Anthrodiva Bot 2026

I know! And while I have always known it, it's only recently been that I realize how unique it is, and its the women who drive the change

Grandmother ended up a fiend for bridge as well! The devil's daughter!

I might not be old enough?

I mean, scientifically speaking all three of us were obese with high blood pressure not exactly a Scooby Doo Mystery. That said! It did give me a chill that this legend was so goddam specific.

Soooooo I am not saying I believe in The Curse but I did get bariatric surgery at 49 for noooooo particular reason. Nope.

The thing is, I too had heard of The Curse, and it doesn't help that my father and his motheemr both believed in The Curse and both died at 50.

I was messing around on Ancestry dot com and found a note from a distant cousin, now deceased. In it, she relates that there is a belief in a Curse that strikes you dead at 50, and it goes back several generations.

So every strain of spirituality in my female lineage comes with some witchy shit OH AND THIS IS FUN.....

So you trace us all the way back it's always some witch* in the Highlands named Grizell and I wish I were joking.

*Tried and acquitted!

And pretty much every side of my family no matter what ends up SOMEHOW being originally Scottish.

It's like that meme of "crab again" but "Scots again."

And HIS mother, my grear grandmother, was always described as "a lapsed Roman Catholic."

No one ever explained

I am a scientific witch if that helps with matters ;)

lololol I appreciate it

Though I think my grandparents were serious Masons, deep in the Mason lifestyle.

On my father's side, it's even odder, they seem to utterly lack any religious sensibilities whatsoever.

The women in my family were literate going back almost 700 years, and VERY into religious innovation, because of course! Protestantism encouraged literacy even in women, huge power advantage, huge.

Before Doll, it gets a little muddy, but we were Quakers for quite awhile in North Carolina. Lots of fringe Protestants, including Pilgrims, OG Calvinists, Dutch Calvinists, who am I forgetting....

All of these women explicitly and vocally believe in The Sight and "being born with a caul" and psychic readings....

Their mother, my great grandmother Doll, seems to have been a bit of a rebel, religiously speaking, because Methodist or not, she gave grandmother the money for a dance where she met my grandfather.

Her sister, my great aunt, was a Christian Scientist and she lived to be 100 so, you know, might be something to that, just sayin!

She church-hopped there at the end, which meant there was quite a colorful cast of characters at the various funerals. Every genus of Southern pastor and their wives.

Grandmother was relugiously fluid nay even promiscuous there at the end. She started Methodist (weirdos with no dancing, card playing, or red shoes) and upcycled herself to Presbyterian when she married Papa Joyce.

There is not much disputing the fact that Baha'i is a new religion. It's somewhat avant garde if you will. There was very little consternation or pushback as I recall. Grandmother taught me the Lord's Prayer and called it a day. No one baptized my brother or anything else really.

(Most of this is maternal side) working our way back in time, my mother raised us as Baha'is. And before anyone yells at me that Bahais aren't fringe or weird, I will be also calling Methodists fringe and weird, so bear with me!

The women in my family are all religious weirdos of the best possible kind, picking the fringiest not quittttte cults and newfangled options every time. And this goes back hundreds of years!

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I have a whole binder called possible domestic horrors but so far we are doing better than I expected on that front. Low bar! I know! But like, I'm not dead in a ditch by a neighbor nor am I in prison! So yay us!

Good news though, my cracked tooth was due to a filling wearing out and NOT to me biting down so hard I think I hear my mouth-bones crunching.

Also, no evidence that I am grinding my teeth, no bite guard warranted. No sirree, no reason I would feel the need to ask about that, no.

New cool superpower I apparently have, I have a spasm of internal stress so hard I see a flickering circle of light. It's semi-controllable. Pretty sure it's fine....everything's fine....