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I carefully place a sponge cake, fresh strawberries and whipped cream on a napkin, then gently center the cake-laden napkin in the center of a paper plate. Placing this on a table, I fold a piece of printer paper in half and write a note on it. I then prop the sign next to the plate, which reads:

To the Greatest Trickster

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Dream Speed

Dreams need not be swift. The night carries itself on wings of quiet contemplation.

That is why the chariot of dreams is a snail's shell. It can be carried by an actual snail, a hermit crab, or you.

Do not stress if it slows you down. You are not supposed to advance in physical reality. Instead you retreat within your shell, spiraling inward to the center of your psyche. You can stay still as this happens. "Sleep," perhaps, or day dream, or trance, or pay attention in your waking life. I speak in signs. I do not waste words.

I may seem slow, oh yes. Reality can seem slow to provide a clue. Consider it time to rest, or prepare. I am already there, waiting. You are the one bound by time, and I patiently wait for you to see me.

(I don't have an interpretation for this one, I am assuming that I am going to write most of the dream material automatically and just give it cursory edits for when my dream self assumes it's "spiralling" instead of "spiraling". Oh also, I transcribe these from handwritten. Thus far, my automatic writing seems to do best by hand, at my desk, according to a set routine, and often ass-early in the morning.)

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I carefully place a sponge cake, fresh strawberries and whipped cream on a napkin, then gently center the cake-laden napkin in the center of a paper plate. Placing this on a table, I fold a piece of printer paper in half and write a note on it. I then prop the sign next to the plate, which reads:

To the Greatest Trickster

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The NFT lets you PSYCHICALLY own the GIF.

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At this point, Felix has refined this skill into an Arte - Shadow

The most impressive skill you can develop as a mage is the ability to find weed where it did not exist before.

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*takes long sip* Anybody else waiting for the death of capitalism in a coffee shop?

☕

Will the coffee shop AU survive the death of capitalism?

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Tip for managing your ex with magic

Instead of constantly having to hex or banish your ex so that they stop awkwardly coming back into your life in the worst ways, you can just cancel the damn love spell you cast on them in the first place, LEONARD.

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HE GONNA EAT IT

This shit is bananas.

At one point, someone even took the banana off the wall and ate it.

Rebecca Cohen, NBC News

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On Calling Upon Gods for Aid

Gods hear our pleas, their hearts open up, and they immediately take responsibility for the troubles to hand.

This can mean that they have now claimed the trouble as caused by them. This is because gods transcend time. Once they enter your life's picture, they enter every part of it, eventually touching up every inch of canvas with their own brush.

This is the explanation, in short, for the trite "the Devil was actually the shadow God cast," or "God gives us sorrows as gifts" generalities that now flood religion and spiritualism. All that's happening, in the end, is that the deity recognizes your pain and turns it into something you can value and use. Deities that do this typically function by empathizing with the pain of others, and then lending the "subject" their stamina, will, heart, anything it takes and often more as a bonus.

In the case of deities who represent ordeal, they recognize your suffering as kindred to their ordeal. In kinship, they share their gifts with you, and these become your gifts. This is the usual explanation of the ordeal that confers knowledge of the runes.

Everyone's pain is private and unique. deities who focus on ordeal often have a good deal of humility. This means they're well-suited to empathic work and connecting to others who are suffering. Mutual understanding is not their goal, but is possible and I encourage you to seek it. Their goal is to simply not be alone and, in seeking companions, alleviate the suffering of others.

Whereas most other deities are pretty straightforward and want cakes, ale, and/or sex. These are often close to hand or easily dispensed, and as long as provenance is assured (don't offer what's not yours, offer only what you know will not harm your guest), payment is simple and often fun.

Don't ever challenge a god to a contest in a craft or art skill unless you truly understand the win/lose scenario! Sometimes the Devil keeps the golden fiddle.

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Shadow here. I guess I can understand the knee-jerk reaction of “you’re reading too much into this” or “Many people reblog from reblogs, why are they making a big stink about this???” It may seem like that from an outsider perspective.

However, when I notice that someone that follows BOA is reblogging me moments after I reblog a post from BOA that was made minutes ago, I make a note of the incident. Then, when I look back on the activity of my teeny-tiny personal blog and see a clear pattern, I dig a bit further. In this case, the blog in question had a MO that stretched back years, but was spread out enough to be hard to spot in the moment. And a quick perusal of the actual blog made it clear they were avoiding the appearance of supporting a blog run by trans men due to their TERF-y beliefs, and seemed to be trying to hide their actions from said blog.

We could have quietly blocked them and moved on, but in this day and age, and after this election, we felt it prudent to make a post about the matter.

We are trans and we are queer and we support LGBTQ+ and POCs. We are anti-TERF and anti-fascist. Don't like? Don't follow.

And at the end of the day, this is our blog and we run it how we want. We’ve made vague posts about issues like this, and even specific callout posts regarding specific people and tumblr blogs because of how they have treated us personally. We’ve gotten hate for this before. And we probably will do it again, and get hate for it again.

This is tumblr after all…. It’s a half-forgotten dumpster-fire of a hell-site, and we’re kinda surprised that you think this is weird…

(Felix here. Come off anon if you think we're the ones that are so weird.)

Administrative Notes:

Access to BOA is a privilege, not a right. If you consistently reblog from someone who reblogged a post from BOA instead of from BOA directly, we will notice. Especially if it's from the personal blog of one of the BOA admins...

If it goes on long enough, we may then look into your blog to see why you don't like BOA specifically. And then probably block you because of the reasons we find.

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Seeing some Democratic politicians saying that the party should focus on "kitchen table issues." Here are some things about kitchen table issues I don't see focused on enough:

Many trans people have kitchen tables. Queer Americans often eat breakfast at their kitchen tables. Homeless people usually don't even have kitchen tables. People of color in the USA don't change color when they sit down to eat. Trans issues are kitchen table issues. Queer issues are kitchen table issues. Homelessness is a kitchen table issue. PoC issues are kitchen table issues. HUMAN RIGHTS ARE KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES.

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Administrative Notes:

Access to BOA is a privilege, not a right. If you consistently reblog from someone who reblogged a post from BOA instead of from BOA directly, we will notice. Especially if it's from the personal blog of one of the BOA admins...

If it goes on long enough, we may then look into your blog to see why you don't like BOA specifically. And then probably block you because of the reasons we find.

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How a demon can help you touch grass and do a self care

Channel a demon into your body

The demon walks your body outside and touches grass with your hand

Repeat as necessary

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How a demon can help you touch grass and do a self care

Channel a demon into your body

The demon walks your body outside and touches grass with your hand

Repeat as necessary