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HE TALKED TO ME

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i think the fact that my eyes dont glow and my hair doesnt float when im feeling a lot of strong emotion is very unsexy of me

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When you fail an important check and it’s both hilarious but you’re bout to be in serious trouble:

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LOOOKIN LIKE A POWDERED DONUT

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When your players are worried you’re about to spring a trap on them, and even though the area is totally safe, you’re just sitting there like

I love making my players nervous

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my advice for a haunting? real solid 100% foolproof Ghost Advice™? every time something creepy happens, turn in the direction of whatever it was, pause a moment, then slowly lick ur lips and say “…do that again” in ur most seductive voice. the ghost will feel very awkward and leave immediately. 

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This is an interesting article I came across, offering a different perspective - someone coming from witchcraft and incorporating other elements in time. I explored and am exploring traditional witchcraft after working in ceremonial and hermetic practices first. Love seeing good discussion on these topics! 

Agreeing with the article, working with spirits in a cosmology does not necessitate belief in the exoteric religion of the cosmology. As is noted here, Saints usually are older than the Christian religion that stole them away- its an interface to that spirit, one of the benevolent dead that was able to a cohesive entity after death and who has been working with the living for potentially thousands of years.  Also, when working with spirits, in this case celestial and infernal, use the tool set and tech most applicable to the work. Find ways of communicating to ancestors in ceremonial language they understand.  See what comes with communication. If a practice is not to your liking, do not engage again but always respect the spirits involved. You can banish, admonish and dismiss them, yet be respectful. 

There are a few authors I would recommend to read if curious about medieval witchcraft and how it intersects at times with esoteric Christian belief and local pagan practices to evolve into the something new - sometimes by tradition and sometimes for survival.  From these anthropological books, we get access to primary text exploring these beliefs. Yes, they are colored from the bias of the writers, in this case Vatican Italian Inquisitors, but they do not harm these witches, usually only tell them to not accept payment for the work - something I found fascinating and totally divergent from what happened in Spain and later in the Americas. To learn more about the Benandanti , the Malandanti , agrarian witchcraft cults of the alps, why the local goddesses were over written (terrible thing to lose to male priest writers) and just referred to “Diana”, being born with the Caul, souls leaving the body to fight demons for the crops on the ember days, astral warfare for the fate of crops by “good” witches and “bad” witches check out the following( all have reliable english translation when needed):

The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  - Carlo Ginzberg (Italian)

Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath  - Carlo Ginzberg (Italian) 

Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age -  Éva Pócs (Hungarian)

The Witches’ Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic - Thomas Hastis (American, expands on Ginzberg’s work in depth with more modern understanding of the practice)

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John Mulaney’s next bit: I was walking down the carpet at the Oscars and everyone started cheering, I thought I had finally made it. Then I looked around and there was Captian fucking America.

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*sees two bees flying around my garden* me: i wonder.,. if…. they’re friends..

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Thor: Ragnarok (2017) dir. Taika Waititi

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I’m sorry, no. HAVE YOU SEEN THE DRAPPERY ON THE ROYAL ALBERT HALLS RENDITION @muirin007

bulgarian “red” “death” is the best red death

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If Phantom of the Opera were a mockumentary

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci paintings

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No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did.  He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is.  He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him?  And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets.  And his wife Coral Browne?  The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck.  They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s.  His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community.  When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance?  Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Happy birthday, Vincent Price.  You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.