Way of Brighid Oracle card back with a tan background, leaves, and pink flowers to the left. To the right a card from Long Body Prayers: An Animast Oracle with abstract art in white, purple, yellow and black strokes over a blue background.

Text on card: Lady's Mantle For Sacred Space The fuzzy scalloped leaves of this healing herb metaphysically wrap around you as Brighid's mantle folds you into her sacred circle. Allow yourself time alone for reflection and introspection. Create sacred space. Offer a simple ritual: light a candle with a prayer, place a wild herb in a vase with gratitude, read aloud inspirational words. Enjoy the shift in energy from the mundane to the sacred in all things. YOU ARE SACRED.

Card text: IN THE TEXTURE OF CONNECTION PLAY Your capacity to play is a skill of deep medicine, a place of shaking up, a portal into possible worlds. Become the fountain of your own life, the welling up of water, the one purple flower in the autumn field. Maintain connection to that other vision, that deeper perceiving that finds the lightness and novel expressions of tenderness, the feeling of your paws in the dirt. Long Body Prayers: An Animist Oracle

Cards for the Collective for Imbolc. Take what resonates if you like and leave the rest.

I’m still mad at the overreach that lead to the TT shutdown & concerned about what the app is turning into now. But I’m also grateful the situation lead me to XHS. I hope they don’t try to take it too. & if they do I hope people realize it’s about control & not protection just like it was with TT.

Screengrab from a video reposted by just4amin4 on XHS originally by overcomingtheworld on TT with 3 women in white shirts with black dresses over them dancing. Text: January 13, 2025 The day Americans decided to become honorary Chinese citizens

A couple weeks ago I thought the coolest thing about my 40th birthday would be it falling on the full moon. But then I got on XHS the night before (already my birthday in China) to see we were being welcome as “TT refugees” & such great cultural exchanges taking place. It gives me hope.

I hear he ripped the characters from Tanith Lee who was more overt in her representation so maybe checking out her work would be healing.

People saying that ish are in denial and need to snap the F out of it. Fac*sm was already here pre-47. And now they’re going full throttle with few guardrails. We’re cooked if people keep thinking things aren’t possible that are already in progress.

Yeah I understand people going back to celebrate but hopefully they’ll balance between them rather than leave entirely (the second being exactly what our government would love to happen). I’m definitely staying too. I was on XHS more than TT from Day 1 on there & probably will continue to be

Events Archive - Springboard for the Arts

Yeah usually at the libraries though some are on Zoom too. Same. springboardforthearts.org/events/

Aw I’m sorry that was your experience

I meant to reply that one to the person who said they don’t want hate. Understandable. It is feeling like a new home for me. TT feels like still living with my abuser while I wait to make sure I’m set up elsewhere so I’m not sure how long I’ll be there.

Always has been. We were getting facism even if he hadn’t won. The only consolation is that at least this version people see it more readily.

Consider Xiaohongshu. People are so nice. The platform is predominantly women and is strict on bullies. I have only seen like 2 toxic comments in a week on there both obviously American trolls. And with TT back hopefully they’ll be leaving XHS alone.

Niche communities exist in person too. I’m not great at finding them & forcing myself outside as much as we should but think we should even with TT returning. What stuff are you into? I sometimes go to classes from Springboard for the Arts. Actually need to check on this year’s offerings.

That’s cute. I want to paint him

3/where all the refugees went.

2/I am glad I’ll be able to back up my work on other accounts & continue some degree of connection & of course happy for those who won’t lose income, but I’m so wary of this I can’t anticipate using it much. I hope many people still stay on XHS but I even found out TT was back because someone asked

It is exactly what I anticipated would happen with an abuser incoming. He looks like the big hero and people forget he was the one who took it away in the first damn place. I lived this pattern growing up & in marriage & fuck do I not want it from my government. I’m grateful to the degree that /1

Actually just woke up (didn’t get to bed til like 6a) to a door knocker for someone. I don’t have the energy for that kind of thing but I definitely think we need third party options. With local we might actually be able to make it happen because we have ranked choice & we need that federally too.

Yeah I had side accounts I wanted to back up and connect with people on but alas. 🤞🏼 we’ll get that chance. The app as it was is done for though so I go back and forth that maybe it’s better a clean break. If you’re on 📕 it’s been a balm to me.

I knew that would happen so I didn’t even bother to go over there. I hope no one was using it as their only backup

A poetry project I do twice a year uses Tumblr so I’m here for that 😆

Oh it was glitchy for me about 7:45p so I was surprised it worked again after that as long as it did. I’d hoped too, though knew that’d have only been 10:59 my time.

I didn’t get to draft dump my side accounts so if we get it back I’d like to save them. But even if we do, it won’t be what it was. And it may be something far worse. So I don’t think I’ll stay on it long in any case. Perhaps a clean cutoff is better? It’s hard to say. I’m glad for the time we had.

Update from TikTok that says that the law banning TikTok forces them to make content “temporarily unavailable” and they’re working to restore service.

An announcement from TikTok that a law banning the app has been enacted so we can’t use it “for now” and then they say they’re “fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office” and asks us to “stay tuned”.

When the 18th began I thought I’d get til 10:59p to finish draft dumping then heard it’d be 8:30ET. About 15 min after I couldn’t post. After temp glitches I could at least save unposted drafts, watch, & comment. When I set it aside to eat I knew it might be over for me. I returned at 10:29p & was.

I used to have an audience because dogs and cats can be like this, but in a cuter way. Would never want a kid following me though.

I had to eat so I cooked and ate and thought I’d pop back on but knew it would already be gone and it was. 🪦10:29p CST.

Thank you ☺️

Yeah same. 📕 takes some of the sting out but it can’t replace what we have had on TT

Fair 😆 🥳

Ok technically I’m in St. Paul but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Meeee!