Joy

Thank you so much! I'll have to check that out!

Ooooh, what deck is the Hecate card from?? It's gorgeous, and right up my alley.

I think this is part of the draw for me - Gnosticisms are often kind of horrific to me, on their face, and they have such a lot of *weird* possibility to them. I don't LIKE them, but I sure find them interesting.

I lost it at "free willy willy"

Alternately, 1973 version:

We do not say "die", here,
that's a fact -
we return to the earth,
as a tree we come back.
Enjoy yourself well
with great drinking and mirth
But be well prepared
for the day of Rebirth.

🥹❤️

This is the most wonderfully medieval-feeling thing! Proxy Pilgrimages With Alexei!

And I shall keep this in mind, certainly. 😁

The way I IMMEDIATELY did a quick inventory to make sure there was nothing I needed done in Scotland!

I love this offer, though - I did a similar thing for various friends when I was in Greece. It's a beautiful honor to be trusted with other people's prayers and spells.

*This*, precisely

Yeah, do feel like "build a hollow wooden cow for Reasons" and "...build a massive labyrinth for the containment of the queen's half-bull child, who can be exploited in a campaign of terror against those in our power" feel pretty American just now.

But I'd probably go with Minos over Daedalus.

I'm feeling a new New Religious Movement coming on...

Oh *no*. Someone in another community was talking about not liking the direction they were taking recently - I suppose this is what they were talking about. I *can* see how that would fit with Morrison's approach to chaos magic...but it's still so disappointing.

...you did 🟥it🟥 on a whim, yeah?

...truly, though, I'm so glad I read that on a boat - it freaked me out enough when we got home, but it would've really fucked me up if I'd read it *at* home.

As a fellow lover of mossy, rainy, Welsh-or-otherwise countrysides, I feel really vindicating in having this on my To Watch list!

My guess is that it was reassuring to them to see vigilantes 'picking up where the law leaves off', doing what they do without benefit of government assistance, wherein queerness is relegated to brush-off lines, part of the con, or opportunities for Eliot to leer.

They're *wrong*, of course.

I feel like with a diminutive, the best you can hope for is enough cleverness to get them into trouble.

Though naming by contaries is also a thing, so perhaps experiments with naming dogs Frivolity or Foolishness are in order. Except those sound *awfully* Puritan, and I wouldn't do that to any dog.

Oops, All Men! Resurrection (Andrew Semans, 2022) // Men (Alex Garland, 2022) A PSA about the Scary Pregnant Man.

(which you can find here: jude-doyle.ghost.io/untitled-5/ )

I watched Men (2022) tonight, and my immediate response was, "Wow, that was really transphobic...I think. Probably? I wonder who's written about that?"

A quick search gave me @judedoyle.bsky.social 's newsletter about it, which was a delight, so thank you for your generosity.

For me, it's rosemary, rue, sage, cinnamon, chilis, pine, ivy, honeysuckle, and mugwort, though not in that order.

I would use more garlic if I had it around - as it stands, I tend to use a shallot or small onion for some things I'd also use garlic for.

I'm going to guess anything I have in my yard is likely something you have easy access to as well, but this is the sort of project I'd be happy to help with if I can.

Notre pizza est votre pizza!

@lissaharris.bsky.social and @mpgphd.bsky.social , for that OFOE aesthetic

Snark at toxic positivity/wellness is a huge plus, and jump scares are tolerable! Thank you!!

How was it? It sounds like it might be funny...in a face-palming sort of way.

Came here to say exactly this!!!

10 horror movies to get to know me by:

🧶 Pan's Labyrinth
🦢 Black Swan
🐌 The Wicker Man ('73 - Summerisle cut for preference)
🎶 A Dark Song
🎸 Sinners
😈 The Devils
📖 Byzantium
🩰 Suspiria (2018)
🐻 Midsommar
🧑‍🎤 The Hunger

Cream filled. Me and my lactaid are fully here for the morning buns at the local French bakery.

I should go back and give that another watch. I enjoyed a number of things about it the first time around, but I've been thinking on the Erinyes a fair bit lately, so a rewatch seems in order.

This was my exposure to them, for sure. Well, drinking them BEFORE watching the movie. I don't remember a lot about the movie.

I love this, though. Would this be a late-blooming climbing rose?