansas River #river #Buena Vista Colorado #nature #quotes #Robin Wall Kimmerer #Braiding Sweetgrass #water #Native American #women

[enchanted-wildflower]

100 days of productivity (40/100)

Friday, 2nd February

Today I felt really good 😊

Productivity:

Had 2 classes today (3h)

Ordered some books for university (and a novel for fun reading hehe)

Bought some groceries

Made lunch

Selfcare:

Went to the gym

Journaled

Spent friday night at home without feeling like I am too boring (it was really nice)

Planned the next few days, which helps soo much with my stress levels

Had a nap

Feeding my soul:

Conversation with online friends about spirituality

Tarot, incense, and candles at my altar

📚 Braiding Sweetgrass

🎧 The Red Text Podcast

🎧 A podcast interview with a professor of Spanish literature about Christian mysticism and her own mystical experience. It was so interesting, and we will also read some Christian mystics this semester in my religion and literature class :)

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[constelllahtions]

Leaves in the wind,

Gods of the forest suckling onto the dew of sweetgrass,

Slow and salivating, honey trickling down the etches of the bark,

Can i grow?

Like these hues of green that have blessed the very ground sometimes grazed with soft patters of movement,

Like the very seeds that ignite sparks in our hearts,

Can i grow?

Like the everlasting robin leaving her warm nest, basking in the husk of security for the last time

Can i leave behind all that i have known?

I wish i was a bird, if only so i could ask the robin how to posses such bravery -

How do i let go of the fears that claw at ny heart? I’d whisper, how do i trust that i am not making a mistake? How do you trust it- knowing that you will never be able to come back to this nest?

I can almost feel the flutter of the robin’s wings as he leans close to my ear, caressing my cheek softly as he does, “You’re looking at it all wrong my dear,” he chirps. “I don’t just fly because my life depends on it - i do it because the soul of my heart does. Your fear will come and go but you must never allow it to become greater than the love you feel for yourself, the feeling of worthiness, of knowing that you deserve and are receiving all the good the universe has to offer. When you do that, you will see that you are not flying away from any of it, only towards it.”

m.f

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