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so smudging is cultural appropriation but is just burning a sage bundle appropriation? i've been told its a good way to clear negative energy but i don't want to do it if it is

Great Question, Anon.

Smoke Cleansing; the actual act of burning herbs, incenses, resins, plants or the like for their clearing properties is not affiliated with any specific peoples. 

However, “smudging” is descriptive of a ritualistic practice by some Native American peoples that goes beyond smoke cleansing and most commonly incorporates white sage. (Yes, those dried grey-white bundles you can buy in new age stores and the like.) Smudging is a closed, ritualistic practice that is not simply burning shit, and certainly not for uninvited groups to practice. When you “smudge” with white sage there are several of things happening. 1) You are participating in cultural theft, which is bad 2) You are participating in cultural theft incorrectly, of all things 3) You are contributing to the endangerment of white sage.

There are plenty of other herbs you can burn that aren’t white sage, and plenty of other things you can call smoke cleansing that isn’t appropriative. 

Smoke cleanse with normal (broad leaf) sage! Smoke clear with rosemary! Space cleanse with cedar! It’s so easy to not appropropriate. Woohooo!

-T

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JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED 

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Misty refuses to take any of Red’s shit in the Pokemon Adventures Manga

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speaking as a Jew, i’m extra-super dubious of all that stuff that talks about cartoon witches being an antisemitic stereotype. I can get where the thing with the nose is coming from, but the claims about the hats are based on flimsy claims that require a lot of mental reaching. The hats that Jews were forced to wear were not a universal thing, and I’ve yet to see any evidence that they were part of the cultural consciousness by the time the image of the pointy-hatted witch became common.

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“If you ever accuse someone of being a Zionist you’re probably just an anti-semite.“ 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Waiting for an official statement from Gal or WB…but thats MY Wonder Woman

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This is inaccurate. The LGBT community was barely a mention. The US voted against this because we are, unfortunately, a country in which the death penalty is legal.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?

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From the Crunchyroll twitter:

https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/status/908154812960718854

Okay I need these in high rez.

Edit: Higher res versions in the cut. I guess these are proofs?

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So I'm pretty sure there's a poem that I tevlogged from you a lot AGES ago. It's the one from the Last Unicorn I think, the only line I can remember is "dies on land and softly is trod upon" it's about stuff I'm not even sure you can help but it's driving me insane

Sorry, I haven’t checked this in ages! It is the “Song of Elli,” an archetype of Old Age that Mommy Fortuna embodies in the Midnight Carnival. It reads as follows:"What is plucked will grow again,What is slain lives on,What is stolen will remainWhat is gone is gone...What is sea-born dies on land,Soft is trod upon.What is given burns the hand -What is gone is gone...Here is there, and high is low;All may be undone.What is true, no two men know -What is gone is gone...Who has choices need not choose.We must, who have none.We can love but what we lose -What is gone is gone.”

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Contracts

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of all the things i expected to read in the news today, hobby lobby being busted for smuggling 5,500 ancient mesopotamian artifacts including cuneiform tablets and clay talismans into the united states was not one of them

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Laverne Cox does Destiny’s Child ‘Lose My Breath’ on Lip Sync Battle

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she should have been rewarded.