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On the Therm of accessibility: In School, we had to learn about the "Holy Roman empire of German Nation". *eyesroll* we were young, it were political history of most therms. So boring as hell.

Till someone found on Youtube two Aliens, a lovley animated Comic, about THIS TOPIC! We all looked it, we all learned so much, that were otherwise to boring for us to check! We all got a great Grade on this Subject, because it were made FREE, accessible and FUN! But still being educational! That how you do it.

Greetings, a History Freak.

Sharing this from Bluesky because I think it’s important.

As the image says, we historians have to do their part. Lamenting that the public never studies history when much of it is locked behind inaccessible language or paywalls doesn’t help the situation. And the wrong voices (far right, fascists, neo-nazis, etc) are the ones breaking through because those who are trained better don’t leverage media like podcasts, YouTube, etc as seriously.

It’s not enough to “politely” remind anyone at this point. In fact, I’d argue that we have to be a bit more firm and unapologetic while still being empathetic and humble.

Not an easy road to wander, but necessary.

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I feel like I need to be on bord of such a Ship. Don't ask why. I just need.

L' Hermione. video by Alban Husson

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The Götheborg of Sweden greets the school ship Gunilla with a gun salut

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Having "a lot" of followers on tumblr is funny because probably 80% of them are ghost blogs who haven't been on here in like a decade.

It's like, no no, those aren't my followers, that's a graveyard! I'm the caretaker of a thousands of tombs. I love them, but they've been dead for seven years.

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As someone who has existed within varying degrees of the homemaking community online for several years, I have my hills I am willing to die on. The most important one being this:

Skillsets are not gendered. Domestic skills are invalable lifeskills and everyone should know the basics.

I don't give a shit what your pastor tells you on Sundays, everyone should know how to cook, clean etc. It's no one person's place to be at home, and certainly not due to something as arbitrary as gender.

This past weekend I woke up horribly ill with a sinus infection. Woke up early anyways and went through the motions of getting my daughter up for the day, despite having been unable to sleep through due to fever. The routine is that my husband gets a lie in on Saturday and I lile in on Sunday. Fine. As soon as my husband comes downstairs and sees the state I'm in, I get sent straight back to bed with a cup of tea and medicine, and he tells me he's got it, I just need to rest. Without me needing to check him, remind him or ask him to do anything specifically, he knew exactly which chores needed to be covered for the weekend, got it all done, and didn't have to ask me once for any clarification. This included ensuring my daughters school uniform was cleaned and ironed ahead of monday, taking her into town to buy new clothes post growth-spurt, baking some sandwich loaves for the week ahead. He cooked dinner on Saturday using leftovers I'd put aside for that reason, without needing to check in as he knows the system. He cooked again on Sunday, and specifcally cooked something he knew would create plenty of leftovers, so I wouldn't need to cook again for a few days while I recover. All of this, he knew how to do, and did without complaint, despite us existing in, what is at surface level, a "traditional marriage".

And by the way, nothing my husband did this weekend was a surprise to me. At no point did I think this was a pleasant thing for him to do, and aren't I so lucky? Of course I expect him to know how to keep our household running for a weekend when I'm sick. The man is nearly 40. I should bloody hope he knows how to do laundry and cook a full meal.

If you want to do the majority of domestic tasks in your household, go for it, knock yourself out. But you need to ensure your partner knows how to do it as well. Don't allow yourself to enforce bullshit patriarchal nonsense and exist as a glorified bangmaid.

If you're on the other side of things and you find yourself doing the minority of domestic tasks, why not see how you can develop those skills? Maybe see if you can allocate one night a week where your partner gets the evening off, and you commit to cooking dinner. Maybe ask them to write down their routines so if for whatever reason they're unable to do their regular tasks, you can support them and pick up where they've had to stop.

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I read her as a beginner (young teen) because they were avabile. Try to read them again as an younger Adult...and oh my...I had a good laugh atleast. Atleast they showed me, that I grew. That's a good thing I guess.

Oh no. What's wrong with Silver Ravenwolf? I feel like I see them recommended everywhere...

Yeeeeaaaah, it's an ongoing problem. Her books were wildly popular for over a decade and they're were widely marketed as THE Book To Have for beginner witches by Llewellyn, which was the heaviest of the heavy hitters in occult literature at the time.

The problem with Silver Ravenwolf is largely that she is wildly out of touch in a very New Age White Woman kind of way. Her books tout loads of misinformation, appropriation, and historical revisionism that are simply not acceptable (i.e. claiming victims of witch trials were actual pagan witches, citing a fictional ancient matriarchal goddess religion that never existed was the basis for Wicca, leaning into the hereditary superpowers / indigo child / starseed narrative, etc). Besides which, the theories she posits contradict each other from page to page and chapter to chapter, claims a Gardnerian lineage which can’t possibly exist, and trumpets Buckland’s personal theories on the Burning Times and interpretation of the Threefold Law as if they were fact.

And thanks to her runaway popularity, those of us who instruct and answer questions from newer witches have to UNTEACH all of this nonsense.

If it were simply a matter of being a product of her time, I could forgive some of the nonsense. But she’s still selling mammy dolls on her website, though she labels them as “primitive” and equates them to “positive voodoo dolls.” Yes, she's been confronted about this, and yes she doubled down. I don’t think I need to explain how gross and racist this is on SEVERAL levels. She's been given opportunities to show growth and self-work with regards to her work and simply refuses to believe that she was ever wrong about anything.

So, her books aren't entirely worthless by any means, but they require a LOT of critical reading and a strong understanding of actual history and science. Furthermore, she leans rather hard into a borderline cult mentality that boils down to, "Nobody understands you, but because you're drawn to witchcraft, you're SPECIAL, probably because of some ancient hereditary superpower, so don't worry - Mama Silver understands you. Also, there's no need to read further into anything, just take my word for it."

I would not recommend them for beginners, which is a problem because that's exactly the demographic her work is marketed toward. (Personally, I would not recommend them for anybody, but that's just my opinion.)

For more details, I suggest the following articles:

Continuing Anger Over Silver Ravenwolf

The Problem With Silver Ravenwolf

Trae Dorn (@traegorn) of BS-Free Witchcraft expands on the topic in this video. They've been wrestling with this issue for YEARS within the Wiccan and wider witchcraft communities and I'm sure they could cite examples I've missed.

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“They made a monster of Medusa as well. Hated how loud her trauma was. Couldn’t believe she had the audacity not to take it lying down. They made a war-ground of her body, so she made one of theirs.”

― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

Medusa

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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I love to look to old photos to unwarp my Sense of "living back then". Because...not everyone of us is living like a social media Influencer (most of them even living like this) and so it's the same with the People back than. They don't lived a commercial Life eighter. With brand new wonderful kitchens, that shine like sparkles. Perfect Lawns. Perfect clothes. Perfect hair. That's a Commercial. Propaganda. We aren't all Influenzers. They weren't all living Commerical Breaks. We are People - we were People.

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"Everything worth doing, is worth doing badly."

Life doesn’t have to be so complicated. Go outside for a walk—no need to stress about hitting 10k steps. You still got fresh air and sunlight. Head to the gym and do just two exercises because you’re not in the mood to go all out. You still showed up. Read a single page and call it a day because your eyes are too tired to focus. You still read something.

Do something badly, knowing full well you’ll mess it up—because that’s part of the road to mastery. No one is perfect 100% of the time. Life is full of half-hearted attempts before something great can happen.

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tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

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Venting

Sorry, but on this point I just annoyed! Is there something in the Air at the Moment? I CAN'T visit ANY Community here on tumblr I'm part of, that don't has atleast ONE Porn Bot scamming.

I had to LEAVE a WRITER Community, because I couldn't scroll through it without running in an ungodly amount of Porn Bots and Scam Profiles! Please! I'm angry! *growling*

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I really think, we need to shift the Narrative around Therapy and neurodiverseness (Is this a word? It's now). Therapy isn't (FOR MOST!) like putting a Bandaid on a Cut. It will not make what happend to you go away. It will LESSEN the Symptoms. It will make the "ILLNESS" more bearable. It will give you the TOOLS to deal with all the things on you mind. I - myself - will maybe (and really likely) never be free of my mental illnesses. Neighter will my Children from theirs. But just because some doctor can't wave his magic Wand and made me "whole" and "normal" doesn't mean, that Therapy can't help.

“Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.” ― Iyanla Vanzant

THATS what Therapy is for! (Sorry. I get a bit angry thinking about some "I wouln't benefit so I didn't do it" or there is "no use to it" narratives when I comes to mental Illness...)

tired of posts that are like "why should i go to therapy when the reason i'm upset is because of SOCIETY" and it's like

yeah. have you ever heard of a locus of control. you don't have control over Society but you do have control over your reaction to it

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God, that's so sweet.

Nice to see an Adult once in a while, that can admit "I didn't saw that. I were mistaken. Thank you for educating me". Good Job!

straight people shut up challenge

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uwa ;-; I'd love to read someone things every night