Came in second in the last tournament and won more art as my prize! Keiri is going to be an official card that only I have access to! Feels pretty awesome to be able to roll up to a game and pull out a unique card made just for me 😊

Look at my adorable little taser bug child! She came out perfect.

This whole thing has inspired me to take another swing at the card game I designed nearly a decade ago, and between working on making my video game and other life responsibilities I've been working on that. We'll see if it ends up being another link in the chain of good events. Crossing my fingers.

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

this for real fucking works

Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

Did it fuckin works?

I don’t even fuckin know. Like, it’s January 2025 and the “good things” are kinda hard to see though all the trash fires. But it’s only been a couple weeks, I’m gonna give it a little more time.

Update! It's kinda fuckin working!

Long post about it here

Uh oh! You are now a were-animal! This means you become a human-sized animal hybrid with uncontrollable bloodlust every night!

Spin this wheel to get your species

I got the sexy result! I don't know how screwed my loved ones are, but...

just a little guy

https://twitter.com/coff33detective/status/1271463582312673281

“make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session.”

I was in a city council meeting last week about defunding the police and one of the council members mentioned multiple times that she’d been inundated with calls and emails all that day saying to defund the police.

[ID: Two screenshots of a twitter thread by alex flanigan, anti-fascist @Coff33Detective from June 12, 2020 beginning at 11:25 AM that reads: hi! i work in local government and community management, and i’m here to tell you a secret: it is like, really, really easy to overwhelm the people who work in your local government. especially right now. especially on things they can actionably do or impact.

you may not know this, but i bet your city or town or municipality has a website. i bet that website has some contact forms or email addresses on it. i bet you can use them to put together a message in about 5 minutes! i bet it’s almost as easy as signing a national petition.

which is to say: i’m noticing, like most other people, that the national level discussion on really important and long overdue issues is flagging. but the internet and news cycle is not the only battleground, and you will be pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to—

—fight those battles at home, on your own turf, with much more immediate impact, and they are so, so important.

I am begging you: make my job, and the jobs of people like me, difficult right now. flood us with demands. make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session. End ID]

I’ve been a city council observer with the League of Women Voters for nearly a year, and I have witnessed the following:

In my experience, it is incredibly easy to bully local politicians and get some sort of results, especially in small municipalities. If you have something that you want to see happen at the local level, seriously try to contact your local officials and see what you can make happen.

I single-handedly got them to double the number of chickens you are allowed to keep in my former town.

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

also smth smth reblog and tell me what you got im very curious

Dark + Ghost humanoid! Let's go! One of my favorite ghost pokemon!

A Reminder to my U.S. Witches -

Whether you're a private practitioner or a witchy business owner, it is now more important than ever to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

Wicca as a religion is officially protected by Freedom of Religion under the First Amendment. This extends somewhat to other less organized pagan religions as well as the general state of Being A Witch, which is also protected by Freedom of Speech.

But we must remember that this only protects you from PROSECUTION, not PERSECUTION.

You have the legal right to present as a pagan or witch in public spaces and technically you cannot be discriminated against in the workplace for such things. However, we all know how that kind of bigotry disguises itself and the way things are going, resources for reporting and resolving such grievances may soon be in short supply.

You also have the right to own and operate a pagan-oriented or witchcraft-related business, provided that you obey all applicable tax codes and consumer protection laws. (This is why we have to mark so many of our goods and services as "For Entertainment Purposes Only," and I strongly suggest updating your disclaimers to include additional language if need be.)

Again, as we've seen, this doesn't always protect business owners from harassment or help them with seeking reparations if there's trouble. But it's important to know, as more and more "proclamations" roll out from the "new management," that executive orders do not immediately or fundamentally change the law.

This is nowhere near a comprehensive explanation of the constitutional rights and laws applicable to witches and pagans currently living in the United States. I urge everyone to familiarize themselves with all applicable laws in their area which deal with public gatherings, small businesses, consumer protection, public transit, loitering, search & seizure / "stop & frisk," and anything related to being detained by law enforcement for any reason.

Familiarize yourself also with social and legal resources in your area, just in case you or someone you know needs them. Talk to the elders in your local LGBTQ organizations as well - we've been there before.

Most importantly, build links and relationships with trusted people around you, whether it's your neighbors or your colleagues or like-minded people in the community. We all need to be looking out for each other and the more we know, the better we can protect ourselves, our homes, our livelihoods, our communities, and our rights.

(If anyone has any applicable links or information, PLEASE add them in comments and reblogs.)

Stay safe!

Let me leverage my Department of Labor training to link you guys to the specific resource you'll use for work-related discrimination (or harassment)!

This is the page from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (You know how employers like to add "We are an equal opportunity employer" to their hiring ads? No shit you're equal opportunity, ALL employers within the US must be equal opportunity, because that's literally federal law!)

Anyways: I would recommend arming yourself with this knowledge (of how to file a complaint) BEFORE YOU NEED IT. v

Also maybe brush up on retaliation laws, because those are the ones that will protect you if your employer retaliates when you bring them to book. (Note "discrimination" being on the list of things you're protected from retaliation against.)

If you're a federal contractor like me, or a direct hire, they have special procedures and most agencies have their own liaison agencies to work with, so these links may or may not apply. In that case, you might want to look into whistleblower laws too!

Lots of important information in this post, regardless of the current political shitstorm

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

this for real fucking works

Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

Did it fuckin works?

I don't even fuckin know. Like, it's January 2025 and the "good things" are kinda hard to see though all the trash fires. But it's only been a couple weeks, I'm gonna give it a little more time.

The fact that this is 80 fucking years ago but still just as relevant is terrifying.

Here's the whole short film. I remember watching this years ago and man, it hit about the same in 2016.

A big part of this film is to remember how fascists will try to divide and other you, split everyone into smaller, easier to defeat groups. They'll pick minorities to drive out or assimilate, and that will weaken the whole of the country, so they can find another bite to take.

energy policy would be much better if we still had a tradition of animal sacrifice I think. people would be way more chill about nuclear energy if they could see a large and proud bull being ritually sacrificed every month or so at the base of the cooling towers to keep the plant safe

It's way too late and I don't have the time nor brain to make an actual witchy comment on this, but I approve of everything going on in these tags. Sometimes you just need to introduce a spirit to a problem and be like "we'll give you stuff if you help us out with this" and sometimes the spirits like "cool, I like bones".

"Time is money" goes both ways, and for me that's what DIY fashion is all about. I wouldn't splurge batshit amounts of money for flashy big brand fast fashion even if I had the funds for it, but as I set my own work schedules, I'm occasionally free to take two days off from work to use 4 euros' worth of thrift shop materials to turn my own old shoes into something that Killstar would sell for 115€.

Almost all the materials I used were leftovers from earlier projects, and I didn't buy anything specifically for this, so technically speaking I jazzed up my shoes for zero cost

Taking this opportunity to shamelessly show off the fleece-lined flannel coat I made with swatches from the recycling bin at my old job because I rarely see DIY fashion on my dash (I should change that)

This cost me under $5 to make (just thread and a pattern I got on sale) and would easily cost over $200 to buy from a clothing retailer, assuming something like it even exists. And of course it fits me perfectly :)

Learning to sew is one of the easiest and most feasible ways to save a lot of money, reduce waste, and customize your wardrobe! Every time one of my flannel shirts gets too torn to wear I save the fabric for stuff like this (and for patches). And this post is reminding me I really need to jazz up all my shoes.

I firmly recommend that everyone learn to sew if they can physically do it, bc it's so much easier to get through life if a missing button or torn seam isn't the death knell for half of your wardrobe. If you can level up to alterations or garment creation, so much the better!

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

this for real fucking works

Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

Personally my catch all term for getting rid of an unwanted spirit is "Banishing" but a lot of these terms are more specific to ways to do something. I've got a list of loose definitions! Cleansing - Cleaning an area of spiritual influence, energy, and/or literal spirits. Often uses a material like smoke, water, or even mundane cleaning supplies, but can be done ritualistically or symbolically as well.

Warding - The act of creating areas that spirits cannot enter or influence. This can be in the form of spiritual barriers, areas of influence around a spell, or physical thresholds. This is more preventative that actively removing a spirit, although with some creative thinking you could lock a spirit away with wards.

Protecting - Similar to wards, but most often used in the context of personal protection. This is usually something you do or carry to affect your immediate area, close by target or your own person. Repeating a chant, wearing an amulet, performing a ritual are all protecting.

Cord Cutting - Severing the connections you might have with a spirit or taglock a spirit may use to connect to you. This is also preventative most of the time, as it prevents the spirit from finding or following you in the first place.

Healing - In the context of removing spirits, you can use spiritual healing magic to heal an area or person being troubled by a spirit in attempts to make that place or thing less hospitable or attractive to the spirit, and thus driving it away.

Conjuring - This is more the act of bringing a spirit to you, than it is repelling them. Though again, with some creative thinking you could do things like conjure a spirit away from where you are, in order to make it lost or simply put it outside of your wards.

Binding - Setting limitations on something. In a literal sense, you can bind a spirit to a location like you would tie someone up with a rope. Symbolically you could bind a spirits actions, disallowing it from coming near you, harming you, or really anything you can think of. Binding is also used on non-spirits as a blanket term of setting limitations.

Road opening isn't something I know anything about, so I'm leaving that out.

Everything I've defined here is only loosely defined, even in my own practice. If you know me, I'm big on out of the box thinking and terms are usually only good at conveying a surface idea.