(Source: synodik, via juicyjacqulyn)
honestly though
every time I sign onto tumblr I hate people a little more
so
maybe I’ll just quit.
continue quality blogging at wordpress. where I don’t have to deal with this shit.
things I learned today
apparently if you have a particular animal in your name
everything you do is shitty
and you can never get away from this
because you have an animal in your name
so you are shitty
good thing my last name doesn’t have anything to do with animals, huh
good thing spinner doesn’t mean becoming the spider
otherwise everything I do would be shitty
and you shouldn’t listen to me
because of my name
Seeing this with Loreena McKennitt playing in the background kind of blew my mind clear out.
(Source: verticalthings, via onlytowardschaos)
spider bites: asksecularwitch: shivian: WitchTip: ‘Florida Water’ is not ‘Water from... »
Thanks for the info re: de-tracking programs. I have turned off my Google search tracking within Google itself, and I have looked up hoodoo before — so perhaps that’s why it didn’t show. Or maybe because I looked it up on another computer without being signed into Gmail. Or because of adblocker? I don’t know.
My boycott of Yronwode is more to do with her horrendously violent comments re: file-sharers rather than just supporting SOPA/PIPA. Thinking she should be given the right to murder people because they downloaded a file? Yeaaaaah no. I really don’t care what she’s been through, and that was a really shitty thing that happened to her.
It sucks when someone steals your work and promotes it as their own, and yeah, it should be solved. But not with threats of shooting someone in the face. And I can’t condone someone who thinks that those kinds of threats are acceptable.
(Esp. as file-sharing/piracy is really not the same thing as plagiarism.)
Honestly, if I had to deal with someone dropping your work on to site after site for people to download as their work (which is file-sharing and piracy - technically due to the copyright on the work itself), I would be about ready to shoot myself in the face, let alone anyone else’s.
Yup, google tracking/algorithm system blows level 5.
I’m honestly okay with the idea of my work being shared far and wide, so long as it’s properly attributed. I mean, I wrote my book so people would read it; if that means they download it, well. At least they’re reading it and maybe later they’ll buy it if they like it. If not, not much I can do about it.
Sharing without attribution, ie plagiarism, however, is a whole other kettle of Mon Calamari.
(Source: shivian)
Mom took me to see Mirror Mirror. It turned into Bollywood at the end.
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WitchTip: ‘Florida Water’ is not ‘Water from the State of Florida’, but rather an esoteric product used in multiple magickal traditions (and, as noted 2 days ago, is flammable)
Ok, I want to know who seriously made that mistake.
So I can laugh at them.
I am.
Laughing.
Right now.
:D
Here’s the funny part, is because a lot of people do this mistake. In fact, you must not have been googling super, supah, SUPAH, hard for this florida water thing. Because you know, even putting up the question:
“What is florida water” into the ol’ google machine gets you to the wikipage and about five other pages. Here. Just in case you don’t believe me.
The second website on the page, is the exact page I was going to link to just in case I couldn’t find it on google. By the way, this was my first attempt at ‘googling’ what florida water is.
So yes, yes I find it rather amusing that you hide behind poor google searching. Either I’m a genius and am the google master, or you didn’t try very hard. Also just googling ‘Florida Water’ by itself, brings up the wiki and lucky mojo’s site.
Don’t believe me? Here ya go.
Especially since the Lucky Mojo site explains it pretty clearly what it’s used for and what it’s made with:
Not sure if you’re aware, but Google actually filters results for people based on random fucking shit. So no, it didn’t show up for me.
I, however, totally believe it showed up for you. Because Google randomly filters shit. Probably because I never go to Lucky Mojo, and never have, and boycott that site and Yronwode besides. Or maybe because of the phase of the moon; I’m not really sure what their algorithm is based off.
Generally its’ (algorithm) based off of advertisements - I assumed that you already knew that and had de-tracking software. Sorry, my bad. :) Though it’s weird that you don’t have advertisement links on Hoodoo? Maybe it’s just me but I thought everyone looked up Hoodoo at least once in their lives. *le shrug* I’m biased, I like hoodoo.
Edit:
Anti-trackers: I have Ghostery and Do not Track Plus. For when Ghostery doesn’t work. So Ghostery tends to have problems with signing people into various places. I pause it for a second, sign it, and then reenstate it. After it’s signed in there’s no problems. So yeah. For example Google Analytics is watching my Dashboard and trying to gather intel on mai awesomeness (mostly penises from last night) and that’s being blocked. /end
However, on DuckDuckGo.com (a non-tracking/advertisement ruled search engine), I got the same result that I got with google, so I’m not saying you knew that duckduckgo existed, I’m just saying that there’s non-advertisement algorithm based search engines out there.
Basically whatever you do is being tracked, so advertisements get aimed at you and yadda yadda yadda. Things are trying to be sold to you at higher prices because of what your search history is - TL;DR.
As for the boycotting LM and Yron-fist, I can only guess it’s because she’s supports PIPA/SOPA, which is what the majority of people are boycotting her for without understanding what she’d been dealing with previous to both. And I know Shivian dislikes her very much for her comments and threats, but I don’t like that what I discussed in that post was completely ignored.
But unless you’re going through D-A or another author outside of Llewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwlyn’s you’re not going to get that large subset of culture. Or if you’re going with people who grew up in then you’re good to go there too.
I’d much rather (personally, not a criticism) take the Yron-fist, over Bird any day. Her… list of necessary materials was really the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. Almost as bad as the really fluffy wiccan books from the same press.
Edit:
GAH Grammar. :|
Thanks for the info re: de-tracking programs. I have turned off my Google search tracking within Google itself, and I have looked up hoodoo before — so perhaps that’s why it didn’t show. Or maybe because I looked it up on another computer without being signed into Gmail. Or because of adblocker? I don’t know.
My boycott of Yronwode is more to do with her horrendously violent comments re: file-sharers rather than just supporting SOPA/PIPA. Thinking she should be given the right to murder people because they downloaded a file? Yeaaaaah no. I really don’t care what she’s been through, and that was a really shitty thing that happened to her.
It sucks when someone steals your work and promotes it as their own, and yeah, it should be solved. But not with threats of shooting someone in the face. And I can’t condone someone who thinks that those kinds of threats are acceptable.
(Esp. as file-sharing/piracy is really not the same thing as plagiarism.)
asksecularwitch asked: 2. 5. 6. and 12
2. Last spell you did.
A binding spell on someone who was trying to hurt me and mine.
5. Why do you do witchcraft?
I can’t not do it at this point. I mean, I can tell you why I got into it in the first place, which is kind of boring, but I’m sort of the opinion that certain people are drawn to witchcraft and stay if they’re supposed to. Like, you wouldn’t be a witch if you weren’t meant to be one and vice versa. Which I suppose sounds cliché, or hollywood, but it’s what I believe.
So regardless the reason I got into it, I would always have gotten into it. And at this point doing witchcraft is so much a part of who I am I can’t imagine myself as not being a witch.
6. What are realistic spells/potions that witches make?
Well, potions are basically any sort of liquid that utilizes herb or crystal energies for a purpose. So whatever herb you could infuse oil with, or whatever crystal, you could make a potion for (there are other ways of making potions; oil infusion is just the one I’m most familiar with). They wouldn’t all be safe to drink or even touch, unless the intent of the potion was death, but they’d be potions.
With spells, a lot of stuff is realistic. In fact, I’m pretty open minded as to what is and isn’t possible, so I wouldn’t actually rule out anything except, perhaps, levitation or making someone actually love you (you can make someone obsessed with you, or make them experience the illusion of love, but you can’t cast a spell that will cause a real, genuine emotion, imo). That said, I do take stories of amazing magical prowess with a grain of salt. Because, well, the most powerful witches I’ve met don’t have to brag.
Anyway, that’s a sort of weird question, I think. I suppose it’s just getting at “What’s the difference between Harry Potter and real witchcraft?” in which case my answer is a) the immediacy and b) the logic. (“Welcome to Hogwarts, where the rules are made up and the logic doesn’t matter.”) Real spells are usually not so immediate, and the rules of real magic make more sense.
Not sure if that answered the question, but it’s what I’ve got.
12. Do you post spells on your tumblr?
Not currently. That may change in the future, if I write spells I think would be useful for other folks, or if I get permission from folks to share their spells that were useful for me.
Ask Box: I didn't get enough questions in my ask box >:(
1. What are your opinions on death curses?
2. Last Spell done?
3. Favorite witchcraft saying or quote or phrase?
4. Where do you stand on making some infertile?
5. Why do you do witchcraft?
6. What are realistic spells/potions that witches make?
7. Do you chant?
8. Do you pray?
9. Do you use herbs?
10. If you use Menses, how do you use it?
11. If you use urine, how do you use?
12. Do you post spells on your tumblr?
13. Do you practice or do spells with others?
14. Do you work with the Dead?
15. How do you feel about witches charging money for their services?
16. What do you believe happens after you die?
17. How long have you been practicing?
18. What was the hardest spell you've done?
19. What is your opinion on cursing rapists?
20. How do you feel about people who exclude others from their practice?
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WitchTip: ‘Florida Water’ is not ‘Water from the State of Florida’, but rather an esoteric product used in multiple magickal traditions (and, as noted 2 days ago, is flammable)
Ok, I want to know who seriously made that mistake.
So I can laugh at them.
I am.
Laughing.
Right now.
:D
Here’s the funny part, is because a lot of people do this mistake. In fact, you must not have been googling super, supah, SUPAH, hard for this florida water thing. Because you know, even putting up the question:
“What is florida water” into the ol’ google machine gets you to the wikipage and about five other pages. Here. Just in case you don’t believe me.
The second website on the page, is the exact page I was going to link to just in case I couldn’t find it on google. By the way, this was my first attempt at ‘googling’ what florida water is.
So yes, yes I find it rather amusing that you hide behind poor google searching. Either I’m a genius and am the google master, or you didn’t try very hard. Also just googling ‘Florida Water’ by itself, brings up the wiki and lucky mojo’s site.
Don’t believe me? Here ya go.
Especially since the Lucky Mojo site explains it pretty clearly what it’s used for and what it’s made with:
Not sure if you’re aware, but Google actually filters results for people based on random fucking shit. So no, it didn’t show up for me.
I, however, totally believe it showed up for you. Because Google randomly filters shit. Probably because I never go to Lucky Mojo, and never have, and boycott that site and Yronwode besides. Or maybe because of the phase of the moon; I’m not really sure what their algorithm is based off.
