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Regular reminder to support and shop small and local ✊! Amazon doesn't need another cold billion, but your friends, family, and neighbors can use all the sales and support they/we can get! Pweez 🥺👉👈.

P.S. repost for good karma 😜🙌.

#smallbusiness #localbusiness #community #localeconomy #signalboost

.Lyrebird There’s a feast for jackals, sharks, and all that waits for you to start On the wretched meat that's rotten where once was a beating heart Choke it down; his speech, his offal, ‘cause it starts and stops in stages He says, “Bring me all your neighbors and I’ll blacken all the pages” In the mirror overhead are your faces bloody red? Desperate forms beneath glass tabletops all doing what he said? Inside you shake and shiver ‘til your stitches pop and break Watching as you fall to pieces, “this was all a big mistake” Can the lyrebird tell? Liar-lyrebird tell? with their liars lips and liars tongues all crying constantly? Can you shut them up, and silence them and throw away the key? In a heart that fell apart that is gaping wide and open the apologies spill out and the honesty’s unfrozen; for whats broken into pieces is a road-map pointed to which is what happens when a heart becomes all scar tissue and stitches.

this is the only poem of mine i really care to show people lately. Unfortunately, it resonates more now than when i wrote it back in 2020

#writing #writers #poetry #poems #writersky #unpublished

a photo of 5 hardcover books with white leather-style embossed spines called 'The Library of Esoterica'. Each book covers a separate topic including 'Tarot' , 'Astrology' , "Witchcraft' , 'Sacred Sites' , and 'Plant Magick'.

A snapshot from the 'Taschen' website showing their hardcover illustrated book called 'Witchcraft. The library of Esoterica' by Jessica Hundley and Pam Grossman'. The front cover is illustrated with J.W. Waterhouse's painting of 'Circe Invidiosa'

I was overcome with desperation for these gorgeous illustrated hardcover books in my local indie bookstore- I started paging through the one on 'Witchcraft'. It is everything. Even the cover is by my favorite painter Waterhouse! ... but $40 each.... (；′⌒`)

#witchcraft #books #witchsky

i haven't been posting much again because i'm overwhelmed by everything and don't have the energy to be especially social.

stay safe, be happy, try to find joy

stay strong divas 🫶

🎨: Lily Seika Jones / rivuletpaper

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

If you write ‘unalive’ in prose or character dialogue, in your NOVEL - which I have seen TWICE NOW - I will immediately wince and full body cringe. The TikTokification of words has to stop. Your character almost DIED or was KILLED in your novel. They were not almost ‘unalived’.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant humanoid embracing a smaller one. It is captioned "Man and the Earth."

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female satyr embracing a small human male. She appears to be nuzzling him.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female humanoid nuzzling a tiny male humanoid. It is titled "Besieging the lips of the Earth."

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

gorgeous! are these both available as prints?

A square painting of a tall grassy field with a red background. In the distance, six stars on a line cross just above the grass in front of distant trees.

A square painting of a tall grassy field with a red background. A large glowing orb with a halo floats just above the grass in front of distant trees.

Six of Us Here + Watcher in the Field

“…She is a born witch, who does not drown in water with pebbles, and steals rain from the sky, and casts spells on people by force.”
“The Konotop Witch” by Grigory Kvitka - Osnovyanenko

#booksky

Ikr? 🤷‍♀️🙄💥

Finished Sigil Witchery- I give it 9/10 stars for it's purpose.
And it's got a bibliography!

A great book for anyone looking to improve sigil work and don't know where to start. I especially like how Zakroff breaks down popular symbolism and images to build example sigils.

#witchsky #sigils

PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies | Harvard University An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

pll.harvard.edu/course/predi...
is it time to study Divination, free online at Harvard?

one of my favorites that i've managed to keep hold of through the years, so it's high praise!

it's giving 'Good Faeries/Bad Faeries' by Brian Froud 😍

thinking about this poem again

A photograph taken at night of a blue candle burning with ashes at its base. It is surrounded by small stones of tree agate, moonstone, jet, amethyst, and a copper tree decorated with rose quartz chips for leaves.

I made it back home last night and performed a small ritual, a mourning rite and act of spiritual closure. I used what was on hand and sat until the candle burned out and my heart felt a bit lighter.

#witchsky #witchery #witches #witchcraft

The book cover for 'Sigil Witchery' a witch's guide to crafting magick symbols by Laura Tempest Zakroff. The cover is decorated with several sigils and symbols, including crescent moons and five-point stars.

My library had a copy of 'Sigil Witchery'! I like it so far and am trying Zakroff's suggestions in designing a sigil for protecting my new apartment- will report back.

also- it was in the YA section, lol. This library knows what teen girls are into (¬‿¬)

#witchsky #sigils #witches #reading

it's quickly turned into a very poor week.
Forced to stay at temporary lodgings, I found a songbird tangled, in distress, nearby. Texted a local number who could only euthanize the poor thing.
I'm devastated I didn't find it help in time. I feel a pall cast over me. Once home i'll burn a candle...

absolutely! I'm looking for a kitchen witch, just gotta find one that fits my style (o゜▽゜)o☆

A view of a small kitchen counter with white walls and cupboards and awood counter. Decorated with wicker basket storage, black twiglike candle holders, black sink faucet, a black cauldron stored overhead, and a vintage-style nightlight.

wide view of the kitchen for both candle holders and my cauldron ( •̀ ω •́ )y

if anyone has ideas or suggestions for additional (rental-friendly) witchy decor, i'm open to ideas!

#witchsky #witchdecor #witchkitchen

a tea candle holder shaped from thin strands of dark metal, twiglike, bent below and vertically above a small lit tea candle.

A cast iron trivot designed with curling plants and broomsticks

i got a great goodwill haul today! 2 of these dark metal twiggy tea candle holders and a broomstick designed iron trivot! my new place is looking witchier every day!

#witchsky #witches #witchdecor

*smacks self* i forgot the alt text!

alt text:
"A cloudy sky near dawn over fresh mowed grass dotted with wild scraggly trees, a small pond edged with yellowed cattails, before a distant farmers field, a forest, and a city spread over hills in the distance"

In the foreground sit 2 fresh square cedar planters and several scattered herbs in terracotta pots set in mulch. The background is a scattered cloudy day over grass, trees, a small pond, and distant blue hills.

i've always wanted a tiny herb garden, now i have mints, lavenders, sages, rosemary, lemon balm and verbena <3 (plus a gifted cherry tomato!) i'm experimenting with some from-seed including chamomile (fingers crossed!)

#witchgarden #teagarden #herbgarden

Was engaging with fellow writers on Threads—commenting, liking, just being myself.

Someone appreciated it so much they bought The Serpent’s Bridge (99¢!) even on a tight budget.

Made my day.
Be kind.
Be real.
Be you.

Never know who might discover your book and buy it. 💙

#BookSky #AuthorSky