Witchtember 2025
29. Folklore
A witch based on some of my country mythology/folklore. One of my biggest inspirations was a demon called Południca :)
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we're not kids anymore.

if i look back, i am lost

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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Today's Document
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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trying on a metaphor
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Witchtember 2025
29. Folklore
A witch based on some of my country mythology/folklore. One of my biggest inspirations was a demon called Południca :)
~ Patreon | Ko-fi ~

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Wizards (1977)
Oh are there people who don't know this mess of a movie has the all time most spectacular final wizard battle in the fantasy genre??
Wizards (1977)
Oh are there people who don't know this mess of a movie has the all time most spectacular final wizard battle in the fantasy genre??
never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It
signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing
The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.
how dare you say we put jam in the printer

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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."
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There is a really frustrating thing where some kinds of speculative story are hard to write because they will be assumed to be bad (clumsy, harmful, regressive) metaphors for real-world events or people, rather than exploring completely speculative ideas. Like:
"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.
"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.
It almost feels like death of the author, like "Death of the most obvious metaphor" - If you couldn't reach for the (tormented) parallel between being an alien species and being stateless, what stories could someone tell? If your changeling-baby was neither disabled nor adopted, what would the story be about? Etc.
I was literally just thinking about this yesterday! It's a trend I've seen a LOT in recent years in lit crit, particularly when discussing fantasy.
I think it particularly comes up the moment an author includes any sort of marginalisation/oppression for their fictional/fantasy world. I've lost count of the times now where I've seen people read a book on, say, the terrible oppression of the Gwyllion, and immediately gone "Oh, so the Gwyllion are a metaphor for the real world X people, either deliberately or accidentally through the author's inherent racism. This is therefore super problematic because the Gwyllion are also described as Y, which means the author is also saying that about X people."
There will always be real world parallels when discussing oppression. Always. But that's because oppression is oppression - precise details may vary, but it follows the same pathways the world over, and that will naturally be copied into fiction as well. This does not mean the author is intentionally telling the exact allegory that you've projected onto it. If that's how you read everything, then yeah, everything becomes super problematic, but also, why are you reading any fiction that isn't solely about real world historical events? It's clearly not for you
And, you know, obviously there are works that are racist/misogynistic/etc, including deliberately so. But I really don't like the way people have started going "I have spotted a PROBLEMATIC ALLEGORY here, I'm ever so smart" and acting like they're the cleverest little critic that ever lived. You have to meet a work on its own terms. Lovecraft was a big ole racist, sure. Someone who has written a book about the oppression of magic users in their fantasy world, however, is rarely writing a story about how queerness lurks in family lines and must be controlled; they are way more commonly writing a story about a world with magic that they then wanted to take seriously, and while there might well be elements of queerness there, those magic users are not a 1:1 replacement.
Sometimes these lines are blurry! But we're going way too far to one end of that spectrum
The post that got me thinking about this yesterday was someone talking about how they'd love to write a vampire story exploring vampirism as a disability (dependence on a substance to manage the condition, blindness/weakness in daytime, can't enter buildings without accommodation, etc). But, they said, they can't, because they don't want to be making the point that disabled people are parasites, and vampires are generally considered parasitic.
And like. What an incredible shame. That we'll lose that, because they're already afraid of the "I have spotted a PROBLEMATIC ALLEGORY" crowd. That would be a great story for exploring disability themes, OR just a great new take on vampires, and either of those things would be so good to read. But there would be so many people who would jump in with "So you think disabled people are draining the life force of the ableds around them?", never stopping to actually think "Vampires are not a 1:1 stand in for real world disability because they are fictional and do not exist."
Anyway sorry I've rambled here, not sure how coherent I'm being. But yes, I was thinking about this just yesterday! Wild.
What's that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that's sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You're remembering to take into account that sociocultural norms, gender roles and genre expectations are different from what you are used to and meeting the story halfway, instead of forcibly superimposing your ideals into the story, right bro? Right? Right?
Do we count this as a passive rickroll?
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A very important addition from Rian Johnson himself

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my fellow trans people: all of the answers are in the river. you just need to go to the river and everything will make sense. a lake or ocean are fine substitutions. find the water and go to it. bring your friends. go alone. have a beer.
this really spoke to me, as a trans hippie shut-in.
find the water and go to it. 👍
HEY.
HEY YALL.
USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL
Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base
But just in case you’re sitting there going “the Dems aren’t doing anything,” THEY ARE
IT IS JUST SLOW
AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE
BUT THEY ARE
This has gotta be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 😂😂😂
Remember to eat, my loves! There's a whole world of delicious joy awaiting you! X
It just seems like a lot of conservatism consists of making your individual psychological hang-ups everyone else's problem. I don't even mean that they have undiagnosed disorders or whatever, I mean absolutely basic shit like: it's far easier and far more effective to just stop being a racist than it is to turn your entire country into a fascist police state to deport a hundred million people because you don't like their vibe, probably precipitating a ruinous civil war in the process. But they're pathologically incapable of recognizing that some things are "them" problems.
"No but you see, we need to deport all of these shifty ethnic types to restore a high-trust society" says a guy who's pathologically untrustworthy and pathologically incapable of trusting others.
This is the thing that confuses me about their claims to masculinity. Like if you really saw yourself as Strong you’d just let other people do wtf ever because it doesn’t affect you.
And yet.
listen to me: they're so obsessed with coming across as Strong because, at base, they are deeply worried that they're not. People who are strong and know it don't need pageantry. It's the equivalent of painted rust in a military parade.
he is a 9 year old boy with a stepmom who hates him. I think I’d also become sulky and stop doing the chores.
also, thinking your husband is a ‘bad father’ to his child and having two kids with him is so ridiculous. you are booboo the fool, girl. you are the clown here. this subreddit needs to be the subject of years of academic psychological research
Truly like I read that and thought “skill issue”. Every single time I see someone talking about how their step kid “doesn’t fit in with the new family” its been one parent forgetting about the fact that completely shuffling around a kids’ whole worldview, support structure, and family dynamic is scary and traumatizing.
My stepdad met me at literally my most volatile and unhealthy period of my life, when I was regularly having suicide attempts and anger issues and psychotic episodes that were not easy to be around, all while he was in the process of his own divorce. He never made me or my sister ever feel like we were less than his own kids. I was fully a legal adult and he was like “okay I have four kids now and I’ll get everyone up to date on that”.
Kids know when they’re being seen as the baggage tied to the previous marriage- a reminder of the old spouse. This boy is 9 years old and went from being an only child to a middle sibling, which by itself is a lot to deal with, and this woman does NOT mention the dynamics between any of the kids. Shes describing her stepsons behavior in a vacuum- I would be sulking and pissed off if I suddenly had to share all my stuff/space/time with new people, some of whom are completely new to me and who everyone expects me to get along with perfectly! And “acting ugly to our youngest” makes it sound like now that she and her husband have a third child that’s biologically both of theirs that her daughter and his son are both getting screwed over or struggling to adjust to the new baby, but it’s more likely that the daughter as a teenager would have kept it to herself and the 9 year old is externalizing his frustration rather than internalizing so the stepmom interprets her daughters quietness as being “good about it”.

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Sneefin and Snorfin time at the Hertfordshire Zoo
Pride and Prejudice (1995) + Text Posts (8/?)