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Many corvids also mate for life. They have foods they prefer more than others, and it has been discovered that they can also know and remember their partner’s favourites, and bring those treats to each other, even if they personally don’t care for this food source.

Is that love? A crow cannot be forced to do something it does not want to do, they do as they please and it pleases them to bring gifts to their partners. What is love but joy that stems from the joy of another?

Do they know what love is? A jackdaw knows that another jackdaw it can see has seen it in return - do they know that a spouse that brings them treats does it as a treat to themselves as well?

US Elevation.

They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.

There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.

That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.

those are over a billion years old.

that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?

algae.

those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.

the Appalachians are way way old. the fossils that ARE found in these ranges are ancient marine beings, whose fossil remains predate the anatomical structures of beings migrating to land for the first time. THAT’S how old the Appalachians are.

but we’re not

because the sun is traveling through space too

so what the earth is actually doing is this

I am not a Wiccan

I am not a Wiccan

I am not a fucking Wiccan!

There are good Wiccans, but Wicca as a religion is built on appropriation. Its core beliefs and holidays are largely stolen. My main beef with Wicca is people calling every pagan Wiccan, and treating my deities like archetypes of Wicca!

You can be a Wiccan without appropriating, but to do that, you have to be so careful, so well researched, and deconstruct half the religion. Which, frankly, most Wiccans… don’t.

But the most insulting thing of all is insinuating my centuries old religion, my ancient praxis, is just a 60 year old religion made by white guys that totally removed its entities from their rituals and religion. The most insulting thing is lumping me in with a religion that steals from both my Hellenic religion and Latine culture, because you saw Wiccans call Hekate the crone and Pan the horned god.

Agreed some are not one "type" and take it offensively when associated with them. Instead of being angry why not try to understand where the person is coming from. Wicca is something the general population is acceptable of, not the word Pagan, or Witch. Try educating the people before getting all negative, and claiming your not one thing.

Also, frankly, tone policing—especially tone policing on a post where I explicitly stated I was a non-Wiccan pagan of color—because I’m “too negative” about my cultures being appropriated is racist and just generally shitty.

I’m not even arguing. I’m just saying I do not consent to being called Wiccan, that being called Wiccan is insulting to me, and that Wicca as a whole has objectively done a lot of harm to my communities even if there are good Wiccans out there.

To which you responded by… basically proving my point, actually, by tone policing and using the word ‘Wicca’ to erase other forms of paganism and witchcraft by calling Wicca the more acceptable umbrella term.

silent rain